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Et
álibi aliórum
plurimórum sanctórum
Mártyrum
et Confessórum, atque
sanctárum Vírginum.
And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins. Пресвятая Богородице спаси нас! (Santíssima Mãe de Deus, salva-nos!) R.
Deo
grátias. R.
Thanks be to God.
August
is
the month
of the
Immaculate
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of Mary;2022 22,013 Lives Saved Since 2007 Bartholomew or Nathanael? (John 1:47b)
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Mary
Mother of GOD 15
Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite the Rosary We are confronted again with the fact that we know almost nothing about most of the apostles. Yet the unknown ones were also foundation stones, the 12 pillars of the new Israel whose 12 tribes now encompass the whole earth. Their personalities were secondary (without thereby being demeaned) to their great office of bearing tradition from their firsthand experience, speaking in the name of Jesus, putting the Word made flesh into human words for the enlightenment of the world. Their holiness was not an introverted contemplation of their status before God. It was a gift that they had to share with others. The Good News was that all are called to the holiness of being Christ’s members, by the gracious gift of God. 325 The Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of St
Peter"
was so called because
it was painted by St Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow
CAUSES
OF SAINTS Our Bartholomew Family Prayer List Joyful Mystery on Monday Saturday Glorius Mystery on Sunday Wednesday Sorrowful Mystery on Friday Tuesday Luminous Mystery on Thursday Veterens of War Acts of the Apostles Nine First Fridays Devotion to the Sacred Heart From the writings of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque How do I start the Five First Saturdays? Mary Mother of GOD 15 Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite the Rosary The Valley of Benediction Aug 24 - Consecration of Our Lady of Benoite-Vaux (France, 1138) As from 1140, the monks from Etanche Abbey in France owned land and a chapel in the little valley watered by a little tributary of the Meuse, half way between Verdun and Bar-le-Duc: they called it the Valley of Benediction or "Benoite-Vaux." According to the legend, woodcutters are said to have heard Angels singing the Ave Maria at this spot and to have found a statue of Mary at the foot of an oak tree not far from the river. The Blessed Virgin was holding an apple in one hand and the Infant Jesus in the other. She is called "Comforter of the Afflicted" and the "Queen of Peace." Mary in Islam and the Koran (II) August 24 - OUR LADY, HEALTH OF THE SICK Another remarkable fact is that the name of Maryam is mentioned 34 times in the Koran, while 'Isa is mentioned only 25 times. The 34 times the name of Maryam is mentioned the name of 'Isa is intimately included 17 times. The name of 'Isa is present 17 times out of 34 and described as "'Isa bnu Maryam" ('Isa, son of Mary). Jesus' status is fixed definitively: He is the son of Mary and not--supreme blasphemy to Islam--the Son of God. Antoine Moussali Judaism, Christianity and Islam: A Comparative Study (Judaisme, christianisme et islam : étude comparée), Ed. Paris 2000 Mary's Divine Motherhood Called in the Gospel "the Mother of Jesus," Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as "the Mother of my Lord" (Lk 1:43; Jn 2:1; 19:25; cf. Mt 13:55; et al.). In fact, the One whom she conceived as man by the Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the flesh, was none other than the Father's eternal Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity. Hence the Church confesses that Mary is truly "Mother of God" (Theotokos). Catechism of the Catholic Church 495, quoting the Council of Ephesus (431): DS 251. The great psalm of the Passion, Chapter 22, whose first verse "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Jesus pronounced on the cross, ended with the vision: "All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord; and all the families of the nations shall worship before him" For kingship belongs to the LORD, the ruler over the nations. All who sleep in the earth will bow low before God; All who have gone down into the dust will kneel in homage. And I will live for the LORD; my descendants will serve you. The generation to come will be told of the Lord, that they may proclaim to a people yet unborn the deliverance you have brought. |
St. Ptolemy,
bishop, disciple of the blessed apostle Peter. Being sent by
him to preach the Gospel in Tuscany, he died a glorious martyr of Christ in the city of Nepi. St. Bartholomew 1st v. St. Romanus of Nepi Early Christian martyr Disciple of St. Ptolemy St. Eutychius, disciple of the blessed evangelist John. He preached the Gospel in many countries, and was subjected to imprisonment, to stripes and fire, but finally he rested in peace. 260 St. Massa Candida group of martyrs 270 St. Aurea Martyr 304 St. Tation Martyr St. Yrchard 6th v. Syra The martyr with faith she touched the robe of the priest, as the woman with the issue of blood once touched the robe of the Savior (Mt. 9: 20-22). She immediately received healing and she returned home healed. 650 St. Ouen consecrated archbishop Rouen St. Patrick, abbot At Nevers in France 718 St. George Limniota, monk. reprehended wicked emperor Leo for breaking holy images, and burning the relics of the saints 986 St. Sandratus Benedictine abbot St. Rose of St. Mary 1199 Saint Martyrius, Archbishop of Novgorod, was born in Stara Rus. On the northeast side of the city, near the right bank of the Polista River he founded in the year 1192 the Transfiguration men's monastery. 1326 Saint Peter,
Metropolitan of Moscow, Three epistles of St Peter are preserved
The first was to priests with an exhortation to pursue their pastoral
service worthily, and to tend their spiritual children with zeal; In the
second missive, the saint urged priests to be true pastors and not hirelings,
and to be concerned about the strengthening of themselves with Christian
and pastoral virtues. In the third letter, St Peter again exhorts priests
concerning their pastoral obligations, and he urges laypeople to fulfill
the commandments of Christ.
1325 The Icon
of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of St Peter" was so called because
it was painted by St Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow (+ December 21, 1326)
while he was igumen of the Ratsk monastery near Volhynia. During a visit
to the Ratsk monastery by St Maximus, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia
(+ December 6, 1306), St Peter gave him this icon as a gift. The Metropolitan
took it to Vladimir at Klyazma, where his cathedral was then located.
1314-1392 The Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos
to St Sergius of Radonezh: Once, late at night, St Sergius was
reading an Akathist to the Mother of God. Having finished his habitual
rule, he sat down to rest a bit, but suddenly he said to his disciple,
St Micah (May 6): "Be alert, my child, for we shall have a wondrous visitation."
Scarcely had he uttered these words than a voice was heard: "The All-Pure
One approaches!"
St. Emily
de Vialar, virgin, foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters
of Saint Joseph of the Apparition. A shining example of fortitude,
patience and charity, Sovereign Pontiff Pius XII added her to the number
of saints1314-1392 The Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to St Sergius of Radonezh: St. Mary Micaela, virgin, founded Institute of Religious Adorer-Slaves of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity. Burning with the desire to suffer and draw souls to God, numbered among the holy virgins by Pope Pius XI 1550 Saint Arsenius of Komel born in Moscow, descended from a noble family, the Sakharusov. In youth tonsured at the Trinity-Sergiev monastery, occupied himself there with copying books: Gospel he copied in the year 1506. 1774 Saint Serapion was abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist in the Davit-Gareji Wilderness; endowed by God with the ability to work miracles. 1779 Cosmas
The New Hieromartyr, Equal of the Apostles, in the world Constas,
was a native of Aitolia. He studied at first under the guidance of the
archdeacon Ananias Dervisanos, and afterwards continued his education
on Mount Athos, at the Vatopedi school renowned for teachers such as Nicholas
Tzartzoulios (from Metsovo) and Eugenius Voulgaris (afterwards in the
years 1775-1779 the archbishop of Ekaterinoslav and the Chersonessus).
1828 St. Jane
Antide Thouret Foundress Daughters of Charity 1854 Massíliæ, in Gállia, sanctæ Æmíliæ de Vialár, Vírginis, Fundatrícis Institúti Sorórum a sancto Joseph ab Apparitióne 1865 St MARY_MICAELA Foundress of Sisters consecrated especially to the Blessed Sacrament (1809-1865) |
Népete sancti Ptolomǽi Epíscopi,
qui fuit discípulus beáti Petri Apóstoli; atque,
ab eo missus in Túsciam ad prædicándum Evangélium,
in eádem civitáte gloriósus Christi Martyr occúbuit. At Nepi, St. Ptolemy, bishop, disciple of the blessed apostle Peter. Being sent by him to preach the Gospel in Tuscany, he died a glorious martyr of Christ in the city of Nepi. |
1st v. St. Romanus of Nepi
Early Christian martyr Disciple of St. Ptolemy; reportedly martyred
at Nepi, in Tuscany, Italy, where he served as bishop Népete sancti Románi, ejúsdem civitátis Epíscopi, qui, cum esset sancti Ptolomǽi discípulus, fuit étiam in passióne sócius. Also at Nepi, St. Romanus, bishop of that city, who was the disciple of St. Ptolemy, and his companion in martyrdom. |
Eódem die sancti Eutychii, qui fuit discípulus
beáti Joánnis Evangelístæ; atque, ob Evangélii
prædicatiónem in multis regiónibus cárceres,
vérbera et ignes perpéssus, in pace tandem quiévit.
Also, St. Eutychius, disciple of the blessed evangelist John. He preached the Gospel in many countries, and was subjected to imprisonment, to stripes and fire, but finally he rested in peace. Eutyches The Hieromartyr , a disciple of the holy Apostles John the Theologian and Paul, lived from the first century into the beginning of the second century, and was from the Palestinian city of Sebastea. Although St Eutyches is not one of the 70 Apostles, he is called an Apostle because of his labors with the older Apostles, by whom he was made bishop. After hearing about Christ the Savior, St Eutyches first became a disciple of the Apostle John the Theologian. Later he met the Apostle Paul, and preached together with him on the early journeys. St Eutyches underwent many sufferings: they starved him with hunger, beat him with iron rods, they threw him into the fire, and then to be devoured by wild beasts. Once, a lion was let loose upon the saint, which astonished everyone because it praised the Creator with a human voice. The hieromartyr Eutyches completed his labors in his native city, where he was beheaded with a sword at the beginning of the second century . |
St. Bartholomew
Sancti Bartholomǽi Apóstoli, qui Christi Evangélium in India
prædicávit; inde in majórem
Arméniam proféctus, ibi, cum plúrimos ad
fidem convertísset, vivus a bárbaris decoriátus
est, atque, Astyagis Regis jussu, cápitis decollatióne
martyrium complévit. Ipsíus sacrum corpus, primo
ad Líparam ínsulam, deínde Benevéntum, postrémo
Romam ad Tiberínam translátum ínsulam, ibi pia fidélium
veneratióne honorátur.
The apostle St. Bartholomew, who preached the Gospel of Christ in India. Passing thence into the Greater Armenia where, after converting many to the faith, he was flayed alive by the barbarians, and having his head cut off by order of King Astyages, he fulfilled his martyrdom. His holy body was first carried to the island of Lipara, then to Benevento, and finally to Rome in the Island of the Tiber, where it is venerated by the pious faithful. ST BARTHOLOMEW, APOSTLE (FIRST CENTURY) THE name given to this apostle is probably not his proper name, but his patronymic, meaning the son of Tolmai, and beyond the fact of his existence nothing is certainly known of him. Many scholars, however, take him to have been the same person as Nathanael, a native of Cana in Galilee, of whom our Lord said, "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile". Among the reasons advanced for this supposition is that, as St John never mentions Bartholomew among the Apostles, so the other three evangelists take no notice of the name of Nathanael; and they constantly put together Philip and Bartholomew, just as St John says Philip and Nathanael came together to Christ; moreover, Nathanael is reckoned with other apostles when Christ appeared to them at the sea of Galilee after His resurrection (John xxi). The popular traditions concerning St Bartholomew are summed up in the Roman Martyrology, which says he preached the gospel of Christ in India; thence he went into Greater Armenia, and when he converted many people there to the faith he was flayed alive by the barbarians, and by command of King Astyages fulfilled his martyrdom by beheading...The place is said to have been Albanopolis (Derbend, on the west coast of the Caspian Sea), and he is represented to have preached also in Mesopotamia, Persia, Egypt and elsewhere. The earliest reference to India is given by Eusebius in the early fourth century, when he relates that St Pantaenus, about a hundred years earlier, going into India (St Jerome adds "to preach to the Brahmins"), found there some who still retained the knowledge of Christ and showed him a copy of St Matthew's Gospel in Hebrew characters, which they assured him that St Bartholomew had brought into those parts when he planted the faith among them. But "India" was a name applied indifferently by Greek and Latin writers to Arabia, Ethiopia, Libya, Parthia, Persia and the lands of the Medes, and it is most probable that the India visited by Pantaenus was Ethiopia or Arabia Felix, or perhaps both. Another eastern legend says the apostle met St Philip at Hierapolis in Phrygia, and travelled into Lycaonia, where St John Chrysostom affirms that he instructed the people in the Christian faith. That he preached and died in Armenia is possible, and is a unanimous tradition among the later historians of that country; but earlier Armenian writers make little or no reference to him as connected with their nation. The journeys attributed to the relics of St Bartholomew are even more bewildering than those of his living body alleged relics are venerated at present chiefly at Benevento and in the church of St Bartholomew- in- the-Tiber at Rome. Although,
in comparison with such other apostles as St Andrew, St Thomas and
St John, the name of St Bartholomew is not conspicuous in the apocryphal
literature of the early centuries, still we have what professes to bean
account of his preaching and "passion" preserved to us in Greek and several
Latin copies. Max Bonnet (Analecta Bollandiana,
vol. xiv, 1895, pp. 353-366) thinks the Latin was the original; Lipsius
less probably argues for the priority of the Greek; but it may be that
both derive from a lost Syriac archetype. The texts are in the Acta Sanctorum, August, vol. v in
Tischendorf, Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha,
pp. 243-260; and also in Bonnet, Act.
Apocryph., vol. ii, Pt. 1, pp. ,128 seq. There are also considerable
fragments of an apocryphal Gospel of Bartholomew (on which see the Revue Biblique for 1913, 1921 and 1922),
and traces of Coptic "Acts of Andrew and Bartholomew". The gospel which
bears the name of Bartholomew is one of the apocryphal writings condemned
in the decree of Pseudo-Gelasius. The statement that St Bartholomew was
flayed alive before being beheaded, though this is not mentioned in the
passio, is contained in the
so-called "Breviarium Apostolorum" prefixed to certain manuscripts of the
"Hieronymianum". It is the flaying which has probably suggested the
knife, often associated as an emblem with pictures of the saint; but on
St Bartholomew in art see Künstle, Ikonographie, vol. ii, pp. 116-120.
The Indian question is examined in some detail by Fr A. C. Perumalil in
The Apostles in India (Patna,
1953).
All that is known of him with
certainty is that he is mentioned in the synoptic gospels and Acts as
one of the twelve apostles. His name, a patronymic, means "son of Tolomai"
and scholars believe he is the same as Nathanael mentioned in John, who
says he is from Cana and that Jesus called him an "Israelite...incapable
of deceit." The Roman Martyrology says he preached in India and Greater
Armenia, where he was flayed and beheaded by King Astyages. Tradition
has the place as Abanopolis on the west coast of the Caspian Sea and that
he also preached in Mesopotamia, Persia, and Egypt. The Gospel of Bartholomew
is apochryphal and was condemned in the decree of Pseudo-Gelasius
In the New Testament, Bartholomew is mentioned only in the lists of the apostles. Some scholars identify him with Nathanael, a man of Cana in Galilee who was summoned to Jesus by Philip. Jesus paid him a great compliment: “Here is a true Israelite. There is no duplicity in him” (John 1:47b). When Nathanael asked how Jesus knew him, Jesus said, “I saw you under the fig tree” (John 1:48b). Whatever amazing revelation this involved, it brought Nathanael to exclaim, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel” (John 1:49b). But Jesus countered with, “Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this” (John 1:50b). Nathanael did see greater things. He was one of those to whom Jesus appeared on the shore of the Sea of Tiberias after his resurrection (see John 21:1-14). They had been fishing all night without success. In the morning, they saw someone standing on the shore though no one knew it was Jesus. He told them to cast their net again, and they made so great a catch that they could not haul the net in. Then John cried out to Peter, “It is the Lord.” When they brought the boat to shore, they found a fire burning, with some fish laid on it and some bread. Jesus asked them to bring some of the fish they had caught, and invited them to come and eat their meal. John relates that although they knew it was Jesus, none of the apostles presumed to inquire who he was. This, John notes, was the third time Jesus appeared to the apostles. Comment:
Bartholomew or Nathanael? We are confronted again with the fact that
we know almost nothing about most of the apostles. Yet the unknown ones
were also foundation stones, the 12 pillars of the new Israel whose 12
tribes now encompass the whole earth. Their personalities were secondary
(without thereby being demeaned) to their great office of bearing tradition
from their firsthand experience, speaking in the name of Jesus, putting
the Word made flesh into human words for the enlightenment of the world.
Their holiness was not an introverted contemplation of their status before
God. It was a gift that they had to share with others. The Good News was
that all are called to the holiness of being Christ’s members, by the gracious
gift of God.
The simple fact is that humanity
is totally meaningless unless God is its total concern. Then humanity,
made holy with God’s own holiness, becomes the most precious creation
of God.
Quote: “Like Christ himself,
the apostles were unceasingly bent upon bearing witness to the truth
of God. They showed special courage in speaking ‘the word of God with boldness’
(Acts 4:31) before the people and their rulers. With a firm faith they
held that the gospel is indeed the power of God unto salvation for all
who believe..They followed the example of the gentleness and respectfulness
of Christ” (Declaration on Religious Freedom, 11) .
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260 St. Massa
Candida group of martyrs Carthágine sanctórum trecentórum Mártyrum, témpore Valeriáni et Galliéni. Hi Mártyres magnánimi, inter ália supplícia, cum Præses fornácem calcáriam accéndi jussísset, et, in præséntia ejus, prunas cum thure exhibéri, atque illis dixísset: « Elígite e duóbus unum, aut thura super his carbónibus offérte Jovi, aut in calcem demergímini », fide armáti, Christum Dei Fílium confiténtes, ictu rapidíssimo se injecérunt in ignem, et inter calcis vapóres in púlverem sunt redácti; ex quo candidátus ille beatórum exércitus appellári Massa cándida méruit. At Carthage, three hundred holy martyrs, in the time of Valerian and Gallienus. Among other torments inflicted on them, a pit filled with burning lime was prepared by order of the governor, who, live coals with incense being brought to him, said to the confessors: "Choose one of these two things: either offer incense to Jupiter upon these coals, or be thrown into the lime." Armed with faith, and confessing Christ to be the Son of God, they quickly threw themselves into the pit, and amid the vapours of the lime were reduced to dust. From this circumstance, this white-robed company of the blessed earned for itself the name of the White Mass. Suffered in Utica, in northern Africa. The name, translated as “the White Mass,” was believed to denote the fact that these martyrs were thrown into a lime pit, and their remains became one great white mass. Now it is believed that Massa Candida was an actual site near Utica in modem North Africa. Some 153 martyrs suffered there under Emperors Valerian and Gallienus. 258? THE MARTYRS OF UTICA THE story of these martyrs as known to himself was popularized by the poet Prudentius in one of his hymns, and it is recorded in the Roman Martyrology today in these words: The passion “at Carthage, of three hundred holy martyrs in the time of Valerian and Gallienus. The governor, among other torments, ordered a lime kiln to be lighted and charcoal and incense to be at hand near by; then he said to them, ‘Choose one of these two things: either offer incense to Jupiter upon these coals, or be thrown into that lime’. They, armed with faith and confessing Christ the Son of God, on a swift impulse threw themselves into the fire and were reduced to powder in the heat of the lime. Wherefore this white-robed company of the blessed earned for itself the name of the White Mass.” That is to say, their ashes made but one common mass cemented with the lime. St Augustine says that this
happened at Utica, twenty-five miles from Carthage, and that the martyrs
numbered not three hundred but more than one hundred and fifty-three.
Prudentius refers to them thus: “Whiteness [candor] possesses
their bodies; purity [candor] bears their souls to Heaven.
Hence they have merited to be for ever called the White Mass [Massa candida].” But, as Father Delehaye points
out in his commentary on the “Martyrology of Jerome”, it seems that this
poetic description of Prudentius must be set aside. “Massa Candida” is really the
name of a place—the White Farm. A number of martyrs were buried there, but
there is nothing to show that they suffered under Valerian. There was quite
probably something in the nature of a massacre, as an early sermon, formerly
without warrant attributed to St Augustine, dwells upon the bloodshed and
the readiness of the martyrs to submit their necks to the sword; but on the
other hand there is no evidence that they numbered either 300 or 153, for
the latter figure was merely suggested to Augustine by a reference he had
just made to the draught of fishes in John xxi ii. There can be little doubt
that Prudentius evolved the whole story of the lime out of the name “massa
candida”, which he interpreted according to his own exuberant fancy. See Prudentius,
Peristephanon, xiii, 76—87; P. Franchi de’ Cavalieri,
in Studi e Testi, vol. ix (1902), pp. 37—51; G. Morin
in Miscellanea Augustiniana, vol. i (1930), p. 647;
H. Delehaye, CMH., pp. 449—450, and Origines du culte des martyrs
(1933), pp. 384—385.
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270 St.
Aurea Martyr Apud Ostia Tiberína sanctæ Aureæ, Vírginis
et Mártyris; quæ saxo ad collum ligáto, in mare demérsa
est. Ipsíus autem corpus, ejéctum ad littus, beátus
Nonnus sepelívit. At Ostia, on the Tiber, St. Aurea, virgin and martyr, who was plunged into the sea with a stone tied to her neck. Her body being driven to the shore was buried by blessed Nonnus. Ostia, in Italy. No reliable details survive of her death, but her shrine at Ostia attests to her martyrdom. |
304 St. Tation
Martyr In Isáuria sancti Tatiónis Mártyris, qui, in persecutióne Diocletiáni, sub Urbáno Præside, gládio cæsus, martyrii corónam accépit. In Isauria, St. Tation, martyr, who received the crown of martyrdom by being beheaded in the persecution of Diocletian, under the governor Urbanus. He was beheaded in Bithynia, under Emperor Diocletian. The Martyr Tation lived in Bythnia and suffered under the emperor Diocletian (284-305). When the persecutors of Christians learned that he believed in Christ, they arrested him and took him to the city of Claudiopolis to the governor, Urban. Many times they urged the saint to deny Christ, and they locked him in prison and gave him over to various tortures. They beat him with sticks and dragged him beyond the city for execution. The holy martyr, after making the Sign of the Cross, died along the way . |
5th
v. St. Yrchard served as a missionary
among the Picts. Yrchard (d. fifth century) + Scottish bishop and disciple of St. Ternan, also called Yardcard. Yrchard served as a missionary among the Picts . |
6th
v. Syra The martyr with faith she touched the robe of the priest, as the
woman with the issue of blood once touched the robe of the Savior (Mt.
9: 20-22). She immediately received healing and she returned home healed.
Syra lived during the sixth century in Persia and was the daughter of an illustrious pagan priest of the fire-worshippers (i.e. Zoroastrians) from Karkh-Seleucia in Elimiade (Abizarde). Syra's father, fearing the influence of Christianity on his daughter, sent her to the city of Tharsis after the death of her mother to be educated as a pagan priestess. Syra became a priestess at the heathen temple of fire, and occupied herself with honorable activity. But once, after speaking with some Christian beggars, Syra believed in Christ the Savior and began to live as a Christian. She began to learn prayers and Psalms, to fast and to read Christian books. Syra once fell ill. She was not able to find a remedy for her sickness, so she went to the Christian church and asked the priest only to give her some of the ashes from the church, hoping to receive healing from them. The priest, knowing Syra to be a servitor of idols, refused her request. Syra was not angered, recognizing her own unworthiness, but with faith she touched the robe of the priest, as the woman with the issue of blood once touched the robe of the Savior (Mt. 9: 20-22). She immediately received healing and she returned home healed. Syra's family began to suspect that she wanted to accept Christianity, and they asked Syra's stepmother to persuade her to abandon this intention. The stepmother, pretending that she herself was a secret Christian, talked sweetly with Syra, telling her to keep her faith secret. She also told Syra to continue to serve the fire outwardly, so she would not fall away from Christ altogether by being subjected to torture. Syra began to hesitate about accepting Baptism, but when she saw a vision in her sleep about the desolate fate which befell her mother after her death, and about the luminous abodes foreordained for Christians, she made up her mind and went to the bishop, asking him to baptize her. The bishop declined to fulfill her request, fearing to give the pagan priests a reason for persecuting Christians. Besides this, he thought that Syra, fearing her father's wrath, would deny Christ. The bishop advised her first to openly confess her faith in the Savior before her kinsfolk. Once during the morning sacrifice, St Syra was stoking the priestly fire worshipped by the Persians as their god, and overturning the sacrifice she proclaimed loudly: "I am a Christian and reject false gods and I believe in the True God!" The father beat his daughter until he became exhausted, and then threw her in prison. With tears and entreaties he urged her to return to her former faith, but Syra was unyielding. The father then denounced her to the pagan high priest, and afterwards to the governor and to the emperor Chozroes the Elder. They tortured the holy maiden for a long time in prison, but the Lord strengthened her, and she stood firmly on her faith in Christ. After she bribed the prison guard, St Syra went to the bishop and received Baptism. The Lord granted St Syra the gift of wonderworking. When the Persians gave the martyr over for the leering of impious men, they began to jeer at the saint, saying: "What's the fable told about you, that the chains fall from your neck, hands and legs by themselves? Let us see now how the chains fall off!" St Syra prayed in the depths of her heart to the Savior, and immediately the chains fell from her. And this was not the only time. Succumbing to her tortures, St
Syra fell deathly ill. She began to entreat the Lord that He not permit her
to die from the illness, but rather to grant her a martyr's crown. The Lord
heard her and granted healing. Seeing the martyr healed, the prison guard
and jail warden went to dishonor the holy maiden, but the Lord struck one
with illness and the other one was struck dead. The martyr was condemned to
be stranged.
They conducted the execution with refined cruelty. After a while they left go of the rope, asking the saint whether she wanted to change her mind and remain among the living. But the martyr, barely alive, refused and requested the execution be done quickly. The body of the saint was thrown to dogs to be devoured, but they would not touch it. Christians then buried the body of St Syra. |
650
St. Ouen consecrated archbishop Rouen For miracles attributed to relics
of St Ouen at Canterbury, see Analecta
Boliandiana, vol. li (1933), pp. 285-292, and vol. lxiv (1946),
pp. 50-53.
Rotómagi sancti
Audoéni, Epíscopi et Confessóris.
At Rouen, St. Owen, bishop and confessor. St Audoenus, or Ouen, Bishop
of Rouen 684
St Ouen (Dado) was born at Sancy, near Soissons, about 6oo, of a Frankish family, his father being St Authaire. While he and his brother Ado were still children, living at Ussy-sur-Marne, their father entertained the exiled St Columban in his house. The brothers were educated well and when they were of sufficient age were put at the court of King Clotaire II, where Ouen became one of a group of remarkable young men which included St Eligius, St Wandrille and St Didier of Cahors. Ouen was in great favour with the king and with his son and successor, Dagobert I, who made him his referendary or chancellor; in this office Ouen steadily opposed the prevalent simony. He obtained of the king a grant of a piece of land situated in the forest of Brie where, in 636, he erected a monastery, called at present Rebais. By the advice of St Faro, Bishop of Meaux, he sent for Aile, a disciple of St Columban from Luxeuil, and had him appointed the first abbot. St Ouen would have retired himself to Rebais, but Dagobert and his nobles could not be induced to give their consent. St Ouen and St Eligius, though yet laymen, were for their zeal, piety and learning considered as equals even of the bishops, and they promoted the cause of religion and virtue through the whole kingdom. Dagobert dying in 639, Clovis II, his son and successor, testified the same esteem for St Ouen, and kept him in the office of referendary. At length Clovis was prevailed upon to give Ouen leave to receive ordination from Dieudonné, Bishop of Macon, and he was shortly after elected bishop of Rouen ; at the same time his friend St Eligius was chosen bishop of Noyon. They took a considerable time to prepare themselves for this dignity, by retreat, fasting and prayer, and received the episcopal consecration together at Rheims in 641. St Ouen in this new office increased his humility, austerities and charities. His zeal was indefatigable, and by his kindness and patience he was truly all things to all men. He encouraged learning by the foundation of monasteries, and sent missionaries to those parts of his diocese that were still pagan nor did he slacken his efforts for extirpating simony and other abuses. He was a trusted adviser of King Thierry III and upheld the policy of Ebroin, the mayor of the palace, to such a degree that he was, perhaps inculpably, involved in Ebroin's ill-treatment of St Leger and of St Philibert. Returning from a political mission to Cologne, St Ouen went to Clichy, and there fell ill and died, on August 24, 684. The earliest of the lives of St
Cuen dates from the beginning of the eighth century, and has been critically
edited by W. Levison in MGH., Scritores
Merov., vol. v, pp. 536-567. Levison also comments (pp. 548 seq.)
on the two ninth-century lives the formee of which is printed with the
first-named in the Acta Sanctorum,
August, vol. iv, and the latter in the Analecta Ballandiana, vol. v, pp. 76-146.
By far the best modern contribution to the history of St Ouen
is that of E. Vacandard, Vie de Saint Ouen
(1902). He has in particular rectified in several points the chronology
of previous writers. For miracles attributed to relics of St Ouen
at Canterbury, see Analecta Boliandiana,
vol. li (1933), pp. 285-292, and vol. lxiv (1946), pp. 50-53.
Ouen is also known as Owen and
Audoenus. He was the son of St. Authaire and was born at Sancy near Soissons,
France. He was educated
at St. Medard Abbey, served at the courts of King Clotaire II and his
son Dagobert I, who made him his chancellor and in 636 built a monastery
at Rebais. He was pursuaded not to become a monk there by Dagobert, and
despite the fact that Ouen was a layman, he was active in promoting religion
and combating simony. He was continued as chancellor by King Clovis II,
was ordained and in 641, was consecrated archbishop of Rouen. He encouraged
learning and the founding of new monasteries, was known for his personal
austerities and his charities, and supported missionary activities to pagan
areas of his See. He supported Ebroin, mayor of the palace, against the
nobles, and at the invitation of Thierry III, negotiated a peace between
Neustria and Austrasia in Cologne. He died at Clich near Paris on August
24 while returning from Cologne.
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718 Item sancti Geórgii Limniótæ
Mónachi, qui, cum ímpium Leónem Imperatórem,
quod sacras Imágines, frángeret Sanctorúmque relíquias
combúreret, reprehendísset, hanc ob causam, ejus jussu
mánibus abscíssis et cápite incénso, Martyr
migrávit ad Dóminum. Also, St. George Limniota, monk. Because he reprehended the wicked emperor Leo for breaking holy images, and burning the relics of the saints, he had his hands cut off and his head burned by order of the tyrant, and went to our Lord to receive the recompence of a martyr. Saint George Limniotes lived during the seventh and eighth centuries and was a monk of the Olympian monastery near Constantinople. He suffered for venerating icons under the Iconoclast emperor Leo the Isaurian (716-741). They burned his head and cut off his nose. St George died in the year . |
Nivérnis, in Gállia, sancti Patrícii
Abbátis.
St. Patrick, abbot At Nevers in France |
986 St. Sandratus
Benedictine abbot Originally a monk in the monastery of St. Maximinus, Trier, Germany, he was named by King Otto I to go to St. Gall Monastery in Switzerland to bring needed reforms to that community. After completing his mission, he was named abbot of Gladbach and also abbot of Weissenburg . |
1199
Saint Martyrius, Archbishop of Novgorod, was born in Stara Rus. On
the northeast side of the city, near the right bank of the Polista River
he founded in the year 1192 the Transfiguration men's monastery. At the Novgorod cathedral, St Martyrius was chosen by lot after the death of St Gregory (May 24). On December 10, 1193 in Kiev, he was elevated to the rank of archbishop. St Martyrius became famous as an indefatigable builder of churches. In May 1195 he contracted for a church in the name of the Mother of God at the city gates, on September 13, 1196 he consecrated a church in honor of the Resurrection of Christ in a new women's monastery at Lake Myachina. In January 1197 the saint consecrated a church in honor of St Cyril of Alexandria at the men's monastery of the same name 3 versts from Novgorod. In the year 1197, he contracted in the carpenter's quarter of Novgorod for a women's monastery in the name of the holy Great Martyr Euphemia, built by devout young women of the city. In January 1197 St Martyrius consecrated at the Transfiguration monastery in Stara Rus a temple dedicated to St Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople. In May 1198, he began to build a stone church in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord, and on August 15 of the same year he consecrated it. In that same year Princess Elena, wife of Prince Yaroslav Vladimirovich, built on the merchants' side at Molotkova a church in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos at the monastery, founded by St Martyrius. The church was built in memory of the following miracle. A certain devout man of Novgorod went to church each day. Once he returned home, and became tired, fell asleep, and dropped a prosphora stamped with the image of the Theotokos. The dogs, smelling bread, ran up to the prosphora but jumped away, driven off by an invisible power. Great Prince Vsevolod became disaffected with the people of Novgorod. In 1199 St Martyrius went to Vladimir with representatives of the townspeople. Along the way, on the shore of Lake Seliger, he died on August 24, 1199. His body was taken to Novgorod to the Martyriev Portico of the Sophia Cathedral, so named because it was built by St Martyrius. His icon is in the altar of the Novgorod Sophia Cathedral . |
Limæ, in Perúvia, natális
sanctæ Rosæ a sancta María, Vírginis, e tértio
Ordine sancti Domínici. Ejus vero festívitas tértio
Kaléndas Septémbris celebrátur. At Lima in Peru, the birthday of St. Rose of St. Mary, virgin of the Third Order of St. Dominic. Her feast is observed on the 30th of August. |
Massíliæ, in Gállia, sanctæ
Æmíliæ de Vialár, Vírginis, Fundatrícis
Institúti Sorórum a sancto Joseph ab Apparitióne,
fortitúdine, patiéntia et caritáte insígnis,
quam Pius Duodécimus, Póntifex Máximus, in Sanctárum
númerum rétulit. At Marseilles in France, St. Emily de Vialar, virgin, foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Apparition. A shining example of fortitude, patience and charity, the Sovereign Pontiff Pius XII added her to the number of the saints. |
Valéntiæ, in Hispánia, natális
sanctæ Maríæ Michaélæ, Vírginis,
Fundatrícis Congregatiónis Ancillárum a Sanctíssimo
Sacraménto et Caritátis, patiéndi stúdio ac
desidério ánimas Deo lucrándi inflammátæ,
quam Pius Papa Undécimus sanctis Virgínibus accénsuit. At Valencia in Spain, the birthday of St. Mary Micaela, virgin, who founded the Institute of Religious Adorer-Slaves of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity. Burning with the desire to suffer and draw souls to God, she was numbered among the holy virgins by Pope Pius XI. |
1326
Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow,Three epistles of St Peter are
preserved The first was to priests with an exhortation to pursue their
pastoral service worthily, and to tend their spiritual children with
zeal; In the second missive, the saint urged priests to be true pastors
and not hirelings, and to be concerned about the strengthening of themselves
with Christian and pastoral virtues. In the third letter, St Peter again
exhorts priests concerning their pastoral
obligations, and he urges
laypeople to fulfill the commandments of Christ. died on December 21, 1326. The first transfer of his relics was on July 1, 1472 and a feastday was established. The second transfer of the relics of St Peter was after the consecration of the Dormition Cathedral, rebuilt on August 24, 1479, and the July 1 feastday was replaced. There was a feastday of the appearance of the relics of St Peter (August 4) upon the occasion of an appearance to the wife of Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584), the Tsaritsa Anastasia (1547-1560). St Peter appeared to Tsaritsa Anastasia and would permit no one to open his grave. He commanded the grave to be sealed and a feastday established. Three epistles of St Peter are preserved. The first was to priests with an exhortation to pursue their pastoral service worthily, and to tend their spiritual children with zeal. It concluded with an account of Church law concerning widowed priests, and intended to protect them from reproach and temptation. He advised them to settle in a monastery, and for their children to be enrolledin a monastery school for upbringing and instruction. In the second missive, the saint urged priests to be true pastors and not hirelings, and to be concerned about the strengthening of themselves with Christian and pastoral virtues. In the third letter, St Peter again exhorts priests concerning their pastoral obligations, and he urges laypeople to fulfill the commandments of Christ. Prominent in church-state affairs, there was good reason even for his contemporaries to compare St Peter with Sts Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom. The principal effort of St Peter was in the struggle for an unified Russian state and the blessing of Moscow as the unifier of the Russian land . |
1325 The Icon of the
Most Holy Theotokos "Of St Peter" was so called because it was painted
by St Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow (+ December 21, 1326) while he was
igumen of the Ratsk monastery near Volhynia. During a visit to the Ratsk
monastery by St Maximus, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia (+ December
6, 1306), St Peter gave him this icon as a gift. The Metropolitan took it
to Vladimir at Klyazma, where his cathedral was then located. Upon the death of St Maximus, the igumen Gerontius, who wished to become the new metropolitan, intended to take this icon to Patriarch Athanasius of Constantinople (October 24). The journey of Igumen Gerontius was delayed, however, by a terrible storm at sea. During this storm, the Most Holy Theotokos appeared to him and said: "The office of bishop will not be conferred upon you, but rather on the one who painted My Icon." When he came before Patriarch Athanasius, St Peter was already in Constantinople and had been consecrated as Metropolitan. The Patriarch gave the icon to St Peter with the words: "Take the holy icon of the Mother of God, which you painted with your own hands, for this reason the Ever-Virgin Herself has granted you this gift, and She foretold your path." St Peter took the icon to Vladimir, and when the metropolitan cathedral was transfered to Moscow in the year 1325, the icon was placed in the Dormition Cathedral above the table of oblation . |
1314-1392 The Appearance
of the Most Holy Theotokos to St Sergius of Radonezh: Once, late
at night, St Sergius (1314-1392) was reading an Akathist to the Mother
of God. Having finished his habitual rule, he sat down to rest a bit, but
suddenly he said to his disciple, St Micah (May 6): "Be alert, my child,
for we shall have a wondrous visitation." Scarcely had he uttered these
words than a voice was heard: "The All-Pure One approaches!"
St Sergius rushed from the cell to the entrance, and suddenly it was illumined by a bright light, brighter than the sun. He beheld nearby in imperishable glory the Mother of God, accompanied by the Apostles Peter and John. Unable to bear such a vision, St Sergius reverently prostrated himself before the Mother of God. She said to him, "Fear not, My chosen one! I have come to visit you. Your prayer for your disciples and your monastery has been heard. Do not be troubled, for your habitation shall prosper, not only in your lifetime, but also after your departure to God. I will be with your monastery, supplying its needs abundantly, and protecting it." Having said this, the Mother of God became invisible. For a long time St Sergius was in an inexpressible rapture, and having come to himself, he raised up St Micah. "Tell me, Father," he asked, "what is the meaning of this miraculous vision? My soul nearly left my body from terror!" But St Sergius was silent, and only his luminous face spoke of the spiritual joy which he had experienced. "Wait a bit," he said finally to his disciple, "my soul also trembles because of this wondrous vision." After a while St Sergius summoned two of his disciples, Sts Isaac and Simon, and shared with them the vision and the promise of the Theotokos. They all sang a Molieben to the Mother of God. St Sergius spent the remaining part of the night without sleep, calling to mind the divine vision. The appearance of the Mother of God at the cell of St Sergius, at the present place of the Serapionov chamber, was on one of the Fridays of the Nativity Fast in the year 1385. The commemoration of the visit of the Mother of God to the Trinity monastery and of Her promise was reverently kept by the disciples of St Sergius. On July 5, 1422 the holy relics of St Sergius were uncovered, and soon after an icon of the Appearance of the Mother of God was placed on the grave of St Sergius. The icon was honored with great reverence. In the year 1446 Great Prince
Basil (1425-1462) was besieged at the Trinity monastery by the armies
of Princes Demetrius Shemyaka and John of Mozhaisk. He barricaded himself
into the Trinity cathedral, and when he heard that he was being sought,
he took the icon of the Appearance of the Mother of God and with it met
Prince John at the southern church doors, saying: "Brother, we kissed the
Life-Creating Cross and this icon in this church of the Life-Creating Trinity
at this grave of the Wonderworker Sergius, that we would neither intend
nor wish any evil to any of our brethren among ourselves. Now I do not know
no what will happen to me here."
The Trinity monk Ambrose reproduced the icon of the Appearance of the Mother of God to St Sergius, carved in wood (mid-fourteenth century). Tsar Ivan the Terrible took the icon of the Appearance of the Mother of God on his Kazan campaign (1552). The most famous icon, painted in the year 1588, was by the steward of the Trinity-Sergiev Lavra, Eustathius Golovkin on a board from the wooden reliquary of St Sergius, which was taken apart in the year 1585 when the relics of St Sergius were placed in a silver reliquary (August 14). Through this icon, the Mother of God repeatedly protected the Russian army. Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich (1645-1676) took it on the Polish campaign in 1657. In the year 1703, the icon took part in all the military campaigns against the Swedish king Charles XII, and in 1812 Metropolitan Platon sent it to the Moscow military levy. The icon was carried in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, and during World War I it was at the quarters of the supreme commander-in-chief in 1914. A church was built over the grave of St Micah and at its consecration on December 10, 1734 was named in honor of the Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos and the holy Apostles to St Sergius of Radonezh. On September 27, 1841 the church was restored and consecrated by Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow , who said: "By the grace of the All-Holy and All-Sacred Spirit the restoration of this temple is now accomplished, fashioned before us in honor and memory of the Appearance of our Lady the Most Holy Theotokos to our holy God-bearing Father Sergius, to which St Micah was also an eyewitness." The commemoration of this grace-bearing event is rightly marked by the consecration of a church, however, this whole monastery is a memorial of that miraculous visit. Therefore, its purpose in the continuing centuries was the fulfillment of the promise of the heavenly Visitor: "This place shall endure." In memory of the visit of the Mother of God at the Trinity-Sergiev monastery, an Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos is sung on Fridays, and a special service in honor of the appearance of the Mother of God is celebrated at the monastery on August 24, on the second day of the leave-taking of the Feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos . |
1550 Saint Arsenius
of Komel was born in Moscow, and was descended from a noble family, the
Sakharusov. In his youth he was tonsured at the Trinity-Sergiev monastery,
and he occupied himself there with the copying of books. There is a Gospel
that he copied in the year 1506. In the years 1525-1527
the monk was igumen at the Trinity-Sergiev monastery. He often withdrew
to the solitary Makrisch monastery. Great Prince Basil IV (1505-1533),
making a visit to the monastery at that time, was surprised to behold the
igumen of a prosperous monastery in old clothes covered with patches. The
brethren explained that St Arsenius wished to travel in the wilderness. Setting out together with his own cell elder to the Komel forest located 50 versts from Vologda, St Arsenius made a large wooden cross, and with this cross on his shoulders he set out through the forest to pick out a spot for a future monastery. Coming to a marshy place through a swamp, the monk stumbled under the heavy cross and fell. A heavenly beam of light flashed upon the ascetic at this very moment and convinced him to establish his monastery on this site. He set up the cross and built the first cell. The local inhabitants, went there to hunt wild animals, and killed the disciple of St Arsenius. He himself was forced to withdraw into the Shelegod forest. Several monks soon gathered at his new monastery, and afterwards fugitives from a Tatar incursion upon the surrounding populace settled there. St Arsenius, seeking after silence, desired to live in a quieter spot. In the year 1530 Great Prince Basil gave him a deed for land in the Komel forest at the Kokhtisha River. The monk began here to clear the forest together with his disciple Gerasimus. By prayer, the saint tamed the wild beasts. When several monks had gathered about him, he built a church in honor of the Placing of the Veil of the Most Holy Theotokos. Visiting the Shelegod monastery, the monk instructed the peasants who had settled in the area of the monastery. He bid them reverently to observe feastdays and Sundays. Once when a peasant who had heard him started to work on a feastday, a wind suddenly arose scattering all his sheaves. Having spent his life in fasting, prayer and constant work, St Arsenius died on August 24. 1550. His Life was written soon after his death, but burned in a fire in the Komel monastery in 1596. In shortened form, it was restored from the surviving manuscripts and augmented with posthumous miracles by John, a monk of the monastery. A hundred years later after the death of the saint, the igumen Joasaph built a stone church at the monastery in honor of the Placing of the Veil of the Most Holy Theotokos. Two chapels of this church show the spiritual bond of teacher and disciple. The left chapel was dedicated to St Sergius of Radonezh, and the right to St Arsenius of Komel . |
1774 Saint Serapion was abbot of the Monastery
of St. John the Baptist in the Davit-Gareji Wilderness. He was endowed
by God with the ability to work miracles.
St. Serapion reposed in the year 1774.Once St. Serapion set off for the city, following at a short distance behind several of the monastery’s brothers. While they were traveling, a group of bandits attacked the monks who were walking in front of their abbot and made off with many of the church vessels they were carrying. Terrified, the monks ran back to Serapion and told him what had happened. “Great is God!” said Serapion. “I will not permit the unbelievers to steal His sacred things!” With staff in hand, the elder raced ahead alone in pursuit of the robbers. When the robbers turned back they saw a terrible flame issuing forth from the elder’s staff and became greatly afraid. They abandoned the donkey that had been carrying their spoils and took to their heels. Another time Serapion suddenly burst out of his cell and cried to the brothers, “Woe is me! Woe is me! Robbers have attacked the servants on their way to the monastery!” Having made this frightening announcement, he returned to his cell and began to pray. After a few hours the distraught servants arrived at the monastery and reported that bandits had attacked them along the way. The servants said that, when fleeing their attackers, they had abandoned the mules that were hauling the monastery’s property. A short time later the mules arrived at the monastery unaccompanied, bearing their load as before. St. Serapion eventually abandoned his leadership of the monastery. He was tonsured into the great schema and withdrew into seclusion. Soon after, God revealed to him that his death was near, and he asked the brothers to bury him under the church gates, in a grave that he had prepared for himself. He intended for all who entered there to walk over his grave. |
1779 Cosmas The New
Hieromartyr , Equal of the Apostles, in the world Constas, was a native
of Aitolia. He studied at first under the guidance of the archdeacon
Ananias Dervisanos, and afterwards continued his education on Mount
Athos, at the Vatopedi school renowned for teachers such as Nicholas
Tzartzoulios (from Metsovo) and Eugenius Voulgaris (afterwards in the
years 1775-1779 the archbishop of Ekaterinoslav and the Chersonessus).
Remaining on Athos at the Philotheou monastery to devote himself to spiritual labors, he was tonsured a monk with the name Cosmas, and later was ordained hieromonk. The desire to benefit his fellow Christians, to guide them upon the way of salvation and strengthen their faith, impelled St Cosmas to seek the blessing of his spiritual fathers and go to Constantinople. There he mastered the art of rhetoric and, having received a written permit of Patriarch Seraphim II (and later from his successor Sophronius) to preach the Holy Gospel. So the saint began to proclaim the Gospel at first in the churches of Constantinople and the surrounding villages, then in the Danube regions, in Thessalonica, in Verroia, in Macedonia, Chimaera, Akarnania, Aitolia, on the islands of Saint Maura, Kephalonia and other places. His preaching, filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit, was simple, calm, and gentle. It brought Christians great spiritual benefit. The Lord Himself assisted him and confirmed his words with signs and miracles, just as He had confirmed the preaching of the Apostles. Preaching in the remote areas of Albania, where Christian piety had almost disappeared among the rough and coarse people entrenched in sin, St Cosmas led them to sincere repentance and improvement with the Word of God. Under his guidance, church schools were opened in the towns and villages. The rich offered their money for the betterment of the churches, for the purchase of Holy Books (which the saint distributed to the literate), veils (which he gave women, admonishing them to come to church with covered heads),for prayer ropes and crosses (which he distributed to the common folk), and for baptismal fonts so that children could be baptized in the proper manner. Since the churches could not accommodate everyone wanting to hear the wise preacher, St Cosmas with forty or fifty priests served the Vigil in the fields, and in city squares, where thousands of people prayed for the living and for the dead, and were edified by his preaching. Everywhere that St Cosmas halted and preached, the grateful listeners set up a large wooden cross, which remained thereafter in memory of this. The apostolic service of St Cosmas
was brought to a close by his martyric death in the year 1779. At 65 years
of age, he was seized by the Turks and strangled. His body was thrown into
a river, and after three days, was found by the priest Mark and buried near
the village of Kolikontasi at the monastery of the Entrance into the Temple
of the Most Holy Theotokos. Afterwards, part of his relics were transferred
to various places as a blessing.
He was glorified by the Ecumenical
Patriarchate in 1961.
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1828
St. Jane Antide Thouret Foundress Daughters of Charity Neápoli in Campánia, sanctæ Joánnæ Antidæ Thouret, Vírginis, Institúti Sorórum a Caritáte Fundatrícis, quam Pius Papa Undécimus in album sanctárum Vírginum rétulit. At Naples in Campania, St. Joan Antide Thouret, virgin, who founded the Daughters of Saint Vincent de Paul, and whom Pope Pius XI added to the catalogue of holy virgins. Foundress of the Institute of the Daughters of Charity in 1798. Jane entered the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul but was forced to return to secular life by the French Revolution. In Besancon France, she started a school for poor girls which later became the Daughters of Charity. She was canonized by Pope Pius XI. |
1854
Massíliæ, in Gállia, sanctæ Æmíliæ
de Vialár, Vírginis, Fundatrícis Institúti
Sorórum a sancto Joseph ab Apparitióne, fortitúdine,
patiéntia et caritáte insígnis, quam Pius Duodécimus,
Póntifex Máximus, in Sanctárum númerum rétulit. At Marseilles in France, St. Emily de Vialar, virgin, foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Apparition. A shining example of fortitude, patience and charity, the Sovereign Pontiff Pius XII added her to the number of the saints. Emily de Vialar feast day June 17 |
1865 SAINT MARY MICAELA
Foundress of Sisters consecrated
especially to the Blessed Sacrament (1809-1865) Maria Soledad Micaela Desmaisieres y Lopez de Dicastillo, often called Madre Sacramento because she founded a religious Order of Sisters consecrated especially to the Blessed Sacrament, was born in Madrid on the first day of January, 1809, during a time of political unrest. From the age of nine to twelve, she was a pupil of the Ursulines of the city of Pau in France. At the age of thirteen, she lost her noble father, a general in the royal army. Her life as she grew older was divided between religious duties, which attracted her, and social ones involving trips, festivals and visits. In 1844, when she visited the Hospital of Saint John of God in Madrid, she saw with compassion the plight of young girls living a disordered life, and in 1845 established a school to re-educate them. She personally took on the direction of the school in January of 1849, and gave it new force. She resolved in 1847 to live for God alone, and in Paris, during the same year on Pentecost, received a mystical grace of union with God. She was drawn to an ardent love for Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, as well as to an apostolate for the feminine youth of Madrid. Until 1856, she dedicated herself entirely to the school she had founded there, and then founded the Institute of Religious Adorer-Slaves of the Most Blessed Sacrament and of Charity. She was directed by Saint Anthony Mary Claret for several years after 1857; and the foundations multiplied. She promoted and animated various apostolic works for the laity — the Conferences of Saint Vincent de Paul, Sunday Schools for public school children; she counseled the Sisters of the Love of God at Zamora, at the request of their founder. Her Institute of the Blessed Sacrament was definitively approved by the Holy See in 1866, a year after the death of the Foundress on August 24, 1865, a victim of her charity for the cholera victims of Valencia. For Madre Sacramento, religious consecration is a service of love. The religious is at the disposition of God to procure His glory; and God gives Himself to her, as she has given herself to Him. For God she loves suffering as a proof of love. The Foundress herself, in the last four years of her life, made the exceptional vow to choose what appeared to her as most perfect, in the practice of her vows of poverty, chastity and obedience; this vow requires a total and heroic gift of self. She was beatified in 1925 and canonized on March 4, 1934 by Pope Pius XI. |
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PSALTER OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN
MARY PSALM 44
Give praise to Our Lady and call upon her name: sing gloriously unto her, declaring her virtues. Praise and exalt her, O Virgins, daughters of Sion: because she will espouse to you the King of Angels. Honor ye the Queen full of all grace: and contemplate with reverence her most holy countenance. Eternal salvation is in thy hand, O Lady: those who honor thee worthily will receive it. Thy clemency will not fail in the eternal years: and thy mercy is from generation to generation. Rejoice, ye Heavens, and be glad, O Earth: because Mary will console her servants and will have mercy on her poor. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost as it was in the beginning and will always be. God loves variety. He doesn't mass-produce his saints. Every saint is unique, for each is the result of a new idea. As the liturgy says: Non est inventus similis illis--there are no two exactly alike. It is we with our lack of imagination, who paint the same haloes on all the saints. Dear Lord, grant us a spirit that is not bound by our own ideas and preferences. Grant that we may be able to appreciate in others what we lack in ourselves. O Lord, grant that we may understand that every saint must be a unique praise of Your glory. Catholic saints are holy people and human people who lived extraordinary lives. Each saint the Church honors responded to God's invitation to use his or her unique gifts. God calls each one of us to be a saint in order to get into heaven: only saints are allowed into heaven. The more "extravagant" graces are bestowed NOT for the benefit of the recipients so much as FOR the benefit of others. There
are over 10,000 named saints beati
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The
great
psalm
of
the
Passion,
Chapter
22,
whose first
verse
“My
God, my
God,
why hast
thou
forsaken
me?”
Jesus pronounced on the cross, ended with the vision: “All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord; and all the families of the nations shall worship before him” For kingship belongs to the LORD, the ruler over the nations. All who sleep in the earth will bow low before God; All who have gone down into the dust will kneel in homage. And I will live for the LORD; my descendants will serve you. The generation to come will be told of the Lord, that they may proclaim to a people yet unborn the deliverance you have brought. |
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Pope
Benedict
XVI
to The
Catholic
Church
In China
{whole
article
here}
2000 years of the Catholic Church
in
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3. Do daily spiritual reading for at least 15 minutes, if a half hour is not possible. 4. Say the rosary every day. 5. Also daily, if at all possible, visit the Blessed Sacrament; toward evening, meditate on the Passion of Christ for a half hour, 6. Conclude the day with evening prayer & an examination of conscience over all the faults & sins of the day. 7. Every month make a review of the month in confession. 8. Choose a special patron every month & imitate that patron in some special virtue. 9. Precede every great feast with a novena that is nine days of devotion. 10. Try to begin & end every activity with a Hail Mary My God, I believe, I adore, I trust and I love
Thee.
I beg
pardon
for those
who do
not believe,
do
not adore,
do not
O most Holy trinity, Father, Son
and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly.
I offer Thee the most
precious
Body,
Blood,
Soul
and
Divinity
of
Jesus
Christ,
present
in all
the
Tabernacles
of the
world, in reparation
for the
outrages,
sacrileges
and
indifference
by which
He
is offended,
and by the
infite
merits
of the
Sacred
Heart
of Jesus
and
the Immaculate
Heart
of
Mary.
I beg the conversion
of poor sinners, Fatima Prayer,
Angel of Peace
The
voice
of the
Father
is
heard,
the
Son
enters
the
water,
and the
Holy
Spirit
appears
in
the form
of a dove.
THE
spirit
and
example
of the
world
imperceptibly
instil
the error
into
the
minds
of many
that
there
is a kind
of
middle
way
of going
to Heaven;
and so,
because
the
world
does
not live
up to the
gospel,
they
bring
the
gospel
down to
the level
of the
world.
It is not
by this
example
that
we are
to measure
the
Christian
rule,
but words
and life
of Christ.
All His
followers
are
commanded
to labour
to become
perfect
even as
our heavenly
Father
is perfect,
and
to bear His
image
in our hearts
that we may
be His
children.
We
are obliged
by
the gospel
to die
to ourselves
by fighting
self-love
in our
hearts,
by the mastery
of our
passions,
by taking
on the spirit
of
our Lord.
These
are
the
conditions
under
which
Christ
makes
His
promises
and
numbers
us among
His
children,
as is manifest
from
His
words
which the
apostles
have
left
us in their
inspired
writings.
Here
is no
distinction
made or
foreseen
between
the apostles
or clergy
or religious
and secular
persons.
The former,
indeed,
take
upon themselves
certain
stricter
obligations,
as a means
of accomplishing
these ends
more
perfectly;
but
the law
of holiness
and of disengagement
of the
heart
from the
world is
general
and binds
all the
followers
of Christ.
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God loves variety.
He
doesn't
mass-produce
his
saints.
Every
saint
is unique
each
the result
of a new
idea.
As the liturgy says: Non
est inventus similis illis--there are no two exactly alike.
It is we with our lack of imagination, who paint the same haloes on all the saints. Dear Lord, grant us a spirit not bound by our own ideas and preferences. Grant that we may be able to appreciate in others what we lack in ourselves. O Lord, grant that we may understand that every saint must be a unique praise of Your glory. Catholic saints are holy people and human people who lived extraordinary lives. Each saint the Church honors
responded
to God's
invitation
to
use his
or her
unique
gifts.
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The 15 Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite
the
Rosary
)
Revealed
to
St. Dominic
and
Blessed
Alan)
1. Whoever
shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive
signal graces. 2.
I promise
my special protection
and the greatest
graces to all those who shall
recite the Rosary. 3.
The
Rosary shall be a powerful
armor against hell,
it will destroy vice,
decrease sin, and defeat
heresies. 4.
It will cause
virtue and good works to
flourish; it will obtain for
souls the abundant mercy
of God; it will withdraw the hearts
of people from the love
of the world and its vanities,
and will lift them to the desire
of eternal things.
Oh, that soul would sanctify them
by this means. 5.
The soul that
recommends itself to me by
the recitation of the Rosary
shall not perish. 6.
Whoever shall recite the
Rosary devoutly, applying themselves
to the consideration
of its Sacred Mysteries shall
never be conquered by misfortune.
God will not chastise
them in His justice, they shall not
perish by an unprovided
death; if they be just, they shall
remain in the grace of God, and
become worthy of eternal life. 7.
Whoever shall
have a true devotion for the Rosary
shall not die without the Sacraments
of the Church. 8.
Those who are faithful
to recite the Rosary shall have
during their life and at their death
the light of God and the plentitude
of His graces; at the moment of death
they shall participate in the merits
of the Saints in Paradise. 9.
I shall deliver
from purgatory those who have
been devoted to the Rosary. 10.
The faithful children
of the Rosary shall merit a
high degree of glory in Heaven.
11.
You shall obtain all you ask of
me by the recitation of the Rosary.
12. I
shall aid all those who propagate the
Holy Rosary in their necessities.
13.
I have obtained from my Divine Son
that all the advocates of the Rosary
shall have for intercessors
the entire celestial court
during their life and at the
hour of death. 14.
All who recite the Rosary are my
children, and brothers and
sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ.
15.
Devotion to my Rosary is a great
sign of predestination.
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His Holiness Aram I, current (2013)
Catholicos of Cilicia of Armenians,
whose
See
is located
in Lebanese
town
of Antelias.
The Catholicosate
was founded
in Sis,
capital
of Cilicia,
in the year
1441
following
the move
of the
Catholicosate
of All Armenians
back
to its
original
See of Etchmiadzin
in Armenia.
The
Catholicosate
of Cilicia
enjoyed
local
jurisdiction,
though
spiritually
subject
to the
authority
of
Etchmiadzin.
In
1921 the
See was transferred
to
Aleppo
in Syria,
and in
1930 to
Antelias.
Its
jurisdiction
currently
extends
to
Syria,
Cyprus,
Iran
and
Greece. |
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Aramaic dialect of Edessa, now known as Syriac
The exact date of the introduction
of Christianity
into
Edessa
{Armenian
Ourhaï
in Arabic
Er
Roha,
commonly
Orfa
or Urfa,
its present
name}
is
not
known.
It is certain,
however,
that
the Christian
community
was at
first
made
up from
the
Jewish
population
of the
city.
According
to an ancient
legend,
King
Abgar
V, Ushana,
was converted
by
Addai,
who
was one
of the seventy-two
disciples.
In fact,
however,
the
first
King of
Edessa
to embrace
the Christian
Faith
was
Abgar
IX (c.
206) becoming
official
kingdom
religion.
Christian
council
held
at
Edessa
early
as 197
(Eusebius,
Hist.
Ecc7V,xxiii).
In 201 the city was devastated
by a great
flood,
and
the
Christian
church
was
destroyed
(“Chronicon
Edessenum”,
ad.
an.
201).
In 232 the relics of the
Apostle St. Thomas were
brought from India,
on which
occasion
his
Syriac
Acts
were
written.
Under Roman domination martyrs suffered at Edessa: Sts. Scharbîl and Barsamya, under Decius; Sts. Gûrja, Schâmôna, Habib, and others under Diocletian. In the meanwhile Christian
priests from Edessa evangelized Eastern Mesopotamia and Persia, established
the first Churches
in the kingdom of the Sassanides.
Atillâtiâ,
Bishop of Edessa,
assisted
at the
Council
of
Nicæa
(325).
The
“Peregrinatio
Silviæ”
(or Etheriæ)
(ed.
Gamurrini,
Rome,
1887,
62
sqq.)
gives
an
account
of
the many
sanctuaries
at
Edessa
about
388.
Although Hebrew had been
the
language
of the
ancient
Israelite
kingdom,
after
their
return
from
Exile
the Jews
turned
more
and
more
to Aramaic,
using
it for
parts
of the
books
of Ezra
and Daniel
in the
Bible.
By the
time
of
Jesus,
Aramaic
was the
main
language
of Palestine,
and
quite
a number
of
texts
from
the Dead
Sea
Scrolls
are
also written
in Aramaic.
Aramaic
continued
to
be
an important
language
for
Jews,
alongside
Hebrew,
and parts
of the
Talmud
are
written
in it.
After Arab conquests of
the seventh century, Arabic quickly replaced Aramaic as the main language
of those who converted
to Islam, although
in out of the way places,
Aramaic continued as
a vernacular language of
Muslims.
Aramaic, however, enjoyed
its greatest
success
in
Christianity.
Although
the
New Testament
wins
written
in Greek,
Christianity
had
come
into
existence
in an
Aramaic-speaking
milieu,
and
it was
the Aramaic
dialect
of Edessa,
now known
as Syriac,
that became
the literary
language
of
a large
number
of Christians
living
in the
eastern
provinces
of the
Roman
Empire
and
in the
Persian
Empire,
further
east.
Over
the course
of the
centuries
the influence
of the
Syriac
Churches
spread
eastwards
to China
(in Xian,
in
western
China,
a
Chinese-Syriac
inscription
dated
781
is
still
to be seen);
to southern
India
where
the
state of
Kerala
can boast
more
Christians
of Syriac
liturgical
tradition
than anywhere
else
in the world.
680 Shiite saint Imam Hussein, grandson of Islam's Prophet Muhammad Known as Ashoura and observed by Shiites across the world, the 10th day of the lunar Muslim month of Muharram: the anniversary of the 7th century death in battle of one of Shiite Islam's most beloved saints. Imam Hussein died in the 680 A.D. battle fought on the plains outside Karbala, a city in modern Iraq that's home to the saint's shrine. The battle over a dispute about the leadership of the Muslim faith following Muhammad's death in 632 A.D. It is the defining event in Islam's split into Sunni and Shiite branches. The occasion is the source of an enduring moral lesson. "He sacrificed his blood to teach us not to give in to corruption, coercion, or use of force and to seek honor and justice." According to Shiite beliefs, Hussein and companions were denied water by enemies who controlled the nearby Euphrates. Streets get partially covered with blood from slaughter of hundreds of cows and sheep. Volunteers cook the meat and feed it to the poor. Hussein's martyrdom recounted through a rich body of prose, poetry and song remains an inspirational example of sacrifice to many Shiites, 10 percent of the world's estimated 1.3 billion Muslims. |
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Meeting
of
the
Saints
walis
(saints
of
Allah) Great men covet to embrace
martyrdom
for
a cause
and principle.
So
was
the
case
with
Hazrat
Ali.
He could
have
made
a compromise
with
the
evil
forces
of his
time
and,
as a result,
could
have led a very comfortable,
easy
and
luxurious
life.
But
he was
not
a person
who
would
succumb
to such
temptations.
His
upbringing,
his
education
and
his
training
in the
lap of
the holy
Prophet
made
him
refuse
such
an offer.Rabia Al-Basri (717–801 C.E.) She was first to set forth the doctrine of mystical love and who is widely considered to be the most important of the early Sufi poets. An elderly Shia pointed out that during his pre-Partition childhood it was quite common to find pictures and portraits of Shia icons in Imambaras across the country. Shah Abdul Latif: The Exalted Sufi Master born 1690 in a Syed family; died 1754. In ancient times, Sindh housed the exemplary Indus Valley Civilisation with Moenjo Daro as its capital, and now, it is the land of a culture which evolved from the teachings of eminent Sufi saints. Pakistan is home to the mortal remains of many Sufi saints, the exalted among them being Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, a practitioner of the real Islam, philosopher, poet, musicologist and preacher. He presented his teaching through poetry and music - both instruments sublime - and commands a very large following, not only among Muslims but also among Hindus and Christians. Sindh culture: The Shah is synonymous with Sindh. He is the very fountainhead of Sindh's culture. His message remains as fresh as that of any present day poet, and the people of Sindh find solace from his writings. He did indeed think for Sindh. One of his prayers, in exquisite Sindhi, translates thus: “Oh God, may ever You on Sindh bestow abundance rare! Beloved! All the world let share Thy grace, and fruitful be.” Shia Ali al-Hadi, died 868 and son Hassan al-Askari 874. These saints are the 10th and 11th of Shia's 12 most revered Imams. Baba Farid Sufi 1398 miracle, Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki renowned Muslim Sufi saint scholar miracles 569 A.H. [1173 C.E.] hermit gave to poor, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti greatest mystic of his time born 533 Hijri (1138-39 A.D.), Hazrat Ghuas-e Azam, Hazrat Bu Ali Sharif, and Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Sufi Saint Hazrath Khwaja Syed Mohammed Badshah Quadri Chisty Yamani Quadeer (RA) 1236-1325 welcomed people of all faiths & all walks of life. |
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801 Rabi'a
al-'Adawiyya
Sufi
One of
the most
famous
Islamic
mystics
(b. 717). This 8th century saint was an early Sufi who had a profound influence on later Sufis, who in turn deeply influenced the European mystical love and troubadour traditions. Rabi'a was a woman of Basra, a seaport in southern Iraq. She was born around 717 and died in 801 (185-186). Her biographer, the great medieval poet Attar, tells us that she was "on fire with love and longing" and that men accepted her "as a second spotless Mary" (186). She was, he continues, “an unquestioned authority to her contemporaries" (218). Rabi'a began her ascetic life in a small desert cell near Basra, where she lost herself in prayer and went straight to God for teaching. As far as is known, she never studied under any master or spiritual director. She was one of the first of the Sufis to teach that Love alone was the guide on the mystic path (222). A later Sufi taught that there were two classes of "true believers": one class sought a master as an intermediary between them and God -- unless they could see the footsteps of the Prophet on the path before them, they would not accept the path as valid. The second class “...did not look before them for the footprint of any of God's creatures, for they had removed all thought of what He had created from their hearts, and concerned themselves solely with God. (218) Rabi'a was of this second kind. She felt no reverence even for the House of God in Mecca: "It is the Lord of the house Whom I need; what have I to do with the house?" (219) One lovely spring morning a friend asked her to come outside to see the works of God. She replied, "Come you inside that you may behold their Maker. Contemplation of the Maker has turned me aside from what He has made" (219). During an illness, a friend asked this woman if she desired anything. "...[H]ow can you ask me such a question as 'What do I desire?' I swear by the glory of God that for twelve years I have desired fresh dates, and you know that in Basra dates are plentiful, and I have not yet tasted them. I am a servant (of God), and what has a servant to do with desire?" (162) When a male friend once suggested she should pray for relief from a debilitating illness, she said, "O Sufyan, do you not know Who it is that wills this suffering for me? Is it not God Who wills it? When you know this, why do you bid me ask for what is contrary to His will? It is not well to oppose one's Beloved." (221) She was an ascetic. It was her custom to pray all night, sleep briefly just before dawn, and then rise again just as dawn "tinged the sky with gold" (187). She lived in celibacy and poverty, having renounced the world. A friend visited her in old age and found that all she owned were a reed mat, screen, a pottery jug, and a bed of felt which doubled as her prayer-rug (186), for where she prayed all night, she also slept briefly in the pre-dawn chill. Once her friends offered to get her a servant; she replied, "I should be ashamed to ask for the things of this world from Him to Whom the world belongs, and how should I ask for them from those to whom it does not belong?" (186-7) A wealthy merchant once wanted to give her a purse of gold. She refused it, saying that God, who sustains even those who dishonor Him, would surely sustain her, "whose soul is overflowing with love" for Him. And she added an ethical concern as well: "...How should I take the wealth of someone of whom I do not know whether he acquired it lawfully or not?" (187) She taught that repentance was a gift from God because no one could repent unless God had already accepted him and given him this gift of repentance. She taught that sinners must fear the punishment they deserved for their sins, but she also offered such sinners far more hope of Paradise than most other ascetics did. For herself, she held to a higher ideal, worshipping God neither from fear of Hell nor from hope of Paradise, for she saw such self-interest as unworthy of God's servants; emotions like fear and hope were like veils -- i.e., hindrances to the vision of God Himself. The story is told that once a number of Sufis saw her hurrying on her way with water in one hand and a burning torch in the other. When they asked her to explain, she said: "I am going to light a fire in Paradise and to pour water on to Hell, so that both veils may vanish altogether from before the pilgrims and their purpose may be sure..." (187-188) She was once asked where she came from. "From that other world," she said. "And where are you going?" she was asked. "To that other world," she replied (219). She taught that the spirit originated with God in "that other world" and had to return to Him in the end. Yet if the soul were sufficiently purified, even on earth, it could look upon God unveiled in all His glory and unite with him in love. In this quest, logic and reason were powerless. Instead, she speaks of the "eye" of her heart which alone could apprehend Him and His mysteries (220). Above all, she was a lover, a bhakti, like one of Krishna’s Goptis in the Hindu tradition. Her hours of prayer were not so much devoted to intercession as to communion with her Beloved. Through this communion, she could discover His will for her. Many of her prayers have come down to us: "I have made Thee the Companion of my heart, But my body is available for those who seek its company, And my body is friendly towards its guests, But the Beloved of my heart is the Guest of my soul." [224] |
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countries
Mother
Angelica
visited.
In Bogotá, a Salesian priest - Father Juan Pablo Rodriguez - brought Mother and the nuns to the Sanctuary of the Divine Infant Jesus to attend Mass. After Mass, Father Juan Pablo took them into a small Shrine which housed the miraculous statue of the Child Jesus. Mother Angelica stood praying at the side of the statue when suddenly the miraculous image came alive and turned towards her. Then the Child Jesus spoke with the voice of a young boy: “Build Me a Temple and I will help those who help you.” Thus began a great adventure that would eventually result in the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, a Temple dedicated to the Divine Child Jesus, a place of refuge for all. Use this link to read a remarkable story about The Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament Father Reardon, Editor of The Catholic
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Apostolicus Pastor 42 years BASILICA OF SAINT MARY Minneapolis MN America's First Basilica Largest Nave in the World
August 7, 1907-ground broke for the foundation
by Archbishop
Ireland-laying cornerstone May 31, 1908
Brief History of our Beloved Holy Priest Here and his published books of Catholic History in North America Reardon, J.M. Archbishop Ireland; Prelate, Patriot, Publicist, 1838-1918. A Memoir (St. Paul; 1919); George Anthony Belcourt Pioneer Catholic Missionary of the Northwest 1803-1874 (1955); The Catholic Church IN THE DIOCESE OF ST. PAUL from earliest origin to centennial achievement 1362-1950 (1952); The Church of Saint Mary of Saint Paul 1875-1922; (1932) The Vikings in the American Heartland; The Catholic Total Abstinence Society in Minnesota; James Michael Reardon
Born
in
Nova
Scotia,
1872;
Priest, ordained by Bishop
Ireland;
Affiliations
and
Indulgences
Litany of Loretto in Stained glass
windows
here.
Nave
Sacristy
and
Residence
Here
Member -- St. Paul Seminary
faculty.
Sanctuary spaces between them filled with grilles of hand-forged wrought iron the life of our Blessed Lady After the crucifixon Apostle statues Replicas of those in St John Lateran--Christendom's
earliest
Basilica.
Ordered by Rome's first Christian Emperor, Constantine the Great, Popes' cathedral and official residence first millennium of Christian history. The only replicas ever made: in order from
west
to
east
{1932}.
Saints Simon (saw),
Bartholomew
(knife),
James
the
Lesser
(book),
John
(eagle),
Andrew
(transverse
cross),
Peter
keys),
Paul
(sword), James
the Greater (staff), Thomas (carpenter's
square),
Philip
(serpent),
Matthew
(book),
and Jude
sword
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THE BLESSED
MOTHER
AND
ISLAM
By Father
John
Corapi.
June 19, Trinity Sunday, 1991: Ordained Catholic Priest under
Pope
John
Paul
II;
By
Father John Corapithen 2,000,000 miles delivering the Gospel to millions, and continues to do so. THE BLESSED MOTHER AND ISLAM By Father John Corapi.
June 19, Trinity Sunday, 1991: Ordained Catholic Priest under
Pope
John
Paul
II;
By
Father John Corapithen 2,000,000 miles delivering the Gospel to millions, and continues to do so.
Among
the
most
important
titles
we
have in
the Catholic
Church
for
the Blessed
Virgin
Mary
are Our
Lady
of Victory
and Our
Lady of
the
Rosary.
These
titles
can be traced
back
to one
of the most
decisive
times in
the history
of the
world and
Christendom.
The
Battle
of Lepanto
took
place
on October
7 (date
of feast
of Our
Lady
of Rosary),
1571.
This
proved to
be the most crucial
battle
for
the Christian
forces
against
the radical
Muslim
navy of Turkey.
Pope
Pius V led
a procession
around
St. Peter’s
Square
in Vatican
City
praying
the Rosary.
He showed
true
pastoral
leadership
in recognizing
the danger
posed
to Christendom
by the
radical
Muslim
forces,
and in using
the means
necessary
to
defeat it.
Spiritual
battles
require
spiritual
weapons,
and
this more
than anything
was
a battle
that had
its origins
in the spiritual
order—a
true battle
between
good and
evil. Today we have a similar spiritual battle in progress—a battle between the forces of good and evil, light and darkness, truth and lies, life and death. If we do not soon stop the genocide of abortion in the United States, we shall run the course of all those that prove by their actions that they are enemies of God—total collapse, economic, social, and national. The moral demise of a nation results in the ultimate demise of a nation. God is not a disinterested spectator to the affairs of man. Life begins at conception. This is an unalterable formal teaching of the Catholic Church. If you do not accept this you are a heretic in plain English. A single abortion is homicide. The more than 48,000,000 abortions since Roe v. Wade in the United States constitute genocide by definition. The group singled out for death—unwanted, unborn children. No other issue, not all other issues taken together, can constitute a proportionate reason for voting for candidates that intend to preserve and defend this holocaust of innocent human life that is abortion. As we watch the spectacle of the world seeming to self-destruct before our eyes, we can’t help but be saddened and even frightened by so much evil run rampant. Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Somalia, North Korea—It is all a disaster of epic proportions displayed in living color on our television screens. These are not ordinary times and this is not business as usual. We are at a crossroads in human history and the time for Catholics and all Christians to act is now. All evil can ultimately be traced to its origin, which is moral evil. All of the political action, peace talks, international peacekeeping forces, etc. will avail nothing if the underlying sickness is not addressed. This is sin. One person at a time hearts and minds must be moved from evil to good, from lies to truth, from violence to peace. Islam, an Arabic word that has often been defined as “to make peace,” seems like a living contradiction today. Islam is a religion of peace. As we celebrate the birthday of Our Lady, I am proposing that each one of us pray the Rosary for peace. Prayer is what must precede all other activity if that activity is to have any chance of success. Pray for peace, pray the Rosary every day without fail. There is a great love for Mary among Muslim people. It is not a coincidence that a little village named Fatima is where God chose to have His Mother appear in the twentieth century. Our Lady’s name appears no less than thirty times in the Koran. No other woman’s name is mentioned, not even that of Mohammed’s daughter, Fatima. In the Koran Our Lady is described as “Virgin, ever Virgin.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen prophetically spoke of the resurgence of Islam in our day. He said it would be through the Blessed Virgin Mary that Islam would be converted. We must pray for this to happen quickly if we are to avert a horrible time of suffering for this poor, sinful world. Turn to our Mother in this time of great peril. Pray the Rosary every day. Then, and only then will there be peace, when the hearts and minds of men are changed from the inside.
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Father John Corapi goes to
the heart of the contemporary world's
many woes
and
wars,
whether
the
wars
in Afghanistan,
Iraq,
Lebanon,
Somalia,
or
the Congo,
or the natural
disasters
that
seem
to be increasing
every
year,
the
moral and
spiritual
war is at
the basis
of everything.
“Our
battle
is not against
human
forces,”
St. Paul
asserts,
“but
against
principalities
and
powers,
against
the
world
rulers
of this
present
darkness...”
(Ephesians
6:12).
The “War to end all wars” is the moral and spiritual combat that rages in the hearts and minds of human beings. The outcome of that unseen fight largely determines how the battle in the realm of the seen unfolds. The title talk, “With the Moon Under Her Feet,” is taken from the twelfth chapter of the Book of Revelation, and deals with the current threat to the world from radical Islam, and the Blessed Virgin Mary's role in the ultimate victory that will result in the conversion of Islam. Few Catholics are aware of the connection between Islam, Fatima, and Guadalupe. Presented in Father Corapi's straight-forward style, you will be both inspired and educated by him. About Father John Corapi. Father Corapi is a Catholic
priest
.
The pillars of father's
preaching
are
basically:
Love
for
and
a
relationship
with
the
Blessed
Virgin
Mary
Leading a vibrant and loving relationship with Jesus Christ Great love and reverence for the Most Holy Eucharist from Holy Mass to adoration of the Blessed Sacrament An uncompromising love for and obedience to the Holy Father and the teaching of the Magisterium of the Church God Bless
you on
your journey
Father
John
Corapi
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Algerian martyrs are models for the Church, archbishop says Nov 16, 2018 - 03:01 am .- Archbishop Paul Desfarges of Algiers has said that Bishop Pierre Claverie and his 18 companions, who were martyred in Algeria between 1994 and 1996, are “models for our lives as disciples today and tomorrow.” Francesco Spinelli to be canonized after healing of a newborn in DR Congo Oct 9, 2018 - 05:01 pm .- Among those being canonized on Sunday are Fr. Franceso Spinelli, a diocesan priest through whose intercession a newborn was saved from death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Algerian martyrs to be beatified in December Sep 14, 2018 - 06:01 pm .- The Algerian bishops' conference has announced that the beatification of Bishop Pierre Claverie and his 18 companions, who were martyred in the country between 1994 and 1996, will be held Dec. 8. 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Sainthood causes advance, including layman who resisted fascism Jun 17, 2017 - 09:22 am .- Pope Francis on Friday recognized the heroic virtue of six persons on the path to canonization, as well as the martyrdom of an Italian man who died from injuries of a beating he received while imprisoned in a concentration camp for resisting fascism. Solanus Casey, Cardinal Van Thuan among those advanced toward sainthood May 4, 2017 - 10:47 am .- Pope Francis on Thursday approved decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints advancing the causes for canonization of 12 individuals, including the American-born Capuchin Solanus Casey and the Vietnamese cardinal Francis Xavier Nguen Van Thuan. Pope clears way for canonization of Fatima visionaries Mar 23, 2017 - 06:44 am .- On Thursday Pope Francis approved the second and final miracle needed to canonize Blessed Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two of the shepherd children who witnessed the Fatima Marian apparitions. 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Brooklyn diocese advances sainthood cause of local priest Jun 25, 2019 - 03:01 am .- The Bishop of Brooklyn accepted last week the findings of a nine-year diocesan investigation into the life of Monsignor Bernard John Quinn, known for fighting bigotry and serving the African American population, as part of his cause for canonization. Fr. Augustus Tolton, former African American slave, advances toward sainthood Jun 12, 2019 - 05:03 am .- Fr. Augustus Tolton advanced along the path to sainthood Wednesday, making the runaway slave-turned-priest one step closer to being the first black American saint. Pope Francis will beatify these martyred Greek-Catholic bishops in Romania May 30, 2019 - 03:01 pm .- On Sunday in Blaj, Pope Francis will beatify seven Greek-Catholic bishops of Romania who were killed by the communist regime between 1950 and 1970. Woman who served Brazil’s poorest to be canonized May 14, 2019 - 06:53 am .- Pope Francis Tuesday gave his approval for eight sainthood causes to proceed, including that of Bl. Dulce Lopes Pontes, a 20th-century religious sister who served Brazil’s poor. Seven 20th-century Romanian bishops declared martyrs Mar 19, 2019 - 12:01 pm .- Pope Francis declared Tuesday the martyrdom of seven Greek-Catholic bishops killed by the communist regime in Romania in the mid-20th century. Pope advances sainthood causes of 17 women Jan 15, 2019 - 11:12 am .- Pope Francis approved Tuesday the next step in the canonization causes of 17 women from four countries, including the martyrdom of 14 religious sisters killed in Spain at the start of the Spanish Civil War. Nineteen Algerian martyrs beatified Dec 10, 2018 - 03:08 pm .- Bishop Pierre Claverie and his 18 companions, who were martyred in Algeria between 1994 and 1996, were beatified Saturday during a Mass in Oran. The Algerian martyrs shed their blood for Christ, pope says Dec 7, 2018 - 10:02 am .- Ahead of the beatification Saturday of Bishop Pierre Claverie and his 18 companions, who were martyred in Algeria between 1994 and 1996, Pope Francis said martyrs have a special place in the Church. Algerian martyrs are models for the Church, archbishop says Nov 16, 2018 - 03:01 am .- Archbishop Paul Desfarges of Algiers has said that Bishop Pierre Claverie and his 18 companions, who were martyred in Algeria between 1994 and 1996, are “models for our lives as disciples today and tomorrow.” Francesco Spinelli to be canonized after healing of a newborn in DR Congo Oct 9, 2018 - 05:01 pm .- Among those being canonized on Sunday are Fr. Franceso Spinelli, a diocesan priest through whose intercession a newborn was saved from death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Algerian martyrs to be beatified in December Sep 14, 2018 - 06:01 pm .- The Algerian bishops' conference has announced that the beatification of Bishop Pierre Claverie and his 18 companions, who were martyred in the country between 1994 and 1996, will be held Dec. 8. Now a cardinal, Giovanni Angelo Becciu heads to congregation for saints' causes Jun 28, 2018 - 11:41 am .- Newly-minted Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu will resign from his post as substitute of the Secretariat of State tomorrow, in anticipation of his appointment as prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints later this summer. Pope Francis creates new path to beatification under ‘offering of life’ Jul 11, 2017 - 06:22 am .- On Tuesday Pope Francis declared a new category of Christian life suitable for consideration of beatification called “offering of life” – in which a person has died prematurely through an offering of their life for love of God and neighbor. Twentieth century Polish nurse among causes advancing toward sainthood Jul 7, 2017 - 06:14 am .- Pope Francis on Friday approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Hanna Chrzanowska, a Polish nurse and nursing instructor who died from cancer in 1973, paving the way for her beatification. Sainthood causes advance, including layman who resisted fascism Jun 17, 2017 - 09:22 am .- Pope Francis on Friday recognized the heroic virtue of six persons on the path to canonization, as well as the martyrdom of an Italian man who died from injuries of a beating he received while imprisoned in a concentration camp for resisting fascism. Solanus Casey, Cardinal Van Thuan among those advanced toward sainthood May 4, 2017 - 10:47 am .- Pope Francis on Thursday approved decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints advancing the causes for canonization of 12 individuals, including the American-born Capuchin Solanus Casey and the Vietnamese cardinal Francis Xavier Nguen Van Thuan. Pope clears way for canonization of Fatima visionaries Mar 23, 2017 - 06:44 am .- On Thursday Pope Francis approved the second and final miracle needed to canonize Blessed Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two of the shepherd children who witnessed the Fatima Marian apparitions. Surgeon and father among sainthood causes moving forward Feb 27, 2017 - 11:03 am .- Pope Francis recognized on Monday the heroic virtue of eight persons on the path to canonization, including an Italian surgeon and father of eight who suffered from several painful diseases throughout his life. |
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8
Martyrs
Move Closer
to
Sainthood
8 July, 2016
Posted by ZENIT Staff on 8 July, 2016 The angel appears to Saint Monica This morning, Pope Francis received Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Cardinal Angelo Amato. During the audience, he authorized the promulgation of decrees concerning the following causes: *** MIRACLES: Miracle attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God Luis Antonio Rosa Ormières, priest and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Guardian Angel; born July 4, 1809 and died on Jan. 16, 1890 MARTYRDOM: Servants of God Antonio Arribas Hortigüela and 6 Companions, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; killed in hatred of the Faith, Sept. 29, 1936 Servant of God Josef Mayr-Nusser, a layman; killed in hatred of the Faith, Feb. 24, 1945 HEROIC VIRTUE: Servant of God Alfonse Gallegos of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, Titular Bishop of Sasabe, auxiliary of Sacramento; born Feb. 20, 1931 and died Oct. 6, 1991 Servant of God Rafael Sánchez García, diocesan priest; born June 14, 1911 and died on Aug. 8, 1973 Servant of God Andrés García Acosta, professed layman of the Order of Friars Minor; born Jan. 10, 1800 and died Jan. 14, 1853 Servant of God Joseph Marchetti, professed priest of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles; born Oct. 3, 1869 and died Dec. 14, 1896 Servant of God Giacomo Viale, professed priest of the Order of Friars Minor, pastor of Bordighera; born Feb. 28, 1830 and died April 16, 1912 Servant of God Maria Pia of the Cross (née Maddalena Notari), foundress of the Congregation of Crucified Sisters Adorers of the Eucharist; born Dec. 2, 1847 and died on July 1, 1919 |
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Sunday,
November
23
2014 Six
to Be Canonized
on Feast
of Christ
the King. On the List Are Lay Founder of a Hospital and Eastern Catholic Religious VATICAN CITY, June 12, 2014 (Zenit.org) - Today, the Vatican announced that during the celebration of the feast of Christ the King on Sunday, November 23, an ordinary public consistory will be held for the canonization of the following six blesseds, who include a lay founder of a hospital for the poor, founders of religious orders, and two members of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See: -Giovanni Antonio Farina (1803-1888), an Italian bishop who founded the Institute of the Sisters Teachers of Saint Dorothy, Daughters of the Sacred Hearts -Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805-1871), a Syro-Malabar priest in India who founded the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate -Ludovico of Casoria (1814-1885), an Italian Franciscan priest who founded the Gray Sisters of St. Elizabeth -Nicola Saggio (Nicola da Longobardi, 1650-1709), an Italian oblate of the Order of Minims -Euphrasia Eluvathingal (1877-1952), an Indian Carmelite of the Syro-Malabar Church -Amato Ronconi (1238-1304), an Italian, Third Order Franciscan who founded a hospital for poor pilgrims |
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CAUSES
OF
SAINTS
July
2015. Pope Recognizes Heroic Virtues of Ukrainian Archbishop Recognition Brings Metropolitan Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky Closer to Beatification By Junno Arocho Esteves Rome, July 17, 2015 (ZENIT.org) Pope Francis recognized the heroic virtues of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky. According to a communique released by the Holy See Press Office, the Holy Father met this morning with Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. The Pope also recognized the heroic virtues of several religious/lay men and women from Italy, Spain, France & Mexico. Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky is considered to be one of the most influential 20th century figures in the history of the Ukrainian Church. Enthroned as Metropolitan of Lviv in 1901, Archbishop Sheptytsky was arrested shortly after the outbreak of World War I in 1914 by the Russians. After his imprisonment in several prisons in Russia and the Ukraine, the Archbishop was released in 1918. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic prelate was also an ardent supporter of the Jewish community in Ukraine, going so far as to learn Hebrew to better communicate with them. He also was a vocal protestor against atrocities committed by the Nazis, evidenced in his pastoral letter, "Thou Shalt Not Kill." He was also known to harbor thousands of Jews in his residence and in Greek Catholic monasteries. Following his death in 1944, his cause for canonization was opened in 1958. * * * The Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate the following decrees regarding the heroic virtues of: - Servant of God Andrey Sheptytsky, O.S.B.M., major archbishop of Leopolis of the Ukrainians, metropolitan of Halyc (1865-1944); - Servant of God Giuseppe Carraro, Bishop of Verona, Italy (1899-1980); - Servant of God Agustin Ramirez Barba, Mexican diocesan priest and founder of the Servants of the Lord of Mercy (1881-1967); - Servant of God Simpliciano della Nativita (ne Aniello Francesco Saverio Maresca), Italian professed priest of the Order of Friars Minor, founder of the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Hearts (1827-1898); - Servant of God Maria del Refugio Aguilar y Torres del Cancino, Mexican founder of the Mercedarian Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament (1866-1937); - Servant of God Marie-Charlotte Dupouy Bordes (Marie-Teresa), French professed religious of the Society of the Religious of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (1873-1953); - Servant of God Elisa Miceli, Italian founder of the Rural Catechist Sisters of the Sacred Heart (1904-1976); - Servant of God Isabel Mendez Herrero (Isabel of Mary Immaculate), Spanish professed nun of the Servants of St. Joseph (1924-1953) |
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October
01,
2015
Vatican
City, Pope
Authorizes
following
Decrees (ZENIT.org) By Staff Reporter Polish Layperson Recognized as Servant of God Pope Authorizes Decrees Pope Francis on Wednesday authorised the Congregation for Saints' Causes to promulgate the following decrees: MARTYRDOM - Servant of God Valentin Palencia Marquina, Spanish diocesan priest, killed in hatred of the faith in Suances, Spain in 1937; HEROIC VIRTUES - Servant of God Giovanni Folci, Italian diocesan priest and founder of the Opera Divin Prigioniero (1890-1963); - Servant of God Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish diocesan priest (1921-1987); - Servant of God Jose Rivera Ramirez, Spanish diocesan priest (1925-1991); - Servant of God Juan Manuel Martín del Campo, Mexican diocesan priest (1917-1996); - Servant of God Antonio Filomeno Maria Losito, Italian professed priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (1838-1917); - Servant of God Maria Benedetta Giuseppa Frey (nee Ersilia Penelope), Italian professed nun of the Cistercian Order (1836-1913); - Servant of God Hanna Chrzanowska, Polish layperson, Oblate of the Ursulines of St. Benedict (1902-1973). |
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March
06
2016 MIRACLES
authorised
the
Congregation
to promulgate
the following
decrees:
Pope Francis received in a private audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, during which he authorised the Congregation to promulgate the following decrees: MIRACLES – Blessed Manuel González García, bishop of Palencia, Spain, founder of the Eucharistic Missionaries of Nazareth (1877-1940); – Blessed Elisabeth of the Trinity (née Elisabeth Catez), French professed religious of the Order of Discalced Carmelites (1880-1906); – Venerable Servant of God Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus (né Henri Grialou), French professed priest of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, founder of the Secular Institute “Notre-Dame de Vie” (1894-1967); – Venerable Servant of God María Antonia of St. Joseph (née María Antonio de Paz y Figueroa), Argentine founder of the Beaterio of the Spiritual Exercise of Buenos Aires (1730-1799); HEROIC VIRTUE – Servant of God Stefano Ferrando, Italian professed priest of the Salesians, bishop of Shillong, India, founder of the Congregation of Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians (1895-1978); – Servant of God Enrico Battista Stanislao Verjus, Italian professed priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, coadjutor of the apostolic vicariate of New Guinea (1860-1892); – Servant of God Giovanni Battista Quilici, Italian diocesan priest, founder of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Crucified (1791-1844); – Servant of God Bernardo Mattio, Italian diocesan priest (1845-1914); – Servant of God Quirico Pignalberi, Italian professed priest of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual (1891-1982); – Servant of God Teodora Campostrini, Italian founder of the Minim Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Sorrows (1788-1860); – Servant of God Bianca Piccolomini Clementini, Italian founder of the Company of St. Angela Merici di Siena (1875-1959); – Servant of God María Nieves of the Holy Family (née María Nieves Sánchez y Fernández), Spanish professed religious of the Daughters of Mary of the Pious Schools (1900-1978). April 26 2016 MIRACLES authorised the Congregation to promulgate the following decrees: Here is the full list of decrees approved by the Pope: MIRACLES – Blessed Alfonso Maria Fusco, diocesan priest and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. John the Baptist (1839-1910); – Venerable Servant of God John Sullivan, professed priest of the Society of Jesus (1861-1933); MARTYRDOM – Servants of God Nikolle Vinçenc Prennushi, O.F.M., archbishop of Durres, Albania, and 37 companions killed between 1945 and 1974; – Servants of God José Antón Gómez and three companions of the Benedictines of Madrid, Spain, killed 1936; HEROIC VIRTUES – Servant of God Thomas Choe Yang-Eop, diocesan priest (1821-1861); – Servant of God Sosio Del Prete (né Vincenzo), professed priest of the Order of Friars Minor, founder of the Congregation of the Little Servants of Christ the King (1885-1952); – Servant of God Wenanty Katarzyniec (né Jósef), professed priest of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual (1889-1921); – Servant of God Maria Consiglia of the Holy Spirity (née Emilia Paqualina Addatis), founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Addolorata, Servants of Mary (1845-1900); – Servant of God Maria of the Incarnation (née Caterina Carrasco Tenorio), founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan Tertiary Sisters of the Flock of Mary (1840-1917); – Servant of God , founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Family of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1851-1923); – Servant of God Ilia Corsaro, founder of the Congregation of the Little Missionaries of the Eucharist (1897-1977); – Servant of God Maria Montserrat Grases García, layperson of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (1941-1959). |
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