First Church
for
The Virgin Mary in the city of Philippi. Commemoration of
On this day, the church celebrates the commemoration of the first
church to be built in the name of the Virgin Lady, the All pure St.
Mary, the Theotokos (Mother of God), through whom the salvation of Adam
and his posterity was fulfilled. When the two apostles Paul and Silas
preached among the gentiles, many believed of them in the city of
Philippi. They built a church there in the name of the Virgin, the
Mother of God, and its consecration was on that day. It is meet for us
to celebrate for her a spiritual festival, for she has borne the Savior
of the world. May her intercession be with us. Amen.
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95 Departure
of
St. Cedron (Kardonos), the Fourth Patriarch of Alexandria This father
was baptized by the hand of St. Mark the apostle, and the evangelist of
the land of Egypt
This day also (June 15th, 16 A.D.) marks the departure of St. Cedron
(Kardonos), the Fourth Patriarch of Alexandria. This father was
baptized by the hand of St. Mark the apostle, and the evangelist of the
land of Egypt. He learned the doctrines and the books of the Church.
After the departure of Pope Melius, he was ordained a Pope for the See
of St. Mark in the 7th day of Tute (September 5th, 95 A.D.). He
shepherded his people with the best of care, by preaching, teaching,
and instructing them for eleven years, one month, and twelve days, then
departed in peace. May his prayers be with us and Glory be to God
forever. Amen.
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Martyrdom of St.
Timothy of Memphis (El-Masry).
On this day also, St. Timothy of Memphis (El-Masry) was martyred. He
was one of the soldiers of Arianus, governor of the city of Ansena.
When he read the Edict of the Emperor Diocletian, which commanded the
worship of idols, this soldier rose up in the middle of the people,
seized the Edict, and tore it up saying, "There is no God except Jesus
Christ the Son of the Living God." The Governor became enraged. He
seized Timothy by the hair of his head, and cast him down on the
ground. He commanded him to be beaten until his flesh was mangled. The
Saint cried out, saying, "O my Lord Jesus Christ, help me for there is
no God but You." God considered his endurance, and sent His angel, who
healed his wounds. The Saint returned to the Governor crying, "There is
no God except Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God." The Governor
tortured him severely again, and finally he cut off his head and thus
St. Timothy received the crown of martyrdom. May his prayers be
with us. Amen.
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202 Saint
Plutarch Martyr of Alexandria, Egypt With brother,
Heraclides, and group of fellow students Marcella and her daughter
Potamioena; soldier Bailides
Alexandríæ,
in persecutióne Sevéri, sanctórum Mártyrum
Plutárchi, Seréni, Heraclídis catechúmeni,
Herónis neóphyti, et altérius Seréni,
Rháidis catechúmenæ, et Potamiœnæ cum
ipsíus matre Marcélla; inter quos præcípue
enítuit Potamiœna Virgo, quæ, primo imménsos
innumerósque agónes pro virginitáte
desudávit, deínde étiam exquisíta et
inaudíta torménta pro fide sustínuit, ad
últimum, simul cum matre, igne consúmpta est.
At Alexandria, in the persecution of Severus, the
holy martyrs Plutarch, Serenus, Heraclides, catechumen, Heron, a
neophyte, another Serenus, Rhais, a catechumen, Potamioena and Marcella
her mother. Among them the virgin Potamioena is particularly
distinguished. She first endured many painful trials for the
preservation of her virginity, and then cruel and unheard-of torments
for the faith, after which both she and her mother were consumed with
fire.
Plutarch
studied in the
famed Catechetical School of Alexandria. Like his brother, he was
converted to Christianity by Origen and was arrested by Roman
officials during the persecution
launched by Emperor Septimius Severus. Plutarch, along with the
others, was executed. The two women, Marcella and her daughter
Potamioena, also died; the latter was lowered into a cauldron of
boiling pitch. According to custom, the soldier Bailides, who had led
Potamioena
to her execution, was converted through a vision of the girl and was
baptized in prison just before his beheading.
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202 Saint
Irenaeus writings of
Saint Irenaeus entitle him to a
high place among
the fathers of the Church, for they not only laid the foundations of
Christian theology but, by exposing and refuting the errors of the
gnostics, they delivered the Catholic Faith from the real danger of the
doctrines of those heretics: He was most influenced by Saint
Polycarp who had known the
apostles or their immediate disciples
Lugdúni, in
Gállia, sancti Irenæi, Epíscopi
et Mártyris; qui (ut scribit sanctus Hierónymus)
beáti Polycárpi, Smyrnénsis Epíscopi,
discípulus fuit, et Apostolicórum témporum
vicínis. Is, cum advérsus hæréticos
verbis ac scriptis plúrimum decertásset, tandem, in
persecutióne Sevéri, cum omni fere civitátis
suæ pópulo, coronátus est glorióso martyrio.
At Lyons
in France, St. Irenæus, bishop and
martyr. St. Jerome relates that he was the disciple of blessed
Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, and lived near the time of the
apostles. After having strenuously opposed the heretics by word
and by writing, he was crowned with a glorious martyrdom along with
almost all the people of his city, during the persecution of Severus.
St. Irenaeus (130?-220)
The Church is fortunate that Irenaeus was involved in many of its
controversies in the second century. He was a student, well trained, no
doubt, with great patience in investigating, tremendously protective of
apostolic teaching, but prompted more by a desire to win over his
opponents than to prove them in error.
As bishop of Lyons he was especially concerned with the Gnostics, who
took their name from the Greek word for “knowledge.” Claiming access to
secret knowledge imparted by Jesus to only a few disciples, their
teaching was attracting and confusing many Christians. After thoroughly
investigating the various Gnostic sects and their “secret,” Irenaeus
showed to what logical conclusions their tenets led. These he
contrasted with the teaching of the apostles and the text of Holy
Scripture, giving us, in five books, a system of theology of great
importance to subsequent times. Moreover, his work, widely used and
translated into Latin and Armenian, gradually ended the influence of
the Gnostics.
The circumstances and
details about his death, like those of his birth and early life in Asia
Minor, are not at all clear.
Comment: A deep and genuine concern for
other people will remind us that the discovery of truth is not to be a
victory for some and a defeat for others. Unless all can claim a share
in that victory, truth itself will continue to be rejected by the
losers, because it will be regarded as inseparable from the yoke of
defeat. And so, confrontation, controversy and the like might yield to
a genuine united search for God's truth and how it can best be served.
He was probably born
about the year 125, in one of those maritime
provinces of Asia Minor where
the memory of the apostles was still cherished and where Christians
were numerous.
Many Asian priests and missionaries brought the gospel to
the pagan Gauls and founded a
local church.
To this church of Lyon,
Irenaeus came to serve as a priest under
its first bishop, Saint Pothinus,
an oriental like himself. In the year 177, Irenaeus was sent to Rome.
This mission explains how it was that he was not called upon to share
in the martyrdom of St Pothinus during the terrible persecution in
Lyons. When he returned to Lyons it was to occupy the vacant bishopric.
By this time, the persecution was over.
It was the spread of gnosticism in Gaul, and the ravages it
was making
among the Christians of his diocese, that inspired him to undertake the
task of exposing its errors. He produced a treatise in five books in
which he sets forth fully the inner doctrines of the various sects, and
afterwards contrasts them with the teaching of the Apostles and the
text of the Holy Scripture. His work, written in Greek but
quickly translated to Latin, was widely circulated and succeeded in
dealing a death-blow to gnosticism. At any rate, from that time
onwards, it ceased to offer a serious menace to the Catholic faith.
The date of death of Saint Irenaeus is not known, but it is
believed to
be in the year 202. The bodily remains of Saint Irenaeus were buried in
a crypt under the altar of what was then called the church of Saint
John, but was later known by the name of Saint Irenaeus himself. This
tomb or shrine was destroyed by the Calvinists in 1562, and all trace
of his relics seems to have perished.
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Eódem
die sancti Pápii Mártyris, qui, in persecutióne
Diocletiáni Imperatóris, flagris cæsus, atque in
lebétem, óleo et ádipe fervénti plenum,
immíssus, áliaque horrénda supplícia
perpéssus, demum, datis cervícibus, coronátur.
St. Papius, martyr, Also during the persecution of Diocletian,
who was scourged with knotted cords, cast into a cauldron of seething
oil and grease, and after other horrible torments was beheaded, and
thus won an eternal crown.
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412 Cyrus and John
from
the city of Konopa, near Alexandria Transfer of the Relics of the Holy
Martyrs, Unmercenaries and Wonderworkers many miracles,
healings of the sick and infirm
(where they suffered in the year 311) to the nearby village
of
Manuphin, took place in the year 412. This Egyptian village prompted
fear in everyone, since in a former time there was a pagan temple
inhabited by evil spirits. Patriarch Theophilus (385-412) wanted to
cleanse this place of demons, but he died. His wish was fulfilled by
his successor in the See of Alexandria, the holy Patriarch Cyril
(412-444). He prayed fervently in carrying out this project. An angel
of the Lord appeared in a vision to the hierarch and commanded the
venerable relics of Sts Cyrus and John be transferred to Manuphin. His
Holiness Patriarch Cyril did the angel's bidding and built a church at
Manuphin in the name of the holy martyrs.
From that time this place was purified of the Enemy's
influence, and by
the prayers of the holy Martyrs Cyrus and John there began to occur
many miracles, healings of the sick and infirm. An account Sts Cyrus
and John is located under January 31.
Orthodoxe und
Katholische
Kirche: Cyrus und Johannes - Übertragung der Gebeine - 28. Juni
Cyrus wurde in Alexandria
geboren. Er war Arzt und Christ und
behandelte alle Armen unentgeltlich an Leib und Seele. Er konnte durch
sein Bekenntnis zu Christus viele heiden bekehren. Während der
diokletianischen Verfolgung floh er in die arabische Wüste. Auch
hier wirkte er weiter als Arzt und Heiler, wobei er auch viele Kranke
durch Gebet und Handauflegung heilen konnte.
Johannes war ein Soldat und lebte in Edessa. Auf einer
Pilgerreise nach
Jerusalem hörte er von Cyrus, ging zu ihm in die Wüste und
wurde sein Schüler. Beide gingen nach der Legende dann nach
Canopis in Ägypten, um Athanasia und ihren Töchtern
Theoktista, Theodotia und Eudoxia, die verhaftet worden waren,
beizustehen. Cyril und Johannes wurden ebenfalls verhaftet und
hingerichtet. Beide werden zu den heiligen Ärzten gezählt. Im
5. Jahrhundert wurden ihre Reliquien von Cyrill von Alexandria nach
Menuthis übertragen (Festtag 28. Juni). Cyrill wollte dem Kult der
Isis, die als heilende Göttin verehrt wurde, begegnen. Am Grab der
Märtyrer sollen sich nach dem Bericht des Patriarchen Sophronios
über 79 Wunderheilungen ereignet haben. Da über Cyrus und
Johannes nichts weiter bekannt ist, könnte ihre Lebensgeschichte
auch eine Legendenbildung zur Begründung der Heilkraft ihrer
Reliquien sein.
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5th v. Saint
Crummine Bishop and disciple of
Saint Patrick of Ireland.
Saint Patrick placed Crummine over the church in Lachan County,
Westmeath. |
6th
v. Saint
Austell Confessor and disciple
of Saint Newman of Cornwall, England.
Modern scholars believe that Austell was a woman named Hoystill, a daughter of
Brychan of Wales. |
6th century
Saint
Benignus Bishop and martyr. He is
mentioned in Pope Pelagius II's decretal concerning his resignation
from his see. Benignus retired to Utrecht, in the Netherlands. He is
listed in the Roman Martyrology, and his relics were found in Utrecht,
in 996.
Trajécti
sancti Benígni, Epíscopi et
Mártyris. At Utrecht, St. Benignus, bishop and
martyr.
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| 660 Saint
Theodichildis She served as the first abbess of the Benedictine house
of
Jouarre, Meaux, France. In some lists she is called
Telchildis. |
683 SAINT LEO II Pope
he accomplished good works which have caused his name to be blessed by
all succeeding generations
"Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you shall receive it, and
it shall come to you. St. Mark 11:24"
The pontificate of
this great Pope was very brief but very fruitful, since in the ten
months of his reign he accomplished good works which have caused his
name to be blessed by all succeeding generations. Born in the seventh
century in Sicily, he had been a Canon Regular, that is, an
ecclesiastical dignitary who resided in his bishop’s palace, was
charged with recitation of the Office in the cathedral, and was relied
upon to serve as the auxiliary of the Ordinary. Saint Leo was a devout
student of Holy Scripture, and was well versed in the Greek as well as
the Latin language.
In his day grave difficulties frequently arose between the Holy See and
the emperors of Constantinople, whose representatives at Ravenna tried
to control the bishops of that see; the latter had been striving to
become autonomous. Saint Leo published a decree ordering that in the
future no bishop of Ravenna could enter into function before being
consecrated for that office at Rome, by the Roman Pontiff.
He built three churches in Rome, to honor Saint Paul the Apostle, Saint
Sebastian, and Saint George. Saint Leo was highly gifted in the domain
of music, and he renovated the Gregorian literature or library, then in
a state of confusion; he also composed new hymns, still conserved by
the Church. He took special care of widows and orphans and the poor in
general, relieving their sufferings with a truly apostolic charity.
Saint Leo confirmed the Acts of the Sixth Ecumenical Council which his
predecessor had convoked at Constantinople against the Monothelite
heresy, and translated its acts into Latin for the benefit of the
Occidentals. When he died in July of 683, his death was deeply
regretted by all the faithful. He was interred according to established
custom in the church of Saint Peter. He is ordinarily pictured
embracing a beggar or holding a book of music. Source: Les Petits
Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin (Bloud et
Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 7 |
767
Saint Paul I, Pope {Pope from 757-767}. The brother of Pope Stephen II
and a Roman, he was
educated in the Lateran Palace, became a deacon under Pope Zachary, and
wielded considerable influence in his brother’s administration. Elected
to succeed Stephen, he took as his primary concern the threat posed to
Rome and the Papal States by the Lombards.
Romæ
sancti Pauli Primi, Papæ et Confessóris.
At Rome, Pope St. Paul I, confessor.
Paul secured an alliance
with the Frankish king Pepin the Short, thereby cementing the
relationship between the Holy See and the Frankish Empire which
culminated with the historically significant alliance between Pope Leo
III and Charlemagne. Paul also opposed the Iconoclast policies of the
Byzantine emperor Constantine V, thereby exacerbating further the
deteriorating relationship between the papacy and the Byzantine Empire.
He died on June 28 at Saint Paul’s Outside the Walls, in Rome. |
9th v.St. John
of
Damascus "Of the Three Hands" The Icon of the Mother of God, Mary
reattached his hand John placed on the icon a hand fashioned of silver,
from which the icon received its name
In the ninth century during the time of the Iconoclasts, St. John of
Damascus (December 4) was zealous in his veneration of holy icons.
Because of this, he was slandered by the emperor and iconoclast Leo III
the Isaurian (717-740), who informed the Damascus caliph that St. John
was committing treasonous acts against him. The caliph gave orders to
cut off the hand of the monk and take it to the marketplace. Towards
evening St. John, having asked the caliph for the cut-off hand, put it
to its joint and fell to the ground before the icon of the Mother of
God. The monk begged Our Lady to heal the hand, which had written in
defense of Orthodoxy. After long prayer he fell asleep and saw in a
dream that the All-Pure Mother of God had turned to him promising him
quick healing.
Before this the Mother of God bid him toil without fail with this hand.
Having awakened from sleep, St. John saw that his hand was unharmed. In
thankfulness for this healing St. John placed on the icon a hand
fashioned of silver, from which the icon received its name "Of Three
Hands." (Some iconographers, in their ignorance, have mistakenly
depicted the Most Holy Theotokos with three arms and three hands.)
According to Tradition, St. John wrote a hymn of thanksgiving to the
Mother of God: "All of creation rejoices in You, O Full of Grace,"
which appears in place of the hymn "It is Truly Meet" in the Liturgy of
St. Basil the Great.
St. John Damascene accepted monasticism at the monastery of St. Sava
the Sanctified and there bestowed his wonderworking icon. The Lavra
presented the icon "Of Three Hands" in blessing to St. Sava, Archbishop
of Serbia (+ 1237, January 12). During the time of an invasion of
Serbia by the Turks, some Christians who wanted to protect the icon,
entrusted it to the safekeeping of the Mother of God Herself. They
placed it upon a donkey, which without a driver proceeded to Athos and
stopped in front of the Hilandar monastery. The monks put the icon in
the monastery's cathedral church (katholikon). During a time of discord
over the choice of igumen, the Mother of God deigned to head the
monastery Herself, and from that time Her holy icon has occupied the
igumen's place in the temple. At the Hilandar monastery there is chosen
only a vicar, and from the holy icon the monks take a blessing for
every obedience .
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858
Saint Argymirus Martyr of Spain, native of Cabra, Spain, he held a high
position in
one of the Islamic domains in the peninsula. Fired because of his
Christian faith, Argymirus became a monk. He made a public statement of
his beliefs and was beheaded.
Córdubæ, in
Hispánia, sancti Argymíri, Mónachi et
Mártyris, qui in persecutióne Arábica, pro Christi
fide, in equúleo pósitus et ense transfóssus est.
At Cordova in Spain, St. Argymirus, monk
and martyr, slain for faith of Christ during the
persecution by Arabs.
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875
Saint Egilo abbot of Prum, near Trier, Germany founder, also
called Egilo and Eigil. He was abbot of Prum, near Trier, Germany.
There he gave the habit to
Saint Humphrey. In 860, he was directed by Emperor Charles the Bald to
restore Flavigny Abbey in Dijon, France. He then founded the abbey of
Corbigny, in Yonne.
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976 Gero von
Köln
971 holte Gero die byzantinische Prinzessin Theophanu als Braut
für Oto
II. nach Deutschland. Dabei brachte er auch Reliquien von Pantaleon
nach Köln mit
Orthodoxe Kirche und Katholische Kirche: 28. Juni
Gero, Sohn des thüringischen Markgrafen Christian war Kaplan von
Kaiser Otto I.. Als er 969 zum Erzbischof von Köln gewählt
wurde, widersetzte sich Otto der Ernennung. 971 holte Gero die
byzantinische Prinzessin Theophanu als Braut für Oto II. nach
Deutschland. Dabei brachte er auch Reliquien von Pantaleon nach
Köln mit. Gero gründete die Abteien Dammersfeld und Gladbach.
Er starb am 28.6.976 .
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| 1019
Saint Heimrad Benedictine hermit and
pilgrim. He was a monk at various abbeys before beginning his ceaseless
pilgrimages to Rome and
Jerusalem. He was considered a lunatic by many until he setteld
as a hermit at Wolfhagen, Hesse Nassau. His tomb there drew many
pilgrims. |
Saint Paul the
Physician, from the city of Corinth, in his youth took monastic tonsure
at one of the monasteries. Here the saint toiled much and became an
experienced ascetic.
Once Paul, through demonic malice, was slandered by a woman. She came
to the monastery with a newborn infant and said, that St. Paul was the
father. The Elder with humility and joy endured the slander, he did not
deny it and he took the infant, as though it were his own son. When
they began to reproach the saint for breaking his monastic vows, St.
Paul said, "Brethren, let us ask the infant who his father is!" The
newborn, pointing his hand at the blacksmith, said, "Here is my father
and not the monk Paul." Seeing this miracle, people bowed down to the
Elder, asking forgiveness. From this time St. Paul received from God
the gift of healing the sick, whereby he received the name physician.
St. Paul died at age 70 .
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1262 Saint
Xenophon of Robeika a student of St. Barlaam of Khutyn head of the
Khutyn monastery after the igumen Isidore founded the Trinity Monastery
on the banks of the Robeika River (not far from Novgorod)
St. Barlaam of Khutyn (+ 1192, November 6). He was the head of the
Khutyn monastery after the igumen Isidore (+1243). Resigning as igumen,
St. Xenophon founded the Trinity Monastery on the banks of the Robeika
River (not far from Novgorod). Here he reposed blessedly on June 28,
1262.
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1270 Saint Almus Cistercian abbot monk at
Melrose when he was elected abbot of Scotland's Balmerino monastery,
founded by Ermengardis, the
widow of William I of Scotland.
Also
called
Alme and Alanus. He was a monk in the English Cistercian monastery at
Melrose when he was elected abbot of Scotland's Balmerino monastery,
founded by Ermengardis, the
widow of William I of Scotland.
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1353 Saints
Sergius
and Herman settled on the island of Valaam in 1329. The brethren
gathered by them spread the light of Orthodoxy in this frontier
land. The Karelian people began to regard Christianity with renewed
suspicion, with its authority in the fourteenth century being
undermined by the Swedes, who sought to spread Catholicism by means of
the sword.
Sts Sergius and Herman died about the year 1353.
They are also commemorated on September 11 (The translation
of their
holy relics).
Many scholars consider Rublev's Trinity the most perfect of
all Russian
icons and perhaps the most perfect of all the icons ever painted. The
work was created for the abbot of the Trinity Monastery, Nikon of
Radonezh, a disciple of the famous Sergius, one of the leaders of the
monastic revival in the 14th-century Russia. Asking Rublev to paint the
icon of the Holy Trinity, Nikon wanted to commemorate Sergius as a man
whose life and deeds embodied the most progressive processes in the
late 14th-century Russia.
From the earliest times,
the idea of the Trinity was controversial and
difficult to understand, especially for the uneducated masses. Even
though Christianity replaced the pagan polytheism, it gave the
believers a monotheistic religion with a difficult concept of one God
in three hypostases -- God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Spirit. Not only the uneducated population but many theologians had
difficulties with the concept of the triune God; from time to time, a
heretical movement, like Arianism, questioned the doctrine, causing
long debates, violent persecutions, and even greater general confusion.
Trying to portray the Trinity, but always aware of the Biblical
prohibition against depicting God, icon painters turned to the story of
the hospitality of Abraham who was visited by three wanderers. In their
compositions, icon painters included many details -- the figures of
Abraham and Sarah, a servant killing a calf in preparation for the
feast, the rock, the tree of Mamre, and the house (tent) -- trying to
render as faithfully as possible the events described in the text:
Rublev's Trinity the most
perfect of all Russian icons
"And the Lord
appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre:
and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; And he lift up his
eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them,
he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the
ground, And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight,
pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: Let a little water, I
pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the
tree: And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts;
after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant.
And they said, So do, as thou hast said. And Abraham hastened into the
tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine
meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. And Abraham ran unto
the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young
man; and he hasted to dress it. And he took butter, and milk, and the
calf that he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them
under the tree, and they did eat" (KJV, Genesis, 18: 1-8 and passim).
Very few artists before Rublev dared to eliminate all the
narrative
elements from the story, leaving only the three angels; usually those
who did so had to deal with limited space. The results of their efforts
did not find general acceptance or many copyists. Rublev was the first
to make a conscious decision not to include in his composition the
figures of Abraham and Sarah because he did not set out to illustrate
the story of the hospitality of Abraham, as did many painters before
him, but to convey through his image the idea of the unity and
indivisibility of the three persons of the Trinity.
The doctrine of the
Trinity, difficult to explain logically, found
various interpretations. Some thought that the Trinity consisted of God
the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Others believed that
it was just God and two angels. In the 14th and 15th-century Russia, in
the period of many heretical movements, the idea of the Trinity was
often questioned. The heretics in Novgorod claimed that it is not
permissible to paint the Trinity on icons because Abraham did not see
the Trinity but only God and two angels. Other heretics rejected the
idea of the three hypostases of God altogether. The church fought the
heresies with all the means it had -- usually with polemical treaties,
but also with force, if necessary. Russian icon painters before
Rublev subscribed to the same point of view that Abraham was visited by
God (in Christ's image) and two angels. Hence, Christ was represented
in icons of the Trinity as the middle angel and was symbolically set
apart either by a halo with a cross, by a considerable enlargement of
his figure, by widely spread wings or by a scroll in His hand.
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1654 Saint John
Southworth became a priest in 1619
in Douai One of the Forty Martyrs of England
and Wales relics are in
Westminster Cathedral in London, discovered there in 1927. Pope Paul VI
canonized
him in 1970.
He was born in Lancashire and became a priest in 1619
in Douai. Sent to England that same year, he was arrested but released
through the intercession of Queen Henrietta Maria. He joined Saint
Henry Morse, subsequently working diligently during the plague of 1636.
Arrested again, he was martyred by being hanged, drawn, and quartered
at Tybum. His relics are in
Westminster Cathedral in London, discovered there in 1927. Pope Paul VI canonized
him in 1970. |
1847
Saint Vincenza Gerosa Co-foundress of the Sisters of Charity native of
Lovere, Italy gave her life to aiding the poor
Lúere, in diœcési Brixiénsi, sanctæ
Vincéntiæ Gerósa Vírginis, Institúti
Sorórum a Caritáte una cum sancta Bartholomǽa
Capitánio Fundatrícis, quam Pius Papa Duodécimus
albo sanctárum Vírginum accénsuit.
At Lovere, in the diocese of Brescia, St. Vincenza
Gerosa, virgin, who co-founded the Institute of the Sisters of Charity
with St. Bartolomea Capitanio, and whom Pope Pius XII added to the list
of holy virgins.
Originally named Catherine, orphaned in her youth and ever
after gave her life to aiding the poor. About 1824, she and Saint
Bartolomea Capitanio founded the Sisters of Charity of Lovere to help
the poor and sick and educate children, Following the passing of
Bartolomea in 1833, Vincenza assumed the directorship of the Order and
expanded its efforts until her death after a long illness on June 29.
She was canonized in 1975 by Pope Paul VI (r. 1963-1978). |