Mary Mother of GOD
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et Confessórum, atque
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The Vigil of St. Bartholomew, Apostle. CAUSES OF SAINTS Baptized by a non-believing policeman I spent several months in a Communist prison without being charged with anything. One day the police chief was inspecting the prison; he entered my cell and asked me the usual questions about my instruction and progress in the Communist creed. Then he added: “I have something to tell you, listen... Yesterday while I was inspecting some families in my neighborhood, I came across a mother in tears before her two-year-old baby who was dying. I said: ‘Get me some water, I want to heal your child.’ Suspicious, her gaze didn’t leave me for a second as she came back with a cup of water. I poured some water over the baby's head, saying: ‘I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.’” “Why did you do that?” I asked, surprised. “I learned to do it school,” he replied, “and as a pagan, it has always impressed me—it—I mean the ease with which we can send small children to heaven, the little kids rejected on this Earth.” “Have you done it often?” … “Only twice.” … “Then how can you be a Communist?” … “If you want to live and support a family in this country, it’s best to be on the side of the masters, but I hate the way they think, judge, teach, and act. Keep it to yourself though.” … “I promise you. I will pray for you, for Mary’s protection.” 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? We are the defenders of true freedom. May our witness unveil the deception of the "pro-choice" slogan. 40 days for Life Campaign saves lives Shawn Carney Campaign Director www.40daysforlife.com , Please help save the unborn they are the future for the world It is a great poverty that a child must die so that you may live as you wish -- Mother Teresa Saving babies, healing moms and dads, 'The Gospel of Life' Mary Mother of GOD 15 Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite the Rosary
15 Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite the Rosary 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. August 23 - Our Lady of Victory of Valois (France, 1328) Let Us Respond in a Generous Spirit We express the trust that the Christian people will respond in a generous spirit to this exhortation of ours so as to demonstrate towards the Virgin Mother of God a more ardent piety and a firmer confidence. In the mean time while we are comforted by the certainty that the glorious Queen of Heaven and our most sweet Mother will never cease to assist each and every one of her children and will never withdraw from the entire Church of Christ her heavenly patronage, as a pledge of divine favors and as a sign of our benevolence, we wholeheartedly impart the apostolic blessing. Excerpt from Signum Magnum, Letter on the Blessed Virgin Mary, by His Holiness Pope Paul VI, promulgated on May 13, 1967 She is More a Mother than a Queen? Aug 23 - A Statement on the Miracles of the Blessed Virgin (Soissons, France) Saint Therese of the Child Jesus (d. Sept. 30, 1897) Last Conversations, Aug 21, 1897 It is well known that the Blessed Virgin is the Queen of heaven and earth. But she is more a Mother than a Queen, and there is no need to say, because of her pre-eminent position, that she outshines the glory of all the saints as the rising sun makes the stars disappear. Dear Lord, how strange that sounds! A Mother outshining the glory of her children! I believe the opposite--I believe that she greatly enhances the splendor of the elect. 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. Mary in Islam and the Koran (I) August 23 - OUR LADY OF VICTORY (Valois, France, 1328) Let us first bring this fact to your attention: Mary did not know the fate of her son whose name Yasû' was watered down by the name 'Isa. Islam has respected Mary's name, which (in Arabic and the Koran) is pronounced Maryam. This has not been true for Jesus, whose name, Yasû', became 'Isa. Changing Christ's name infringes on his human and divine identity. 'Isa means "God saves," and it was no longer possible to consider Jesus otherwise than as a prophet among others. A great prophet, if you will, but nothing else. Antoine Moussali Judaism, Christianity and Islam: A Comparative Study (Judaisme, christianisme et islam : étude comparée), Ed. Paris 2000 |
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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. 116 St. Zacchaeus Bishop of Jerusalem, Isreal He is also known as Zacharias and he was described by St. Epiphanius and others as being the fourth episcopal head of Jerusalem. 202 Irenaeus
Hieromartyr, Bishop of Lyons; His guide in the truths of
the Christian Faith was a disciple of the Apostle John the Theologian,
St Polycarp of Smyrna (February 23). St Polycarp baptized the youth, and
afterwards ordained him presbyter and sent him to a city in Gaul then named
Lugdunum [the present day Lyons in France] to the dying bishop Pothinus.
235 St. Quiriacus
With Maximus, Archelaus & companions martyrs St. Minervius with Eleazar & companions -
Lyons290 Rhemis, in Gállia, natális sanctórum Timothei et Apollináris, qui, ibídem consummato martyrio, cæléstia regna meruérunt. 290 St. Apollinaris Martyr at Reims France, birthday of Saints Timothy and Apollináris, who merited to enter the heavenly kingdom by completing their martyrdom in that city. 3rd v. St. Minervius Martyr with Eleazar and companions at Lyons 300 St. Theonas Bishop of Alexandria Egypt, from 281. He was a dedicated patron of the famed Catechetical School of Alexandria that served the academic needs of that era. Theonas also fought against the heresies of that period 303 St. Asterius and Companions Martyr brothers Claudius and Neon 4th v. Lupus
was a faithful servant of the holy Great Martyr Demetrius
of Thessalonica (October 26); worked many miracles at Thessalonica. He
destroyed pagan idols, for which he was subjected to persecution by the
pagans, but he was preserved unharmed by the power of God
305 St. Restitutus
1 of 16 martyrs480 St. Tydfil Welsh martyr reportedly from the clan of Brychan. She was slain by a group of pagan Picts or Saxons and is venerated at Merthyr-Tydfil, Glamorgan. Wales. 5th v. St. Lupicinus Bishop of Verona 535 St. Victor of Vita Bishop of Carthage or Utica, also in Tunisia. 540-547 Saints Eutychius and Florentius were monks pursuing asceticism in the region of Nursa in Italy during the sixth century. St Eutychius converted many to God by his teaching. When the igumen of a nearby monastery died, they appealed to him to become its head. He consented, but continued to be concerned with the former place of his ascetic activity, where his companion Florentius remained. miracles 6th v. St Owen {Eugene} venerated as the first bishop at Ardstraw in Tyrone, predecessor of the see of Derry 7th v. St. Flavian bishop of Autun of Autun The bishop of Autun, France, listed as the twenty-first in that see 705 Saint Callinicus, Patriarch of Constantinople (693-705), at first presbyter in temple of the Most Holy Theotokos at Blachernae, in 693 with death of Patriarch Paul (686-693), was elevated to episcopal Constantinople throne 870 St. Ebba martyred Abbess of Coldingham, England 1195 St. Ascelina Cistercian mystic relative - St. Bernard known for her mystical gifts. 1285 St. Philip Benizi Servite cardinal preacher Miracle worker peace maker 1301 Bd James Of Bevagna St Dominic appeared to him and said, "Do it! According to God's will I choose you, and will be ever with you ". 1617 Rosa von Lima Martyrdom of St. James the Soldier. {Coptic} |
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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. Sent by St
Peter to preach the Gospel in Tuscany, he died a glorious
martyr of Christ in the city of Nepi.
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116 St. Zacchaeus
Bishop of Jerusalem, Isreal He is also known as Zacharias and he was described
by St. Epiphanius and others as being the fourth episcopal head of Jerusalem
Orthodoxe Kirche: 20. April Katholische Kirche:
23. AugustHierosólymis sancti Zachæi Epíscopi, qui, quartus a beáto Jacobo Apóstolo, Hierosolymitánum Ecclésiam rexit. At Jerusalem, St. Zachaeus, bishop, who governed the Church in that city the fourth after the blessed apostle James. Zachäus Lukas berichtet uns (19, 1 ff.)
die Geschichte von dem Oberzöllner Zachäus, der Jesus nachfolgt.
Nach neutestamentlichen Apokryphen wurde Zachäus später ein
Begleiter des Apostels Petrus und von diesem zum Bischof von Caesarea
in Palästina eingesetzt. Nach anderen Berichten wurde Zachäus
auch Matthias genannt und schrieb als Matthäus sein Evangelium. Zachäus
soll nach späteren Berichten ermordet worden sein oder nach Gallien
gekommen sein, wo er unter dem Namen Amator gepredigt habe.
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202
Irenaeus Hieromartyr, Bishop of Lyons; His guide in the truths of the
Christian Faith was a disciple of the Apostle John the Theologian, St
Polycarp of Smyrna (February 23). St Polycarp baptized the youth, and afterwards
ordained him presbyter and sent him to a city in Gaul then named Lugdunum
[the present day Lyons in France] to the dying bishop Pothinus.
Orthodoxe Kirche: 23. August Katholische Kirche/Anglikanische
Kirche/Evangelische Kirche: 28. JuniBorn in the year 130 in the city
of Smyrna (Asia Minor). He received there the finest education, studying poetics,
philosophy, rhetoric, and the rest of the classical sciences considered necessary
for a young man of the world.
A commission was soon entrusted to St Irenaeus. He was to deliver a letter from the confessors of Lugdunum to the holy Bishop Eleutherius of Rome (177-190). While he was away, all the known Christians were thrown into prison. After the martyric death of Bishop Pothinus, St Irenaeus was chosen a year later (in 178) as Bishop of Lugdunum. "During this time," St Gregory of Tours (November 17) writes concerning him, "by his preaching he transformed all Lugdunum into a Christian city!" When the persecution against Christians quieted down, the saint expounded upon the Orthodox teachings of faith in one of his fundamental works under the title: Detection and Refutation of the Pretended but False Gnosis. It is usually called Five Books against Heresy (Adversus Haereses). At that time there appeared a series of religious-philosophical gnostic teachings. The Gnostics [from the Greek word "gnosis" meaning "knowledge"] taught that God cannot be incarnate [i.e. born in human flesh], since matter is imperfect and manifests itself as the bearer of evil. They taught also that the Son of God is only an outflowing ("emanation") of Divinity. Together with Him from the Divinity issues forth a hierarchical series of powers ("aeons"), the unity of which comprise the "Pleroma", i.e. "Fullness." The world is not made by God Himself, but by the aeons or the "Demiourgos," which is below the "Pleroma." In refuting the heresy of Valentinus, St Irenaeus presents the Orthodox teaching of salvation. "The Word of God, Jesus Christ, through His inexplicable blessedness caused it to be, that we also, should be made that which He is ... ," taught St Irenaeus. "Jesus Christ the Son of God, through exceedingly great love for His creation, condescended to be born of a Virgin, having united mankind with God in His own Self." Through the Incarnation of God, creation becomes co-imaged and co-bodied to the Son of God. Salvation consists in the "Sonship" and "Theosis" ("Divinization") of mankind. In the refutation of another heretic, Marcian, who denied the divine origin of the Old Testament, the saint affirms the same divine inspiration of the Old and the New Testaments: "It is one and the same Spirit of God Who proclaimed through the prophets the precise manner of the Lord's coming," wrote the saint."Through the apostles, He preached that the fulness of time of the filiation had arrived, and that the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand." The successors of the Apostles
have received from God the certain gift of truth, which St Irenaeus links
to the succession of the episcopate (Adv. Haer. 4, 26, 2). "Anyone who
desires to know the truth ought to turn to the Church, since through Her
alone did the apostles expound the Divine Truth. She is the door to life."
Orthodoxe Kirche: 23. August Katholische Kirche/Anglikanische
Kirche/Evangelische Kirche: 28. JuniSt Irenaeus also exerted a beneficial influence in a dispute about the celebration of Pascha. In the Church of Asia Minor, there was an old tradition of celebrating Holy Pascha on the fourteenth day of the month of Nisan, regardless of what day of the week it happened to be. The Roman bishop Victor (190-202) forcefully demanded uniformity, and his harsh demands fomented a schism. In the name of the Christians of Gaul, St Irenaeus wrote to Bishop Victor and others, urging them to make peace. After this incident, St Irenaeus drops out of sight, and we do not even know the exact year of his death. St Gregory of Tours, in his Historia Francorum, suggests that St Irenaeus was beheaded by the sword for his confession of faith in the year 202, during the reign of Severus. The Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, St Polycarp of Smyrna, and St Irenaeus of Lyons are three links in an unbroken chain of the grace of succession, which goes back to the Original Pastor, our Lord Jesus Christ Himself. In his old age, St Irenaeus wrote to his old friend the priest Florinus: "When I was still a boy, I knew you... in Polycarp's house.... I remember what happened in those days more clearly than what happens now.... I can describe for you the place where blessed Polycarp usually sat and conversed, the character of his life, the appearance of his body, and the discourses which he spoke to the people, how he spoke of the conversations which he had with John and others who had seen the Lord, how he remembered their words, and what he heard from them about the Lord...I listened eagerly to these things, by the mercy of God, and wrote them, not on paper, but in my heart" (Eusebius, Hist. Eccles.). Irenäus von Lyon Irenäus stammte aus Kleinasien.
Er war Schüler Polykarps und verfaßte die erste christliche
Dogmatik (Glaubenslehre). Er kam um 150 nach Lyon und arbeitete hier als
Pfarrer in einer Gemeinde kleinasiatischer Händler. Die Gemeinde schickte
ihn 176 nach mit einem Brief zum Bischof von Rom Dieser Besuch bewahrte
ihn vor dem Märtyrerschicksal seiner Gemeinde. Nach seiner Rückkehr
wurde er (wohl 178) zum zweiten Bischof von Lyon gewählt. Sein Vorgänger
Photinus war im Alter von 90 Jahren mit den anderen Christen hingerichtet
worden.
Irenäus setzte sich für die Einheit der Kirche ein, auch 190 gegen Papst Viktor (Gedenktag 28.7.), der eine Spaltung der Kirche wegen des Ostertermins in Kauf nahm. Außerdem wandte er sich gegen Irrlehrer, besonders gegen die Gnostiker und lehrte die Liebe zu Gott sei wichtiger als das Wissen über Gott: Der Mensch solle besser nichts als Jesus wissen, als durch spitzfindige Fragen in Ruhelosigkeit zu fallen. Er ist einer der Kirchenväter und wird auch Vater der Dogmatik genannt. Irenäus starb um 202. |
3rd v. St. Minervius Martyr with Eleazar and companions
at Lyons Lugduni, in Gállia, sanctórum Mártyrum Minervi, et Eleazári cum fíliis octo. At Lyons, the holy martyrs Minercus and Eleazar, with his eight sons. France. Eight children were slain with Minervius, possibly his own. Eleazar may have been his wife. |
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St. Quiriacus With Maximus, Archelaus &companions martyrs Apud Ostia Tiberina sanctórum Mártyrum Quiriaci Epíscopi, Maximi Presbyteri, Archelai Diáconi, et Sociórum, qui sub Ulpiáno Præfecto, témpore Alexandri, passi sunt. At Ostia, the holy martyrs Quiriacus, bishop, Maximus, priest, Archelaus, deacon, and their companions, who suffered under prefect Ulpian, in the time of Alexander. A group of martyrs put to death during the reign of Emperor Severus Alexander. Quiriacus was probably the bishop of Ostia, Italy, with Maximus and Archelaus, his priest and deacon respectively. |
290 St. Apollinaris Martyr at Reims Rhemis, in Gállia, natális sanctórum Timothei et Apollináris, qui, ibídem consummato martyrio, cæléstia regna meruérunt. At Rheims in France, the birthday of the Saints Timothy and Apollináris, who merited to enter the heavenly kingdom by completing their martyrdom in that city. Though the account is no longer considered trustworthy. Apollinaris was the public executioner of Reims, France, when St. Timothy was martyred. Moved by the constancy and courage of St. Timothy, Apollinaris converted to Christianity and was himself beheaded . |
300 St. Theonas Bishop
of Alexandria Egypt, from 281. He was a dedicated patron of the famed
Catechetical School of Alexandria that served the academic needs of that
era. Theonas also fought against the heresies of that period
Alexandríæ
sancti Theonæ, Epíscopi et Confessóris.
At Alexandria, St. Theonas, bishop and confessor. |
303 St. Asterius and
Companions Martyr brothers Claudius and Neon
Ægææ, in Cilicia, sanctórum Mártyrum fratrum Claudii, Asterii et Neónis, qui, Christianæ religiónis a noverca accusati, sub Diocletiáno Imperatóre et Lysia Præside, post acerba torménta cruci sunt affixi, in qua victores cum Christo triumpharunt. Passæ sunt post eos Donvina et Theonilla. At Aegaea in Cilicia, the holy martyrs Claudius, Asterius, and Neon, brothers, who were accused of being Christians by their stepmother, under Emperor Diocletian and the governor Lysias. After enduring bitter torments, they were fastened to a cross, and thus conquered and triumphed with Christ. After them suffered Dovina and Theonilla. ACCORDING to Greek tradition the martyrs Claudius, Asterius and Neon were brothers who suffered death by crucifixion in Isauria, but the Latin acta locate the martyrdom in Cilicia. In the judgement of Father Delehaye these acta belong to the class which have for their principal source a written document of some value, which has been embellished, e.g. by the multiplication of torments patiently borne, or even more seriously modified. In any case Domnina and Theonilla seem tohave been added to the original from some other source. The acta relate that the three brothers were in the time of Diocletian charged as Christians at Aegea, having been denounced by their step-mother. At the same time two women named Domnina and Theonilla, with a little child, were likewise on account of their faith thrown into prison, and brought to trial before the proconsul of Cilicia, whose name was Lysias. He, when he came into court; said, " Bring before me the Christians whom the officers have delivered to the city magistrate". The gaoler said, "The magistrate of this city having pursuant to your orders made the strictest inquiry after Christians, has apprehended six; three young men, all brothers, two women, and a small child. One of them is here before you." Lysias said to him, "Well, what is your name?" He answered, "Claudius Lysius: "Do not be such a madman as to throw yourself away in youth; sacrifice to the gods, and escape the torments prepared for you if you refuse." CLAUDIUS: "My God requires no
such sacrifices; He delights rather in alms-deeds and holiness of life.
Your gods are unclean spirits, who are pleased with such oblations whilst
they are preparing eternal punishments for those who offer them."
LYSIAS: "Let him be bound and beaten; there is no other way of bringing him to reason." CLAUDIUS: "Though you inflict upon me the most cruel tortures you will not move or hurt me." LYSIAS: "The emperors have commanded that Christians sacrifice to the gods, and that they who refuse be punished; those who obey are to he rewarded." CLAUDIUS: "Their rewards are temporary and short-lived; but the confession of Jesus Christ earns everlasting glory." Then the proconsul commanded him to be tortured. The martyr said, "Neither your fire nor anything else can hurt those who fear God; it brings them to eternal life". Lysias ordered further torments, but Claudius only said, "I hold it a great benefit to suffer for God, and the greatest happiness to die for Jesus Christ." LYSIAS: "Take him back to prison, and bring another." When Asterius was before him he said, "Take my advice and sacrifice to the gods you have before your eyes what is prepared for those who refuse." ASTERIUS: "There is one God, who dwells in Heaven and in the greatness of His power sees the lowest things: Him my parents have taught me to love and worship. I know not those that you worship and call gods." LYSIAS "crush his sides, tear them with hooks, and make him sacrifice to the gods." ASTERIUS: "I am the brother of him whom you just now questioned. We agree, and we make the same confession. My body is in your power; but my soul is out of your reach." LYSIAS: "Bring the pincers and pulleys, bind his feet, squeeze and torture him to teach him I can make him suffer." And when this was done," Put live coals under his feet, and lash him on the back and belly." ASTERIUS: "All I ask of you is that you will not spare any part of my body." LYSIAS: "Take him away, put him with the rest, and bring the third." When Neon was brought Lysias called him "son", and treated him with kindness, urging
him to sacrifice that he might escape torment.
Neon answered that the proconsul's gods had no power if they were not able to defend themselves without having recourse to his authority. LYSIAS: "Strike him on the neck,
and teach him not to blaspheme the gods."
NEON: "You think I blasphenie when I speak the truth." LYSIAS: "Stretch him on the rack, put burning coals on him, and scourge his back." NEON: "I will do what is good for my soul, and no man shall ever make me change." When therefore he had been fruitlessly tortured, Lysias dictated this sentence: "Euthalius the gaoler and Archelaus the executioner shall take these three brothers to be crucified outside the town, that the birds of the air may devour their bodies." Then Euthalius presented Domnina; whereupon Lysias said to her, "You see, woman, the fire and torments which are prepared for you; if you would avoid them draw near and sacrifice." Domnina replied, "I shall not do it, lest I fall into eternal fire and endless torments. I worship God and His Son Jesus Christ, who hath made Heaven and earth and all that is therein." Lysias said, "Strip her and scourge her," While this was done, Archelaus, the executioner, said to Lysias, Sir, Domnina is dead", and Lysias replied, "Throw her body into the river and bring the next one." To Theonilla he said, " You have seen the torments with which the others have been punished. Honour the gods and sacrifice." THEONILLA: "I dread eternal torments, which will destroy both body and soul." LYSIAS: "Buffet her, lay her flat and bind her; torture her to the utmost." THEONILLA: "Are you not ashamed to inflict such punishments on a woman that is free, and a stranger too? You know it to be shameful, and God sees what you do." LYSIAS: "Hang her up by the hair and beat her face." THEONILLA: "Is it not enough that you have stripped me naked? It is not me only that you injure: your mother and your wife are also put to confusion in my person." LYSIAS: "Are you married, or a widow?" THEONILLA: "I have been a widow these three and twenty years. It is for the love of God that I have continued in this state, in fasting, watching and prayer, ever since I forsook your filthy idols." LYSIAS: Let her suffer the last
indignity and have her head shaved. Tie brambles round her middle; stretch
out her legs and arms and tie them to stakes; scourge her all over; put
coals on her belly. And let her die."
When Theonilla had soon succumbed to these cruelties, Lysias said, Sew her body up in a sack, and throw it into the water", and this was done, that the Christians might not get possession of the martyrs' relics. These Latin acts will be found
printed in Ruinart, and also in the Acta Sanctorum, August, vol. iv while
the Synaxarics (see Delehaye's edition, October 30, p. 178) show that
they were known in the Byzantine church. A French translation is in Leclercq,
Les Martyrs, vol. ii, pp.
182-190, The "Hieronymianum" duly commemorates the saints under this date.
And cf., P. Franchi de' Cavalieri,
Note Agiografiche in Studi e Testi,
vol. xxvii (1915), pp. 107-118.
In the persecution conducted by Emperor Diocletian,
the brothers were denounced by their stepmother to Lysias, the proconsul
of Cilicia. The brothers were scourged to death for the faith. Domnina,
a Christian woman, was also beaten to death, and Theonilla, a Christian
widow, was beaten and burned to death with live coals. |
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St. Restitutus 1 of 16 martyrs Antiochíæ natális sanctórum Mártyrum Restituti, Donati, Valeriáni et Fructuosæ, cum áliis duodecim; qui præclaríssimo confessiónis honóre coronáti sunt. At Antioch, the birthday of the holy martyrs Restitútus, Donatus, Valerian, and Fructuosa, with twelve others, who were crowned after having distinguished themselves by a glorious confession. who were put to death in Antioch, during the persecution of Emperor Diocletian. They are known because of the list made of them in the early ninth century by Florus of Lyons, a compilation which included several martyrs who were perhaps not Syrians but came from Africa. |
4th v. Lupus was a
faithful servant of the holy Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica (October
26); worked many miracles at Thessalonica. He destroyed pagan idols,
for which he was subjected to persecution by the pagans, but he was preserved
unharmed by the power of God
The fourth and harshest edict of Diocletian against
the Christians (AD 304) is widely believed to have been entirely the
work of Galerius.Item sancti Luppi Mártyris, qui, ex servili conditióne, Christi libertáte donatus, martyrii quoque coróna dignátus est. Also St. Luppus, martyr, who, though a slave, enjoyed the liberty of Christ, and was likewise deemed worthy of the crown of martyrdom. The Martyr lived at the end of the third century and beginning of the fourth century. Being present at the death of his master, he soaked his own clothing with his blood and took a ring from his hand. With this clothing, and with the ring and the name of the Great Martyr Demetrius, St Lupus worked many miracles at Thessalonica. He destroyed pagan idols, for which he was subjected to persecution by the pagans, but he was preserved unharmed by the power of God. St Lupus voluntarily delivered himself into the hands of the torturers, and by order of the emperor Maximian Galerius, he was beheaded by the sword. In AD 298 the province of Mesopotamia, together with even some territory from across the river Tigris, was restored to Rome. The treaty with the Persians most likely had more to do with Diocletian than Galerius. For Galerius, hungry for glory and eager to erase the memory of his earlier defeat, was known to have wanted to press on. This decisive defeat of the Persians though raised Galerius' standing immensely. It is believed that his influence with Diocletian grew. To the extent that there is even some suggestion that the harsh persecution of the Christians by Diocletian might actually have been due to Galerius' influence. Much points toward Galerius in this respect. His mother Romula was said to have been a fanatical paganist. Having grown up under the influence of such religious zealotry, it is well possible that Galerius's feelings should have been very hostile toward other religions. |
5th v. St. Lupicinus Bishop
of Verona Italy No details of his life survive: he was described by contemporaries as “the most holy, the best of bishops. " |
535
St. Victor of Vita Bishop of Carthage or Utica, also in Tunisia.
Uticæ, in Africa, beáti Victoris
Epíscopi. At Utica in Africa, blessed Victor,
bishop.
or
Utica, also in Tunisia. He has also been identified, albeit without evidence,
with the writer Victor of Vita, author of an account of the persecutions
of Ilunneric, ruler of the Arian Vandals. |
540-547 Saints Eutychius
and Florentius were monks pursuing asceticism in the region of Nursa
in Italy during the sixth century. St Eutychius converted many to God by
his teaching. When the igumen of a nearby monastery
died, they appealed to him to become its head. He consented, but continued
to be concerned with the former place of his ascetic activity, where
his companion Florentius remained. miracles St Florentius worked many miracles during his lifetime. For example, he tamed a bear, which served him. It shepherded sheep, carried water and obeyed other commands of the Elder. Jealous of the fame of St Florentius, four monks killed the bear. The saint predicted that the wrath of God would fall upon the murderers. So it happened as he said. The monks were stricken with illness, and died shortly afterwards. On learning of the death of the monks, St Florentius was grievously saddened and distressed, considering himself the murderer of those monks. He wept for them the rest of his life. St Eutychius did not work miracles during his lifetime, but after death his clothing began to produce healings. During a time of drought the people of Nursia went to the fields with his clothing, and God sent rain (this was in the year 1492). St Eutychius died on May 23, 540, and St Florentius, on June 1,547. |
7th v. St. Flavian
bishop of Autun; The bishop of Autun, France, listed as the twenty-first
in that see Augustodúni
sancti Flaviáni Epíscopi. At Autun,
St. Flavian, bishop.
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705
Saint Callinicus, Patriarch of Constantinople (693-705), was at first
a presbyter in the temple of the Most Holy Theotokos at Blachernae, but
in 693 with the death of Patriarch Paul (686-693), he was elevated to the
episcopal throne of Constantinople. The cruel Justinian II (685-695) reigned at this time. He undertook the construction of a palace very near the church of the Most Holy Theotokos and decided to demolish it. The emperor ordered Patriarch Callinicus to give his blessing for tearing it down. The patriarch replied that he had prayers only for the building of churches, not their destruction. When the church was demolished, he cried out with tears, "Glory to Thee, O Lord, in enduring all things." Soon the wrath of God befell Justinian. He was toppled from the throne and sent for imprisonment to Cherson, where they cut off his nose (from which he received the nickname "Short-nose"). Leontius (695-698) succeeded him on the throne . |
870
St. Ebba martyred Abbess of Coldingham, England on the Scottish border, called “the Younger.” She and her nuns were martyred by Danes in an invasion. She mutilated her face to discourage rape by the invading Danes. The raiders set fire to Coldingham, killing all of the nuns. |
1195 St. Ascelina Cistercian
mystic relative - St. Bernard known for her mystical gifts. She was born in 1121 and entered the Cistercian convent at Boulancourt, Haute-Marne, France. There she was known for her mystical gifts. |
1285
St. Philip Benizi Servite cardinal preacher Miracle worker peace maker
Sancti Philippi Benitii, Confessóris, qui Ordinis Servórum beátæ Maríæ Vírginis exstitit propagator, ac prídie hujus diéi migrávit ad Dóminum. St. Philip Beniti, confessor, promoter of the Order of the Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who departed to the Lord on the previous day. THIS principal ornament and propagator of the religious order of the Servites in Italy was of the noble families of Benizi and Frescobaldi in Florence, and a native of that city. He was born on August 15, in the year 1233, which is said by some to be the very feast of the Assumption on which the seven Founders of the Servites had their first vision of our Lady. His parents had been long married but childless, and Philip was a child of prayer. At the age of thirteen he was sent to Paris to apply himself to the study of medicine, and Galen, though a heathen, was a strong spur to him in raising his heart from the contemplation of nature to the worship and praise of its Author. From Paris he moved to Padua, where he took the degree of doctor in medicine and philosophy at the age of nineteen. After his return to Florence he took some time to deliberate with himself what course to steer. For a year he practised his profession, spending his leisure time in the study of sacred Scripture and the fathers and in prayer for guidance, especially before a certain crucifix in the abbey-church at Fiesole and before a picture of the Annunciation in the Servite chapel at Carfaggio, just outside the walls of Florence. At this time the Servites, or Order of the Servants of Mary, had been established fourteen years, having been founded by seven gentlemen of Florence as described under their feast on February 12. At their principal house on Monte Senario, six miles from Florence, they lived in little cells, something like the hermits of Camaldoli, possessing nothing but in common, and professing obedience to St Buonfiglio Monaldi. Austerities they practised were great, and they lived mostly on alms. On the Thursday in Easter Week 1254, Philip was in prayer at Fiesole when the figure on the crucifix said to him, "Go to the high hill where the
servants of my mother are living, and you will be doing the will Of my
Father".
Pondering these words deeply Philip went to the chapel at Carfaggio to assist at Mass, and was strongly affected with the words of the Holy Ghost to the deacon Philip, which were read in the epistle of that day, "Go near and join thyself to this chariot". His name being Philip he applied to himself these words as an invitation to put himself under the care of the Blessed Virgin in that order, and he seemed to himself, in a dream or vision, to be in a vast wilderness (representing the world) full of precipices, snares and serpents, so that he did not see how it was possible to escape so many dangers. Whilst he was thus in dread he beheld our Lady approaching him in a chariot. Persuaded that God called him to this order as to a place of refuge, Philip went to Monte Senario and was admitted by St Buonflglio to the habit as a lay-brother: "I wish", he said, "to be the servant of the Servants of Mary." In consideration of the circumstances in which he had joined the order he retained his baptismal name in religion. He was made gardener and questor for alms, and put to work at every kind of bard country labour; the saint cheerfully applied himself to it in a spirit of penance and accompanied his work with constant recollection and prayer, living in a little cave behind the church. Philip was sent in 1258 to the Servite house at Siena and on the way there he undesignedly displayed his abilities in a discourse on certain controverted points, in the presence of two Dominicans and others, to the astonishment of those that heard him, and especially of his companion, Brother Victor. The matter was reported to the prior general, who examined St Philip closely and then had him promoted to holy orders, though nothing but an absolute command could extort his consent. All Philip's hopes
of living out his life in quiet and obscurity, serving God and his brethren
as a lay-brother, were now at an end. In 1262 he went to the Siena
monastery as novice-master and to be one of the four vicars to assist
the prior general; soon after he became himself colleague of the prior
general. In 1267 a chapter of the whole order was held at Carfaggio; at
this chapter St Manettus resigned the generalship and, in spite of his
protests, St Philip Benizi was unanimously elected in his stead.
During his first year of office he made a general visitation of the provinces
of northern Italy, which at the time were torn and distracted by the strife
of Guelf and Ghibelline. It was on this tour that his first miracle
was reported of him, very similar to one attributed to St Dominic and other
saints: owing to the troubles the Servites of Mezzo were unable to
get food and were on the verge of starvation; when they assembled for supper
there was nothing to eat until, when St Philip had exhorted them to have
faith and had prayed before our Lady's image, a knock was heard at the
monastery door and two large baskets of good bread were found on the steps.
He codified the rules and constitutions of the Servite order and this work was confirmed by the general chapter held at Pistoia in 1268; he would on the same occasion have asked leave to give up his office. He was so warmly dissuaded by his colleague, Brother Lottaringo, that he resigned himself to holding it so long as his brethren should wish, which proved to be for the rest of his life. Upon the death of Pope Clement IV it was rumoured that Cardinal Ottobuoni, protector of the Servites, had proposed St Philip to succeed him, and that the suggestion was well received. When word of this came to Philip's ears he ran away and hid himself in a cave among the mountains near Radicofani, where he was looked after for three months by Brother Victor until he deemed the danger past. During this retreat St Philip rejoiced in an opportunity of giving himself up to contemplation; he lived on vegetables and drank at a spring, since esteemed miraculous and called St Philip's Bath. He returned from the desert glowing with zeal to kindle in the hearts of Christians the fire of divine love, and soon set out on a visitation of his order in France and Germany. In 1274 he was summoned by Bd Gregory X to be present at the second general council of Lyons. At it he made a profound impression and the gift of tongues was attributed to him, but his reputation did not serve to obtain for the Servites that formal papal approbation for which St Philip worked continually. The saint announced the
word of God wherever he came; had an extraordinary talent in converting
sinners and in reconciling those that were at variance. Italy was
still horribly divided by discords and hereditary factions. Holy
men often sought to apply remedies to these quarrels, which had a happy effect
upon some; but in many these discords, like a wound ill-cured, broke out
again with worse symptoms than ever. Papal Guelfs and imperial Ghibellines
were the worst offenders. In 1279 Pope Nicholas III gave special faculties
to Cardinal Latino to deal with them. He invoked the help of St Philip Benizi,
who wonderfully pacified the factions when they were ready to tear each
other to pieces at Pistoja and other places. He succeeded at length
also at Forli, where the seditious insulted and beat him; but his patience
at length disarmed their fury. Peregrine Laziosi, who was their ringleader
and had himself struck the saint, was so moved by his meekness that he threw
himself at his feet and begged his pardon. Being become a model
penitent Peregrine was received by Philip into the order of Servites at
Siena in 1283, and was canonized by Benedict
XIII in 1726.
St Philip attracted a number of notably good men to himself. Among them were this St Peregrine and Bd John of Frankfort; Bd Joachim Piccolomini, who met Philip at Siena; Bd Andrew Dotti, a soldier, and Bd Jerome, both of Borgo San Sepolcro; Bd Bonaventure of Pistoia, converted by a sermon of the saint from a life of violence and crime; Bd Ubald, whose quarrelling had turned Florence upside down; and Bd Francis Patrizi. In 1284 St Alexis Falconieri put his niece St Juliana under the direction of St Philip, and from his advice to her sprang the third order regular of the Servants of Mary. He was also responsible for sending the first Servite missionaries to the East, where some penetrated to Tartary and there gave their blood for Christ. Throughout his eighteen years of generalship of his order Philip had as his official colleague Lottaringo Stufa, whom he had known and loved from boyhood. They remained the closest friends and the utmost confidence subsisted between them; their long association was an ideal partnership. Judging at length by decay of his health that the end of his life drew near, St Philip set out in 1285 to visit the newly-elected Pope Honorius IV at Perugia, and at Florence convened a general chapter at which he announced his approaching departure and handed over the government to Father Lottaringo. "Love one another! Love one another! Love one another!" he adjured the friars, and so left them. He went to the smallest and poorest house of the order, at Todi, where he was enthusiastically received by the citizens, and when he could escape from them he went straight to the altar of our Lady, and falling prostrate on the ground prayed with great fervour, "This is the place of my rest for ever". He made a moving sermon on the glory of the blessed on the feast of the Assumption of the Mother of God, but at three o'clock in the afternoon of that day was taken seriously ill. He sent for the community, and again spoke of brotherly love: "Love one another, reverence one another, and bear with one another." Seven days later the end came; he called for his "book", by which word he meant his crucifix, and devoutly contemplating it, calmly died at the hour of the evening Angelus. St Philip Benizi was canonized in 1671, and his feast was extended to the whole Western church in 1694. La Vie de St Philippe Benizi (1886; new
ed., 1913) by Father Soulier (Eng. trans.) must still be regarded as
the standard biography of this saint. Though a long list of sources is
set out in an appendix, it must be confessed that the early evidence is
not quite so full as might be desired. It is often difficult to decide how
large a part legend has played in the story commonly circulated. Fr
Soulier has, however, edited very carefully some of the most important biographical
materials see the Monumenta Ordinis Servorum
Sanctae Mariae, vols. ii, iii and iv. The biography by Malaval (1672)
has been translated into English in the Oratorian Series. In the Acta Sanctorum, August, vol. iv, a life
has been reproduced which is in substance a Latin rendering of
the more relevant portions of Giani's (1604).
Born 1233 in Florence, Italy, to a noble family, he was educated
in Paris and Padua where he earned a doctorate in medicine and philosophy.
He practiced medicine for some time, but in 1253 he joined the Servite
Order in Florence. He served as a lay brother until 1259, when his superiors
directed him to be ordained. Philip soon became known as one of the foremost
preachers of his era, becoming master of novices at Siena in 1262 and
then superior of several friaries and prior general of the Servites against
his own wishes. in 1267. Reforming the order with zeal and patience, he
was named as a possible candidate to become pope by the influential Cardinal
Ottobuoni just before the election to choose a successor to Pope Clement
IV. This possibility was so distressing to Philip that he fled and hid
in a cave until the election was finally over. He attended the Council
of Lyons which brought about a brief reunion with the Orthodox, worked to
bring peace between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines in 1279, assisted St.
Juliana in founding the third order of the Servites, and in 1284, dispatched
the first Servite missionaries to the Far East. He retired to a small Servite
house in Todi, where he died on August 22. He was canonized in 1671.
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1301 Bd James Of Bevagna
St Dominic appeared to him and said, "Do it! According to God's will
I choose you, and will be ever with you ". Mevania, now called Bevagna, is a small town in Umbria, and here this James was born in the year 1220, of the family of the Bianconi. His future holiness was foreshadowed in his childhood, and a reconciliation of the Bianconi to the Alberti, with whom they had quarrelled, was attributed to his youthful prayers. When he was sixteen, two Dominicans came to Bevagna to preach during Lent, and the boy was attracted by what he heard of the life of the preachers and by their discourses; he considered the matter over and over and when, after his communion on Maundy Thursday, he was saying Psalm 118, the appositeness of the thirty-third verse struck him, "Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, 0 Lord, and I will always seek after it." He went to one of the friars and opened his mind, and was recommended to watch all that night before the Blessed Sacrament in the Easter sepulchre, asking for light, and to await the will of God. This he did, and as he slept on the eve of Holy Saturday St Dominic appeared to him and said, "Do it! According to God's will I choose you, and will be ever with you". When the friars returned to their house at Spoleto James went with them. In due course he was given permission to establish a house of his order at Bevagna, of which he became prior. The neighbourhood gave ample scope for the labours of the friars, and after the town had been sacked by the Emperor Frederick II in 1248 Bd James more than ever endeared himself to the people by his solicitude for them in their misfortunes. This was a time of recrudescence of Manichean errors, and a particularly pestilential sect of antinomians was active in Umbria; James set out to combat it with great energy, and succeeded in inducing one of its leaders to make a public repudiation of his heresy at Orte. Bd James was very strict in his observance of his vow of poverty, and when his mother gave him some money to buy a new habit, which he badly needed, he got permission from his superior to buy a crucifix for his cell instead. When his mother saw the worn-out habit again, she remonstrated with him, but he answered with a smile, "I have done as you wished. St Paul tells us to 'put on the Lord Jesus`, and that is the habit I have bought." But that crucifix was to clothe him in a way he never thought of, for praying before it one day in great dryness and fear of spirit, almost despairing of his salvation, it is said that a spurt of blood miraculously sprang from the image over his face, and he heard a voice saying, "Behold the sign of your salvation". Another marvel, reported at his death, is recounted in the notice of Bd Joan of Orvieto, under July 23. Pope Boniface IX approved the cultus of Bd James of Bevagna. The Bollandists in giving an account
of this beatus (August, vol. iv) deplore, and not without reason, the
lack of any early biography. The narrative of Father Taigi is certainly
full of legendary matter neither can one feel any more confidence in the
Vita del B. Giacomo Bianconi
by Father Piergili (1729) or in that compiled by F. Becchetti or in the
summary given in Procter, Lives of Dominican
Saints. For a fuller bibliography see Taurisano, pp. 23-24.
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1617 Rosa von Lima
[see Saint_of_the_Day
August 30. #1617_ St._Rose_ of_Lima_ patroness_ of_The Americas 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. Katholische Kirche: 23. August Isabella de Flores wurde am 20.4.1586 in Lima geboren. Rosa wurde sie schon bald nach ihrer Geburt wegen ihrer Schönheit genannt. Sie wurde 1606 Dominikaner-Terziarin und lebte bis 1614 in einer Hütte im Garten ihres Elternhauses. In ein Kloster konnte sie nicht gehen, da es in Lima keines gab. Sie setzte sich für den Bau eines Klosters ein und wurde von einer wohlhabenden Beamtengattin unterstützt, die sie auch die letzten 3 Lebensjahre in ihr Haus aufnahm. Das Kloster konnte aber erst 1623 eröffnet werden. Rosa lebte ähnlich wie Johannes vom Kreuz ein Leben mit großen geistlichen Höhen und Tiefen. In ihren häufigen Krankheiten, Anfeindungen und innerer Verlassenheit hielt sie an ihrem fröhlichen kindlichen Glauben fest. In ihren Leiden wurden ihr auch tiefe mystische Erfahrungen geschenkt. Sie starb am 24.8.1617 in Lima. Ihre Verehrung breitete sich schnell aus und wurde 1671 heiliggesprochen. Rosa ist Patronin Lateinamerikas, Westindiens, Perus, der Philiippinen und Limas . St. Rose of Lima (1586-1617) The first canonized saint of the New World has one characteristic of all saints—the suffering of opposition—and another characteristic which is more for admiration than for imitation—excessive practice of mortification. She was born to parents of Spanish descent in Lima, Peru, at a time when South America was in its first century of evangelization. She seems to have taken Catherine of Siena as a model, in spite of the objections and ridicule of parents and friends. The saints have so great a love of God that what seems bizarre to us, and is indeed sometimes imprudent, is simply a logical carrying out of a conviction that anything that might endanger a loving relationship with God must be rooted out. So, because her beauty was so often admired, Rose used to rub her face with pepper to produce disfiguring blotches. Later, she wore a thick circlet of silver on her head, studded on the inside, like a crown of thorns. When her parents fell into financial trouble, she worked in the garden all day and sewed at night. Ten years of struggle against her parents began when they tried to make Rose marry. They refused to let her enter a convent, and out of obedience she continued her life of penance and solitude at home as a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic. So deep was her desire to live the life of Christ that she spent most of her time at home in solitude. During the last few years of her life, Rose set up a room in the house where she cared for homeless children, the elderly and the sick. This was a beginning of social services in Peru. Though secluded in life and activity, she was brought to the attention of Inquisition interrogators, who could only say that she was influenced by grace. What might have been a merely eccentric life was transfigured from the inside. If we remember some unusual penances, we should also remember the greatest thing about Rose: a love of God so ardent that it withstood ridicule from without, violent temptation and lengthy periods of sickness. When she died at 31, the city turned out for her funeral. Prominent men took turns carrying her coffin. Comment: It is easy to dismiss
excessive penances of the saints as the expression of a certain culture
or temperament. But a woman wearing a crown of thorns may at least prod
our consciences. We enjoy the most comfort-oriented life in human history.
We eat too much, drink too much, use a million gadgets, fill our eyes and
ears with everything imaginable. Commerce thrives on creating useless needs
to spend our money on. It seems that when we have become most like slaves,
there is the greatest talk of “freedom.” Are we willing to discipline ourselves
in such an atmosphere?
Quote: “If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into fiery Gehenna” (Matthew 18:8–9). |
The Martyrdom of
St. James the Soldier. {Coptic}
May their prayers be with us and Glory be to our God
forever. Amen.On this day, St. James, the soldier, departed. He was born in Mengoug (Manug), district of Ebso (Psoi), to God fearing Christian parents. God gave them three daughters before they had this saint. They committed the daughters to a nunnery to be taught, and brought up, in the fear of God. They learned and read the Holy Bible and the church teachings. When their father asked them to return, they refused for they preferred to stay in the nunnery and they dedicated themselves as brides of Christ. Their parents sorrowed, but God consoled them by giving them this saint. They rejoiced in him, and when he was six years old, his father sent him to Ebso to learn reading and writing. After he finished his education his father put him in charge of his money and possessions. The father had an old man, who shepherded his sheep. This old man was adorned with several virtues and James took him as a role model. When the devil provoked persecution against the Christians, the old man handed over the sheep to the father of James and left to become a martyr. James asked his father if he could go to bid the shepherd farewell and then come back, and his father allowed him to do so. When James went with the shepherd, he found the governor in upper Egypt torturing St. Justus, son of Emperor Nomarius. The old man told James, "Look O my son, the person that you see being tortured is the son of an emperor, who has forsaken the world and its vain glory, and followed Christ, so what the poor like us, would do? Then be patient, and do not be sorrowful because of your separation from your parents." They came before the governor and confessed the Lord Christ. The governor tortured them severely, then beheaded the old man. The governor tortured St. James severely by beating him with whips. Then he placed a piece of red-hot iron on his chest. The saint lifted up his eyes and appealed for help to the Lord Christ, Who saved him and healed him from his afflictions. Then, they put him in a sack, and cast him in the sea, but the angel of the Lord raised him up from the sea. Then the saint returned, and stood before the governor who sent him to the city of El-Farma. There the governor tortured him, by cutting his tongue, tearing out his eyes, torturing him on the wheel, and combing his flesh. Sourial, the angel of God, came down and saved him. When the governor was tired of torturing him, he commanded James' head cut off, along with two other martyrs, whose names were Abraham and John, who were from Samannoud. They all received the crown of martyrdom. |
THE
PSALTER OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN
MARY PSALM 43
Bless, O my soul, the Virgin Mary: her honor and her magnificence forever. Thou hast clothed thyself with beauty and comeliness: thou art clad, O Lady, with a shining garment. From thee proceeds the healing of sins: and the discipline of peace, and the fervor of charity. Fill us, thy servants, with holy virtues: and let the wrath of God not come nigh unto us. Give eternal joy to thy servants: and forget them not in the death struggle. 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
from history
and Roman Martyology Orthodox sources Patron_Saints.html Widowed_Saints html Indulgences The Catholic Church in China LINKS: Marian Shrines India Marian Shrine Lourdes of the East Lourdes 1858 China Marian shrines 1995 Kenya national Marian shrine Loreto, Italy Marian Apparitions (over 2000) Quang Tri Vietnam La Vang 1798 Links to Related MarianWebsites Angels and Archangels Saints Visions of Heaven and Hell Widowed Saints html Doctors_of_the_Church Acts_Of_The_Apostles Roman Catholic Popes Purgatory Uniates Chalcedon |
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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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Benedict
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to The
Catholic
Church
In China
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2000 years of the Catholic Church
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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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Colombia
was
among
the
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
Bulletin
for
14
years Lover of the poor;
“A very Holy Man of God.”
Monsignor
Reardon
Protonotarius
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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Records on life of Father Flanagan, founder of Boys Town, presented at Vatican Jul 23, 2019 - 03:01 am .- The cause for canonization of Servant of God Edward Flanagan, the priest who founded Nebraska's Boys Town community for orphans and other boys, advanced Monday with the presentation of a summary of records on his life. Archbishop Fulton Sheen to be beatified Jul 6, 2019 - 04:00 am .- Pope Francis approved the miracle attributed to Archbishop Fulton Sheen Friday, making possible the American television catechist's beatification. 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. Records on life of Father Flanagan, founder of Boys Town, presented at Vatican Jul 23, 2019 - 03:01 am .- The cause for canonization of Servant of God Edward Flanagan, the priest who founded Nebraska's Boys Town community for orphans and other boys, advanced Monday with the presentation of a summary of records on his life. Archbishop Fulton Sheen to be beatified Jul 6, 2019 - 04:00 am .- Pope Francis approved the miracle attributed to Archbishop Fulton Sheen Friday, making possible the American television catechist's beatification. 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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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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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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2015
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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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