Mary Mother of GOD
Et álibi aliórum plurimórum sanctórum Mártyrum et Confessórum, atque sanctárum Vírginum.
And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
Пресвятая Богородице спаси нас!  (Santíssima Mãe de Deus, salva-nos!)
RDeo grátias. R.  Thanks be to God.
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The saints are a “cloud of witnesses over our head”,
showing us life of Christian perfection is possible.

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1856 St. Emily de Vialar Virgin,
Foundress of the
Sisters of St. Joseph "of the Apparition" 
A shining example of fortitude, patience and charity, the Sovereign Pontiff Pius XII added her to the number of the saints.  Their work was to be the care of the needy, especially the sick, and the education of children. In 1835, she made her profession with seventeen other sisters, and received formal approval for the rule of the Congregation.
1856 St. Emily de Vialar Virgin, Foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph "of the Apparition"
Pray to Our Lady of Grace
 2nd v. St. Nicander and Marcian Martyrs, possibly of Durostorum, Bulgaria; members of the imperial army in the region of the Balkans and were martyred in the region that eventually became Romania,
 265 St. Antidius Bishop and martyr; disciple of  St. Fironinus in the see of Besancon, in France.

4th v. St Bessarion a native of Egypt; having heard the call to perfection he went into the wilderness; disciple first of St Antony and then of St Macarius; neighborly charity led him to a height of perfection was manifested by miracles:  made salt water fresh, several times brought rain during drought, walked on the Nile admirers compared him with Moses, Joshua, Elias and John the Baptist
 363 St. Manuel, Sabel and Ismael Persian Christians martyred by Julian the Apostate at Chalcedon; legates from Persia sent to negotiate peace who were slain when it was discovered they were Christians. A church was dedicated to them by Emperor Theodosius the Great.
 575 St. Harvey blind abbot of Plouvien; later he transferred his community to Lanhourneau, where he passed the rest of his days and was famous for miracles.
 697 St. Moling Bishop of Ferns; successor of St. Aidan. Born in Wexford, Ireland
1250 St. Teresa of Portugal the eldest daughter of King Sancho I of Portugal and sister of SS. Mafalda and Sanchia; married her cousin, King Alfonso IX of Leon & had several children; the marriage was declared invalid because of consanguinity, she returned to Portugal and founded a Benedictine monastery on her estate at Lorvao.
1697 St Gregory Barbarigo, Bishop Of Padua And Cardinal; charities were enormous kind to all, especially to those in trouble or distress founded a college, and also a seminary for young priests
1856 St. Emily de Vialar Virgin, Foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph "of the Apparition"  Their work was to be the care of the needy, especially the sick, and the education of children. In 1835, she made her profession with seventeen other sisters, and received formal approval for the rule of the Congregation.
1860 St. Joseph Cafasso assigned to a seminary in Turin After ordination there he worked especially against the spirit of Jansenism, an excessive preoccupation with sin and damnation; St. John Bosco was one of Joseph’s pupils. Joseph urged John Bosco to establish the Salesians to work with the youth of Turin

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June 17 - Message of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to Saint Margaret Mary
"Like the King of France...
"(Paray-le-Monial, France, 1689)
In August of 1931, during of her convalescence in Rianjo, a small city near Pontevedra, the Lord complained to Sr Lucia of Fatima about the absence of response to his request of consecrating Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
  "They did not want to listen to my request! Like the King of France, they will repent, and they will do it, but it will be too late. Russia will have already spread its errors in the world, causing wars and persecutions against the Church.
The Holy Father will greatly suffer."

Why this reference to the King of France? Quite simply because in 1689, when Jesus revealed his Sacred Heart to St Margaret Mary, he also made a very important request:
"Make it known to the oldest son of my Sacred Heart (Jesus was alluding to King Louis XIV) that, since his temporal birth was obtained by the devotion to the merits of my Holy Infancy, in the same way he will obtain his birth to eternal glory by his consecration to my Adorable Heart. My Heart wants to reign in his palace, to be painted on his standards and engraved on his weapons in order to make them victorious against all his enemies as well as those of Holy Church.
"My Father himself wants to help carry out his plan, which is the construction of a public building where the painting of my Sacred Heart would be placed to receive there homage from all of France."

Our Lord thus promised France, his "eldest daughter," powerful protection but with three conditions:
that the Sacred Heart be added to the arms of the King and to the standards of France;
that a national shrine be built for him;
and that in that church France be solemnly consecrated to him by its sovereign.
Nothing was ever accomplished by Louis XIV and one hundred years later, day for day, the message of June 17, 1689 remained unanswered, and the Third Estate proclaimed itself the Constitutive Assembly and brought blood and terror to the French Monarchy...
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.


At a meeting with young people of Genoa, Pope Benedict XVI noted that many youth face a future with a dual outlook. On the one hand there is the specter of great promise; but on the other, the fear of failure and hardships. Today, he said, "many desire to stop time for fear of a future in emptiness."
His advice to his audience was to make a fundamental choice for God, revealed in the Son Jesus Christ. The Pontiff added: "Those who have chosen God still have before them in old age a future without end and without threats. It is therefore vital to choose well, not to destroy the future."

Any serious reflection on the nature and purpose of human communications must deal with questions of truth, insists Pope Benedict XVI. The Holy Father, addressing participants in a Vatican-organized convention on the theme "Identity and Mission of a Communications Faculty in a Catholic University," said that a communicator can try to inform, to educate, to entertain, to convince. "But," he added, "the final worth of any communication lies in its truthfulness." The Pontiff also urged that the new instruments of communication be made accessible to the poor and socially marginalized.
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Prayer to Our Lady of Grace  June 16 - Canonization of Padre Pio in 2002
Saint Pio of Pietrelcina presented himself to everyone - priests, men and women, religious and lay people - as a credible witness to Christ and his Gospel. May his example and intercession spur everyone to greater love for God and a concrete solidarity with their neighbor, especially those who are in greatest need.
May the Blessed Virgin Mary, whom Padre Pio called by the beautiful name of "Our Lady of Grace" (Santa Maria delle Grazie), help us to follow in the footprints of this religious who is so beloved by the people!
Canonization of Padre Pio of Pietrelcina,  Capuchin Franciscan Friar,
Address of John Paul II, June 16, 2002

June 17 - Our Lady of the Forest (Brittany, France, 1419) A Miracle in Bogota
Brother Araguen, a catechist teaching in the thick jungles south of Bogota, was suffering from tongue cancer and taken to the city for an operation. He dearly hoped to save his tongue so that he could continue his work. The doctors began by doing only a partial ablation, but the cancer developed and appeared to require a total ablation. The night before the operation, Our Lady appeared to the brother and touched him. He was cured immediately. “Continue teaching catechism,” she said, “and recite the Rosary with the children. Do not tell anybody about what has happened until you have spoken to the doctor.”
The next morning, the brother refused to be anaesthetized, so the doctor was called in, who spoke to him about the importance of prolonging his life, even at the price of losing his tongue. But the brother explained to him that the cancer had disappeared and the doctor noted that the excised part of the tongue had been entirely and perfectly reconstituted…
A bronze plate at the Jesuit College in Bogota commemorates this event and Brother Araguen lived many more years, singing the praises of Our Lady and extolling the power and the importance of the Rosary, while teaching catechism to children.
Excerpt from John Haffert, Fatima, Global Apostolate, quoted by Brother Albert Pfleger, Marist, in his Marian Collection 1988

Prayer to Mary June 17 - Our Lady of the Forest (Brittany, 1419)
May we access to your Son through you, O Blessed Virgin
You who have been graced, O Mother of life, O Mother of Salvation.
And, through you, may Jesus welcome us, the One who was given us by you!
May your unsoiled purity excuse our sins to escape corruption.
May your humility obtain forgiveness for our vain pride.
May your immense charity cover up the multitude of our sins.
And may your glorious fertility make us ourselves rich in merit.
O Our Lady, our Mediatrix, make peace with your Son, recommend us to your Son, go to your Son.
Blessed Virgin, by the grace that you have radiated, by the powers that you deserved, by the mercy of whom you are the Mother, May He who, through you, has deigned to take on our infirmity, allow us to participate, both us and our children, through your intercession, in the glory and the holiness of Jesus Christ who is God blessed forever and ever. Amen.
Jean-Marc Miguet
 2nd v. St. Nicander and Marcian Martyrs, possibly of Durostorum, Bulgaria; members of the imperial army in the region of the Balkans and were martyred in the region that eventually became Romania,
 265 St. Antidius Bishop and martyr; disciple of  St. Fironinus in the See of Besancon, in France.
4th v. St Bessarion a native of Egypt; having heard the call to perfection he went into the wilderness; disciple first of St Antony and then of St Macarius; neighborly charity led him to a height of perfection was manifested by miracles:  made salt water fresh, several times brought rain during drought, walked on the Nile admirers compared him with Moses, Joshua, Elias and John the Baptist
 300 St. Montanus Martyred soldier on the island of Ponza, off the Italian coast. Thrown into the sea with a stone tied to his neck, Montanus drowned. His relics were enshrined at Gaeta.
 363 St. Manuel, Sabel and Ismael Persian Christians martyred by Julian the Apostate at Chalcedon; legates from Persia sent to negotiate peace who were slain when it was discovered they were Christians. A church was dedicated to them by Emperor Theodosius the Great.
 366-450 St. Hypatius Hermit, called “the Scholar of Christ.” vision that sent him to Thrace where he became a hermit foe of Nestorianism, he sheltered St. Alexander Akimetes and others at his hermitage near Chalcedon when their lives were threatened by the heretics known for miracles and prophecies.
 510 St. Nectan one of the most celebrated saints in the West of England; tended to the needs of the poor throughout Devon, Cornwall and even Brittany, where churches dedicated to him may be found
 530 St. Avitus Abbot tried to save St. Sigismund and family; a monk of Men at in Auvergne, France, elected abbot against his will; tried to halt execution of St. Sigismund his wife and sons, by King Clodomir, unsuccessful.
 6th v.  St. Gundulphus Bishop of France who recorded as dying in Bourges.
 560 St. Himerius Bishop of Amelia, in Umbria, Italy. Himerius’ relics were translated to Cremona in 995, where he is a patron of the region.
 575 St. Harvey blind abbot of Plouvien; later he transferred his community to Lanhourneau, where he passed the rest of his days and was famous for miracles
 680 St. Adulf Bishop and missionary, venerated with his brother, Butulf nobles of Saxon or Irish lineage who became monks; went as missionaries to Germany. There Adulf was made the bishop of Utrecht. Butulf returned to England and founded a religious house in 654, becoming widely respected for his holiness.
 697 St. Moling Bishop of Ferns; successor of St. Aidan. Born in Wexford, Ireland
1001 St. Rainbold Benedictine abbot; monk of St Maximinus at Trier, Germany; became abbot of St. Emmeram. St. Wolfgang appointed him to the pos; reputedly extremely long lived, reportedly dying at the age of one hundred.
1160 St. Raynerius Hermit and Benedictine monk led a dissolute life until undergo­ing a conversion after pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Returning home, he entered the Benedictine abbey of St Andrew at Pisa he lived as a conventual oblate;   His great reputation is primarily due to the numerous cures which were worked by him during his life and after his death. From the use he made of holy water in his miracles of healing he received the nickname of De Aqua,
1245 Saint Shalva of Akhaltsikhe a brilliant military commander in army of Queen Tamar and prince of Akhaltsikhe
1250 St. Teresa of Portugal the eldest daughter of King Sancho I of Portugal and sister of SS. Mafalda and Sanchia; married her cousin, King Alfonso IX of Leon & had several children; the marriage was declared invalid because of consanguinity, she returned to Portugal and founded a Benedictine monastery on her estate at Lorvao. She replaced the monks with nuns following the Cistercian Rule; accounts of miracles are attributed to Teresa's intercession. She expanded a monastery to accommodate three hundred nuns, and lived there. In about 1231, at the request of Alfonso's second wife and widow, Berengaria, she settled a dispute among their children over the succession of the throne of Leon, and on her return to Lorvao, she probably became a nun.
1435 BD PETER OF PISA Many miracles were ascribed to him;
1697 St Gregory Barbarigo, Bishop Of Padua And Cardinal; charities were enormous kind to all, especially to those in trouble or distress founded a college, and also a seminary for young priests
1737 Bl. Emmanuel d'Abreu Martyr of China, a Portuguese Jesuit. He entered the Order in 1724 and was stationed in China. In 1736, he was arrested in Tonkin and was martyred the following year with three companions.
1856 St. Emily de Vialar Virgin, Foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph "of the Apparition"  Their work was to be the care of the needy, especially the sick, and the education of children. In 1835, she made her profession with seventeen other sisters, and received formal approval for the rule of the Congregation.
1860 St. Joseph Cafasso assigned to a seminary in Turin After ordination there he worked especially against the spirit of Jansenism, an excessive preoccupation with sin and damnation; St. John Bosco was one of Joseph’s pupils. Joseph urged John Bosco to establish the Salesians to work with the youth of Turin
         St. Briavel patron of a parish in Dean Forest, Gloucestershire, England.




4th v. St. Nicander and Marcian Martyrs, possibly of Durostorum, Bulgaria; members of the imperial army in the region of the Balkans and were martyred in the region that eventually became Romania, perhaps in the late second century. Tradition reports that they were slain in front of their wives and families.
Apud Venáfrum, in Campánia, sanctórum Mártyrum Nicándri et Marciáni, qui, in persecutióne Maximiáni, cápite cæsi sunt.
    At Venafro in Campania, the holy martyrs Nicander and Marcian, who were beheaded in the persecution of Maximian.
    Alban Butler, putting his trust in Ruinart, accepted without question the
acts of these saints as a genuine document. The narrative certainly cannot claim to be regarded as authentic history, but it is a favorable specimen of the art of the hagiographer who made it his business to embellish a kernel of fact with fictional details. Following more or less closely Butler’s presentment the story runs thus:
Nicander and Marcian had served some time in the Roman army, but when the edicts were published against Christians they gave up their military career. This was made a crime in them, and they were impeached before Maximus, governor of the province. The judge informed them of the imperial order that all were commanded to sacrifice to the gods. Nicander replied that the order could not be binding on Christians who looked upon it as unlawful to abandon the immortal God in order to worship wood and stone. Dana, the wife of Nicander, was present and encouraged her husband. Maximus, interrupting her, said, “You wicked woman; why do you want your husband to die?” “I do not wish for his death, she said,
“but that he live in God, so as never to die.” Maximus insinuated that she desired his death because she wanted another husband. “ If you suspect that said she, “put me to death first.”
Maximus, turning again to Nicander, said, “Take a little time and deliberate with yourself whether you will decide to die or to live
. Nicander answered, “I have already made up my mind that my own safety must come first.” The judge took it that he meant that he would save his life by sacrificing to the idols. But Nicander soon undeceived him, for he prayed aloud, expressing his joy that he was to be delivered from the dangers and temptations of the world. “How is this, asked the governor, “you but just now desired to live, and now you ask to die?” Nicander replied, “I desire that life which is immortal, not the fleeting life of this world. To you I willingly yield up my body; do with it what you please: I am a Christian.” “And what is your view, Marcian?” asked the judge, addressing himself to the other. He declared that it was the same as that of his fellow prisoner. Maximus then gave orders that they should be both confined in a dungeon, where they lay twenty days.
After this they were again brought before the governor, who asked them if they would at length obey the edicts of the emperor. Marcian replied, “All you can say will never make us abandon our religion or deny God. By faith we behold Him present and know whither He calls us. Do not, we beseech you, detain us, but send us quickly to Him that was crucified, whom you fear not to blaspheme, but whom we honour and worship.” The governor, excusing himself by the necessity he was under of complying with his orders, condemned them both to be beheaded. The martyrs expressed their gratitude and said, “May peace be with you, most kind judge
.
They walked to the place of execution joyful, and praising God as they went. Nicander was followed by his wife, Dana, with his child whom Papinian, brother to the martyr St Pasicrates, carried in his arms. Marcian’s wife followed him too, but weeping and making an outcry. She did all in her power to overcome his resolution, drawing his attention to their little child. At the place of execution Marcian kissed his son, and looking up to Heaven said, “Lord, all-powerful God, do thou take this child under thy protection
. Then with a rebuke to his wife for her faint-heartedness, he bade her go away in peace, because she would not have the courage to see him die. The wife of Nicander continued by his side, exhorting him to constancy and joy. “Be of good heart, master, said she. “Ten years have I lived at home away from you, never ceasing to pray that I might see you again. Now I have that comfort, and I behold you going to glory and myself the wife of a martyr. Give to God that testimony you owe to His holy truth, that you may also deliver me from eternal death”; meaning that by his sufferings and prayers he might obtain mercy for her. The executioner having bound their eyes with handkerchiefs struck off their heads, the day assigned in this version of the passio being June 17.
It may seem a wanton piece of iconoclasm to discredit this very natural and relatively sober tale, but the difficulty is that among a number of differing accounts there is no agreement as to the place where the martyrdom took place, the names of the group of martyrs, for Nicander and Marcian are often grouped with several others, or, what is perhaps most suspicious of all, the date of the celebration. No one has ever doubted that the “acts” have some historical foundation and that Nicander and Marcian really existed as martyrs. But four distinct regions in different countries claim to have been the scene of their passion: Durostorum, in Moesia or Bulgaria; Tomi, or Constanta, in what is now Rumania; Alexandria in Egypt; and Venafro in Italy, where their reputed relics are still venerated. The Bollandist Father Dehehaye, however, inclined to the belief that they suffered at Durostorum. In his opinion, Italy merely imported their cultus, whilst with regard to the inclusion of their names in a list of Egyptian martyrs in the Hieronymianum, he suggests that a careless copyist, seeing the name of Marcian, may quite possibly have interpolated that of Nicander through associating in his mind the two martyrs of Durostorum.
As well as Nicander and Marcian, “at Venafro
, today, the Roman Martyrology on June 5 commemorates SS. Marcian, Nicanor and others, “in Egypt.
The passio from which Alban Butler took his account is printed in Ruinart’s Acta Sincera. There is another version, in Latin and Greek, in the Acta Sanctorum, June, vol. iv, and another in vol. i  For other texts, consult BHL., nn. 5260, 6070-6074, and supplement, and BHG., nn. 1194 and 1330; with B. Latysev, Menologii byzantini saeculi X quae supersunt, vol. ii, pp. 16-17 and 27-30. See also Delehaye in Analecta Bollandiana, vol. xxxi (1912), pp. 268-272 and vol. xl (1922), pp. 54-60; his Origines du Culte des Martyrs, pp. 249-250, etc.; and his CMH., pp. 305 and 323; and P. Franchi de' Cavalieri in Studi e Testi, vol. xxiv (1912), pp. 141-,157 .
265 St. Antidius Bishop and martyr; disciple of  St. Fironinus in the see of Besancon, in France.
Vesontióne, in Gálliis, sancti Antídii, Epíscopi et Mártyris, qui, ob Christi fidem, a Wándalis occísus fuit.
    At Besançon in France, St. Antidius, bishop and martyr, who was slain by the Vandals for the faith of Christ.
Sometimes called Tude, Antidius succeeded St. Fironinus as bishop but was martyred by a band of German or barbarian marauders.
300 St. Montanus Martyred soldier on the island of Ponza, off the Italian coast. Thrown into the sea with a stone tied to his neck, Montanus drowned. His relics were enshrined at Gaeta.
Apollóniæ, in Macedónia, sanctórum Mártyrum Atheniénsium Isáuri Diáconi, Innocéntii, Felícis, Jeremíæ et Peregríni, qui, a Tripóntio Tribúno várie torti, cápite obtruncáti sunt.
    At Apollonia in Macedonia, the holy martyrs Isaurus, a deacon, Innocent, Felix, Jeremias, and Peregrínus, all of them Athenians who were tortured in various ways by the tribune Tripontius, and beheaded.
4th v. St Bessarion a native of Egypt; having heard the call to perfection he went into the wilderness; disciple first of St Antony and then of St Macanus; neighborly charity led him to a height of perfection was manifested by miracles: made salt water fresh, several times brought rain during drought, walked on the Nile admirers compared him with Moses, Joshua, Elias and John the Baptist
Item sancti Bessariónis Anachorétæ.    Also, St. Bessarion, anchoret.
Orthodoxe Kirche: 20. Februar und 06. Juni Katholische Kirche: 17. Juni
4th v. ST BESSARION
BESSARION is greatly venerated in the East, where his name in various forms is sometimes given in baptism; e.g. Joseph Stalin's father was called Vissarion. He was a native of Egypt, and having heard the call to perfection he went into the wilderness, where he was a disciple first of St Antony and then of St Macarius. We are told that rather than live under a roof he wandered about like a bird, observing silence and subduing his flesh by mighty fasting; he is said to have once gone forty days without food, standing in prayer amid brambles. His neighbourly charity led him to a height of perfection that was manifested by miracles: he made salt water fresh, he several times brought rain during drought, he walked on the Nile, he overcame demons. Like so many other desert fathers, St Bessarion lived to a great age; and he was compared by his admirers with Moses, Joshua, Elias and John the Baptist.
St Bessarion is named in the Roman Martyrology to-day, but his usual date in the East is June 6.

The above particulars are taken from a panegyric of his namesake written by the great Cardinal Bessarion, the text of which was printed, with an introduction by Peter Joannou, in Analecta Bollandiana, vol. lxv (1947), pp. 107-138. The cardinal's sources were the pertinent Greek synaxaries. See also the Acta Sanctorum, June, vol. iii. The three Bessarions in DHG., t. viii, cc. 1180-1181, are apparently all the same person.
Bessarion is greatly venerated in the East, where his name in various forms is sometimes given in baptism; e.g. Joseph Stalin’s father was called Vissarion. He was a native of Egypt, and having heard the call to perfection he went into the wilderness, where he was a disciple first of St Antony and then of St Macanus. We are told that rather than live under a roof he wandered about like a bird, observing silence and subduing his flesh by mighty fasting; he is said to have once gone forty days without food, standing in prayer amid brambles. His neighborly charity led him to a height of perfection that was manifested by miracles: he made salt water fresh, he several times brought rain during drought, he walked on the Nile, he overcame demons. Like so many other desert fathers, St Bessarion lived to a great age; admirers compared him with Moses, Joshua, Elias and John the Baptist.
St Bessarion is named in the Roman Martyrology today, but his usual date in the East is June 6.
The above particulars are taken from a panegyric of his namesake written by the great Cardinal Bessarion, the text of which was printed, with an introduction by Peter Joannou, in Analecta Bollandiana, vol. lxv (1947), pp. 107—138. The cardinal’s sources were the pertinent Greek synaxaries. See also the Acta Sanctorum, June, vol. iii. The three Bessarions in DHG., t. viii, cc. 1180—1181, are apparently all the same person.
4th v. Bessarion von Ägypten
Orthodoxe Kirche: 20. Februar und 06. Juni Katholische Kirche: 17. Juni
Bessarion lebte im 4. Jahrhundert. Er wollte Einsiedler werden und unternahm eine Pilgerreise um verschiedene Einsiedler kennenzulernen. Er besuchte Gerasimos in Jerusalem und wurde Schüler von Isidor von Pelusium (nach anderen Berichten von Antonius). Er lebte in der Wüste und trug unter seinem Arm immer eine Abschrift der vier Evangelien. Sein einziges Kleidungsstück verschenkte er an einen Bettler. Eine Überlieferung berichtet, er habe schließlich sogar sein Buch verkauft, um das Geld an Arme zu verteilen.
In der russisch-orthodoxen Kirche wird Bessarion am 20.02. gefeiert, in der griechisch-orthodoxen Kirche am 06.06.
363 (362) St. Manuel Sabel and Ismael Persian Christians martyred by Emperor Julian the Apostate at Chalcedon; legates from Persia sent to negotiate peace who were slain when it was discovered they were Christians. A church was dedicated to them by Emperor Theodosius the Great.

Chalcédone sanctórum Mártyrum Manuélis, Sabélis et Ismaélis, qui, pacis causa apud Juliánum Apóstatam pro Persárum Rege legatióne fungéntes, ab ipso Imperatóre, cum idóla venerári compelleréntur idque constánti ánimo recusárent, gládio feríri jubéntur.
    At Chalcedon, the holy martyrs Manuel, Sabel, and Ismael, whom the king of Persia sent as ambassadors to Julian the Apostate to obtain peace.  Having firmly refused to worship idols when commanded by the emperor, they were put to the sword.

The Holy Martyrs Manuel, Sabel and Ismael, brothers by birth, were descended from an illustrious Persian family. Their father was a pagan, but their mother was a Christian, who baptized the children and raised them with firm faith in Christ the Savior.  When they reached adulthood, the brothers entered military service. Speaking on behalf of the Persian emperor Alamundar, they were his emissaries in concluding a peace treaty with the emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363). Julian received them with due honor and showed them his favor. But when the brothers refused to take part in a pagan sacrifice, Julian became angry. He annulled the treaty and incarcerated the ambassadors of a foreign country like common criminals. At the interrogation he told them that if they scorned the gods he worshipped, it would be impossible to reach any peace or accord between the two sides. The holy brothers answered that they were sent as emissaries of their emperor on matters of state, and not to argue about "gods." Seeing their firmness of faith, the emperor ordered the brothers to be tortured.  They beat the holy martyrs, then nailed their hands and feet to trees. Later, they drove iron spikes into their heads, and wedged sharp splinters under their fingernails and toenails. During this time of torment the saints glorified God and prayed as if they did not feel the tortures. Finally, the holy martyrs were beheaded.

Julian ordered their bodies to be burned, and suddenly there was an earthquake. The ground opened up and the bodies of the holy martyrs disappeared into the abyss. After two days of fervent prayer by the Christians, the earth returned the bodies of the holy brothers, from which a sweet fragrance issued forth. Many pagans, witnessing the miracle, came to believe in Christ and were baptized. Christians reverently buried the bodies of the holy martyrs Manuel, Sabel and Ismael in the year 362. Since that time the relics of the holy passion-bearers have been glorified with miracles. When he heard about the murder of his emissaries, and that Julian was marching against him with a vast army, the Persian emperor Alamundar mustered his army and started off toward the border of his domain. The Persians vanquished the Greeks in a great battle, and Julian the Apostate was killed by the holy Great Martyr Mercurius (November 24).

Thirty years later the pious emperor Theodosius the Great (+ 397) built at Constantinople a church in honor of the holy martyrs, and St Germanus, Patriarch of Constantinople (May 12), then still a hieromonk, wrote a Canon in memory and in praise of the holy brothers.

Manuel, Sabel und Ismael Orthodoxe Kirche: 17. Juni
Manuel, Sabel und Ismael lebten in Persien. Sie waren von ihrer Mutter christlich erzogen worden und dienten im kaiserlichen Heer. Der persische Kaiser schickte sie als Gesandte nach Konstantinopel, um mit Kaiser Julian Apostates einen Friedensvertrag abzuschliessen. Als die drei Brüder sich weigerten, heidnischen Göttern zu opfern, ließ Julian Apostates sie foltern und hinrichten. Sie starben 362. Der persische Kaiser erklärte daraufhin Julian den Krieg und Julian wurde im Kampf von Merkurios erschlagen.
An den Gräbern der drei Märtyrer ereigneten sich zahlreiche Wunder und Kaiser Theodosius ließ 30 Jahre nach ihrem Tod eine Kirche zu ihren Ehren errichten.
466 St. Hypatius Hermit, called “the Scholar of Christ.” vision that sent him to Thrace where he became a hermit foe of Nestorianism, he sheltered St. Alexander Akimetes and others at his hermitage near Chalcedon when their lives were threatened by the heretics known for miracles and prophecies.
In Phrygia sancti Hypátii Confessóris.    In Phrygia, St. Hypatius, confessor.
He was born in 366  Phrygia, and became a monk. Hypatius had a vision that sent him to Thrace where he became a hermit with a man named Jonas. The two then went to Constantinople and Chalcedon. A foe of Nestorianism, he sheltered St. Alexander Akimetes and others at his hermitage near Chalcedon when their lives were threatened by the heretics. Hypatius is credited with halting a revival of the Olympic games because of their pagan origins. He died at the age of eighty and was known for miracles and prophecies.

In the suburb of Chalcedon that gave its name—The Oak—to the infamous pseudo-synod by which St John Chrysostom was condemned, a certain consular official called Rufinus built a church dedicated under the names of St Peter and St Paul, together with a monastery alongside to serve it. The community flourished for a time, but after the founder’s death the monks dispersed and the derelict fabric soon acquired an unsavory reputation as the haunt of evil spirits. The building remained unoccupied until a holy ascetic named Hypatius, attended by two companions, Timotheus and Moschion, came upon it in their wanderings through Bithynia in search of a suitable retreat, and took up their residence in the ruins. Disciples gathered round them and a great community was formed over which Hypatius ruled for many years. After his death the monastery was known by his name.
The life of St Hypatius has come down to us in the shape of a biography written by Callinicus, one of his monks, who in his desire to glorify his master sometimes lets his imagination or his credulity run away with him. According to him St Hypatius was born in Phrygia and was educated by his father, a learned scholar who intended that his son should follow in his steps. Hypatius himself, however, always desired monastic life. At the age of eighteen, having been cruelly beaten by his father, he ran away from home, and in obedience to a supernatural admonition proceeded to Thrace. There for a considerable time he acted as a shepherd. A priest who heard him singing to his flock taught him the Psalter and the chant. Hypatius then joined a solitary, an ex-soldier named Jonas, with whom he led a most austere life, abstaining, it is said, from drink of any kind sometimes for forty consecutive days. His father discovered Hypatius, and reconciliation took place.

Afterwards Hypatius and Jonas made their way to Constantinople, where Jonas seems to have remained. Hypatius crossed the straits into Asia Minor again, and revived religious life in the ruins of the old Rufinian monastery. As head of a great body of monks he stood forth as a powerful champion of orthodoxy. Even before the Church had denounced the errors of Nestorius, he ordered removal of that hierarch’s name from the office books of his church, paying no heed to the remonstrances of Bishop Eulalius of Chalcedon. He protected and hospitably entertained St Alexander Akimetes and his monks who had fled from Constantinople to Bithynia; and when a proposal to revive the Olympic games it Chalcedon had met with no opposition from Eulalius, Hypatius defeated the project by the vehemence with which he protested that he and his monks would die rather than permit any such restoration of pagan practices.
Critical commentators, it must be said, discredit the historical accuracy of these stories. They question the very existence of Eulalius: no other record can be found of any such bishop of Chalcedon; his name appears neither amongst signatories of the Council of Ephesus in 431, nor amongst those of the Latrocinium in 449. On the other hand, it is certain that a certain Eleutherius was bishop of Chalcedon in 451.
St Hypatius, “the scholar of Christ
, became famous for his reputed miracles and prophecies. He is said to have died about the middle of the fifth century at the age of eighty. His name is entered on this day in the Roman Martyrology as belonging to Phrygia.
The long Greek life by Callinicus is printed in the Acta Sanctorum, June, vol. iv, but the text is unfortunately incomplete. It has since been edited critically (1895) from another manuscript which contains the whole, by the pupils of H. Usener. Sec also II. Mertel, Die biograph. Form der griech. Heiligenlegenden (1909). Hypatius seems to have brrn especially invoked in the Greek Church as a protector against harmful beasts; see Franz, Kirchlichen Benediktionen, vol. ii, p. 143.
510 St. Nectan one of the most celebrated saints in the West of England; tended to the needs of the poor throughout Devon, Cornwall and even Brittany, where churches dedicated to him may be found miracles after death
St Nectan was born in Wales and lived in the sixth century, but we know few details about his life. He was the oldest of the twenty-four children of St Brychan of Brecknock (April 6). While he was still living in Wales, God inspired him to imitate the example of St Anthony (January 17) and other ascetics, and to embrace the monastic life.

6th V. St Nectan
The tomb of St Nectan at Hartland in Devonshire was the centre of a cultus which seems to have been fostered in the middle ages by the Augustinian canons, who were the custodians of his tomb. He was also venerated in Cornwall, especially at Launceston, where a fair is still held on his feast-day, June 17. In the neigh­bourhood of Lostwithiel and Newlyn chapels were dedicated in his honour under the name of St Nighton, and perhaps also at Tintagel, not far from which famous resort “St Nighton’s Kieve” (i.e. vat) is still shown. William of Worcester and some later writers, such as Nicholas Roscarrock, describe the saint as having been the eldest of the twenty-four children of the Welsh king, Brychan, who gave his name to Brecknock. The saint may possibly have been an Irish missionary who came to England and founded churches in Devon and Cornwall. Actually nothing is known of his true history. All that Worcester is able to tell us about him is this: “And the venerable man Nectan, while he was making his way through certain woody districts in order to explore the country, was found by robbers in the place which to this day is called New Town (i.e. New Stoke), and there a church is built to his honour. On the fifteenth day before the kalends of July he was beheaded, and he took up his head in his own hands and carried it about a distance of half a stadium, as far as the fountain where he lived, and there laid it down, besmeared with his blood and sweat, on a certain stone, and blood-stained traces of this murder and miracle still remain on that same stone.” This is a quotation from the saint’s Life.

The twelfth-century life of St Nectan, which came to light in the Gotha MS. I. 81 in 1937 and was translated by Canon Doble (see note below), adds little of interest about the saint, though it gives interesting particulars about his shrine and side­lights on life at Hartland in the middle ages.

By far the best attempt in English to cope with the incoherencies of the materials is that of Canon Doble in no. 25 of his “Cornish Saints” series, St Nectan and the Children of Brychan (1930); his translation of the vita appeared in A Book of Hartland (1940), ed. by Miss I.  D. Thornley, and was reprinted separately in the same year. See also DCB., vol. iv, pp. 10—11, and LBS., vol. iv, pp. 1—2. But consult especially Analecta Bollandiana, vol. lxxi (1953).
Seeking greater solitude, St Nectan and his companions left Wales, intending to settle wherever their boat happened to land. Divine providence brought them to the northern coast of Devonshire at Hartland, where they lived for several years in a dense forest. The saint's family would visit him there on the last day of the year. Later, he relocated to a remote valley with a spring.

Once, St Nectan found a stray pig and returned it to its owner. In gratitude, the swineherd gave St Nectan two cows. The saint accepted the gift, but the cows were soon stolen by two robbers. St Nectan found the thieves who took the animals, and tried to preach to them about Christ. They became angry and cut off his head. Then the saint picked up his head and carried it for half a mile, laying it down near the spring by his cell. Seeing this, the man who killed St Nectan went out of his mind, but the other thief buried him. From that time, miracles began to take place at St Nectan's tomb.

In 937 St Nectan appeared on the eve of the Battle of Brunanburgh to a young man from Hartland who was in a tent near King Athelstan's pavilion. Suddenly, he felt himself afflicted with the plague which was then destroying the English army. The young man wept and called upon God and St Nectan to help him. His cries were so loud that he woke the king and others around him.  St Nectan came to the young man just after midnight and touched the afflicted area of his body, healing him. In the morning, he was brought before the king and admitted that it was he who had disturbed Athelstan's sleep. The king asked gently why he had been crying out during the night.  The young man explained that he felt himself stricken with the plague, and was afraid that he would die. Therefore, he entreated God and St Nectan to help him, and his prayer was answered.  Athelstan asked for more information about the life and martyrdom of St Nectan, which the young man provided. He also urged the king to turn to St Nectan with faith, promising that he would be victorious in battle if he did so.  The king promised to honor God and St Nectan, and so his faith was rewarded. Not only did he win the battle, but the plague disappeared and his soldiers recovered. The first time that King Athelstan visited Hartland in Devonshire, he donated property to the saint's church. For the rest of his life, the king placed great confidence in the intercession of St Nectan.

St Nectan is the patron of Hartland, Devonshire. The fullest surviving Life dates from the twelfth century (See Vol. 5 of THE SAINTS OF CORNWALL by G. H. Doble for an English translation).
There is an Orthodox house chapel (Russian diocese of Sourozh) dedicated to St Simeon and St Anna at Combe Martin, N. Devon where St Nectan is venerated.

(c.AD 468-510) (Welsh-Nudd, Latin-Natanus, English-Nathan), although details from his life-story are rather sparse. He is chief amongst the Cornish list of children of King Brychan Brycheiniog, usually said to have been the eldest. Nectan sailed south from Wales and landed on the Corno-Devon border at Hartland Point. He found a beautiful valley there, at Stoke St. Nectan near Hartland, with a never-failing spring. He built a little church and a hermitage, forty paces away and lived there many years. He tended to the needs of the poor throughout Devon, Cornwall and even Brittany, where churches dedicated to him may be found. He once helped a swineherd find his lost pigs and, in return, was given two cows who provided his daily comestible needs. Most of Nectan's siblings followed him from Wales and were instrumental in evangelising the south-west. They saw Nectan as their leader and gathered every New Year's Eve at Hartland to talk with him.

Eventually, Nectan's two cows were stolen by bandits. He tracked them to New Stoke, took them back and tried to convert his persecutors to Christianity. For all his hard work, they struck off his head! Legend says Nectan picked up the severed object and returned, with it, to his chapel at Stoke. This occurred on 17th June AD 510. His body was translated to a more fitting shrine in the 1030s and later looked after by the Austin Canons who built an Abbey nearby.

Little historical credit is given to the Cornish lists of the children of Brychan and many scholars believe they only indicate that the named persons originated in South Wales. Nechtan's name is Pictish and some think he has been confused with Noethon ap Gildas who is known to have come from the North. Prof. Charles Thomas, meanwhile, believes that Nectan is, in fact, a corruption of the name Brychan itself: father and son being one and the same. He identifies Lundy Island as Brychan's mysterious burial place, Ynys Brychan, from where his body was removed to Stoke in the 7th century.
530 St. Avitus Abbot who tried to save St. Sigismund and his family; a monk of Men at in Auvergne, France, elected abbot against his will. He tried to halt the execution of St. Sigismund and his wife and sons, by King Clodomir, but was not successful.
Aureliánis, in Gállia, sancti Avíti, Presbyteri et Confessóris.    At Orleans in France, St. Avitus, priest and confessor.
Soon after, he retired to a hermitage near Maine, in Perche province, France. There he built a new monastery and church with the patronage of King Clotaire.

At the close of a scholarly article upon St Avitus and the Saints of Micy in the Analecta Bollandiana, the late Father Albert Poncelet, s.j., urged his readers to convince themselves that a wide difference exists between evidence of cultus and hagiographical narratives. “The former“, i.e. evidence of cultus, “attests the actual existence of the saint and the fact that devotion has been paid to him from early times. It is a very different matter when we have to deal with lives compiled two or three hundred years after the hero’s death, and seldom embodying a wholly reliable collection of traditions. For the honour of the saints and in the interest of sane hagiography one cannot be too careful not to be led astray by those who, not satisfied with venerating the saints, imagine that respect for them entails a sort of canonization of the stories whereby posterity has sought to enhance their glory, in the compilation of which knowledge of the facts has unfortunately not always been on a level with the piety of the author.”
That St Avitus was a real person is unquestionable. St Gregory of Tours informs us that he was an abbot in that part of France which formed the ancient province of Perche, that he pleaded unsuccessfully with King Clodomir to spare the lives of St Sigismund of Burgundy, his wife and his sons, whom Clodomir had captured, and that he was buried near Orleans, where he was held in great honour. St Gregory had visited the church which was dedicated under his name, and adds, as an instance of his miraculous powers, that a citizen of Orleans, who refused to observe his festival because he wanted to work in his vineyard was punished by a painful affliction from which he was not freed until he visited the saint’s church and paid him the respect which was his due. This is all that is known about St Avitus—despite his so-called biographies, none of which are earlier than the ninth century. They form part of an attempt made, when the abbey of Micy had taken on a new lease of life under Benedictine rule, to shed lustre on an obscure and inglorious phase of its past history by assigning to it as former abbots a number of saints honoured in the neighbourhood of Orleans and Le Mans, but of whom very little indeed was known.

The legend of St Avitus, which appears with variations in these so-called biographies, represents him as having entered the abbey of Micy as a lay-brother. His ignorance and simplicity caused him to be despised by all except the abbot, St Maximinus, who recognized his sanctity and made him cellarer. Avitus, however, left the abbey and retired into solitude. After the death of Maximinus the monks made search for Avitus and elected him abbot. Again, after a short stay at Micy, he escaped, this time with St Calais (Carilefus), and lived as a recluse on the fron­tiers of Perche. Others joining them, St Calais withdrew into a forest in Maine; but King Clotaire built a church and monastery for St Avitus and his companions at the place which is now Châteaudun. There he died in the year 530 (?).

For one text of the life of St Avitus see the Acta Sanctorum, June, vol. iv; another has been printed entire by the Bollandists in their catalogue of the hagiographical manuscripts of the Brussels Library, vol. i, pp. 57—63. B. Krusch has re-edited portions of this in MGH., Scriptores Merov., vol. iii, pp. 380—385. The article of Albert Poncelet referred to above is in the Analecta Bollandiana, vol. xxiv (1905), pp. 5—97.
6th v.  St. Gundulphus Bishop of France who recorded as dying in Bourges.
In pago Bituricénsi, sancti Gundúlphi Epíscopi.    In the territory of Bourges, St. Gundulphus, bishop.
560 St. Himerius Bishop of Amelia, in Umbria, Italy. Himerius’ relics were translated to Cremona in 995, where he is a patron of the region.
Amériæ, in Umbria, sancti Himérii Epíscopi, cujus corpus Cremónam, in Insúbria, translátum est.
    At Amelia in Umbria, Bishop St. Himerius, whose body was translated to Cremona.
575 St. Harvey blind abbot of Plouvien; later he transferred his community to Lanhourneau, where he passed the rest of his days and was famous for miracles Hervaeus, Herve or Harvey (after a sixth-century Breton monk).

6th V. St Hervé, or Harvey, Abbot
St Hervé
is one of the most popular saints in Brittany, and figures largely in the folklore and ballads of the country. At one period his feast was a holiday of obligation in the diocese of Leon. His cultus, which originally centred in Lan­houarneau, Le Menez-Bré and Porzay, was propagated by a distribution of his relics in 1002, and is general throughout Brittany. No name, with the exception of Yves, is more commonly given to Breton boys than that of Hervé. Solemn oaths were taken over his relics until the year 1610, when the parlement made it obligatory for legal declarations to be made only upon the Gospels. In the absence of any reliable records it is unfortunately impossible to reconstruct St Hervé’s true history, but the legend, as set forth in a late medieval Latin manuscript, may be summarized as follows

In the early years of the reign of King Childebert, there came to the court of Paris a British bard named Hyvarnion, who had been driven from his country by the Saxons. He charmed all who heard him by his music, but worldly applause had no attraction for him. After two or three years he retired to Brittany, where he married a girl called Rivanon, and became the father of a little blind boy, who received the name of Hervé. The child, bereft in infancy of his father, was brought up until he was seven by his mother. She then confided him to the care of a holy man called Arthian, and afterwards he joined his uncle, who had founded a little monastic school at Plouvien, and helped him with his farm and his pupils. One day, as Hervé was working in the fields, a wolf came and devoured the ass which was drawing the plough; a young child, who was the saint’s guide, uttered cries of distress, but in answer to Hervé’s prayers the wolf meekly passed his head into the ass’s collar and finished his work. During these years his mother Rivanon had been living in the heart of a dense forest, seeing no human face except that of her niece, who waited on her. Now the hour of departure was at hand, and Hervé sought her out in time to receive her last blessing and to close her eyes.

Soon afterwards he was entrusted with the care of the community of Plouvien by his uncle, and the monastery continued to flourish; but after three years he was inspired to establish it elsewhere. Surrounded by a band of monks and scholars he went forth, directing his steps first to Leon. There he was cordially received by the bishop, who would have conferred the priesthood on him if the saint’s humility had not precluded him from accepting any higher order than that of exorcist. From Leon they made their way westward, and beside the road to Lesneven may still be seen the fountain of St Hervé, which he caused to spring forth to quench the thirst of his companions. They reached their final destination at the place now known as Lanhouarneau, where St Hervé founded a monastery which became famous throughout the country. It was his home for the rest of his life, although he sometimes left it in order to preach to the people and to exercise the duties of an exorcist, in which capacity some of his most outstanding miracles were worked. Venerated by all for his sanctity and for his miracles, the blind abbot lived on for many years; his monks, as they watched beside his death-bed, heard the music of the celestial choirs welcoming the saint to Heaven.
St Hervé is usually represented with the wolf, and with Guiharan, his child guide. He is invoked for eye-trouble of all sorts, and his wolf serves Breton mothers as a bugbear with which to threaten troublesome children.
The so-called life of St Hervé, which in the very competent judgement of A. de la Borderie cannot have been written (at any rate in the form in which it has been preserved to us) earlier than the thirteenth century, was published for the first time by the same distinguished scholar in 1892 in the Memoires de la Soc. d'Émulation des Cotes-du-Nord, vol. xxix, pp. 251-304. There is an account in the Acta Sanctorum, June, vol. iv, mainly based on Albert Le Grand. See, further, LBS., vol. iii, pp. 270 seq., but Canon Doble affirms strongly that there is no ground for connecting Hervé in any way with either Cornwall or Wales; he had no cult in Britain. Cf. Duine, Memento, p. 91.
St. Harvey was blind, but became abbot of Plouvien; later he transferred his community to Lanhourneau, where he passed the rest of his days and was famous for miracles. Sixth Century.  Especially after St. Harvey's relics were distributed throughout Brittany in 1002, this monk-saint became intensely popular.  Indeed, up to 1610 when the local court ordered that all official oaths be taken on the bible only, the Bretons took solemn oaths on the relics of St. Herve.  His feast was also for some time listed as one of the holydays of obligation in the Breton diocese of Leon.

Abbot Harvey is often mentioned in the tales and songs of Brittany.  Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to discern what is told of him as fact or folklore.  The traditional legend of Herve is nevertheless charming enough to be related here.
Around the year 520, we are told, a Celtic bard (folk singer/historian) driven out of Britain by the Anglo-Saxon invaders, came to the court of Childebert I, the Frankish king of Paris.  The bard's name was Hyvarnion.  Although Hyvarnion delighted the royal court with his songs, he was too earnest a man to desire to be a mere court musician.  A couple of years later, therefore, he moved to Brittany to be in the company of his exiled fellow countrymen.The story goes that a young British bard named Hyvarnion, a pupil of Saint Cadoc, lived at the court of Childebert, king of the Franks.

After four years, desiring to return to his native land, he set off through Brittany, where one day, riding through a wood, he heard a young girl singing. The sweetness of her voice made him curious and, dismounting from his horse, he made his way through the trees to where in a sunny glade he found a maiden gathering herbs. He asked her what they were for. "This herb," she replied, "drives away sadness, that one banishes blindness, and I look for the herb of life that drives away death." Hyvarnion, forgetting his homeward journey, in that hour loved her, and later he married her.

A girl named Rivanon bore him a son baptized Hervaeus.  Unfortunately, the child was born functionally blind.
His father died soon after his birth.  Rivanon raised her child until he was seven.  Then she entrusted him to the care of Arthian, a holy man.  Later Herve joined his uncle, a monk who had launched a little school in his monastery in Plouvien.  Despite his poor sight, young Harvey was able to help the uncle with the children and the farm tasks of the monastery.  Eventually he became a monk of the Plouvien community.
One day, we are told, while he was plowing in the fields, a wolf attacked the donkey that was drawing his plow.  Guiharan, a small child who was assisting the monk, cried out in panic.  But Harvey, already a devout young man, simply prayed for divine help.  The response, says the legend, was miraculous.  The wolf, repenting, shouldered the dead donkey's harness and meekly pulled the plow himself until the task was finished!
Harvey's mother had meanwhile been living far away in the depths of a forest, with only a niece to keep her company and do her service in her declining years.  Learning of her grave illness, the future saint traveled back to see her.  She gave him her last blessing, and he closed her eyes in death.
Not long after Herve returned to Plouvien, his uncle put him in charge of the little monastery.  Three years later, he decided to move the whole establishment elsewhere.  Accompanied by all his monks and students, he set out for western Brittany.  At Leon, the bishop cordially greeted the travelers.  He offered to ordain their superior a priest; but Herve, out of humility, would accept only the minor order of exorcist.  Eventually his community reached the present Lanhouarneau.  There he established a new monastery that was to become famous throughout Brittany.
Abbot Hervaeus spent the rest of his life at Lanhouarneau, although from time to time he was called forth to preach to the people of the area and to exercise his office of exorcist.  It was in the latter capacities that he performed many of the miracles attributed to him. (Once, it is said, noisy frogs that interfered with his sermon stopped their croaking at his command.) The older he grew, the more revered he became for his holiness.
Fr. Harvey lived a long life.  When he was breathing his last, says the legend, the monks at his bedside heard angel choirs singing him a song of welcome.
St. Hervaeus is identified in pictures and statues by a wolf, with or without his child-guide.  Sometimes he is also shown as a preacher quieting frogs.  The Bretons invoke his aid against diseases of the eye, and cite his wolf as a warning to disobedient children

680 St. Adulf Bishop and missionary, venerated with his brother, Butulf nobles of Saxon or Irish lineage who became monks; went as missionaries to Germany. There Adulf was made the bishop of Utrecht. Butulf returned to England and founded a religious house in 654, becoming widely respected for his holiness.
680 ST BOTULF, OR BOTOLPH, ABBOT, AND ST ADULF
No less than seventy English churches-sixteen of them in Norfolk-are dedicated in honour of St Botulf, but though he seems to have been held in great veneration in Anglo-Saxon England little is actually known of his history. According to a life written by Folcard, abbot of Thorney, in 1068, he and his brother Adulf were the sons of noble Saxon parents and were born early in the seventh century. In the Slesvig Breviary, however, he is said to have been a "Scot", i.e. an Irishman. Brought up Christians, they were sent to complete their education in Germany or in Belgian Gaul, where they received the monastic habit. Adulf is said to have been raised to the episcopate, either at Utrecht or Maestricht. If this statement is correct, he was probably a regionary bishop, for his name does not appear in the list of prelates of either diocese. Botulf in the course of time returned to England, and was favourably received by Ethelmund, a king of the southern Angles, whose sisters he had met abroad.
At his request, Ethelmund (of whom no other record exists) granted him a barren spot, almost surrounded by water, on which to build a monastery. It was called Icanhoh, and is usually identified with Boston, i.e. Botulf's stone, in Lincolnshire, but it may have been Iken in Suffolk, or elsewhere. He began to build his abbey in 654, as we learn from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and soon gathered round him a band of disciples. We read that they suffered molestation from the evil spirits who had formerly haunted the district. Otherwise, St Botulf, except for two recorded journeys, appears to have led a peaceful, uneventful life amongst his brethren until his death in 680. It is related of St Ceolfrid, abbot of Wearmouth, that he "once journeyed to the East Angles that he might see the foundation of Abbot Botulf, whom fame had proclaimed far and wide as a man of remarkable life and learning, full of the grace of the Holy Spirit" and that "after having been instructed as far as possible in a short time, he returned home so well grounded that no one could be found better versed than he, either in ecclesiastical or in monastic traditions."
Although Icanhoh and its church were destroyed in one of the Danish invasions, the remains of St Botulf were saved, as well as those of St Adulf, who had been buried with him. In the reign of King Edgar the relics were distributed to the abbeys of Thomey and Ely. The feast of St Botulf is now kept in the dioceses of Brentwood, Northampton and Nottingham.
In the Acta Sanctorum, June, vol. iv, the Bollandists have printed such information regarding St Botulf as was accessible to them at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Not very much has been added since; but it is worth while to consult the notes to Plummer's edition of the Ecclesiastical History of Bede, and also the article in the Dictionary of Christian Biography vol. i, p. 332. Edmund Bishop's notes on the English calendars in Stanton's Menology point to the fact that the observance of some feast in commemoration of St Botulf was widespread in this country. By far the most thorough account which has been written of Botulf is that contributed in 1922 to the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History (pp. 29-52) by F. S. Stevenson.
697 St. Moling Bishop of Ferns; successor of St. Aidan. Born in Wexford, Ireland
He is also listed as Dairchilla, Molignus, Moling, or Myllin. Moling was a monk at Glendalough and then founded an abbey at Achad Cainigh, which became Teghmollin, or Tech Molin, St. Mullins. He was buried there.
THE cultus of St Moling (Mulling, Molingus, Daircheall) goes back to a very early date and has been widespread over Ireland. Giraldus Cambrensis states that the books of SS. Patrick, Columba, Moling and Broccan, whom he characterizes as the four prophets of Ireland, were extant in his time in the Irish language. Unfortunately no accurate record of the history of St Moling, nor any of his writings, have been preserved to us, and we can only arrive at a conjectural outline of his career based on a late tradition. He is said to have been born in the district of Kinsellagh in County Wexford, of a family related to the kings of Leinster. After spending some years at Glendalough, where he received the monastic habit, he founded an abbey at Achad Cainigb, which derived so much glory from his wisdom and example that it was named Tech Moling in his honour. He is said to have lived for a time in a hollow tree, and to have fasted every day during all his later life, except when he was entertaining guests. He succeeded St Aidan as bishop at Ferns, and induced King Finacta, in 693, to remit for the kingdom of Leinster the heavy tribute of oxen, called the Cattle tribute, that had been imposed by King Tuathal Techtmar and had been the cause of many wars. The holy bishop resigned his see several years before his death, which occurred in 697. He was interred in his own monastery of Tech Moling, a site now covered by the town of St Mullins, in County Carlow.
The Bollandists in the Acta Sanctorum, June, vol. iv, have printed a Latin life from the Codex Salmanticensis, and another has been edited by C. Plummer in VSH., vol. ii, pp. 190-205. There is also an Irish life, which has been printed by Whitley Stokes in the Revue Celtique, vol. xxviii (1906), pp. 256-312. See further Kenney, The Sources for the Early History of Ireland, vol. i. What is believed to be St Moling's book shrine is preserved as a notable work of art.
 St. Briavel patron of a parish in Dean Forest, Gloucestershire, England.
1001 St. Rainbold Benedictine abbot also called Rainnold. He was a monk of St Maximinus at Trier, Germany, and became abbot of St. Emmeram. St. Wolfgang appointed him to the post. He was reputedly extremely long lived, reportedly dying at the age of one hundred.
1160 St. Raynerius Hermit and Benedictine monk led a dissolute life until undergo­ing a conversion after pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Returning home, he entered the Benedictine abbey of St. Andrew at Pisa where he lived as a conventual oblate;  His great reputation is primarily due to the numerous cures which were worked by him during his life and after his death. From the use he made of holy water in his miracles of healing he received the nickname of De Aqua,
Pisis, in Túscia, sancti Rainérii Confessóris.    At Pisa in Tuscany, St. Rainerius, confessor.
Born in Pisa, Italy, he led a dissolute life until undergo­ing a conversion after pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Returning home, he entered the Benedictine abbey of St. Andrew at Pisa where he lived as a conventual oblate. He died at the Pisan abbey of San Vito. Raynerius was credited with various miracles during his lifetime, earn­ing the name “de Aqua” for his use of holy water in healing.
ST RAINERIUS OF PISA (A.D. 1160)
THE relics of the saint who is Pisa's principal patron lie in the chapel of St Rainerius, or Raniero, at the end of the south transept of the cathedral, and eight scenes from his life and some of his miracles are amongst the celebrated fourteenth-century frescoes which adorn the walls of the ancient Campo Santo. His life was written soon after his death by Canon Benincasa, a personal friend who regarded himself as a disciple. Rainerius, sprung from a good Pisan family, frittered away his early manhood in frivolity and dissipation. Through the influence of an aunt or cousin, however, he came into contact with Alberto Leccapecore, a religious from the monastery of San Vito, who made him realize the error of his ways. So over- whelming was his penitence for his sinful life that he refused to eat, and wept unceasingly-to the scornful amusement of his former associates and to the distress of his parents, who thought he was going out of his mind. At the end of three days he could weep no longer: he was blind. His mother was in despair, but God restored sight to his body, besides enlightening his soul.
Business as a merchant soon afterwards took him to Palestine, and as he followed in the footsteps of our Lord his spiritual life developed. Then one day he seemed to see his jewelled money-pouch filled, not with coins, but with pitch and sulphur. It suddenly caught fire and he was unable to extinguish the flames until he had sprinkled it with water from a vessel which he found himself holding in his hand. The meaning of the vision was explained by a voice which said: "The purse is your body: fire, pitch and sulphur are inordinate desires which water alone can wash away." He had purged himself from past sin by penitential tears, but from that time forth he redoubled his austerities, going barefoot and begging his way, and was rewarded with the gift of miracles. We read that on the road to Mount Tabor he tamed wild beasts by making the sign of the cross, that he multiplied the bread a charitable woman was distributing to the poor, and that he wrought many other wonders.
Upon his return to Pisa Rainerius made his home for a time with the canons of Santa Maria. Afterwards, though he never joined an order, he lived a more or less cloistered life, first in the abbey of St Andrew, and later in the monastery of St Vitus, where he died in 1160. Because he seems sometimes to have preached, it has been inferred that he must have received holy orders, but this is doubtful. His great reputation is primarily due to the numerous cures which were worked by him during his life and after his death. From the use he made of holy water in his miracles of healing he received the nickname of De Aqua, and his name was inserted in the Roman Martyrology by Cardinal Baronius.
The long biography of Rainerius, much of it taken up with miracles attributed to him before and after his death, seems really to have been compiled by a contemporary. It is printed in the Acta Sanctorum, June, vol. iv. The devotion of the people of Pisa to St Rainerius is attested by the considerable number of books which have been printed there to do him honour. See particularly G. M. Sanminiatelli, Vita di St Ranieri first published in 1704, but followed by other editions; and G. Sainati, Vita di S. Ranieri Scacceri (1890).
1245 Saint Shalva of Akhaltsikhe was a brilliant military commander in the army of Queen Tamar and the prince of Akhaltsikhe
After his victory at Shamkori in the Ganja region, Shalva carried with him the flag of the caliph, as a sign of the invincibility of the Christian Faith, and conferred it, along with the wealth he had won, as an offering to the Khakhuli Icon of the Theotokos. For his selfless service, Queen Tamar honored him with the rank of commander-in-chief of the Georgian army.

During the reign of Queen Tamar’s daughter Rusudan (1222–1245), the armies of Sultan Jalal al-Din stormed into Georgia. Rusudan rallied the Georgian forces and appointed a new commander-in-chief by the name of John Atabeg.  Six thousand Georgians confronted a Muslim army of two hundred thousand near the village of Garnisi. Command of the advance guard was entrusted to the brave and valorous brothers Shalva and John of Akhaltsikhe, while John Atabeg remained with the main body of the army for the decisive battle. The advance guard fought fearlessly, though the enemy’s army greatly surpassed it in number. The brothers fought with great devotion, hoping for support from the commander-in-chief, but John Atabeg was seized with envy—rather than fear—and never offered them his help. “O envy, source of every evil!” wrote one chronicler of the incident. The enemy devastated the Georgian army, killing four thousand of its most valiant soldiers. Among them was John of Akhaltsikhe, whose brother Shalva was captured and delivered as a slave to Jalal al-Din.

Jalal al-Din was overjoyed to have the famed soldier and military leader brought before him. He received him with proper honor, offered him cities of great wealth, and promised him more if he agreed to convert to Islam. Jalal al-Din sought with great persistence to convert Shalva to Islam, but his efforts were in vain—Shalva would not be converted, and nothing in the world would change his mind. So the sultan ordered that he be tortured to death. After hours of torment failed to kill him, Jalal al-Din’s servants cast the half-dead martyr in prison, where he later reposed.

1250 St. Teresa of Portugal the eldest daughter of King Sancho I of Portugal and sister of SS. Mafalda and Sanchia; married her cousin, King Alfonso IX of Leon & had several children; the marriage was declared invalid because of consanguinity, she returned to Portugal and founded a Benedictine monastery on her estate at Lorvao. She replaced the monks with nuns following the Cistercian Rule, accounts of miracles are attributed to Teresa's intercession. She expanded a monastery to accommodate three hundred nuns, and lived there. In about 1231, at the request of Alfonso's second wife and widow, Berengaria, she settled a dispute among their children over the succession of the throne of Leon, and on her return to Lorvao, she probably became a nun.
Her cult, with that of her sister Sanchia, was approved by Pope Clement XI in 1705.
SS. TERESA AND SANCHIA OF PORTUGAL     (A.D. 1250 AND 1229)
SANCHO I, King of Portugal, had three daughters, Teresa, Sanchia and Mafalda, all of whom are honoured by the Church. Teresa, the eldest, became the wife of her cousin, Alfonso IX, King of Léon, by whom she had several children. The marriage, however, was after some years pronounced invalid, because it had been contracted within prohibited degrees without dispensation. Teresa was attached to her husband and loth to leave him, but eventually they agreed to part. Teresa returned to Portugal, and at Lorvâo she found on her estate an abbey of Benedictine monks now fallen low in numbers and observance. These she ejected and replaced by a community of women pledged to the Cistercian rule. She rebuilt the church, besides restoring and extending the buildings to accommodate 300 nuns. Although she made her home with them, taking full part in their life, yet she retained the direction of her affairs, the disposal of her property, and the right to come and go as she pleased.
Teresa's sister, Sanchia, who never married, had lived since their father's death on her estates at Alenquer, where she devoted herself to good works. She welcomed the Franciscan and Dominican friars into Portugal, and founded the convent of Cellas, for women under the Augustinian rule. But during a visit to her sister she was so impressed by the life led by the community at Lorvao that she afterwards converted Cellas into a Cistercian abbey, and herself took the veil there. Sanchia died in 1229, at the age of forty-seven; Teresa surreptitiously smuggled her sister's body out of the choir at Cellas, where it lay on a bier, and conveyed it to Lorvao, where it was buried. The last public appearance of Teresa occurred two or three years later. It was made in response to an earnest entreaty from Berengaria, the widow of her former husband, that she would intervene to settle the quarrels between their respective children over the succession to the kingdom of Léon. Teresa went, and through her mediation an equitable arrangement was arrived at and peace was restored. Her work in the world, she felt, was now done and she determined never again to leave the convent. It was probably at this time that she actually received the veil. She survived until 1250, and at her death was buried beside St Sanchia. Their cultus was approved in 1705.
The life of Teresa by Francis Macedo, though written in the seventeenth century, purports to be based on authentic materials, especially those collected in view of her expected canonization. This biography has been reprinted in the Acta Sanctorum, June, vol. iv, and the Bollandists have added certain documents also drawn from the process of canonization, with accounts of miracles attributed to Teresa's intercession. Henriquez in his Lilia Cistercii (1633), vol. ii, pp. 131-144, also recounts her history in some detail. J. P. Bayao in his Portugal glorioso e illustrado (1727) gives an account of both sisters and of St Mafalda (May 2).  
1435 BD PETER OF PISA Many miracles were ascribed to him;
THE founder of the Hermits, or Poor Brothers, of St Jerome was born in 1355 at Pisa, while his father, Peter Gambacorta, whose name he bore, was ruling that republic. At the age of twenty-five he secretly left the court in the disguise of a penitent, and retired to the Umbrian solitude of Monte Bello. There he subsisted on alms, which he collected in the nearest village. In 1380 he found means to build an oratory and cells for a dozen companions who had joined him (according to popular tradition they were highwaymen whom he had converted). He prescribed for his community a rule supplemented by certain constitutions gathered from the works of St Jerome, whom he chose as patron of the new congregation. His monks kept four Lents in the year, fasted on all Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and continued in prayer every night for two hours after Matins. As for himself, his whole time was spent in prayer or in penitential exercises. Many miracles were ascribed to him.
When his father and brothers were assassinated in 1393 by Giacomo Appiano, he was sorely tempted to leave his retreat to punish the perpetrator of the outrage; but he overcame the temptation and, following the example of his sister, Bd Clare Gambacorta (April 17) he freely forgave the murderer. His congregation, approved by Pope Martin V in 1421, soon established itself elsewhere in Italy. Bd Peter survived until 1435, dying in Venice at the age of eighty, and was beatified in 1693. At one time there were forty-six houses of Poor Brothers in the provinces of Ancona and Treviso. Small groups of hermits and tertiaries became affiliated to them, and in 1668 Pope Clement IX united the community of St Jerome of Fiesole, which had been founded by Charles Montegranelli, to Bd Peter's order. But by 1933 its members had become so few that it was suppressed by the Holy See.
An account, founded on rather late materials, is given in the Acta Sanctorum, June, vol. iv; but see further the Kirchenlexikon, vol. v, cc. 2016-2017; SajaneIlo, Hist. Mon. Ord. S. Hieron. Congo S. Petri de Pisis, vol. i, pp. 100 seq.; and Heimbucher, Orden und Kongregationen, vol. i, pp. 592-596. The brief of suppression is in Acta Apostolicae Sedis, vol. xxv (1933), pp. 147-149.
1697 St Gregory Barbarigo, Bishop Of Padua And Cardinal  charities were enormous kind to all, especially to those in trouble or distress founded a college, and also a seminary for young priests
BORN at Venice in 1625 of an ancient and noble house, Gregory Luigi Barbarigo was educated in his native city. While still in his early twenties he was chosen by the Venetian government to accompany its ambassador, Luigi Contarini, to the famous Congress of Münster, where on October 24, 1648, the plenipotentiaries of Germany, France and Sweden signed the Treaty of Westphalia, and thus brought to an end the Thirty Years’ War.
At Münster Barbarigo became acquainted with the apostolic nuncio, Fabio Chigi, who was so favourably impressed with him that, after he had been raised to the papal throne as Alexander VII, he showed the young Venetian many tokens of his esteem and became his strong Supporter. In 1657 he nominated him to the bishopric of Bergamo, in 1660 he created him a cardinal, and in 1664 he transferred him to the bishopric of Padua.
The zeal with which Blessed Gregory carried out his pastoral duties caused him to be hailed as a second Charles Borromeo. He was indeed exemplary in every relation of life. His charities were enormous, and he is known to have distributed in alms eight hundred thousand crowns. Severe only with himself, he was kind to all, especially to those in trouble or distress. In the interest of learning he founded a college, and also a seminary for young priests which attained great renown. He gave it a printing press of its own, and also a fine library particularly well furnished with the writings of the fathers and with works dealing with the Holy Scriptures. He died a peaceful death on June 15, 1697, and was beatified in 1761.
A life of Bd Gregory was written in Latin by A. Ricchini, which was also translated into Italian. His unpublished writings were edited by P. Uccelli in 1877, and the account of his pastoral visitations by A. Coi in 1907. His earnest efforts to bring about a union with the Greeks are described by G. Poletto in three articles in Bessarione for 1901-1902. See also the references to him in Pastor, Geschichte der Päpste, vol. xiv; and in P. Bergamaschi's life of his namesake, Marc' Antonio Barbarigo (1919). Nine studies for the biography of Bd Gregory were published by Prof. S. Serena, of Venice, between 1929 and 1940.
1737 Bl. Emmanuel d'Abreu Martyr of China, a Portuguese Jesuit. He entered the Order in 1724 and was stationed in China. In 1736, he was arrested in Tonkin and was martyred the following year with three companions.
1856 St. Emily de Vialar Virgin, Foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph "of the Apparition" 
Massíliæ, in Gállia, sanctæ Æmíliæ de Vialár, Vírginis, Fundatrícis Institúti Sorórum a sancto Joseph ab Apparitióne, fortitúdine, patiéntia et caritáte insígnis, quam Pius Duodécimus, Póntifex Máximus, in Sanctárum númerum rétulit.
    At Marseilles in France, St. Emily de Vialar, virgin, foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Apparition.  A shining example of fortitude, patience and charity, the Sovereign Pontiff Pius XII added her to the number of the saints.
Their work was to be the care of the needy, especially the sick, and the education of children. In 1835, she made her profession with seventeen other sisters, and received formal approval for the rule of the Congregation.

ST EMILY DE VIALAR, VIRGIN, FOUNDRESS OF THE SISTERS OF
    ST JOSEPH" OF THE APPARITION"     (A.D, 1856)
ANNE MARGUERITE ADELAIDE EMILY DE VIALAR was the eldest child and only daughter of Baron James Augustine de Vialar and his wife Antoinette, daughter of that Baron de Portal who was physician-in-ordinary to Louis XVIII and Charles X of France. She was born at Gaillac in Languedoc in 1797. At the age of fifteen she was removed from school in Paris to be companion to her father, now a widower, at Gaillac; but unhappily differences arose between them because of Emily's refusal to consider a suitable marriage. On one occasion M. de Vialar threw a decanter at his daughter's head, and she was relegated to a place of no importance in the household. Moreover, things were made more difficult for her by there being no priest or other suitable person in the place to advise and guide her; "God became my director", she said in after years: but even so it is not always easy to be certain what is the voice of God and what the voice of self. Of Emily de Vialar's religious experiences at this time a vision of our Lord, His body showing the wounds of His passion, made so deep an impression on her that it is still commemorated daily in the congregation she founded.
Then in 1818, when she was twenty-one, a young curate (afterwards rector), the abbé Mercier, came to Gaillac, and in him Emily found a friend who understood and appreciated her. He set himself to test her religious vocation, and in the meantime she devoted herself to the care of children neglected by their parents and to the help of the poor generally; this led to further difficulties with her father, who objected to the use of the terrace of his house as a sort of out-patients' department for the sick, the destitute and the sad. For fifteen years Emily was the good angel of Gaillac; and then, in 1832, occurred the event which decided both her and the abbé Mercier that the time had come for her to launch out on her own: her maternal grandfather, the Baron de Portal, died, and Emily's share of his estate was a quite considerable fortune.
She at once bought a large house at Gaillac, and at Christmas took possession of it with three companions, Victoria Teyssonnière, Rose Mongis and Pauline Gineste. Others joined them, and three months later the archbishop of Albi authorized the abbé Mercier to clothe twelve postulants with the religious habit. They called themselves the Congregation of Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition, the epithet referring to the appearing (apparitio) of the angel to Joseph to reveal the divine incarnation (Matthew i 18-21); and their work was to be the care of the needy, especially the sick, and the education of children. They looked not only to France but also to foreign countries and the missions; and in fact they developed as a primarily missionary congregation. The sisters encountered the usual initial opposition and criticism,[* A less usual trial was a threat of extirpation by a band of brigands, who were said to have threatened to strangle everyone of the sisters.]  Details of which found a lively chronicler in Eugenie de Guérin: postulants too young and pretty to be exposed to the air, a too-becoming head-dress, "A new order? It's a disorder! "That Vialar girl...". But Miss de Guérin opined that Sister Emily would do great things, and the discerning archbishop of Albi, Mgr de Gualy, agreed: in 1835 he received her profession, with that of seventeen other sisters, and gave formal approval to the rule of the congregation.
In the previous year the second foundation was made, at Algiers, whither the sisters were invited at the instance of Emily's brother Augustine, one of the municipal councillors, to take charge of a hospital. A correspondent of Eugenie de Guerin speaks of "Emily de Vialar's conquest of Algeria"-but it proved to be only a temporary occupation. From the big establishment at Algiers another foundation was made at Bône, which in turn gave birth to convents in Constantine and Tunis; Tunis had a filiation in Malta, and from there sprang the houses of the Balkans and the Near East. The Sisters of St Joseph were the first Catholic nuns in modem times to be established in Jerusalem, whither they were invited by the Franciscan Guardian of the Holy Land; and when Mgr Dupuch, the first bishop of Algiers, celebrated the Holy Mysteries on the hill of St Augustine's Hippo, Mother Emily and some of her sisters were there. Unfortunately her relations with this prelate were spoiled by a long disagreement about jurisdiction; Rome decided in her favour, but Mgr Dupuch had the support of the civil power and the sisters had to give up the Algerian establishments, at great temporal loss to themselves. It was at this time that Mother Emily turned her attention to Tunisia and then Malta, on which island she landed from a wrecked ship, as St Paul did.
Her friend and helper the abbé Mercier had died in 1845, and on her return to Gaillac in the following year the foundress found her headquarters in a state of confusion, and its finances in a chronic mess owing to the rashness-if not worse-of a trustee. Consequent lawsuits did nothing to improve matters; and the upshot was that the mother house was moved to Toulouse, after several of the senior nuns had left the congregation and its very existence was threatened. "I've had my lesson", wrote Mother Emily. "A quiet trust in God is better than trying to safeguard material advantages." Then she set out for Greece, and founded a convent on the island of Syra.
The visit to Greece was the last of Mother Emily's longer journeys (these fatiguing undertakings provoked un favourable comments from some highly-placed ecclesiastics); but during her lifetime foundations were made much farther away. In 1847 a call from Burma was answered by the dispatch of six sisters thither, and in 1854 the bishop of Perth in Australia visited Mother Emily to ask for help. Accordingly a contingent was sent to Freemantle. The foundress thus in the course of twenty-two years saw her congregation grow from one to some forty houses, many of which she had founded in person. Two years before, the mother house had again been moved, this time to Marseilles (where it still is). Here Mother Emily was warmly welcomed by the famous bishop Mgr de Mazenod, himself the founder of a missionary congregation, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
St Emily de Vialar was by nature shrewd, exact, lively but well-balanced, qualities that showed themselves in her face no less than in her life, and her intelligence was controlled and directed by a will of exceptional strength. Not otherwise could she have done the work that she did, beginning only when she was already thirty-five, and meeting with considerable opposition in the preparatory stages and serious set-backs from time to time afterwards. She was particularly immovable when the constitutional or canonical integrity of her congregation seemed to be threatened: it was that which led to the breach with Mgr Dupuch, and to the abandonment of Toulouse as headquarters after only five years there. Such difficulties, and the troubles at Gaillac in 1846, seemed not to discourage her; but her letters show what interior trials and uncertainties she underwent. St Emily's correspondence was necessarily voluminous, and her writing is marked by a vigorous and appealing style, especially when some moral implication added a touch of high eloquence to her pen; this is well illustrated in the memorial she addressed to Field-Marshal Soult after the Algerian disaster.
St Emily deliberately chose the way of Martha, but she was not excluded from the way of Mary. From the account written at the direction of her confessor we know in how close a state of union with God she lived, and there is as well the testimony of her daughters in religion as to how far she progressed in the path of contemplation. "I have plenty of trials, but God is always there to support me", she wrote. "How often is the Lord with me in the long night watches. The outpouring of His love is all about me, and I try to follow Him always, even though some new tribulation will come upon me .... But as troubles increase, so does my trust in Him...." It has been well said that" Civilization is a matter of the spirit"; and the spirit of St Emily, inspired by a love that Cardinal Granito di Belmonte characterized as "wise, understanding and most considerate", has through the congregation that she founded "done more in the past hundred years for civilization in Africa, Asia and Australia than conquerors and colonizers could ever do".
The physical energy and achievements of St Emily de Vialar are the more remarkable in that from her youth she was troubled by hernia, contracted characteristically in doing a deed of charity. From 1850 this became more and more serious, and it hastened her end, which came on August 24, 1856. The burden of her last testament to her daughters was "Love one another". Her canonization took place in 1951, and her feast is kept on this day.
The standard biography is La vie militante de la Bse Mere Emilie de Vialar, by Canon Testas, reissued in 1939. The author made an Histoire abrégée from this in 1938. The letters of Eugenie de Guerin (1805-48), to her brother Maurice, referred to above, were published at Paris in the sixties of last century; a fresh English translation of this "journal", by Naomi Royde Smith, appeared in The Idol and the Shrine (1949). Like Bd Emily, Miss de Guerin was a native of Languedoc. See also G. Bernoville, Emilie de Vialar (1953).
Anne Marguerite Adelaide Emily de Vialar was the eldest child and only daughter of Baron James Augustine de Vialar and his wife Antoinette, daughter of that Baron de Portal who was physician-in-ordinary to Louis XVIII and Charles X of France. She was born at Gaillac in Languedoc in 1797. At the age of fifteen she was removed from school in Paris to be companion to her father, now a widower, at Gaillac; but unhappily, differences arose between them because of Emily's refusal to consider a suitable marriage.

For fifteen years, Emily was the good angel of Gaillac, devoting herself to the care of children neglected by their parents and to the help of the poor generally. In 1832, her maternal grandfather died, leaving her a share of his estate which was a quite considerable fortune. She bought a large house at Gaillac and took possession of it with three companions. Others joined them and three months later, the archbishop authorized the Abbe to clothe twelve postulants with the religious habit. They called themselves the Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition. Their work was to be the care of the needy, especially the sick, and the education of children. In 1835, she made her profession with seventeen other sisters, and received formal approval for the rule of the Congregation.
The foundress, in the course of twenty-two years, saw her Congregation grow from one to some forty houses, many of which she had founded in person. The physical energy and achievements of St. Emily de Vialar are the more remarkable in that from her youth she was troubled by hernia, contracted characteristically in doing a deed of charity. From 1850 this became more and more serious, and it hastened her end, which came on August 24, 1856. The burden of her last testament to her daughters was "Love one another". Her canonization took place in 1951;  her feast is June 17th.
1860 St. Joseph Cafasso assigned to a seminary in Turin After ordination there he worked especially against the spirit of Jansenism, an excessive preoccupation with sin and damnation St. John Bosco was one of Joseph’s pupils. Joseph urged John Bosco to establish the Salesians to work with the youth of Turin
Even as a young man, Joseph loved to attend Mass and was known for his humility and fervor in prayer. After his ordination he was assigned to a seminary in Turin. There he worked especially against the spirit of Jansenism, an excessive preoccupation with sin and damnation. Joseph used the works of St. Francis de Sales and St. Alphonsus Liguori to moderate rigorism popular at the seminary.
Joseph recommended membership in the Secular Franciscan Order to priests. He urged devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and encouraged daily Communion. In addition to his teaching duties, Joseph was an excellent preacher, confessor and retreat master. Noted for his work with condemned prisoners, Joseph helped many of them die at peace with God. 
St. John Bosco was one of Joseph’s pupils. Joseph urged John Bosco to establish the Salesians to work with the youth of Turin. Joseph was canonized in 1947.
Comment:  Devotion to the Eucharist gave energy to all Joseph's other activities. Long prayer before the Blessed Sacrament has been characteristic of many Catholics who have lived out the gospel well, St. Francis, Bishop Sheen, Cardinal Bernardin and Mother Teresa among them.
Quote: “O admirable heights and sublime lowliness! O sublime humility! O humble sublimity! That the Lord of the universe, God and the Son of God, so humbles Himself that for our salvation He hides Himself under the little form of bread! Look, brothers, at the humility of God and pour out your hearts before Him! Humble yourselves, as well, that you may be exalted by Him. Therefore, hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He Who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally” (Saint Francis, Letter to the Entire Order).


THE PSALTER OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY PSALM 147

I will love thee, O Lady of heaven and earth: and I will call upon thy name in the nations.

Give praise to her, ye who are troubled in heart: and she will strengthen you against your enemies.

Give to us, O Lady, the grace of thy breasts: from the dropping milk of thy sweetness refresh the inmost souls of thy children.

Honor her, O all ye religious: for she is your helper and your special advocate.

Be thou our refreshment, glorious Mother of Christ: for thou art the admirable foundation of the religious life.


Let every spirit praise Our Lady

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 heavenonly 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.
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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.
Pope Benedict XVI to The Catholic Church In China {whole article here} 2000 years of the Catholic Church in China
The saints “a cloud of witnesses over our head”, showing us life of Christian perfection is possible.

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Saint Frances Xavier Seelos  Practical Guide to Holiness
1. Go to Mass with deepest devotion. 2. Spend a half hour to reflect upon your main failing & make resolutions to avoid it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Mother Angelica saving souls is this beautiful womans journey  Shrine_of_The_Most_Blessed_Sacrament
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
James M. Reardon Publication History of Basilica of Saint Mary 1600-1932
James M. Reardon Publication  History of the Basilica of Saint Mary 1955 {update}

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;
Member -- St. Paul Seminary faculty.
Affiliations and Indulgence Litany of Loretto in Stained glass windows here.  Nave Sacristy and Residence Here
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}.
Every Christian must be a living book wherein one can read the teaching of the gospel
 
It Makes No Sense
Not To Believe In GOD
THE BLESSED MOTHER AND ISLAM By Father John Corapi
  June 19, Trinity Sunday, 1991: Ordained Catholic Priest under Pope John Paul II;
then 2,000,000 miles delivering the Gospel to millions, and continues to do so.
By Father John Corapi
THE BLESSED MOTHER AND ISLAM By Father John Corapi
  June 19, Trinity Sunday, 1991: Ordained Catholic Priest under Pope John Paul II;
then 2,000,000 miles delivering the Gospel to millions, and continues to do so.
By Father John Corapi
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.
Talk is weak. Prayer is strong. Pray!  God bless you, Father John Corapi

Father Corapi's Biography

Father John Corapi is what has commonly been called a late vocation. In other words, he came to the priesthood other than a young man. He was 44 years old when he was ordained. From small town boy to the Vietnam era US Army, from successful businessman in Las Vegas and Hollywood to drug addicted and homeless, to religious life and ordination to the priesthood by Pope John Paul II, to a life as a preacher of the Gospel who has reached millions with the simple message that God's Name is Mercy!

Father Corapi's academic credentials are quite extensive. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Pace University in the seventies. Then as an older man returned to the university classrooms in preparation for his life as a priest and preacher. He received all of his academic credentials for the Church with honors: a Masters degree in Sacred Scripture from Holy Apostles Seminary and Bachelor, Licentiate, and Doctorate degrees in dogmatic theology from the University of Navarre in Spain.

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


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
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8 Martyrs Move Closer to Sainthood 8 July, 2016
Posted by ZENIT Staff on 8 July, 2016

The angel appears to Saint Monica
This morning, Pope Francis received Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Cardinal Angelo Amato. During the audience, he authorized the promulgation of decrees concerning the following causes:

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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
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

CAUSES OF SAINTS July 2015.
Pope Recognizes Heroic Virtues of Ukrainian Archbishop
Recognition Brings Metropolitan Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky Closer to Beatification
By Junno Arocho Esteves Rome, July 17, 2015 (ZENIT.org)
Pope Francis recognized the heroic virtues of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky. According to a communique released by the Holy See Press Office, the Holy Father met this morning with Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

The Pope also recognized the heroic virtues of several religious/lay men and women from Italy, Spain, France & Mexico.
Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky is considered to be one of the most influential 20th century figures in the history of the Ukrainian Church.
Enthroned as Metropolitan of Lviv in 1901, Archbishop Sheptytsky was arrested shortly after the outbreak of World War I in 1914 by the Russians. After his imprisonment in several prisons in Russia and the Ukraine, the Archbishop was released in 1918.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic prelate was also an ardent supporter of the Jewish community in Ukraine, going so far as to learn Hebrew to better communicate with them. He also was a vocal protestor against atrocities committed by the Nazis, evidenced in his pastoral letter, "Thou Shalt Not Kill." He was also known to harbor thousands of Jews in his residence and in Greek Catholic monasteries.
Following his death in 1944, his cause for canonization was opened in 1958.
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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)
October 01, 2015 Vatican City, Pope Authorizes following Decrees
(ZENIT.org) By Staff Reporter
Polish Layperson Recognized as Servant of God
Pope Authorizes Decrees
Pope Francis on Wednesday authorised the Congregation for Saints' Causes to promulgate the following decrees:

MARTYRDOM
- Servant of God Valentin Palencia Marquina, Spanish diocesan priest, killed in hatred of the faith in Suances, Spain in 1937;

HEROIC VIRTUES
- Servant of God Giovanni Folci, Italian diocesan priest and founder of the Opera Divin Prigioniero (1890-1963);
- Servant of God Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish diocesan priest (1921-1987);
- Servant of God Jose Rivera Ramirez, Spanish diocesan priest (1925-1991);
- Servant of God Juan Manuel Martín del Campo, Mexican diocesan priest (1917-1996);
- Servant of God Antonio Filomeno Maria Losito, Italian professed priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (1838-1917);
- Servant of God Maria Benedetta Giuseppa Frey (nee Ersilia Penelope), Italian professed nun of the Cistercian Order (1836-1913);
- Servant of God Hanna Chrzanowska, Polish layperson, Oblate of the Ursulines of St. Benedict (1902-1973).
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 Pasqualina 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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