Regina Caeli. Queen Of Heaven.

The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Queen Of Heaven.

Image: CALEFACTORY.ORG

English: The Assumption of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Deutsch: Maria Himmelfahrt, Hochaltar für St. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venedig.

Français: L'Assomption de la Vierge.

Artist: Titian (1490–1576).

Date: 1516-1518.

Current location: Institution:Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, Italy.

Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.

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"Regina Caeli".

Composed by

Marco Frisina.

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Saint Ignatius Of Loyola (1491 - 1556). Founder Of The Jesuits. Feast Day 31 July.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless otherwise stated.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola.
Confessor.
Feast Day 31 July.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola.

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Date: 1600s.

Source/Photographer: AllPosters.com

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Ignatius was born in Northern Spain in 1491. He was the eleventh child of the Lord of Loyola, and, at the age of fifteen, came as Page to the Court of King Ferdinand V of Spain.

His ardent and martial nature caused him to choose a military career. At the Siege of Pamplona, he was severely wounded in the leg. During his long convalescence, in the absence of books of chivalry, for which he had a passion, they gave him to read The Lives of Jesus Christ and of The Saints.

This reading was for him a revelation. It dawned on him that The Church also has her Army, which, under the Orders of the Representative of Christ, fights to defend here below the Sacred Interests of The God of Hosts [To the Three Religious Vows, Saint Ignatius adds a fourth, by which the Members of The Society of Jesus bind themselves to go wherever the Pope will send them for the Salvation of Souls].

English: Choir of the l'Escolania de Montserrat

in the Basilica of the Abbey of Montserrat, Catalonia, Spain,

where Saint Ignatius laid down his sword at the feet of the statue of The Virgin.

Français: Choeur de l'Escolania de Montserrat

dans la basilique de l'abbaye de Montserrat, Catalogne, Espagne.

Photo: 21 September 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Bernard Gagnon.

(Wikimedia Commons)

He then laid down his sword at the feet of The Virgin, in the famous Benedictine Abbey at Montserrat, and his generous Soul, once enamoured of worldly glory, now only longed for the Greater Glory of The King, Whom, henceforth, he would serve (Collect).

Throughout the night of 25 March, when the Mystery of The Incarnation of The Word is Solemnised, after confessing his sins, he kept his Knightly Vigil, and The Mother of God armed him for Christ and The Church Militant, His Spouse.

Soon, he became General of The Society of Jesus, raised by Providence to combat Protestantism, Jansenism and returning Paganism.

English: Benedictine Abbey of Montserrat, Spain.

Deutsch: Unterhalb des „Roca de St. Jaume“.

Español: Vista desde la roca de Sant Jaume.

Photo: 2003.

Source: Own work.

Author: Richard Schneider.

(Wikimedia Commons)

On the mountain, The Sons of Benedict, as a prelude to The Liturgy in Heaven, will continue the Solemn Celebration of The Divine Office, which Ignatius will recommend to the Faithful, and whose Sacred Melodies he never heard without tears ["The Third of the Eighteen Rules, made by Saint Ignatius, as the crowning of The Spiritual Exercises, "that we may have the true sentiments of the orthodox Church," recommends to The Faithful the Canticles of The Church, the Psalms and the difference Canonical Hours at their appointed times. And, at the head of this book, in order to enable one to draw most profit from these Exercises, he rules in his twentieth note that, he who can do so, is to choose, for the duration of The Exercises, a dwelling whence he may easily go to The Offices of Matins and Vespers, as well as to Mass" (Dom Guéranger: The Liturgical Year: 31 July. Saint Ignatius of Loyola)]; and he, sacrificing himself to his Mission, goes down into the plain, to oppose with his valiant troops, the attacks of the hostile army, whose violent onslaughts are always directed against his Institute (Epistle).

Wherefore, to preserve in his sons the intense Interior Life, required by the militant activity to which he devotes them, Saint Ignatius subjects them to a strongly organised hierarchy and teaches them, in a masterly treatise, highly approved of by The Church, his Spiritual Exercises, which have Sanctified thousands of Souls.

It has been affirmed that it was the practice of the Exercitatorium of the Benedictine Cisneros, Abbot of Montserrat in 1500, which inspired him with the idea. Guided by Grace, he realised it, however, at Manresa, Spain, in a different and very personal way.

The Life of Saint Ignatius of Loyola.

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Saint Ignatius arms his sons by giving them, for their shield; the name of Jesus (Introit), for their breastplate; the Love of God, which The Saviour came to enflame on Earth (Communion) [when he sent Missionaries abroad, he used to say to them: "Go, my brothers, inflame the World and spread everywhere the fire which Jesus Christ came to kindle on the Earth"] and Whose symbol, The Sacred Heart, they gloriously bear in the folds of their flag; and for their sword; Preaching, Writing, Teaching, and all other forms of Apostolate.

It was in a Benedictine Monastery in Spain, that, at The Feast of The Annunciation, Saint Ignatius first used these arms; in a Chapel of The Benedictine Abbey of Montmartre, that, on The Feast of The Assumption, in 1534, and later on at the Altar of The Virgin of the Basilica of Saint Paul-Without-the-Walls, served by Benedictines, that was born The Society of Jesus, that noble chivalry of Christ, and, lastly, it was the Benedictine Pope, Pius VII, a native of Cesena and a Monk of its Abbey, who, in 1814, re-established it in all its rights.

It is, therefore, God, Himself, Who unites at the feet of The Blessed Virgin these two Orders, which powerfully help The Church, for Martha and Mary, action and contemplation, both contribute, by different means, to the Glory of God.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola.

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The Mottoes of these two Religious families are alike: "In all things God be Glorified ! (I.O.G.D.)" and "To the Greater Glory of God ! (A.M.D.G.)"

Not to do anything, except for the Glory of God, and to do everything for His greater Glory, is the perfection of Holiness. It is the end of The Creation, the end of man's elevation to a Supernatural Life, the end, indeed, of the evangelical precepts, which cause generous Souls to renounce, by Vow, things that are lawful, in order to devote themselves more freely to the interests of God, and to render to Him, in its entirety, the accidental Glory He had been deprived of by man's use of unlawful things.

Benedict has filled Europe with his Missionary Monks, whose principal work is to Praise God, and Ignatius, with his Priest-Apostles (Gospel), who make manifest their Interior Life by their untiring activity.

Tomb of Saint Ignatius of Loyola.

Church of Il Gesù,

Mother Church of The Society of Jesus,

Rome, Italy.

Photo: 13 November 2005.

Source: Own work.

Author: Torvindus.

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From Montserrat, twelve Monks, with their Superior, started with Christoper Columbus, for the New Continent. From Lisbon, started Francis Xavier, who first evangelised Japan and China. It is the same Tree of the Love of God, which, on different branches, bears the same fruit.

On 31 July 1556, Saint Ignatius died, pronouncing the name of Jesus, and his Society of Jesus spread throughout the World. It numbers, nowadays, forty-four Provinces and several hundreds of Colleges [The Society of Jesus numbers: Twenty-three Canonised Saints; 142 Beatified; Three Venerables; and over 100, whose twenty-nine Causes are being discussed. It had, in 1934, 24,270 Members: There were 24,000 at the Time of the Suppression of The Society of Jesus in 1773 [Editor: By Pope Clement XIV, in the Brief "Dominus ac Redemptor" (21 July 1773)]. It has given to The Church illustrious Prelates and a large number of Apostles, learned men, educators and influential men, as is proved by the numerous Congregations or Religious Associations under the direction of the Sons of Saint Ignatius. The Apostleship of Prayer, for instance, is believed to number some thirty million Associates.]

May we obtain, by the intercession of Saint Ignatius, so to be Sanctified in Truth (Secret) by the Sacred Mysteries of Mass and Communion, the Source of all Holiness, that, with the help of this Saint, we may, after his example, so combat evil on Earth, as to be crowned with him in Heaven (Collect).

Church of the Gesù,

Rome, Italy.

Mother Church of The Jesuits.

Saint Ignatius Loyola is buried here.

Photo: 7 September 2013.

Source: File:Chiesa gesu facade.jpg (cropped).

Author: Alessio Damato.

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Saint Abdon And Saint Sennen. Martyrs. Feast Day 30 July.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

SS. Abdon and Sennen.
Martyrs.
Feast Day 30 July.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Sennen Church,

Sennen, Cornwall, England.

Photo: 5 November 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Andrewrabbott.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Sennen's Church is a Parish Church, of The Church of England,

located in Sennen, Cornwall, England. 

The Church is Mediaeval. It is known as the

Parish Church of Land's End, Cornwall, and the Patron is The Duke of Cornwall.

(Wikipedia)

Saints Abdon and Sennen, born in Persia, "were arrested and taken to Rome under the Emperor Decius. They were scourged with cords, weighted with lead, and beheaded" (Roman Martyrology). This was in the middle of the 3rd-Century (254 A.D.)

Mass: Intret.

Saint Sennen Church,

Sennen, Cornwall, England.

Illustration: SENNEN COVE

Interior of Saint Sennen Church,

Sennen, Cornwall, England.

Illustration: SENNEN COVE

The Church Of Maria Am Gestade (Saint Mary On The Shore), Vienna, Austria.

English: The High Altar,

Church of Maria am Gestade (Saint Mary on the Shore),

Vienna, Austria.

Deutsch: Hochalter der Wiener Pfarrkirche Maria am Gestade.

Photo: 26 January 2015.

Source: Own work.

Author: Bwag © Bwag/Commons.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The exquisite Tabernacle in the Church of Maria am Gestade (Saint Mary on the Shore),

Vienna, Austria, which features both Gothic and Baroque elements.

Illustration: INTROIBO AD ALTARE DEI

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Maria am Gestade (English: Mary on the Shore) is a Gothic Church in Vienna, Austria. One of the oldest Churches in the City — along with Saint Peter's Church and Saint Rupert's Church — it is one of the few surviving examples of Gothic architecture in Vienna. 

The Church was traditionally used by sailors on the Danube River. The name, Maria am Gestade, reflects the former location on the Fluvial Terrace of an arm of The River Danube.

Saints Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus, Beatrice. Martyrs. Feast Day 29 July.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

SS. Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrice.
Martyrs.
Feast Day 29 July.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

The statue of Saint Beatrice (on the Right) is part of a group of twenty-four statues

installed above the Colonnade entrance above the Basilica of Saint Peter's, Rome.

Illustration: SAINT PETER'S BASILICA.INFO

English: Martyrdom of Saint Simplicius and Saint Faustinus.

Français: Martyre de saint Simplice et de saint Faustin.

Date: 14th-Century.

Source: http://saints.bestlatin.net/gallery/simplic_bnfms.htm

Author: Richard de Montbaston et collaborateurs.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Holy Pontiff, Felix II, is a Pope of the 4th-Century. He was Martyred in Tuscany, Italy, in the time of the Arians, 365 A.D. [Editor: See The Breviary notes (below), reference the dispute about Felix.]

Saints Simplicius and Faustinus, denounced as Christians to the persecutors, were put to death at Rome under Emperor Diocletian in 304 A.D. Saint Beatrice, their sister, was arrested and strangled in prison. Pope Leo II placed the Relics of these three Martyrs in a Church at Rome Dedicated in their names.

Mass: Sapiéntiam.

BREVIARIUM ROMANUM.

THE ROMAN BREVIARY.

LE BRÉVIAIRE.

English: A French Prayer Book of 1905 containing extracts from The Roman Missal,

and The Roman Breviary of the time, with French translations.

Français: Nouveau Paroissien Romain contenant en latin et en français

les Offices et Messes de tous les dimanches et de toutes les fêtes de l'année ecclésiastique.

File: File:Nouveau Paroissien Romain (1905).jpg

Uploaded: 6 May 2009.

Author: Perky.

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Illustration: RORATE CAELI

The following Text is from The Pre-1911 Roman Breviary
(Volume II. Summer).
Translated out of Latin into English by
John, Marquess of Bute, K.T.
Date: 1879.

The Holy Martyrs, Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus, and Beatrix (Beatrice).
Feast Day 29 July.

Simple.

The Martyrology says that Simplicius, Faustinus, and Beatrix (Beatrice) were two brothers and a sister, who suffered at Rome under Diocletian. Concerning Felix, there has been much dispute. The Missal and Breviary, by suppressing the Title of Pope or Bishop (always given in such cases) seem to confirm the view, now generally adopted by historians, viz., that he was an African Martyr, who suffered on 10 November, and whose relics were brought to Rome on 29 July, but the Martyrology retains another theory, now generally rejected, which identifies this Saint with one Felix, intruded into the See of Rome by Constantius during the Pontificate of Liberius, and now commonly regarded as an Anti-Pope of very dubious orthodoxy.

Saint Martha. Virgin. Feast Day 29 July.

Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Saint Martha.
Virgin.
Feast Day 29 July.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

Jesus at the house of Mary and Martha.

Artist: Harold Copping (1863–1932).

Date: 1927.

Source: http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/

Harold-Copping/Martha-And-Mary,-1927.html

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After having celebrated, on the 22nd of this month, the Feast of Saint Mary Magdalen, we honour today, Martha, her sister.

The daughter of noble and rich parents, she lived at Bethany, two miles from Jerusalem. "Jesus", says Saint John, "loved Martha and her sister Mary and Lazarus," wherefore He preferred to dwell at their house when He was in Judea. There He spent the days which preceded His death.

Martha, who was the eldest, therefore often had the honour of being the hostess of Jesus (Gospel, Communion), The Divine Spouse, to Whom she had Consecrated her Virginity (Epistle). While busy with serving Jesus, she requested Him to bid Mary help her. And Jesus, without blaming her for ministering to His wants, made her understand that certain Souls, called by God, choose a still better part, since they commence on Earth what all shall do in Heaven.

Active life, with all its labours and fatigues endured for the sake of Christ, Whom we serve in our neighbour, is very meritorious; "happy, however, is the home where Mary causes the complaint of Martha" [Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Sermon III of The Assumption] and refuses to take away from Prayer a life which ordinary occupations might appear to claim.

God is indeed the author of all Grace and wishes to be recognised as such; and contemplative life, which puts Souls in direct contact with Him, assures their personal Sanctification more fully and obtains more efficaciously the Graces by which a Christian Apostleship becomes fruitful.

Let us esteem at its just value the position that Jesus reserves to Mary, and, if He calls us to share in Martha's solicitude, let us endeavour, like the Saints, to make up by the spirit of Prayer, for what is wanting in active life.

Mass: Dilexísti.

Commemoration of Saints Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrice. Martyrs.

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Mary Teaches Us How To Worship.

The Text in this Article is from THE HERMENEUTIC OF CONTINUITY

The Blessed Virgin Mary Prays for us.

Illustration: SHUTTERSTOCK

Mary teaches us to worship:

Homily by Fr Timothy Finigan.

A Day With Mary.

Available on YouTube at

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Fr Timothy Finigan says the following on his Blog, THE HERMENEUTIC OF CONTINUITY

"The Day With Mary came to the Parish of Margate a couple of weeks ago. Claudio has now put up on YouTube the Sermon that I gave at Mass on the theme of how Our Lady, as our Advocate, assists us at our worship.

"It is always embarrassing to see your own Sermon on video - it reminds me of the Sermon classes we had as Seminarians. There is much to criticise, but I hope that it might be of some use."

Consider The Lilies Of The Field, How They Grow: They Labour Not, Neither Do They Spin, But I Say To You, That Not Even Solomon In All His Glory Was Arrayed As One Of These . . .

English: Art Nouveau, Stained-Glass Window, PETIT PALAIS, Paris, France.

Français: Un vitrail du Petit Palais, à Paris.

Illustration: ART NOUVEAU STYLE

Saint Nazarius. Saint Celsus. Pope Victor I. Martyrs. Pope Innocent I. Confessor. Feast Day 28 July.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Saints Nazarius and Celsus, Martyrs.
Pope Victor  I. Martyr.
Pope Innocent I. Confessor.
Feast Day 28 July.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

Saint Nazario on a horse. 

Fresco of 1480.

Saint Nazzaro and Celso Abbey, San Nazzaro Sesia, Novara, Italy.

Artist: Giovanni Antonio Merli (?)

Photo: 29 September 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Laurom.

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: Saint Nazarus and Saint Celsus (standing figures).

The kneeling figure is a donor named Altobello Averoldi.

Deutsch: Auferstehung Christi (Averoldi-Altarpolyptychon),

linke Tafel, Szene unten: Hl. Nazzarus und Hl. Celso und betender Stifter.

Artist: Titian (1490–1576).

Date: 1520-1522.

Current location: San Nazzaro e Celso Abbey, Italy.

Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.

DVD-ROM, 2002. 

ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Church honours today several Saints who lived at different times and in different Countries.

Saint Nazarius, Baptised by Pope Saint Linus at Rome, in his turn Baptised young Saint Celsus, who was born at Cimiez, near Nice, France. They betook themselves to Milan, Italy, where they were arrested by the pagans and beheaded about the year 68 A.D.

In 395 A.D., their bodies were discovered and, in the tomb of Saint Nazarius, was found a phial of his blood, as red as if it had been shed that very day.

Pope Saint Victor I, born in Africa, succeeded Pope Saint Eleutherius on the Pontifical Throne. Pope Saint Victor I fixed the date of Easter for the whole Church, according to the rules observed still now. He also decided that anyone might Baptise, in cases of necessity, with un-Blessed water. He was Martyred, under Emperor Septimus Severus, in 202 A.D.

Pope Innocent I was born at Albano, Italy, and was a contemporary of Saint Augustine and of Saint Jerome. The latter wrote of him: "Keep the Faith of Saint Innocent, who fills The Apostolic Chair, and who is the successor and spiritual son of Anastasius, of happy memory; receive no other Doctrine, however wise and attractive it may appear." He died 417 A.D.

Mass: Intret in conspéctu.

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The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: Rene de Cramer.

“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.

Used with Permission.

Saint Christopher,

one of the Fourteen Auxiliary Saints,

(Feast Day 25 July).

Saint Christopher Carrying The Christ Child,

by Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1485)

The name of "Auxiliary Saints" is given to a group of fourteen Saints particularly noted for the efficacy of their intercession. They were often represented together.

Saint George
Feast Day 23 April

Is to be recognised in statuary and pictures by the dragon he strikes down. He is invoked against herpetic diseases. He is, with Saint Sebastian and Saint Maurice, the Patron Saint of soldiers.

Saint Blaise
Feast Day 3 February

Is to be recognised in statuary and pictures by his two candles, crossed. He is invoked against diseases of the throat.

Saint Erasmus
Feast Day 2 June

Is to be recognised in statuary and pictures by entrails wound around a windlass. He is invoked against diseases of the stomach. He is the Patron Saint of mariners and seamen.

Saint Pantaleon
Feast Day 27 July

Is to be recognised in statuary and pictures by his nailed hands. Invoked against consumption. He is, with Saint Luke and Saints Cosmas and Damian, the Patron Saint of medical men.

Detail of Saint Giles and the Hind,

by the Master of Saint Giles, circa 1500 A.D.

Saint Vitus (or Guy)
Feast Day 15 June

Is to be recognised in statuary and pictures by his Cross. Invoked against chorea (Saint Vitus's Dance), lethargy and the bite of venomous or mad beasts.

Saint Christopher
Feast Day 25 July

Is to be recognised in statuary and pictures by the Infant Jesus, Whom he carries. He is invoked in storms, tempests, plagues, and for the avoidance of accidents in travelling. Also, in the Blessing of motor cars.

Saint Denis
Feast Day 9 October

Is to be recognised in statuary and pictures by his head, which he holds in his hands. Invoked for people possessed of devils.

Deutsch: Altar der Vierzehn Nothelfer der Basilika Vierzehnheiligen, Bad Staffelstein.

English: Altar of The Fourteen Holy Helpers, Vierzehnheiligen Basilica,

Bad Staffelstein, Germany.

Photo: July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Zairon.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Cyriacus
Feast Day 8 August

Is to be recognised in statuary and pictures by his Deacon's Vestments. Invoked against diseases of the eye and diabolical possession.

Saint Acathius
Feast Day 8 May

Is to be recognised in statuary and pictures by his crown of thorns. Invoked against headaches.

Saint Eustace
Feast Day 20 September

Is to be recognised in statuary and pictures by his stag and hunting equipment. Invoked for preservation from fire (eternal or temporal).

Saint Barbara Shrines in German mines.

Schacht Konrad mine (left)

and Schacht Asse II mine (right).

Saint Giles
Feast Day 1 September

Is to be recognised in statuary and pictures by his Benedictine cowl and his hind. Invoked against panic, epilepsy, madness, nocturnal terrors.

Saint Margaret
Feast Day 20 July

Is to be recognised in statuary and pictures by the dragon she keeps in chains. Invoked against pains in the loins and by women about to become mothers.

Deutsch: Altar of the Vierzehnheiligen. Die Basilika Vierzehnheiligen bei Bad Staffelstein im Landkreis Lichtenfels ist eine Wallfahrtskirchen in Oberfranken, Deutschland.

English: A statue of one of the Saints (Saint Giles) on the Altar of The Fourteen Holy Helpers. Basilica of The Fourteen Holy Helpers, Bad Staffelstein, near Bamberg, in Bavaria, Germany.

Photo: 16 April 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Barbara
Feast Day 4 December

Is to be recognised in statuary and pictures by her tower and the ciborium surmounted by a Sacred Host. Invoked against lightnings and sudden death. Patron Saint of miners and artillery soldiers.

Saint Catharine
Feast Day 25 November

Is to be recognised in statuary and pictures by her broken wheel. "The wise Counsellor" is invoked by students, Christian philosophers, orators and barristers.

English: Two of The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints, depicted in a Stained-Glass Window in the Parish Church of Saint Pelagius, Weitnau, Bavaria, Germany.

The Saints are Saint Erasmus and Saint Acathius.

Deutsch: Pfarrkirche St. Pelagius, Weitnau, Nothelferfenster, St. Erasmus und St. Achatius.

Photo: September 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Andreas Praefcke.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

The Fourteen Holy Helpers are a group of Saints, Venerated together, in Roman Catholicism, because their intercession is believed to be particularly effective, especially against various diseases. This group of Nothelfer ("helpers in need") originated in the 14th-Century, at first in The Rhineland, Germany, largely as a result of the epidemic (probably of bubonic plague) that became known as The Black Death.

Devotion to "The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints" began in the Rhineland, now part of Germany, in the time of The Black Death.

At the heart of The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints were three Virgin Martyrs:

Sankt Margaretha mit dem Wurm,
Sankt Barbara mit dem Turm,
Sankt Catharina mit dem Radl,
das sind die heiligen drei Madl.

Saint Margaret with the dragon
Saint Barbara with the tower
Saint Catherine with the wheel
those are the three holy maids.

English: The framed Altarpiece in the Church of Saint Martin, Alsace, France,

depicting The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints.

Français: Alsace, Bas-Rhin, Erstein, Eglise Saint-Martin, Autel-retable

et tableau des 14 intercesseurs (Autel 1804; tableau 1878 Caroline Sorg).

Photo: 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Ralph Hammann.

(Wikimedia Commons)

As the other Saints began to be invoked, along with these three Virgin Martyrs, they were represented together in works of art. Popular Veneration of these Saints often began in a Monastery that held their Relics. All of the Saints, except Saint Giles, were accounted Martyrs.

Saint Christopher and Saint Giles were invoked against the plague. Saint Denis was Prayed to for relief from headache, Saint Blaise for ills of the throat, Saint Elmo, for abdominal maladies, Saint Barbara for fever, and Saint Vitus against epilepsy. Saint Pantaleon was the Patron of physicians, Saint Cyriacus invoked against temptation on the deathbed, and Saints Christopher, Barbara, and Catherine for protection against a sudden and unprovided-for death. Saint Giles was Prayed to for a good Confession, and Saint Eustace as healer of family troubles. Domestic animals were also attacked by the plague, and so Saints George, Elmo, Pantaleon, and Vitus were invoked for their protection. Saint Margaret of Antioch is the Patron of safe childbirth.

English: The High Altar,

Church of Saint Blaise, Dahlenheim, Alsace, France.

Saint Blaise is one of The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints.

Français: Alsace, Bas-Rhin, Dahlenheim, Église Saint-Blaise,

Chœur avec stalles et maître-autel (XVIIIe)

Photo: 2015.

Source: Own work.

Author: Ralph Hammann.

(Wikimedia Commons)

As the Saints' joint Cultus spread in the 15th-Century, Pope Nicholas V attached Indulgences to Devotion of The Fourteen Holy Helpers, though these no longer apply. While each had a separate Feast Day, The Fourteen Holy Helpers were in some places celebrated as a Group on 8 August, but this Celebration never became part of The General Roman Calendar for Universal Veneration.

When that Calendar was revised, in 1969, the individual Celebrations of Saint Barbara, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Christopher, and Saint Margaret of Antioch, were dropped, but, in 2004, Pope Saint John Paul II re-instated the 25 November Optional Memorial of Catherine of Alexandria, whose voice was heard by Saint Joan of Arc. The individual Celebrations of all Fourteen Holy Helpers (or Fourteen Auxiliary Saints) are included in The General Roman Calendar as in 1954, The General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII and The General Roman Calendar of 1960.

Comparable to the cult of The Fourteen Holy Helpers was that of The Four Holy Marshals, who were also Venerated in The Rhineland as "Marshals of God." These were Quirinus of Neuss, Saint Anthony the Great, Pope Cornelius, and Saint Hubert.

Saint Pantaleon. Martyr. Feast Day 27 July.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Saint Pantaleon.
Martyr.
Feast Day 27 July.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Pantaleon.

Great-Martyr and Unmercenary Healer.

13th Century Icon, including scenes from his life,

from the Monastery of Saint Katherine, on Mount Sinai.

Единственная житийная икона св. Пантелеймона византийского времени.

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At Nicomedia, says The Roman Martyrology, was Martyred Saint Pantaleon, a doctor, who, having been arrested on account of his Faith by order of the Emperor, Maximian, was tortured on the Rack and burned with flaming torches; he was consoled in his torments by an apparition of Our Lord; the sword put an end to his glorious combat. This was under Emperor Diocletian, about 303 A.D.

Saint Pantaleon is numbered by the Greeks among The Great Martyrs. Medical men honour him, after Saint Luke, as their principal Patron. He is one of "The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints".

Mass: Laetábitur.

English: The Church of Saint Pantaleon (Saint Panteleimon),

built in 1735-1739, is one of the oldest in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Русский: Санкт-Петербург, Россия. Церковь св.

великомученика Пантелеимона на ул. Пестеля.

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Saint Pantaleon (Greek: Παντελεήμων [Panteleímon], "All-Compassionate"), counted in The West among the Late-Mediaeval Fourteen Holy Helpers [Editor: Or The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints] and in The East as one of The Holy Unmercenary Healers, was a Martyr of Nicomedia, in Bithynia, during The Diocletian Persecution of 303 A.D.

According to The Martyrologies, Saint Pantaleon was the son of a rich pagan, Eustorgius of Nicomedia, and had been instructed in Christianity by his Christian mother, Saint Eubula; however, after her death, he fell away from The Christian Church, while he studied medicine with a renowned physician, Euphrosinos; under the patronage of Euphrosinos, he became physician to The Emperor Maximian or Galerius.

The Church of Saint Panteleimon,

Gorno Nerezi, Skopje, Republic of Madedonia.

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He was won back to Christianity by Saint Hermolaus (characterised as a Bishop of The Church at Nicomedia), who convinced him that Christ was the better physician, signalling the significance of the exemplum of Pantaleon that Faith is to be trusted over medical advice, marking the direction European medicine was to take until the 16th-Century.

Saint Alphonsus Liguori wrote, regarding this incident:

He studied medicine with such success, that the Emperor Maximian appointed him his physician. One day as our Saint was discoursing with a Holy Priest, named Hermolaus, the latter, after praising the study of medicine, concluded thus: "But, my friend, of what use are all thy acquirements in this art, since thou art ignorant of the science of Salvation ?"

BREVIARIUM ROMANUM.

THE ROMAN BREVIARY.

LE BRÉVIAIRE.

English: A French Prayer Book of 1905 containing extracts from The Roman Missal,

and The Roman Breviary of the time, with French translations.

Français: Nouveau Paroissien Romain contenant en latin et en français les Offices et Messes

de tous les dimanches et de toutes les fêtes de l'année ecclésiastique.

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Illustration: RORATE CAELI

The following Text is from The Pre-1911 Roman Breviary
(Volume II. Summer).
Translated out of Latin into English by
John, Marquess of Bute, K.T.
Date: 1879.

Saint Pantaleon.
Martyr.
Feast Day 27 July.

Simple.

All from The Common Office for a Simple Feast of one Martyr,

except the following Prayer throughout The Office.

Graciously hear us, we beseech Thee, O Almighty God,

and, at the petition of Thy Blessed Martyr, Pantaleon, 

be mercifully pleased to deliver us from all things which may hurt our bodies, 

and from all evil thoughts which may defile our Souls. 

Through Our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, 

Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, 

in the unity of The Holy Ghost, 

one God, 

World without end.

Amen.