Henryk Górecki Symphony No. 3.
Dawn Upshaw (Soprano).
David Zinman and London Sinfonietta.
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03 August, 2026
The Finding Of The Body Of Saint Stephen, The First Martyr. Today, 3 August. Red Vestments.
unless stated otherwise.
The Finding Of The Body Of Saint Stephen.
The First Martyr.
3 August.
Semi-Double.
Red Vestments.
The Church Solemnises on 26 December The Feast of Saint Stephen, and, on 2 January, The Octave of this Saint. She holds The Station on Passion Friday in the Church Dedicated to Saint Stephen, on Mount Coelius, at Rome.
On 10 August, she will Celebrate The Feast of Saint Laurence, whose "Remains, more precious," say the writers of The First Centuries A.D., "than Gold and Precious Stones", are with those of The Deacon Stephen, which had been Translated from Palestine to the Capital of The Christian World.
Today's Mass Commemorates the miraculous finding by a Priest of these Relics at Kapher-Gamala, Israel, on 5 December 415 A.D. (Collect).
Except the Collect, it is the same as that on 26 December, the date of the Translation of these remains from Kapher-Gamala to Jerusalem.
3 August.
Semi-Double.
Red Vestments.
The Stoning of Saint Stephen.
Altarpiece of the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore,
Venice, Italy.
Artist: Jacopo and Domenico Tintoretto.
Photo: 11 April 2013.
Source: Own work.
Author: Smeat75
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The Church Solemnises on 26 December The Feast of Saint Stephen, and, on 2 January, The Octave of this Saint. She holds The Station on Passion Friday in the Church Dedicated to Saint Stephen, on Mount Coelius, at Rome.
On 10 August, she will Celebrate The Feast of Saint Laurence, whose "Remains, more precious," say the writers of The First Centuries A.D., "than Gold and Precious Stones", are with those of The Deacon Stephen, which had been Translated from Palestine to the Capital of The Christian World.
Today's Mass Commemorates the miraculous finding by a Priest of these Relics at Kapher-Gamala, Israel, on 5 December 415 A.D. (Collect).
Except the Collect, it is the same as that on 26 December, the date of the Translation of these remains from Kapher-Gamala to Jerusalem.
For Gamaliel, the teacher of Saint Paul, so much esteemed among the Doctors of Israel, that, at his death, it was declared that “the glory of Israel had disappeared”, had buried twenty miles from that Town, at his Country House, the Holy Martyr Stephen, Nicodemus, and his own son, Abibas.
He, himself, was buried there. These precious Relics, long ignored, were miraculously discovered and wrought numerous cures.
The Introit and the Epistle recall how Stephen, filled with the Holy Ghost, convicted the Jews of error, and how they, hating Christ as their fathers hated Him (Gospel), seized Stephen and stoned him to death.
Let us honour Saint Stephen, and, imitating his Prayers for his Persecutors (Epistle, Communion), let us learn by his example to love our enemies (Collect).
Mass: As on the Feast of Saint Stephen, 26 December, except one word in the Collect: “inventionem”, instead of “natalitia”. We Celebrate “the finding of his body”, instead of “his birthday to immortality”.
The Introit and the Epistle recall how Stephen, filled with the Holy Ghost, convicted the Jews of error, and how they, hating Christ as their fathers hated Him (Gospel), seized Stephen and stoned him to death.
Let us honour Saint Stephen, and, imitating his Prayers for his Persecutors (Epistle, Communion), let us learn by his example to love our enemies (Collect).
Mass: As on the Feast of Saint Stephen, 26 December, except one word in the Collect: “inventionem”, instead of “natalitia”. We Celebrate “the finding of his body”, instead of “his birthday to immortality”.
25 August 2026 Is The “Six Years’ Mind” For The Rev. Fr. Charles Briggs (R.I.P.). “Pray For Me, As I Will For Thee, That We May Merrily Meet In Heaven”.
Reverend Fr. Charles Briggs (R.I.P.).
Parish Priest, Saint Mary’s,
Chislehurst, Kent.
25 August 2026 is the “Six Years’ Mind”
for Rev. Fr. Charles Briggs (R.I.P.).
Of your Charity,
please Pray for him and his Parishioners.
A Message From Fr. Charles Briggs
To All His Many Friends And Parishioners.
“Your Prayers would naturally be very much appreciated.
As a Priest, I am well familiar with The Truths of our Faith concerning the last things of Death, Judgement, Hell, and Heaven, but the end of life here below is a trial for which
none may presume on being fully prepared to face.
“I will offer up my sufferings; for you, for my dear family,
and for friends, in reparation for my sins, and in union
with our dear Saviour’s redeeming Sacrifice on The Cross.
“My apologies if I do not get to say “Goodbye”, personally,
but, as Saint Thomas More said: “Pray for me, as I will
for thee, that we may merrily meet in Heaven” ”.
Fr. Charles Briggs.
Dear Jesus: Pray for him.
Dear Holy Mother Mary: Pray for him.
Dear Saint Charles Borromeo: Pray for him.
02 August, 2026
Saint Alphonsus Mary De Liguori. Bishop And Doctor Of The Church.
English: Saint Alphonsus Mary de Liguori.
Русский: Святой Альфонс Лигуори.
Беларуская: Святы Альфонс Лігуоры.
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This Article is taken from “The Liturgical Year”,
by Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 13.
Time After Pentecost.
Book IV.
Yesterday, we admired, in Peter and The Machabees, the substructure of the Palace built by Wisdom in time to endure for Eternity. Today, in conformity with The Divine Ways of that Wisdom, who in her playing reaches from end to end, we are suffered to contemplate the progress of the glorious building, to behold the summit of the work, the last row of stones actually laid.
Now, summit and foundation, the work is all one; the materials are all priceless: Witness the diamond of fine water which displays its lustre today.
To this great Saint, great both in works and doctrine, are directly applied these words of The Holy Ghost: “They that instruct many to justice shall shine as stars for all Eternity”. At the time he appeared, an odious sect was denying The Mercy and The Sweetness of our Heavenly Father; it triumphed in the practical conduct of even those who were shocked by its Calvinistic theories.
Under pretext of a reaction against an imaginary school of laxity, and denouncing with much ado some erroneous propositions made by obscure persons, the new Pharisees had set themselves up as zealous for the Law.
Stretching The Commandments, and exaggerating the sanction, they loaded the conscience with the same unbearable burdens which The Man-God reproached the ancient Pharisees with laying on the shoulders of men; but the cry of alarm they had raised in the name of endangered morals had, none-the-less, deceived the simple, and ended by misleading even the best. Thanks to the show of austerity, displayed by its adherents, Jansenism, so clever in veiling its teachings, had too well succeeded in its designs of forcing itself upon The Church in spite of The Church.
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Unsuspecting allies within The Holy City gave up to its mercy the sources of Salvation. Soon, in too many places, The Sacred Keys were used to open Hell; The Holy Table, spread for the preservation and increase of life in all, became accessible only to the perfect; and these latter were esteemed such, according as, by a strange reversion of The Apostle's words, they subjected The Spirit of Adoption of Sons to The Spirit of Servitude and Fear.
As to The Faithful, who did not rise to the height of this new asceticism, “finding in the tribunal of Penance, instead of fathers and physicians, only exactors and executioners,” they had but to choose between despair and indifference.
Everywhere, legislatures and parliaments lent a hand to the so-called reformers, without heeding the flood of odious unbelief that was rising around them, without seeing the gathering storm-clouds.
Saint Stephen I. Pope And Martyr. Who Reigned 254 A.D. - 257 A.D. Feast Day 2 August. Red Vestments.
unless stated otherwise.
Saint Stephen I.
Pope.
Martyr.
Feast Day 2 August.
Simple.
Red Vestments.
Pope Saint Stephen I.
Date: 3rd-Century A.D.
Source: http://cckswong.tripod.com/
pope1_50.htm ("Pope's Photo Gallery").
Author: Unknown.
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Of Roman birth, Saint Stephen I governed The Church under The Emperors Valerian and Gallienus. In spite of the most violent Persecutions, he regularly Celebrated The Holy Mysteries and held Councils in The Crypts of The Martyrs.
He forbade the re-Christening of Christians who had been Baptised by Heretics. In 257 A.D., towards the end of Mass that he was saying, he was surprised by the Persecutors and beheaded while he sat on his Pontifical Chair.
Mass: Sacerdótes ejus.
The following Text is from Wikipedia, the free encyclopædia.
Pope Stephen I (Latin: Stephanus I; died 2 August 257 A.D.) was The Bishop of Rome from 12 May 254 A.D. to his death in 257 A.D. Of Roman birth, but of Greek ancestry, he became Bishop after serving as Arch-Deacon of Pope Lucius I, who appointed Stephen his successor.
Following The Decian Persecution of 250 A.D. – 251 A.D., there was disagreement about how to treat those who had lapsed from The Faith. Stephen was urged by Faustinus, Bishop of Lyon, to take action against Marcian, the Novatianist Bishop of Arles, who denied Penance and Communion to the lapsed, who repented.
The controversy arose in the context of a broad Pastoral problem. During The Decian Persecution, some Christians had purchased certificates attesting that they had made the requisite sacrifices to the Roman gods. Others had denied they were Christians, while yet others had, in fact, taken part in pagan sacrifices. These people were called "lapsi". The question arose that, if they later repented, could they be re-admitted to communion with The Church, and, if so, under what conditions.
Stephen held that Converts, who had been Baptised by splinter groups, did not need re-Baptism, while Cyprian, and certain Bishops of The Roman province of Africa, held re-Baptism necessary for admission to The Eucharist. Stephen's view eventually won broad acceptance in The Latin Church. However, in The Eastern Churches, this issue is still debated.
He is also mentioned as having insisted on the restoration of The Bishops of León and Astorga, who had been deposed for unfaithfulness during The Persecution, but afterwards had repented.
The Depositio Episcoporum, of 354 A.D., does not speak of Pope Stephen I as a Martyr and he is not Celebrated as such by The Catholic Church, in spite of the account in The Golden Legend, that, in 257 A.D., Emperor Valerian resumed the Persecution of Christians, and Stephen was sitting on his Pontifical Throne, Celebrating Mass for his Congregation, when The Emperor's men came and beheaded him on 2 August 257 A.D. As late as the 18th-Century, what was said to be the Chair, that Stephen was sitting on when executed, was preserved, still stained with blood.
Saint Stephen I's Feast Day in The Catholic Church is Celebrated on 2 August. In 1839, when the new Feast of Saint Alphonsus Mary de Liguori was assigned to 2 August, Saint Stephen I was mentioned only as a Commemoration within The Mass of Saint Alphonsus.
The Revision of The Calendar in 1969 removed the mention of Saint Stephen I from The General Roman Calendar, but, according to The General Instruction of The Roman Missal, the 2 August Mass may now everywhere be that of Saint Stephen I, unless in some locality an Obligatory Celebration is assigned to that day, and some continue to use pre-1969 Calendars that mention a Commemoration of Saint Stephen I on that day.
Pope Saint Stephen I is the Patron of Hvar, Croatia, and of Modigliana Cathedral, Italy.
Saint Alphonsus Mary De Liguori. Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day, Today, 2 August. White Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Alphonsus Mary de Liguori.
Bishop.
Confessor.
Doctor of The Church.
Feast Day 2 August.
Double.
White Vestments.
Saint Alphonsus before The Blessed Sacrament.
19th-Century Stained-Glass Window,
Carlow Cathedral, Ireland.
Franz Mayer and Company (1848–1926).
Photo: 3 September 2009.
Source: Own work.
Author: Andreas F. Borchert
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Saint Alphonsus Mary de Liguori.
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In 1696, God raised up Saint Alphonsus. This Neapolitan nobleman, well-known as a barrister, soon renounced his prospects of a brilliant career, to devote himself exclusively to the Service of God, with the sole desire of pleasing Him (Epistle, Offertory).
“The Spirit of The Lord is upon him, Consecrating him, and sending him to preach the Gospel to the Poor” (Introit). “He has been sent from above, to bring the people to Penance” (Alleluia). With that object in view, he Founded The Congregation of The Most Holy Redeemer (Collect), whose Members he sent, following The Saviour’s example, into the country, to the towns and villages, to announce The Kingdom of God (Gospel).
[As stated in the 1945 Saint Andrew Daily Missal, The Redemptorists, Founded in 1732 and Approved in 1749, numbered, in 1933, 6,318 Religious. They have three Canonised Saints: Saint Alphonsus, their Founder; Saint Clement-Mary Hofbauer; Saint Gerard Majella, who is justly called “the Wonder Worker”, for his Miracles were innumerable].
English: Stained-Glass Windows. Abbey of Saint Stephen, Alsace, France, depicting Saint Alphonsus Liguori (Left),
Saint Joseph (Middle), Saint Telesphorus (Right).
Français: Alsace, Bas-Rhin, Marmoutier,
Abbatiale Saint-Etienne, Verrière du XXe:
St-Alphonsus, St-Joseph, St-Telesphorus.
Photo: 24 July 2011.
Source: Own work.
Author: Rh-67
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[The Redemptorists number eight Venerables and twelve Servants of God, whose “Cause” has been introduced at Rome. They have given to The Church several Cardinals and Bishops, and a host of men illustrious by their Preaching and Writings.]
Saint Alphonsus vowed to never to lose a moment of his time and never, in the whole of his life, did he commit a Mortal Sin.
He wrote Religious Works filled with profound learning and piety and is, therefore, honoured by The Church as a Doctor. Emphasising the importance of Prayer in The Divine Plan, he condenses all his Treatise on Grace in one sentence: “He who Prays is saved, he who does not Pray is damned.”
Saint Alphonsus was forced to accept the Bishopric of “Saint Agatha of the Goths”, near Naples, Italy, He died at the age of ninety-one in 1787. The Benedictine Pope, Pius VII, commanded three fingers of Saint Alphonsus’s Right-Hand to be sent to Rome. “Let them come to Rome,” he said, “those Holy Fingers which have written so well for the Glory of God, of The Virgin Mary, and of Religion.”
Mass: Spíritus Dómini.
Commemoration: Saint Stephen. Pope and Martyr.
01 August, 2026
Neuschwanstein Castle, Schwangau, Bavaria, Germany. King Ludwig II Of Bavaria’s Creation. (Part One).
Photo: 31 July 2013.
Source: Own work.
This File is licensed under the
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Attribution:
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The Throne Hall, Neuschwanstein Castle.
Photograph by Joseph Albert 1886.
Postcard published 1890 - 1900.
Detroit Publishing Co. Print No. 17479.
Date: 1886.
Source:
Photochrom from Photoglob AG Zürich (PZ, 17479); Views of Germany in the Photochrom Print Collection. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.00180.
Author: Josef Albert (1825–1886).
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Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.
Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein) is a 19th-Century historical Palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps in the South of Germany, near the border with Austria.
It is located in the Swabia region of Bavaria, in the municipality of Schwangau, above the incorporated
village of Hohenschwangau, which is also the location of Hohenschwangau Castle.
Despite the main residence of the Bavarian Monarchs at the time — the Munich Residenz — being one of the most extensive Palace complexes in the World, King Ludwig II of Bavaria felt the need to escape from the constraints he saw himself exposed to in Munich, and commissioned Neuschwanstein Castle on the remote Northern edges of the Alps as a retreat, but also in honour of Composer Richard Wagner, whom he greatly admired.
The Castle was intended to serve as a private residence for the King, but he died in 1886, and it was opened to the public shortly after his death.[1]
It is located in the Swabia region of Bavaria, in the municipality of Schwangau, above the incorporated
village of Hohenschwangau, which is also the location of Hohenschwangau Castle.
Neuschwanstein Project Drawing.
Entwurf “Neue Burg Hohenschwangau”
(Schloss Neuschwanstein).
Artist: Christian Jank (1833–1888).
Date: 1869.
Collection: Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung.
Source/Photographer:
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The closest town is Füssen. The Castle stands above the
narrow Gorge of the Pöllat Stream, East of the Alpsee and Schwansee Lakes, close to the mouth of the Lech into Lake Forggensee.
Since 2025, the Castle is part of the UNESCO World
Heritage Site “The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof, Schachen and Herrenchiemsee”. According to Guinness World Records, at sixty-five metres
(213 feet), it is the tallest Castle in the World.
Despite the main residence of the Bavarian Monarchs at the time — the Munich Residenz — being one of the most extensive Palace complexes in the World, King Ludwig II of Bavaria felt the need to escape from the constraints he saw himself exposed to in Munich, and commissioned Neuschwanstein Castle on the remote Northern edges of the Alps as a retreat, but also in honour of Composer Richard Wagner, whom he greatly admired.
The three-winged complex was built between 1869 and 1892 based on plans by Eduard Riedel in the Neo-Romanesque Style. Mediæval Knights’ Castles served as its architectural model. The Throne Room, the Bedroom, and the Minstrels’ Hall are particularly noteworthy.
Ludwig II chose to pay for the Palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing rather than Bavarian public funds.
Ludwig II chose to pay for the Palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing rather than Bavarian public funds.
“Both dwell at the heights of humanity !”
Wagner, Richard; German composer, Leipzig (Germany) 22.5.1813 - Venice (Italy) 13.2.1883. - “Sie beide wohnen auf der Menschheit Höhen !” (“ . . . both dwell at the heights of humanity !”) - (Richard Wagner and King Ludwig II of Bavaria; - the title is a quotation from Friedrich Schiller’s Play “Die Jungfrau von Orleans” (The Maid of Orleans) VII, 1,2: “Drum soll der Sänger mit dem König gehen, / Sie wohnen beide auf der Menschheit Höhen”).
“Sie beide wohnen auf der Menschheit Höhen !”
Wagner, Richard; Komponist Leipzig 22.5.1813 - Venedig 13.2.1883. - “Sie beide wohnen auf der Menschheit Höhen !” - (Richard Wagner und König Ludwig II. von Bayern; - Bildtitel nach Zitat aus Friedrich Schillers “Die Jungfrau von Orleans’ VII, 1,2: “Drum soll der Sänger mit dem König gehen, / Sie wohnen beide auf der Menschheit Höhen”). Gemälde, 1890, von Kurt von Rozynski.
Artist: Kurt von Rozynski.
Date: 1 February 1890.
Source: https://www.akg-images.de/
Author: Kurt von Rozynski
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PART TWO FOLLOWS.
Lammas Day. Feast Day Of Saint Peter-In-Chains. The Roman Breviary. 1 August. First Vespers. White Vestments.
Translated out of Latin into English by
John, Marquess of Bute, K.T.
Volume II.
Summer.
1879.
Feast Days in August.
On the first day on which Nine Lessons are not read is said The Office of The Dead.
John, Marquess of Bute, K.T.
Volume II.
Summer.
1879.
Feast Days in August.
On the first day on which Nine Lessons are not read is said The Office of The Dead.
1 August.
Greater-Double.
All from The Common Office for an Apostle (Page 805 of this Breviary), except the following.
First Vespers.
Antiphons, Chapter, and Prayer, from Lauds.
Hymn.
The Lord commands; and, lo, his iron chains,
Falling from Peter, the behest obey,
Peter, blest shepherd ! Who, to verdant plains,
And life’s immortal springs from day to day,
Leads on his tender charge, driving all wolves away.
Versicle: Thou art Peter.
Answer: And upon this rock I will build My Church.
Antiphon at The Song of The Blessed Virgin:
Thou art the shepherd of the sheep, and The Prince of The Apostles, and unto thee are given The Keys of The Kingdom of Heaven.
Commemoration of Saint Paul (from Lauds).
A Commemoration is made of the preceding.
Prayer from his Office.
Then of The Seven Holy Martyred Brethren, told of in The Second Book of The Machabees. All from The Common Office for Many Martyrs, with the following:
Prayer.
Lord, we Pray Thee, that the crown of the Brethren Thy Martyrs, may be a joy unto us, nerving the valour of our Faith, and strengthening us by sevenfold intercession.
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.
The Holy Machabees. Feast Day 1 August. Red Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
The Holy Machabees.
Martyrs.
Feast Day 1 August.
Simple.
Red Vestments.
English: The Martyrdom of The Seven Machabees.
Deutsch: Das Martyrium der sieben Makkabäer.
Artist: Antonio Ciseri (1821–1891).
Location: Church of Santa Felicita, Florence.
This File: 3 September 2009.
User: Mattes
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The Seven Machabees, who were brothers, were Martyred, with their mother, under Antiochus Epiphanes. Their Relics are kept at Rome in the Basilica of Saint Peter's Chains.
Mass: Clamavérunt.
English: The Courage of a Mother.
An illustration of this story
by Gustave Doré (2 Macc. 7:20-42).
Русский: Мать Маккавеев (2 Макк. 7:20-42).
Date: 1866.
Source: Doré's English Bible.
Author: Gustave Doré (1832–1883).
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From before the time ofthe Tridentine Calendar, The Holy Machabees had a Commemoration in the Roman Rite Liturgy within the Feast of Saint Peter in Chains. This Commemoration remained within the Weekday Liturgy, when, in 1960, Pope John XXIII Suppressed this particular Feast of Saint Peter.
Nine years later (1969), 1 August became the Feast of Saint Alphonsus Maria de'Liguori and the mention of The Machabee Martyrs was omitted from the General Roman Calendar, since, in its 1969 Revision, it no longer admitted Commemorations. [Editor: What a wonderful idea from the so-called “Experts” !!! Who thought of that one !!!???]
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Feast Of Saint Peter’s Chains. Feast Day 1 August. Happy “Lammas Day”. (Anglo-Saxon “Hlaf-Mas”, “Loaf-Mass”). Festival Of The Wheat Harvest. First Harvest Festival Of The Year. White Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Peter’s Chains.
Feast Day 1 August.
Greater-Double.
White Vestments.
[Today is, also, Lammas Day. See The Breviary notes, below.]
The Church Venerates on this day in the Basilica of Saint Peter-ad-Vincula (Saint Peter-in-Chains), on Mount Esquiline, Rome, Italy, The Chains with which The Prince of The Apostles was fettered (Collect, Epistle).
This Church, where The Station is held on the Monday of The First Week in Lent and on the Monday in The Octave of Pentecost, was built over The Baths of Trajan and restored towards the middle of the 5th-Century A.D., by the Princess Eudoxia, whence the name of Eudoxian Basilica, sometimes given to it. It was Dedicated on this day.
The date of 1 August was chosen so as to substitute a Solemnity in honour of the Apostle, Bishop of Rome, and Head of The Church (Alleluia, Gospel, Communion) for the pagan festival which used to be kept at Rome in honour of the Emperor Augustus.
[As a compliment to the Emperor Augustus, the Romans gave his name to the sixth Month of the Year, formerly called Sextilis, for, in Old Rome, the Year began in March. The word "August" comes from Augustus, as July is from Julius Caesar. The following Months kept their denominations of seventh (September), eighth (October), ninth (November), and tenth (December).]
The Chains of Saint Peter are in two portions; one having eleven links of lengthened shape to bind the hands, and, the other, twenty-three links, to the last of which are fixed two half-circles, to hold the neck.
The Popes used to send, as a rich present, a few particles of the filings of these Chains, enclosed in a Golden Key. They symbolise the power of The Keys by which Saint Peter unbinds from sin.
They were also put into Rings or Crosses, to preserve from dangers (Collect). On the same day, The Church honours Saint Paul. There are preserved, with Saint Peter's Chains, four links of The Chains which bound Saint Paul's arms during his captivity at Rome.
Mass: Nunc scio vere, as on 29 June.
Commemoration: Saint Paul. Collects of The Mass of 30 June.
Commemoration: The Holy Machabees.
Creed. Is said.
Preface: Of The Apostles.
The following Text is from
White Vestments.
[Today is, also, Lammas Day. See The Breviary notes, below.]
English: Basilica of Saint Peter-in-Chains
(San Pietro-in-Vincoli), Rome.
Deutsch: San Pietro-in-Vincoli,
Gesamtansicht des Innenraums.
Photo: 20 May 2012.
Source: File derived from: SPIV small.jpg
Author: SPIV_small.jpg: Philippos
Derivative work: Rabanus Flavus
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The Miracle of The Chains.
18th-Century fresco, by Giovanni Battista Parodi,
in the centre of the Coffered Ceiling of the Basilica of Saint Peter-in-Chains (San Pietro-in-Vincoli), Rome.
Photo: 26 December 2009.
Maros M r a z (Maros).
Derivative work: Alberto Fernandez Fernandez
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The Church Venerates on this day in the Basilica of Saint Peter-ad-Vincula (Saint Peter-in-Chains), on Mount Esquiline, Rome, Italy, The Chains with which The Prince of The Apostles was fettered (Collect, Epistle).
This Church, where The Station is held on the Monday of The First Week in Lent and on the Monday in The Octave of Pentecost, was built over The Baths of Trajan and restored towards the middle of the 5th-Century A.D., by the Princess Eudoxia, whence the name of Eudoxian Basilica, sometimes given to it. It was Dedicated on this day.
The date of 1 August was chosen so as to substitute a Solemnity in honour of the Apostle, Bishop of Rome, and Head of The Church (Alleluia, Gospel, Communion) for the pagan festival which used to be kept at Rome in honour of the Emperor Augustus.
English: Chains of Saint Peter.
Basilica di San Pietro-in-Vincoli.
Italiano: Le Catene di San Pietro, conservate
nella Basilica di San Pietro-in-Vincoli.
Date: August 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Original Photo by Raja Patnaik.
Post-processed and uploaded by
Alessio Damato (with permission of the author).
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[As a compliment to the Emperor Augustus, the Romans gave his name to the sixth Month of the Year, formerly called Sextilis, for, in Old Rome, the Year began in March. The word "August" comes from Augustus, as July is from Julius Caesar. The following Months kept their denominations of seventh (September), eighth (October), ninth (November), and tenth (December).]
The Chains of Saint Peter are in two portions; one having eleven links of lengthened shape to bind the hands, and, the other, twenty-three links, to the last of which are fixed two half-circles, to hold the neck.
The Popes used to send, as a rich present, a few particles of the filings of these Chains, enclosed in a Golden Key. They symbolise the power of The Keys by which Saint Peter unbinds from sin.
They were also put into Rings or Crosses, to preserve from dangers (Collect). On the same day, The Church honours Saint Paul. There are preserved, with Saint Peter's Chains, four links of The Chains which bound Saint Paul's arms during his captivity at Rome.
Mass: Nunc scio vere, as on 29 June.
Commemoration: Saint Paul. Collects of The Mass of 30 June.
Commemoration: The Holy Machabees.
Creed. Is said.
Preface: Of The Apostles.
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: Nouveau Paroissien Romain (1905).jpg
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Illustration: RORATE CÆLI
The following Text is from
The Pre-1911 Roman Breviary
(Volume II. Summer).
Translated out of Latin into English by
Translated out of Latin into English by
John, Marquess of Bute, K.T.
Date: 1879.
1 August.
Lammas Day.
In some English-speaking Countries in The Northern Hemisphere, 1 August is Lammas Day (Anglo-Saxon "hlaf-mas", "Loaf-Mass"), The Festival of The Wheat Harvest, and is the first Harvest Festival of the Year.
Feast of Saint Peter-in-Chains.
Greater-Double.
Included, in The Common Office for an Apostle, is:
Date: 1879.
1 August.
Lammas Day.
In some English-speaking Countries in The Northern Hemisphere, 1 August is Lammas Day (Anglo-Saxon "hlaf-mas", "Loaf-Mass"), The Festival of The Wheat Harvest, and is the first Harvest Festival of the Year.
Feast of Saint Peter-in-Chains.
Greater-Double.
Included, in The Common Office for an Apostle, is:
The Prayer.
O, God,
Who didst make the chains to fall off
from the hands of Thy Blessed Apostle, Peter,
and didst cause him to go away unhurt
out of prison, make to fall off from us,
we beseech Thee, the chains of our sins,
and in Thy great mercy
deliver us from all evil.
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.
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