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Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian, brothers by blood, were more closely united by their Faith in Jesus Christ, and by their common Martyrdom suffered for His sake (Alleluia). They were born, and lived, at Aegea, Asia-Minor, and distinguished themselves as physicians in the reign of the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian.
They healed the worst diseases as much by the virtue of Christ as by their medical knowledge. Their reputation soon spread everywhere. They were Apostles, rather than physicians. They healed Souls as well as bodies, following the example of Jesus in Palestine (Gospel).
They were denounced to the Prefect, Lysias, and suffered the most cruel torments and were thrown in chains into the sea, stoned, and exposed to the flames of a brazier. After several other tortures, they died about 285 A.D., and their bodies were taken to Rome and laid in the ancient temple of Romulus, transformed into a Church, which was Dedicated to them and where the Station is held on the Thursday of the Third Week in Lent.
Their names are mentioned in the Canon of The Mass, after several Roman Martyrs.
Text from “The Liturgical Year”. By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B. Volume 14. Time After Pentecost. Book V.
“Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: For The Most High hath created him. For all healing is from God, and he shall receive gifts of the King.
“The skill of the physician shall lift up his head, and in the sight of great men he shall be praised. The Most High hath created medicines out of the Earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
“Was not bitter water made sweet with wood ? The virtue of these things is come to the knowledge of men, and The Most High hath given knowledge to men, that He may be honoured in His wonders.
“By these he shall cure and shall allay their pains, and of these the apothecary shall make sweet confections, and shall make up ointments of health, and of his works there shall be no end.
“For The Peace of God is over the face of the Earth. My son, in thy sickness neglect not thyself, but Pray to The Lord, and He shall heal thee. Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.
“Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician. For The Lord created him: And let him not depart from thee, for his works are necessary. For there is a time when thou must fall into their hands: And they shall beseech The Lord, that He would prosper what they give for ease and remedy, for their conversation”. [Editor: Ecclus. xxxviii. 1-14,]
These words of the Wise Man are appropriate for this Feast. The Church obeying the inspired injunction, honours the medical profession in the persons of Cosmas and Damian, who not only, like many others, sanctified themselves in that career; but, far beyond all others, demonstrated to the World how grand a part the physician may play in Christian society.
Cosmas and Damian had been Christians from their childhood. The study of Hippocrates and Galen developed their love of God, Whose invisible perfections they admired reflected in the magnificence of creation, and especially in the human body, His Palace and His Temple.
To them, science was a Hymn of Praise to their Creator, and the exercise of their art a sacred ministry; they served God in His suffering members, and watched over His human sanctuary, to preserve it from injury or to repair its ruins.
Such a life of Religious Charity was fittingly crowned by the perfect sacrifice of Martyrdom.
East and West vied with each other in paying homage to the “Anargyres” [Editor: Without Fees], as our Saints were called on account of their receiving no fees for their services. Numerous Churches were Dedicated to them.
The Emperor Justinian embellished and fortified the obscure Town of Cyrus out of reverence for their sacred Relics there preserved; and about the same time, Pope Felix IV built a Church in their honour in the Roman Forum, thus substituting the memory of the twin Martyrs for that of the less happy brothers Romulus and Remus.
Statues of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian
are carried by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian Society members on the annual Feast Day.
Not long before this, Saint Benedict had Dedicated to Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian his first Monastery at Subiaco, now known as Saint Scholastica’s.
But Rome rendered the highest of all honours to the holy Arabian brethren, by placing their names, in preference to so many thousands of her own heroes, in the Solemn Litanies and on the Sacred Dyptichs (Diptichs) of The Mass.
In The Middle Ages, the physicians and surgeons banded together into confraternities, whose object was the sanctification of the members by Common Prayer, Charity towards the destitute, and the accomplishment of all the duties of their important vocation for the greater glory of God and the greater good of suffering humanity.
Catholic Church of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian, Rábakovácsi, Meggyeskovácsi, Hungary.
The Society of Saints Luke, Cosmas, and Damian, has now undertaken in France the renewal of these happy traditions. [Editor: Readers should note that these words were written circa 1870.]
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Dode (in Old English, Dowde) was a Village in England that was wiped out by the Black Death in 1349. All that remains is the de-Consecrated Church, which was rebuilt in the 1990s.
Archaeological evidence shows habitation in the Dode area during the time of the Roman Empire.
The Church at Dode was built during the Reign of William II of England at some point between 1087 and 1100. It was built on a man-made mound. The nearby hill is known as “Holly Hill”, which is a corruption of “Holy Hill”, and the lane which leads to the Village is “Wrangling Lane”, showing that the mound could be the site of a meeting place.
The Village of Dode was virtually wiped out by The Black Death during the 14th-Century, and its Church last used as a place of Worship in 1367, then de-Consecrated on the orders of Thomas Trilleck, the Bishop of Rochester. It was originally twinned with another Early-Norman Church in Paddlesworth (now Snodland). Kent.
Stones from the Church were used to build a Mediæval Church nearby.
According to local legend, the last survivor of the Black Death at Dode was a seven-year-old girl, known as the Dode Child. It is said that she took refuge in the Church after all the other Villagers were dead, and died within its walls. The Dode Child is supposed to haunt the Churchyard, having first appeared on a Sunday morning each month for several years, and then every seven years.
This Norman Church was originally twinned with the Church in Paddlesworth, Kent, and served the Village of Dode. Today, the Church is left virtually isolated down a No-Through Road, with only a few local farms to keep it company. The Village of Dowde no longer exists, as it was wiped out by
Following the Black Death, the Village was abandoned, and the Church stood empty for Centuries. In 1901, it was purchased by an antiquarian, George Matthews Arnold, Mayor of Gravesend, Kent. He restored the walls and roof of the Church and, in 1954, the Arnold family returned the building to The Catholic Church. It was re-Dedicated as The Church of Our Lady of The Meadows and Mass was Celebrated there at least once a year.
Painting of George Matthews Arnold in the robes of the
Mayor of Gravesend. He was a Catholic and purchased
Dode Church in 1901 and restored the walls and roof.
Eventually, the building deteriorated again and was vandalised. In 1990, Doug Chapman, a Chartered Surveyor who had worked at Canterbury Cathedral, purchased the Church and began restoring the building, originally with the intention of turning it into a week-end home. Since 1999, it has been Licensed as a Civil Wedding venue.
The Wedding venue hit the British Press in December 2009 because of the snowfall which occurred across the Country. A bride-to-be called BBC Radio Kent for assistance, when she realised that the transport arranged for her wedding would not be able to travel down the narrow lane to Dode.
A number of volunteers stepped forward, providing enough Four-Wheel-Drive vehicles to transport the Wedding Party and their guests, both to the venue at Dode, and then, afterwards, to the Leather Bottle pub, in Cobham, Kent.
The acclaimed British novelist J. R. R. Tolkien loved The Blessed Mother and considered her the standard for beauty.
My daughter is currently reading “The Lord Of The Rings” for the second time. As she progresses, I’m trying to point out to her some of the interesting Catholic trivia hidden within it.
For instance, did you know that the date when Frodo finally destroys The Ring is March 25 ? That day happens to be The Feast of The Annunciation, the day on which Christ was conceived and began the process of overthrowing evil once and for all.
He says: “Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated,
I put before you the one great thing to love on Earth: The Blessed Sacrament.”
With “The Lord Of The Rings”, he didn’t set out to write a specifically Catholic novel, but later admitted that it did turn out to be “a fundamentally Religious and Catholic Work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.”
My favourite bit of Catholicism, that seeps through into the books, is the appearance of The Blessed Virgin Mary. The elf, Galadriel, isn’t strictly speaking an analogy for The Blessed Virgin - meaning she isn’t simply a character that’s Mary in disguise - but she shares a number of characteristics with Mary.
Tolkien considered Galadriel the “greatest of elven women,” in the same way we might consider Mary to be the greatest of all Saints. Galadriel is a Queen, a Mother, and often appears as a Miraculous Helper. Sometimes, she is referred to simply as: “The Lady of Light”.
These are clear references to The Blessed Virgin. Mary shares all of these characteristics. She often appears to those in need to offer aid, which is why one of her Titles is “Mother of Perpetual Help.”
The most interesting image of Galadriel occurs in “The Two Towers”, when she appears as an apparition to Sam and offers assistance. Tolkien writes: Far off, as in a little picture drawn by elven-fingers, he saw Lady Galadriel standing on the grass in Lorien, and gifts were in her hands. “And you, Ringbearer”, he heard her say, remote but clear, “for you, I have prepared this.”
She then reminds Sam that he has a Miraculous Light, that will cast out The Darkness and all The Evil Creatures who dwell in it. Sam uses it, and he and Frodo are saved.
Tolkien really loved Mary. He even translated The Hail Mary into an elven language. Above all, he considered her to be the standard for beauty, which is why he describes Galadriel as surpassingly beautiful.
In a letter to a Priest friend, Father Robert Murray, who had pointed out the similarities between Mary and Galadriel, Tolkien writes: “I think I know exactly what you mean . . . by your references to Our Lady, upon which all my own small perception of beauty, both in majesty and simplicity, is founded.”
That’s an audacious claim, to say that Mary is the foundation upon which all other beauty is built. What does he mean by this ? He probably doesn’t mean that she is the most physically beautiful woman who has ever lived. He’s referring to an inner beauty, a beauty of Soul.
This is why he talks about her Majesty, which in The Catholic Tradition is based in her humble obedience to God’s call, and her simplicity, by which he means her life as intensely focused on Love, alone, suffering no complicating distractions. Mary’s physical beauty is a reflection of her beautiful Soul.
“Mary’s beautiful purity must have been such that it attracted less the eyes than the Souls of men . . . It is very likely that a human eye, looking on Mary, would scarcely have been conscious that she was beautiful to the eye. Just as corrupt men are made pure in thought by the sight of an innocent child, so all fleshly thoughts would have been left behind, by one vision of The Immaculate Mother.”
He’s saying the same thing as Tolkien, that her simple beauty becomes the foundation for purifying the minds of those of us who look to her. If our lives are made beautiful, if our Souls begin to glow with love, it is because we first saw the beauty of our spiritual Mother.
The way Tolkien describes Mary’s beauty, helps us to define what it really is. It has nothing to do with physical looks or flattering clothes; it has everything to do with the way the Soul shines through and makes a person beautiful inside and out.
Beauty is pure, innocent, graceful, and transcendent. It is radiant with love. If we, too, would be beautiful, the first place to adorn is our Interior Life. In this, we can have no better example than The Blessed Virgin.
All Illustrations previously published on Zephyrinus’ Blog.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
“When you Pray, say: Father”. This is the name that from all eternity God the Son gives to His Father, the name that Our Lord invariably pronounced with respect and love, the name He silently repeats in The Blessed Sacrament, and that we find constantly on the lips of His Bride, The Church.
“You have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry, Abba (Father)”. The Holy Ghost, as it were, flows forth from the Word in the sacred humanity of Christ and in The Church, bearing us all to The Father on the waves of His Divine Love.
This fount of living water, which springs up in our hearts unto life eternal, is doubtless the private Prayer with which The Holy Ghost may inspire us, and in which we are led by Him to have recourse to God as children to their Father, but the principal and official Prayer whereby The Holy Ghost inspires His Church is that which we call the Liturgy.
In this Prayer, all members of Christ’s mystical body bear an authentic part in that infinite Worship of Adoration that its Head ceaselessly renders to God: “Always living to make intercession for us”, as the Apostle tells us.
Thus the word of The Master is realised: “The hour cometh when the true adorers shall Adore The Father in spirit and in truth”, which Saint Anselm explains as meaning that they will render a filial Worship to God in The Holy Ghost and in union with Christ The Son of God.
Translated out of Latin into English by John, Marquess of Bute, K.T. Volume II. Summer. 1879.
Feast Day Of The Holy Martyrs Cyprian And Justina.
26 September.
Simple.
All from The Common Office for a Simple Festival of Many Martyrs, (page 841,) except the following.
Prayer throughout the Office.
O Lord, let the succour of Thy Blessed Martyrs Cyprian and Juliana never fail us, since Thou never ceasest to look in mercy upon any unto whom Thou dost grant the stay of such helpers.
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.
Mattins.
Second Lesson.
Cyprian was firstly a warlock and lastly a Martyr. A certain young man having a violent lust after a Christian maiden named Justina, employed him to excite her to join in his lewdness, by dint of incantations and philters.
Cyprian thereupon asked counsel of the devil, how he might best gain that end.
But the devil answered him that these arts are only thrown away upon true worshippers of Christ.
This answer troubled Cyprian, and he began to repent heartily of the course of life he had hitherto led.
And then he forsook his arts magic, and gave himself wholly up to the Faith of the Lord Christ.
Third Lesson.
For this cause, he and the virgin Justina were arrested together, beaten with blows and scourging, and cast into prison, if haply they might change their mind.
Being brought out of the prison, but still standing fast in their Christian Religion, they were dipped in a vessel full of hot pitch, fat, and wax, and in the end beheaded, at Nicomedia, [on 26 September in the year of Our Lord 304 A.D.]
Their bodies were thrown out, and lay unburied for the space of six days, at the end of which time some sailors took them secretly by night on board a ship and carried them to Rome.
They were first buried on the farm of the noble Lady Rufina, but afterwards brought into the City, where they lie hard by the Baptistery in the Church of [the Saviour, built by] Constantine.
"At Nicomedia,", says The Roman Martyrology, "the birth in Heaven of the Holy Martyrs Cyprian and Justina. This Virgin, after having endured many tortures under The Emperor Diocletian and the Judge Eutholmus, converted to Christ, Cyprian the Magician, who had tried to seduce her by his incantations.
Both were Martyred in 304 A.D. Their bodies, after having been exposed to wild beasts, were taken away during the night by some Christian mariners, who carried them to Rome. Later, they were buried in the Basilica of Constantine (Saint John Lateran), near the Baptistry."
Mass: Salus autem. The Third Mass for Several Martyrs. Secret: Munera. From The Second Mass for Several Martyrs. Postcommunion: Præsta. From The Second Mass for Several Martyrs.
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