Saint Hyacinth (1185 - 1257). “The Apostle Of The North”. Confessor. Feast Day 17 August. White Vestments.

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Saint Hyacinth.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 17 August.

Double.

White Vestments.

The Virgin and Child appear to Saint Hyacinth.

La Vierge et l’Enfant

apparaissant à saint Hyacinthe.

Artist: Ludovico Carracci (1555–1619).

Date: 1594.

Current location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

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Saint Hyacinth.

Illustration: SAINT HYACINTH BASILICA

Saint Hyacinth, called “The Apostle of The North”, was born in 1185 at the Castle of Kamin, near Breslau, (now Wroclaw, Poland).

Having gone to Rome, he was received there into The Order of Friar Preachers, by its Founder, Saint Dominic, in the Church of Saint Sabina. At the age of thirty-three, he was made Superior of The Mission which this Saint sent to Poland.

Saint Hyacinth then went over to Austria, Poland, Denmark, Scotland, and Livonia, everywhere Preaching The Word of God, which his numerous Miracles confirmed.

He died on The Feast of The Assumption (15 August) in 1257.

Mass: Os justi.
Commemoration: The Octave of The Assumption.
Commemoration: The Octave of Saint Laurence by The Collects of The Mass: Probásti, Domine (The Octave Day of Saint Laurence).
Creed. Is said.
Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Web-Site of the Basilica of Saint Hyacinth, 

Chicago, Illinois, can be found

HERE

The Octave Day Of Saint Laurence. 17 August.

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The Octave Day Of Saint Laurence.

17 August.

Double.

Red Vestments.

Mass: Probásti.

Creed. Is said.

Saint Laurence before Emperor Valerianus.

Artist: Fra Angelico

Date: Circa 1447.

Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 

10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.

DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202

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The following Text is taken from Wikipedia.

“Octave” has two senses in Christian Liturgical usage.

In the first sense, it is the eighth day after a Feast, reckoning inclusively, and so always falls on the same day of the week as the Feast, itself. The word is derived from Latin “Octava” (eighth), with “Dies” (day) understood.

In the second sense, the term is applied to the whole period of these eight days, during which certain major Feasts came to be observed.

Octaves, not being successive, are quite distinct from eight-day weeks and simply refer to the return of the same day of a seven-day week in the inclusive counting system used in Latin (just as the ninth day was a return to the same day of a nundinal cycle, the eight-day week of the pre-Christian Roman calendar).

The “eighth day”, or “Octava Dies”, was associated with the weekly Christian Celebration of The Resurrection of Christ every “eighth day”, which became a name for Sunday.

As Circumcision was performed on the “eighth day” after birth, the number eight became associated also with Baptism, and Baptismal Fonts have, from an early date, often been octagonal.

The practice of Octaves was first introduced under Emperor Constantine I, when the Dedication Festivities of the Basilicas at Jerusalem and Tyre, Lebanon, were observed for eight days. 

After these one-off occasions, annual Liturgical Feasts began to be dignified with an Octave.

The first such Feasts were Easter, Pentecost, and, in the East, Epiphany. This occurred in the 4th-Century A.D. and served as a period of time for the newly-Baptised to take a joyful Retreat.

The development of Octaves occurred slowly. 

From the 4th-Century A.D. to the 7th-Century A.D., Christians observed Octaves with a Celebration on the eighth day, with little development of the Liturgies of the intervening days. 

Christmas was the next Feast to receive an Octave. By the 8th-Century A.D., Rome had developed Liturgical Octaves, not only for Easter, Pentecost, and Christmas, but also for the Epiphany and the Feast of the Dedication of a Church.

From the 7th-Century A.D., Saints’ Feasts also began to have Octaves (an eighth-day Feast, not eight days of Feasts), among the oldest being the Feasts of Saints Peter and Paul, Saint Lawrence and Saint Agnes. 

From the 12th-Century, the custom developed of Liturgical observance of the days between the first and the eighth day, as well as the eighth day. 

During the Middle Ages, Octaves for various other Feasts and Saints were Celebrated depending upon the Diocese or Religious Order.

Modern History.

From Pope Saint Pius V to Pope Pius XII.

After 1568, when Pope Pius V reduced the number of Octaves, they were still numerous. Not only on the eighth day from the Feast, but on all the intervening days, the Liturgy was the same as on the Feast, itself, with exactly the same Prayers and Scripture Readings.

Octaves were classified into several types:

Easter and Pentecost had “Specially Privileged” Octaves, during which no other Feast whatsoever could be Celebrated;

Christmas, Epiphany, and Corpus Christi had “Privileged” Octaves, during which certain highly-ranked Feasts might be Celebrated. 

The Octaves of other Feasts allowed even more Feasts to be Celebrated.

To reduce the repetition of the same Liturgy for several days, Pope Leo XIII and Pope Saint Pius X made further distinctions, classifying Octaves into three primary types:

Privileged Octaves;

Common Octaves;

Simple Octaves.

Privileged Octaves were further arranged in a hierarchy of:

First Order;

Second Order;

Third Order.

For the first half of the 20th-Century, Octaves were ranked in the following manner, which affected holding other Celebrations within their time-frames:

Privileged Octaves:

Privileged Octaves of the First Order:

Octave of Easter;

Octave of Pentecost.

Privileged Octaves of The Second Order:

Octave of Epiphany;

Octave of Corpus Christi.

Privileged Octaves of The Third Order:

Octave of Christmas;

Octave of the Ascension;

Octave of the Sacred Heart.

Common Octaves:

Octave of The Immaculate Conception BVM;

Octave of The Solemnity of Saint Joseph;

Octave of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist;

Octave of Saint Peter and Saint Paul;

Octave of the Assumption BVM;

Octave of All Saints.

Simple Octaves:

Octave of Saint Stephen;

Octave of Saint John the Apostle;

Octave of the Holy Innocents;

Octave of Saint Laurence;

Octave of the Nativity BVM.

In addition to these, the Patron Saint of a particular Nation, Diocese, or Church, was Celebrated with an Octave, on each day of which the Mass and Office of the Feast was repeated, unless impeded by another Celebration.

Although the Feasts of Saint Laurence and The Nativity of The Blessed Virgin Mary officially still had Simple Octaves, by the 20th-Century they had all but vanished as higher-ranking Feasts were added to the Calendar. 

The Octave Day, alone, of Saint Laurence was still Commemorated during the Mass of Saint Hyacinth. 

The entire Octave of the Nativity of The Blessed Virgin Mary was impeded, but The Most Holy Name of Mary was Celebrated during the Octave and The Seven Sorrows of The Blessed Virgin Mary was Celebrated on the former Octave Day.

Reduction by Pius XII and Paul VI.

Pope Pius XII simplified the Calendar with a Decree, dated 23 March 1955: Only the Octaves of Christmas, Easter and Pentecost were kept; these Octaves differed from the others in not repeating the same Liturgy daily. 

All other Octaves in The Roman Rite were suppressed, including those in Local Calendars. (See General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII#Octaves.) 

In 1969, The Roman Catholic Church further revised the Roman Calendar by removing the Octave of Pentecost.

The first eight days of the Easter Season make up the Octave of Easter and are Celebrated as Solemnities of The Lord, with Proper Readings and Prayers. 

Since 30 April 2000, The “Second Sunday of Easter”, which concludes the Easter Octave, has also been called Divine Mercy Sunday.

The Christmas Octave is arranged as follows:

Sunday within the Octave: Feast of The Holy Family; Celebrated on Friday, 30 December, when Christmas is a Sunday;

26 December: Feast of Saint Stephen;

27 December: Feast of John the Apostle;

28 December: Feast of The Holy Innocents;

29 - 31 December: Days within the Octave, with assigned Readings and Prayers, on which the Celebration of Optional Memorials is permitted according to special rubrics (but, as noted above, when Christmas is a Sunday, the Feast of The Holy Family is Celebrated on 30 December);

1 January: Octave Day of the Nativity; Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.

Eastern Christian usage:

Afterfeast.

Among the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic Churches, what in the West would be called an Octave is referred to as an Afterfeast. 

The Celebration of the Great Feasts of the Church Year are extended for a number days, depending upon the particular Feast. 

Each day of an Afterfeast will have particular Hymns assigned to it, continuing the theme of the Feast being Celebrated.

Most of these Great Feasts also have a day or more of preparation called a Forefeast (those Feasts that are on the moveable Paschal Cycle do not have Forefeasts). 

Forefeasts and Afterfeasts will affect the structure of the Services during the Canonical Hours.

The last day of an Afterfeast is called the Apodosis (literally “giving-back”) of the Feast. On the Apodosis, most of the Hymns that were Chanted on the first day of the Feast are repeated. 

On the Apodosis of Feasts of the Theotokos, the Epistle and Gospel of the Feast are repeated again at The Divine Liturgy.

Non-Liturgical usage.

The term “Octave” is applied to some Church Observances that are not strictly Liturgical. For example, many Churches observe an annual “Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity”, which runs from 18 January to 25 January.

This Octave was established in 1895 by Pope Leo XIII for the period between Ascension and Pentecost. 

In 1909, Pope Saint Pius X approved the Transfer of this Octave to the period between the former Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter and the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul.

In 1968, the World Council of Churches and the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity agreed to jointly publish Prayer materials for the occasion under the title “Week of Prayer for Christian Unity”, but it is still often referred to as an Octave, especially within the Roman Catholic and Anglo-Catholic Traditions. 

The Week of Prayer is observed at various times around the World, especially in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is commonly observed from Ascension to Pentecost.

Each year, Luxembourg holds what is called The Octave Celebration from the Third Sunday after Easter to the Fifth Sunday after Easter, fifteen days, instead of eight days, in honour of Our Lady of Luxembourg, Patroness of the City.

Saint Hyacinth Basilica, Chicago, Illinois.

Saint Hyacinth Basilica,

Chicago, Illinois.

Illustration: CATHOLIC ART INSTITUTE

Saint Hyacinth was a 13th-Century Dominican Priest and Missionary.

In 1220, he accompanied his uncle, Ivo Konski, the Bishop of Cracow, to Rome. Here, they met with Saint Dominic.

At this time, Saint Hyacinth was one of the first to receive the Habit, from Saint Dominic, of the newly-established Order of Friars Preachers.

Because of his spirit for Prayer and his zeal for the salvation of Souls, he was sent to Preach and establish The Dominican Order in his native land, Poland.

Saint Hyacinth Founded communities at Sandomir, Cracow, and Plocko, on The River Vistula, in Moravia.

He extended his Missionary work through Prussia, Pomerania, and Lithuania; then, crossing the Baltic Sea, he Preached in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.

It was these Apostolic travels that earned Hyacinth the title “The Apostle of The North”.

Saint Hyacinth Basilica, Chicago, Illinois, was built by architects Worthman and Steinbach. The Church Cornerstone was Blessed on 21 October 1917.

The Church Walls, Towers, and the completed edifice, were roofed in 1918. The Interior of the Church proceeded being built through 1920 – 1921.

The Church Interior was restored in 2000 by Conrad Schmitt Studios Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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The Basilica of Saint Hyacinth (Polish: Bazylika Świętego Jacka) is a historic Church of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, located at 3636 West Wolfram Street, in the Avondale neighbourhood of Chicago, Illinois.

It is a prime example of the so-called “Polish Cathedral Style” of Churches, in both its opulence and grand scale.

Along with other such monumental Chicago Religious edifices, such as Saint Mary of The Angels, Saint Hedwig’s, and Saint Wenceslaus, it is one of the many monumental Polish Churches visible from The Kennedy Expressway.

Other monumental Chicago Religious edifices.

Saint Mary of The Angels Church,

Chicago, Illinois.

Photo: 30 August 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Goldnpuppy

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Saint Hedwig Church,

Chicago, Illinois.

Photo: 4 January 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Histentchi

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English: Saint Wenceslaus Church,

Chicago, Illinois.

Polski: Kościół Świętego Wacława w Chicago.

Photo: 26 December 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Orestek

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Saint John Cantius Church,

Chicago, Illinois.

Illustration: SAINT JOHN CANTIUS CHURCH

The Octave Day Of Saint Laurence. Taken From The Roman Breviary. First Vespers. 17 August. Red Vestments.

 

Text from The Roman Breviary.

Translated out of Latin into English by
John, Marquess of Bute, K.T.
   Volume II.
   Summer.
   1879.

Feast Days in August.

Octave Day of Saint Laurence.

17 August.

Double.

All as on the Festival, except the following, and that the Verse at Prime and the last Verse of every Hymn, except at Vespers and Mattins, is altered in honour of The Incarnation.

First Vespers.

These, as regards Saint Laurence, begin with The Chapter.

Prayer throughout The Office.

Stir up in Thy Church, O Lord, the spirit in which the Blessed Levite Laurence served Thee, that we being filled therewith, may be ever fain to love what he loved, and to do what he taught.

Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the Same Holy Spirit, one God, World without end.

Amen.

A Commemoration is made of Saint Hyacinth, and then of The Assumption.

Zephyrinus Suggests That You Respectfully Ask Your Parish Priest (Pastor) To Celebrate “A Votive Mass For Any Necessity”. In This Most Urgent Case, For Rain !!! Violet Vestments.

“Votive Mass For Any Necessity”

(Page 1788. The Saint Andrew Daily Missal).

Violet Vestments.

Introit: Salus Pópuli. As on the 19th Sunday After Pentecost.

Collect: Ineffábilem.

Epistle: Jeremias xiv. 7-8, 9.

Gradual: Psalm xliii. 8-9.

Gospel: Mark xi. 22-26.

Offertory: Psalm cxxxvii. 7.

If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation,Thou wilt quicken me, O Lord; and Thou wilt stretch forth Thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Thy Right-Hand will save me.

Secret.

May the gift which we now offer unto Thee, cleanse us, O Lord, we beseech Thee, and make us worthy to partake of the Holy Repast. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who Lives and Reigns with Thee in the Unity of The Holy Ghost, One God for ever and ever. Amen.

Communion: Meménto Verbi. As on the 20th Sunday After Pentecost.

Postcommunion.

Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that we who have Celebrated these Sacrificial Rites, may be weaned from all Earthly affections, and look forward to the fulfilment of this Sacrament in Heaven. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who Lives and Reigns with Thee in the Unity of The Holy Ghost, One God for ever and ever. Amen.

Neuschwanstein Castle, Schwangau, Bavaria, Germany. King Ludwig II Of Bavaria’s Creation. (Part Six).

Neuschwanstein Castle, Schwangau,

Bavaria, Germany.

Neuschwanstein kastély Schwangauban,

Bajorország, Németország.

Schloss Neuschwanstein, Schwangau,

Bayern, Deutschland.

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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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Initially, a modest Study was planned instead of the great Throne Hall, and projected Guest Rooms were struck from the Drafts to make room for a Moorish Hall, which could not be realised due to lack of resources. Completion was originally projected for 1872, but repeatedly deferred.[33]

Neuschwanstein, the symbolic Mediæval Knight’s Castle, was not King Ludwig II’s only huge construction project. It was followed by the Rococo-Style “Lustschloss of Linderhof Palace” and the Baroque Palace of Herrenchiemsee, a monument to the era of absolutism.[8] 

“Linderhof”, the smallest of the projects, was finished in 1886, and the other two remain incomplete. All three projects together drained his resources. 

The view from Neuschwanstein Castle.

Blick von Neuschwanstein.

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The King paid for his construction projects by private means and from his Civil List income. Contrary to frequent claims, the Bavarian Treasury was not directly burdened by his buildings.[30][34] From 1871, Ludwig had an additional secret income in return for a political favour given to Otto von Bismarck.[nb 6]

The construction costs of Neuschwanstein in the King’s lifetime amounted to six million German Gold Marks (equivalent to forty-seven million Euro in 2021),[35] almost twice the initial cost estimate of three million Marks.[34] 

As his private means were insufficient for his increasingly escalating construction projects, the King continuously opened new lines of credit.[36] 

In 1876, a Court Counsellor was replaced after pointing out the danger of insolvency.[37] By 1883, the King already owed seven million Marks,[38] and, in Spring 1884 and August 1885, debt conversions of seven million Marks and six million Marks, respectively, became necessary.[36]

Neuschwanstein Castle, 

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Even after his debts had reached fourteen million Marks, King Ludwig II insisted on continuation of his architectural projects; he threatened suicide if his creditors seized his Palaces.[37] 

In early 1886, Ludwig asked his Cabinet for a credit of sox million Marks, which was denied. In April 1886, he followed Bismarck’s advice to apply for the money to his [Editor: Bismark’s] Parliament.

PART SEVEN FOLLOWS.

Westminster. Rouen. Chinon. Poitiers. The Four Centres Of Power For Henry II Plantagenet. Mediæval King Of England 1154 – 1189. Friend And Foe Of Thomas à Becket. (Part Five).

Soundtrack from Simon Schama’s

“A History of Britain”,

which included King Henry II's reign.

Sung by Emma Kirkby (Soprano)

Music by John Harle.

Available on YouTube

HERE

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[It remains to be seen whether the British Government will now (2025) rename these two Royal Navy Ships (posthumously) as, indeed, they renamed the about-to-be Christened Submarine “Agincourt” to “Achilles”. All this was to avoid embarrassing the French !!!]

The first HMS Poictiers was a 74-Gun Third-Rate, launched in 1809. She participated in an action where she rescued HMS Frolic by capturing the USS Wasp in 1812. Poictiers was broken up in 1857.

The second HMS Poictiers was a 2,380 ton Battle-Class Destroyer, launched in April 1946, but broken up soon after.

The first decisive victory of a Christian army over a Muslim power, the Battle of Tours, was fought by Charles Martel’s men in the vicinity of Poitiers, France, on 10 October 732 A.D. For many historians, it was one of the World’s pivotal moments.

Eleanor of Aquitaine frequently resided in the Town of Poitiers, which she embellished and fortified, and, in 1199, entrusted with Communal Rights. In 1152, she married the future King Henry II of England in Poitiers Cathedral.

During the Hundred Years' War, the Battle of Poitiers, an English victory, was fought near the Town on 19 September 1356. Later in the War, in 1418, under duress, the Royal Parliament moved from Paris to Poitiers, where it remained in exile until the Plantagenets finally withdrew from the Capital in 1436. During this interval, in 1429, Poitiers was the site of Joan of Arc’s formal inquest.

Poitiers Castle,

France.

Illustration: EUROSTAR

Rouen is a City on the River Seine in the North of France. It is the Capital of the Region of Normandy. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous Cities of Mediæval Europe,

PART SIX FOLLOWS.