The Beheading Of Saint John The Baptist. Feast Day, Today, 29 August. Red Vestments.

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unless otherwise stated.

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist.
   Feast Day 29 August.

Greater-Double.

Red Vestments.

"The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist".

Artist: Caravaggio (1571–1610).

Date: 1608.

Current location: Altarpiece in The Oratory,

Saint John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta.

Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project:

10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.

DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202.

Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

Permission: Wikide-I / 10.000 Gemälde für Commons

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After having Solemnised on 24 June the joyous birth of Saint John the Baptist, The Church, today, honours his glorious birth in Heaven. Excepting The Blessed Virgin, he is the only Saint whose temporal birthday is observed. Saint John the Baptist holds in the worship of The Church The First Rank after The Angels.

John the Precursor, who had passed thirty years in the desert, where he had flourished like the Palm Tree, and grown like The Cedar of Libanus (Gradual), had the courage openly to reproach Herod with the scandal of his illegitimate union with Herodias, his sister-in-law, whose husband, Philip, was still alive (Introit, Epistle, Gospel).

“It is against the law,” he said to the King, “for you to take the wife of your brother.” Herodias forced Herod to imprison him and used an unexpected opportunity to obtain through her daughter, Salome, the beheading of the Saint who thwarted her criminal passion.

On this day, Saint John completes his mission, adding to the testimony he gave to Christ at His Baptism, the testimony of his Martyrdom. He was put to death towards the Passover, one year before The Passion of Jesus; but the Anniversary is Solemnised on the day when his Venerable head was found at Emesa, in Syria, in 453 A.D.

It is related in ancient legends that, on a Winter's day, when Salome was dancing on a frozen river, the ice broke and, closing again, cut off the head of the immodest dancer.

Mass: Loquébar.
Commemoration: Saint Sabina. Martyr.

Saint Sabina. Martyr. Feast Day 29 August. Red Vestments.

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unless stated otherwise.

Saint Sabina.
   Martyr.
   Feast Day 29 August.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Church of Santa Sabina, Rome.

Early-5th-Century A.D.

Photo: Before 1923.

Photographer: William Henry Goodyear (1846–1923).

Institution: Brooklyn Museum, United States of America

Source: Brooklyn Museum, United States of America

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“At Rome,” says the Roman Martyrology, “the birth in Heaven of Saint Sabina, Martyr; struck by the sword under Emperor Hadrian and won the Palm of Martyrdom in 127 A.D.”

Mass: Me exspectavérunt.

Church of Santa Sabina, Rome.

Photo: 10 September 2010.

Source: roma2010

Author: ho visto nina volare

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The Decollation Of Saint John The Baptist. Feast Day 29 August. Red Vestments.

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

(The Decollation Of Saint John The Baptist).

Artist: Caravaggio (1571–1610).

Date: 1608.

Collection: 

St. John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta.

Source/Photographer: St John’s Co-Cathedral

(Wikimedia Commons)

Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
   By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
   Volume `4.
   Time After Pentecost.
   Book V.

For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a Just and Holy man, and kept him, and when he heard him did many things; and he heard him willingly.

And when a convenient day was come, Herod made a supper for his birthday, for the Princes, and Tribunes, and Chief Men of Galilee.

And when the daughter of the same Herodius had come in, and had danced, and pleased Herod, and them that were at table with him, the King said to the damsel: “Ask of me what thou wilt, and I will give it thee”. And he swore to her: “Whatsoever thou shalt ask, I will give thee; though it be the half of my Kingdom”.

Who, when she was gone out, said to her mother: “What shall I ask ?” But she said: “The head of John the Baptist”. And when she was come in immediately with haste to the King, she asked, saying: “I will that forthwith thou give me in a dish the head of John the Baptist”.

And the King was struck sad. Yet, because of his oath, and because of them that were with him at table, he would not displease her. But, sending an executioner, he commanded that his head should be brought in a dish.

And he beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a dish, and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother.

Which, his disciples hearing, came and took his body, and laid it in a tomb.

Thus died the greatest of “them that are born of women”. Without witnesses, the prisoner of a petty tyrant, the victim of the vilest of passions, the wages of a dancing girl !

Rather than keep silence in the presence of crime, although there were no hope of converting the sinner, or give up his liberty, even when in chains.

The Herald of The Word Made Flesh was ready to die. How beautiful, as Saint John Chrysostom remarks, is this liberty of speech, when it is truly the liberty of God’s Word, when it is an echo of Heaven’s language !

Then, indeed, it is a stumbling-block to tyranny, the safe-guard of the World and of God’s rights, the bulwark of a Nation’s honour as well as its temporal and eternal interests.

Death has no power over it. To the weak murderer of Saint John the Baptist, and to all who would imitate him to the end of time, a thousand tongues, instead of one, repeat in all languages and in all places: “It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother’s wife”.

“When You Were Sweet Sixteen”. Sung By: The Fureys.

“When You Were Sweet Sixteen”.

Sung By: The Fureys.

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“Beavers And Moose Won’t Take It Anymore”. “Trade War”. Sung By: Canadian Resistance Army.

“Trade War”.

Sung By: Canadian Resistance Army.

“Beavers And Moose Won’t Take It Anymore”.

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The Band Of The Coldstream Guards Pay Deep Respect To Dolly Parton (R.I.P.) At Buckingham Palace. God Bless Her.

The Band Of The Coldstream Guards Pay Deep Respect To Dolly Parton (R.I.P.) At Buckingham Palace. God Bless Her.

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The Band Of The Coldstream Guards Pay Deep Respect To Dolly Parton (R.I.P.) At Buckingham Palace. God Bless Her.

The Band Of The Coldstream Guards 

Pay Deep Respect To Dolly Parton (R.I.P.) 

At Buckingham Palace.

God Bless Her.

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We Will Always Love You. The Royal Marines Band Pays Deep Respect To Dolly Parton (R.I.P.). God Bless Her.

“I Will Always Love You”.

Composed By: Dolly Parton (R.I.P.).

A Tribute To Dolly Parton By The Royal Marines Band.

Available On YouTube

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

Neuschwanstein Castle, Schwangau,

Bavaria, Germany.

Neuschwanstein kastély Schwangauban,

Bajorország, Németország.

Schloss Neuschwanstein, Schwangau,

Bayern, Deutschland.

Photo: 31 July 2013.

Source: Own work.

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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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unless stated otherwise.

Throughout, the design pays homage to the German legends of Lohengrin, the Swan Knight. Hohenschwangau, where King Ludwig spent much of his youth, had decorations of these sagas. These themes were taken up in the operas of Richard Wagner. 

Many rooms bear a border depicting the various Operas written by Wagner, including a Theatre permanently featuring the Set of one such Play. 

Saint George and the Dragon.

Neuschwanstein Castle.

Schloss Neuschwanstein.

Photo: 23 August 2008.

Source: Own work.

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Many of the Interior rooms remain undecorated, with only fourteen rooms finished before Ludwig’s death. 

With the Palace still under construction at the King’s death, one of the major features of the Palace remained unbuilt: A massive Keep, which would have formed the highest point and central focus of the whole edifice, was planned for the middle of the Upper Courtyard, but was never built, at the decision of the King’s family. The Foundation for the Keep is visible in the Upper Courtyard.[49]

Neuschwanstein Castle consists of several individual structures which were erected over a length of 150 metres on the top of a Cliff Ridge. 

The elongated building is furnished with numerous Towers, ornamental Turrets, Gables, Balconies, Pinnacles, and Sculptures. 

Sängerhalle (Singer’s Hall, Music Room), Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany. Photograph by Joseph Albert 1886.
Postcard published circa 1890 — 1900. Detroit Publishing Co. Print No. 17484.
Source: Photochrom from Photoglob AG Zürich (PZ, 17484); Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection, Library of Congress, Reproduction number LC-DIG-ppmsca-00185.
Author: Josef Albert (1825 — 1886).
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Following the Romanesque Style, most Window openings are fashioned as biforia and triforia. 

Before the backdrop of the Tegelberg, and the Pöllat Gorge in the South, and the Alpine foothills with their Lakes in the North, the whole collection of individual buildings provide varying picturesque views of the Palace from all directions.

PART ELEVEN 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 Nine).

Soundtrack from Simon Schama’s

“A History of Britain”,

which included King Henry II’s reign.

Sung by Emma Kirkby and Lucie Skeaping.

Music by John Harle.

Available on YouTube

HERE

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unless stated otherwise.

The most commonly quoted, as handed down by oral Tradition, is: “Who will rid me of this troublesome Priest ?’, but, according to historian Simon Schama, this is incorrect; he accepts the account of the contemporary biographer Edward Grim, writing in Latin, who gives us: “What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in my household, who let their Lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born Cleric”.

Many variations have found their way into popular culture.

The Angevin Empire

and claims of King Henry II of England

(Red, Buff, Orange, Yellow).

Blue is the Royal Domain and Vassal States

of the French King.

Date of construction of File:

5 January 2011,

Source:

France_blank.svg

Author:

France_blank.svg: Eric Gaba

(Sting - fr:Sting);

Derivative work: Hchc2009.

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Whatever Henry said, it was interpreted as a Royal Command, and four Knights, Reginald FitzUrse, Hugh de Morville, William de Tracy, and Richard le Breton, set out to confront the Archbishop of Canterbury.

On 29 December 1170, they arrived at Canterbury. According to accounts left by the Monk, Gervase of Canterbury, and eyewitness Edward Grim, they placed their weapons under a tree outside the Cathedral, and hid their Mail Armour under cloaks, before entering to challenge Becket.

The Knights informed Becket he was to go to Winchester to give an account of his actions, but Becket refused. It was not until Becket refused their demands, to submit to the King’s will, that they retrieved their weapons and rushed back inside for the killing. Becket, meanwhile, proceeded to the Main Hall for Vespers.

A Seal of the Abbot of Arbroath, Scotland, showing the murder of Becket. Arbroath Abbey was Founded eight years after the death of Saint Thomas a’Becket and dedicated to him.

It became the wealthiest Abbey in Scotland.

Date: Mediæval Seal. Photo from the 1850s.

Source: Cosmo Innes and Patrick Chalmers (eds.), 

Liber S. Thome De Aberbrothoc;

Registrorum Abbacie De Aberbrothoc,

Volume 2, Edinburgi (Bannatyne Club) 1848-1856.

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The four Knights, wielding drawn Swords, caught up with him in a spot near a door to the Monastic Cloister.

Several contemporary accounts of what happened next exist; of particular note is that of Edward Grim, who was himself wounded in the attack. This is part of the account from Edward Grim:

“The wicked Knight leapt suddenly upon him, cutting off the top of the crown which the unction of Sacred Chrism had dedicated to God.

PART TEN FOLLOWS.

Saint Augustine. Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day 28 August. White Vestments.

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

Saint Augustine.
   Bishop.
   Confessor.
   Doctor Of The Church.
   Feast Day 28 August.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Augustine.

Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: René de Cramer.

The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.

Used with Permission.

Saint Augustine of Hippo.

Illustration: FRANCISCAN MEDIA

Augustine was born in 354 A.D., at Tagasta, near Algiers, Algeria. His mother, Saint Monica, taught him early to Pray. Although he had received with delight her Holy Teaching, he went headlong into the gravest disorders.

Carthage, North Africa, not offering him a theatre worthy of his genius, he went to Rome and obtained the post of Master of Rhetoric at Milan, North Italy. "My iniquities," he confesses, "were like a snowball growing in size as it rolls." His desolate mother Prayed to God incessantly with tears, still following the steps of her son.

Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, received him kindly and enlightened him in Divine Knowledge. One day, inspired by Heaven, he opened the Epistles of Saint Paul and read: "Wallow not in debauchery and impurity; but clothe yourselves in Our Lord Jesus Christ." His irresolution immediately ceased and, at thirty-three years of age, on Easter Eve, 387 A.D., he was Baptised.

Seven months after this great happiness, Saint Monica died, asking her son to "remember her at The Altar of God". Augustine, becoming a Priest, offered The Holy Sacrifice for her. "Lord," he often said, "have mercy on my mother; she was good, she pardoned easily, pardon her also her sins."

Made Bishop of Hippo [Editor: In modern-day Algeria], at the age of forty-one, in 395 A.D. (Alleluia, Communion), he began from that moment to live Canonically, that is to say, in Common with his Clerks. [The word Canon (Canonicus), derived from Kanon, in the sense of a List of Clerks attached to a Church, with a Stipend for their subsistence. To live Canonically, was to live in Common. Later on, it meant to lead a Regular Life, under a Rule.]

This Community gave Bishops and Priests to many Churches, and thus The Institute of Saint Augustine spread little by little in Africa and, more specially, in Gaul [France]. The Rule of Saint Augustine, which makes him one of The Four Great Founders of Religious Orders [The Benedictine Order, The Franciscan Order, The Augustinian Order, The Dominican Order], is drawn from the 211th Epistle, which he wrote for Nuns, and which, later on, was adapted for men.

[NOTE: These details appeared in the 1945 Edition of The Saint Andrew Daily Missal. The best-known Augustinian Orders are: The Canons Regular of Saint Augustine and The Hermits of Saint Augustine. The Canons Founded many Congregations; that of Windeshem, with the Mystic Writers John Ruysbroeck and Thomas a Kempis; The Lateran Congregation, which has Monasteries in England, France, Belgium, and America. The Hermits have now, in Europe, Mexico, and The Philippine Islands, more than sixty Monasteries, 280 Mission Stations, with more than 2,000 Members.]

Owing to the sublimity of his knowledge, and the ardour of his love, this Saint was also one of The Four Great Doctors of The West [Editor: Saint Augustine; Saint Gregory the Great; Saint Jerome; Saint Ambrose].

He died in 430 A.D., after an Episcopate of thirty-six years, reciting The Penitential Psalms.

Mass: In médio.
Commemoration: Saint Hermes, from The Collects of Mass: Lætábitur.

The Four Great Doctors of The Church, represented

with attributes of The Four Evangelists:

Saint Augustine, with an Eagle;

Saint Gregory the Great, with a Bull;

Saint Jerome (Hieronymus), with an Angel;

Saint Ambrose, with a Winged Lion.

Artist: Pier Francesco Sacchi (circa 1485–1528).

Date: 1516.

Current location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Source/Photographer: Uploaded by Twice25, 9 April 2008.

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Church Of Saint Pantaleon, Rome.

Apse Ceiling.

Church of Saint Pantaleon, Rome.

Illustration: FR. Z's BLOG

Saint Hermes. Martyr. Feast Day 28 August. Red Vestments.

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

Saint Hermes.
   Martyr.
   Feast Day 28 August.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

English: Church of Saint Hermes,

Ronse, East Flanders, Belgium.

Nederlands: Sint-Hermeskerk in Ronse, Belgium.

Photo: 13 July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: User:LimoWreck

(Wikimedia Commons)

“At Rome,” says The Roman Martyrology, “the triumph of Saint Hermes, a very eminent personage, who, after having been some time in prison, was beheaded with several other Saints, under the Judge, Aurelian, as related in The Acts of Pope Saint Alexander (♰ circa 133 A.D.)”.

Mass: Lætábitur.

Cathedral And Metropolitan Church Of Saint Stephen And All Saints, Vienna, Austria. (Part Seven).

English: 

Cathedral and Metropolitan Church of 

Saint Stephen and All Saints, Vienna, Austria.

Deutsch: 

Dom-und-Metropolitankirche zu 

Sankt Stephan und allen Heiligen, 

Wien, Österreich.

Photo: 8 October 2017.

Source: Own work.

This File is licensed under the 

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Author: C.Stadler/Bwag

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The official Viennese “ell” length standards for verifying the measure of different types of sold cloth are embedded in the Cathedral wall, to the Left of the main entrance.

The Linen “ell”, also called Viennese Yard, (eighty-nine centimetres (thirty-five inches)), and the Drapery “ell” (seventy-seven centimetres (thirty inches)) length standards, consist of two iron bars.

The Viennese “ells” are mentioned for the first time in 1685 by the Canon Testarello della Massa in his book “Beschreibung der ansehnlichen und berühmten St. Stephans-Domkirchen”.[10]

A Memorial Tablet gives a detailed account of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s relationship with the Cathedral, including the fact that he had been appointed an adjunct Music Director here shortly before his death.

This was his Parish Church when he lived at the “Figaro House” and he was married here, two of his children were Baptised here, and his Funeral was held in the Chapel of The Cross in the Cathedral.[11]

English: Saint Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna.

German: Der Stephansdom, Wien.

Artist: Rudolf von Alt (1812–1905).

Date: 1832.

Collection: Belvedere.

Source/Photographer:

The Yorck Project (2002)

10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), 

distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. 

ISBN: 3936122202.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Adjacent to the Catacomb entrance is the Capistran Chancel, the Pulpit from which Saint John Capistrano and Hungarian General John Hunyadi preached a Crusade in 1456 to repel Muslim invasions of Christian Europe.

The 18th-Century Baroque statue shows the Franciscan Friar under an extravagant sunburst, trampling on a beaten Turk. This was the original Cathedral’s main Pulpit until it was replaced by Niclaes Gerhaert van Leyden’s Pulpit in 1515.

A figure of Christ is known affectionately to the Viennese as “Christ with a toothache” (“Zahnwehherrgott”).

At the South-West corner are various Memorials from when the area outside the Cathedral was a Cemetery, as well as a recently-restored 15th-Century Sun-Dial on a Flying Buttress.

Altars.

The main part of the Church contains eighteen Altars, with more Altars in the various Chapels. The High Altar and the Wiener Neustadt Altar are the most famous.

The first focal point of any visitor is the High Altar, built over seven years from 1641 to 1647 as part of the first refurbishment of the Cathedral in the Baroque Style.

The Altar was built by Tobias Pock at the direction of Vienna’s Bishop, Philipp Friedrich Graf Breuner, with Marble from Poland, Styria and Tyrol.

The High Altar represents the stoning of the Church’s Patron, Saint Stephen. It is framed by figures of Patron Saints from the surrounding areas — Saints Leopold, Florian, Sebastian and Rochus — and surmounted with a statue of Saint Mary which draws the beholder’s eye to a glimpse of Heaven, where Christ waits for Stephen (the first Martyr) to ascend from below.

The Wiener Neustädter Altar at the head of the North Nave was ordered in 1447 by Emperor Frederick III, whose tomb is located in the opposite direction.

On the Predella is his famous A.E.I.O.U. device. Frederick ordered it for the Cistercian Viktring Abbey (near Klagenfurt) where it remained until the abbey was closed in 1786 as part of Emperor Joseph II's anti-clerical reforms.

It was then sent to the Cistercian monastery of St. Bernard of Clairvaux (founded by Emperor Frederick III) in the city of Wiener Neustadt, and finally sold in 1885 to St. Stephen's Cathedral when the Wiener Neustadt monastery was closed after merging with Heiligenkreuz Abbey.

English:

A.E.I.O.U. Illumination from records of King Frederick.

Deutsch:

A.E.I.O.U. Buchmalerei in der Handregistratur König Friedrichs IV. (des späteren Kaisers Friedrich III.).

Date: 1446.

Source: http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.

encyclop.data.image.a/a128205a.jpg

Author: Unknown.

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“A.E.I.O.U.” (sometimes A.E.I.O.V.) was a symbolic device coined by Emperor Frederick III (1415 – 1493) and historically used as a motto by the Habsburgs.

One note in his notebook (discovered in 1666), though not in the same hand, explains it in German and Latin as: “All the World is subject to Austria” (“Alles Erdreich ist Oesterreich untertan” or “Austriæ est imperare orbi universo”).[1]

Frederick habitually signed buildings such as Santa Maria dell’Anima in Rome,[2] Burg Wiener Neustadt, or Graz Cathedral, as well as his tableware and other objects 

with the vowel graphemes.[3]

PART EIGHT FOLLOWS.

Saint Joseph Calasanctius. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 27 August. White Vestments.

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

Saint Joseph Calasanctius.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 27 August.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: Church of Saint Thomas, Zaragoza, Spain.

The Altarpiece is of San José de Calasanz (Saint Joseph Calasanctius. A painting by José Luzan. Dated 1767.

Español: Zaragoza - Iglesia de Santo Tomás o de 

los Escolapios - Retablo de San José de Calasanz. 

Pintura de José Luzán de 1767.

Photo: 26 December 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Ecelan

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Church, having just Celebrated the Feast Day of the Assumption, Venerates on this day a Saint who had a special Devotion to Our Lady.

Saint Joseph Calasanctius was born in Aragon, Spain, of a noble family, and, from his youth, showed his Charity towards children. While studying Theology at Valencia, he had to defend himself against the enticements of a powerful and noble lady, and he made a Vow to enter into Holy Orders.

Having become a Priest, he was apprised by Divine Revelation that he was destined to teach and to train children, especially those of the Poor (Offertory).

He Founded, in consequence, the Order of the Poor Clerks Regular of the Pious Schools of The Mother of God (Collect) [Editor: Latin: Ordo Clericorum Regularium pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum, Sch. P. or S. P., or, in short, Piarists].

English: Logo of the Order of the Poor Clerks Regular of

the Pious Schools of The Mother of God. Or, the Piarists.

Español: Escudo de los Escolapios.

Photo: 28 November 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Dr Doofenshmirtz

(Wikimedia Commons)

Like Jesus, he let little children come to him (Communion) and taught them to fear God (Introit). Wherefore, the Gospel repeats the consoling words of The Master: “Whosoever shall receive one of these little ones in My name, receiveth Me.”

“What is there greater,” writes Saint John Chrysostom, “than to discipline minds, than to form tender youths to good habits? God has shown us that their Souls are worthy of such zeal and of such solicitude that, for them, He did not spare His Son.” [Lessons of The Third Nocturn at Matins.]

Saint Joseph Calasanctius (☩ 1648 aged ninety-two).

Mass: Veníte, fílii.

English: Saint David depicted in a Stained-Glass Window. Chapel of Saint Joseph Calasanctius, 

Kyjov, Czech Republic.

Čeština: 

Svatý David. Vitráž v kapli sv. Josefa Kalasanského

v Kyjově. Zhotovila firma Veselý a Verner,

malba oken chrámových, Praha - Karlín.

Photo: 1 June 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Radek Linner

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