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English: Queen of the Angels.
Latin: Regina Angelorum.
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
Date: 1900.
Collection: Petit Palais, Paris.
Source/Photographer: Art Renewal Center
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Esther And The Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost.
Esther.
Artist: John Everett Millais (1829–1896).
Date: 1865.
Source/Photographer: [1]
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Queen Esther.
Artist: Hugues Merle (1822–1881).
Date: 1875.
This File: 4 January 2024.
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Esther is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible.
According to the Biblical narrative, which is set in the Achaemenid Empire, the Persian King, Ahasuerus, falls in love with Esther and marries her.[1]
His Grand Vizier, Haman, is offended by Esther’s cousin and guardian, Mordecai, because of his refusal to bow before him.
Artist: Ernest Normand (1857–1923).
Date: 1888.
This File: 11 March 2011.
User: OliverTwisted
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When confronted, Mordecai’s excuse was simply that he was a Jew. Various interpretations have been offered as to what Mordecai’s concern was.
Consequently, Haman plots to have all of Persia’s Jews killed, and eventually convinces Ahasuerus to permit him to do so.
However, Esther foils the plan by revealing and decrying Haman’s plans to Ahasuerus, who then has Haman executed and grants permission to the Jews to take up arms against their enemies;[2]
Esther is hailed for her courage and for working to save the Jews of Persia from eradication.
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The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost.
Semi-Double.
Green Vestments.
About this time (Fifth Sunday in September) the story of Esther is read in the Divine Office.
In order, therefore, that with The Church, we may every year review these Old Testament types, and also continue our study of The Sundays After Pentecost in the light of The Breviary, we may usefully make Esther the subject of our exposition today.
Assuerus, King of Susa in Persia (482 B.C.-472 B.C.), had chosen Esther, niece of Mordechai, as his Queen.
Aman, the Major-Domo of the Palace, noticing that Mordechai refused to bow the knee before him, flew into a rage, and knowing Mordechai to be a Jew, swore to exterminate at one blow all the members of his race.
Esther’s Banquet.
Artist: Johannes Spilberg the Younger.
Date: Circa 1644.
Photo: 23 March 2015.
Source: Own work.
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Author: Rauantiques
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To this end, he laid a complaint before the King against these foreigners, who were settled in all the Towns of his Kingdom, and obtained a decree authorising their wholesale massacre.
Upon learning of this decree, Mordechai indulged in great lamentations, the Jewish community, as a whole, being, naturally, plunged into extreme mourning, while Modochai took the further step of telling Esther that, if the opportunity presented itself, she ought, even at the peril of her life, to inform the King of Aman’s plot. “Who knoweth whether thou art not come to the Kingdom that thou mightest be ready for such a time as this ?”
Whereupon, Esther, after fasting three days with her servants, presented herself the third day, royally dressed before the King with the request that he would join her in a feast, together with Aman.
This the King promised to do. In the course of the banquet, the Queen began her complaint to the King: “We are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain and to perish.”
Esther and Mordecai
Writing the First Purim Letter.
Ester y Mardoqueo escribiendo la
primera carta del Purim (Ester, 9:20-21).
Esther et Mordechaï écrivant les lettres aux juifs.
Artist: Arent de Gelder (1645-1727).
Date: 1675.
Collection:
Source/Photographer: Google Art Project.
This File: 21 February 2015.
User: Crisco
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And Assuerus, learning that Esther was a Jewess and that Mordechai was her uncle, answered and said: “Who is this, and of what power that he should do these things ?”
And Esther said: “It is this Aman that is our adversary and most wicked enemy.” Upon this, the King, enraged against his Minister, rose up and commanded that Aman should be hanged on the gibbet that he had prepared for Mordechai, this sentence being carried out immediately, while the edict against the Jews was revoked.
Esther had saved her people and on the same dayMordechai became the King’s favourite Minister and “going forth from the Palace, and from the King’s presence, shone in Royal apparel: To wit, of Violet and Sky Colour, wearing a Golden Crown on his head, and clothed with a Cloak of Silk and Purple”, and with the King’s Ring on his finger.
This Bible narrative shows how God watched over His people and preserved them, for the sake of the promised Messiah. “I am the salvation of the people,” saith the Lord, “in whatever tribulation they shall cry to me, I will hear them; and I will be their Lord forever” (Introit).
The Festival of Esther.
Artist: Edward Armitage (1817–1896).
Date: 1865.
Collection: Royal Academy of Arts.
Source: Art UK.
This File: 5 May 2025.
User: BotMultichillT
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“If I 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 shall save me” (Offertory).
The Communion Psalm speaks of the Just man, weighed down by misfortune, whom God forsakes not, while that of the Gradual shows, how in answer to the cry of those who hope in Him, God causes the sinner to fall into his own net and, again, that of the Alleluia, sings of all the marvels which God has wrought for the deliverance of His people.
All this is a type of what God is constantly doing for His Church and of what He will do in a special way at the end of time. Aman, whom the King condemned at Esther’s banquet, is like the man spoken of in the Gospel who came to the wedding feast and was cast by the King’s command into exterior darkness because he had not on a wedding garment, that is, because he had not “put on the new man, who, according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth”, and for not having put away lying and those feelings of anger against his neighbour which he cherished in his heart (Epistle).
Thus will Almighty God treat all those who, while belonging to the body of The Church by their Faith, are found within the wedding-chamber without being clothed, as Saint Augustine puts it, with the robe of Charity.
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Queen Esther.
Artist: Edwin Long (1829–1891).
Date: 1878.
Collection:
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.
Source/Photographer:
This File: 21 June 2025.
User: Joalbertine
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Since they are not quickened by Sanctifying Grace, they have no share in the Soul of the mystical body of Christ.
“Wherefore”, says Saint Paul, “putting away lying, speak the truth of everyone with his neighbour, for we are members one of another . . . Let not the Sun go down upon your anger” (Epistle).
Those who do not fulfil this command will be cast by the Supreme Judge into the torments of Hell, like the Jews who refused the invitation to the wedding feast of the King’s son, that is of Jesus Christ with The Church, His Bride (Second Nocturn), and who slew the Prophets and Apostles who were sent to bear the invitation.
Assuerus, in his anger, caused Aman to be hanged. So also the King in the Gospel “was angry; and he destroyed those murderers and burnt their City”.
This is an artistic rendering of the Palace at Susa, Persia, around the time of Esther, including the King’s Gate, the Apadana, the Courtyards, and the Throne Hall.
Date: 11 February 2025.
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More than a million Jews perished at the time of the siege of Jerusalem by Titus, the Roman General, when the City was destroyed, and the Temple burned.
The faithless Aman was replaced by Mordechai; the wedding guests by those whom the King’s servants found in the highways; the Jews by the Gentiles. To these last, at Pentecost, the Apostles turned, filled with The Holy Ghost.
And at the Last Judgement, foretold on these last Sundays of the Cycle, these rewards and punishments will be final.
The Elect will take part in the eternal marriage feast, while The Damned will be cast into exterior darkness, into the avenging flames, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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Sacred Heart Church, Kőszeg, Hungary.
Sacred Heart Church, Kőszeg, Hungary.
The building is considered to be a fine example of
Gothic Revival Architecture.
Caption and Illustration: TUMBLR
Sacred Heart Church,
Kőszeg, Hungary.
Photo: 16 July 2007.Source: Own work.
Author: Gr3mi
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The building is considered to be a fine example of Gothic Revival Architecture. It was designed by Viennese architect Ludwig Schöne and was built between 1892 and 1894, in place of the old Korona Hotel, on the main square.
Sacred Heart Church, Kőszeg, Hungary.
Hungary. Kőszeg. Кёсег. Церковь Сердца Иисуса
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It has a fifty-seven metre-high Tower and two Pinnacles. The Bell plays a melody from Händel’s Oratorio “Saul”.
Sacred Heart Church, Kőszeg, Hungary.
Jézus Szíve templom - Kőszeg, Magyar.
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Photos by: Gódor József.
Gódor József fotói.
A Jézus szíve templom plébániatemplom Kőszeg történelmi belvárosában áll, ott, ahol a Várkör a Fő térbe torkollik. A neogótikus templomot Ludwig Schöne bécsi építész tervei alapján 1892–1894 közt építették a főtéri Korona szálló helyén.
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The carved Wooden Altars were made in Vienna and in Tirol. Many of the Stained-Glass Windows were donated to the Church by local families; they show pictures of Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and Hungarian Saints, such as St. Stephen, Blessed Gisella, St. Emeric, St. Ladislaus, St. Elizabeth and St. Margaret.
Several pieces of Mediæval and Baroque Furniture and Goldsmith’s Work were taken to this Church from the older Saint James Church, including two Chalices made in 1421 and 1486.
The Organ was made in 1894 by the Rieger Brothers.
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Saint Placid And His Companions. Martyrs. Feast Day 5 October. Red Vestments.
English: Church of Saint Placid, Catania, Italy.
Italiano: Catania - Chiesa di San Placido.
Photo: 27 September 2014.
Source:
Author: giggel
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Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 14.
Time After Pentecost.
Book V.
The Proto-Martyr of the Benedictine Order stands before us today in his strength and in his beauty. The Empire had fallen, and the yoke of the Arian Goths lay heavy upon Italy.
Rome was no longer in the hands of the glorious races which had made her greatness; these, nevertheless, kept up their honourable Traditions.
They offered a great lesson, for future times of revolution, to other descendants of not less noble families: In lieu of the ensign of civic honour once committed to their fathers, the survivors of the old Patrician ranks made it their duty to raise still further the standard of true heroism, of those virtues which alone are everlasting.
Thus, Benedict of Nursia, fleeing into the desert, had rendered greater service than any mighty conqueror to Rome and her immortal destinies.
The World soon discovered this fact; and then began, as Saint Gregory tells us, the concourse of Roman nobles, bringing their children to the Patriarch of Monks, to be educated by him for Almighty God.
Placid was the eldest son of Tertullus. The excellent qualities early discovered in the child led his worthy father to offer to God, without delay, this dear first-fruit of his Paternity.
In those days, parents loved their children not for this passing World, but for eternity; not for themselves, but for Our Lord.
The Faith of Tertullus was well rewarded when, twenty years later, not only his first-born, but also his two other sons and their sister, were crowned with Martyrdom.
This was not the first holocaust of the kind in that heroic family, if it be true that they were relatives by blood, and heirs of the goods as well as of the virtues, of the Holy Martyr Eustace, who had been immolated four Centuries earlier with his wife and sons [Editor: Feast Day 20 September].
Among the children of promise enlisted by the vanquished nobles of the ancient Empire in the new militia of the Holy Valley, Equitius brought to Subiaco his son Maurus, a boy some years older than Placid.
Henceforth, the names of Maurus and Placid became inseparable from that of Benedict; and the Patriarch acquired a new glory from his two sons, so united and yet so different.
Equal in their love of their master and father, and themselves equally loved by him for their equal fidelity in good works, they experienced to the full that delight in virtue which makes its practice a second nature.
However similar their zeal in using “the most strong and bright armour of obedience”, in the service of Christ the King, it was wonderful to see the master accommodating himself to the age of his disciples; so adapting himself to their differences of character, that there was nothing precipitate, nothing forced, in his education.
It disciplined nature without crushing it, and followed The Holy Ghost without endeavouring to take the lead. In Maurus, was especially reproduced Benedict’s austere gravity; in Placid, his simplicity and sweetness.
Benedict took Maurus to witness the chastisement inflicted on the wandering Monk, who could not stay at Prayer; but Placid accompanied him to the mountain-top, where his Prayer obtained a Spring of Water to deliver from danger and fatigue the brethren dwelling on the rocks above the River Anio.
But when, walking along the River-Side, holding Placid by the hand and leaning upon Maurus, the legislator of Monks explained to them the code of perfection they were afterwards to propagate, the Angels knew not which most to admire: The candour of the one, winning the father’s tenderest affection; or the precocious maturity of the other, meriting the Holy Patriarch’s confidence, and already sharing his burden.
Who does not recollect the admirable scene of Maurus walking on the water and saving Placid from drowning ? Monastic Traditions never weary of extolling the obedience of Maurus, Benedict’s humility, and the sagacious simplicity of the child pronouncing sentence as Judge of the prodigy.
Of such children, the master could say from experience: “The Lord oftentimes revealeth that which is best, to him that is the younger”.
And we may well believe that the recollections of the Holy Valley prompted him, later on, to lay down in his Rule this prescription:
“In all places whatsoever, let not age be taken into account as regardeth order, neither let it be to the prejudice of anyone, for Samuel and Daniel, while yet children, were judges over the elders”.
Saint Placidus And His Comrades. Martyrs. Feast Day 5 October. 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 Day Of Saint Placidus
and his Comrades.
Martyrs.
5 October.
Simple.
All from the Simple Office for Many Martyrs (page 841) except the following:
Prayer throughout the Office:
“O God by Whose mercy, etc” (page 836).
Mattins.
First and Second Lessons from Scripture, according to the Season.
Third Lesson.
Placidus was the son of Tertullus, one of the noblest persons of Rome.
He was offered to God [by his father] when a child [only seven years of age] (This practice was forbidden by a Decretal of Pope Innocent III) and given over to Holy Benedict, in whose teaching and Rule of Monks he so profited that he was reckoned among the chiefest of his disciples.
By him, he was sent to Sicily, where he Founded near the Port of Messina a Church and Monastery in honour of Saint John the Baptist, and lived therein with his Monks in wonderful holiness.
Thither there came to see him his brothers Eutychius and Victorinus and his Virgin sister Flavia, and while they were together, there landed there a certain brutal Pirate, named Manucha, who took the Monastery, and when he could in no wise prevail upon Placidus and the others to deny Christ, he commanded him his brothers, and his sister to be cruelly murdered.
With them, Donatus, Firmatus (a Deacon), Faustus, and
thirty other Monks brought the conflict of testimony to the Blessed end of Martyrdom, upon 5 October in the Year of Salvation 509 A.D. [Editor: This date and the names of the Martyrs are disputed by other authors.]
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Saint Placid And His Companions. Martyrs. Feast Day, Today, 5 October. Red Vestments.
unless stated otherwise.
Saint Placid And His Companions.
Martyrs.
Feast Day 5 October.
Simple.
Red Vestments.
English: Church of Saint Placid, France.
Français: Église Saint-Plaçide.
Photo: 26 May 2012.
Source: Own work.
Author: Léo Camus
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The Holiness of Saint Benedict in his grotto at Subiaco soon drew around him many Disciples, among whom the two greatest were Saint Maurus, Apostle of The Benedictine Order in France, and Saint Placid. Both were committed to the care of The Holy Patriarch, the former at twelve years of age and the latter when a child of four years old, by their parents, who belonged to the most illustrious Patrician Families of Rome; under the guidance of such a Master, they made rapid progress in Holiness.
Saint Benedict had a special predilection for young Placid, and, just as The Saviour chose certain of His Disciples to be witness of His Miracles, so he liked to be accompanied by the pious child when God gave him Miracles to work.
English: Church of Saint Placid, Catania, Italy.
Italiano: Catania - Chiesa di San Placido.
Photo: 27 September 2014.
Source:
Author: giggel
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One occasion, while drawing water from The Lake of Subiaco, Placid fell in, and the waves carried him far from the shore. The Man of God sent Saint Maurus, who, walking miraculously on the water, saved him. Placid and Maurus followed Saint Benedict to Monte Cassino.
Today's Office and Mass Celebrated the memory of several Christians who were put to death in Sicily about 541 A.D., by Saracenic Pirates. According to a pious Tradition, these Martyrs were Saint Placid, his sister, and the Monks which Saint Benedict had sent to Sicily with him.
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Collects: From The Mass: Sapiéntiam.
04 October, 2026
Saint Francis Of Assisi. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 4 October. White Vestments.
unless stated otherwise.
Saint Francis Of Assisi.
Confessor.
Feast Day 4 October.
Greater-Double.
White Vestments.
“Saint Francis in Meditation”.
Artist: Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664).
Date: 1635-1639.
Current location: National Gallery, London, England.
Source/Photographer:
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Saint Francis of Assist.
Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.
Born at Assisi, in Umbria, Italy, Saint Francis was raised up by God to work at the same time as Saint Dominic for the moral regeneration of the World at a most troublous period.
[Francis, says Dante, was a true Seraph by the love which devoured his Soul; Dominic, by his enlightened knowledge, ranks with the Cherubim. The former lived 1182-1225, the latter 1170-1221. It is related that Saint Louis, King of France, used to say that, if he could divide himself, he would give half of himself to Saint Dominic and half to Saint Francis].
He had been Christened “John”, but was called “Francis”, by his father, to celebrate his return from a successful business journey in France.
“The more the sublime enthusiast,” says Montalembert, “hid himself and depreciated himself to make himself worthy by humility and men’s contempt to be the vessel of Divine Love, the more, by a wonderful effort of of Grace, men rushed to follow him.”
Saint Francis of Assisi.
Illustration: PINTEREST
Francis soon had disciples (Communion) who reduced themselves to the same poverty as himself and shared his ardour for the conversion of the people. “My Brothers,” he would say, “let us Preach Penance, by example, rather than by word.”
He gave them a Rule, which was approved by Pope Innocent III in 1210. In the following year, he obtained from the Benedictines the little Church of Our Lady of the Angels, called “Portiuncula”, which was the cradle of his Order [The property of the Benedictines of Mount Subasio was thus called because it was made up of small portions of land.
[After having restored the Church of Our Lady of the Angels, Saint Francis obtained from the Pope the grant of a Plenary Indulgence for all The Faithful who visited it on 2 August, the Anniversary of its Consecration. For the last few years, all Parish Churches enjoy the same privilege (Note: This Text was written in 1945)].
The new Religious Family, with which he enriched The Church (Collect), multiplied so rapidly that, at the General Chapter held at Assisi about ten years after its birth, there were five thousand Brothers.
[In 1264, the Franciscans possessed already 8,000 Houses.
The new Religious Family, with which he enriched The Church (Collect), multiplied so rapidly that, at the General Chapter held at Assisi about ten years after its birth, there were five thousand Brothers.
Church of Saint Francis of Assisi,
Aleppo, Syria.
Photo: 8 January 2011.
Source: Own work.
Author: Preacher lad
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[In 1264, the Franciscans possessed already 8,000 Houses.
The Friars-Minor have given to The Church twenty-nine Saints, sixty Blesseds, five Popes, and many Cardinals, Bishops, and learned Men, such as Saint Bonaventure, Alexander of Hales, Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus.
[The Capuchins six Saints and eleven Blesseds.
[The Conventuals one Saint and one Blessed.
[In 1936, the Friars-Minor numbered about 24,500 Members, the Capuchins 13,500, and the Conventuals 3,000, not to mention the 83,000 Regular Tertiaries and the 1,904,000 Secular Tertiaries.]
Wishing to consider themselves the least among Religious, Saint Francis gave them the name of Friars-Minor, and he himself remained a Deacon all his life. After this First Order, he Founded a Second Order, “The Order of Poor Clares”, thus called after Saint Clare, the illustrious Virgin of Assisi (Feast Day 12 August).
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Lastly, in 1221, he Founded a Third Order, called “The Order
Wishing to consider themselves the least among Religious, Saint Francis gave them the name of Friars-Minor, and he himself remained a Deacon all his life. After this First Order, he Founded a Second Order, “The Order of Poor Clares”, thus called after Saint Clare, the illustrious Virgin of Assisi (Feast Day 12 August).
Lastly, in 1221, he Founded a Third Order, called “The Order
of Penance”, on which the Popes, and especially Pope Leo XIII, who considered it an honour to belong to it, lavished the greatest encouragement and the richest favours.
Saint Francis sent his disciples to France, Germany, Spain, Africa; he himself wanted to go to Palestine and Morocco, but Divine Providence stopped him on the way. The Divine Love which burned in him caused him to be surnamed “Seraphic”.
On 4 October 1226, he gave up his Soul to God while finishing the last Verse of Psalm 141: “Bring my Soul out of prison,
Saint Francis sent his disciples to France, Germany, Spain, Africa; he himself wanted to go to Palestine and Morocco, but Divine Providence stopped him on the way. The Divine Love which burned in him caused him to be surnamed “Seraphic”.
On 4 October 1226, he gave up his Soul to God while finishing the last Verse of Psalm 141: “Bring my Soul out of prison,
O Lord, that I may praise Thy Name.”
Mass: Mihi autem.
Mass: Mihi autem.
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