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

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.

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A.E.I.O.U. is also the motto of the Theresian Military Academy, established in 1751.[4]

It can also be found on the wall of the Chancellor's office in the Federal Chancellery of Austria. The famous device is probably the best-known motto of pre-modern times, because it has repeatedly been given new interpretations.

Unravelling the mystery of what A.E.I.O.U. means is part of a Centuries-long debate that is still ongoing today.[5]

The Wiener Neustädter Altar is composed of two Triptychs, the upper one being four times taller than the lower one. When the lower panels are opened, the Gothic grate of the former Reliquary above the Altar is revealed.

On weekdays, the four Panels are closed and display a drab painted scene involving seventy-two Saints. On Sundays, the Panels are opened, showing gilded wooden figures depicting events in the life of The Virgin Mary.

Restoration began on its 100th anniversary in 1985 and 

took twenty years, ten art restorers, 40,000 man-hours, and €1.3 million to complete, primarily because its large surface area of 100 square metres (1,100 sq ft).

The Maria Pötsch Icon is a Byzantine-Style icon of Saint 

Mary with The Child Jesus. The icon takes its name from the Hungarian Byzantine Catholic Shrine of Máriapócs (pronounced Poach), whence it was transferred to Vienna.

The picture shows The Virgin Mary pointing to the Child (signifying: “He is the way”) and the Child holding a three-stemmed Rose (symbolising The Holy Trinity) and wearing a Cross from His neck.

The icon was commissioned in 1676 from painter István Papp by László Csigri upon his release as a Prisoner-of-War from the Turks, who were invading Hungary at the time. As Csigri was unable to pay the six-Forint fee, the icon was bought by Lőrinc Hurta who donated it to the Church of Pócs.

After claims of two miraculous incidents in 1696, with the Holy Mother in the picture allegedly shedding real tears, Emperor Leopold I ordered it brought to Saint Stephen’s Cathedral, where it would be safe from the Muslim armies that still controlled much of Hungary.

Upon its arrival after a triumphal five-month journey in 1697, Empress Eleonora Magdalena commissioned the splendid “Rosa Mystica” oklad and framework (now one of several) for it, and the Emperor personally ordered the icon placed near The High Altar in the Church, where it stood prominently from 1697 until 1945.

Since then, it has been in a different framework, above an Altar under a Mediæval Stone Baldachin in the Nave — where many burning candles indicate the extent of its Veneration, especially by Hungarians.

Since its arrival, the picture has not been seen weeping again, but other miracles and answered Prayers have been attributed to it, including Prince Eugene of Savoy’s victory over the Turks at Zenta, few weeks after the icon’s installation in the “Stephansdom”.

The residents of Pócs wanted their holy Miracle-working painting returned, but the Emperor sent them a copy, instead. Since then, the copy has been reported to weep real tears and work Miracles, so the Village changed its name from merely Pócs to Máriapócs and has become an important Pilgrimage site.

Pulpit.

The Stone Pulpit is a Masterwork of Late-Gothic sculpture. Long attributed to Anton Pilgram, today, Niclaes Gerhaert van Leyden is thought more likely to be the Carver.

So that the local language Sermon could be better heard by the Worshippers in the days before microphones and loudspeakers, the Pulpit stands against a Pillar, in the Nave, instead of in the Chancel at the front of the Church.

PART NINE FOLLOWS.

Saint Rose Of Lima. Virgin. Feast Day 30 August. White Vestments.

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

Saint Rose of Lima.
   Virgin.
   Feast Day 30 August.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: Saint Rose of Lima.

In the book at her feet, the Text reads: “Rosa Cordis Mei Tu Mihi Sponsa Est Ancilla Tua Sum Domine”. “The Rose of

My heart, be thou My bride, your servant, I, O, Lord.”

Español: Óleo sobre lienzo, Claudio Coello (1642-1693):

Santa Rosa de Lima (1684-1685).

Artist: Claudio Coello (1642–1693).

Current location:

Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

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Saint Rose of Lima.

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One hundred years after the discovery of The New World, was born at Lima, the Capital of Peru, the Virgin, Rose, the First Flower of Sanctity which bloomed in South America. The name was given to her because, one day, the face of the child appeared transfigured and with all the beauty of a Rose. She added to it the name of The Blessed Virgin Mary, wishing, thenceforth, to be called “Rose of Saint Mary”.

Watered by The Divine Dew of Grace, she produced beautiful blooms of Virginity and Patience (Collect). When five years old, she made her Vow of Perpetual Virginity, taking Jesus for her Spouse (Epistle). Later, to avoid being obliged to marry, she cut off her beautiful hair.

Having received the Habit of a Tertiary of The Order of Saint Dominic, she gave herself up to Prayer and austere mortification. When she was thirty, on 29 August 1617, her Divine Spouse came to take her (Gospel, Communion), and, adorned with her radiant beauty, she entered triumphant into The Court of The Heavenly King (Gradual, Alleluia).

Mass: Dilexísti.
Commemoration: Saint Felix and Saint Adauctus. Martyrs.

Saint Rose of Lima.

And The Madonna and Child.

Artist: José Claudio Antolinez (1635–1675).

Date: Late-17th-Century.

Current location:

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art

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Saint Rose of Lima (1586 – 1617), T.O.S.D. [The Third Order of Saint Dominic (known as Lay Fraternities of Saint Dominic, or, Lay Dominicans, since 1972) is a Roman Catholic Third Order, affiliated with the Dominican Order] was a Spanish colonist in Lima, Peru, who became known for both her life of severe asceticism and her care of the needy of the City, through her own private efforts.

A Lay Member of the Dominican Order, she was the first person, born in the Americas, to be Canonised by the Catholic Church.

As a Saint, Rose of Lima is designated as a Co-Patroness of the Philippines, along with Saint Pudentiana, who were both moved as Second-Class Patronage, in September 1942, by Pope Pius XII, but remains the Primary Patroness of Peru and the indigenous natives of Latin America.

Saint Rose of Lima Church,

Brooklyn, United States of America.

Photo: 28 March 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Jim.henderson

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She was born Isabel Flores y de Oliva, in the City of Lima, then in the Vice-Royalty of Peru, on 20 April 1586. She was one of the many children of Gaspar Flores, a Harquebusier (Cavalryman) in the Imperial Spanish Army, born in San Germán on the island of San Juan Bautista (now Puerto Rico), and his wife, María de Oliva, a native of Lima.

Her later nickname, “Rose”, comes from an incident in her babyhood: A servant claimed to have seen her face transform into a rose. In 1597, she was Confirmed by the Archbishop of Lima, Turibius de Mongrovejo, who was also to be declared a Saint. She formally took the name of “Rose”, at that time.

As a young girl — in emulation of the noted Dominican Tertiary, Saint Catherine of Siena — she began to Fast three times a week and performed severe penances, in secret.

When she was admired for her beauty, Rose cut off her hair and smeared pepper on her face, upset that suitors were beginning to take notice of her. She rejected all suitors, against the objections of her friends and her family.

Despite the censure of her parents, she spent many hours contemplating the Blessed Sacrament, which she received daily, an extremely rare practice at that time. She was determined to take a Vow of Virginity, which was opposed by her parents, who wished her to marry.

English: Basilica of Saint Rose of Lima,

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Español: Basílica Santa Rosa de Lima,

barrio de Balvanera, Argentina.

Photo: 12 April 2015.

Source: Own work.

Author: Roberto Fiadone

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After daily Fasting, she took to permanently abstaining from eating meat. She helped the sick and hungry around her community, bringing them to her room and taking care of them. Rose sold her fine needlework, and took flowers that she grew to market, to help her family. She made and sold lace and embroidery to care for the poor, and she Prayed and did Penance in a little Grotto, which she had built. Otherwise, she became a Recluse, leaving her room only for her visits to Church.

She attracted the attention of the Friars of the Dominican Order. She wanted to become a Nun, but her father forbade it, so she instead entered the Third Order of Saint Dominic, while living in her parents’ home. In her twentieth year, she donned the Habit of a Tertiary and took a Vow of Perpetual Virginity. She donned a heavy Crown, made of Silver, with small spikes on the inside, in emulation of The Crown of Thorns worn by Christ.

For eleven years, she lived this way, with intervals of ecstasy, and died on 24 August 1617, at the age of thirty-one. It is said that she prophesied the date of her death. Her funeral was held in the Cathedral, attended by all the public authorities of Lima, and with a eulogy by the Archbishop.

Saint Rose of Lima Church,

Newark, United States of America.

Photo: 30 May 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Jim.henderson

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Rose was Beatified by Pope Clement IX, on 10 May 1667, and Canonised, on 12 April 1671, by Pope Clement X, the first Catholic in The Americas to be declared a Saint. Her Shrine, alongside those of her friends, Saint Martin de Porres and Saint John Macías, is located inside the Convent of Saint Dominic, in Lima, Peru. The Roman Catholic Church says that many Miracles followed her death; there were stories that she had cured a leper.

Many places in the New World are named Santa Rosa, after her. Pope Benedict XVI was especially devoted to her.

“The Life of Santa Rosa” was written by many, including: The Dominican, Father Hansen, “Vita Sanctæ Rosæ” (2 vols., Rome, 1664 – 1668).

Pope Benedict XIII wrote “Concentus Dominicano, Bononiensis ecclesia, in album Sanctorum Ludovici Bertrandi et Rosæ de Sancta Maria, ordinero prædicatorum” (Venice, 1674).

English: Saint Rose of Lima Church,

Sittard, Netherlands.

Nederlands: Rosakapel te Sittard (Limburg).

Photo: 7 August 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Gouwenaar.

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In the Caribbean twin-island State of Trinidad and Tobago, the Santa Rosa Carib Community, located in Arima, is the largest organisation of indigenous peoples on the island. The second oldest Parish in the Diocese of Port-of-Spain is also named after this Saint. The Santa Rosa Church, which is located in the town of Arima, was established on 20 April 1786, as the Indian Mission of Santa Rosa de Arima, on the Foundations of a Capuchin Mission, previously established in 1749.

Saint Rose is the Patroness of The Americas, indigenous people of The Americas, especially of Lima, Peru; the Secondary Patroness of The Philippines, along with Saint Pudentiana; of gardeners; of florists; of Sittard, the Netherlands; of India. Maywood, California is known as the largest Parish dedicated to Santa Rosa. On the last weekend in August, the Fiesta de Santa Rosa is celebrated in Dixon, New Mexico.

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Saint Felix And Saint Adauctus. Martyrs. Feast Day, Today, 30 August. Red Vestments.

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

Saints Felix And Adauctus.
   Martyrs.
   Feast Day 30 August.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

The Glorification of Saint Felix and Saint Adauctus.

Artist: Carlo Innocenzo Carlone

Source: Image from English Wikipedia.

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“At Rome,” says The Roman Martyrology, “on The Ostian Way, the passion of Blessed Felix, Priest, under the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian. After being tortured on the rack and condemned to death, while he was led to the place of execution, he met a Christian, who publicly confessed his Faith and was beheaded with him”.

The Faithful, ignorant of his name, called him Adauctus, which means “Added”, because he shared the triumph of Saint Felix (303 A.D.).

Mass: Sapiéntiam.

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

The Veneration of Saint Felix and Saint Adauctus is very old; they are Commemorated in The Sacramentary of Gregory the Great and in the ancient Martyrologies.

Their Church in Rome, built over their graves, in the Catacomb of Commodilla, on The Via Ostiensis, near the Basilica of Saint Paul-outside-the-Walls, and restored by Pope Leo III, was discovered about three hundred years ago and again unearthed in 1905 (Civiltà Catt., 1905, II, 608).

Pope Leo IV, about 850 A.D., is said to have given their relics to Irmengard, wife of Lothair I; she placed them in the Abbey of Canonesses, at Eschau, in Alsace.

They were brought to the Church of Saint Stephen, in 

Vienna, in 1361. The heads are claimed by Anjou and Cologne. According to the “Chronicle of Andechs” (Donauwörth, 1877, 

p. 69), Henry, the last Count, received the relics from Pope Honorius III and brought them to the Abbey of Andechs.

The painter, Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (1686–1775), painted 

The Glorification of Saints Felix and Adauctus (1759–1761) (see, above). It was commissioned for the Cupola of the Church of San Felice del Benaco on Lake Garda.

Saint Rose Of Lima (1586 – 1617). Virgin. Feast Day 30 August. White Vestments.

Saint Rose of Lima.

Artist: Claudio Coello (1642–1693).

Date: 1683.

Collection: 

Museo de la Trinidad.

Museo del Prado.

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Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
   By: Abbot Guéranter, O.S.B.
   Volume 14.
   Time After Pentecost.
   Book 5.

A Century before the birth of Saint Rose, Spain, having cast out the Crescent from her own territory, received as a reward the mission of planting the Cross on the distant shores of America.

Neither heroes nor Apostles were wanting in the Catholic Kingdom for the great work; but there was also, unhappily, no lack of adventurers, who, in their thirst for gold, became the scourge of the poor Indians, instead of leading them to the True God.

The speedy decadence of the illustrious Nation that had triumphed over the Moors, was soon to prove how far a people, prevented with the greatest Blessings, may yet be answerable for crimes committed by its individual representatives.

It is well known how the Empire of the Incas in Peru came to an end. In spite of the indiginant protestations of the Missionaries; in spite of orders received from the Mother Country; in a few years, Pizarro and his companions had exterminated one third of the inhabitants of these flourishing regions; another third perished miserably under a slavery worse than death; the rest fled to the mountains, carrying with them a hatred of the invaders, and too often of the Gospel as well, which, in their eyes, was responsible for atrocities committed by Christians.

Saint Rose of Lima.

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Avarice opened the door to all vices in the Souls of the conquerors, without, however, destroying their lively Faith. Lima, Founded at the foot of the Cordilleras, as metropolis of the subjugated provinces, seemed as if built upon the triple concupiscence.

Before the close of the Century, a new Jonas, Saint Francis Solano, came to threaten this new Ninive with the anger of God.

But mercy had already been beforehand with wrath; “Justice and Peace had met” [Editor: Psalm lxxxiv. 11], in the Soul of a child, who was ready, in her insatiable love, to suffer every expiation.

Here we should like to pause and contemplate the Virgin of Peru, in her self-forgetful heroism, in her pure and candid gracefulness: Rose, who was all sweetness to those who approached her, and who kept to herself the secret of the thorns without which no Rose can grow on Earth.

English: Stained-Glass Window of Saint Rose of Lima.

Church of Saint Pierre de Chanzeaux, France.

Français: L’église Saint-Pierre à Chanzeaux. 

Sainte Rose de Lima.

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This Child of Predilection was prevented from her infancy with miraculous gifts and favours. The flowers recognised her as their Queen; and at her desire they would blossom out of season.

At her invitation, the plants joyfully waved their leaves; the trees bent down their branches; all nature exulted; even the insects formed themselves into Choirs; the birds vied with her in celebrating the praises of their common Maker.

She, herself, playing upon the names of her parents, Gaspard Flores and Maria Oliva, would sing: “O my Jesus, how beautiful Thou art among the olives and the flowers, and Thou dost not disdain Thy Rose !”

She took the Habit of The Third Order of Saint Dominic and after that redoubled her austerities.

English: Church of Saint Rose, Alsace, France.

Français: Alsace, Bas-Rhin, Église 

Sainte-Rose-de-Lima de Rosenwiller (Dettwiller).

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Eternal Wisdom has, from the beginning, delighted to play in the World. Pope Clement X relates, in the Bull of Canonisation, how one day, when Rose was very ill, The Infant Jesus appeared and deigned to play with her; teaching her in a manner suitable to her tender age, the value and the advantages of suffering. He then left her full of joy, and endowed with a life-long love of The Cross.

Holy Church will tell us in the legend how far the Saint carried out, in her rigorous Penance, the lesson thus divinely taught. In the super-human agonies of her last illness, when someone exhorted her to courage, she replied: “All I ask of my Spouse is that He will not cease to burn me with the most scorching heat, till I become a ripe fruit that He will deign to cull from this Earth for His Heavenly Table”.

She was but thirty-one years of age, when, at midnight on the Feast of Saint Bartholomew in 1617, she heard the cry: “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh !” In Lima, in all Peru, and indeed throughout America, prodigies of conversion and Miracles signalised the death of the humble Virgin, hitherto so little known.

“It has been juridically proved”, said the Sovereign Pontiff, “that, since the discovery of Peru, no Missionary has been known to obtain so universal a movement of repentance”.

Five years later, for the further sanctification of Lima, there was established in its midst the Monastery of Saint Catharine of Siena, also called “Rose’s Monastery”, because she was in the eyes of God its true Foundress and Mother.

Her Prayers had obtained its building, which she had predicted; she had designed the Plan, pointed out the future Religious, and named the first Superior, whom she one day prophetically endowed with her own spirit in a mysterious embrace.

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against Traditional Catholics.

The FBI, under the Biden Administration, spent unbelievable and unprecedented amounts of man-hours investigating and harassing Traditional Catholics from their office of Richmond, the Capital of Virginia.

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

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
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.

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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.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
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

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Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
   By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
   Volume 14.
   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”.