Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
Saint Maurus.
Abbot.
Feast Day 15 January.
Simple.
White Vestments.
Current location: The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
Author: Fra Filippo Lippi
(Wikimedia Commons)
Having been committed in his earliest childhood by the Senator, Eutychius, his father, to the care of Saint Benedict, the great Patriarch of The Monks of The West, Saint Maurus faithfully reproduced all the virtues of his Master.
The latter, having commanded him to save young Placid, who was drowning, he walked with simple confidence on the waters of a torrent and brought him back safe and sound.
Having been sent to Gaul, according to a Tradition, he promulgated “The Holy Rule of Saint Benedict”, Founded The Monastery at Glanfeuil, France, and wrought many Miracles.
By his Doctrine, permeated by Evangelical perfection, and by his Works, that is to say. by thousands of Abbeys which, during twelve Centuries covered France, and which all sprang from the one he had Founded, he bore striking testimony to The Divinity of Jesus.
He died in 584 A.D.
Mass: Os justi: (From The Common of Abbots).
An ancient and noble history. Thank you, Zephyrinus.
ReplyDeleteThe Benedictine Abbey of Glanfeuil, France, (Zephyrinus knows this) was another of those many abbeys and monasteries suppressed by the French secular atheist Third Republic around the fin de siecle, which in 1901 expelled these monks (despite the monastery having been in existence since at least the middle 700’s), effectively from France. They first went to Belgium, then finally settled and refounded the monastery in Clairvaux, Luxembourg, again dedicated to St. Maurus. The dissolution of so many Benedictine, Carthusian, and other order monasteries I think was a terrible spiritual blow to France which did not help it in the coming catastrophe of WWI which Zephyrinus knows the atheist Clemenceau brought upon the country.
Anyway the Abbey at Clairvaux, Luxembourg, has survived to the present day. Yay!
Dear Dante Peregrinus. As always, many thanks, indeed, for your valuable contribution and Comments.
DeleteFrance has suffered many tragedies and you encapsulate some of them. I am aware of the French Government expelling these Religious Orders at the end of the 19th-Century. I have often effected a Retreat at Quarr Abbey, Ryde, Isle of Wight, which was Founded by expelled Monks from Solesmes, France.
Quarr Abbey is a beautiful edifice. Built by The Monks, entirely of Belgian Brick (over two million Bricks were used), on the site of a previous 12th-Century Abbey, it was completed in 1912 and is well worth a visit. The name “Quarr” relates to the site being near an old Stone Quarry. The Tower of London used some Stone from this Quarry.
Wonderful (A retreat at Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight)!
ReplyDeleteAfter that experience, I wager Zephyrinus’ feet didn’t touch the ground for a week! (Maybe a month.😄)
You are correct, Dante Peregrinus. After visiting Quarr Abbey for a few days on Retreat, upon coming home I would still wake up at 0430 hrs, every morning, in time for Matins and Lauds !!!
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