Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Pudentiana.
Virgin.
Feast Day 19 May.
Simple.
White Vestments.
English: Saint Pudentiana.
Detail of a mosaic in the Apse of Santa Pudenziana, Rome.
Deutsch: Pudentiana, Mosaik aus Santa Pudenziana
This File: 25 October 2005.
User: Marcus Cyron
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The Nave,
Basilica of Santa Pudenziana, Rome.
Photo: 13 May 2009.
Source: Own work.
Author: Welleschik
(Wikimedia Commons)
At the death of her father, she distributed all her riches to the Poor, in agreement with her sister, and she was barely sixteen years old when she died, in the Reign of Emperor Antoninus.
Her remains rest in her house, which she had converted into a Church. Her father had received Saint Peter there and she had placed it at the disposal of Pope Pius I, who Celebrated The Holy Mysteries there during “The Persecution”.
This is the “Title-Church” of Pudentiana, where The Station is held on the Tuesday in The Third Week of Lent. [“Title-Churches”, bearing as Title the name of their Founder or Foundress, were the usual Meeting Places of Christians in Rome, and became the first “Parish Churches”.]
Mass: Dilexísti.
“Saint Praxedes and Saint Pudentiana
collecting The Blood of The Martyrs”.
Artist: Giovanni Paolo Rossetti (1621).
Basilica of Santa Pudenziana, Rome.
Photo: 13 April 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: Georges Jansoone (JoJan).
(Wikimedia Commons)
This is one of those amazing almost unknown historic and ancient churches of Rome: Santa Pudenziana. As Zephyrinus knows, it is literally built on the ancient foundations of the house of SS. Pudenziana’s & Prassede’s father, the Senator Quintus Cornelius Pudens, as the article notes, where S. Peter celebrated the Mass, and later P. S. Pius I (d. ca. 154 AD)—And her mother was the famous Santa Priscilla, who is catacombs are one of the wonders of Rome and perhaps display the earliest surviving Christian images of the liturgy.
ReplyDeleteIn this confused present age, when many mistakenly think that the ancient traditional Catholic Mass originated in the 1500s, And that there was no continuous connection through the ancient times of P. Gregory the Great (d. 604 AD), Saint Ambrose (d.397 AD), Saint Pius I, back through time to S. Peter, S. Pudenzia, S. Priscilla, back to the Upper Room in Jerusalem, the Church of S. Pudenziana is an open testament saying, “Here is the Truth.”
Dear Dante Peregrinus. A most valuable and erudite contribution to this Article. Thank You.
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