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 Pudentiana, Rome.
Photo: 13 May 2009.
Source: Own work.
Author: Welleschik
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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)
Zephyrinus knows that the title-church of this saint is considered to be the oldest Christian church in all Rome, parts of the structure determined by general consensus to belong to the House of the Senator Pudens, the father of Prasseda and Pudenziana. The “Peter chapel” contains units altar a part of the altar stone on which S. Peter celebrated Mass in the house-church—the rest of it is in the altar at S. John Lateran. The stunning central glittering mosaic, with the detail of S. Pudenziana shown above, spottinghistory.com and also the church website date from approximately 380-416 AD, the original structure having been enlarged into the basilica orientation we see today. This commenter missed seeing this ancient church and its amazing mosaic, with Christ in a gold tunic trimmed in purple, with the heavenly Jerusalem behind Him—-yet tho’ walking right by its central “Old City” site, or nearly, down the Via Cavour a couple blocks from its actual location (“Aaargh!” — My grandmother always said, “No matter how many times to go Rome, you will never see all of it.” Proof positive.). Do not do as this person did: see this ancient church.
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DeleteThank You very much, Dante P. Very much appreciated.
Your grandmother, if I may say so, was very wise.