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Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.Tuesday of The Third Week in Lent.
Stations at Saint Pudentiana's and Saint Agatha's.
Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.
Violet Vestments.
Basilica of Santa Pudentiana, Rome.
Photo: May 2009.
Source: Own work.
Author: Welleschik
(Wikimedia Commons)
By Apostolic Letters, dated 5 March 1934, and published on
15 October 1935, the Churches of Santa Agatha and Santa Maria Nova (also called Santa Francisca Romana) were raised to the Title of Stational Churches.
The same Ceremonies are performed, and the same Indulgences may be gained there, respectively, as Santa Pudentiana on The Third Tuesday in Lent and San Apollinare on Passion Thursday. These two Churches are not on the published Map of Stational Churches in The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
Stational Indulgences.
Indulgences are mentioned in The Missal at some Stational Days. These Indulgences may be gained in Rome by taking part in The Stational Procession and Mass or by visiting The Stational Church on that day.
All Regulars [Editor: Regular Clergy, as opposed to Secular Clergy] may gain the same by attending Conventual Mass and Praying for the Pope's intentions in their own Convent Church (Pope Paul V, 23 May 1606).
This Privilege may have been extended to some Confraternities affiliated to these Orders.
The Station is at the very ancient Sanctuary of Saint Pudentiana, erected on the site of the house of her father, the Senator Pudens, mentioned by Saint Paul in his Epistles. Saint Pudentiana lived here with her sister, Saint Praxedes. Here, Saint Peter received hospitality and the first Christians often assembled.
In the 2nd-Century A.D., this house seems to have been the Residence of The Roman Pontiffs. For such reasons, it became one of the twenty-five Parish Churches of Rome in the 5th-Century A.D. It was quite fitting to read there the Gospel in which Saint Peter asks Our Lord about the use of the Power of The Keys.
The clemency of the Jews was content to forgive three times. Jesus, in the Gospel, says we are to forgive "seventy times seven times", that is to say, always. Mercy, with the sacrifices which accompany it, forms part of The Lenten Penance.
Wherefore, the Epistle shows us, in the miraculous increase of a small quantity of oil at the word of Eliseus (by the sale of which a poor widow was enabled to pay a pitiless creditor), a figure of The Mercy of The Saviour, whose infinite merits supply the ransom for our sins.
The following paragraph is from THE FAR SIGHT
The first Archbishop of Westminster, and also the first Cardinal resident in England since The Reformation, was Blessed Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman.
In order to participate in the effects of this Charity of Christ, we should, in our turn, exercise the same Virtue. Then will The Church, in The Name of Jesus, make use in our favour of the Power of Remission which she holds from her Head.
Let us atone for our sins and forgive our neighbour his sins against us. And then let us implore The God of Mercy to grant us, by His Almighty Power, the pardon for our sins (Postcommunion).
Mass: Ego clamávi.
Preface: Of Lent.
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
The Church of Santa Pudenziana (Pudentiana) is recognised as the oldest place of Christian worship in Rome. It was built over a 2nd-Century A.D. house (probably during the Pontificate of Pope Pius I (140 A.D. – 155 A.D.)) and re-uses part of a Baths facility, still visible in the structure of the Apse.
This Church was the Residence of the Pope until, in 313 A.D., Emperor Constantine offered them the Lateran Palace.
In the 4th-Century A.D., during the Pontificate of Pope Siricius, the building was transformed into a Three-Naved Church. In the Acts of the Synod of 499 A.D., the Church bears the Titulus “Pudentis”, indicating that the administration of the Sacraments was allowed.
The Saint Peter Chapel, on the Left-Side of the Apse, contains a part of the table at which Saint Peter would have held the Celebration of the Eucharist in the house of Saint Pudens. The rest of the table is embedded in the Papal Altar of Saint John Lateran.
In the same Chapel, there are two bronze slabs in the wall, explaining that here Saint Peter was given hospitality and that he offered, for the first time in Rome, Bread and Wine as a Consecration of the Eucharist. The Pavement is ancient. A door opens into a Cortile (Courtyard) with a small Chapel that contains frescoes from the 11th-Century.
Cætani Chapel: This Chapel for the Cætani family (family of Pope Boniface VIII) was designed by Capriano da Volterra, in 1588, and, after his death in 1601, was completed by Carlo Maderno. The mosaics on the floor are notable. The Columns are of Lumachella Marble.
The same Ceremonies are performed, and the same Indulgences may be gained there, respectively, as Santa Pudentiana on The Third Tuesday in Lent and San Apollinare on Passion Thursday. These two Churches are not on the published Map of Stational Churches in The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
English: Basilica of Saint Agatha, Rome.
Deutsch: Innenraum von Sant' Agata dei Goti.
Photo: September 2006.
Source: Photo taken by Th1979
Author: Th1979
(Wikimedia Commons)
Stational Indulgences.
Indulgences are mentioned in The Missal at some Stational Days. These Indulgences may be gained in Rome by taking part in The Stational Procession and Mass or by visiting The Stational Church on that day.
All Regulars [Editor: Regular Clergy, as opposed to Secular Clergy] may gain the same by attending Conventual Mass and Praying for the Pope's intentions in their own Convent Church (Pope Paul V, 23 May 1606).
This Privilege may have been extended to some Confraternities affiliated to these Orders.
The same Interior of Sant’Agata dei Goti (Saint Agatha
of The Goths), Rome, as the previous photo, above.
But the photo, here, was taken circa 1899.
Taken from the Web-site of University College, Cork, Ireland, at UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, CORK, IRELAND.
The Station is at the very ancient Sanctuary of Saint Pudentiana, erected on the site of the house of her father, the Senator Pudens, mentioned by Saint Paul in his Epistles. Saint Pudentiana lived here with her sister, Saint Praxedes. Here, Saint Peter received hospitality and the first Christians often assembled.
In the 2nd-Century A.D., this house seems to have been the Residence of The Roman Pontiffs. For such reasons, it became one of the twenty-five Parish Churches of Rome in the 5th-Century A.D. It was quite fitting to read there the Gospel in which Saint Peter asks Our Lord about the use of the Power of The Keys.
Basilica of Santa Pudentiana, Rome.
Photo: August 2012.
Source: Own work.
Author: Luc
(Wikimedia Commons)
English: Basilica of Saint Agatha, Rome.
Deutsch: Roma, Sant'Agata dei Goti (rione Monti).
Photo: 25 May 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Pippo-b
(Wikimedia Commons)
The clemency of the Jews was content to forgive three times. Jesus, in the Gospel, says we are to forgive "seventy times seven times", that is to say, always. Mercy, with the sacrifices which accompany it, forms part of The Lenten Penance.
Wherefore, the Epistle shows us, in the miraculous increase of a small quantity of oil at the word of Eliseus (by the sale of which a poor widow was enabled to pay a pitiless creditor), a figure of The Mercy of The Saviour, whose infinite merits supply the ransom for our sins.
Blessed Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.
One-time Cardinal Priest of Santa Pudenziana, Rome.
Artist: Eduardo Cano de la Peña (1823–1897).
Date: 1865.
Current location: University of Seville, Spain.
Source/Photographer: [2]
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following paragraph is from THE FAR SIGHT
The first Archbishop of Westminster, and also the first Cardinal resident in England since The Reformation, was Blessed Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman.
In order to participate in the effects of this Charity of Christ, we should, in our turn, exercise the same Virtue. Then will The Church, in The Name of Jesus, make use in our favour of the Power of Remission which she holds from her Head.
Let us atone for our sins and forgive our neighbour his sins against us. And then let us implore The God of Mercy to grant us, by His Almighty Power, the pardon for our sins (Postcommunion).
Mass: Ego clamávi.
Preface: Of Lent.
“Saint Pudentiana being received into Heaven”.
Artist: Bernardino Nocchi.
The High Altar of Santa Pudentiana.
Photo: April 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: Georges Jansoone (JoJan).
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
The Church of Santa Pudenziana (Pudentiana) is recognised as the oldest place of Christian worship in Rome. It was built over a 2nd-Century A.D. house (probably during the Pontificate of Pope Pius I (140 A.D. – 155 A.D.)) and re-uses part of a Baths facility, still visible in the structure of the Apse.
This Church was the Residence of the Pope until, in 313 A.D., Emperor Constantine offered them the Lateran Palace.
In the 4th-Century A.D., during the Pontificate of Pope Siricius, the building was transformed into a Three-Naved Church. In the Acts of the Synod of 499 A.D., the Church bears the Titulus “Pudentis”, indicating that the administration of the Sacraments was allowed.
“Christ Delivering The Keys Of Heaven
To Saint Peter”, by the architect Giacomo della Porta.
Date: 1594.
The Saint Peter Chapel,
Church of Santa Pudenziana, Rome.
Photo: April 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: Georges Jansoone (JoJan).
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Saint Peter Chapel, on the Left-Side of the Apse, contains a part of the table at which Saint Peter would have held the Celebration of the Eucharist in the house of Saint Pudens. The rest of the table is embedded in the Papal Altar of Saint John Lateran.
In the same Chapel, there are two bronze slabs in the wall, explaining that here Saint Peter was given hospitality and that he offered, for the first time in Rome, Bread and Wine as a Consecration of the Eucharist. The Pavement is ancient. A door opens into a Cortile (Courtyard) with a small Chapel that contains frescoes from the 11th-Century.
Main entrance to Saint Pudentiana’s, Rome.
Photo: November 2005.
Source: Own work.
Author: Panairjdde
(Wikimedia Commons)
Cætani Chapel: This Chapel for the Cætani family (family of Pope Boniface VIII) was designed by Capriano da Volterra, in 1588, and, after his death in 1601, was completed by Carlo Maderno. The mosaics on the floor are notable. The Columns are of Lumachella Marble.
The Relief (1599), above the Altar, is by Pier Paolo Olivieri and depicts The Adoration of The Magi. Giovanni Paolo Rossetti painted Saint Praxedes and Saint Pudentiana collecting The Blood of The Martyrs, in 1621. He also painted the fresco of The Evangelist, in the Ceiling, to a design by Federico Zuccari.
The statue of Saint Pudentiana, in a Niche, is by Claude Adam, dating from, circa, 1650. The Sisters’ Well stands just outside The Caetani Chapel, in the Left-Aisle, and is said to contain the Relics of 3,000 Early Martyrs, many of which were brought here and hidden by Saints Pudentiana and Praxedes. This is marked by a square porphyry slab in the floor.
The Cardinal Priest, of the Titulus S. Pudentianæ, was Joachim Meisner. From the death on 5 July 2017 of Cardinal Joachim Meisner, the Titulus S. Pudentianæ was vacant until 28 June 2018, when Pope Francis assigned the Title to Cardinal Thomas Aquino Manyo Mæda.
One of the former Cardinal-Priests of this Basilica was Cardinal Luciano Bonaparte, great-nephew of Emperor Napoleon I.
The following three paragraphs are from THE CATHOLIC TRAVELER
The Station Churches of Rome.
Pilgrims who travel to Rome, during Lent, can participate in a beautiful custom that dates back to the 4th-Century A.D. It’s a custom that began as a way to strengthen the sense of community in the City, while honouring The Holy Martyrs of Rome.
The Faithful would journey through the streets to visit various Churches. As they walked, they would Pray The Litany of The Saints. The Bishop of Rome, that is The Holy Father (The Pope), would join them, lead them in Prayer and Celebrate Mass at the Church.
Though this practice was around for years, Pope Saint Gregory the Great established the order of the Churches to be visited, the Prayers to be recited, and designated this as a Lenten Practice. The Tradition continued until 1309, when the Papacy moved to Avignon, France. Pope Leo XIII revived the Tradition and it was fully restored by Pope Saint John XXIII in 1959.
Saints Praxedes and Pudentiana
collecting The Blood of The Martyrs.
Date: 1621.
Artist: Giovanni Paolo Rossetti.
Current location: The Caetani Chapel,
Church of Santa Pudentiana, Rome.
Photo: April 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: Georges Jansoone (JoJan).
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Cardinal Priest, of the Titulus S. Pudentianæ, was Joachim Meisner. From the death on 5 July 2017 of Cardinal Joachim Meisner, the Titulus S. Pudentianæ was vacant until 28 June 2018, when Pope Francis assigned the Title to Cardinal Thomas Aquino Manyo Mæda.
One of the former Cardinal-Priests of this Basilica was Cardinal Luciano Bonaparte, great-nephew of Emperor Napoleon I.
The following three paragraphs are from THE CATHOLIC TRAVELER
The Station Churches of Rome.
Pilgrims who travel to Rome, during Lent, can participate in a beautiful custom that dates back to the 4th-Century A.D. It’s a custom that began as a way to strengthen the sense of community in the City, while honouring The Holy Martyrs of Rome.
The Faithful would journey through the streets to visit various Churches. As they walked, they would Pray The Litany of The Saints. The Bishop of Rome, that is The Holy Father (The Pope), would join them, lead them in Prayer and Celebrate Mass at the Church.
Though this practice was around for years, Pope Saint Gregory the Great established the order of the Churches to be visited, the Prayers to be recited, and designated this as a Lenten Practice. The Tradition continued until 1309, when the Papacy moved to Avignon, France. Pope Leo XIII revived the Tradition and it was fully restored by Pope Saint John XXIII in 1959.
Another welcome Comment from a Pilgrim in Rome. Many thanks.
ReplyDeleteThe Basilica of Santa Pudenziana, as Zephyrinus’ detailed notes above observe, is the oldest surviving Christian sanctuary in Rome, and well worth the pilgrim’s time to visit it. It is not a large church at all, being built in part likely from the ancient House of the Roman Senator Pudens, and dates to at least 2nd C. It is situated on a smaller street, the Via Urbana, a street which is parallel to the very busy shopping district of the Via Cavour. It is only 450 m., a 5 min walk, from the great Santa Maria Maggiore on the height of the Esquiline Hill, but in one of the oldest parts of Rome. So if you visit Santa Maria Maggiore, there is no reason to miss this beautiful gem.
The architecture is rightly called Paleo Christian, with later Romanesque elements added, mainly from the 13th C. on, including the trecento bell tower. But particularly for those interested in artifacts of Catholic antiquity, there is the beautiful ancient apse mosaic, which experts date to sometime in the 4th. C. It is a very early, very lifelike depiction of Christ seated in glory as judge, luminous in a gold toga mosaic with purple trim, illuminated by the light filtering down from the apse oculus, and Christ crowned with a gold halo. On the right side it is thought to be S. Pudenziana, crowning S. Peter, and her sister, S. Praesede, on the left, crowning S. Paul. Both female martyr saints symbolically double as images of the Church of the Gentiles (S. Paul side) and the Church of the Synagogue (S. Peter side). In the background is a victorious jewelled cross mounted on Golgotha. Behind Christ and the Saints are also interesting details of monumental Roman buildings thought to be historic views of ancient Jerusalem, but also representing the heavenly Jerusalem:
It is awe inspiring to view such an early church, part of which, as was mentioned above, was the house of the Senator Pudens (mentioned in 2 Tim. 4:21), the father of the two martyr sister saints.
On the front left side is the Chapel of S. Peter, in which a relic of a stone, said to be part of the altar where S. Peter offered Mass and consecrated the elements of bread and wine in this house-church. The pavement and some of the stonework of this chapel is very ancient and likely original to the 1st C. A.D.
On the right side is the Caetani Chapel, as mentioned by Zephyrinus’ notes above, dedicated to the family of P. Boniface VIII (d. 1303), which was started in 1588, then finished by the great architect and artist, Carlo Moderno, ca. 1601, and is noted for its exquisitely beautiful marble columns and highly crafted floor mosaics:
On the altar steps of this chapel, a famous incident is recorded: In 1610, shortly after the chapel’s dedication, a priest who doubted the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, dropped the Host on one of the altar steps: It immediately indelibly imprinted itself in the otherwise perfectly unblemished white marble. The circular reddish mark of the Host, in a slight depression, and red drops on another step which appeared to be blood drops, to this day remain for the visitor to examine for himself:
http://therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/english_pdf/Rome3.pdf
As Dom Lefebvre points out, the Gospel for Tuesday of the 3rd Week of Lent is from Matthew 18:15–22, Christ giving Peter and the Apostles the powers of binding and loosing on heaven and earth. This stational church may have been selected because Peter, according to ancient tradition, lived in this house for sometime up until his death ca. 67-68 AD.
For the Roman pilgrim, this inspiring church is a guidepost in Lent from the ancient past of Catholic Christendom, pointing beyond Golgotha to the heavenly Jerusalem, just as depicted in the apse mosaic of S. Pudenziana.