Saint Abdon And Saint Sennen. Martyrs. Feast Day, Today, 30 July. Red Vestments.

English: Saint Abdon and Saint Sennen.

Catalan: Sants Abdó i Senén.

Artist: Jaume Huguet (1459-1460).

Source/Photographer: Catholic Culture

Collection: Santa Maria de Terrassa.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
   By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
   Volume 13.
   Time After Pentecost.
   Book IV.

The decrees of Eternal Wisdom ordained that the West should be honoured before the East with the glory of Martyrdom.

Yet, when the hour had come, Jesus was to have, beyond the Tigris, millions of witnesses by no means inferior to their forerunners, astonishing Heaven and Earth by new forms of heroism.

Impatient of the delay, two noble Persians won their Palm on this day by the command of Rome. By shedding their blood, they paid tribute for their native land to the Eternal City; and now they protect our Latin Churches, and receive the Prayers and praise of the West.

France received a goodly portion of their Sacred Relics; and the City of Arles-sur-Tech, in Roussillon, can show to an incredulous generation the sarcophagus, from which flows a mysterious liquor, a symbol of the continual benefits bestowed on us by these Holy Martyrs.

Hearken to our earnest Prayers, O Blessed Martyrs !!! May the Faith at length triumph in that land of Persia whence so many flowers of Martyrdom have been culled for Heaven.

Before the time appointed for the struggle to begin in your native land, ye went to meet death elsewhere, and thus ye gained a new fatherland whereon to bestow your love.

Bless us, the fellow-citizens of your choice, and bring us all to the Eternal Fatherland of all the Children of God.

Saint Abdon And Saint Sennen. Martyrs. Feast Day, Today, 30 July. Red Vestments.

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

Saints Abdon and Sennen.
   Martyrs.
   Feast Day 30 July.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Sennen Church,

Sennen, Cornwall, England.

Photo: 5 November 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Andrewrabbott

(Wikimedia Commons)

Illustration: SENNEN COVE

Saint Sennen’s Church is a Parish Church, of the Church of England, in Sennen, Cornwall, England. The Church is Mediæval. It is known as the Parish Church of Land's End, Cornwall, and the Patron is the Duke of Cornwall.

(Wikipedia)

Stained-Glass Window

in the East Wall of the Church of Saint Sennen,

Sennen, Cornwall, England.

Illustration: SENNEN COVE

The South Aisle leading to The Lady Chapel.

Illustration: SENNEN COVE

The South Aisle, added in the 15th Century, was Dedicated in 1441. The date can be read on the base of the Font.

The floor of Cornish Slate in The Lady Chapel 

was laid in the 1990s. In The Lady Chapel is a rather 

battered Statue of The Virgin Mary, one of several figures recovered from a Wall Niche nearly 300 years ago.

There is also a 17th Century Post-Reformation

 Communion Table, and, on the Wall by the Window, 

is a fragment of a Painting, presumably still in existence beneath the plaster. It is interesting to try and work out 

what the complete picture could be.

The Font is striking by virtue of its lid, carved by a local farmer, Mr. Saundry, out of wood from the wreck of "The SS Khyber", sunk on 15 March 1905, near Saint Levan, Cornwall.

The Font now stands on a floor of Delabole Slate, 

matching The Lady Chapel, laid in 1999, following a major repair to rid the rear of the Church of rotten Flooring.

Finally, the discerning eye will pick out the Letter from

King Charles 1, thanking Cornish folk for their loyalty.

Text from SENNEN COVE

Saints Abdon and Sennen, born in Persia, "were arrested and taken to Rome under the Emperor Decius. They were scourged with cords, weighted with lead, and beheaded" (Roman Martyrology). This was in the 3rd-Century A.D. (254 A.D.)

Mass: Intret.

Saint Sennen Church,

Sennen, Cornwall, England.

Illustration: SENNEN COVE

Saint Sennen Church,

Sennen, Cornwall, England.

Illustration: SENNEN COVE

Saint Abdon And Saint Sennen. Martyrs. Feast Day, Today, 30 July. Red Vestments.

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

Saints Abdon and Sennen.
   Martyrs.
   Feast Day 30 July.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Sennen Church,

Sennen, Cornwall, England.

Photo: 5 November 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Andrewrabbott

(Wikimedia Commons)

Illustration: SENNEN COVE

Saint Sennen’s Church is a Parish Church, of the Church of England, in Sennen, Cornwall, England. The Church is Mediæval. It is known as the Parish Church of Land's End, Cornwall, and the Patron is the Duke of Cornwall.

(Wikipedia)

Stained-Glass Window

in the East Wall of the Church of Saint Sennen,

Sennen, Cornwall, England.

Illustration: SENNEN COVE

The South Aisle leading to The Lady Chapel.

Illustration: SENNEN COVE

The South Aisle, added in the 15th Century, was Dedicated in 1441. The date can be read on the base of the Font.

The floor of Cornish Slate in The Lady Chapel 

was laid in the 1990s. In The Lady Chapel is a rather 

battered Statue of The Virgin Mary, one of several figures recovered from a Wall Niche nearly 300 years ago.

There is also a 17th Century Post-Reformation

 Communion Table, and, on the Wall by the Window, 

is a fragment of a Painting, presumably still in existence beneath the plaster. It is interesting to try and work out 

what the complete picture could be.

The Font is striking by virtue of its lid, carved by a local farmer, Mr. Saundry, out of wood from the wreck of "The SS Khyber", sunk on 15 March 1905, near Saint Levan, Cornwall.

The Font now stands on a floor of Delabole Slate, 

matching The Lady Chapel, laid in 1999, following a major repair to rid the rear of the Church of rotten Flooring.

Finally, the discerning eye will pick out the Letter from

King Charles 1, thanking Cornish folk for their loyalty.

Text from SENNEN COVE

Saints Abdon and Sennen, born in Persia, "were arrested and taken to Rome under the Emperor Decius. They were scourged with cords, weighted with lead, and beheaded" (Roman Martyrology). This was in the 3rd-Century A.D. (254 A.D.)

Mass: Intret.

Saint Sennen Church,

Sennen, Cornwall, England.

Illustration: SENNEN COVE

Saint Sennen Church,

Sennen, Cornwall, England.

Illustration: SENNEN COVE