Lenten Station At The Basilica Of Saint Pudentiana And Basilica Of Saint Agatha. Tuesday Of The Third Week In Lent.

Roman Text is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Italic Text, Illustrations and Captions, are taken from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,
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, Italy.

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.

English: Interior of Sant'Agata dei Goti, 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 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 Web-site of University College, Cork, Ireland at http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Church_of_St_Agatha_Rome.

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, 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. 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)

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.

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).

"Saint Pudentiana being received into Heaven",
by Bernardino Nocchi. 

Painting (1803) behind The High Altar of 
Santa Pudentiana, Rome, Italy.

Photo: April 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Georges Jansoone (JoJan)

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Church of Santa Pudenziana (Pudentiana) is recognised as the oldest place of Christian worship in Rome. It was built over a 2nd-Century 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 and sculptor, Giacomo della Porta.

Date: 1594.

Saint Peter Chapel in the

Church of Santa Pudenziana, Rome, Italy.

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

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Caetani Chapel: This Chapel for the Caetani 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.

"Saints Praxedes and Pudentiana

collecting The Blood of The Martyrs" (1621)

by Giovanni Paolo Rossetti.

The Caetani Chapel,

Church of Santa Pudentiana, Rome.

Photo: April 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Georges Jansoone (JoJan)

(Wikimedia Commons)

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. Pudentianae, is Joachim Meisner. One of the former Cardinal Priests of this Basilica was Cardinal Luciano Bonaparte, great-nephew of the Emperor Napoleon I.

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Lenten Station At The Basilica Of Saint Mark's. Monday Of The Third Week In Lent.

Roman Text is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Italic Text, Illustrations and Captions, are taken from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia, 
unless otherwise stated.

Monday of The Third Week in Lent.
Station at Saint Mark's.

Indulgence of 10 years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.

English: Façade of the Basilica of Saint Mark's, Rome.

To the Right is the Palazzo Venezia, the former See of the Embassy 

of the Republic of Venice, whose protector was Saint Mark.

Italian: Facciata della basilica di San Marco a Roma. 

Photo: January 2006.

Author: Panairjdde.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Station is at Saint Mark’s, an ancient Parish Church of Rome, built in the 4th-Century by Pope Saint Mark in honour of his Patron, the Evangelist. Under the Altar lie the Remains of this Pope, with the bodies of The Holy Martyrs, Abdon and Sennen.

One cannot choose a better spot wherein to read this account of the Syrian, Naaman, than in this Sanctuary, so clearly Oriental, since Saint Mark is the Founder of The Patriarchal Seat of Alexandria, and Abdon and Sennen are Persians. This account of Naaman seems to make allusion to the Egyptians of Alexandria, whom Saint Mark healed from the leprosy of unbelief by Baptism.

Saint Ursula and her Companions,
with Pope Ciriacus and Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

Artist: Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1590–1625).

Date: 1608.

Current location: Basilica di San Marco, Rome.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art:  Image  Info about artwork

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The Epistle and the Gospel speak to us of Naaman, the valiant General of the King of Syria’s Army. He was cured by bathing in The Jordan, although he did not belong to the Race of Israel. Later on, Jesus was to plunge Himself into the same River and to communicate a Sanctifying Virtue to its waters.

The Nave, San Marco, Rome.

Photo: July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: SteO153

Permission: CC-BY-SA-2.5

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Naaman, therefore, is a figure of the heathen whom the Church, by Baptism, cures of the leprosy of sin. Peter, says Tertullian, has Baptised in The Tiber, and those that he has cleansed from the leprosy of sin have abandoned the waters of Damascus, by which is meant their sensual life.

Let us renew ourselves in the spirit of our Baptism by purifying our hearts in the salutary bath of Penitence. This will cure them of the leprosy called sin.

The High Altar, 
Basilica of Saint Mark's, Rome.

Photo: July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: SteO153

Permission: CC-BY-SA-2.5

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Italiano: Roma, basilica di san Marco, controfacciata e organo.

English: The Organ of the Basilica of Saint Mark's, Rome.

Photo: October 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lalupa.

(Wikimedia Commons)

In 336 A.D., Pope Saint Mark built a Church devoted to one of the Evangelists, his name-bearer Saint Mark, in a place called ad Pallacinas. The Church is thus recorded as Titulus Marci in the 499 A.D. Synod of Pope Symmachus. [At that time, it became one of The Stational Churches of the City (Monday of The Third Week in Lent)].

After Restoration, 792 A.D., by Pope Adrian I, the Church was rebuilt by Pope Gregory IV, 833 A.D.

Besides the addition of a Romanesque Bell-Tower in 1154, the major change in the architecture of the Church was ordered by Pope Paul II in 1465-1470, when the Interior and Exterior were restyled according to the Renaissance taste. On that occasion, the Church was assigned to the Venetian people living in Rome, Pope Paul II being a Venetian by birth.

Pope Paul II (1464 - 1471), who ordered the restyling

of the Basilica in the Renaissance Style

Artist: Cristofano dell'Altissimo (1525–1605).

Picture title: Pietrobarbo.

Source/Photographer: Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here.

Original uploader was Savidan at en.wikipedia, 2007-06-29 (original upload date).

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The last major re-working of the Basilica was started in 1654-1657 and completed by Cardinal Angelo Maria Quirini in 1735-1750. With these Restorations, the Church received its current Baroque decoration.

The façade (1466) was built with marble taken from The Colosseum and the Theatre of Marcellus, and is attributed to Leon Battista Alberti.

English: The Theatre of Marcellus, from which marble was taken to build 

the façade of the Basilica di San Marco a Roma. 

Italiano: Il teatro di Marcello accanto al tempio di Apollo Sosiano (in Circo) a Roma, ripreso dai piedi del Campidoglio, oltre la moderna via del Teatro di Marcello. 

Foto ripresa personalmente maggio 2005.

Photo: 2005.

Author: MM, uploaded to Italian wikipedia 09.05.2005.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The inside is clearly Baroque. However, the Basilica shows noteworthy elements of all her history.

The Apse mosaics, dating back to Pope Gregory IV, show the Pope, with the squared halo of a living person, offering a model of the Church to Christ, in the presence of Saint Mark the Evangelist, Pope Saint Mark and other Saints.

The wooden Ceiling, with the emblem of Pope Paul II, is one of only two original 15th-Century wooden Ceilings in Rome, together with the one at Santa Maria Maggiore.

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Further details: Bisto kids enjoying aroma wafting through open doorway.

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Low resolution: Yes.

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Lenten Station At The Basilica Of Saint Laurence-Without-The-Walls. Third Sunday In Lent.

Roman Text is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

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Third Sunday in Lent.
Station at Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.

Indulgence of 10 years and 10 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.
Privilege of the First Class.

Violet Vestments.

The spelling of this Saint's name can be either Laurence or Lawrence.

English: Papal Basilica of Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.

Italian: Basilica Papale di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura.

Photo: February 2005.

Source: Own work.

Author: User:Panairjdde

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The Station, today, is made at Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls, one of the first Patriarchal Basilicas of Rome, where are buried the bodies of the two Deacons, Laurence and Stephen. In the Collect for Saint Laurence's Feast (10 August), we Pray that the flame of our sins may be quenched within us, as the Saint overcame the fire of his torments; while, in that for Saint Stephen's Day, we undertake to love our enemies, like this Saint who Prayed for his persecutors.

Here are two virtues, Chastity and Charity, which were especially practised by the Patriarch Joseph, whose history The Church gives us this week in The Breviary. For Joseph resisted the evil solicitation of Potiphar's wife, while, on the other hand, he loved his brethren to the extent of rendering them good for evil.

When Joseph told his brethren the dreams, which foreshadowed his future greatness, they became filled with hatred against him, and at the first opportunity got rid of him by throwing him into a disused pit. After which, they sold him to some Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt and, after, sold him to an Egyptian noble named Potiphar. It was in this man's house that Joseph strenuously resisted the advances of his wife, thus becoming a great model of purity.

Artist: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853).

Title: The Cloisters, San Lorenzo fuori le mura.

Date: 1824.

Current location: Art Institute of Chicago,

(Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection).

Photo: April 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: user:Rlbberlin

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Ambrose says: "Today, it is the history of the pious Joseph which invites our attention. He possessed many virtues, yet he shone especially by his conspicuous Chastity. Rightly, therefore, is this holy Patriarch set before us as a Mirror of Chastity" (Matins).

When Joseph was cast into prison, having been unjustly accused by Potiphar's wife, turning to God in Prayer, he asked to be freed from his bonds. In similar terms, we say in the Introit: "My eyes are ever towards The Lord; for He shall pluck my feet out of the snare." And the Tract continues: "Behold, as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, so are our eyes unto The Lord our God, until He have mercy on us." 

And, in the Collect, we speak of Almighty God, Who regards the desires of those who humble themselves, as stretching forth in our defence the Right-Hand of His Majesty. In this event, Pharao took Joseph from his prison, made him sit on his Right-Hand, and entrusted to him the government of his whole Kingdom; and when, through his gift of foreknowledge he predicted the famine which should last seven years, Pharao gave him the title "Saviour of the people." [only once in the Gospels is this title given to Our Lord, namely, when He was speaking to the Samaritan woman, at Jacob's well. The incident is recorded in the Gospel for Friday of this week, devoted, Liturgically-speaking, to the history of Joseph.]

Interior of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura.

[taken from: http://papastronsay.blogspot.com]

Then, Joseph's brethren came to Egypt and he told them: "I am Joseph, whom you sold. Be not afraid. God has brought everything to pass that I may be the means of preserving you from death." Jacob's happiness, at seeing his son again, was unbounded; and he came and lived with his sons in the Land of Gessen, which Joseph gave them.

Saint Ambrose says: "The jealousy of Joseph's brethren is at the bottom of all the facts which make up his history. Besides, it is recorded to teach us that a perfect man does not give the rein to to his desire to avenge an outrage or to render evil for evil" (Matins).

Italiano: Fotografia Anderson, Roma - "Roma - S. Lorenzo Fuori le Mura". 

Numero di catalogo: 110.

English: Fotografia Anderson, Rome - 
"Rome - Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls Church". Catalogue # 110.

Date: 1938.

Source: Own work (scan).

Author: Either James Anderson (1813-1877) 

or his son Domenico Anderson (1854-1938).

(Wikimedia Commons)

Surely, in all this, we can recognise a type of Christ and His Church. Jesus, The Blessed Virgin's Son, is, in the highest degree, the model of virginal purity. And, in today's Gospel, we see Him contending in a special way with the unclean spirit. For so do Saint Matthew and Saint Luke describe the Devil, whom Our Lord cast out of The Dumb Man by The Finger of God, that is, by The Holy Ghost. 

So does The Church drive out the same unclean spirit from the Souls of the Newly-Baptised. Lent was a time of Preparation for Baptism and, in administering this Sacrament, the Priest breathes three times on the person to be Baptised with the words: "Go out of the child, unclean spirit, and give place to The Holy Ghost." 

Saint Bede, in his Commentary on this Gospel, says: "What then took place, visibly, is every day accomplished, invisibly, in the conversion of those who become Believers. First, the Devil is driven out of their Soul, then they perceive the Light of Faith; and, finally, their mouth, until then dumb, opens to Praise God" (Matins).

Pope Saint Pius X 
is buried at the Basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura.

Date: between 1880 and 1900.

Source: Library of Congress, U.S.A.

Author: Tryphosa Bates Batcheller.

(Wikimedia Commons)

In the same sense, in today's Epistle, Saint Paul says: "No fornicator or unclean or covetous person . .. hath inheritance in The Kingdom of Christ and of God. Fornication and all uncleanness, let it not so much as be named among you." 

And it is especially at this Season of Combat against Satan that we must imitate Christ, of Whom Joseph was only the type.

With regard to the Virtue of Charity, of which this Patriarch has set us an example, the likeness to Christ and His Church is obvious enough. Our Lord, too, was hated by His own people and sold by one of His Apostles, and, when He was Dying on The Cross, He Prayed for His enemies.

He had recourse to God and God Glorified Him, making Him sit on His Right-Hand in His Kingdom. As Joseph distributed the corn of nature, so, at Easter, Jesus will distribute The Wheat of The Eucharist. We know that, as a condition of receiving Holy Communion, The Church requires that Charity, of which an example was set by Saint Stephen when he pardoned his enemies, and whose Relics are kept in the Church where today's Station is held, the same Charity above all, which Our Lord practised in an heroic degree when He "delivered Himself for us" on The Cross, of which The Eucharist is the Constant Memorial.

Thus, Joseph, as a type of Our Lord, and today's Station, perfectly illustrate the Paschal Mystery for which The Liturgy prepares us at this Season.

Every Parish Priest celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.

Pope Pelagius II (579 A.D. - 590 A.D.) ordered the construction

of the Basilica of Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.

The Papal Basilica of Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura) is a Roman Catholic Parish Church and Minor Basilica, located in Rome, Italy. 

The Basilica is one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome and one of the five Patriarchal Basilicas, each of which is assigned to a Patriarchate. Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls is assigned to the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

The Papal Basilica is the Shrine Tomb of the Church's namesake, Saint Laurence, one of the first seven Deacons of Rome, Martyred in 258 A.D. Pope Pius IX, awaiting Canonisation into Sainthood, is also buried at the Basilica.

Basilica of  Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls,
Rome, Italy.
(pre-1943 bombing raid of Rome).

[The following three paragraphs are taken from the Web-Site of The Sons of The Most Holy Redeemer at http://papastronsay.blogspot.com]

The Laurentian Basilica owes its foundation to Emperor Constantine, but, being considered too small, a large Upper Aula was added to it by Pope Pelagius II (578 A.D. - 590 A.D.) and Dedicated to The Blessed Virgin Mary.

For this reason, Pope Leo IV (847 A.D. - 855 A.D.) decreed that The Station for The Octave of The Assumption should be held here.

The Gospel of today alludes to this Dedication by Praising The Great Mother of God, who not only gave Her Own Substance to form The Sacred Humanity of The Lord's Anointed, but was, on Her part, nourished Spiritually by The Divine Word and lived thereby.

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Red Sails In The Sunset. "The Torbay Lass". Last Of The Brixham Sailing Trawlers.

"The Torbay Lass"

(previously "The Kenya Jacaranda").

Image: TRINITY SAILING FOUNDATION

The lyrics to the well-known song "Red Sails In The Sunset"

were written on board "The Torbay Lass" in 1935.

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A campaign has been launched to save one of Devon’s most important historic ships from the breaker’s yard.

Launched in 1923, she is one of just six surviving Brixham Sailing Trawlers.

In recent years, the other five have been saved, restored and brought back to the town of Brixham, Devon. Now, the last, "Torbay Lass", is in danger and in urgent need of rescue.

All six of the surviving vessels are in The National Historic Fleet, the 200 vessels judged to be of pre-eminent significance in terms of maritime heritage, and meriting high priority in terms of conservation.

The Charity, which is the vessel’s current owner, has appealed for help to “Save Torbay Lass”. It has been unable to maintain her and the Port Authorities at Tilbury, Essex, where she is kept, have said she must be removed by the end of April.

Mick Shirley, Chairman of the Charity, says: “We are desperate. Unless a new owner can be found and extensive repairs carried out, she will be lost. It would be wonderful if she could be moved back to Devon, where local interest would be greater and her survival assured.”

The Community Campaign, involving various groups with maritime heritage interests, is being supported by the Conservative MP for Totnes, Dr. Sarah Wollaston, and Torbay’s Mayor, Gordon Oliver, among others.

" "Torbay Lass" is an iconic part of Britain’s maritime heritage,” says Struan Coupar of The Trinity Sailing Foundation, one of the groups involved.

"Red Sails In The Sunset".

Sung by

The Platters.

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"Torbay Lass" was built by R Jackman & Sons, in 1923, and fished under sail until 1938. Converted to a yacht in 1939 and subsequently renamed “Kenya Jacaranda”, she was used as a sail training vessel for more than half a century, from 1952 until 2006.

Withdrawn from service because of her deteriorating condition, she sank at her mooring in Tilbury docks in 2010, but was re-floated.

"Torbay Lass" is one of just a handful of Brixham Sailing Trawlers to survive in U.K. waters, out of a fleet once numbered in hundreds.

Like the other survivors, she is part of The National Historic Fleet, the vessels judged to be of major importance in terms of maritime heritage. They include HMS Victory, Cutty Sark and SS Great Britain.

The Brixham Sailing Trawler was a legendary class of working boat, the foundation for a vast British trawling industry that grew up in the 19th-Century. The design, developed in Devon, became the standard for Deep-Sea Trawling throughout Europe.

For further information, or for interview and photo opportunities, call 01803 883355. 

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Jacaranda is a genus of forty-nine species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and sub-tropical regions of Central America, South America, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and the Bahamas. It has been planted widely in Asia, especially in Nepal. It has been introduced to most tropical and sub-tropical regions. The genus name is also used as the common name.

The name is believed to be of Guarani origin, meaning "fragrant". The word "Jacaranda" was described in "A Supplement to Mr. Chambers's Cyclopædia", 1st edition (1753), as "a name given by some authors to the tree, the wood of which is the log-wood, used in dyeing and in medicine" and as being of Tupi-Guarani origin, by way of Portuguese.

Flowering Jacaranda.

Jacaranda cuspidifolia (= Jacaranda chapadensis) -

Bignoniaceae Jardim Botânico de Brasília - Distrito Federal - Brasil.

Photo: 24 October 2010.

Source: Jacaranda cuspidifolia.

Author: João Medeiros.

(Wikimedia Commons)

A Church, in Wooroolin (population 164), Queensland, Australia,

framed by Jacaranda Trees in bloom.

Photo: Taken by User:Rossrs, 22 October 2005.

Source: Transferred from en.wikipedia;

transferred to Commons by User:Переход Артур using CommonsHelper.

Author: Original uploader was Rossrs at en.wikipedia.

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Jacaranda trees in full bloom.

Islamabad, Pakistan.

Photo: 29 September 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Illusive255.

(Wikimedia Commons)

"Red Sails In The Sunset".

Sung by

Bing Crosby.

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Lenten Station At The Basilica Of Saint Marcellinus And Saint Peter. Saturday Of The Second Week In Lent.

Roman Text is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Italic Text, Illustrations and Captions, are taken from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia, unless otherwise stated.

Saturday of The Second Week in Lent.
Station at Saint Marcellinus and Saint Peter.

Indulgence of 10 years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.

Basilica Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano,

Rome, Italy.

Photo: 23 March 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: LPLT.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Station is in the Basilica founded by Saint Helen, where were buried the bodies of Saint Marcellinus, Priest, and Saint Peter, Exorcist, Martyred at Rome during The Diocletian Persecution. Their names are mentioned in The Canon of The Mass. This Church was one of the twenty-five Roman Parish Churches in the 5th-Century.

As yesterday, the Epistle and Gospel repeat, in figure and Parable, lessons to The Catechumens and Public Penitents.

Isaac had two sons. Esau represents the People of God who sell their birthright to gratify their carnal appetite. Jacob represents the Gentiles, who check their passions and are Blessed by Heaven.

English: Church of Saints Marcellino and Peter, Cremona, Italy.

Italiano: Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Pietro Location Cremona, Lombardy, Italy.

Photo: 26 September 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana.

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Jesus, in the same way, said: "A man had two sons: The elder is the Jewish element of the primitive Church, which is scandalised at the vocation of the Gentiles and is loathe to associate with them; the Prodigal is the pagan element. After having wasted all the Gifts of God, these unhappy people mourn their sins and atone for them; they come to Jesus, Who opens His arms to them, presses them to His Heart, and satisfies their hunger with His Sacred Body and Precious Blood in The Eucharistic Feast.

Let us ask God to Bless our Lenten Fast, so that the mortification of our flesh may bring health to our Souls (Collect).

The Basilica of Saint Marcellinus and Saint Peter,
Rome, Italy.

Photo: October 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lalupa.

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Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano is a Roman Catholic Parish and Titular Church in Rome. It is Dedicated to Saints Marcellinus and Peter, 4th-Century Roman Martyrs, whose Relics were brought here in 1256.

The first Church on the site was built by Pope Siricius in the 4th-Century A.D., close to the Via Labicana's Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter, with an adjoining Hospice, which became a Centre for Pilgrims. This Church was restored by Pope Gregory III in the 8th-Century A.D. [Ever since these early Centuries, it has been among Rome's Stational Churches (for Saturday of The Second Week in Lent). In the 9th-Century A.D., when Christian Churches began to be built in Germany and were in need of Relics, the Remains of Saints Marcellinus and Peter were Transferred from the Catacomb, where they still rested, to Seligenstadt, Germany.]

Saint Marcellinus Church,

Seligenstadt, Germany.

Photo: 5 September 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Agridecumantes.

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English: Basilica of Saint Marcellinus and Saint Peter,

Seligenstadt, Germany.

Deutsch: Basilika St. Marcellinus und Petrus in Seligenstadt.

Photo: 15 November 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: © 1971markus.

Attribution: © 1971markus@wikipedia.de

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The Church was again restored in 1256 [by Pope Alexander IV, and the Martyrs' Relics were returned.] (Also, under The High Altar is an urn containing Relics of Saint Marcia.) On the Left Side, is an Altar Dedicated to The Blessed Virgin, with a copy of Guido Reni's "The Virgin in Glory with Angels, Saint Joseph and Saint Rita". Next to it, is The Chapel of Reconciliation.

English: My parents' wedding.

Inside the "Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Pietro"

[Church of Saint Marcellinus and Saint Peter], Imbersago, Lombardy, Italy.

Italiano: Matrimonio dei miei genitori.

Interno della "Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Pietro"

a Imbersago, Italia (prima del restauro).

Photo: 12 September 1972.

Source: Own work.

Author: Jalo.

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An image of the Dedicatees was placed on the first Column on the Left, from the Entrance, during this Restoration, with an Inscription recording the Restoration. The Hospice and Church were then given, in 1276, to The Confraternity of Those Commended to The Saviour.

The present Church is the result of Pope Benedict XIV's 1751 rebuild, leaving it with its present cube-shaped Exterior, divided by Pilaster Strips in a style close to Neo-Classicism, Borromini-influenced Dome, façade by Girolamo Theodoli, and Altarpiece by Gaetano Lapis, depicting the Dedicatees' Martyrdom. 

After that Restoration, the Church was given to The Discalced Carmelites, who Served it until 1906. A small Chapel to Our Lady of Lourdes was Dedicated at the South-East (next to a Chapel of Saint Gregory the Great), with a new Ceiling painting of Our Lady, by N. Caselli, in 1903. Since 1911, it has been a Parochial Church, Served by Diocesan Clergy.

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Solemn Pontifical High Mass (Usus Antiquior). The Shrine Church of Saint Augustine Of England, Ramsgate, Kent. Celebrant: His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke.

The Shrine Church of Saint Augustine of England,

Ramsgate, Kent CT11 9PA,

will be the venue for a Solemn Pontifical High Mass (Usus Antiquior) at 1830 hrs

(6.30 p.m.) on Monday, 9 March 2015. Celebrant: His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke.

Photo: 15 July 2014.

Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalchurchestrust/14481010378.

Author: The National Churches Trust.

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Illustration: THE SHRINE OF SAINT AUGUSTINE

His Eminence, Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta,

will Celebrate a Solemn Pontifical High Mass, at The High Altar of The Shrine of Saint Augustine, Ramsgate, Kent, at 1830 hrs, on Monday, 9 March 2015.

The Mass will be Sung by The Victoria Consort.

Image: THE OXFORD ORATORY

The following Text is from THE SHRINE OF SAINT AUGUSTINE

Many people are expected to come to see Cardinal Burke.

For navigation purposes, the Postcode of Saint Augustine’s is CT11 9PA.

Free parking is available on Royal Esplanade.

Ramsgate Railway Station is approximately one mile from Saint Augustine’s.

When you exit Ramsgate Railway Station, turn Right on to Wilfred Road, go straight across at the traffic lights, and walk the full length of Grange Road. Saint Augustine’s is on the cliff-top, as you walk towards the sea.

Buses run to Grange Road round-about from the Railway Station (The Loop), and Buses 33, 34, 42, 87, and 88 run right past Saint Augustine’s.