Saint Thecla. Virgin And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 23 September.

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

Saint Thecla.
Virgin and Martyr.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Thecla.

Virgin and Martyr.

Illustration: CATHOLIC HARBOR OF FAITH AND MORALS

"In Lycaonia," says The Roman Martyrology," Saint Thecla, Virgin and Martyr, who, brought to The Faith by The Holy Apostle Paul, at Iconium (Asia Minor), victoriously underwent the torments of flames and wild beasts, under the Emperor Nero". Having recovered, she died in peace at Seleucia.

Mass: Loquébar.

English: Saint Thecla (Mar Takla) Monastery, Ma'loula, Syria.

Français: Vue du monastère de Sainte-Thècle (Mar Takla), Maaloula, Syrie.

Photo: 1 April 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Bernard Gagnon.

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Thecla or Tecla (Ancient Greek: Θέκλα, Thékla) was a Saint of The Early Christian Church, and a reported follower of Paul the Apostle. The earliest record of her life comes from the ancient apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla.

The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a 1st- or 2nd-Century A.D. Text, which forms part of The Acts of Paul, but also circulated separately. According to the Text, Thecla was a young noble Virgin from Iconium, who listened to Paul's "discourse on Virginity", espoused the teachings and became estranged to her fiancé Thamyris and her mother. They became concerned Thecla would follow Paul's demand, "one must fear only one God and live in chastity", and turned to the authorities to punish both Paul and Thecla.

Thecla was miraculously saved from burning at the stake by the onset of a storm and travelled with Paul to Antioch of Pisidia. There, a nobleman named Alexander desired Thecla and attempted to take her by force. Thecla fought him off, assaulting him in the process, and was put on trial for assaulting a nobleman. She was sentenced to be eaten by wild beasts, but was again saved by a series of Miracles when the female beasts protected her against her male aggressors. While in the arena, she Baptised herself.

She rejoined Paul in Myra, and travelled to preach The Word of God and became an icon encouraging women to also live a life of chastity and follow The Word of The Lord. She went to live in Seleucia, Cilicia. According to some versions of The Acts, she lived in a cave there for seventy-two years. Becoming a healer, the Hellenistic physicians in the City lost their livelihood and solicited young men to attack her. As they were about to take her, a new passage was opened in the cave and the stones closed behind her. She was able to go to Rome.

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Saint Linus. Second Pope. Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 23 September.

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unless otherwise stated.

Saint Linus.
Pope and Martyr.
Feast Day 23 September.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

Coat-of-Arms of The Holy See

with Gold Key in Bend, as described in Donald Lindsay Galbreath,

A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry (W. Heffer and Sons, 1930), p. 9; Bruno Bernhard Heim, Heraldry in The Catholic Church: Its Origin, Customs and Laws (Van Duren 1978

ISBN 9780391008731), p. 54; Heraldry Society of Great Britain; Michel Pastoureau,

"Keys" in Philippe Levillain, The Papacy: An Encyclopedia

(Routledge 2002 ISBN 9780415922302), vol. 2, p. 891.

Date: 12 December 2007.

Source: Donald Lindsay Galbreath, A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry

(W. Heffer and Sons, 1930), p. 9;

Bruno Bernhard Heim, Heraldry in the Catholic Church: Its Origin, Customs and Laws

(Van Duren 1978 ISBN 9780391008731), p. 54;

Heraldry Society of Great Britain;

Michel Pastoureau, "Keys" in Philippe Levillain, The Papacy:

An Encyclopedia (Routledge 2002 ISBN 9780415922302), vol. 2, p. 891

Author: F l a n k e r.

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Pope Saint Linus

67 A.D. - 76 A.D.

Successor to Saint Peter as Bishop of Rome.

Illustration: FIND A GRAVE

"At Rome," says The Roman Martyrology, "the triumph of Saint Linus, Pope and Martyr, who immediately succeeded Saint Peter in the government of The Church. He suffered Martyrdom, and was buried on The Vatican, next to The Prince of The Apostles."

The name of Saint Linus is mentioned in The Canon of The Mass, after the names of The Apostles.

Mass: Státuit. Collects: Of The Mass: Sacerdótes.

Commemoration: Saint Thecla.

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"These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things . . ."

"My Favourite Things",

from "The Sound of Music".

Sung by Julie Andrews.

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Ave Maria.

Hail Mary.

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The Most Beautiful "Ave Maria" I've ever heard.

Composed by Michael Lorenc, 1995.

Sung by Soprano 

Olga Szyrowa.

Moscow Symphony Orchestra.

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Collects.

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

Illustration: TE DEUM LAUDAMUS !

Latina: Missale Romanum ex decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum S. Pii V. 

Pontificis Maximi jussu editum Clementis VIII. Urbani VIII. et Leonis XII. Auctoritate 

recognitum. Editio decima octava post alteram uti typicam a S.C.R. declaratam. Ratisbonae, 

Romae, Neo Eboraci et Cincinnati. Sumptibus et typis Friderici Pustet, S. Sedis Apostilicae 

et Sacr. Rit. Congr. Typigraphi. MDCCCCXI.

English: "Missale Romanum": a 1911 printing of the 1884 Typical Edition.

Date: 13 September 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: JoJan.

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One of The Collects (Latin: "Oratio")

seen here in a Burns Oates Missal of 1952.

Illustration: BEN YANKE

[The term "Collects" designates not only the Prayers said between the Gloria and the Epistle, during The Mass, but also the Secrets and the Postcommunions. The same classification and regulations are applicable to all of them.]

COLLECTS.

Commemorations, Additional Collects and Votive Collects.

a.   Classification.

There are several kinds of Collects:

1.   The principal Collect of The Day and the special Collects or Commemorations of the Saints, Octaves, Ferias, or Vigils, commemorated in The Mass of The Day;

2.   The Additional Collects of The Season, of which there are seven:

      i.   Of The Blessed Virgin;

      ii.  Against the Persecutors of The Church;

      iii. For the Pope;

      iv.  To implore the Intercession of The Saints;

      v.   For The Living and The Dead;

      vi.  For all The Faithful Departed;

      vii. Of The Holy Ghost.

      and, finally, those at the option of the Priest.

      These Prayers vary according to The Season of The Year.

3.   The Votive Collects, such as that for The Exposition of The Blessed Sacrament, that prescribed by the Bishop (or, "Imperata"), and various other Collects added out of Devotion.

b.   General Regulations.

As a matter of principle:

1.   On Double Feasts, the Collect of The Day only is said, unless Commemorations have to be made, or some special Collect is prescribed by the Bishop;

2.   On Semi-Double Feasts, there are three Collects - one of The Day and two of The Season. If there is a Commemoration to be said, only one Collect of The Season is said, which takes the third place, being omitted altogether if there are several Commemorations;

3.   On Simple Feasts, Ferias, and Vigils, there are three Collects, the same as on Semi-Double Feasts. But, out of Devotion, the Priest is allowed to increase the number of Collects to five or seven. [Editor: Note. Always an odd number of Collects and never more than seven (maximum).]

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There Are None So Blind Than Those Who Will Not See.

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The beautiful and magnificent Sacred Heart Chapel,

Broughton Hall, near Skipton, Yorkshire, England.

One of the Parishioners states that The Sanctuary Lamp, pictured above, dates from the 1600s. The story goes that, in the 1700s, when Catholic Churches were being discovered and ransacked, a cart arrived in the dead of night from London, containing items rescued from a Church which had been destroyed. The Sanctuary Lamp was one of the objects that arrived that evening.

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" Fr Brown, at Steeple Aston, probably also got hassled about his Churchmanship. As late as World War II, his successor was accused of being an enemy agent and of deliberately subverting the blackout regulations . . . by keeping a light burning before The Blessed Sacrament ! "

The Relics Of Saint Maria Goretti Are Coming To Chicago.

Illustration: RORATE CAELI

The good Priests at Saint John Cantius, in Chicago,

asked that this event be publicised.

Zephyrinus is delighted to be able to so do.

Their Church alone is worth the trip.

The 659th Anniversary. The Battle Of Poitiers. 19 September 1356.

The Battle of Poitiers,

19 September 1356.

Artist: Eugène Delacroix.

Source: http://www.maidofheaven.com/maid_

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The Battle of Poitiers was a major battle of The Hundred Years' War between England and France. The battle occurred on 19 September 1356, near Poitiers, France. Preceded by The Battle of Crécy, in 1346, and followed by The Battle of Agincourt, in 1415, it was the second of the three great English victories of the war.

English: Royal Coat-of-Arms of the Kingdom of England and France (1340-1367).

Français: Armoires royales de l'Angleterre et France (1340-1367).

Date: 20 July 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Sodacan.

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Edward, Prince of Wales (later known as The Black Prince), the eldest son of King Edward III of England, began a great chevauchée on 8 August 1356. He conducted many scorched earth raids Northwards from the English base in Aquitaine, in an effort to bolster his troops in Central France, as well as to raid and ravage the countryside.

His forces met little resistance, burning numerous Towns to the ground and living off the land, until they reached the River Loire at Tours. They were unable to take the Castle or burn the Town, due to a heavy downpour. This delay allowed John II, King of France, to attempt to catch Edward's army. The King, who had been besieging Breteuil in Normandy, arranged the bulk of his army at Chartres, to the North of the besieged Tours, dismissing approximately 15,000–20,000 of his lower-quality infantry, to increase the speed of his forces.

English: Coat-of-Arms of the French Duchy of Gascony.

Allied to Edward, The Black Prince, at The Battle of Poitiers.

Français: Blason de la province de Gascogne.

Date: 27 June 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Peter17.

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There were negotiations before The Battle of Poitiers that are recorded in the writings of The Life of Sir John Chandos. He records the final moments of a meeting of both sides, in an effort to avoid the bloody conflict at Poitiers. The extraordinary narrative occurred just before that battle and reads as follows:

The conference attended by the King of France, Sir John Chandos, and many other prominent people of the period, The King (of France), to prolong the matter and to put off the battle, assembled and brought together all the Barons of both sides.

Of speech there, he (the King) made no stint. There came the Count of Tancarville, and, as the list says, the Archbishop of Sens (Guillaume de Melun) was there, he of Talaru, of great discretion, Charny, Bouciquaut, and Clermont; all these went there for the council of the King of France.

On the other side there came gladly the Earl of Warwick, the hoary-headed (white or grey headed) Earl of Suffolk was there, and Bartholomew de Burghersh, most privy to the Prince, and Audeley and Chandos, who at that time were of great repute. There they held their parliament, and each one spoke his mind. But their counsel I cannot relate, yet I know well, in very truth, as I hear in my record, that they could not be agreed, wherefore each one of them began to depart.

Then said the prophetic words of Geoffroi de Charny:

'Lords,' quoth he, 'since so it is that this treaty pleases you no more, I make offer that we fight you, a hundred against a hundred, choosing each one from his own side; and know well, whichever hundred be discomfited, all the others, know

for sure, shall quit this field and let the quarrel be. I think that it will be best so, and that God will

be gracious to us if the battle be avoided

in which so many valiant men will be slain'.

English: Coat-of-Arms of France.

Français: Blason dit "de France Ancienne" :

d'azur semé de fleurs de lys d'or.

Date: 6 July 2007.

Source: Designs by Projet Blasons.

Author: Syryatsu.

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"This Will Be The First Time That Mass Has Been Celebrated In This Mediaeval Church Since Pre-Reformation Times."

Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent.

It is possible that a small private Chapel stood on this site before the present building was commenced in the Late-13th-Century. The East End is unusual in that The Lady Chapel (more recently used as a school room) vies for importance with The Chancel.

Declared redundant in 1983, Saint Augustine's Church is now entirely maintained by

The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust.

Text: © 2014 Joan Campbell.

Photograph: © 2014 John Hendy.

Illustration: THE ROMNEY MARCH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

Missa Cantata.

Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent TN26 2QJ.

Saturday,

26 September 2015,

1200 hrs.

Celebrant:

Fr. Marcus Holden,

Rector of The Shrine of Saint Augustine,

Ramsgate, Kent.

Music:

The Victoria Consort.

Director:

Dominic Bevan.

Further Details:

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01580 291372.

Travel Directions:

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Snave, Ashford, Kent, has been kindly given by

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Durham Cathedral.

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Durham Cathedral.

Photo: 30 January 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Domstu.

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The Nave,

Durham Cathedral,

England.

Photo: 13 August 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Oliver-Bonjoch.

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Durham Cathedral.

The Guardian Newspaper's

Readers' Choice

for Britain's Best Building.

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Abbey of Solesmes, France.

Solesmes Abbey,

a Benedictine Monastery in Solesmes, Sarthe, France.

Date: 28 July 2005 (according to Exif data).

Source: Own work.

Author: User:Bautsch.

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Solemnes Abbey.

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Solesmes Abbey, or Saint Peter's Abbey, Solesmes (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes) is a Benedictine Monastery in Solesmes, Sarthe, France, famous as the source of the restoration of Benedictine Monastic life in the Country, under Dom Prosper Guéranger, after the French Revolution. The current Abbot is the Right Reverend Dom Philippe Dupont, O.S.B.

It was originally founded in 1010 as a Priory of the Benedictine Le Mans Abbey. Its history was largely uneventful. It suffered considerably during The Hundred Years' War but was afterwards restored.

Solesmes Abbey

Gregorian Chant.

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Towards the end of the 15th-Century, the rebuilding of the Church was commenced, Prior Philibert de la Croix changing it from Basilica Form to that of a Latin Cross. His successor, Jean Bougler (1505-1556), completed the restoration of the Church, added the Tower, and rebuilt the Cloisters, Sacristy, and Library. Under his direction two famous groups of statuary, known as the "Saints of Solesmes", were set up in the Church. In the 16th-Century, these masterpieces were in danger of being destroyed by the Huguenots and other Iconoclasts, but the Monks saved them by erecting barricades. From the 17th-Century, it underwent a slow decline under a series of commendatory Priors.

English: Solesmes Abbey, France.

Français: Vue de l'abbaye depuis le pont franchissant la Sarthe.

Date: 14 April 2007 (according to Exif data).

Source: No machine readable source provided.

Own work assumed (based on copyright claims).

Author: No machine readable author provided.

Leag assumed (based on copyright claims).

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Following The French Revolution, the newly-formed National Constituent Assembly prohibited all Religious Vows on 13 February 1790. At Solesmes, one of the seven Monks (the Sub-Prior) broke his Vows to become a constitutional Priest and Soldier of The Republic. The others were imprisoned after refusing to take an oath. One of them, Dom Pierre Papion, then managed to hide in order to celebrate Masses secretly across the Region. After signing the Concordat, he became Chaplain of the Hospice de Sablé.

Solesmes, whose occupants had been forced out in March 1791, was then commandeered as the country residence of a certain Henri Lenoir Chantelou, and its archives were burned in a "civic" bonfire on 14 July 1794. The Church was re-opened at the time of the Concordat and the Lenoir de Chantelou family were given statues by Napoleon, so that those at Le Mans Abbey were not removed.

In 1825, government property administrators sold the Monastic buildings and 145 acres with its farms. In 1832, it was decided to demolish the buildings, starting with the East Wing, which has now disappeared.

English: Solesmes Abbey, France,

Français: Vue de l'abbaye depuis le chemin situé au pied des remparts.

Date: 14 April 2007 (according to Exif data).

Source: No machine readable source provided.

Own work assumed (based on copyright claims).

Author: No machine readable author provided.

Leag assumed (based on copyright claims).

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In 1831, the remaining buildings, which had escaped demolition in The French Revolution, but were threatened with destruction for want of a buyer, came to the attention of the locally-born Priest, Prosper Guéranger, who, inspired by the vision of a restored Monastic Life in France, acquired them for the home of a new Benedictine Community, which moved in on 11 July 1833. Against all expectation, the new Community flourished and, in 1837, not only received Papal approval, but was elevated to the Rank of an Abbey and made the Head of the newly-created French Benedictine Congregation, now The Solesmes Congregation within The Benedictine Confederation.

In 1866, a Convent, Saint Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes, was also Founded at Solesmes, by Mother Cécile Bruyère (the first Abbess), with the support of Dom Guéranger, which was the first House of the Nuns of The Solesmes Congregation.

English: Coat-of-Arms of Dom Guéranger, first Abbot of Solesmes Abbey.

Français: Armoiries de Dom Guéranger, abbé de Solesmes.

Source: Own work, some elements by SajoR

in "Armorial des prélats Français du XIXème siècle" p. 309.

Author: Mathieu CHAINE.

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Since its restoration, Solesmes has been Dissolved by the French Government no less than four times. In 1880, 1882, and 1883, the Monks were ejected by force, but, receiving hospitality in the neighbourhood, succeeded each time in re-entering their Abbey. Between 1901 and 1922, the Monks were forced into exile in England. They settled on the Isle of Wight and built the present Quarr Abbey. The Community survived those trials, and those of two World Wars, and is still at Solesmes.

As part of its mission of Monastic revival, the Abbey has been the Mother House of numerous other Monastic Foundations, most notably in recent years the Monastery at Palendriai, in Lithuania.

The Abbey is noted for its crucial contribution to the advancement of The Roman Catholic Liturgy and the revival of Gregorian Chant. A documentary film on life at Solesmes was made in 2009 and focuses on the Tradition of the Chant at the Monastery.

Image of Prosper Guéranger (1805–1875).

Printmaker was Claude-Ferdinand Gaillard (1834–1887).

Created 1874, published 1878 or earlier.

Date: 7 May 2007 (original upload date).

Source: Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.

Author: The original uploader was Ikanreed at English Wikipedia.

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The Liturgical Year.

Written by Dom 

Prosper Guéranger.

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Can Your Parish Congregations Sing With As Much Dedication And Joy ?

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The Samoan World Cup Rugby Team all attended Fr. Ray Blake's Church in Brighton, Sussex, England, on Sunday, 13 September 2015. The Rugby Team turned up at Saint Mary Magdalen Church and sang a beautiful Hymn in the Samoan language, which prompted delight among the rest of the Congregation.

They sang after Mass, It was impressive to see so many devout young men, who think worshipping God on a Sunday morning is just a normal manly thing to do. God Bless them

We wish the Samoan World Cup Rugby Team every success in the forthcoming World Cup. They are a credit to their Pacific Island Nation.

YOU tell them one of their team was singing out of tune !!!

The Samoan World Cup Rugby Team pose for a photograph outside Fr. Ray Blake's

Saint Mary Magdalen Church, Brighton, Sussex, England.

Illustration: FR RAY BLAKE'S BLOG

Salmon Clocked At 90 mph. Fastest Fish In The World ?

Pacific Salmon leaping at Willamette Falls,

Oregon, United States of America.

Photo: 27 June 1950.

Source: NOAA Photo Library.

Author: Unknown.

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Zephyrinus has received unconfirmed reports that Scientists were amazed, recently, upon receiving tracking data from a Salmon that had been fitted with a Satellite Tracking Tag.

The highly sensitive Tracking Tag showed that the Salmon was moving at 90 miles per hour in a Westerly direction from London.

Upon further analysis of the data, the Salmon's location was pin-pointed as near the M4 Motorway, West London.

Traffic Police were asked to investigate and discovered a vehicle, containing the Salmon, travelling at very high speed towards Wales.

The driver was a Poacher, on his way to sell the fish to a high-class Fish Restaurant in Cardiff, Wales.

The Seven Sorrows Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day 15 September.

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

The Seven Sorrows of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Feast Day 15 September.

Double of The Second-Class.

White Vestments.

Mary stood at the Foot of The Cross where Jesus was hanging (Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Sequence, Gospel) and, as Simeon had Prophesied (Collect), a Sword of Sorrow pierced her Soul (Secret). Powerless, "she saw her Sweet Child desolate in the anguish of death, and she received His Last Breath" (Sequence).

The compassion which her Maternal Heart felt at the Foot of The Cross obtained for her as its reward the Palm of Martyrdom without death (Communion).

This Feast was Celebrated with great Solemnity by The Servites in the 17th-Century. In 1817, it was extended by Pope Pius VII to the whole Church, so as to recall the sufferings she had undergone in the person of her exiled and captive head [Editor: the Pope], delivered by the protection of The Blessed Virgin.

Just as the first Feast of The Sorrows of Mary, in Passiontide, shows us how she had her share in the Sacrifice of Jesus, the second Feast, in the Season after Pentecost, tells us of all the compassion which The Mother of The Saviour feels for The Church, the spouse of Jesus, who is crucified in her turn [Editor: The Church] and whose Devotion to The Sorrows of Mary increases in these calamitous times.

His Holiness Pope Saint Pius X, in 1908, raised this Feast to the Rank of a Solemnity of The Second-Class.

Mass: Stabant juxta crucem.

Sequence: Stabat Mater.

Commemoration (at Low Mass) of Saint Nicomedes (Martyr).

The Seven Sorrows Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day 15 September.

The Seven Sorrows of The Virgin.

Artist: Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528).

Date: Circa 1496.

Current location: Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art.

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