Saint Teresa Of The Child Jesus (Saint Thérèse Of Lisieux) (“The Little Flower”) 1873 - 1897. Feast Day 3 October. “After My Death, I Will Let Fall A Shower Of Roses From Heaven”.

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Saint Teresa of The Child Jesus
   (Saint Thérèse Of Lisieux).
   "The Little Flower".
   Virgin.
   Feast Day 3 October.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Teresa of The Child Jesus

(Saint Thérèse Of Lisieux)

(The Little Flower)

Image: CARMEL, GARDEN OF GOD

English: Amber Flush Rose - Bagatelle Rose Garden (Paris, France).

Français: Rose Amber Flush - Roseraie de Bagatelle (Paris, France).

Photo: 1 June 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Georges Seguin (Okki)

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Thérèse Of Lisieux

("The Little Flower").

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Mary-Frances-Teresa Martin was born at Alençon, France, on 2 January 1873. She was brought up in a most-Christian family, and educated by The Benedictine Nuns at Lisieux. Whilst still a child, she felt drawn towards The Cloister, and, at the age of fifteen, after much petition, was allowed to enter The Carmelite Convent in that Town. At the age of twenty-four, she slept peacefully in The Peace of The Lord.

The life of this young Saint is not distinguished by any heroic or very great deed. She simply served God with a constant and assiduous fidelity in little things.

To her, The Words of Our Lord are applied by The Church: "Unless you become as little children, you shall not enter The Kingdom of Heaven."

Saint Teresa of The Child Jesus,

(Saint Thérèse Of Lisieux),

("The Little Flower")

(Wikipedia Commons)

"I do not intend to remain inactive in Heaven," this Saint said on her death-bed. "I wish to go on working for The Church and for Souls." "After my death, I will let fall a Shower of Roses." "It is Our Lord Who is calling me to Heaven and the hope of being able to love Him as I have so much desired to do, and the thought that I shall be able to make Him loved by a number of Souls, who will praise Him eternally."

Apostolic Virgin ! Such is the Title which seems best to characterise Saint Teresa of The Child Jesus. Like her Seraphic Patron and Mother, she desired to make The Salvation of Souls the object of her life in The Cloister, and, thus, her whole life was a "sacrifice of love, a holocaust to merciful love".

When she left Carmel for Heaven, she repeated her intention of continuing to be an Apostle in Eternity, as she had been here on Earth."I feel that my Mission is soon to begin," she said."My Mission to make others love The Good God as I love Him . . . to teach my Little Way to Souls.

English: The birthplace and family home of Sainte Thérèse.

Français: Maison natale de Sainte Thérèse

et des bienheureux Louis et Zélie Martin, ses parents.

Photo: 25 June 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Pierre-Yves Emile

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"I wish to spend my Heaven in doing good upon Earth. Nor is this impossible, since, from the very heart of The Beatific Vision, The Angels keep watch over us. No, there can be no rest for me until The End of The World. But, when The Angel shall have said: "Time is no more ! ", then I shall rest, then I shall be able to rejoice, because The Number of The Elect will be complete". (Autobiography).

The humble "Little Flower" was: Beatified by Pope Pius XI in 1923, twenty-six years after her death; Canonised in 1925; and, in 1927, proclaimed Patroness of All Catholic Missions.

Let us offer The Holy Sacrifice, in Thanksgiving, for all The Graces bestowed on this Saint, and let us receive Our Lord in Holy Communion in order to partake, through Him, in The Virtues which adorned her life.

Mass: Veni de Libano.

Saint Marie-Azélie "Zélie" Martin, née Guérin (1831-1877).

Wife of Saint Louis Martin and Mother of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux.

Date: Circa 1875.

Source: OUEST FRANCE

Author: Unknown Photographer.

(Wikimedia Commons)

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Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (Born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, 2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), or Saint Thérèse of The Child Jesus and The Holy Face, O.C.D., was a French Discalced Carmelite Nun. She is popularly known as "The Little Flower of Jesus" or simply, "The Little Flower."

Thérèse has been a highly influential model of Sanctity for Roman Catholics, and for others, because of the "simplicity and practicality of her approach to The Spiritual Life." Together with Saint Francis of Assisi, she is one of the most popular Saints in the history of The Church. Pope Saint Pius X called her "the greatest Saint of modern times."

Thérèse felt an early call to Religious Life, and, overcoming various obstacles, in 1888, at the early age of fifteen, she became a Nun and joined two of her elder sisters in The Cloistered Carmelite Community of Lisieux, Normandy. After nine years as a Carmelite Religious, having fulfilled various Offices, such as Sacristan and Assistant to The Novice Mistress, and having spent her last eighteen months in Carmel in a Night of Faith, she died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four.

Saint Louis Martin (1823-1894).

Husband of Saint Zélie Martin

and Father of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.

Photo: Circa 1875.

Source: http://www.devinrose.heroicvirtuecreations.com

/blog/2008/07/04/blessed-louis-and-zelie-martin-and-saint-damien/

Author: Unknown Photographer.

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The impact of The Story of a Soul, a collection of her autobiographical Manuscripts, printed and distributed a year after her death to an initially very limited audience, was great, and she rapidly became one of the most popular Saints of the 20th-Century.

Pope Pius XI made her the "Star of his Pontificate". She was Beatified in 1923, and Canonised in 1925. Thérèse was declared Co-Patron of The Missions, with Saint Francis Xavier, in 1927, and named Co-Patron of France, with Joan of Arc, in 1944. On 19 October 1997, Pope Saint John Paul II declared her the thirty-third Doctor of The Church, the youngest person, and at that time only the third woman, to be so honoured. Devotion to Thérèse has developed around the World.

Saint Thérèse lived a hidden life and "wanted to be unknown," yet became popular after her death through her Spiritual autobiography. She also left Letters, poems, Religious plays, Prayers, and her last conversations were recorded by her sisters. Paintings and photographs – mostly the work of her sister, Céline, – further led to her being recognised by millions of men and women.

English: Les Buissonnets. The Martin family house in Lisieux,

to which they moved in November 1877, following the death

of Madame Martin. Thérèse lived here from 16 November 1877

to 9 April 1888, the day she entered Carmel.

Français: Maison familiale des Martin (Lisieux)

où Sainte Thérèse passa son enfance.

Photo: August 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Grentidez

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Thérèse said on her death-bed, "I only love simplicity. I have a horror of pretence", and she spoke out against some of the claims made concerning The Lives of Saints, written in her day, "We should not say improbable things, or things we do not know. We must see their real, and not their imagined, lives."

The depth of her Spirituality, of which she said, "My Way is all Confidence and Love," has inspired many Believers. In the face of her littleness, she trusted in God to be her Sanctity. She wanted to go to Heaven by an entirely new "little way". "I wanted to find an elevator that would raise me to Jesus." The elevator, she wrote, would be The Arms of Jesus lifting her in all her littleness.

Thérèse is well-known throughout the World, with The Basilica of Lisieux being the second-largest place of Pilgrimage in France, after Lourdes.

English: The Monastery that Saint Thérèse entered was not an old-established House with a great Tradition. In 1838, two Nuns from The Poitiers Carmel were sent out to Found The House of Lisieux. One of them, Mother Geneviève of Saint Teresa, was living when Saint Thérèse entered. The Second Wing, containing Cells and Rooms in which she was to live and die, had been standing only ten years. "What she found was a Community of very aged Nuns, some odd and cranky, some sick and troubled, some lukewarm and complacent. Almost all of The Sisters came from The Petty Bourgeois and Artisan Class. The Prioress and Novice Mistress were of Old Norman Nobility. Probably, the Martin sisters, alone, represented the new Class of The Rising Bourgeoisie."

Français: Carmel de Lisieux.

Date: Circa 1900.

Source: Carte postale

Author: Unknown.

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The Holy Guardian Angels. Feast Day 2 October.

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The Holy Guardian Angels.
   Feast Day 2 October.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Archangel Michael

reaching to save Souls in Purgatory,

by Jacopo Vignali. 17th-Century.

Italiano: Jacopo Vignali,

San Michele Arcangelo

libera le anime del Purgatorio, (17th-Century).

Source: Giovanni Piccirillo (a cura di),

La Chiesa dei Santi Michele e Gaetano,

Becocci Editore, Firenze, 2006.

Author: sailko

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The Holy Guardian Angels.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: René de Cramer.

"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".

Used with Permission.

This Feast, Solemnised by the Spaniards in the 16th-Century, was extended to the whole Church by Pope Paul V in 1608.

Pope Clement X, in 1670, appointed it to be kept on the first free day after The Feast of Saint Michael, namely 2 October.

The Angels, already in Glory, have for their mission to adore The Divinity (Introit, Offertory, Communion). Wherefore, in the Preface, The Church makes us ask God to permit our voices to join with theirs in praising God. ["I have seen the Seraphim," says Isaias, "they stood near The Sublime Throne, where Jehovah was seated: Their faces veiled, they cried out to one another: Holy, holy, holy, is The Lord God of Hosts, the whole Earth is full of His Glory." (Isaias vi, 1-3.)]

But, as their name indicates, the Angels are also Messengers of Divine Commands (Offertory). The holy Fathers teach that they (the Angels) preside over all Created Things, and Saint Paul declares "that their mission is to serve the future heirs of Salvation".

“Guardian Angel”.

By Pietro da Cortona (1656).

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art

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This is why they are called Guardian Angels (Collect). It is generally thought that Kingdoms, Provinces, Families, Dioceses, Churches, Religious Communities, each have their Protecting Angel.

[In some Countries, they Celebrate The Feast of The Angel of The Nation. Saint Francis de Sales says that the Bishop, as such, has another Guardian Angel. Ezechiel says that The Angel of The Temple of Jerusalem had a writing case hanging down from his girdle (Ezech. 11). These Angels of The Churches, adds Saint Basil, write down our irreverences.]

English: Statue of a Guardian Angel

in The Parish Church of Saint Oswald,

Oberdrauburg, Austria.

Deutsch: Pfarrkirche St Oswald,

Oberdrauburg, Osterreiche: Schutzengel.

Photo: July 2008.

Author: JJ55

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That there is one Guardian Angel for each Just Man, there can be no doubt, and The Church applies to the Souls, that are under The New Law, what is written about the people under The Old Law: "I shall send My Angel to march before you, to guard you on the way and to bring you into the land which I have prepared for you" (Epistle). [Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Sixth Lesson at Matins.]

Our Guardian Angel has, for his mission, to protect us and defend us, in order that, under his protection, safe from the snares of the enemies of our Souls and from all adversities, we may reach The Promised Land of Eternal Life (Collect, Secret, Postcommunion).

This faithful companion deserves our gratitude, and the Veneration, due to one who already enjoys The Beatific Vision (Gospel).

It is to encourage us, to the habitual practice of this Devotion, that The Church instituted The Feast of The Guardian Angels.

Mass: Benedícite Dóminum.

Creed: Is said.

October. The Month Of The Most Holy Rosary.

The Blessed Virgin Mary.

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The Blessed Virgin Mary is Crowned Queen of Heaven by Her Beloved Son.

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RORATE CAELI

Encyclical Letter

“OCTOBRI MENSE”

(The Month Of October)

Of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII.

At the coming of the month of October, dedicated and consecrated as it is to The Blessed Virgin of The Rosary, we recall with satisfaction the instant exhortations which, in preceding years, We addressed to you, venerable brethren, desiring, as We did, that the Faithful, urged by your authority and by your zeal, should redouble their piety towards The August Mother of God, The Mighty Helper of Christians, and should Pray to her throughout the month, invoking her by that Most Holy Rite of The Rosary which The Church, especially in the passage of difficult times, has ever used for the accomplishment of all desires. 

Given at Rome, Saint Peter’s,

22 September, 1891,

in the fourteenth year of Our Pontificate.

LEO XIII.

PRAY THE ROSARY.

English: The Vision of Saint Dominic.

French: L'apparition de la Vierge et de l'Enfant Jésus à saint Dominique.

Artist: Bernardo Cavallino (1616–1656).

Date: 1640-1645.

Collection: National Gallery of Canada

Source/Photographer: The AMICA Library

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Saint Remigius. Bishop And Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 1 October.

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Saint Remigius.
   Bishop and Confessor.
   Feast Day 1 October.

Simple.

White Vestments.

The Baptism of Clovis by Saint Remigius.

Artist: Master of Saint Giles

Date: Circa 1500.

Current location: National Gallery of Art,

Washington D.C., United States of America.

Credit line: Samuel H. Kress Collection.

References: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Source/Photographer: National Gallery of Art,

Washington, D.C.

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"At Reims, in Gaul," says The Roman Martyrology, "The Feast of Saint Remigius, Bishop and Confessor, who converted the Frankish Nation to The Faith of Jesus Christ, by Baptising their King, Clovis."

Saint Remigius died 13 January 533 A.D., and his Relics were Solemnly Translated 1 October.

Mass: Státuit.

Saint Remigius Baptises Clovis,

King of The Franks.

Illustration: SALVE MARIA REGINA

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Saint Remigius, Remy or Remi, (French: Saint Rémi or Saint Rémy; Italian: Remigio; Spanish: Remigio; Occitan: Romieg; Polish: Remigiusz; Breton: Remig and Lithuanian: Remigijus), was Bishop of Reims and Apostle of The Franks (circa 437 A.D. – 13 January 533 A.D.).

On 24 December 496 A.D., he Baptised Clovis I, King of The Franks. This Baptism, leading to the conversion of the entire Frankish people to Nicene Christianity, was a momentous success for The Catholic Church and a seminal event in European history.

Saint Jerome. Priest. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day 30 September.

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Saint Jerome.
   Priest, Confessor
      and Doctor of The Church.
   Feast Day 30 September.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: Lowest row of Panels of a Stained-Glass Window,
created circa 1520, in the Nave of the Church of Notre-Dame,
Carentan, France, displaying four Doctors of The Church. From Left
to Right: Pope Gregory I; Saint Jerome; Saint Augustine; Saint Ambrose.

Français: Église Notre-Dame, Carentan,
Manche, Basse-Normandie, France.

Photo: 24 August 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Andreas F. Borchert.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Jerome was born at Stridon, in Dalmatia, and was Baptised in Rome. He was educated at a School held by very distinguished Professors. Ordained Priest, he retired into a Monastery Founded by two great Roman ladies, Saint Paula and Saint Eustochium, at Bethlehem, near The Crib in which Our Lord was born.

Mortifying himself by perpetual abstinence, and devoting himself to meditation of The Scriptures (Gradual), he spent days and nights in study and writing. It is he who fixed the Latin Text in The Translation known as The Vulgate, which The Church adopted as the Official Translation of The Bible.

He died in 420 A.D., and his body rests in Rome in the Church of Saint Mary Major.

Mass: In médio.

English: Saint Jerome depicted in the Stained-Glass Window
of The Chapel of The Finding of The Cross, Dillingen, Bavaria, Germany.
Made by Franz Xaver Zettler, Munich, 1911.

Deutsch: Katholische Kreuzauffindungskapelle,
Hauskapelle der Akademie für Lehrerfortbildung und
Personalführung in Bayern (ehemalige Kapelle des Priesterseminars) in Dillingen-an-der-Donau (Bayern) von 1911, Glasfenster von Franz Xaver Zettler in München (1911), Darstellung: hl. Hieronymus;
Inschrift: S. HIERONYMUS IN EREMO MEDIATUR;

Photo: 14 May 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: GFreihalter.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from Wikipedia.

Saint Jerome (Latin: Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Greek: Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; circa 347 A.D. – 30 September 420 A.D.) was a Catholic Priest, Confessor, Theologian and Historian, who also became a Doctor of The Church. He was the son of Eusebius, born at Stridon, an Illyrian village on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia.

He is best known for his translation of most of The Bible into Latin (the translation that became known as The Vulgate), and his Commentaries on The Gospels. His list of writings is extensive. Known as the “Protégé” of Pope Damasus I, who died in December of 384 A.D., Jerome was known for his teachings on Christian moral life, especially to those living in cosmopolitan centres such as Rome.

In many cases, he focused his attention on the lives of women and identified how a woman, devoted to Jesus Christ, should live her life. This focus stemmed from his close Patron relationships with several prominent female ascetics, who were members of affluent Roman “Senatorial Families”.

He is recognised as a Saint by The Roman Catholic Church, The Eastern Orthodox Church, The Lutheran Church, and The Church of England (Anglican Communion).

His Feast Day is 30 September.

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The Dedication Of Saint Michæl The Archangel. Feast Day 29 September.

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The Dedication of Saint Michæl The Archangel.
   Feast Day 29 September.

Double of The First-Class.

White Vestments.

Saint Michæl The Archangel.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: René de Cramer.

“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.

Used with Permission.

Hymn to Saint Michæl The Archangel.

Musical Credit:

“The Days” (I giorni)

by Ludovico Einaudi.

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Traditional Catholic Latin

“Mass Of The Angels”.

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29 September was formerly Dedicated to All The Angels (Introit, Collect, Gradual, Communion), wherefore Pope Boniface II, about 530 A.D., chose that date to Dedicate a Church in The Great Circus, at Rome, to Saint Michæl.

The Mass composed for the occasion has since been appointed for The 18th Sunday After Pentecost; it still relates to The Dedication of a Church. The present Mass was composed more recently.

The Hebrew meaning of “Michæl” is: “Who is like God ?”, and recalls the combat which took place in Heaven between “The Archangel of God, who deserved to be placed at The Head of The Heavenly Host”, and the devil.

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“Saint Michæl The Archangel”.

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As we have fallen through sin into the power of Satan, it is Saint Michæl's part to continue the fight for our deliverance (Alleluia, and Prayer after Mass); wherefore, our Guardian Angels are subordinate to him.

Saint Michæl conquers Satan's pride and obtains humility for us. It is also he who presides over The Worship of Adoration rendered to The Most High, for he offers to God The Prayers of The Saints, symbolised by Incense, whose smoke rises towards Heaven (Offertory, Blessing of The Incense).

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“The Archangels”.

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When a Christian has left this World, we Pray that The Standard-Bearer, Saint Michæl, should introduce the Christian into Heaven; he is also often represented with The Scales of Divine Justice, wherein Souls are weighed. His name is mentioned in The Confiteor, after that of Mary, who is The Queen of Angels.

Saint Michæl was The Protecting Angel of The Synagogue, as he is now of The Church, which has succeeded it. To him, The Liturgy attributes The Revelation of The Future, made to Saint John in The Apocalypse (Epistle).

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

Mass: Benedícite Dóminum, omnes Angeli ejus. Bless The Lord, all ye His Angels.
Creed. Is said.

Litany of Saint Michæl the Archangel.

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Saint Wenceslaus. Duke And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 28 September.

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Saint Wenceslaus.
   Duke And Martyr.
   Feast Day 28 September.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

Saint Vitus Cathedral, Prague, The Czech Republic.

Which contains The Chapel of Saint Wenceslaus.

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Saint Wenceslaus Chapel,

Saint Vitus Cathedral, Prague, The Czech Republic.

Photo: 17 June 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Clayton Tang

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Saint Vitus Cathedral, Prague,

The Czech Republic, within which is The Chapel of Saint Wenceslaus.

Photo: 23 September 2016.

Source: Own work.

Author: Alvesgaspar

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Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia, always practised the greatest Christian Virtues.

Full of Charity, he helped, with his Alms, Orphans Widows, and Poor People. He delivered Captives, and visited Prisoners. He kept all through his life the treasure of his Virginity intact. He had a very great Veneration for Priests and, with his own hands. he sowed the Wheat and pressed the Grapes which were to be used for The Holy Sacrifice.

However, instigated by his mother, the impious Boleslas, his brother, realising what Jesus had foretold "that a man will have for his enemies those of his own family" (Gospel), determined to get rid of the Duke.

He invited him to a banquet, and, afterwards, followed him to a Church, where he cruelly stabbed him as he was Praying for his enemies.

Saint Wenceslaus died in 938 A.D. Hungary, Poland, and Bohemia chose him for their Patron.

Mass: In virtúte.

Dode Church. “Our Lady Of The Meadows”. Prior To Rebuilding In 1902, The Last Mass Was Celebrated Here In 1367. Only Remnant Of A Kent Village Wiped Out In “The Black Death” In 1349.

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Dode Church, 

Kent, England.

Photo: 18 August 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Agw19666.

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Dode (in Old English, Dowde) was a Village in England that was wiped out by The Black Death in 1349. All that remains is the de-Consecrated Church, which was rebuilt in the 1990s.

Archaeological evidence shows habitation in the Dode area during the time of The Roman Empire.

The Church at Dode was built during the Reign of William II of England at some point between 1087 and 1100. It was built on a man-made mound. The nearby hill is known as "Holly Hill", which is a corruption of "Holy Hill", and the lane which leads to the Village is "Wrangling Lane", showing that the mound could be the site of a meeting place. The Church stands at the end of a 10-mile long Easterly-running Ley Line, connecting three Pre-Reformation Churches, two Roman sites, a Bronze Age burial ground, and two of the Medway megaliths - the Coffin Stone and Kit's Coty House.

Dode Church,

Kent, England.

Photo: 18 August 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Agw19666.

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The Village of Dode was virtually wiped out by The Black Death during the 14th-Century, and its Church last used as a place of Worship in 1367, then de-Consecrated on the orders of Thomas Trilleck, the Bishop of Rochester. It was originally twinned with another Early-Norman Church in Paddlesworth (now in Snodland). Kent.

Stones from the Church were used to build a Mediæval Church nearby.

According to local legend, the last survivor of The Black Death at Dode was a seven-year-old girl, known as The Dode Child. It is said that she took refuge in the Church after all the other Villagers were dead, and died within its walls. The Dode Child is supposed to haunt the Churchyard, having first appeared on a Sunday morning each month for several years, and then every seven years.

Dode Church,

Kent, England.

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Dowde (or Dode) Church, Kent.

This Norman Church was originally twinned with the Church in Paddlesworth, Kent, and served the Village of Dode. Today, the Church is left virtually isolated down a No-Through Road, with only a few local farms to keep it company. The Village of Dowde no longer exists, as it was wiped out by The Black Death in the 14th-Century.

Photo: 25 June 2005.

Source: From geograph.org.uk

Author: Hywel Williams

Attribution: Attribution: Hywel Williams.

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Following The Black Death, the Village was abandoned, and the Church stood empty for Centuries. In 1901, it was purchased by an antiquarian, George M. Arnold, Mayor of Gravesend, Kent. He restored the walls and roof of the Church and, in 1954, the Arnold family returned the building to The Catholic Church. It was re-Dedicated as The Church of Our Lady of The Meadows and Mass was Celebrated there at least once a year.

Eventually, the building deteriorated again and was vandalised. In 1990, Doug Chapman, a Chartered Surveyor who had worked at Canterbury Cathedral, purchased the Church and began restoring the building, originally with the intention of turning it into a week-end home. Since 1999, it has been Licensed as a Civil Wedding venue.

The Wedding venue hit the British Press in December 2009 because of the snowfall which occurred across the Country. A bride-to-be called BBC Radio Kent for assistance, when she realised that the transport arranged for her wedding would not be able to travel down the narrow Lane to Dode.

A number of volunteers stepped forward, providing enough Four-Wheel-Drive vehicles to transport the Wedding Party and their guests, both to the venue at Dode, and then, afterwards, to The Leather Bottle pub, in Cobham, Kent.

Saint Cosmas And Saint Damian. Martyrs. Feast Day, Today, 27 September.

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Saint Cosmas And Saint Damian.
   Martyrs.
   Feast Day 27 September.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

English: Saints Cosmas and Damian.

Miniature from The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany

Français: Saint Côme et saint Damien,

miniature extraite des Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne

Deutsch: Die heiligen Brüder Cosmas und Damian.

Miniatur aus dem Stundenbuch der Anne de Bretagne

Artist: Jean Bourdichon (1457–1521).

Date: Circa 1503-1508.

Current location: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Source/Photographer: This image comes from Gallica Digital Library.

Uploaded, stitched and restored by JLPC

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Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian, brothers by blood, were more closely united by their Faith in Jesus Christ, and by their common Martyrdom suffered for His sake (Alleluia). They were born, and lived, at Aegea, Asia-Minor, and distinguished themselves as physicians in the reign of the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian.

They healed the worst diseases as much by the virtue of Christ as by their medical knowledge. Their reputation soon spread everywhere. They were Apostles, rather than physicians. They healed Souls as well as bodies, following the example of Jesus in Palestine (Gospel).

They were denounced to the Prefect, Lysias, and suffered the most cruel torments and were thrown in chains into the sea, stoned, and exposed to the flames of a brazier. After several other tortures, they died about 285 A.D., and their bodies were taken to Rome and laid in the ancient temple of Romulus, transformed into a Church, which was Dedicated to them and where The Station is held on The Thursday of The Third Week in Lent.

Their names are mentioned in The Canon of The Mass, after several Roman Martyrs.

Mass: Sapiéntiam.

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Saint Cyprian And Saint Justina. Virgin And Martyrs. Feast Day 26 September.

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Saint Cyprian And Saint Justina.
   Martyrs.
   Feast Day 26 September.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

English: Saints Cyprian and Justina (honoured in

The Eastern Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodoxy

as Christians of Antioch, Pisidia, who, in 304 A.D., during

The Persecution of Diocletian, suffered Martyrdom at

Nicomedia (modern-day İzmir, Turkey) on

26 September, the date of their Feast).

Български: Икона на Свети Киприан и Юстина. Икона подарена

от моето семейство, на храм „Св.Св. Кирил и Методий“.

Photo: 26 October 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Biso

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"At Nicomedia,", says The Roman Martyrology, "the birth in Heaven of the Holy Martyrs Cyprian and Justina. This Virgin, after having endured many tortures under The Emperor Diocletian and the Judge Eutholmus, converted to Christ, Cyprian the Magician, who had tried to seduce her by his incantations.

Both were Martyred in 304 A.D. Their bodies, after having been exposed to wild beasts, were taken away during the night by some Christian mariners, who carried them to Rome. Later, they were buried in the Basilica of Constantine (Saint John Lateran), near the Baptistry."

Mass: Salus autem. The Third Mass for Several Martyrs.
Secret: Munera. From The Second Mass for Several Martyrs.
Postcommunion: Præsta. From The Second Mass for Several Martyrs.

Arch-Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Rome.

Saint Cyprian and Saint Justina were buried in this Arch-Basilica.

Photo: 21 April 2015.

Source: Own work.

Author: Livioandronico2013

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