Saturday After Ash Wednesday. The Lenten Station Was At The Church Of Saint Tryphon (Now At The Church Of Saint Augustine).

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unless otherwise stated.

Saturday after Ash Wednesday.
   Station at Saint Tryphon's
      (now at Saint Augustine's).

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.

English: The Church of Saint Augustine, Rome.

Italiano: San'Agostino, Rome.

Photo: October 2005.

Source: Own Work.

Author: Lalupa

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The Station at Rome was, previously, at The Church of Saint Tryphon, who died a Martyr in The East. This Church having been destroyed, The Station was removed, under Pope Clement VIII, to a neighbouring Church, that of Saint Augustine. [Editor: The Church Commemorates The Feast Day of Saint Tryphon on 10 November.]

The High Altar,

Sant'Agostino, Rome.

Photo: July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: SteO153

Permission: CC-BY-SA-2.5

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Saturday is the day of rest, which symbolises The Eternal Sabbath (Epistle of The Mass of The Day). To reach it, we must, during Lent, struggle by "Solemn Fast" (Collect of The Mass) and by Works of Charity (Epistle) against our passions, of which the rough sea and the contrary winds, spoken of in the Gospel, are a figure.

In this hard struggle, Jesus will come to our aid (Postcommunion), as He did to The Apostles and "heal our bodies and our Souls by Fasting." (Collect), as He healed all the sick in the country of Genesareth.

Mass: Audívit Dóminus.
Preface: For Lent.

The Altar and Tomb of Saint Monica of Hippo,

at Sant'Agostino in Campo Marzio Church, Rome.

Photo: March 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Bocachete

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Sant'Agostino is a Church in Rome, Italy, not far from Piazza Navona. It is one of the first Roman Churches built during The Renaissance. The construction was funded by Guillaume d'Estouteville, Archbishop of Rouen and Papal Chancellor. The façade was built in 1483 by Giacomo di Pietrasanta, using Travertine taken from The Colosseum. It is a fine, plain work of The Early-Renaissance Style.

The most famous work of art, presently in the Church, is The Madonna di Loreto, an important Baroque painting by Caravaggio. The Church also contains a Guercino canvas of Saints Augustine, John the Evangelist and Jerome; a fresco of The Prophet Isaiah by Raphael; and the statues of The Virgin and Child, by Andrea Sansovino and of The Madonna del Parto (Our Lady of Childbirth) by his pupil, Jacopo Sansovino. The latter sculpture is reputed by Tradition to work miracles and was, according to a legend, based on an ancient statue of Agrippina holding Nero in her arms.

In 1616, the 17th-Century Baroque artist, Giovanni Lanfranco, decorated The Buongiovanni Chapel (in the Left Transept) with three canvasses and a ceiling fresco of The Assumption. The Church also houses Melchiorre Caffà's sculpture "Saint Thomas of Villanova Distributing Alms", completed by his mentor, Ercole Ferrata. Pietro Bracci designed and sculpted the polychromatic tomb of Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali (1741).

English: “Madonna di Loreto”, by Caravaggio

Deutsch: Altargemälde der Cavaletti-Kapelle in Sant' Agostino in Rom,

Szene: Madonna der Pilger.

Artist: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Date: 1603 - 1605.

Current location: Church of San'Agostino, Rome.

Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.

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The Church contains the tomb of Saint Monica, mother of Saint Augustine, and that of Fiammetta, lover of Cesare Borgia and a famous courtesan.

Sant'Agostino was once noted for the presence of a number of courtesans and prostitutes in its Congregation.

“De Profúndis Clamávi Ad Te, Dómine”. “Out Of The Depths I Have Cried Unto Thee, Oh, Lord”. Psalm CXXIX. The Prayer For The Dead.

A Soul is released from Purgatory.

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“De Profúndis Clamávi Ad Te, Dómine”.

“Out Of The Depths I Have Cried Unto Thee, Oh, Lord”.

Psalm CXXIX.

One of The Penitential Psalms.

The Prayer For The Dead.

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Out of the depths I have cried unto Thee, Oh, Lord.

Lord, hear my voice.

Let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.

If Thou, Oh, Lord, will mark iniquities,

Lord, who shall endureth ?

For with The Lord, there is merciful forgiveness,

And, by reason of Thy Law, I have waited upon Thee, Oh, Lord,

My Soul doth rely on His Word,

My Soul doth hope in The Lord,

From the Morning Watch even until Night,

Let Israel hope in The Lord,

For with The Lord there is Mercy,

And with Him plentiful Redemption,

And He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

V.   Eternal Rest give unto them,  Oh, Lord.

R.   And let Perpetual Light shine upon them.

V.   May they Rest in Peace.

R.   Amen.

Friday After Ash Wednesday. Lenten Station Is The Church Of The Holy Martyrs, John And Paul.

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unless otherwise stated.

Friday after Ash Wednesday.

Station at The Basilica of The Holy Martyrs, John and Paul.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.

English: Basilica of The Holy Martyrs, John and Paul, on Mount Cœlius, Rome.

Français: Vue d'ensemble de la Basilique Santi Giovanni e Paolo

de Rome sur le Celio.

Photo: May 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: LPLT

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The Station at Rome was on Mount Coelius, in the Residence that the Christian Senator, Pammachius, in the 5th-Century A.D., transformed into a Parish Church, which bears the Title of Saints John and Paul (Feast Day 26 June). Six frescoes of that period represent the captivity and death of these two Romans, “who, in the same Faith and the same Martyrdom, were truly united as brethren”.

English: Church of The Holy Martyrs, John and Paul, Rome, Italy.

Italiano: SS. Giovanni e Paolo - Roma, Italia.

Photo: July 2006.

Source: Flickr

Author: Patrick Denker

Reviewer: Mac9

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Near this Church, is a Hospice for Pilgrims (Xenodochium Valerii). Pammachius, in other directions, spent his whole fortune upon The Poor. The Gospel of this Mass and the Postcommunion also speak of Charity.

The Epistle and the Gospel declare that the external works of Penance, such as Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving, which should be practised during Lent, have no value in the sight of God unless they are accompanied by the spirit of internal sacrifice. This spirit shows itself in works of mercy, done out of consideration for our neighbour, without distinction of friend or enemy and with the sole intention of pleasing God. Let us ask for the spirit of sacrifice and mercy.

Mass: Audivit Dominus.
Preface: For Lent.

Saint Simeon. Bishop And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 18 February.

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Saint Simeon.
   Bishop And Martyr.
   Feast Day 18 February.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Simeon of Jerusalem.

Bishop and Martyr.

Source:: The illustration originates from

the days.ru open catalogue ([1]).

Author: Unknown.

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Saint Simeon, son of Cleophas and Mary, who was so closely related to The Blessed Virgin as to be called her sister, "was anointed with Holy Oil" (Gradual) and became Bishop of Jerusalem, after Saint James the Less.

A Disciple of Christ, Whom he had known, he was for this reason arrested and crucified (Gospel). Although he was 120 years of age, the venerable old man "suffered this cruel punishment with constancy and received The Crown of Life which God prepares for those who love Him" (Epistle).

His Martyrdom took place in 106 A.D.

Like Saint Simeon, let us unite ourselves to Jesus by dying to sin at this Holy Season of Penance.

Mass: Státuit. (Of a Martyr Bishop.)

Saint Mary Bernard Soubirous (Saint Bernadette Of Lourdes). Virgin. Feast Day 18 February.

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Saint Mary Bernard Soubirous.

   Virgin.
   Feast Day 18 February.

Double.

White Vestments.

Bernadette Soubirous, when a child.

Date: Circa 1858.

Source: Weltwoche 8/08.

Author: Unknown.

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“The Song of Bernadette” (1943).

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Bernadette Soubirous was born at Lourdes in 1844. Our Lady appeared eighteen times to her in The Grotto of Massabielle, at the beginning of 1858 (Collect).

On 25 March 1858, The Blessed Virgin said to her: “I am The Immaculate Conception”, thereby confirming The Dogma officially proclaimed by Blessed Pope Pius IX in 1854.

Leaving everything to purchase at such a price The Kingdom of Heaven (Gospel), she entered The Convent of The Sisters of Charity, at Nevers, France, in 1868. Here, she was given the name of Sister Mary Bernard, and died on 16 April 1879, after a hidden life of Prayer and Penance (Secret).

English: The Grotto at Lourdes, where Our Lady appeared to Saint Bernadette.

Português: Gruta de Lurdes.

Photo: 15 February 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: José Luiz.

Attribution: © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / CC BY-SA 3.0

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She was Canonised by Pope Pius XI on 8 December 1933. In 1936, her Feast was ordered to be Celebrated, by The Universal Church, eight days after The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes on 11 February.

Mass: Vultum tuum.
Commemoration: In Lent, of The Feria.
Commemoration: Saint Simeon.

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Saint Bernadette Soubirous (Occitan: Bernadeta Sobirós; 7 January 1844 – 16 April 1879), also known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, was the first-born daughter of a Miller, from Lourdes (Lorda, in Occitan), in The Department of Hautes-Pyrénées, in France, and came to be Venerated as a Saint in The Catholic Church.

Saint Mary Bernard Soubirous has become best known for The Marian Apparitions of a “Young Lady”, who asked for a Chapel to be built at the nearby Cave-Grotto, at Massabielle, where Apparitions are said to have occurred between 11 February 1858 and 16 July 1858. She would later receive recognition when “The Lady”, who appeared to her, identified herself as “The Immaculate Conception”.

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Despite initial scepticism from some Church authorities, Saint Bernadette's claims were eventually declared “worthy of belief”, after a Canonical Investigation, and The Marian Apparition became known as Our Lady of Lourdes.

Since her death, Saint Bernadette's body has apparently remained internally incorrupt, but it is not without blemish; during her third exhumation in 1925, the firm of Pierre Imans made light wax coverings for her face and her hands, due to the discolouration that her skin had undergone after her body was cleansed. These masks were placed on her face and hands before she was moved to her crystal Reliquary in June 1925. The Marian Shrine at Lourdes (Midi-Pyrénées, from 2016 part of Occitanie) went on to become a major Pilgrimage site, attracting over five million Pilgrims of all denominations each year.

On 8 December 1933, Pope Pius XI declared Saint Bernadette a Saint of The Catholic Church. Her Feast Day, initially specified as 18 February — the day her “Lady” promised to make her happy, not in this life, but in the next — is now observed in most places on the date of her death, 16 April.

Thursday After Ash Wednesday. Lenten Station At Saint George’s Basilica (San Giorgio-in-Velabro).

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

Thursday after Ash Wednesday.

Station at Saint George's (San Giorgio-in-Velabro).

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.

San Giorgio-in-Velabro is a Minor Basilica Church

in Rome, Italy, Dedicated to Saint George

Photo: April 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: User: Zello

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This Station is, since the time of Pope Gregory II (7th-Century A.D.), at Saint George's-in-Velabro. This Church is in the district called The Velabrum, or Velum aureum, on account of a Relic kept in a Golden Veil. Saint George's is one of the twenty-five Parishes of Rome in the 5th-Century A.D., where, under The High Altar, is kept the Head of this Christian warrior, a victim of The Persecution of The Emperor Diocletian, and called by the Greeks "The Great Martyr".

The Liturgy of today inculcates in us the spirit of Prayer, which forms part of The Forty Days' Penance. It was by Prayer that Ezechias obtained a prolongation of his life (Epistle of today) and the Centurion the healing of his servant (Gospel), and it is by Prayer that we shall obtain from God the strength to mortify ourselves, in order that we may gain the pardon of our sins, and, with it, the healing of our Souls and Life Eternal.

San Giorgio-in-Velabro.

Photo: August 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Luc

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The Gospel, in former times, reminded the Catechumens that, through Baptism, they were about to enter The Kingdom of Heaven.

Remember that, if sin offends God and draws upon us the scourge of His Righteous Anger, Penance, on the contrary, appeases Him and procures for us the effects of His Mercy (Collects).

Mass: Dum clamárem.
Preface: For Lent.

San Giorgio-in-Velabro.

Photo: March 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: sailko

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San Giorgio-in-Velabro is a Minor Basilica Church in Rome, Italy, Devoted to Saint George.

The Church is located in the ancient Roman Velabrum, near the Arch of Janus, in the rione of Ripa. Sited near The River Tiber, it is within a complex of Republican-era pagan temples associated with the Port of Rome. The ancient Arcus Argentariorum is attached to the side of the Church's façade.

San Giorgio-in-Velabro is The Station Church for The First Thursday in Lent.

The first religious building attested, in the place of the current Basilica, is a Diaconia, funded by Pope Gregory the Great.

The High Altar,

San Giorgio-in-Velabro.

Photo: March 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: sailko

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The current Basilica was built during the 7th-Century A.D., possibly by Pope Leo II, who Dedicated it to Saint Sebastian. A 482 word-inscription in the catacombs of Saint Callixtus probably refers to a Church in the same zone. Its plan is irregular, indeed slightly trapezoidal, as a result of the frequent additions to the building. The Interior Columns are almost randomly arranged, having been taken from sundry Roman temples.

The Basilica was inside the Greek Quarter of Rome, where Greek-speaking merchants, civil and military officers, and Monks, of The Byzantine Empire lived — the nearby Santa Maria-in-Cosmedin, for example, was known as Schola Graeca at the time. Pope Zachary (741 A.D. - 752 A.D.), who was of Greek origin, moved the Relic of Saint George to this Basilica from Cappadocia, so that this Saint had a Basilica Dedicated in The West, well before the spreading of his Devotion associated with the return of The Crusaders from The East.

After a restoration by Pope Gregory IV (9th-Century A.D.), the Basilica received the addition of the Portico and of the Bell-Tower in the first half of the 13th-Century. The Apsis was decorated with frescoes by Pietro Cavallini in the 13th-Century.

San Giorgio al Velabro e Arco di Giano

Photo: April 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lalupa

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Between 1923 and 1926, the Superintendent of Monuments of Rome, Antonio Muñoz, completed a more radical restoration programme, with the aim of restoring the building’s “Mediæval character” and freeing it from later additions. This was done by returning the floor to its original level (and so exposing the Column bases), re-opening the ancient windows that gave light to the Central Nave, restoring the Apsis, and generally removing numerous accretions from the other most recent restorations. During this process, fragments (now displayed on the Basilica's Internal walls) were found, indicating a schola cantorum on the site, attributed to the period of Pope Gregory IV.

The building, as we see it today, is largely a product of the 1920s’ restoration. However, five years' further restoration followed the explosion of a car bomb, parked close to the Basilica's facade, at midnight on 27 July 1993. That explosion caused no fatalities but left the 12th-Century Portico almost totally collapsed and blew a large opening into the wall of the main Basilica, as well as doing serious damage to the residence of The Generalate of The Crosiers (Canons Regular of The Order of The Holy Cross), next door.

The Ministry of Cultural Heritage researched and catalogued what was damaged or destroyed, placing the fragments in 1050 crates, with dates and locational references, before restoring the building with them, although some details, particularly in the Portico, were deliberately left un-restored as a memorial to the bombing.

Gianfranco Ravasi is, since November 2010, Cardinal-Deacon of the Church. Among the previous Titulars are: Oddone Colonna, who later became Pope Martin V; Raffaele Riario; Giacomo Stefaneschi; and John Henry Newman. Cardinal Alfons Maria Stickler was Titular of San Giorgio, as a Cardinal Priest, until his death in 2007.

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