Saint Aloysius Gonzaga. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 21 June. White Vestments.

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Saint Aloysius Gonzaga.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 21 June.

Double.

White Vestments.

The Vocation of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga.

Artist: Guercino (1591–1666).

Date: Circa 1650.

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Source/Photographer: THE MET MUSEUM

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The Holy Ghost, "distributor of Heavenly Gifts" (Collect), made of Aloysius, a young Prince of the noble family of Gonzaga, an Angel on Earth, uniting in him all the marvels of innocence and mortification (Ibid.). Wherefore, The Church applies to him the Verse of the Psalm, where the humanity of Adam, before The Fall, and that of Christ, are declared hardly inferior to Angelic nature (Introit).

His birth to a Heavenly Life preceded in a certain manner his natural birth, for he was born at the Castle of Castiglione, in Italy, in such perilous circumstances, that they hastened his Baptism (Gradual). As an infant, all those who carried him in their arms thought they held an Angel.

At the age of nine, at Florence, Italy, he made a Vow of Virginity before the Altar of The Blessed Virgin, and practised during his whole life the strictest modesty in his looks. Amid the seductions of the Princely Courts, to which his father sent him, he kept his first innocence so faithfully that he seemed confirmed in Grace (Epistle).

Towards the age of eleven, he received for the first time The Bread of Angels from the hands of Saint Charles Borromeo (Communion). At sixteen, he entered at Rome The Company of Jesus, of which he is one of the glories. He so distinguished himself, by his mortification and love of God, that he is compared to The Elect in Heaven. "They live like Angels," says Jesus, because the Soul will exercise full command over the body, which will participate in its Spiritual nature.

At the age of twenty-two (1591), wearing his innocence like a nuptial robe, on which shone the pearls of his continual tears, he died a victim to his devotion to the plague-stricken and ascended The Holy Mountain to take part in The Heavenly Banquet to which God invites The Pure of Heart (Secret, Offertory, Gradual).

Let us have recourse to the merits and intercession of Saint Aloysius.

Pope Benedict XIII (reigned 1724-1730) gave him as a pattern to young people, in order that, not always having imitated him in his innocence, they may at least imitate him by doing Penance (Collect).

Mass: Minuisti eum.

Remember All The Fallen In Your Prayers. Always.

“Gluck, Das Mir Verblieb”. Sung By: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. From: “Die Tote Stadt”. Composer: Erich Korngold.

“Gluck, Das Mir Verblieb”.

Sung By: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

From: “Die Tote Stadt”.

Composer: Erich Korngold.

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“Die Tote Stadt” (German: “The Dead City”), Op. 12, is an Opera in three Acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 – 1957), set to a Libretto by Paul Schott, a collective pseudonym for the Composer and his father, Julius Korngold. 

It premiered in 1920 and is based on the 1892 novel “Bruges-la-Morte” by Georges Rodenbach.

“Die Tote Stadt”: “The Dead City”.

Libretto cover published in 1921.

Opera in Three Acts.

Founded on G. Rodenbach’s “Das Trugbild”.

Date: Published by G. Ricordi, 1921.

Source: 

https://books.google.com/books?id=8RU6AAAAIAAJ

Author: Composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Written by Paul Schott.

Based on Georges Rodenbach's novel.

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Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, DBE 

(9 December 1915 – 3 August 2006) was a German-born Austro-British Lyric Soprano. 

She was among the foremost singers of Lieder, and is renowned for her performances of Viennese Operetta, as well as the operas of Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss.[1][2] 

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf an den Musikfestwochen in Luzern.

Date: 1948-1958.

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After retiring from the stage, she was an International Voice Teacher. 

She is considered one of the greatest Sopranos of the 20th-Century.[3]

Pope Saint Agatho. Reigned 678 A.D. - 681 A.D. Feast Day 10 January. White Vestments.

Pope Saint Agatho depicted in the Menologion of Basil II 

(circa 1000). [The Menologion of Basil II is a Greek illuminated manuscript, designed as a Church Calendar, or Eastern Orthodox Church Service Book (Menologion) that was compiled circa 1000 for the Byzantine Emperor, Basil II (reigned 976 A.D. – 1025).]

Прп. Агафон, папа Римский

Константинополь. 985 г.

Миниатюра Минология Василия II.

Ватиканская библиотека. Рим.

Date: 985 A.D.

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Pope Agatho (circa 577 A.D. – 10 January 681 A.D.), served as the Bishop of Rome from 27 June 678 A.D. until his death on 10 January 681 A.D.[2] 

He heard the appeal of Saint Wilfrid of York, who had been displaced from his See by the division of the Archdiocese ordered by Archbishop Saint Theodore of Canterbury. 

During Agatho’s tenure, the Sixth Ecumenical Council, held at Constantinople, was convened to deal with Monothelitism. 

He is Venerated as a Saint by both the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. He is said to have been the longest-lived Pope ever.[3]

The details of Agatho’s early life are uncertain. It has been written that he was born around 577 A.D.[4] in Palermo, Sicily, and was a Greek, whose parents died when he was young. 

After the death of his parents, it is said that he joined the Monastery of San Giovanni degli Eremiti in Palermo.[5] 

Due to the Rashidun Caliphate’s raids on Sicily that began in 652 A.D., many Sicilian Clergy had fled to Rome, and Agatho may have been among them.[6]

He served several years as Treasurer of the Church of Rome. He succeeded Pope Donus, and ascended to the Papacy on 27 June 678 A.D., a Sunday.[7]

Shortly after Agatho became Pope, Bishop Wilfrid of York arrived in Rome to invoke the authority of the Holy See on his behalf. 

Wilfrid had been deposed from his See by Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury, who had carved up Wilfrid’s Diocese and appointed three Bishops to govern the new Sees. 

At a Synod, which Pope Agatho convoked in the Lateran to investigate the affair, it was decided that Wilfrid’s Diocese should indeed be divided, but that Wilfrid should name the Bishops.[8]

The major event of Agatho’s Pontificate was the Sixth Ecumenical Council (680 A.D. – 681 A.D.), following the end of the Muslim Siege of Constantinople,[9] which suppressed Monothelitism, which had been tolerated by previous Popes (Honorius I among them). 

The Sixth Ecumenical Council began when Emperor Constantine IV, wanting to heal the Schism that separated the two sides, wrote to Pope Donus suggesting a Conference on the matter, but Donus was dead by the time the Letter arrived. 

Agatho was quick to seize the Olive Branch offered by the Emperor. 

He ordered Councils held throughout the West, so that Legates could present the Universal Tradition of the Western Church. 

Then he sent a large delegation to meet the Easterners at Constantinople.[8]

The Legates and Patriarchs gathered in the Imperial Palace on 7 November 680 A.D. 

The Monothelites presented their case. Then, a Letter of Pope Agatho was read that explained the Traditional belief of The Church that Christ was of two Wills, Divine and Human. 

Patriarch George of Constantinople accepted Agatho’s Letter, as did most of the Bishops present. The Council proclaimed the existence of the two Wills in Christ and condemned Monothelitism, with Pope Honorius I being included in the condemnation. 

When the Council ended in September 681 A.D., the decrees were sent to the Pope, but Agatho had died in January 681 A,D. The Council had not only ended Monothelism, but also had healed the Schism.[8]

Agatho also undertook negotiations between the Holy See and Emperor Constantine IV concerning the interference of the Byzantine Court in Papal Elections. 

Constantine promised Agatho to abolish or reduce the tax that the Popes had to pay to the Imperial Treasury on their Consecration.[8]

Church records state that Agatho served as Pope as a Centenarian, dying between the ages of 103 and 104.[10][11] 

Recent research has cast doubt on his age, with some claiming that Pope Agatho and a Monk, called Agathon, have been confused, and are two different people.[12]

Anastatius says that the number of his Miracles procured Pope Agatho the title of Thaumaturgus (Miracle Worker). 

He died in 681 A.D., having held the Pontificate about two and a half years.[4][7] 

He is Venerated as a Saint by both Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.[13] His Feast Day in Western Christianity is 10 January.[14] Eastern Christians, including Eastern Orthodox and the Eastern Catholic Churches, Commemorate him on 20 February.[15]

Saint Silverius. Pope And Martyr. Reigned From 536 A.D. - 537 A.D. Feast Day 20 June. Red Vestments.

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Saint Silverius.
   Pope And Martyr.
   Feast Day 20 June.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Pope Silverius.

Source: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:Silverius2.jpg

Author: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Deep_also_it

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A son of Pope Hormisdas, who was married before receiving Holy Orders, Silverius was invested with full Sacerdotal powers on succeeding Pope Agapitus on the Pontifical Throne (Introit, Alleluia).

Theodora, Empress of Constantinople, entreated him to restore to the Pontifical Throne of that City, a heresiarch [Editor: The founder of a heresy or the leader of a heretical sect], who, “living a slave to his impious wishes and not having the Spirit of God” (Epistle), had been deposed by Pope Agapitus.

When Pope Silverius refused Theodora’s demands, she caused him to be exiled to the Island of Ponza, Italy.

As a disciple of Christ, the Holy Pontiff, Silverius, followed Him bearing his heavy Cross (Gospel), and, from there (Ponza), governed The Church, “taking for his food,” as he is reported to have said, “the bread of affliction and the water of anguish”.

Later, Saint Silverius, worn out by privations and sufferings, fell asleep in The Lord in 537 A.D. His body, carried to Rome and buried in the Vatican Basilica, was made famous by numerous Miracles.

Guided by The Holy Ghost, let us beseech God to help our weakness (Collect), and to fill us with the courage shown by Saint Silverius in the defence of Truth.

Mass: Státuit.

Saint Silverius. Pope And Martyr. Reigned From 536 A.D. - 537 A.D. Feast Day 20 June. Red Vestments.

Young Saint John the Baptist in Glory with 

Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Pope Saint Silverius.

Artist: Orazio Samacchini (1532 – 1577).

Source: Own work.

Author: Sailko

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Text from “The Liturgical Year”.

   By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

      Volume 12.

      Time After Pentecost.

      Book III.

Saint Silverius. 

Pope And Martyr. 

Reigned 536 A.D. - 537 A.D. 

Feast Day 20 June.

Papal succession is one of the principal facts wherein is demonstrated the working of The Holy Ghost, from the very first day of His descent upon our Earth.

The legitimacy of the Popes, as successors of Peter, is, indeed, closely linked with the legitimacy of The Church, itself, in her character of Bride of The Man-God; and, therefore, His mission being to lead The Bride to The Spouse, The Holy Ghost cannot suffer her to wander in the footprints of intruders.

The inevitable play of human passions, interfering in the election of The Vicar of Christ, may perchance for a while render uncertain the transmission of Spiritual Power.

But, when it is proved that The Church, still holding, or once more put in possession of, her liberty, acknowledges in the person of a certain Pope, until then doubtful, the true Sovereign Pontiff, this her very recognition is a proof that, from that moment at least, the occupant of the Apostolic See is as such invested by God, Himself.

This doctrine The Holy Ghost confirms, by giving thereto, in the Pontiff we are celebrating today, the consecration of Martyrdom.

Saint Agapitus I died at Constantinople, whither Theodoric the Goth had persuaded him to go, in order to appease the anger of Justinian excited against this King by reason of his treasons.

Scarcely had the news of this death reached the Arian Prince, than he, in terror of perhaps seeing someone unfavourable to his pretensions raised to the Pontificate, imperatively designated as successor to the deceased Pope, the Deacon, Silverius.

Two months later, the justice of God struck the tyrant, and The Church was set free. Doubtless, Rome would have but exercised her proper right had she rejected the Head thus imposed upon her by main force: For not to Earthly Princes has The Lord consigned the election of His Vicar upon Earth.

But Silverius, who had been an utter stranger to the violence used on his personal account, was, in reality, a man in every way fitted for the supreme Pontificate.

Therefore, when the Roman Clergy became free to act, they had no wish to withdraw from him their adhesion, until then certainly disputable. From that moment, undoubtedly, Silverius could not but be Head of The Church, the true successor of Agapitus, The Lord’s Elect.

In the midst of a period thronged with snares, he proved how well he understood the exigences of duty in his exalted Office, and preferred an exile which would eventually cost him his life, to the abandonment of a Post wherein The Holy Ghost had truly placed him.

Holy Church gratefully bears witness to this, in her short eulogy of him; and The Army of Martyrs opened their ranks to receive him, when death at length struck the Pontiff in his land of exile.

And, another painting by Orazio Samacchini

The Virgin Mary, Saints Nabor and Felix, Francis of Assisi, Claire of Assisi, John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, 

and Catherine of Alexandria.

Artist: Orazio Samacchini  (1532 – 1577).

Date: Circa 1570.

Collection: Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna.

Source: SANTI BEATI

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The Gradual Of Eleanor Of Brittany. “The Kyrie”. From The Mass: “Orbis Factor”. Sung By: Ensemble Organum. Director: Marcel Pérès.

13th-Century ruins of Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire.

This Abbey was contemporaneous with The Fontevraud Gradual (known as The Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany).

Illustration: ENGLISH HERITAGE

“Kyrie”.

From The Mass: “Orbis Factor”.

The Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany.

Sung by: Ensemble Organum.

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The Fontevraud Gradual (often known as The Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany) is an Antiphonary or Gradual of the Mid-13th-Century, owned by Eleanor of Brittany (☩ 1342), Abbess of Fontevraud Abbey, and bequeathed to the Abbey on her death.[1] It contains Gregorian Chant as well as three early Polyphonic pieces. It is also noted for its Miniatures in the form of Historiated Initials.

The Manuscript is kept at the Limoges Municipal Library (Limoges MS 2) and is not publicly accessible. A digital version was made accessible On-Line in 2019.[2]

The Gradual was made in Paris in the 1250s, perhaps in the Studio of Nicolas Lombard. Richard and Mary Rouse attribute the Manuscript to one of the four artists who produced a glossy Bible commissioned by Guy de La Tour du Pin, Bishop of Clermont from 1250 to 1285.[3]

English: A Coloured Decorated Initial,

depicting The Nativity.

The Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany.

Français : Graduel d'Aliénor - Nativité.

Date: 15 November 2014.

Source: http://www.bm-limoges.fr/collections_numeriques.html

Bibliothèque multimédia de Limoges.

Author: Anonymous.

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Its Patrons may have been John II, Duke of Brittany and Beatrice of England, Eleanor’s parents. It would have been entrusted to their daughter in 1290 when she arrived at the Abbey. Eleanor became an Abbess in 1304. The Coat-of-Arms of the Abbess appears on the edges, but is later than the Manuscript.[4] When she died in 1342, she left the Gradual to the Abbey.

In 1387, Pascal Hugonot, Abbot of Saint-Pierre de la Couture, in Le Mans, donated the Gradual to the Collegiate Church of Saint-Junien, in Haute-Vienne. Father Joseph Nadaud studied it there in the middle of the 18th-Century. During The French Revolution, and its seizure of Religious Property, the Gradual was deposited in Limoges.[5]

The Gradual is unconventional, with a rich and original iconography. It consists of 301 Folia. Each page contains ten or eleven lines of Music and Text. The Music is noted in Black Square Notes on a Staff of four Red Lines. The Text is adorned with Golden and Coloured Decorated Initials.

English: Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany.

The coloured decorated initial depicts The Nativity.

Français: Graduel d’Aliénor - Nativité.

Date: 15 November 2014.

Source: http://www.bm-imoges.fr/

collections_numeriques.html

Bibliothèque multimédia de Limoges.

Web-Site: graduel-bfm.limoges.fr

Author: Anonymous.

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The Gradual contains pieces of Gregorian Chant, as well as its own repertoire: Sequences; Proses; Readings; and three Polyphonic Pieces with Two Voices: “Res est admirabilis” (Sequence); “Verbum bonum” (Sequence); and a Credo.

In 1993, an interpretation of parts of the Gradual was recorded by Ensemble Organum in the Refectory of Fontevraud Abbey.[6] Another interpretation was recorded by the Chœur Grégorien du Mans in 2000.[7]

Many Miniatures, in the form of large Historiated Initials, relate events of the Life of Christ, such as the Nativity, the Adoration of the Magi, and the Resurrection. They also include images of Saints, such as Saint Lawrence and Saint Radegund. These are large Initials that sometimes occupy almost half the page. The words that the Initials begin are written in Golden Capitals which span the width of the page.

English: Fontevraud Abbey, whose Liturgical Psalmody

and Hymns were used in the construction of the Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany (Graduel D’Alienor De Bretagne). It was here that Eleanor of Brittany took Vows.

Français: Abbatiale de Fontevraud.

Photo: 14 May 2010.

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The Gradual also contains several Farced Epistles. These are Readings from the Mass in which the Text of Scripture is provided, Verse after Verse, either with a Latin paraphrase or with a translation in the vernacular.[8]

The paraphrase or translation constitutes the “Farce” of the Scriptural Text. The Farce usually takes a Versified and Musical Form. The Gradual contains five “Troped” Epistles, starting at Folios 29, 46v, 272, 274 and 278. The Epistle starting at Fol. 29 is a Farced Epistle of Saint Stephen (from
26 December).

Ensemble Organum is a group performing Early Music, co-founded in 1982 by Marcel Pérès and based in France. Its members have changed, but have included at one time or another, Josep Cabré, Josep Benet, Gérard Lesne , Antoine Sicot , Malcolm Bothwell. They have often collaborated with Lycourgos Angelopoulos and are influenced by Orthodox Music. [1] [2]

The group mainly focuses on the performance of Music from The Middle Ages, including Beneventan, Old Roman, Gallican, Carolingian, and Mozarabic Chants. However, the repertoire includes Renaissance polyphony, as well as more recent works.

The Ensemble was formerly based at Sénanque Abbey and Royaumont Abbey, France. Since 2001, it has shared facilities in the precinct of Moissac Abbey with the Itinerant Research Center on Ancient Music (Centre for Itinerant Research of Mediæval and Early Music).

In addition to musical performance, the Ensemble also works with musicologists and historians on musical research from this period.

Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica Of The Nativity Of Saint Mary, Milan. Basilica Cattedrale Metropolitana Di Santi Maria Nascente, Milano. (Part Seven ).

English: Milan Cathedral.

Italiano: Milano - Duomo.

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In 1577, Borromeo finally Consecrated the whole edifice as a new Church, distinct from the old Santa Maria Maggiore and Santa Thecla (which had been unified in 1549 after heavy disputes).

At the beginning of the 17th-Century, Federico Borromeo had the Foundations of the new façade laid by Francesco Maria Richini and Fabio Mangone. Work continued until 1638 with the construction of five Portals and two Middle Windows.

In 1649, however, the new Chief Architect, Carlo Buzzi, introduced a striking revolution: The façade was to revert to the original Gothic Style, including the already finished details within big Gothic Pilasters and two giant Belfries.

Milan Cathedral at night.

Photo: 22 February 2014.

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Other designs were provided by, among others, Filippo Juvarra (1733) and Luigi Vanvitelli (1745), but all remained un-applied. In 1682, the façade of Santa Maria Maggiore was demolished and the Cathedral’s Roof covering was completed.

In 1762, one of the main features of the Cathedral, the Madonnina’s Spire, was erected at the dizzying height of 108.5 metres (355 feet high). The Spire was designed by Carlo Pellicani and has, at the top, a famous polychrome Madonnina statue, designed by Giuseppe Perego, that befits the stature of the Cathedral.[13]

Given Milan’s notoriously damp and foggy climate, the Milanese consider it a fair-weather day when the Madonnina is visible from a distance, as it is so often covered by mist.

The Apse Ceiling of Milan Cathedral.

Photo: 27 June 2016.

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PART EIGHT FOLLOWS.

“El Cant De La Sibilla”. Catalunya. Montserrat Figueras (Soprano). La Capella Reial De Catalunya. Director: Jordi Savall.

“El Cant de la Sibilla”.

Catalunya.

Montserrat Figueras (Soprano).

 La Capella Reial de Catalunya.

Director: Jordi Savall.

Available on YouTube

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Montserrat Figueras i García, 15 March 1942 – 23 November 2011, was a Catalan Soprano, who specialised in Early Music.

Figueras was born 15 March 1942 in Barcelona, Spain.[1][3] 

After initially training as an actress, she began studying Early Singing techniques in 1966, together with her sister, Pilar Figueras, and developed an approach and technique for singing Early Music which combined historical fidelity with vitality.[4][5]

In 1974, she and Jordi Savall, her husband since 1968, 

Lorenzo Alpert and Hopkinson Smith formed Hespèrion XX (later, Hespèrion XXI), an Early Music ensemble. 

English: 

The Cloisters of Santa Maria de Pedralbes Monastery, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The funeral of Montserrat Figueras was held in this Monastery in November 2011.

Català: 

Claustre del monestir de Santa Maria de Pedralbes, Barcelona.

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Figueras and her husband also Founded the groups La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations.

Figueras performed and recorded regularly as a solo artist, and she and her husband also performed with their children, daughter Arianna and son Ferran.[6]

She died on 23 November 2011 in Cerdanyola del Vallès, surrounded by her family, after a long battle with Cancer.[2][7] 

The funeral was held at the Monastery of Pedralbes in Barcelona.[8]

Saint Gervase And Saint Protase. Martyrs. Feast Day, Today, 19 June. Red Vestments.

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Saint Gervase And Saint Protase.
   Martyrs.
   Feast Day 19 June.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saints Gervasius and Protasius.

Detail from the Apparition to Saint Ambrose.

Artist: Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674).

Date: 1658.

Source: Own work.

Author:

SANTI BEATI

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Sons of Saint Vitalis and Saint Valeria, these two Saints were Martyred under Emperor Nero at Milan (1st-Century A.D.). Saint Gervase was beaten to death, and Saint Protase, after having been scourged, was beheaded.

Saint Ambrose discovered their bodies in 368 A.D.

Their names are included in the Litany of the Saints.

Mass: Loquétur Dominus.
Collects: Of the Mass: Salus Autem, but the names of the Saints are omitted in the Secret.

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Saints Gervasius and Protasius (also Saints Gervase and Protase, Gervasis and Prothasis, and, in French, Gervais and Protais) are Venerated as Christian Martyrs, probably of the 2nd-Century A.D.

They are the Patron Saints of Milan and of Hay Makers, and are invoked for the discovery of thieves. Their Feast Day in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church is 19 June, the day marking the Translation of their Relics.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church and in the Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church, their Feast takes place on 14 October (O.S.) / 24 October (N.S.), the Traditional day of their death. In Christian iconography their emblems are the Scourge, the Club and the Sword.

Church Of Santa Maria Di Monserrato, Rome.

English: Church of Santa Maria di Monserrato, Rome.

Deutsch: Rom, die Kirche Santa Maria di Monserrato.

Photo: 28 January 2015.

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Author: Dguendel

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The Spanish National Church of Santiago and Montserrat, in Rome, known as the Church of Holy Mary in Monserrat of the Spaniards (Italian: Santa Maria in Monserrato degli Spagnoli, Spanish: Santa María de Montserrat de los Españoles, Latin: S. Mariæ Hispanorum in Monte Serrato) is a Roman Catholic Titulus Church and National Church in Rome of Spain, dedicated to the Virgin of Montserrat. 

It was established as a Titular Church in 2003. In May 2025, the Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Mariae Hispanorum in Monte Serrato is José Cobo Cano.[1]

San Giacomo degli Spagnoli was erected in 1450 on the site of an earlier Church. By 1506, it was the location of two hospices for Spanish Pilgrims and the National Church of the Crown of Castile in Rome.[2]

Santa Maria in Monserrato degli Spagnoli was Founded in 1506, when the Brotherhood of the Virgin of Montserrat in Catalonia built a hospice for Spanish Pilgrims.[3] It served as the National Church and hospital for the Aragonese community in Rome.

When Santa Maria in Monserrato degli Spagnoli was completed in the 17th-Century, the focus of the community shifted to that Church.

San Giacomo degli Spagnoli was in poor repair, and many of the furnishings and artworks were transferred to Santa Maria in Monserrato, which is now the Spanish National Church. San Giacomo degli Spagnoli was later de-Consecrated and the building sold to the Missionaries of The Sacred Heart.[4]

Saint Juliana Falconieri (1270-1340). Virgin. Feast Day, Today, 19 June. White Vestments.

Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
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Saint Juliana Falconieri.
   Virgin.
   Feast Day 19 June.

Double.

White Vestments.

Illustration: CATHOLIC SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

Born at Florence, Italy, in 1270, of the illustrious family of Falconieri, Juliana, from childhood, gave such signs of Holiness that her uncle, Saint Alexis Falconieri, declared to her mother that she had given birth to an Angel. Never in the course of her life did she raise her eyes to look at a man's face, and to hear sin spoken of made her tremble (Introit).

At the age of fifteen, she Solemnly Consecrated her Virginity to God (Epistle, Gospel).

"O, Juliana, only longing for the nuptials of The Heavenly Lamb, you leave your paternal roof and conduct a Choir of Virgins. You sigh night and day for the sorrows of your Spouse, nailed to The Cross, and you shed tears at the feet of The Mother of God, whose heart is pierced by Seven Swords." [Hymn at First Vespers.]

English: The Basilica Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Italy.

Saint Juliana Falconieri's major Shrine is in this Basilica.

Italiano: Basilica della santissima annunziata.

Photo: 3 June 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: sailko

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Having Founded The Order of Mantellate [Editor: They were called Mantellate on account of the short Mantle they wore], she was asked by Saint Philip Beniti to take charge of the whole Order of Servites, which honours in a special manner The Sorrows of The Virgin.

On two days a week her only food was The Bread of Angels. At the age of seventy, not being able to retain any food, she lamented the impossibility of receiving Holy Communion. She asked that at least The Blessed Sacrament should be held near her heart and The Sacred Bread miraculously disappeared, leaving an impression in the shape of a Host representing the image of Jesus crucified (Collect). She then breathed her last and was joyfully conducted to The Throne of The Divine King (Gradual). It was 19 June 1341.

Let us beseech The Holy Ghost to grant that we may, like Saint Juliana, be nourished and strengthened in our agony by The Body of Christ, Which will be our viaticum to The Heavenly Home (Collect).

Mass: Dilexísti.
Commemoration: Saint Gervase and Saint Protase. Martyrs.

Saint Juliana Falconieri Catholic Church,

Red Cloud, Nebraska, United States of America.

This 1883 Church is Listed in the 

National Register of Historic Places

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Juliana Falconieri, O.S.M., (1270 – 1341) was the Italian Foundress of the Religious Sisters of the Third Order of Servites (or the Servite Tertiaries).

The Servite Order was approved by Pope Martin V in 1420. Pope Benedict XIII recognised the devotion long paid to her and granted the Servites permission to Celebrate the Feast of the Blessed Juliana.

Pope Clement XII Canonised her in 1737, and extended the Celebration of her Feast Day, 19 June, to the Entire Church. Saint Juliana is usually represented in the Habit of her Order, with a Host upon her breast. Truly, a most excellent Saint.

Saint Juliana Falconieri was Beatified on 26 July 1678, in Rome, by His Holiness Pope Innocent XI.

She was Canonised on 16 June 1737, in Rome, by His Holiness Pope Clement XII.

Her major Shrine is in the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Italy.