Earl Of Shrewsbury. Earl Of Waterford. Earl Talbot. (Part Three).

Arms of Talbot-Chetwynd.

Quarterly:

1st and 4th: Gules, a Lion Rampant

within a Bordure Engrailed Or (for Talbot).

2nd and 3rd: Azure, a Chevron

between three Mullets Or (for Chetwynd).

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He was succeeded by his nephew, George, the tenth Earl and Lord of Grafton. He was the son of John Talbot of Grafton. 

On his death, the titles passed to his son, the eleventh Earl. He was killed in a duel with George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. 

The Royal Procession to Parliament at Westminster, 

4 February 1512.

17th-Century copy (in British Library (Add. MS 22306[1]

[dead link])) of the original 1512 5.5 metre long Vellum 

Roll in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge 

(“Procession of Parliament”, shelfmark 0.3.59[2] 

archive copy at the Wayback Machine).

Nine Earls.

Left to Right:

1: Unknown KG.

[Editor: Note: KG means Knight of the Garter. 

KB means Knight of the Bath. PC means Privy Councillor].

(Four Bars on Peerage Robes suggest a Marquess), 

with White Staff of Office. No name or Arms shown. Apparently John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, (1442-1513), 

KG, who served as Lord Chamberlain 1485-1513. 

The Lord Chamberlain would lead the Procession with 

a Ceremonial Verger’s White Rod.

2: Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset

(1477–1530), KG.

Son of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset

(1451–1501). Stepson of King Edward IV.

3: Percy, Earl of Northumberland, KG.

4: Howard, Earl of Surrey, KG.

5: George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury

(1468-1538), KG, KB, PC.

Holds White Staff of Office.

Quarterly of six:

1: Azure, a Lion Rampant and a Bordure Or (Belleme);

2: Gules, a Lion Rampant Or a Bordure Engrailed of the Last (Talbot (Modern/Mechyll); for Talbot i.e. Rhys ap Griffith);

3: Gules, a Saltire Argent a Martlet Sable for difference (Neville, Baron Furnival; First adopted by Thomas Neville, jure uxoris 5th Baron Furnival (1364-1425), 2nd son of John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville of Raby, and younger brother of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland. He married Joan Furnival, suo jure 5th Baroness Furnival, the daughter and heiress of William Furnival, 4th Baron Furnival. The marriage produced one daughter and sole heiress, Maud Neville, suo jure 6th Baroness Furnival, who married John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewbury (1387-1453). It is believed the Martlet for difference derives from the Arms of Furnival (Argent, 

a Bend between six Martlets Gules). Quartered by Talbot, 

Earl of Shrewsbury

4: Argent, a Bend between six Martlets Gules (Furnival);

5: Or Fretty Gules (for Verdon);

6: Argent, two Lions Passant in Pale Gules 

(Strange of Blackmere).

6: Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex, KG.

7: Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent, 

6th Baron Grey of Ruthin, KG.

8: Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby.

9: Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, KG.

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His son, the twelfth Earl, was a prominent statesman. He was one of the Immortal Seven who in 1688 invited William of Orange to invade England and depose his father-in-law James II and later served under William and Mary as Secretary of State for the Southern Department and Secretary of State for the Northern Department. 

In 1694, he was created Marquess of Alton and Duke of Shrewsbury in the Peerage of England. The Duke was childless and on his death in 1718 the Marquessate and Dukedom became extinct.

PART FOUR FOLLOWS.

Saint Nicholas Of Tolentino. Confessor. Feast Day 10 September. White Vestments.

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino.

Artist: Attributed to Jan van Cleve.

Date: 1666 - 1716.

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Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
   By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
   Volume 14.
   Time After Pentecost.
   Book V.

Today, the infant Mary smiles upon the Lily offered to her in her Cradle by the representative of a great Order.

The Hermits of Saint Augustine were being grouped and organised by the Vicar of Christ, when Nicholas was admitted into their family, of which he was soon to become the “Thaumaturgus” [Editor: “Wonder-Worker”].

When he died in 1305 the Roman Pontiffs were befinning their exile at Avignon; and his Canonisation, deferred for nearly a Century and a half through the troubles of the period, marked the close of the lamentable dissensions which followed that exile.

Peace so long lost; peace, of which even the wisest despaired — such was the ardent Prayer, the Solemn adjuration of Pope Eugenius IV, when, towards the close of his laborious Pontificate, he committed the cause of The Church to the humble Servant of God placed by him upon her Altars.

According to the testimony of Pope Sixtus V, the obtaining of this peace was the greatest of Nicholas’s Miracles; a Miracle which moved the latter Pontiff to order the Celebration of the Saint’s Feast as a Double, at a time when days of that Rank were much rarer on the Calendar than now.

Good and faithful servant, thou hast entered into the joy of thy Lord. He has broken thy bonds; and from Heaven, where thou art now reigning, thou repeatest to us those words which determined the sanctity of thy life on Earth: “Love not the World, nor the things that are in the World. For the World passeth away, and the concupiscence thereof.”

How much a man thus forgetful of Earth can do for his fellow-men, is evinced by the gift thou didst receive of solacing all the miseries around thee, and succouring the Souls in Purgatory.

The successor of Saint Peter was not deceived, when, in ranking thee among the Saints, he counted on thy power in Heaven to bring back society from its long continued state of disturbance to the paths of peace.

[Editor: Saint Nicholas. Ora Pro Nobis. The in-fighting and state of Christ’s Church, and its divisions, require your Prayers and intercession. Lord, Hear Us.]

May that word of the Beloved Disciple which thou hast just echoed to us, sink into our Souls as a seed of salvation, and there yield the fruits that it produced in thee: Detachment from temporal things and a longing for eternal realities; that humble simplicity of the Soul’s eye which makes life a peaceful journey towards God; and, lastly, that purity, which made thee the friend of Angels and the favourite of Mary..

Saint Nicholas Of Tolentino. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 10 September. White Vestments.

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Saint Nicholas of Tolentino.

Artist: Pietro Perugino (1448–1523).

Date: 1507.

Current location:

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome.

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Nicholas of Tolentino (Italian: San Nicola da Tolentino, Spanish: San Nicolás de Tolentino) (circa 1246 – 10 September 1305), known as the Patron of Holy Souls, is an Italian Saint and Mystic.

Nicholas Gurrutti was born at Sant'Angelo in Pontano, in Italy, in what was then The March of Ancona.

He was the son of parents who had been childless into middle age, Compagnonus de Guarutti and Amata de Guidiani. They Prayed at the Shrine of Saint Nicholas of Myra for his Intercession, and, when Amata became pregnant, they named their son after the Saint.

A studious, kind and gentle youth, at the age of sixteen Nicholas became an Augustinian Friar and was a student of the Blessed Angelus de Scarpetti.

A Monk at the Monasteries at Recanati and Macerata, as well as others, he was Ordained in 1270, at the age of twenty-five, and soon became known for his Preaching and Teachings.

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino.

Illustration: LIVES OF THE SAINTS

Nicholas, who had had Visions of Angels reciting “to Tolentino”, in 1274 took this as a sign to move to that City, where he lived the rest of his life. Nicholas worked to counteract the decline of Morality and Religion, which came with the development of City life in the Late-13th-Century.

On account of his kind and gentle manner, his Superiors entrusted him with the daily feeding of the Poor, at the Monastery Gates, but, at times, he was so free with the Friary’s provisions that the Procurator begged the Superior to check his generosity.

Once, when weak after a long Fast, he received a Vision of The Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Augustine, who told him to eat some bread, marked with a Cross, and dipped in water. Upon doing so, he was immediately stronger. He started distributing these rolls to the ailing, while Praying to Mary, often curing the sufferers; this is the origin of the Augustinian Custom of Blessing and distributing Saint Nicholas Bread.

Church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino,

Bronx, New York, United States of America.

Illustration: SAINT NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINE

In Tolentino, Nicholas worked as a peacemaker in a City torn by strife between The Guelphs and The Ghibellines, who, in the conflict for control of Italy, supported the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor, respectively.

He ministered to his flock, helped The Poor and visited Prisoners. When working wonders, or healing people, he always asked those he helped to “say nothing of this”, explaining that he was just God’s instrument.

During his life, Nicholas is said to have received Visions, including Images of Purgatory, which friends ascribed to his lengthy Fasts. Prayer for The Souls in Purgatory was the outstanding characteristic of his Spirituality. Because of this, Nicholas was proclaimed Patron of The Souls in Purgatory, in 1884, by Pope Leo XIII.

Towards the end of his life, he became ill, suffering greatly, but still continued the Mortifications that had been part of his Holy Life. Nicholas died on 10 September 1305.

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino.

Patron of The Holy Souls.

Illustration: HELPERS OF THE HOLY SOULS

There are many tales and legends that relate to Nicholas. One says that the devil once beat him with a stick, which was then displayed for years in his Church. In another, Nicholas, a vegetarian, was served a roasted fowl, over which he made the Sign of The Cross, and it flew out a window.

Nine passengers on a ship, going down at sea, once asked Nicholas’ aid and he appeared in the sky, wearing the Black Augustinian Habit, radiating Golden Light, holding a Lily in his Left Hand, and, with his Right Hand, he quelled the storm.

An Apparition of the Saint, it is said, once saved the burning Palace of The Doge of Venice, by throwing a piece of Blessed Bread on the flames. He was also reported to have Resurrected over one hundred dead children, including several who had drowned together.

According to the Peruvian chronicler, Antonio de la Calancha, it was Saint Nicholas of Tolentino who made possible a permanent Spanish settlement in the rigorous, high-altitude climate of Potosí, Bolivia. He reported that all children, born to Spanish colonists there, died in childbirth or soon thereafter, until a father dedicated his unborn child to Saint Nicholas of Tolentino (whose own parents, after all, had required Saintly intervention to have a child). The colonist’s son, born on Christmas Eve, 1598, survived to healthy adulthood, and many later parents followed the example of naming their sons Nicolás.

Nicholas was Canonised by Pope Eugene IV (also an Augustinian) in 1446. He was the first Augustinian to be Canonised. At his Canonisation, Nicholas was credited with three hundred Miracles, including three Resurrections.

English: The Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic.

A statue of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino is on

The Charles Bridge (see next photo, below.)

Español: Puente de Carlos una mañana temprano,

antes de llenarse de turistas.

Français: Pont Charles a Prague.

Čeština: Karlův most v Praze.

Photo: 7 May 2006 (Upload Date).

Source: Own work.

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The Remains of Saint Nicholas are preserved at the Shrine of Saint Nicholas, in the Basilica di San Nicola da Tolentino, in the City of Tolentino, Province of Macerata, in Marche, Italy.

He is particularly invoked as an Advocate for the Souls in Purgatory, especially during Lent and the month of November. In many Augustinian Churches, there are weekly Devotions to Saint Nicholas, on behalf of the Suffering Souls. 2 November, All Souls’ Day, holds special significance for the devotees of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino.

Pope Saint Pius V did not include him in The Tridentine Calendar, but he was later inserted and given 10 September as his Feast Day. Judged to be of limited importance worldwide, his Liturgical Celebration was not kept in the 1969 Revision of The General Roman Calendar, but he is still recognised as one of the Saints of The Roman Catholic Church.

English: Statue of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino,

The Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic.

Čeština: Sousoší Svatého Mikuláše Toletinského

na Karlově mostě.

Photo: 31 July 2006 (Upload Date).

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A number of Churches and Oratories are dedicated to him, including San Nicolò da Tolentino, in Venice, San Nicola da Tolentino agli Orti Sallustiani, in Rome, and Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, in the Bronx, New York. In the Philippines, the 16th-Century Church of San Nicolas de Tolentino, in Banton, Romblon, was built in honour of him and his Feast Day is celebrated as the annual Biniray Festival, commemorating the Devotion of the Island’s Catholic inhabitants to Saint Nicholas during the Muslim raids in the 16th-Century.

In the Province of Pampanga, Philippines, is a 440-year-old Augustinian Church, which was Founded in 1575 and built in his honour. A Second-Class Relic of the Saint is Venerated every Tuesday after Mass.

He is depicted in the Black Habit of The Hermits of Saint Augustine — a Star above him, or on his breast, a Lily, or a Crucifix, garlanded with Lilies, in his hand. Sometimes, instead of the Lily, he holds a Vial filled with money or bread.

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino 

Parish Fiesta Poster,

Macabebe, Philippines.

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The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 10 September.

Double.

White Vestments.

Nicholas, called “of Tolentino”, on account of his long sojourn at this place, received the Baptismal Name of the Holy Bishop of Myra, because he was born after a Pilgrimage, made by his parents to the tomb of the great Miracle-Worker at Bari, Italy.

Following the example of his Holy Patron, although only seven years old, he Fasted several times a week. Listening, one day, to a Sermon by a Preacher of the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine, on contempt of the World, he determined to give up all he possessed (Gospel) and to enter that Order.

He is represented holding a Lily, because he was always a model of Innocence and Purity. He died in 1308.

Mass: Justus.

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Lincoln Cathedral. The Cathedral Church Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Of Lincoln. (Part Four).

Lincoln Cathedral’s Gallery, 

Clerestory and Triforium.

Photo: 16 April 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana

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unless stated otherwise.

A carving in the Angel Choir is known as the Lincoln Imp, and, since the Late-19-Century, it has become the symbol of the City.[27][28] [Editor: The City’s football team, Lincoln City, has the nickname of “The Imps”].

The carving dates from the 13th-Century,[29] but received little attention until the Late-19th-Century, when it figured in Arnold Frost’s poem, “The Ballad of the Wind, the Devil and Lincoln Minster”.[30]

The Wren Library houses a rare collection of over 277 Manuscripts, including the texts of The Venerable Bede.

The Nave, Lincoln Cathedral.

Photo: 16 April 2011.

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Author: Mattana

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Lincoln Cathedral features two major Rose Windows, which are a highly uncommon feature among Mediæval architecture in England. 

On the North Side of the Cathedral is the “Dean’s Eye”, which survives from the original structure of the building, and, on the South Side, is the “Bishop’s Eye”, which was most likely rebuilt circa 1325–1350. 

This South Rose Window is one of the largest examples of curvilinear Tracery seen in Mediæval architecture. 

Lincoln Cathedral’s Pipe Organ and Screen.
Photo: 16 April 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana

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Lincoln Cathedral’s Pipe Organ “roars”.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Curvilinear Tracery is a form of Tracery where the patterns are continuous curves. This form was often done within Pointed Arches and Squared Windows, because those are the easiest shapes, so the circular space of the Window was a unique challenge to the designers. 

A solution was created that called for the circle to be divided into smaller shapes that would make it simpler to design and create. 

Curves were drawn within the Window, which created four distinct areas of the circle. This made the spaces within the circle, where the Tracery would go much smaller, easier to work with. 

The Tower Ceiling, Lincoln Cathedral.

Photo: 16 April 2011.

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Author: Mattana

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This Window is also unique in that the focus of the Tracery was shifted away from the centre of the circle and instead placed in other sections. 

The glazing of the Window was as difficult as the Tracery, for many of the same reasons; therefore, the designers cut back on the amount of iconography within the Window.

Most Cathedral Windows during this time displayed many colourful images of the Bible; however, at Lincoln, there are very few images. Some of those images that can be seen within the Window include Saints Paul, Andrew, and James.

Lincoln Cathedral’s Organ Refurbishment 2017.

Available on YouTube

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One major architectural feature of Lincoln Cathedral are the Vaults. The varying Vaults within the Cathedral are said to be both original and experimental. 

They demonstrate the experimental aspect seen at Lincoln. The Vaults differ between the Nave, Aisles, Choir, and Chapels. 

Along the North Aisle, there is a continuous Ridge Rib, with a regular Arcade that ignores the Bays. 

Lincoln Cathedral Roof Tour.

Available on YouTube

HERE

In the South Aisle, there is a discontinuous Ridge Rib, that puts an emphasis on each Bay. 

The North-West Chapel has Quadripartite Vaults and the South Chapel has Vaults that stem from one central Support Column. 

The use of Sexpartite Vaults allowed for more natural light to enter the Cathedral through the Clerestory Windows, which were placed inside of each Bay.

The history of Lincoln Cathedral.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Saint Hugh’s Choir exhibits a series of asymmetrical Vaults, that appear to be almost a diagonal line, created by two Ribs on one side translating into only a single Rib on the other side of the Vault. This pattern divides the space of the Vaults and Bays, placing the emphasis on the Bays.

The Chapter House is a Decagonal building, with a single, Central Column, from which twenty Ribs rise, producing unusual Vaulting.

Each area of Lincoln can be identified solely by the different Vaults of the space. Each Vault, or each variation of the Vault, is unique. 

Choral Evensong in Lincoln Cathedral.

Available on YouTube

HERE

The Vaults are attributed to the Norman-French Master Mason, Geoffrey de Noiers.[31][32] 

Geoffrey de Noiers was succeeded by Alexander the Mason, who developed the Nave’s more elaborate, but symmetrical, Tierceron Vaulting, the Crossing Vaulting, Galilee Porch, and Western Facade Screen.[33][34]

PART FIVE FOLLOWS.

The Second Day Within The Octave Of The Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. 9 September. White Vestments.

“Birth of The Virgin”.

Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682).

Date: 1660.

Current location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art

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The Birth Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Available On YouTube

HERE

Text from “The Liturgical Year”.

By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

Volume 14.

Time After Pentecost.

Book V.

Let Us make man to Our image and likeness.

“And God made man; He modelled him,” says Tertullian, “to the image of God, i.e., of Christ.

Wonderful deed, to fashion this slime of the Earth !

God seems to be absorbed in it; He makes it the work of His hand and of His heart; counsel, wisdom, providence, and, above all, love, trace the lines.

As He forms each lineament of this clay, He has in mind Christ, Who is to become man.

This slime of the Earth, stamped with the image of the Christ to come, is not only God’s work, it is also His pledge.”

These words were spoken concerning our first parent, Adam; but how much more truly do they apply to the Mother of the Man-God, during these days when He Who is to be born of her watches over her growth !

As God, He now places in her provisionally what He wills to take from her hereafter. For, as Man, He will receive from her, together with His Sacred Body, everything that children naturally inherit from their parents: Such dispositions and qualities as arise from the physical complexion; features, ways, habits acquired by imitation or by early education.

Such is the ineffable condescension of Him who, knowing all things by infused science, condescends to pass like us through the apprenticeship of life.

Jesus is to have no Earthly father; He will, therefore, receive more from His Mother than could any other son.

In return, no creature could be so like to Jesus in the order of Grace, as she whom He thus deigns to resemble in the order of nature; and our Heavenly Father loves every creature in proportion to the degree of that creature’s conformity to the image of His Divine Son.

How exceedingly, then, O Mary, art thou loved !

Already in thy sweet features we discern the nobility of the King’s daughter, whose glory is from within, hidden beneath the golden fringes and variety of ornaments that deck her; for the manifold gifts of The Holy Spirit enhance the Grace and Beauty that crown thee in thy very cradle.

Together with Andrew of Crete, speaking on this day, we thus salute thee: “Hail, Mediatrix of the law of Grace; seal of the ancient and of the new Alliance; luminous fulfilment of all prophecy; summary of revealed truth; living, immaculate book of God The Word, wherein, without writing or characters, The Word of God its Author may be daily read !

Hail, First-Fruits of our regeneration; term of the Divine Promises and Predictions; Sanctuary promised by God to His Own Glory; Liberatrix foretold to the Nations !

Sarum Use Vespers. 1 February 2020. Candlemas Eve. Saint Patrick’s Church, Philadelphia.

Sarum Use Vespers.

1 February 2020. 

Candlemas Eve.

Saint Patrick’s Church, Philadelphia.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Official video of Vespers according to The Use of Sarum, celebrated at Saint Patrick’s Catholic Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Candlemas Eve, 1 February 2020.

Over 700 came to attend this unique celebration of Evening Prayer according to The Use of Salisbury: The local adaptation of The Roman Rite used throughout most of England from The Norman Conquest until The Reformation introduced the first Book of Common Prayer in 1549.

Relics of Saint Thomas Becket and Saint Edward the Confessor were set upon The High Altar for this Liturgy, organised by The Durandus Institute for Sacred Liturgy and Music.

The viewer is highly encouraged to follow along with the congregation’s Service Booklet, which may be viewed at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rdnzq8b6zqq... 

The official Photo Album, courtesy of Allison Girone, may be viewed here: https://aqg.smugmug.com/Sarum-Vespers...

Officiating Priest: Father Jason Catania.

Assisting Priest: Father Robert Pasley, KCHS. 

Precentor and Project Director: James T.M. Griffin. 

Succentor (Precentor’s Assistant) and Music Director: 

Peter Carter. 

Organist: Clara Gerdes.

Book Bearer and Master of Ceremonies: 

Luke Majewski.

Video by Thomas Tonelli.

The Durandus Institute

for Sacred Liturgy and Music Web-Site is

HERE

and

HERE

Saint Gorgonius. Martyr (♰ 303 A.D.). Feast Day, Today, 9 September. Red Vestments.

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

Saint Gorgonius.
   Martyr.
   Feast Day 9 September.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Martyrdom of Saint Gorgonius and Saint Dorothy.

Date: 14th-Century.

Source: Vies de saints, France, Paris, France.

Author: Richard de Montbaston et collaborateurs.

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Gorgonius was born at Nicomedia [Editor: Nicomedia (Greek: Νικομήδεια; modern-day İzmit) was an ancient Greek City in what is now Turkey]. While an Officer of the Household of Emperor Diocletian, he converted to the Faith of Christ, with the help of his colleague, Dorothy, both Servants of the Imperial Palace.

“To punish them for such audacity, they were hung up and their bodies lacerated by whips; then vinegar and salt were thrown on their uncovered entrails; and they were strangled after having been roasted on a grid-iron”.

They were put to death at Nicomedia in 303 A.D. Later, the body of Saint Gorgonius was buried at Rome on the Latin Way, whence it was eventually Translated to the Basilica of Saint Peter.

Mass: Lætábitur.

A Very Happy Feast Day To All Readers Of This Blog. Deo Gratias !!!

The Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Gospel According To Luke. Chapter One.

The Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. The Song Of Solomon. The Book Of Sirach.