WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
No-Man's Land
(Flowers of the Forest)
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WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Wednesday 11 November 2015
For The Anzacs And All The Fallen At Gallipoli.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
"The Band Played Waltzing Matilda."
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WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
The Return.
This painting can be found at Holy Innocents Church in New York.
The artist had just attended Mass, when he noticed
a
young Soldier kneeling at the foot of a Crucifix.
He was so moved that he started work on this painting.
Illustration: DYMPHNA'S ROAD
Saint Martin. Bishop And Confessor. And Martinmas. Feast Day 11 November.
This Article is taken from MEDIEVAL HISTORIES
Illustration: MEDIEVAL HISTORIES
Martinmas is celebrated the night before 11 November by merrymaking and feasting. Since The Middle Ages, roast goose has been on the menu East of The Rhine.
Martin of Tours (circa 316 A.D. - 397 A.D.) was a soldier in The Roman Army, when he decided to convert to Christianity and afterwards was imprisoned for his refusal to fight. He later became a Monk, founded a Monastery in Gaul, at Marmoutier, and became Bishop of Tours, a career choice he, according to legend, vehemently tried to avoid by hiding in the goose-pen of the Monastery.
However, the geese honked loudly and he was discovered by the people, who carried him in triumph to the Throne in the Cathedral. It is believed that he built the Monastery, after his appointment as Bishop, in order to have a secluded place to withdraw to.
Martin Walsh, who has surveyed a huge amount of very diverse source-material, was able to demonstrate that the celebration of Martinmas in England can be documented back to the 14th-Century and was, at that time, accompanied “by conspicuous feasting, supplemented by musical entertainment”.
In England, and elsewhere, the Tradition was to have blood-puddings and freshly-roasted meat stemming from the slaughter of what cattle and other animals had to be culled in November. At the same time, it was “Settling Day”, when servants might leave in order to take up new employments. At the same time, peasants paid their dues to their lords and the Tithe to their Church; often partly paid in birds, like hens, ducks and geese, the Tradition grew to eat these birds roasted at the end of Autumn and beginning of Winter.
However, roast goose at Martinmas does not seem to have been quite so ubiquitous in an Early-English setting or French context.
However, roast goose at Martinmas does not seem to have been quite so ubiquitous in an Early-English setting or French context.
Quite the opposite is the case in Continental Europe, where the same elements of The Feast may be found – processions, merrymaking, reckoning, settling. Here, however, the goose was definitely on the table very early on, as is witnessed by some very charming “Martin-Ballads” composed by an otherwise unknown Monk, who lived at the Court of the Archbishop of Salzburg, 1365 -1396.
The Martin Ballads
The Monk composed two secular ballads. The first one - Martein lieber Herre - is a vernacular translation of a Latin Hymn asking the Saint to present the company with roast goose and new wine. Another poem – Wolauf, lieben gessellen unuerczait – has more the character of being a subversive form of Eucharistic Liturgy, complete with a Chorus and a Tenor singing intermittently. The poem consists of seventy lines, divided into four verses, and the Text for the Tenor.
The song starts with an invitation to form a company, where social differences are laid aside, in order to create a sympathetic society. However, the joy is decidedly coupled with the introduction of (lots) of wine into the company. To this, is later added dishes of beans, apples and roast goose. The job of the Tenor is to invite the Saint –“Lord Martin” – to this joyful occasion as "King of the Merriments" – and to deliver all the goodies; wine and delicacies. It is obvious the Text was meant to be performed among a group of (celibate) men, being able to appreciate the definite Eucharistic connotations of the Text.
The Monk composed two secular ballads. The first one - Martein lieber Herre - is a vernacular translation of a Latin Hymn asking the Saint to present the company with roast goose and new wine. Another poem – Wolauf, lieben gessellen unuerczait – has more the character of being a subversive form of Eucharistic Liturgy, complete with a Chorus and a Tenor singing intermittently. The poem consists of seventy lines, divided into four verses, and the Text for the Tenor.
The song starts with an invitation to form a company, where social differences are laid aside, in order to create a sympathetic society. However, the joy is decidedly coupled with the introduction of (lots) of wine into the company. To this, is later added dishes of beans, apples and roast goose. The job of the Tenor is to invite the Saint –“Lord Martin” – to this joyful occasion as "King of the Merriments" – and to deliver all the goodies; wine and delicacies. It is obvious the Text was meant to be performed among a group of (celibate) men, being able to appreciate the definite Eucharistic connotations of the Text.
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Martin's Day, also known as The Feast of Saint Martin, Martinstag or Martinmas, The Feast of Saint Martin of Tours, or Martin le Miséricordieux, is Celebrated on 11 November each year. This is the time when Autumn wheat seeding was completed, and the annual slaughter of fattened cattle produced "Martinmas Beef". Historically, Hiring Fairs were held, where farm laborers would seek new jobs.
Saint Martin of Tours started out as a Roman soldier, then was Baptised as an adult and became a Monk. It is understood that he was a kind man who led a quiet and simple life. The best-known legend of his "Life" is that he once cut his cloak in half to share with a beggar during a snowstorm, to save the beggar from dying from the cold. That night, he dreamed that Jesus was wearing the half-cloak. Martin heard Jesus say to the Angels: "Here is Martin, the Roman soldier who is not Baptised. He has clothed me."
English: Saint Martin's Day (Martinmas) Procession,
Germany.
Deutsch: Sankt Martinszug.
Erwachsene und Kinder mit Laternen beim St.-Martins-Umzug.
St. Martin auf dem Pferd.
Date: 1949.
Photographer: Lachmann, Hans.
Institution: German Federal Archives, Koblenz, Germany.
Sammlung Hans Lachmann (Bild 194).
Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 194-0273-45 / Lachmann, Hans / CC-BY-SA 3.0.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
Saint Martin.
Bishop and Confessor.
Feast Day 11 November.
Double.
White Vestments.
English: Children going door to door, with paper lanterns,
on Saint Martin's Day in The Netherlands.
Nederland: Sunte-Marten/Sint-Maarten/St. Martins' Day (NL).
Source: Source: nl:Afbeelding:Sintmaarten.jpg.
This File: 4 November 2006.
User: Servien.
(Wikimedia Commons)
In the first three Centuries, the Saints were mostly Martyrs. Saint Martin is the first Bishop and Confessor honoured by The Church in The West. As Durand de Mende remarks, The Liturgy gives him a Rank equal to The Apostles, for he was the principal Apostle of Gaul.
His Feast Day was everywhere of obligation. Taking place often during "Saint Martin's Summer", that is at the end of Autumn, it rivalled in importance and popular rejoicings The Feast of Saint John. It had an Octave, like the Feast of Saint Laurence, for Saint Martin, "Priest of Priests" (Response at Matins), occupied among Confessors the Rank of Saint Laurence among Martyrs.
Saint Martin, born at Savaria, in Pannonia, came to Gaul as a soldier. While still a Catechumen, he one day, near Amiens, gave part of his cloak to a poor man who asked him for alms in the name of Christ. During the following night, Jesus appeared to him clothed in this half of his cloak and said to him: "Martin, a simple Catechumen, covered Me with this garment."
Abbey of Marmoutiers, France.
Founded by Saint Martin of Tours.
Illustration: OLIVER'S TRAVELS
At the age of eighteen, he was Baptised, and, having become a Disciple of Saint Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, he built, two leagues from the Episcopal City, in the desert of Ligugé, a Monastery, whither he retired with a few Disciples. He thus was the Founder of Monastic Life in Gaul.
But God would not allow this Light to remain hidden under the bushel (Gospel). Saint Martin had to leave his solitude and was made Bishop of Tours (Introit, Epistle, Gradual). He then Founded the famous Abbey of Marmoutiers, or Martin's Monastery, where he often retired. There, he had around him eighty Monks who imitated the Lives of The Hermits of Thebaid.
He lived more than eighty years, devoting himself to The Glory of God and The Salvation of Souls. He died at Candes, near Tours, France, in 397 A.D. His tomb became famous through many Miracles, and attracted crowds from all parts of the Country.
Saint Gregory, Bishop of Tours in the 6th-Century, does not hesitate to call The Holy Worker of Miracles the special Patron of the whole World. Few Saints have been so popular, In France, alone, there are about 4,000 Parish Churches Dedicated to Saint Martin and 485 Market-Towns or Villages that still bear his name.
Rome has a Church of Saint Sylvester and Saint Martin, where The Station is held on The Thursday of The Fourth Week in Lent. Saint Martin's Cope used to be borne at the head of the Army in Times of War and, on it, were sworn Solemn Oaths in Times of Peace.
Mass: Státuit ei Dóminus.
Commemoration of Saint Mennas.
Requiescant In Pace.
Auschwitz Concentration Camp,
Poland.
Illustration: VICE.COM
Schindler's List.
Composer: John Williams.
Violin solos by Itzhak Perlman (see, below).
Violin solos by Itzhak Perlman (see, below).
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Photograph from the Soviet Film of the liberation of Auschwitz, taken by the film unit of the
First Ukrainian Front, shot over a period of several months, beginning on 27 January 1945,
by Alexander Voronzow and others in his group.
Child survivors of Auschwitz, wearing adult-size prisoner jackets, stand behind a barbed wire fence. Among those pictured are Tomasz Szwarz; Alicja Gruenbaum; Solomon Rozalin; Gita Sztrauss; Wiera Sadler; Marta Wiess; Boro Eksztein; Josef Rozenwaser; Rafael Szlezinger; Gabriel Nejman; Gugiel Appelbaum; Mark Berkowitz (a twin); Pesa Balter; Rut Muszkies (later Webber); Miriam Friedman; and twins Miriam Mozes and Eva Mozes wearing knitted hats.
Date: 1945.
Source: USHMM/Belarusian State Archive of Documentary Film and Photography http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa14532
Author: Alexander Voronzow and others in his group,
ordered by Mikhael Oschurkow, head of the photography unit.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Arbeit Macht Frei.
'Work makes you free'. Or ,'Work brings you freedom' depending on the translation.
This was a sign commonly seen throughout Concentration Camps, such as Auschwitz,
often seen on the front gate upon entry. It was essentially psychological torment,
as most prisoners were aware that the only way to earn 'freedom', was to die.
Illustration: FUNNYJUNK.COM
Ed Sullivan congratulates Itzhak Perlman
after a concert at ZOA House in Tel Aviv.
Photo: 28 August 1958.
Author: PINN HANS
(Wikimedia Commons)
His parents, Chaim and Shoshana Perlman, were natives of Poland and had independently immigrated to Palestine in the mid-1930s before they met and later married.
Perlman first became interested in the violin after hearing a classical music performance
on the radio. At the age of three, he was denied admission to the Shulamit Conservatory
for
being too small to hold a violin. He, instead, taught himself how to play the instrument,
using a toy fiddle, until he was old enough to study with Rivka Goldgart, at the
Shulamit Conservatory, and at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, where he gave
his first recital at age ten, before moving to The United States to study at the
Juilliard School, with the violin pedagogue, Ivan Galamian, and his
assistant, Dorothy DeLay.
Violinist Itzhak Perlman plays during the
entertainment portion
of The White House State Dinner
in honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Photo: 7 May 2007.
Source: The White House
Author: Shealah Craighead
(United States Federal Government).
(Wikimedia Commons)
Tuesday 10 November 2015
Saint Andrew Avellino. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 10 November.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Andrew Avellino.
Confessor.
Feast Day 10 November.
Double.
White Vestments.
English: Statue of Saint Andrew Avellino, by sculptor Pedro Alonso de los Ríos (1641–1702),
Español: Estatua de San Andrés Avelino, obra del escultor Pedro Alonso de los Ríos (1641–1702), en la fachada de la Iglesia de San Millán y San Cayetano de Madrid (España).
Photo: 4 July 2009.
Source: Own work.
Author: Photograph: Luis García (Zaqarbal).
(Wikimedia Commons)
Saint Andrew Avellino was born at Castro-Nuovo, Sicily, at the time in the Kingdom of Naples, in 1521. He had to resist violent temptations: "He might have done wrong," says the Epistle, "and did not." He studied Law, but, afterwards, became a Priest, and, from that time, he pleaded only in the Ecclesiastical Court.
One day, a slight untruth escaped him at the Ecclesiastical Bar, and, a short time after, he read the following passage of Holy Scripture: "The mouth that utters untruth kills the Soul". He was so struck by it that he gave up his career at the Ecclesiastical Bar and joined The Theatines, or Clerks Regular of Saint Paul, at Naples. On account of his great love for The Cross, he was given the name of Andrew.
Having become Superior of The Institute (Communion), he devoted his time to Prayer and the care of Souls. He died at Naples in 1608, at a very advanced age, at the foot of the Altar where he was to Celebrate Mass.
Mass: Os justi.
Commemoration of SS. Tryphon, Respicius and Nympha.
English: The body of Saint Andrew Avellino
Português: San Paolo Maggiore, Nápoles.
Photo: 5 February 2015.
Source: Own work.
Author: José Luiz
Attribution: © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.
From his early youth, he was a great lover of Chastity. After receiving his elementary training in the school of Castronuovo, he was sent to Venice to pursue a course in the Humanities and in Philosophy. Being a handsome youth, his Chastity was often exposed to danger from female admirers, and, to escape their importunities, he took Ecclesiastical Tonsure.
Hereupon, he went to Naples to study Canon Law and Civil Law, obtained the Degree of Doctor of Laws and was Ordained Priest at the age of twenty-six. For some time, he held the Office of Lawyer at the Ecclesiastical Court of Naples. One day, while pleading the cause of a friend, a lie escaped his lips in the heat of argument. When, soon afterwards, his eyes fell upon the passage in The Bible, "The mouth that belieth, killeth the Soul."
English: Fresco of Saint Andrew Avellino,
Church of Sant'Antonio Abate, Milan, Italy.
Italiano: Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate a Milano, seconda cappella a destra
(di S. Andrea Avellino). Ercole Procaccini il Vecchio
(attribuito a), Apoteosi di Sant'Andrea Avellino.
Photo: 20 May 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: G.dallorto.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Certain wicked men became exasperated at the Saint's interference and, one night, he was assaulted and severely wounded. He was brought to the Monastery of The Theatines to recuperate. Here, however, he resolved to devote himself entirely to God and he entered The Order of Theatines, which had but recently been founded by Saint Cajetan. On The Vigil of The Assumption, he was Invested, being then thirty-five years of age.
After completing his Novitiate, he obtained permission to visit the tombs of The Apostles and The Martyrs at Rome, and, upon his return, was made Master of Novices. After holding this Office for ten years, he was elected Superior. His holy zeal for strict religious discipline, and for the purity of The Clergy, as well as his deep humility and sincere piety, induced The General of his Order to entrust him with the Foundation of two new Theatine Houses, one at Milan, the other at Piacenza.
English: Side Altar of the Theatine Saint, Andrew Avellino,
Church of Saint Cajetan, Salzburg, Austria.
Deutsch: Kajetanerkirche am Kajetanerplatz, Salzburg
Linke Nebenkapelle, Altar mit Bild des Theatinerheiligen Andreas Avellino
(von Jacob Zanussy, 1712) und Kopie des Gnadenbilds
der Mutter vom Guten Rat zu Genazzano.
Photo: May 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: AndreasPraefcke.
(Wikimedia Commons)
By his efforts, many more Theatine Houses rose up in various Diocese of Italy. As Superior of some of these new Foundations, he was so successful in converting sinners and heretics by his prudence in the direction of Souls, and by his eloquent Preaching, that numerous Disciples thronged around him, eager to be under his spiritual guidance.
One of the most noteworthy of his Disciples was Lorenzo Scupoli, the author of that still popular book "The Spiritual Combat". Saint Charles Borromeo was an intimate friend of Avellino and sought his advice in the most important affairs of The Church. He also requested Avellino to establish a new Theatine House in Milan.
On 10 November 1608, when beginning The Holy Sacrifice of The Mass, he was stricken with apoplexy, and, after devoutly receiving The Holy Viaticum, died the death of a Saint at the age of eighty-eight. In 1624, only sixteen years after his death, he was Beatified by Pope Urban VIII, and, in 1712, was Canonised by Pope Clement XI.
He is Venerated as Patron Saint of Naples and Sicily, and invoked especially against a sudden death. His remains lie buried in the Church of Saint Paul, at Naples.
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