Saint Norbert (1080-1134). Bishop And Confessor. Founder Of The Norbertines. Feast Day, Today, 6 June.

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

Saint Norbert.
   Bishop And Confessor.
   Feast Day 6 June.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Norbert.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: René de Cramer.

"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".

Used with Permission.

Norbert, born in 1080 at Xanten, near Cologne, Germany, was educated at The Holy Roman Emperor's Court. One day, when he was riding, accompanied by a servant, he was surprised by a hurricane. Like Saint Paul, on the way to Damascus, he heard a voice calling him to the service of The Church. At that moment, a crash of thunder threw him to the ground. He got up again, determined to Consecrate himself to God.

Having been admitted to Holy Orders, he devoted himself entirely to Preaching The Word of God (Collect).

Later on, guided by The Holy Ghost, Who continually Sanctifies The Church through the Centuries, he chose a Retreat in a deserted spot, called Prémontré, not far from Soissons, and Founded there The Order of Premonstratensians (Collect).

At the death of this Holy Founder, this new family numbered, at this place alone, over one thousand Canons Regular. Saint Norbert shared the full Priesthood of Christ, being Anointed Archbishop of Magdeburg, Germany (Introit, Epistle, Gradual, Offertory). He helped Pope Innocent II to triumph over the Anti-Pope, Anacletus, and was the friend of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. In The Netherlands, he defended Eucharistic Worship against The Heresy of Tanchelmus (see Illustration, above).

Engraving of Prémontré Abbey, Département Aisne, France.

Founded by Saint Norbert in 1120.

Artist: Tavernier de Jonquières.

Date: 1780s.

Source/Photographer: BNF Richelieu Estampes et photographie Rés.

Ve-26j - Fol.

Destailleur Province, t. 5 , n. 1200; Bibliothèque nationale de France

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After having put to full profit the talents with which God had entrusted him for the government of his Religious Family and Diocese (Gospel, Communion), "This Man of God," says The Breviary, "full of The Holy Ghost and laden with merits, fell asleep in The Lord, 1134 A.D."

Let us ask of God "to practise what Saint Norbert taught by word and by example" (Collect).

Mass: Státuit.

English: Painting of the triumph of Saint Norbert over the Heretic, Tanchelmus, in 1124.

Deutsch: Der Triumph des hl. Nobert über den Irrlehrer Tanchelm im Jahre 1124.

Artist: Joseph Appiani (1706–1785).

Date of painting: 1750.

Current location: Bavarian National Museum.

Source/Photographer: Self-photographed, User:FA2010, 2009.

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Saint Boniface. Bishop And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 5 June.

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unless otherwise stated.

Saint Boniface.

   Bishop and Martyr.
   Feast Day 5 June.

Double.

Red Vestments.

Saint Boniface,

by Cornelis Bloemaert, circa 1630.

Date: 26 April 2013.

Source: Het Utrechts Archief.

Author: Cornelis Bloemaert (1603-1684).

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Saint Boniface was born in England at the end of the 7th-Century. He is one of the great glories of The Order of Saint Benedict. Pope Gregory II sent him to Germany, where, with a chosen band of Monks, he announced The Good News, as Jesus Risen had commanded His Apostles to do, to the people of Hesse, Saxony, and Thuringia (Collect).

Made a Legate of The Apostolic See, by Pope Gregory II, he called together several Synods, among which was the famous Council of Leptines, in the Diocese of Cambrai, Appointed Archbishop of Mainz, by Pope Zachary, he, by his order, anointed Pepin, King of The Franks.

After the death of Saint Willibrord, the Church of Utrecht, in Frisia, was committed to his care. The Frisians massacred him at Dokkum, with thirty of his Monks, in June 755 A.D. His body was buried in the celebrated Abbey of Fulda, which he had Founded.

Mass: Exsultábo.

English: The Imperial Abbey (Prince-Bishopric) of Fulda, Hesse, Germany. Now, Fulda Cathedral.

Deutsch: Reichskloster (Fürstbistum) Fulda. Aufnahme des de:Fuldaer Dom.

Español: Catedral de Fulda.

Français: Cathédrale de Fulda.

Photo: 6 April 2004 (original upload date).

Source: Originally from de.wikipedia; description page is/was here.

Author: Author and original uploader was ThomasSD at de.wikipedia.

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English: Coat-of-Arms of the Bishops of Fulda.

Deutsch: Wappen des Bistums bzw. des ehemaligen

Fürstbistums und Hochstiftes Fulda.

Date: 29 December 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: David Liuzzo.

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Statue of Saint Boniface, by Werner Henschel, (1830), at Fulda, Hesse, Germany.

Photo: 30 July 2005.

Source: Own work.

Author: Frank Schulenburg.

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The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

The Monastery of Fulda was a Benedictine Abbey, in Fulda, in the present-day German State of Hesse. It was Founded in 744 A.D. by Saint Sturm, a Disciple of Saint Boniface. Through the 8th- and 9th-Centuries A.D., the Fulda Monastery became a prominent centre of learning and culture in Germany, and a site of religious significance and Pilgrimage following the burial of Saint Boniface. The growth in population around Fulda would result in its elevation to a Diocese in the 18th -Century.

English: Boniface chops down a cult tree in Hessen, Germany.

Engraving by Bernhard Rode, 1781.

Deutsch: Bonifacius haut in Hessen einen Opferbaum um.

Radierung von Bernhard Rode1781.

Date: artwork: 1781; file: 2009.01.17.

Source: Eigene Fotografie (own photography).

Author: Artwork: Bernhard Rode (1725–1797). File: James Steakley.

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Saint Boniface (Latin: Bonifatius) (Circa 675 A.D. – 5 June 754 A.D.), born Winfrid, Wynfrith, or Wynfryth, in the Kingdom of Wessex in Anglo-Saxon England, was a leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of The Frankish Empire during the 8th-Century A.D.

He established the first organised Christianity in many parts of Germany. He is the Patron Saint of Germany, the first Archbishop of Mainz and the "Apostle of the Germans". He was killed in Frisia in 754 A.D., along with fifty-two others. His remains were returned to Fulda, where they rest in a sarcophagus, which became a site of Pilgrimage. Facts about Boniface's life and death as well as his work became widely known, since there is a wealth of material available — a number of "Vitae", especially the near-contemporary "Vita Bonifatii auctore Willibaldi", and legal documents, possibly some Sermons, and, above all, his correspondence.

According to the "Vitae", Boniface felled the Donar Oak, Latinised by Willibald, the "Apostle of the Frisians", as "Jupiter's Oak,", near the present-day Town of Fritzlar, in northern Hesse. According to his early biographer, Willibald, Boniface started to chop the Oak down, when suddenly a great wind, as if by a Miracle, blew the ancient Oak over.

Saint Boniface Altar, Fulda Cathedral, Fulda, Germany.

Photo: 21 October 2006 (original upload date).

Source:Transferred from nl.wikipedia to Commons.

Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here.

Author: AJW at Dutch Wikipedia.

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When the god ("Jupiter") did not strike him down, the people were amazed and converted to Christianity. He built a Chapel, Dedicated to Saint Peter, from its wood at the site — the Chapel was the beginning of the Monastery in Fritzlar.

Through his efforts to re-organise and regulate The Church of The Franks, he helped shape Western Christianity, and many of the Dioceses, that he proposed, remain today. After his Martyrdom, he was quickly hailed as a Saint, in Fulda, and other areas in Germany and England. His cult is still notably strong today. Boniface is celebrated (and criticised) as a Missionary; he is regarded as a Unifier of Europe, and he is seen (mainly by Catholics) as a Germanic national figure.

Saint Francis Caracciolo (1563-1608). Confessor. Feast Day 4 June.

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Saint Francis Caracciolo.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 4 June.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Francis Caracciolo (1563-1608).

Date of Illustration: 1894.

Source: Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints.

Author: Unknown.

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Francis, of the noble family of Caracciolo, in The Abruzzi, Southern Italy, determined, during a severe illness, to devote himself to the Service of God, so as to be ready when The Master should come to take him away (Gospel).

A Letter, delivered to him by mistake, apprised him of a Project of two pious men to Found a new Religious Institute. In this, he saw a providential sign and he became one of the Founders of The Order of Minor Clerks Regular.

At his Profession, he took the name of Francis, on account of his Devotion to Saint Francis of Assisi. To the love of Penance, he added a great zeal for Prayer (Collect). Burning with love for The Blessed Sacrament, his heart melted like wax when he was in the presence of The Tabernacle (Introit), for there he felt the overflowing sweetness prepared by God for those who fear Him (Communion).

He died at the age of forty-four, in 1608, on The Vigil of Corpus Christi, and, "although his life was short, he completed a long course, for a spotless life is equivalent to protracted years" (Epistle).

Following Saint Francis Caracciolo's example, let us Pray and reduce our bodies to subjection (Collect), so that, burning like him with the fire of Charity, we may worthily kneel at The Communion Table (Secret).

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ROME, May 30, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) –

As Cardinal Raymond Burke made his historic call for The Consecration of Russia to
The Immaculate Heart of Mary at the Rome Life Forum last week, one of his most enthusiastic supporters was Bishop Athanasius Schneider, who was also present at the Forum.

Bishop Schneider was one of the first signatories to the appeal for the Consecration, and explained to LifeSite his thoughts on the matter.

Bishop Schneider says he considers Cardinal Burke’s initiative to ask The Holy Father to “explicitly” Consecrate Russia to The Immaculate Heart of Mary “very important.”

It will, he said, “fulfill more completely and perfectly the desire of Our Lady of Fatima.”

Saints Marcellinus, Peter, And Erasmus. Bishop, Martyrs. Feast Day 2 June.

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Saints Marcellinus, Peter, And Erasmus.
   Bishop, Martyrs.
   Feast Day 2 June.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Marcellinus.

Martyr.

Seligenstadt, Germany.

Source: Own work.

Author: Agridecumantes.

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The Exorcist, Peter, sent to prison, under the Emperor Diocletian, converted his gaoler and all his family, and brought them to the Priest, Marcellinus, who Baptised them. The Judge, Serenus, ordered them both to appear before him and they bore witness to Jesus Christ (Gospel). They were condemned to death and, after atrocious torments, were beheaded, towards 303 A.D.

Possessing The First Fruits of The Holy Ghost, they awaited with sighs the adoption of The Children of God, and their sufferings were in nowise compared with the Glory which now shines forth in them (Epistle). Both Saints are mentioned in The Canon of The Mass (Second List). The Station of The Saturday on The Second Week in Lent is held in the Church Dedicated to them.

Saint Erasmus, Bishop in Syria, afterwards Hermit in Lebanon, was cruelly tortured several times in Antioch and in Illyria under the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian. His legend tells us that his entrails were wound round a windlass; he is, therefore, Invoked for internal diseases, as one of "The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints". He died at Formiae, Campania, Italy.

Let us follow the examples of courage and fortitude of these Holy Martyrs, whose merits are our joy (Collect).

Mass: Out of Paschaltide: Clamavérunt.
Mass: In Paschaltide: Sancti tui.