Saint Teresa Of The Child Jesus (Saint Thérèse Of Lisieux) (The Little Flower) 1873 - 1897. Feast Day 3 October. "After My Death, I Will Let Fall A Shower Of Roses From Heaven".

           

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Saint Teresa of The Child Jesus
(Saint Thérèse Of Lisieux).
Virgin.
Feast Day 3 October.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Teresa of The Child Jesus

(Saint Thérèse Of Lisieux)

(The Little Flower)

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English: Amber Flush rose - Bagatelle Rose Garden (Paris, France).

Français : Rose Amber Flush - Roseraie de Bagatelle (Paris, France).

Photo: 1 June 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Georges Seguin (Okki).

(Wikimedia Commons)

Mary-Frances-Teresa Martin was born at Alençon, France, on 2 January 1873. She was brought up in a most Christian family, and educated by the Benedictine Nuns at Lisieux. Whilst still a child, she felt drawn towards the Cloister, and, at the age of fifteen, after much petition, was allowed to enter the Carmelite Convent in that town. At the age of twenty-four, she slept peacefully in the Peace of the Lord.

The life of this young Saint is not distinguished by any heroic or very great deed. She simply served God with a constant and assiduous fidelity in little things.

To her, the words of Our Lord are applied by the Church: "Unless you become as little children, you shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven."

Saint Teresa of The Child Jesus,

(Saint Thérèse Of Lisieux),

(The Little Flower)

(Wikipedia Commons)

"I do not intend to remain inactive in Heaven," this Saint said on her death-bed. "I wish to go on working for the Church and for Souls." "After my death, I will let fall a shower of roses." "It is Our Lord Who is calling me to Heaven and the hope of being able to love Him as I have so much desired to do, and the thought that I shall be able to make Him loved by a number of Souls, who will praise Him eternally."

Apostolic Virgin ! Such is the Title which seems best to characterise Saint Teresa of The Child Jesus. Like her Seraphic Patron and Mother, she desired to make the Salvation of Souls the object of her life in the Cloister, and, thus, her whole life was a "sacrifice of love, a holocaust to merciful love".

When she left Carmel for Heaven, she repeated her intention of continuing to be an Apostle in Eternity, as she had been here on Earth."I feel that my mission is soon to begin," she said."My mission to make others love the good God as I love Him . . . to teach my Little Way to Souls.

English: The Birthplace and family home of Sainte Thérèse.

Français: Maison natale de Sainte Thérèse et des

bienheureux Louis et Zélie Martin, ses parents.

Photo: 25 June 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Pierre-Yves Emile.

(Wikimedia Commons)

"I wish to spend my Heaven in doing good upon Earth. Nor is this impossible, since, from the very heart of The Beatific Vision, the Angels keep watch over us. No, there can be no rest for me until the end of the world. But when the Angel shall have said: "Time is no more ! ", then I shall rest, then I shall be able to rejoice, because the number of the Elect will be complete". (Autobiography).

The humble "Little Flower" was: Beatified by Pope Pius XI in 1923, twenty-six years after her death; Canonised in 1925; and, in 1927, proclaimed Patroness of all Catholic Missions.

Let us offer The Holy Sacrifice, in Thanksgiving, for all the Graces bestowed on this Saint, and let us receive Our Lord in Holy Communion in order to partake, through Him, in the Virtues which adorned her life.

Marie-Azélie "Zélie" Martin née Guérin (1831-1877),

Beatified. Wife of Blessed Louis Martin,

Mother of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux.

Date: Circa 1875.

Source: http://www.ouest-france.fr/actu/actuDet

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3636-725020_actu.Htm

Author: Unknown Photographer.

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Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (Born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, 2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), or Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, O.C.D., was a French Discalced Carmelite Nun. She is popularly known as "The Little Flower of Jesus" or simply, "The Little Flower."

Thérèse has been a highly influential model of Sanctity for Roman Catholics, and for others, because of the "simplicity and practicality of her approach to the Spiritual Life." Together with Saint Francis of Assisi, she is one of the most popular Saints in the history of the Church. Pope Saint Pius X called her "the greatest Saint of modern times."

Thérèse felt an early call to Religious Life, and, overcoming various obstacles, in 1888, at the early age of fifteen, she became a Nun and joined two of her elder sisters in the Cloistered Carmelite Community of Lisieux, Normandy. After nine years as a Carmelite Religious, having fulfilled various Offices, such as Sacristan and Assistant to the Novice Mistress, and having spent her last eighteen months in Carmel in a Night of Faith, she died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four.

Louis Martin (1823-1894).

Beatified. Husband of Blessed Zélie Martin.

Father of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.

Photo: Circa 1875.

Source: http://www.devinrose.heroicvirtuecreations.com/blog/

2008/07/04/blessed-louis-and-zelie-martin-and-saint-damien/

Author: Unknown Photographer.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The impact of The Story of a Soul, a collection of her autobiographical manuscripts, printed and distributed a year after her death to an initially very limited audience, was great, and she rapidly became one of the most popular Saints of the 20th-Century.

Pope Saint Pius XI made her the "Star of his Pontificate". She was Beatified in 1923, and Canonised in 1925. Thérèse was declared Co-Patron of the Missions, with Saint Francis Xavier, in 1927, and named Co-Patron of France, with Joan of Arc, in 1944. On 19 October 1997, Pope Saint John Paul II declared her the thirty-third Doctor of the Church, the youngest person, and at that time only the third woman, to be so honoured. Devotion to Thérèse has developed around the world.

Saint Thérèse lived a hidden life and "wanted to be unknown," yet became popular after her death through her Spiritual autobiography. She also left Letters, poems, religious plays, Prayers, and her last conversations were recorded by her sisters. Paintings and photographs – mostly the work of her sister, Céline, – further led to her being recognised by millions of men and women.

English: Les Buissonnets.

The Martin family house in Lisieux, to which they moved in

November 1877, following the death of Madame Martin. Thérèse lived here from

16 November 1877 to 9 April 1888, the day she entered Carmel.

Français: Maison familiale des Martin (Lisieux) où Sainte Thérèse passa son enfance.

Photo: August 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Grentidez.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Thérèse said on her death-bed, "I only love simplicity. I have a horror of pretence", and she spoke out against some of the claims made concerning the Lives of Saints, written in her day, "We should not say improbable things, or things we do not know. We must see their real, and not their imagined, lives."

The depth of her Spirituality, of which she said, "my way is all confidence and love," has inspired many Believers. In the face of her littleness, she trusted in God to be her Sanctity. She wanted to go to Heaven by an entirely new "little way". "I wanted to find an elevator that would raise me to Jesus." The elevator, she wrote, would be the Arms of Jesus lifting her in all her littleness.

Thérèse is well-known throughout the world, with the Basilica of Lisieux being the second-largest place of Pilgrimage in France, after Lourdes.

English: The Monastery, that Saint Thérèse entered, was not an old-established House

with a great tradition. In 1838, two Nuns from the Poitiers Carmel had been sent out to

Found the House of Lisieux.

One of them, Mother Geneviève of Saint Teresa, was still living

when Saint Thérèse entered. The Second Wing, containing the Cells and Sick Rooms in which

she was to live and die, had been standing only ten years.

"What she found was a Community of very aged Nuns, some odd and cranky, some sick and troubled, some lukewarm and complacent. Almost all of the Sisters came from the Petty Bourgeois and Artisan Class. The Prioress and Novice Mistress were of old Norman Nobility. Probably, the Martin sisters, alone, represented the new Class of the Rising Bourgeoisie."

The Hidden Facep.193-195, Ida Gorres.

Français: Carmel de Lisieux.

Date: Circa 1900.

Source: Carte postale.

Author: Unknown.

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"I Would Give Up My Life A Thousand Times, Not Only For Each Of The Truths Of Sacred Scripture, But, Even More, For The Least Of The Ceremonies Of The Church". Saint Thérèse Of Lisieux (Saint Teresa Of The Child Jesus).

Saint Teresa of The Child Jesus

(Saint Thérèse Of Lisieux).

Virgin.

Feast Day 3 October.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Thérèse Of Lisieux

(Saint Teresa of The Child Jesus).

Illustration taken from

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Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, O.C.D.

Nun and Doctor of the Church.

Source: Thérèse de Lisieux,

from fr:Wikipedia.

This File: 5 March 2005.

User: 竹麦魚(Searobin).

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The Ceremonies Of The Catholic Church meant so much to Saint Thérèse Of Lisieux.

A Traditional Roman Catholic Mass (Pontifical Solemn High Mass) on the 5th Anniversary 
of the Inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI. Celebrated at The Basilica of The National Shrine 
of The Immaculate Conception, in Washington, D.C.,, on Saturday 24 April 2010, 
by His Excellency Edward J. Slattery, Bishop of the Diocese of Tulsa. 
Fr. Calvin Goodwin, FSSP is commentating, along with Fr. John Zuhlsdorf.

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Generations of Catholics have admired this young Saint, called her "The Little Flower", and found in her short life more inspiration for their own lives than in volumes by Theologians.

Yet, SaintTherese died when she was twenty-four years old, after having lived as a Cloistered Carmelite Nun for less than ten years. She never went on missions, never founded a Religious Order, never performed great works.

Her only book, published after her death, was a brief edited version of her journal called "Story of a Soul." (Collections of her Letters and restored versions of her journals have been published recently.) But within twenty-eight years of her death, the public demand was so great that she was Canonised.

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The Holy Guardian Angels. Feast Day 2 October (Part Two).

Italic Text is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Non-Italic Text is taken from The Liturgical Year by Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

(Translated from the French by Dom Laurence Shepherd, O.S.B.)

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The Holy Guardian Angels.

Feast Day 2 October.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Saint Gemma Galgani,

(The Flower of Lucca),

reported interaction with her Guardian Angel.

Français: Détail d'une photo de Gemma Galgani.

Date: 1901.

Source: Photo d'Enrico Giannini prise en 1901,

et conservée à "la casa Giannini" des Sorelle

missionarie di santa Gemma à Lucques.

Author: Philippe Plet. Reproduction à partir du cliché original,

colorisation et recadrage.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Although the Solemnity of 29 September celebrates the praises of all The Nine Glorious Choirs, yet the piety of the Faithful, in the latter ages, desired to have a special day Consecrated to The Guardian Angels. Several Churches having taken the initiative, and kept the Feast under various Rites and on different days, Pope Paul V (1608) authorised its Celebration ad libitum. Pope Clement X (1670) established it by Precept as a Feast of Double Rite on 2 October [it has been a Greater-Double since 1883], the first free day after Michaelmas, on which it thus remains in some way dependent.

It is of Faith, on the testimony of the Scriptures and unanimous Tradition, that God commits to His Angels the guardianship of men, who are called to contemplate Him, together with these Blessed Spirits, in their common fatherland.

Catholic Theology teaches that this protection is extended to every member of the human race, without any distinction of Just and Sinners, Infidels and Baptised. To ward off dangers; to uphold man in his struggle against the demons; to awaken in him Holy Thoughts; to prevent him from sinning, and even, at times, to chastise him; to Pray for him, and present his Prayers to God. Such is the Office of The Guardian Angel.

So special is his mission, that one Angel does not undertake the guardianship of several persons simultaneously; so diligent is his care, that he follows his Ward from the first day to the last of his mortal existence, receiving the Soul as it quits this life, and bearing it from the Feet of the Sovereign Judge to the place it has merited in Heaven, or to its temporary sojourn in the place of expiation and purification.

English: Guardian Angel, German postcard, 1900.

Deutsch: Schutzengel, deutsche Postkarte um 1900.

Polski: Anioł Stróż, niemiecka pocztówka ok. 1900.

Author: Unknown, similar to works by Fridolin Leiber.

(Wikimedia Commons)

It is from the lowest of The Nine Choirs, the nearest to ourselves, that The Guardian Angels are, for the most part, selected. God reserves to The Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones, the honour of forming His Own Immediate Court.

The Dominations, from the steps of His Throne, preside over the government of the Universe; The Virtues watch over the course of Nature's laws, the preservation of species, and the movements of the heavens.

The Powers hold the Spirits of Wickedness in subjection. The human race, in its entirety, as also its great Social Bodies, the Nations and the Churches, are confided to The Principalities; while The Archangels, who preside over smaller communities, seem also to have the Office of transmitting to the Angels the Commands of God, together with the love and light which come down, even to us, from the first and highest hierarchy.

English: Guardian Angel.

Deutsch: Schutzengel.

Author: Bernhard Plockhorst (1825–1907).

(Wikimedia Commons)

O, the Depths of the Wisdom of God ! Thus, then, the admirable distribution of Offices, among the Choirs of Heavenly Spirits, terminates in the function committed to the lowest rank, the guardianship of man, for whom the Universe subsists.

Such is the teaching of the School [Suarez. De Angelis, lib. vi. cap. xviii. 5.]; and The Apostle, in like manner, says: "Are they not all ministering Spirits, sent to minister for them, who shall receive the inheritance of Salvation ? " [Heb. i. 14.]

PART THREE FOLLOWS

The Holy Guardian Angels. Feast Day 2 October (Part One).

Italic Text is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Non-Italic Text is taken from The Liturgical Year by Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
(Translated from the French by Dom Laurence Shepherd, O.S.B.)
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The Holy Guardian Angels.
Feast Day 2 October.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Archangel Michael reaching to save Souls in Purgatory,
by Jacopo Vignali, 17th-Century.

Italiano: Jacopo Vignali, San Michele Arcangelo libera le anime
del Purgatorio, (17th-Century).

Source: Giovanni Piccirillo (a cura di), 

La Chiesa dei Santi Michele e Gaetano, Becocci Editore, Firenze, 2006.

Author: sailko.

(Wikimedia Commons)

This Feast, Solemnised by the Spaniards in the 16th-Century, was extended to the whole Church by Pope Paul V in 1608.

Pope Clement X, in 1670, appointed it to be kept on the first free day after the Feast of Saint Michael, namely 2 October. 

The Angels, already in Glory, have for their mission to adore The Divinity (Introit, Offertory, Communion). Wherefore, in the Preface, the Church makes us ask God to permit our voices to join with theirs in praising God. ["I have seen the Seraphim," says Isaias, "they stood near the Sublime Throne, where Jehovah was seated: Their faces veiled, they cried out to one another: Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God of Hosts, the whole Earth is full of His glory." (Isaias vi, 1-3.)]

But, as their name indicates, the Angels are also Messengers of Divine Commands (Offertory). The holy Fathers teach that they preside over all created things, and Saint Paul declares "that their mission is to serve the future heirs of Salvation".

Guardian Angel,
by Pietro da Cortona (1656).

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art: 

(Wikimedia Commons).

This is why they are called Guardian Angels (Collect). It is generally thought that Kingdoms, Provinces, Families, Dioceses, Churches, Religious Communities, each have their protecting Angel. 

[In some Countries, they celebrate the Feast of the Angel of the nation. Saint Francis de Sales says that the Bishop, as such, has another Guardian Angel. Ezechiel says that the Angel of the Temple of Jerusalem had a writing case hanging down from his girdle (Ezech. 11). These Angels of the Churches, adds Saint Basil, write down our irreverences.]

English: Statue of a Guardian Angel
in the Parish Church of Saint Oswald,
Oberdrauburg, Austria.

Deutsch: Pfarrkirche St Oswald,
Oberdrauburg, Osterreiche: Schutzengel.
Photo: July 2008.

Author: JJ55.

(Wikimedia Commons).

That there is one Guardian Angel for each Just Man, there can be no doubt, and the Church applies to the Souls, that are under the New Law, what is written about the people under the Old Law: "I shall send My Angel to march before you, to guard you on the way and to bring you into the land which I have prepared for you" (Epistle). [Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Sixth Lesson at Matins.]

Our Guardian Angel has, for his mission, to protect us and defend us, in order that, under his protection, safe from the snares of the enemies of our Souls and from all adversities, we may reach the promised land of eternal life (Collect, Secret, Postcommunion).

This faithful companion deserves our gratitude, and the Veneration, due to one who already enjoys The Beatific Vision (Gospel).

It is to encourage us, to the habitual practice of this Devotion, that the Church instituted The Feast of The Guardian Angels.

PART TWO FOLLOWS

Your Guardian Angel. Feast Day 2 October.

Have you said "Thank You" to your Guardian Angel, lately ?

English: Guardian Angel, German postcard 1900.

Deutsch: Schutzengel, deutsche Postkarte um 1900.

Polski: Anioł Stróż, niemiecka pocztówka ok. 1900.

Date: 1900.

Source: German postcard 1900.

Author: Unknown, similar to works by Fridolin Leiber.

(Wikimedia Commons)

"Dear Angel, Ever At My Side".
Words by Fr. F. W. Faber
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Is The Most Beautiful Thing
This Side of Heaven").

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Weekly Traditional Latin Masses In Kent. Maidstone, Ashford, Tenterden, Headcorn.

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In addition, Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated during the Week,

on Feast Days and Holy Days of Obligation.

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for a lovely Lunch in various hostelries and locations.

Do come and join them. You will all be most welcome.

Besides Glorifying God in an edifying, Holy and Traditional manner,

you will see the wonderful Kent countryside changing throughout the Seasons,

which, in itself, Glorifies God.

              

MAIDSTONE, KENT.

CHURCH OF SAINT FRANCIS.

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ASHFORD, KENT.

CHURCH OF SAINT SIMON  STOCK.

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CHURCH OF SAINT ANDREW.

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TENTERDEN

Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated at the

Church of Saint Andrew,

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at 1200 hrs,

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HEADCORN, KENT.

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(next to Headcorn Railway Station)

at 1200 hrs,

on the FOURTH SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH.

WHEN THERE IS A FIFTH SUNDAY IN THE MONTH,

THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS IS CELEBRATED AT

ASHFORD, KENT.

CHURCH OF SAINT SIMON  STOCK.

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  Traditional Latin Masses are Celebrated at the

Church of Saint Simon Stock,

Brookfield Road, Ashford, Kent TN23 4EU,

at 1200 hrs,

on the FIFTH SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH.

October. Month Of The Holy Rosary. "Adiutricem". Encyclical On The Holy Rosary, By Blessed Pope Leo XIII, 5 September 1895.

The Text of this Article can be found on CATHOLICISM PURE AND SIMPLE

Our Lady of The Rosary.

Image: MOUNT CARMEL

Excerpts from

"Adiutricem."

An Encyclical on The Holy Rosary, 

by Pope Leo XIII, September 5, 1895.

In Mary, God has given us the most zealous guardian of Christian unity. There are, of course, more ways than one to win her protection by Prayer, but, as for Us, We think that the best and most effective way to her favour lies in The Rosary. 

We have elsewhere brought it to the attention of the devout Christian, and not least among the advantages of The Rosary is the ready and easy means it puts in his hands to nurture his Faith, and to keep him from ignorance of his Religion and the danger of error.

The very origin of The Rosary makes that plain. When such Faith is exercised by vocally repeating The Our Father and Hail Mary of the Rosary Prayers, or, better still, in the contemplation of The Mysteries, it is evident how close we are brought to Mary.

For, every time we devoutly say The Rosary in supplication before her, we are once more brought face to face with the marvel of our Salvation; We watch the Mysteries of our Redemption as though they were unfolding before our eyes; and, as one follows another, Mary stands revealed at once as God’s Mother and our Mother.

The sublimity of that double dignity, the fruits of her twofold ministry, appear in vivid light when, in devout Meditation, we think of Mary’s share in The Joyful, The Sorrowful, The Glorious Mysteries, of her Son. The heart is inflamed by these Reflections with a feeling of grateful love toward her and, esteeming everything beneath her as so much worthless chaff, strives with manful purpose to prove worthy of such a Mother and the gifts she bestows. 

Meditation on the Mysteries of The Rosary, often repeated in the Spirit of Faith, cannot help but please her and move her, the fondest of Mothers, to show mercy to her children.

For that reason, We say that The Rosary is by far the best Prayer by which to plead before her the cause of our separated brethren. To grant a favourable hearing belongs properly to her Office of Spiritual Mother. 

For Mary has not brought forth, nor could she, those who are of Christ except in the One Same Faith and in the One Same Love; for: “Can Christ be divided ?” All must live the Life of Christ in an organic unity, in order to “bring forth fruit to God” in the One Same Body. 

Every one of the multitudes, therefore, whom the mischief of calamitous events has stolen away from that unity, must be born again to Christ, of that same Mother whom God has endowed with a never-failing fertility to bring forth a Holy People.

And this Mary, for her part, longs to do. Adorned by us with garlands of her favourite Prayer, she will obtain, by her entreaties, help in abundance from the Spirit that quickeneth. God grant that they refuse not to comply with the burning desire of their merciful Mother, but, on the contrary, give ear, like men of goodwill, with a proper regard for their eternal salvation, to the voice, gently persuasive, which calls to them: “My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you.”

May the peoples of the East and West, and all the others, wherever they may be, profit by the suppliant voice of Catholics united in Prayer, and by our voice, which will cry to our last breath: Show thyself a Mother.

Blessed Pope Leo XIII.

Photogram of the 1896 film "Sua Santitá Papa Leone XIII",

the first time a Pope appeared on film.

This image was copied from wikipedia:de.

The original description was: Papst_Leo_XIII. um ca. 1898.

Public Domain. Library of Congress

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a00543.

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Pope Leo XIII (2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903), born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, to an Italian Comital family, reigned from 20 February 1878 to his death in 1903. He was the oldest Pope (reigning until the age of ninety-three), and had the third longest Pontificate, behind that of Pope Pius IX (his immediate predecessor) and Pope Saint John Paul II. He is the most recent Pontiff, to date, to take the Pontifical name of "Leo" upon being elected to the Pontificate.

He is well known for his intellectualism, the development of social teachings with his famous Papal Encyclical "Rerum Novarum", and his attempts to define the position of the Catholic Church with regard to modern thinking.

He influenced Roman Catholic Mariology and promoted both The Rosary and The Scapular. He issued a record eleven Encyclicals on The Rosary, earning the moniker "The Rosary Pope", approved two new Marian Scapulars, and was the first Pope to fully embrace the concept of Mary as Mediatrix. He was the first Pope to never have held any control over The Papal States, after they were dissolved by 1870.

Blessed Pope Leo XIII died on 20 July 1903, at the age of ninety-three, and was briefly buried in Saint Peter's Basilica, before his remains were later Transferred to the Basilica of Saint John Lateran.

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