An Act Of Consecration To The Immaculate Heart Of Mary.

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Act of Consecration to

The Immaculate Heart of Mary

With last month, August, being dedicated by Holy Mother Church as the month of The Immaculate Heart of Mary, it was a fitting time to make an Act of Consecration to her Immaculate Heart.

The beautiful Consecration, provided below, reminds us of the importance of being united to Mary, for, through her guidance, we can more easily follow Christ's Will and gain our Heavenly reward.

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Act of Consecration to

The Immaculate Heart of Mary

Heavenly Mother Mary, I come to thy most lovable and sweet Heart, refuge of sinners.

I offer myself to thee and Consecrate my entire life to thine Immaculate Heart.

In this Consecration of my total person,

I offer thee my body and Soul, with all its miseries and weaknesses.

I offer thee my heart, with all its affections and desires, my Prayers, works, joys and sufferings.

I offer thee every temptation that comes to me, so that my every thought and desire may be purified through thy Holy Intercession.

My Queen, my Mother, I offer thee in Consecration all sufferings which come into my life, both physical and spiritual.

I offer thee especially my death, with all that will accompany it.

I offer thee my last agony.

Accept all this, my Mother, and take all into thy Immaculate Heart as I give to thee irrevocably all that I am and all that I have, together with all property and possessions.

I offer thee my family and all who are near and dear to me. Take them all into thine Immaculate Heart and keep us ever one in thy Son Jesus Christ.

I renew today the vows of my Baptism and Confirmation.

Keep me ever Faithful to God and to Holy Church, and loyal in obedience to The Holy Father, the Pope.

I desire to pray The Rosary properly, meditating on its Mysteries.

I desire to participate in The Sacrifice of thy Son, perpetuated at Holy Mass, and receive Him frequently, even daily, in Holy Communion.

I attach special importance to The First Saturday of the month, in reparation to thine Immaculate Heart, and I will work for the conversion of sinners.

I will strive to live daily, the Spirit of Eucharistic Reparation.

O Queen of the Angels, my Queen and my Mother, I humbly prostrate myself before thee, as I approach thee with my Guardian Angel.

I desire all the Holy Angels, and especially my Guardian Angel, to Venerate thee always as Queen of Heaven and Earth.

Command my Guardian Angel, and all Holy Angels, to keep me always in thy love and in the Union of Grace with thy Divine Son.

Send forth thy Angels to assist me in spreading Devotion to thine Immaculate Heart, so that, through thine intercession, there may be Peace in the World and in The Church, and The Kingdom of Christ may come on Earth, as it is in Heaven.

Amen.

God Bless.

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Saint Stephen. King And Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 2 September.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless otherwise stated.

Saint Stephen.

King and Confessor.

Feast Day 2 September.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Saint Matthias Church, Budapest, Hungary.

[Editor: The first Church on the site was founded by Saint Stephen, King of Hungary, in 1015]

Magyar: Mátyás-templom és a Szentháromság tér.

Photo: 27 January 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Thaler Tamas.

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: Coat-of-Arms of Hungary.

Magyar: Magyarország címere.

English: “Per pale, the first barry of eight Gules and Argent, the second Gules, on a mount Vert a crown Or, issuant therefrom a double crossArgent. In crest the Holy Crown of Hungary.”

Magyar: A Magyar Köztársaság címere hegyes talpú, hasított pajzs. Első mezeje vörössel és ezüsttel hétszer vágott. Második, vörös mezejében zöld hármas halomnak arany koronás kiemelkedő középső részén ezüst kettős kereszt. A pajzson a magyar Szent Korona nyugszik.

Blazon Reference:

English: Fundamental Law of Hungary - Foundation - Article I.

Magyar: Magyarország Alaptörvénye - Alapvetés - I cikk.

Date: 1 January 2009.

Source: Own work.

Artist: Thommy.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Hungarian National Anthem.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/_N3gfzk-5bw.

Magyar: Nemzeti dal, a Magyar

Szent István magyar király, templom,

Chicago, Illinois, Egyesült Államok.

English: National Song of Hungary,

Saint Stephen, King of Hungary, Church,

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/B23zPPeDtts

A descendant of those proud and terrible invaders, The Huns, Stephen was chosen by God to win over his subjects to Christ and His Vicar.

He was given the Baptismal name of Stephen, in consequence of his mother having a vision of the Martyr, Saint Stephen, who foretold her that he would convert Hungary, whose first King he became when the Pope had raised the Country into a Kingdom.

English: Saint Matthias Church, Budapest, Hungary.

Magyar: Mátyás-templom.

Photo: 12 November 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Thaler Tamas

(Wikimedia Commons)

Having married the sister of the Emperor, Saint Henry, he surrounded himself, to govern his Kingdom, with men of tried Holiness and Prudence. He passed entire nights in the contemplation of Heavenly things (Introit), practised the greatest austerities, and, seconded by the Queen, his pious spouse, gave abundant alms (Epistle) to widows and Churches.

English: Budapest, Hungary,

and the River Danube.

Saint Matthias Church can be seen on the sky-line.

Magyar: Magyar: Pestről nézve.

Photo: 12 November 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Thaler Tamas.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The greatness of his zeal, for the propagation of The Faith, justly won for him the Title of Apostolic King or of Apostle of Hungary, and deservedly obtained for him from The Holy See the privilege, transmitted to his successors, to have The Cross borne before him.

He built a large Basilica in honour of Mary, whom he proclaimed Patroness of Hungary. "His zeal in propagating and strengthening The Faith in his Kingdom earned for him the glory of a Heavenly Crown" (Postcommunion).

He died in 1038 on "The Day of The Great Lady", as The Feast of The Assumption was called by the Hungarians, in virtue of an edict of the Holy King.

Mass: Os justi.

English: Interior of Saint Matthias Church,

Budapest, Hungary.

Magyar: Mátyás-templom.

Photo: 23 June 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Thaler Tamas.

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Rood Screens.

Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,

unless otherwise stated.

Rood Screen,

Saint Birinus' Church,

Dorchester-on-Thames,

Oxfordshire, England.

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Rood Screen in

Saint Mary's Church,

Staunton-in-the-Vale,

Nottinghamshire, England.

Photo: 22 June 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Andrewrabbott.

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Domesday Book records a Church and a Priest in Staunton, then called 'Stanton',

but which afterwards has been called Staunton-in-the-Vale or simply 'Staunton'.

Between Nave and Chancel is a Rood Screen from 1519.

This Text from 

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The Rood Screen,

Saint Giles' Church,

Cheadle, Staffordshire, England.

Designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, between 1841-1846,

and financed by John Talbot, the 16th Earl of Shrewsbury. Augustus Pugin

endeavoured to create "a perfect revival of an English Parish Church

of the time of King Edward I".

Illustration: NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT

The Rood Screen (also Choir Screen, Chancel Screen, or Jubé (French)) is a very common feature in Late-Mediaeval Church architecture. It is typically an ornate Partition between the Chancel and Nave, of, more-or-less, open Tracery, constructed of wood, stone, or wrought iron. The Rood Screen would originally have been surmounted by a Rood Loft, carrying The Great Rood, a sculptural representation of The Crucifixion.

In English, Scottish, and Welsh Cathedral, Monastic, and Collegiate Churches, there were, commonly, two Transverse Screens, with a Rood Screen, or Rood Beam, located one Bay West of The Pulpitum Screen, but this double arrangement nowhere survives complete, and, accordingly, the preserved Pulpitum in such Churches is sometimes referred to as a Rood Screen. At Wells Cathedral, the Mediaeval arrangement was restored in the 20th-Century, with the Mediaeval "Strainer Arch" supporting a Rood, placed in front of The Pulpitum Screen and Organ.

The Pulpitum Screen, in Exeter Cathedral, Devon, England,

photographed in the Early-20th-Century, The Interior of The Pulpitum Screen was opened up

in a 19th-Century reconstruction, so as to provide worshippers with a view of The High Altar. Originally it was solid.

Source: http://www.wissensdrang.com/dstabb.htm http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Tormoham/

Original publication: Stabb, John. Some Old Devon Churches, Their Rood Screens, Pulpits,

Fonts, etc (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co, London, Vol I, 1908). Frontispiece.

URL: http://www.wissensdrang.com/stabb000.htm (maintained by Roger Peters).

Author: John Stabb, photographer (1865-1917).

(Wikimedia Commons)

Rood Screens can be found in Churches in many parts of Europe: The German word for a Rood Screen is Lettner; the French word is Jubé; the Italian word is Tramezzo; and the Dutch word is Doksaal. However, in Catholic Countries, they were generally removed during The Counter-Reformation, when the retention of any visual barrier between The Laity and The High Altar was widely seen as inconsistent with the Decrees of The Council of Trent. Accordingly, Rood Screens now survive in much greater numbers in Anglican and Lutheran Churches; with the greatest number of survivals, complete with Screen and Rood figures, in Scandinavia. The iconostasis in Eastern Christian Churches is a visually similar barrier, but is now generally considered to have a different origin, deriving from the ancient Altar Screen or Templon.

Five-Panel Deësis (Centre).

Iconostasis in the Cathedral of The Annunciation,

Moscow Kremlin, Russia, by Theophanes the Greek, 1405.

This File: 6 February 2005.

User: .:Ajvol:

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The word "Rood" is derived from the Saxon word "Rood" or "Rode", meaning "Cross". The Rood Screen is so called because it was surmounted by The Rood, itself, a large figure of The Crucified Christ. Commonly, to either side of The Rood, there stood supporting statues of Saints, normally Mary and Saint John the Apostle, in an arrangement comparable to The Deesis, always found in the centre of an Orthodox Iconostasis (which uses Saint John the Baptist, instead of John the Apostle, and a Pantokrator, instead of a Crucifixion).

The carved Pulpitum Screen,

Southwell Minster,

Nottinghamshire,

England.

Photo: 25 October 2005.

Source: Own work.

Author: Necrothesp.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Latterly, in England and Wales, The Rood tended to rise above a narrow Loft (called "The Rood Loft"), which could occasionally be substantial enough to be used as a Singing Gallery (and might even contain an Altar). However, the main purpose was to hold Candles to light The Rood, itself. The panels and uprights of The Screen did not support The Loft, which, instead, rested on a substantial Transverse Beam called "The Rood Beam" or "Candle Beam".

Access to The Rood Loft was via a narrow Rood Stair, set into the Piers supporting The Chancel Arch. In Parish Churches, the space between The Rood Beam and The Chancel Arch was commonly filled by a boarded, or lath and plaster, Tympanum, set immediately behind The Rood figures and painted with a representation of The Last Judgement. The Roof Panels, of The First Bay of The Nave, were commonly richly decorated to form a Celure, or Canopy of Honour, or there might be a separate Celure Canopy attached to the front of The Chancel Arch.

The carving or construction of The Rood Screen often included Lattice-Work, which makes it possible to partially see through The Screen, from The Nave into The Chancel. The term "Chancel" derives from the Latin word "Cancelli", meaning "Lattice", a term which had long been applied to the low Metal-Work or Stone Screens that delineate The Choir Enclosure in Early-Mediaeval Italian Cathedrals and major Churches. The passage through The Rood Screen was fitted with doors, which were kept locked, except during Services.

The Rood Screen,

now in The Lady Chapel,

Shrine of Saint Augustine,

Ramsgate, Kent, England.

Photographer: Nicholas Callinan.

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A Rood Screen in an Anglican Parish Church. The 15th-Century Rood Screen of

Saint Mellanus, Mullion, Cornwall, England, was restored, with Rood Figures and Rood Loft,

by F. C. Eden in 1925.

Photo: 6 December 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Rood,

above The Rood Screen,

with The Rood Loft, behind.

The Church of Saint Mellanus,

Mullion, Cornwall, England

Photo: 6 December 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Giles. Abbot. Feast Day 1 September.

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

Saint Giles.
Abbot.
Feast Day 1 September.

Simple.

White Vestments.

English: Parish Church of Notre-Dame-des-Marais, La Ferte-Bernard, Sarthe,

Pays de la Loire, France. Stained-Glass Window depicting Saint Giles.

Deutsch: Katholische Pfarrkirche Notre-Dame-des-Marais in La Ferté-Bernard im Département Sarthe (Pays de la Loire/Frankreich), Bleiglasfenster (baie 10), mit Fragmenten aus dem späten 15., dem 16. und dem frühen 17. Jahrhundert; Darstellung: Szenen aus dem Leben Jesu und Marias; Ausschnitt: Hl. Ägidius

Photo: 15 August 2015.

Source: Own work.

Author: GFreihalter.

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: Stained-Glass Window depticting Saint Giles and the hind.

Church of Saint Giles, Marsaneix, Dordogne, France.

Français: Vitrail représentant Saint-Gilles,

église Saint-Gilles, Marsaneix, Dordogne, France.

Photo: 3 November 2008.

Source: Own worrk.

Author: Père Igor

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Giles, born in Athens, distributed all his patrimony to the Poor and followed Jesus (Gospel). Several Miracles having made him celebrated, he fled to Provence, France, to escape away from honours. He lived in Prayer and Meditation (Introit) in the depths of a vast forest, with no other food but roots and the milk of a tame hind.

One day, when pursued by the hounds of the Visigoth King, Wamba, the hind fled to the grotto of the Saint, who, while trying to protect her, had his hand pierced by an arrow. The King, on his arrival, urgently begged the Saint to consent to the building of a Monastery on the spot.

English: Parish Church of Saint Giles, Dietfurt, Bavaria, Germany.

Deutsch: 

Stadtpfarrkirche St. Ägidius (Dietfurt a. d. Altmühl)

Date: 11 September 2008 (original upload date).

Source: Own work.

Author: A. Reinsch (Unteroktav).

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The Holy Hermit undertook its governance and, like Moses among the people of God (Epistle), he became the Chief and Law-Giver of a numerous Monastic family which followed his leadership, his Doctrine, and his Counsels (Communion). This happened in 673 A.D.

The Abbey of Saint Giles, a marvel of architecture, became one of the most frequented resorts of Pilgrims in The Middles Ages, and a Town arose there. The Counts of Toulouse regarded it as an honour to bear this Saint's name.

The ancient Missals place him among "The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints". He was invoked in France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and England, where 146 Churches were built in his honour. Saint Giles died about 721 A.D. His tomb was discovered in 1865.

Mass:  Os justi.

Commemoration of The Twelve Brothers. Martyrs.

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Oh ! I Wished One's Garden Looked Just A Little Bit Like This. I Must Have Words With The Third-Under-Gardener.

"A Feast of Colors",

Japanese Gardens of Portland,

Oregon, USA.

Photo: Derek Kind.

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Saving Aramaic. The Language Of The Ancient Near-East. Spoken By Our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Aramaic Language

inscribed in stone.

Illustration: WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY

The 7th-Century Monastery of Rabban Hormizd, only 28 miles North of Mosul,

Iraq, is situated on The Front Lines of the battle against Islamic State.

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For more than three Millennia, Aramaic was spoken across The Near East, but, today, the language is in danger of being lost for ever. Colin Clarke reveals a new project, desperately fighting against the odds, to preserve the inscriptions that link us to our spoken past.

Aramaic was once an international language that extended across the ancient Near East, from Mesopotamia to Egypt. It was the official language of The Achaemenid Empire, in the 5th- and

4th- Centuries B.C., and continued as a Lingua Franca down to the 7th-Century A.D.

In New Testament times, Aramaic was the daily language of Jesus and his Disciples:

καὶ κρατήσας τῆς χειρὸς τοῦ παιδίου λέγει αὐτῇ,

Ταλιθα κουμ, ὅ ἐστιν μεθερμηνευόμενον

Τὸ κοράσιον, σοὶ λέγω, ἔγειρε

And taking the child’s hand, He said to her,

‘Talitha kum’, which means ‘Little girl, I say

to you, arise.’ (Mark 5:41)

Here, the Aramaic phrase, Talitha kum, is translated for the Greek-speaking audience of the Gospel. Syriac is the Christian dialect of Aramaic, and, as such, it offers a direct link to the language and traditions of The Early Church. Syriac-speaking Edessa, located in Northern Mesopotamia, in what is now modern Turkey, was the first Christian Kingdom.

A depiction of Saint George and The Dragon at the Syriac Orthodox Church of Mor Gıworgıs,

at Qaraqoš, in Nineveh, Iraq, destroyed in 2006. The inscription above it is in

Syriac, Garshuni, and Arabic.

Illustration: WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY

Sebastian Brock, Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and an expert on the Syriac language, maintains Christianity has three traditional elements: Latin, Greek, and Syriac. Brock suggests that each element emphasises aspects not always seen in the others: Latin, the legal; Greek, the philosophical; Syriac, the symbolical and poetical. It should be noted that philosophy is not traditionally part of Semitic thought; Biblical wisdom texts are expressed in poetry.

With the expulsion of Christian communities in the Middle East, we are witnessing the uprooting and destruction of a heritage that extends back to Apostolic times. When Mosul fell to the Islamic State, it marked the first time in 1,600 years that the Church Bells of the City stopped ringing.

In November 2013, the Canadian Centre for Epigraphic Documents (CCED) launched the World’s first Syriac inscriptions database. The Centre is currently focusing on the Harrak Collection of Iraqi-Syriac and Garshuni inscriptions, that are largely from Mosul and the Plain of Nineveh. Even before the Islamic State invasion of Northern Iraq, a number of documents, that the CCED were working with, were only extant copies of now damaged or lost inscriptions.

CCED is a non-profit organisation, founded in order to archive, catalogue, and digitise epigraphic materials. This is a non-political, non-religious organisation, staffed by professionals and graduate students from the information field: librarians, archivists, and digital humanists. While receiving the support of scholars and organisations the World over, the Centre continues to work on a zero budget – all staff are volunteers. For the CCED to move forward with its goals, funding is needed.

The inscription from the Chaldean Church of Mar Eša‘ia, in Mosul, Iraq, is written in poetical metre. Line 16 offers a hidden chronogram: The year of death is given when the numerical values of the letters are added together: O Romanos the Priest, as watchful Angel, enter your heaven! = 1870.

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In addition to the Harrak Collection, the CCED is working with the Talay Collection of Syrian Syriac inscriptions, dating from the 10th-Century A.D; The St Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute
(SEERI) Collection, and the Association for Preservation of Saint Thomas Christian Heritage (APSTCH)/Perczel Collection, both from Kerala, India. These contain Syriac, Malayalam, Tamil, and Pahlavi inscriptions, possibly dating from the 9th- and 10th-Centuries to the 20th-Century.

The Centre has just launched the CCED Journal, an open-access, peer-reviewed publication relating to epigraphic studies.

While the Centre operates with no budget, sectarian violence across The Middle East is accelerating the destruction of Syriac Christian heritage. Many, if not most, of the Iraqi- Syriac inscriptions that the CCED is working with are the only copies of now- lost inscriptions. Meanwhile, inscriptions in India are also in danger of being lost through neglect. Every time the Centre adds another inscription online, that inscription is saved from oblivion. Each word saved is a victory.


FURTHER INFORMATION

Visit the Canadian Centre for Epigraphic Documents Website to see more about their work, and details of how to support the project: www.epigraphy.ca

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Saint Rose Of Lima. Feast Day 30 August.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless otherwise stated.

Saint Rose of Lima.

Virgin.

Feast Day 30 August.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: Saint Rose of Lima.

This picture is companion of Saint Domingo de Guzman. In the book at her feet,

the Text reads: "Rosa Cordis Mei Tu Mihi Sponsa Esto Ancilla Tua Sum Domine".

"The rose of my heart, be thou my bride, your servant, I, O Lord."

Español: Óleo sobre lienzo, Claudio Coello (1642-1693):

Santa Rosa de Lima (1684-1685).

Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Artist: Claudio Coello (1642–1693).

Current location: Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

This File: 26 March 2006.

User: Seges.

(Wikimedia Commons)

One hundred years after the discovery of The New World, was born at Lima, the capital of Peru, the Virgin, Rose, the First Flower of Sanctity which bloomed in South America. The name was given to her because, one day, the face of the child appeared transfigured and with all the beauty of a rose. She added to it the name of The Blessed Virgin Mary, wishing, thenceforth, to be called "Rose of Saint Mary".

Watered by the Divine Dew of Grace, she produced beautiful blooms of Virginity and Patience (Collect). When five years old, she made her Vow of Perpetual Virginity, taking Jesus for her Spouse (Epistle). Later, to avoid being obliged to marry, she cut off her beautiful hair.

Having received the Habit of a Tertiary of The Order of Saint Dominic, she gave herself up to Prayer and austere mortification. When she was thirty, on 29 August 1617, her Divine Spouse came to take her (Gospel, Communion), and, adorned with her radiant beauty, she entered triumphant into the Court of the Heavenly King (Gradual, Alleluia).

Mass: Dilexisti.

Commemoration: Saint Felix and Saint Adauctus. Martyrs.

Saint Rose of Lima,

before The Madonna.

Artist: José Claudio Antolinez (1635–1675).

Date: Late-17th-Century.

Current location: Museum of Fine Arts,

Budapest, Hungary.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art:

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Saint Rose of Lima (1586 – 1617), T.O.S.D. [The Third Order of Saint Dominic (known as Lay Fraternities of Saint Dominic, or, Lay Dominicans, since 1972) is a Roman Catholic Third Order, affiliated with the Dominican Order] was a Spanish colonist in Lima, Peru, who became known for both her life of severe asceticism and her care of the needy of the City, through her own private efforts. A Lay Member of the Dominican Order, she was the first person, born in the Americas, to be Canonised by the Catholic Church.

As a Saint, Rose of Lima is designated as a Co-Patroness of the Philippines, along with Saint Pudentiana, who were both moved as Second-Class Patronage, in September 1942, by Pope Pius XII, but remains the Primary Patroness of Peru and the indigenous natives of Latin America.

Saint Rose of Lima Church,

Brooklyn, United States of America.

Photo: 28 March 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Jim.henderson.

(Wikimedia Commons)

She was born Isabel Flores y de Oliva, in the City of Lima, then in the Vice-Royalty of Peru, on 20 April 1586. She was one of the many children of Gaspar Flores, a Harquebusier (Cavalryman) in the Imperial Spanish Army, born in San Germán on the island of San Juan Bautista (now Puerto Rico), and his wife, María de Oliva, a native of Lima. Her later nickname, "Rose", comes from an incident in her babyhood: A servant claimed to have seen her face transform into a rose. In 1597, she was Confirmed by the Archbishop of Lima, Turibius de Mongrovejo, who was also to be declared a Saint. She formally took the name of "Rose", at that time.

As a young girl — in emulation of the noted Dominican Tertiary, Saint Catherine of Siena — she began to Fast three times a week and performed severe penances, in secret. When she was admired for her beauty, Rose cut off her hair and smeared pepper on her face, upset that suitors were beginning to take notice of her. She rejected all suitors, against the objections of her friends and her family. Despite the censure of her parents, she spent many hours contemplating The Blessed Sacrament, which she received daily, an extremely rare practice at that time. She was determined to take a Vow of Virginity, which was opposed by her parents, who wished her to marry.

English: Peruvian Bank-Note depicting Saint Rose of Lima.

Español: Billete de 200 nuevos soles.

Photo: 24 March 1995.

Source: Own work.

Author: Asdqwdwqd1.

(Wikimedia Commons)

After daily Fasting, she took to permanently abstaining from eating meat. She helped the sick and hungry around her community, bringing them to her room and taking care of them. Rose sold her fine needlework, and took flowers that she grew to market, to help her family. She made and sold lace and embroidery to care for the poor, and she Prayed and did Penance in a little Grotto, which she had built. Otherwise, she became a Recluse, leaving her room only for her visits to Church.

She attracted the attention of the Friars of The Dominican Order. She wanted to become a Nun, but her father forbade it, so she instead entered The Third Order of Saint Dominic, while living in her parents' home. In her twentieth year, she donned the Habit of a Tertiary and took a Vow of Perpetual Virginity. She donned a heavy crown, made of silver, with small spikes on the inside, in emulation of the Crown of Thorns worn by Christ.

For eleven years, she lived this way, with intervals of ecstasy, and died on 24 August 1617, at the age of thirty-one. It is said that she prophesied the date of her death. Her funeral was held in the Cathedral, attended by all the public authorities of Lima, and with a eulogy by the Archbishop.

Saint Rose of Lima Church,

Newark, New Jersey,

United States of America.

Photo: 30 May 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Jim.henderson.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Rose was Beatified by Pope Clement IX, on 10 May 1667, and Canonised, on 12 April 1671, by Pope Clement X, the first Catholic in the Americas to be declared a Saint. Her Shrine, alongside those of her friends, Saint Martin de Porres and Saint John Macías, is located inside the Convent of Saint Dominic, in Lima, Peru. The Roman Catholic Church says that many Miracles followed her death; there were stories that she had cured a leper. Many places in the New World are named Santa Rosa, after her. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is especially devoted to her.

"The Life of Santa Rosa" was written by many, including: The Dominican, Father Hansen, "Vita Sanctae Rosae" (2 vols., Rome, 1664–1668), and Vicente Orsini, afterward. Pope Benedict XIII, wrote "Concentus Dominicano, Bononiensis ecclesia, in album Sanctorum Ludovici Bertrandi et Rosae de Sancta Maria, ordinero praedicatorum" (Venice, 1674).

English: Saint Rose of Lima Church,

Sittard, Netherlands.

Nederlands: Rosakapel te Sittard (Limburg).

Photo: 7 August 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Gouwenaar.

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In the Caribbean twin-island State of Trinidad and Tobago, the Santa Rosa Carib Community, located in Arima, is the largest organisation of indigenous peoples on the island. The second oldest Parish in the Diocese of Port-of-Spain is also named after this Saint. The Santa Rosa Church, which is located in the town of Arima, was established on 20 April 1786, as the Indian Mission of Santa Rosa de Arima, on the Foundations of a Capuchin Mission, previously established in 1749.

Saint Rose is the Patroness of The Americas, indigenous people of The Americas, especially of Lima, Peru; the Secondary Patroness of The Philippines, along with Saint Pudentiana; of gardeners; of florists; of Sittard, the Netherlands; of India. Maywood, California is known as the largest Parish dedicated to Santa Rosa. On the last weekend in August, the Fiesta de Santa Rosa is celebrated in Dixon, New Mexico.

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