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.
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
Perlman contracted polio at age four. He made a good recovery, learning to walk with crutches. Today, he uses crutches or an electric Amigo scooter for mobility and plays the violin while seated.
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.
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Saint Andrew (Andrea) Avellino (1521 – November 10, 1608) was an ItalianSaint. Born at Castronuovo, (today, Castronuovo di Sant'Andrea), a small town in Sicily, his Baptismal name was Lancelotto, which, out of love for The Cross, he changed into Andrew when he entered The Order of Theatines.
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."
The Archbishop of Naples now commissioned him to reform a Convent at Naples, which, by the laxity of its discipline, had become a source of great scandal. By his own example and his untiring zeal, he restored the religious discipline of the Convent, but not without many and great difficulties.
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
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.
This Train was the "Top-Of-The-Line" for Union Pacific, which marketed it as a competitor to The Super Chief, a Streamlined Passenger Train on The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and The Golden State, a Streamlined Passenger Train jointly operated by The Rock Island and Southern Pacific Railroads. As with "The City of Los Angeles", many of the Train's Cars bore the names of locales, in and around its namesake City.
The Chicago and North-Western Railway, and Union Pacific Railroad, used one of two Three-Unit Sets of EMC E2 locomotives as motive power, beginning in 1937. The Union Pacific scored a public relations coup in the mid-1950s when "The City of Los Angeles" was featured in two episodes of the popular Television Series "I Love Lucy".
In 1955, The Milwaukee Road assumed the Service, replacing The Chicago and North-Western Railway, between Chicago and Omaha. Actor Ronald Reagan, later President Reagan, often travelled on this Train and even did a Full-Page print advertisement for it that appeared in The National Geographic magazine. In a cost-cutting move, "The City of Los Angeles" was combined with "The City of San Francisco" in 1960.
Photo depicting the Club Car "Little Nugget",
aboard Union Pacific's "City of Los Angeles" Train.
Date: 1948. Published as an advertisement in Time Magazine.
Postcard depiction of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Train, "The Orange Blossom Special",
which travelled between New York and Miami.
The Postcard touts the Train as being the only "All Electric" Train from New York to Florida (1939 Postmark). The term refers to the Diesel Engines which were used for the Train, beginning in 1938.
The Orange Blossom Special was a deluxe Passenger Train on the Seaboard Air Line (SAL) Railroad and connecting Railroads between New York City and Miami in the United States. It ran during the Winter Season, only.
The Train started on 21 November 1925 and was the brain-child of SAL President, S. Davies Warfield, who wanted to capitalise on booming development in Florida at the time. Warfield believed Florida was a land of opportunity, and, with fast, luxurious Trains, he could lure influential (not to mention wealthy) business leaders to The Sunshine State. In February 1926, the Train took thirty-five hours to run from New York to West Palm Beach, Florida (Seaboard track did not reach Miami until 1927).
Spurred by the success of Henry Flagler and his rival Florida East Coast Railway in attracting travellers, The Orange Blossom Special became famous in its own right. It was renowned for its speed and luxury. E. M. Frimbo, "The World's Greatest Railway Buff", offered this account of a Dining Car Chef who had worked aboard the Train:
Our Chef . . . spent nine of his forty-three years with The Pennsylvania Railroad as Chef on the celebrated All-Pullman New York-to-Florida Train "The Orange Blossom Special" — the most luxurious Winter-Season Train ever devised by man. Nothing even remotely resembling a can opener was allowed on the premises. All the pies, cakes, rolls, birthday cakes were baked on-board, under his supervision. Cut flowers and fresh fish were taken on at every re-victualling Stop, and the Train carried thirty-five hundred Dollars' worth of wine, liquor and champagne — these at pre-Prohibition prices — for each Run.
The Service was suspended during World War II to free the equipment up for carrying troops. Its last run was in 1953. This market is now handled by Amtrak's Silver Star.
In early 2012, a similar locomotive, painted to resemble a locomotive of the time, and lettered "Orange Blossom Special", was moved in from its long-time display location, at the Church Street Station in Orlando, Florida, to The Gulf Coast Railway Museum, in nearby Tampa. Plans are for a multi-year restoration to active status for eventual Excursion Service.
Arrival of "The Orange Blossom Special" train in Plant City, Florida.
This was the arrival of the first diesel-powered passenger train
in the South-East of The United States.
Date: December 1938.
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St.,
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us
It happened, during The Maiden Run of the new, Streamlined Train, at the Jacksonville Seaboard Railroad Station, that Ervin T. Rouse and Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise saw this Train. Rouse and Wise wrote The "Orange Blossom Special" song as a fiddle tune. The tune was first recorded by Ervin and his brother, Gordon, one year later in New York.
This popular tale explains the fascination which led Ervin Rouse and Robert "Chubby" Wise to write the now famous fiddle tune. However, historically, "The Blossom" was never "Streamlined" and used Pullman Heavyweight Sleepers, Diners, and some Coaches of the Winter Tampa Run. "The Blossom" may have used some Lightweight Cars, sporadically, in Mixed Consist with The Pennsylvania Railroad, which hauled "The Blossom" in The North-East Corridor.
If Rouse and Wise did see a Streamlined Seaboard Train in 1938, it was most likely "The Silver Meteor", which was Streamlined with its Stainless Steel Coaches. The name of this Train was chosen by a public contest. The Seaboard's Lightweight Trains later became known as The Silver Fleet. This included "The Silver Meteor", "The Silver Star", and "The Silver Comet. The Train did receive modern EMC E4 Diesel locomotives in 1938, but continued using Heavyweight Pullmans and American Flyer Coaches until its demise in 1953.
It is also possible the songwriters saw one of the Twin Cities Zephyrs at the Jacksonville Railroad Station in 1935. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad brought the Train to Florida at the invitation of The Seaboard Railroad. It toured the State, making Stops in both East and West Coast Florida Cities, where the public was able to both view and tour "The Zephyr". Jacksonville was one of the Stops on its Florida Tour.
Text and Illustrations from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, unless otherwise stated. The Commemoration of All The Faithful Departed. All Souls. Feast Day 2 November. Double. Black Vestments.
The Feast of All Saints is intimately connected with the remembrance of The Holy Souls, who, detained in Purgatory to expiate their Venial Sins, or to pay the Temporal pains due to sin, are nonetheless confirmed in Grace and will, one day, enter Heaven.
Therefore, after having joyfully Celebrated the Glory of The Saints, who are The Church Triumphant in Heaven, The Church on Earth extends her maternal solicitude to the place of unspeakable torments, the abode of Souls who equally belong to her.
"On this day," says The Roman Martyrology, "Commemoration of All The Faithful Departed, in which our common and pious Mother The Church, immediately after having endeavoured to Celebrate, by worthy praise, all her children who already rejoice in Heaven, strives to aid, by her powerful intercession with Christ her Lord and Spouse, all those who still groan in Purgatory, so that they may join, as soon as possible, the inhabitants of The Heavenly City."
Nowhere in The Liturgy is more vividly affirmed the mysterious unity which exists between The Church Triumphant, The Church Militant, and The Church Suffering, and never is better fulfilled the double duty of Charity and Justice, incumbent on every Christian by virtue of his membership of The Mystical Body of Christ.
It is through the very consoling Dogma, of The Communion of Saints, that the merits and suffrages of The Saints may benefit others. Whereby, without infringing the indefeasible rights of Divine Justice, which are exercised in their full vigour after this life, The Church can join her Prayers, here on Earth, to those of The Church in Heaven, and supply what is wanting in The Souls in Purgatory, by offering to God for them, by The Holy Mass, by Indulgences, by the Alms and sacrifices of her children, the superabundant Merits of Christ's Passion and of His Mystical Members.
Requiem Aeternum.
The Introit from The Mass for The Dead.
Gregorian Chant notation from
The Liber Usualis (1961), p. 1807.
Latin lyrics sung by the Schola of The Vienna Hofburgkapelle.
Wherefore, The Liturgy, the centre of which is The Sacrifice of Calvary continued on the Altar, has always used this pre-eminent means of exercising, in favour of The Departed, the great Law of Charity; for it is a precept of Charity to relieve our neighbour's wants, as if they were our own, in virtue of the supernatural bond, which unites in Jesus, those in Heaven, in Purgatory, and on the Earth.
The Liturgy of The Dead is, perhaps, the most beautiful and consoling of all. Every day, at the end of each Hour of The Divine Office, we recommend to The Divine Mercy the Souls of The Faithful Departed. In The Mass, at the Suscipe, the Priest offers the Sacrifice for the living and the dead and, in a special Memento, he implores The Lord to remember His servants, who have fallen asleep in Christ and to grant them to dwell in Consolation, Light and Peace.
Masses for The Dead are already recorded in the 5th-Century A.D. But, to Saint Odilo, the fourth Abbot of the famous Benedictine Monastery of Cluny, is due The Commemoration of All The Departed. He instituted it in 998 A.D., and prescribed that it should be Celebrated the day following All Saints' Day.
Through the influence of this illustrious French Congregation (Cluny Abbey), the custom was soon adopted by the whole Christian World and it even sometimes became a Day of Obligation. In Spain, Portugal and the formerly-Spanish parts of South America, Priests, in virtue of a Privilege granted by Pope Benedict XIV, Celebrated three Masses on 2 November.
A Decree of Pope Benedict XV, dated 10 August 1915, authorises the Priests of the whole World to do the same. [By this same institution, The Holy See granted a Plenary Indulgence toties quoties, on the same conditions as on 2 August, applicable to The Souls of The Departed on All Souls' Day, to all those who visited a Church between Noon, on All Saints' Day, and Midnight on the following day and Prayed for the Intention of The Sovereign Pontiff.]
The Church reminds us in an Epistle, taken from Saint Paul, that the dead will rise again, and tells us to hope, for, on that day, we shall all see one another in The Lord. The Sequence strikingly describes The Last Judgment, when the good will be for ever separated from the wicked.
The Offertory reminds us that it is Saint Michael who introduces Souls into Heaven, for, as the Prayers for the recommendation of the Soul say, it is he who is "the Chief of The Heavenly Host" in whose ranks men are called to fill the places of The Fallen Angels.
"The Souls in Purgatory," declares The Council of Trent, "are helped by the suffrages of The Faithful, especially by The Sacrifice of The Altar." The reason is that, in Holy Mass, the Priest offers officially to God The Ransom for Souls, that is, The Blood of The Saviour. And Jesus, Himself, under the elements of Bread and Wine, which recall to The Father the Sacrifice of Golgotha, Prays God to apply to these Souls its atoning virtue.
Let us, on this day, be present at The Holy Sacrifice of The Mass, when The Church implores God to grant to The Faithful Departed, who can now do nothing for themselves, the remission of all their sins (Collect) and Eternal Rest (Introit, Gradual, Communion), and let us visit the Cemeteries where their bodies repose [the word "Cemetery" comes from a Greek word meaning "a place where one rests in peace".] until the day when, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of The Last Trumpet, they will rise again to be clothed in immortality and to gain, through Jesus Christ, the Victory over Death (Epistle).
The following is taken from "The Liturgical Year", by Abbot Gueranger, O.S.B., for All Souls' Day, 2 November. "We will not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope." [Saint Paul, I Thess. iv. 13.] The Church today has the same desire as The Apostle thus expressed to the first Christians. The truth concerning the dead not only proves admirably the union between God's Justice and His Goodness; it also inspires a charitable pity, which the hardest heart cannot resist, and, at the same time, offers to the mourners the sweetest consolation.
If Faith teaches us the existence of a Purgatory, where our loved ones may be detained by unexpiated sin, it is also of Faith that we are able to assist them; and Theology assures us that their, more or less speedy deliverance, lies in our power. Let us call to mind a few principles which throw light on this Doctrine. Every sin causes a twofold injury to the sinner: It stains his Soul, and renders him liable to punishment. Venial sin, which displeases God, requires a Temporal expiation. Mortal sin deforms the Soul, and makes the guilty man an abomination to God: Its punishment cannot be anything less than eternal banishment, unless the sinner, in this life, prevents the final and irrevocable sentence. But, even then, the remission of the guilt, though it revokes the sentence of damnation, does not cancel the whole debt. Although an extraordinary overflow of Grace upon the prodigal may, sometimes, as is always the case with regard to Baptism and Martyrdom, bury every remnant and vestige of sin in the abyss of Divine Oblivion; yet, it is the ordinary rule that, for every fault, satisfaction must be made to God's Justice, either in this World or in the next.
Monks of one of the Abbeys of The Solesmes Congregation sing this beautiful Chant. The Te Deum is attributed to two Fathers and Doctors of The Church, Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine, and is one the most majestic Chants in the Liturgy of The Church.
It is sung in Traditional Seminaries and Monastic Houses at
The Divine Office and for Double Feasts of The First Class (Editor: Such as The Feast of All Saints), The Nativity, Easter, Corpus Christi, Epiphany, Pentecost, and those Feasts
which have an Octave.
The Solemn Te Deum is sung on all occasions of public Church rejoicing (in Traditional Catholic Churches).
Text and Illustrations from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, unless otherwise stated. The Feast of All Saints. Feast Day 1 November. Double of The First-Class with an Octave. White Vestments.
The temple of Agrippa was dedicated, under Augustus, to all the pagan gods, hence its name of "Pantheon". Under Emperor Phocas, between 607 A.D. and 610 A.D., Pope Boniface IV Translated hither numerous remains of Martyrs taken from The Catacombs.
On 13 May 610 A.D., he Dedicated this new Christian Basilica to Saint Mary and The Martyrs. The Feast of this Dedication later took a more Universal character, and the temple was Consecrated to Saint Mary And All The Saints.
As there was already a Feast in Commemoration of All The Saints, Celebrated at first on various dates in various Churches, then fixed by Pope Gregory IV in 835 A.D., on 1 November, Pope Gregory VII transferred to this date the Anniversary of The Dedication of the Pantheon as a Church. The Feast of All Saints, therefore, recalls The Triumph of Christ over the false pagan deities. In this Church is held The Station on The Friday in The Octave of Easter.
As The Saints, Commemorated during the first three Centuries of The Church were Martyrs, and the Pantheon was at first Dedicated by The Church to them, The Mass of All Saints is made up of extracts from The Liturgy of Martyrs. The Introit is that of The Mass of Saint Agatha, used later for other Feasts; the Gospel, Offertory and Communion are taken from The Common of Martyrs.
The Church gives us on this day a wonderful vision of Heaven, showing us, with Saint John, the twelve thousand signed (twelve is considered a perfect number) of each tribe of Israel, and a great multitude, which no-one can count, of every nation and tribe, of every people and tongue, standing before the Throne and before The Lamb, clothed in White Robes and with Palms in their hands (Epistle).
Christ and Our Lady; the Blessed Battalions distributed in Nine Choirs; the Apostles and Prophets; the Martyrs, crimsoned in their blood; the Confessors, adorned in White Garments; and the chaste Choir of Virgins, form, as the Hymn of Vespers sings, the Majestic Court.
It is composed of all those, who, here below, were detached from worldly riches, Gentle, Suffering, Just, Merciful, Pure, Peaceful, and Persecuted for The Name of Jesus. "Rejoice," The Master had foretold them, "for a great reward is prepared for you in Heaven" (Gospel, Communion).
Among those millions of The Just, who were faithful Disciples of Jesus, on Earth, are several of our own family, relations, friends, members of our Parochial Family, now enjoying the fruit of their Piety, adoring The Lord, King of Kings, and Crown of All Saints (Invitatory at Matins) and obtaining for us the wished-for abundance of His mercies (Collect).
Every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.
