Saint Pudentiana. Virgin. Feast Day 19 May.

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

Saint Pudentiana.
Virgin.
Feast Day 19 May.

Simple.

White Vestments.

English: Saint Pudentiana.

Detail of a mosaic in the Apse of Santa Pudenziana,

Rome, Italy.

Deutsch: Pudentiana, Mosaik aus Santa Pudenziana.

This File: 25 October 2005.

User: Marcus Cyron.

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The Nave,

Basilica of Santa Pudenziana,

Rome, Italy.

Photo: 13 May 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Welleschik.

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Saint Pudentiana, in this part of The Cycle, participates in The Triumph of Christ over the Devil, the Flesh, and the World. The daughters of Pudens, a Roman Senator, she and her sister, Praxedes, Consecrated their Virginity to Jesus.

At the death of her father, she distributed all her riches to the Poor, in agreement with her sister, and she was barely sixteen years old when she died, in the Reign of Emperor Antoninus.

Her remains rest in her house, which she had converted into a Church. Her father had received Saint Peter there and she had placed it at the disposal of Pope Pius I, who Celebrated The Holy Mysteries there during "The Persecution".

This is the "Title-Church" of Pudentiana, where The Station is held on the Tuesday in The Third Week of Lent. ["Title-Churches", bearing as Title the name of their Founder or Foundress, were the usual Meeting Places of Christians in Rome, and became the first "Parish Churches".]

Mass: Dilexísti.

"Saint Praxedes and Saint Pudentiana collecting the Blood of The Martyrs".

Artist: Giovanni Paolo Rossetti (1621).

Painting in the Basilica of Santa Pudenziana,

Rome, Italy.

Photo: 13 April 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Georges Jansoone (JoJan).

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Saint Peter Celestine. Pope And Confessor. Feast Day 19 May.

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

Saint Peter Celestine.
Pope and Confessor.
Feast Day 19 May.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: Painting of Pope Celestine V.

Español: Pintura del papa celestino V.

Artist: Giulio Cessare Bedeschini.

Date: 1700.

Source: Museo de l'aquila, Italia.

Author: Giulio Cessare Bedeschini.

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Among all the Pastors to whom Jesus lovingly committed the care of His Church, Saint Peter Celestine is the one who most particularly shows forth the virtue of humility, the foundation of all Holiness [Rule of Saint Benedict. Chapter Seven] according to Saint Benedict, his father in God.

Born in 1221, he retired into the desert when hardly adolescent (Gospel), and his virtues soon drew disciples round him. Such was the origin of The Branch of The Benedictine Order, known since under the name of "The Celestines", from the name which Saint Peter took when he became Pope in 1294.

At the age of seventy-two, he had to leave his sweet solitude, received full Sacerdotal power (Introit, Epistle) and occupied The Chair of Saint Peter (Communion), which had been vacant twenty-seven months. Raised to this eminent dignity, he thought himself incapable of bearing such a burden, and, "placing humility above that elevation" (Collect), he voluntarily resigned the highest dignity.

He ended his days in contemplation, which his Soul craved for, and died on 19 May 1296.

Following the example of Saint Peter Celestine, let us despise the honours of this World, in order to attain possession of the rewards promised to the humble (Collect).

Mass: Státuit.
Commemoration of Saint Pudentiana, by the Collects of The Mass: Dilexísti.

Outrage As Midwives' Chief Announces She Will Lobby For ABORTION Up To BIRTH !!!

This Article can be read in full at THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE UNBORN

Close links have been revealed between Cathy Warwick (left), the Royal College of Midwives'

Chief Executive and General Secretary and a Trustee of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), 

and BPAS, run by Ann Furedi, Chief Executive, (right).

Illustrations: THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE UNBORN

Outrage as midwives' chief announces

she will lobby for ABORTION up to BIRTH

The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is coming under fire for its close links to the ABORTION industry, after announcing that they will be joining the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)'s extreme campaign for full decriminalisation of ABORTION on demand up to BIRTH.

The RCM, which is Britain's biggest maternity union - representing nearly 30,000 midwives and health workers - is calling for women to be allowed to TERMINATE an UNBORN CHILD at any stage of pregnancy, for any reason, with no criminal sanctions.

Read more on the SPUC website: https://www.spuc.org.uk/news/news-stories/2016/may/horror-as-midwives-chief-announces-she-will-lobby-for-abortion-up-to-birth

"Have You Heard The Latest Bit Of Gossip ?"

Illustration: FACEBOOK JULIA JONES

Procession Of The Blessed Sacrament On Sunday, 29 May 2016. 1730 hrs. The Solemnity Of Corpus Christi. With The Apostolic Nuncio, H E Archbishop Antonio Mennini.

Illustrations: THE PERSONAL ORDINARIATE OF OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM

Procession Of The Blessed Sacrament

On Sunday, 29 May 2016. 1730 hrs.

The Solemnity of Corpus Christi.

With The Apostolic Nuncio,

H E Archbishop Antonio Mennini.

From The Ordinariate Central Church of

Our Lady of The Assumption and Saint Gregory,

Warwick Street, London, W1B 5LZ.

Web-Site: THE PERSONAL ORDINARIATE OF OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM

"I Got A '34 Wagon And We Call It A Woody".

The opening words

(written by Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys)

in the classic Jan and Dean song of the '60s,

"Surf City" (see, below).

Summer Is Almost Here !!!

A '34 Woody.

1934 Ford Model 40 Station Wagon.

Image: BONHAMS

"Surf City",

by

Jan and Dean

(1963).

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/ERrwjR4ZlfI

Another '34 Woody.

1934 Ford Station Wagon.

Image: AUTOEVOLUTION

1934 Ford Custom Woody Wagon.

Image: BARRETT-JACKSON

Summer is almost here

AND,

as a BONUS . . .

"Little Deuce Coupe".

The Beach Boys.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/NwgGuadsqyo

"Fun, Fun, Fun".

The Beach Boys.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/dDHErN3dOkc

Well she got her daddy's car

And she cruised through the hamburger stand now

Seems she forgot all about the library

Like she told her old man now

And with the radio blasting

Goes cruising just as fast as she can now

And she'll have fun fun fun

'Til her daddy takes the T-Bird away

(Fun fun fun 'til her daddy takes the T-Bird away)

Well the girls can't stand her

'Cause she walks looks and drives like an ace now

(You walk like an ace now you walk like an ace)

She makes the Indy 500 look like a Roman chariot race now

(You look like an ace now you look like an ace)

A lotta guys try to catch her

But she leads them on a wild goose chase now

(You drive like an ace now you drive like an ace)

And she'll have fun fun fun

'Til her daddy takes the T-Bird away

(Fun fun fun 'til her daddy takes the T-Bird away)

Well you knew all along

That your dad was gettin' wise to you now

(You shouldn't have lied now you shouldn't have lied)

And since he took your set of keys

You've been thinking that your fun is all through now

(You shouldn't have lied now you shouldn't have lied)

But you can come along with me

'Cause we gotta a lot of things to do now

(You shouldn't have lied now you shouldn't have lied)

And we'll have fun fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away

(Fun fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away)

And we'll have fun fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away

(Fun fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away)

(fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away)

(fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away)

(fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away)

(fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away)

(fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away)

(fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away)

"Surfin' USA".

The Beach Boys.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/2s4slliAtQU

Saint Ubaldus (1084-1160). Bishop. Confessor. Feast Day 16 May.

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

Saint Ubaldus.
Bishop and Confessor.
Feast Day 16 May.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

Fresco of Saint Ubaldus.

Location: Gubbio, Umbria, Italy.

Source: http://www.ilmiositoweb.it/santubaldo/Santo.htm

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Saint Ubaldus, born at Gubbio, Umbria, Italy, received Episcopal Consecration (Introit, Epistle, Alleluia) and was obliged, by Pope Honorius II, to take the government of that Church (Communion).

After having, under the guidance of The Holy Ghost, by his charity and apostolic zeal, put to full advantage the talents which God had entrusted to him, he piously fell asleep and "entered into the joy of his Lord" (Gospel) on Whitsunday evening.

He died in 1160 and his body has remained intact up to our time. Let us ask this Saint, to whom God gave special power against Satan, to preserve us from all the malice of the devil (Collect).

Mass: Státuit.

The Festival of La Corsa dei Ceri, at Gubbio, Italy.

The statue of Saint Ubaldo leads the Procession, followed by

Ceri topped with the statues of Saint George and Saint Anthony the Great.

Date: 2000.

This File: 29 April 2006.

User: Starlight.

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The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

The Basilica is the finishing-point for the annual Saint Ubaldo Day Procession on 15 May (in Italian, La Corsa dei Ceri). The Procession includes a race between three teams of men, each representing one of the Town's three Guilds:

The Masons (in Gold) with a statue of Saint Ubaldo;
The Merchants (in Blue) with a statue of Saint George;
The Peasants (in Black) with a statue of Saint Anthony.

The participants dress in colourful "Ceraioli" and carry three, nearly-900-pound, wooden stands and statues (Ceri) of their Saints through the City to the City Gates. Thereafter, the teams sprint up Mount Ingino to the Basilica, where the statues remain until the following May. A similar Festival is celebrated in Jessup, Pennsylvania, United States of America. The event is considered an important contribution to the Town's tourism industry.

English: The Courtyard of the Basilica of Sant'Ubaldo,

Italiano: Gubbio - Basilica di S. Ubaldo.

Gubbio, Umbria, Italy.

Photo: August 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Geobia.

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Ubaldo of Gubbio (Italian: Ubaldo; Latin: Ubaldus; French: Ubalde; circa 1084–1160) was a Mediaeval Bishop of Gubbio, in Umbria, today Venerated as a Saint by The Catholic Church. Saint Ubaldo Day is still Celebrated at the Basilica of Sant'Ubaldo, in Gubbio, in his honour, as well as at Jessup, Pennsylvania.

Born Ubaldo Baldassini, of noble parents, at Gubbio, Italy, Ubaldo lost his father while still very young. He was educated by the Prior of the Cathedral Church of his native City, where he also became a Canon Regular. Saint Sperandia was a relative of Ubaldo.

He felt a Vocation to become a Monk, and entered the Monastery of Saint Secondo in the same City, where he remained for some years. Recalled by his Bishop, he returned to the Cathedral Monastery, where he was made Prior. Having heard that, at Vienna, Blessed Peter de Honestis, some years before, had established a very fervent Community of Canons Regular, to whom he had given special statutes which had been approved by Pope Paschal II, Ubaldo went there, remaining with his Brother Canons for three months, to learn the details and the practice of their rules, wishing to introduce them among his own Canons of Gubbio.

English: The Courtyard of the Basilica of Sant'Ubaldo,

Italiano: Gubbio - Basilica di S. Ubaldo.

Gubbio, Umbria, Italy.

Photo: August 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Geobia.

(Wikimedia Commons)

This he did at his return. He earned a reputation for piety, poverty (for all his rich patrimony, he had given to the poor and to the restoration of Monasteries), humility, mortification, meekness, and fervour, and the fame of his Holiness spread in the Country, and several Bishoprics were offered to him, but he refused them all.

Ubaldo is said to have prevented Frederick Barbarossa from sacking Gubbio, as the Emperor had sacked Spoleto in 1155.

However, the Episcopal See of Gubbio becoming vacant, he was sent, with some Clerics, by the population to ask for a new Bishop from Pope Honorius II, who, having Consecrated him, sent him back to Gubbio. To his people, he became a perfect pattern of all Christian virtues, and a powerful protector in all their Spiritual and Temporal needs.

He died after a long and painful illness of two years.

English: The glass sarcophagus of Saint Ubaldo,

Basilica of Saint Ubaldo,

Gubbio, Umbria, Italy.

Italiano: Gubbio - Urna con le spoglie di S. Ubaldo

(nella Basilica di S. Ubaldo).

Date: August 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Geobia.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Numerous Miracles were attributed to him during his life and after his death. At the solicitation of Bishop Bentivoglio, Pope Celestine III Canonised him in 1192. His power, as we read in The Office for his Feast, is chiefly manifested over the evil spirits, and The Faithful are instructed to have recourse to him "contra omnes diabolicas nequitias".

The Life of the Saint was written by Blessed Theobaldus (Theobald, Teobaldo), his immediate successor in the Episcopal See, and, from this source, is derived all the information given by his numerous biographers. The body of Ubaldo, which had at first been buried in the Cathedral Church by the Bishops of Perugia and Cagli, at the time of his Canonisation was found flexible and incorrupt, and was then placed in a small Oratory on the top of the hill overlooking the City, where, in 1508, at the wish of the Duke of Urbino, The Canons Regular built a Church, frequented by numerous Pilgrims, who come to visit the Relics.

English: Basilica of Saint Ubaldo,

Gubbio, Umbria, Italy.

Italiano: Gubbio - Basilica di S. Ubaldo.

Date: August 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Geobia.

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The Devotion to the Saint is very popular throughout Umbria, but especially at Gubbio, where, in every family, at least one member is called Ubaldo. The Feast of their Patron Saint is Celebrated by the inhabitants of the country around with great Solemnity, there being Religious and Civil Processions which call to mind the famous Festivities of The Middle Ages in Italy.

The Basilica of Sant'Ubaldo, with a Nave and four Aisles, is a Sanctuary atop Monte Ingino, just above the City. Noteworthy, are the Marble Altar and the Great Windows with episodes of The Life of Ubaldo. The finely-sculpted Portals and the fragmentary frescoes give a hint of the magnificent 15th-Century decoration once boasted by the Basilica.

Outside of Italy, a finger Relic of Ubald is Venerated in the Saint-Theobald Collegiate Church of Thann, Haut-Rhin (France).