Saint John Eudes. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 19 August.

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

Saint John Eudes.
Confessor.
Feast Day 19 August.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: Portrait of Saint John Eudes.

Nederlands: portret Jean Eudes ca. 1673 - publiek domein, ouderdom.

This File: 4 March 2011.

User: Mathiasrex.

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Born at Rye, France, on 14 November 1601, Saint John Eudes had a special Devotion to The Blessed Virgin from his very childhood. At the age of fourteen, he Consecrated himself to her by a Vow of Perpetual Chastity.

On Christmas Day, 1625, he was Ordained Priest; in 1643, he Founded The Congregation of Jesus and Mary, usually known as "Eudists", and, in 1644, The Congregation of The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, known as The Sisters of The Good Shepherd.

English: Church of Saint John Eudes,

Caen, France.

Français: Église Saint-Jean Eudes à Caen,

construite entre 1933 et 1944.

Photo: 25 September 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Karldupart.

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Saint John Eudes Founded several Seminaries and Preached many Missions in France, but his grandest title is that given him by Pope Saint Pius X: "Father, Doctor, and Apostle of The Liturgical Worship of The Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary."

He died on 19 August 1680 at Caen, France. He was Beatified on 25 April  1909 by Pope Saint Pius X, and, on 31 May 1925 was Canonised Pope Pius XI.

Mass: Os justi.

Commemoration: The Octave of The Assumption.

The Rad Trad's Top Four.

Recently, THE RAD TRAD added an erudite Comment (as always) to Zephyrinus's Post, entitled ROLLING SCULPTURE: ART DECO CARS FROM THE 1930s AND 1940s

The Rad Trad's Comment was:

"The best looking car's from the Art Deco era:
Mercedes 540K Special Roadster;
Duesenberg "20 Grand";
Constance Bennett's 1930 Rolls Royce Phantom II;
The Pierce Silver Arrow".

Zephyrinus was so taken with The Rad Trad's Comment and four favourite Art Deco cars, and his automobile "savoir faire", that he went out and bought them (see, below).

Zephyrinus returns home
after acquiring The Rad Trad's
Top Four Art Deco era Motor Cars (see, below).

Chauffeur Perkins in front.

Illustration: PINTEREST

English: Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster.

Seen at The European Concours d'Elegance, Schwetzingen, Germany, 

Deutsch: Mercedes-Benz W29 Roadster, Baujahr 1939. Fotografiert anläßlich des European Concours d'Elegance 2002 in Schwetzingen.

Photo: 7 July 2002.

Source: Own work.

Author: Rudolf Stricker.

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1933 Arlington Torpedo-Bodied Duesenberg SJ.

Otherwise known as "The Twenty Grand".

Illustration: HEMMINGS DAILY

Constance Bennett's 1930 Rolls Royce Phantom II.

Illustration: CLASSIC CAR FEED

The following Text is from CONCEPTCARZ

This is the second body on this Rolls-Royce, purchased by film star Constance Bennett. It was originally delivered by J.S. Inskip, the New York sales officer for Rolls-Royce in 1931, with a body by Trouville.

It was traded in 1935, at which point it was re-bodied by Brewster in the striking Art Deco Town Car coachwork which it wears today.

Film Star, Constance Bennett,

in an original Studio publicity photo

for the film "Rockabye".

Date: 1932.

Source: eBay

Author: Studio.

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The car featured a V-windshield, opulent interior appointments and hand-painted caning. Bennett saw the car at the 1936 New York Auto Show, purchased the car for a reported price of $17,000, and had it shipped to California. The car appeared in many MGM movies. Bennett rented the car to the studios for $250 a day.

There was a standing joke in Hollywood that the car made more money than most of the actors of the time. Ms. Bennett kept the car for more than a decade until her husband lost the car in a poker game. It is currently one of the signature cars on display in The Nethercutt Collection. It is considered by many to be the most beautiful Town Car ever built.

1933 Pierce Silver Arrow.

Illustration: SUPERCARS.NET

Saint Agapitus. Martyr. Feast Day 18 August.

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

Saint Agapitus.
Martyr.
Feast Day 18 August.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Agapitus.

Illustration: TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC PRIEST

"At Palestrina (the old Praeneste, near Rome, Italy), the birth into Heaven of Saint Agapitus, who, when only fifteen years old, was put to death, in 275 A.D., after several torments, by the stroke of the sword, thus winning The Crown of Immortality" (Roman Martyrology).

Mass: Lætábitur.

Within The Octave Of The Assumption, Today, 18 August.

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

Within The Octave of The Assumption.
18 August.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

English: The Assumption of The Virgin Mary.

Deutsch: Maria Himmelfahrt, Hochaltar für

St. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venedig.

Français: L'Assomption de la Vierge.

Artist: Titian (1490–1576).

Date: 1516-1518.

Current location: Institution:Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, Italy.

Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.

DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202.

Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

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"The Immaculate Body of Mary remained without corruption and was  borne up to Heaven, before The General Resurrection." [Fifth Lesson at Matins.]

The Council of The Vatican (The First Vatican Council), which had to be adjourned in 1870, was not able to carry out the desire which had been expressed for the definition of this Dogma [Editor: The Dogma of The Assumption was promulgated by Pope Pius XII, eighty years later, in 1950.]

But the proclamation of The Immaculate Conception of Mary [Editor: On 8 December 1854.] justifies all hopes, for the final triumph of The Assumption corresponds with this initial privilege.

As The Feast of The Immaculate Conception of The Virgin affirmed in certain Liturgies how appropriately God Almighty had made Mary a creature apart from her very birth, so The Feast of The Assumption each year proclaims the same appropriateness when she leaves this Earth.

The harmony which  reigns in the works of God required an earlier Resurrection of The Mother of God, who, Holy among all, and Ever Virgin, deserved on the part of her Son an adequate reward worthy of her position as Queen of Heaven and Mediatrix of All Mankind.

Although not defined as a Dogma of our Faith [Editor: The Dogma of The Assumption was promulgated by Pope Pius XII in 1950.], this truth is of those no one is permitted to doubt, as Pope Benedict XIV declares [De Canone S.S. 1, 1, 42, 15.]

Mass: As on The Day of The Feast.

Commemoration of Saint Agapitus.

Rolling Sculpture: Art Deco Cars From The 1930s And 1940s.

1931 Ruxton Sedan, in Joseph Urban livery,

from the Richard H. Driehaus Collection at Chicago Vintage Motor Carriage.

Photos by Peter Harholdt, unless otherwise noted.

Text from HEMMINGS DAILY
by Kurt Ernst

Sometimes, the line between art and automobile becomes blurred, as recent Ken Gross-curated exhibits at Nashville’s Frist Center for the Visual Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston have demonstrated.

Opening in October at the North Carolina Museum of Art, a new exhibit, also curated by Gross, will celebrate Rolling Sculpture: Art Deco Cars from the 1930s and ’40s, embracing the themes of Art Deco, Streamlining and Yesterday’s Car of the Future.

1941 Indian 441 Series 4-Cylinder motorcycle,

from the collection of Duane Van Fleet.

Of the cars to be shown, perhaps none exemplifies the Art Deco movement better than the 1931 Ruxton Sedan, featuring a distinctive “rainbow” livery created by industrial designer (and Art Deco pioneer) Joseph Urban. One of nineteen surviving Ruxtons, just five are finished in the Urban design, meant to exaggerate the car’s length, and hence, its grandeur.

With details like Woodlite headlamps, Moire silk window shades and silk-wrapped passenger-assist handles, the Ruxton could have been among the premier luxury cars of its day, had the company survived the effects of The Great Depression and the ambitions of its founder.

1931 Ruxton Sedan, in Joseph Urban livery,

Saint Joachim. Father Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day 16 August.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless otherwise stated.

Saint Joachim.

Father of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Confessor.

Double of The Second-Class.

White Vestments.

Saint Joachim. Father of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: Rene de Cramer.

"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".

Used with Permission.

English: Saint Joachim, Saint Anne (with Mary and Jesus, as children), Saint Joseph,

statues on Aachen Cathedral, Germany.

Français: Saint Joachim, Sainte Anne (avec l'enfant Jésus et Marie), Saint Joseph,

statues au dessus d'un porche de la cathédrale, Aix-la-Chapelle, Allemagne.

Photo: 21 December 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Jebulon.

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The following paragraph is taken from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Joachim ("he whom YHWH has set up", Hebrew: יְהוֹיָקִים Yəhôyāqîm, Greek Ἰωακείμ Iōākeím) was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, The Mother of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the apocryphal Gospel of James. Joachim and Anne are not mentioned in the Bible.

Saint Joachim, Our Lady and Saint Anne.

Church of Saint Anne,

Butajnove, Slovenia.

Artist: Josip Egartner (1809–1849).

Date: 1846.

Source: www.restavratorstvo-sentjost.si

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Desiring to associate the name of Joachim with the triumph of his Blessed Daughter, The Church has Transferred his Feast Day from 20 March to the day following The Assumption.

Pope Leo XIII, whose Baptismal name was Joachim, in 1879 raised Saint Joachim's Feast, and that of Saint Anne, to the Rank of Double of The Second-Class.

"Joachim and Anne," says Saint Epiphanes, "earned Divine Favour by an irreproachable life and merited that their union should bear for its beautiful fruit, The Blessed Virgin Mary, The Temple and Mother of God. Joachim, Anne, and Mary, offered manifestly together a sacrifice of praise to The Holy Trinity. The name of Joachim signifies "Preparation of The Lord". Is it not he, in fact, who prepares The Temple of The Lord, The Blessed Virgin ? " [Fourth Lesson at Matins.]

Wherefore, the Introit and Gradual enhance the Virtues of this great Confessor and recall the frequent Almsgiving of the Saint, for, according to Tradition, he divided what he had into three parts, of which the first was given to the Temple and its Ministers, the second to The Poor, and the third was all he kept for himself.

Church of Saint Anne,

Butajnova, Slovenia

(see painting, above)

Photo: 2 July 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Doremo.

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"Most Blessed Couple," says, in his turn, Saint John of Damascus, "the whole Creation is in your debt. For it is through you that it has been enabled to offer The Creator a present above all presents, the chaste Mother, who alone was worthy of The Creator. Rejoice, Joachim, for unto us a Son is born of thy daughter." [Fifth and Sixth Lessons at Matins.]

And the Gospel selected shows us the Royal Lineage of this Son, for, by his marriage with Mary, daughter of Joachim (or Heliachim), Joseph, son of Jacob, made Jesus the legal heir of David.

As Grace perfects nature without destroying it, it may be affirmed that Joachim, united like Saint Joseph and Saint Anne by a very intimate tie to The Mother of God and her Son, is called to exercise his perpetual patronage (Collect) with regard to The Church, The Body of Christ, or with regard to our Souls, of which Mary is Mother.

Let us, on this day, offer to God The Holy Sacrifice in honour of The Holy Patriarch, Joachim, father of The Virgin Mary, in order that his Prayer, added to that of his spouse and of their Blessed Child, may obtain the full remission of our sins and Eternal Glory (Secret).

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On The Feast Of The Assumption Of The Blessed Virgin Mary . . . Ave Maria.

English: The Assumption of The Virgin Mary.

Deutsch: Maria Himmelfahrt, Hochaltar für

St. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venedig.

Français: L'Assomption de la Vierge.

Artist: Titian (1490–1576).

Date: 1516-1518.

Current location: Institution:Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, Italy.

Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.

DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202.

Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

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Ave Maria.

By Sarah Brightman.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/UyeLHA6bBME