Saint Boniface Of Tarsus. Martyr And One Of “The Ice Saints”. Feast Day 14 May.

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Saint Boniface.
   Martyr.
   Feast Day 14 May.

[Not to be confused with Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr. Feast Day 5 June.]

Simple.

Red Vestments.

English: Icon of Saint Boniface of Tarsus.

Deutsch: Ikone heilige Bonifatius aus Tarsus.

Russian: икона святого мученика Вонифатия Римского (Тарского).

Date: Unknown.

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Author: Unknown.

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Arrested at Tarsus, Boniface "bore himself with much fortitude in presence of his torturers" (Epistle). They tore his body with iron hooks, they thrust pointed reeds under his nails, and poured molten lead into his mouth.

He was beheaded at Tarsus on 14 May, towards 275 A.D., under the Emperor Galerius. His remains were brought to Rome and deposited on Mount Aventine, in the Church which took first his name and, later on, that of Saint Alexius.

[Editor: This Saint is not to be confused with Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr. Feast Day 5 June.]

Mass: Protexisti.

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In the 12th-Century, the name of Boniface was included on 14 May in The General Roman Calendar, with the lowest Rank of Feast (“Simple”). In 1955, Pope Pius XII reduced the Celebration to a Commemoration within The Ferial Mass (see General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII).

Because of the date of his Feast, Boniface of Tarsus was one of three Saints, who, because a cold spell was believed to be common on 12 May – 14 May, were called The Ice Saints, in Poland, Bohemia and Eastern Germany.

The Ice Saints.

The Ice Saints is a name given to Saint Mamertus (or, in some countries, Saint Boniface of Tarsus), Saint Pancras, and Saint Servatius, in Austrian, Belgian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, North-Italian, Polish, Slovene and Swiss, folklore. They are so named because their Feast Days fall on 11 May, 12 May, and 13 May, days which are known as “The Black-Thorn Winter”.

The period from 12 May to 15 May was noted to bring a brief spell of colder weather in many years, including the last nightly frosts of the Spring, in the Northern Hemisphere, under the Julian Calendar. The introduction of the Gregorian Calendar in 1582 involved skipping ten days in the Calendar, so that the equivalent days from the climatic point of view became 22 May – 25 May.

Rev. Fr. Timothy Finigan Gives A Short Talk On Fatima, The Rosary, And Saint Joseph.

Fr. Timothy Finigan

gives a short talk on

Fatima, The Rosary, and Saint Joseph.

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The Feast Day Of Our Lady Of Fatima. 13 May.

Our Lady of Fatima.

“Putting up with any sacrifices, that are asked of us in our day-to-day lives, becomes a slow Martyrdom, which purifies us and raises us up to the level of the Supernatural, through the encounter of our Soul with God, in the atmosphere of the presence of The Most Holy Trinity within us.

We have here an incomparable Spiritual Richness !!!”

Words of The Servant of God, Sister Lucia. 1997.

Illustration: OFFERIMUS TIBI DOMINE

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OFFERIMUS TIBI DOMINE

Wednesday, 13 May 2020, is

The Feast of Our Lady of Fatima.

Her words, quoted above, might be particularly appropriate for these days, if we are finding things difficult, to be away from loved ones, to be struggling at home, to be in financial difficulties and, of course, to be unable to attend

The Holy Sacrifice of The Mass.

Whatever befalls us in life can be offered to Almighty God for His Grace, to transform it by bringing forth good

out of adversity, or by raising up

the merely human to the Supernatural.

The Daily Offering.

O, Jesus, through The Immaculate Heart of Mary, 

I offer you all the Prayers, Works, Sufferings and Joys

of this day, in union with The Holy Sacrifice of The Mass

offered throughout the World.

I offer them for all the intentions of

Your Most Sacred Heart:

For the Salvation of Souls;

Reparation for sin;

And the Reunion of all Christians.

Amen.

Saint Robert Bellarmine. Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day 13 May.

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Saint Robert Bellarmine.
   Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of The Church.
   Feast Day 13 May.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Robert Bellarmine.

Jesuit, and Doctor of The Church

(4 October 1542 - 17 September 1621).

Beatified 13 May 1923.

Canonised 29 June 1930

by Pope Pius XI.

Date: 16th-Century.

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Author: Anonymous.

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Born at Montepulciano, Italy, died in Rome. Proclaimed Doctor of The Church on 15 August 1931.

Successively, Professor of Theology and Preacher at Louvain (1569 - 1576), Director of the Course of Controversy in Rome, where Saint Aloysius Gonzaga was his Penitent, Provincial of The Jesuits at Naples, sent by Pope Sixtus V on a Diplomatic Mission to France, Bellarmine was raised to the Cardinalate in spite of his unwillingness in 1599.

Pope Clement VIII alleged as motive for this promotion that his (Editor: Bellarmine's) equal in learning was not at that time to be found in The Church.

Saint Robert Bellarmine Church

Burbank, California, United States of America.

Photo: April 2008.

Source: Own work: Transferred from en.wikipedia

Author: Cbl62

Attribution: Cbl62 at en.wikipedia

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Apart from three years he spent in Capua as Archbishop, he passed his life in Rome, where he rendered signal services to Pope Clement VIII, Pope Paul V, and Pope Gregory XV.

By his controversial books, he dealt formidable blows to Protestantism, while, by his Catechism, translated into forty languages, he spread the knowledge of Christian Doctrine in all Countries of the World.

As a Religious, he shone by his Angelic purity, humility, and obedience, and, as Bishop, he was a model of watchful care and Charity to the Poor.

Towards the end of his life, he obtained leave of the Pope to retire to the Noviciate of Saint Andrew, the cradle of his Religious Life, where he prepared for a happy and holy death.

Mass: In médio. From The Common of Doctors.

Saints Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, And Pancras. Martyrs. Feast Day 12 May.

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Saints Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, and Pancras.
   Martyrs.
   Feast Day 12 May.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

Saint Domitilla, with Saints Nereus and Achilleus.

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Date: 1608.

Current location: Santa Maria-in-Vallicella, Rome.

Source: http://saints.bestlatin.net/gallery/nerach_rubens.htm

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Nereus and Achilleus, Officers of the household of Flavia Domitilla, a niece of the Emperors Titus and Domitian, were Baptised by Saint Peter. The Gospel praises their Faith when it praises that of the Officer who obtained the cure of his son and believed in Jesus.

These Saints, having inspired Domitilla with the resolution to consecrate her Virginity to God, Aurelianus, her betrothed, accused them, all three, of being Christians. Out of hatred for Christ, they were put to death under the Emperor Trajan, at Terracina, about 100 A.D.

Their bodies rest in Rome in the Church of Saints Nereus and Achilleus. This Church was Stational on Monday in Holy Week, but the bad state of the building caused the Station to be transferred to Saint Praxedes's in the 13th-Century. Saints Nereus and Achilleus Church was restored in the 16th-Century.

Saint Pancras was arrested in Rome at the age of fourteen and put to death towards 275 A.D., under Emperor Diocletian, for having refused to sacrifice to the Roman Gods. His constancy earned him a place among The Saints, whose joy he shares (Epistle, Communion).

Mass: Ecce oculi.

Chauffeur Perkins Gets It Wrong Again !!!

Chauffeur Perkins drives Zephyrinus to Sunday Mass

in the current Charabanc, which Perkins is not enamoured with.

Illustration: PINTEREST

The instructions to Chauffeur Perkins were quite clear:

“ Go and purchase a new form of conveyance.

The Old Charabanc needs replacing.

Go and find something new, innovative, and exciting.

And what does he come back with !!!

This !!!

Where is Zephyrinus supposed to sit ??? ”

Illustration: DREAM FACTORY

“Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme”. “Awake !!! The Voice Is Calling Us”. A Church Cantata Composed By J. S. Bach. 1731.

“Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme”.

1731.

Composed by: J. S. Bach.

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"Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" ("Awake, calls the voice to us"), also known as "Sleepers Wake", is a Church Cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded as one of his most mature and popular Sacred Cantatas. He composed the Chorale Cantata, in Leipzig, for The 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 25 November 1731.

Bach composed this Cantata to complete his Second Annual Cycle of Chorale Cantatas, begun in 1724. The Cantata is based on the Hymn, in three Stanzas, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" (1599), by Philipp Nicolai, which covers the prescribed reading for The Sunday, "The Parable of The Ten Virgins".

The Text and Tune of the three Stanzas of the Hymn appears unchanged in three of seven Movements (one, four and seven). An unknown author supplied additional poetry for the Inner Movements as sequences of Recitative and Duet, based on the love poetry of The Song of Songs.

Bach structured the Cantata in seven Movements, setting the first Stanza as a Chorale Fantasia, the second Stanza in the Central Movement in the style of a Chorale Prelude, and the third Stanza as a four-part Chorale. He set the new Texts as dramatic Recitatives and Love-Duets, similar to contemporary Opera. Bach scored the work for three Vocal Soloists (Soprano, Tenor´and Bass), a Four-Part Choir and a Baroque Instrumental Ensemble consisting of a Horn (to reinforce the Soprano), two Oboes, Taille, Violino Piccolo, Strings and Basso Continuo including Bassoon.

Bach used the Central Movement of the Cantata as the basis for the first of his Schübler Chorales, BWV 645. Bach scholar Alfred Dürr notes that the Cantata is an expression of Christian Mysticism in Art, while William G. Whittaker calls it "a Cantata without weakness, without a Dull Bar, technically, emotionally and spiritually of The Highest Order".

“Our Lady Of Grace”. Mediæval Marian Shrine, Cambridge, England. “Our Lady Of Grace” Is The Patron Saint Of Motor-Cyclists.

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The present Chapel at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. The statue of Our Lady of Grace, in Cambridge, was in The Dominican Priory on the Eastern Side of the Town centre. In 1584, Emmanuel College was established on the site of the former Dominican Priory. What had been The Chapel of The Dominican Priory became the Dining Hall of Emmanuel College.

Illustration: EMMANUEL COLLEGE

Steve McQueen's 1934 Indian Sport Scout Motorcycle.

“Our Lady Of Grace” Is The Patron Saint Of Motor-Cyclists.

Illustration: PINTEREST

“Our Lady of Grace”, in Cambridge.

Fr Hunwicke’s Spiritual Pilgrimage (see FR HUNWICKE'S MUTUAL ENRICHMENT). around the Mediæval Marian shrines of England, today reaches Our Lady of Grace in Cambridge. This is another of those Shrines which is not well known today, but which, before its removal in 1538, attracted considerable Devotion.

In general, the expression “Our Lady of Grace” is of Mediæval origin. It is especially well known in France, and connected there frequently with the Marian Sanctuary of Cambrai, which originated in 1412.

However, the Title appears to be considerably older - the Shrine at Ipswich was also Dedicated to Our Lady of Grace, and that goes back to at least 1152.

The origins of this particular Title are much older still. They are of Biblical origin, where Mary is called “kecharitomene”: “The Fully-Graced One”, “The All-Graced One” (Lk 1:28). The Eastern Tradition calls Mary “Panhagia”: “The All-Holy One”.

The first meaning of Our Lady of Grace refers to her own Holiness. However, very early on, Mary was invoked as “The Uniquely Blessed One” (see the “Sub Tuum Præsidium”, dating to the 4th-Century A.D.) and as “The Mother of Mercy” (see the great Orthodox Acathist Hymn, perhaps originating around 530 A.D., and certainly before 626 A.D.). She is also the one who intercedes for us with God to obtain His Grace.

The statue of Our Lady of Grace in Cambridge was in The Dominican Priory on the Eastern Side of the Town centre. 

On 30 August 1538, Bishop John Hilsey O.P., of Rochester, Kent, the successor of Saint John Fisher, but a reform-minded Dominican who, that same year, publicly derided the Veneration of The Holy Rood, of Boxley, and The Holy Blood, of Hailes, wrote to Thomas Cromwell from London. 

The bearer of the Letter was the Prior of The Black Friars at Cambridge, Gregory Dod, who was, in the opinion of the Bishop, “a man of good learning and a Preacher of God’s true Gospel”, who wished to be allowed to take away an image of Our Lady in his house, “which has had much Pilgrimage to her, especially at Sturbridge Fair, which is drawing near.” Hilsey continued by asking Cromwell to take the Cambridge house into the King's hands.

From Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, xiii(2) 224.

This is not quite as the story is told in the History of the University of Cambridge vol I, p. 330 n. 119, which has Thomas Cromwell initiating its removal, although he did doubtless happily concur with Prior Dod’s request.

In 1584, Emmanuel College was established on the site of the former Dominican Priory and what had been its Chapel became the Dining Hall.

Stourbridge Fair, at Cambridge, originated with a Charter from King John in 1211 to raise funds for the local Leper Hospital, by granting them a two-day Fair at The Feast of The Exaltation of The Holy Cross.

This was just after the University of Cambridge was begun in 1208. With both the new academic foundation, and The Fair, Cambridge, being a focus of routes, meant that both were to become successful.

The Fair became bigger and longer lasting, and, arguably, the largest one in England, if not, indeed, Europe, at one point. In 1538, Hilsey and Dod’s concern was that it was a focus to attract potential Pilgrims to Our Lady of Grace from the surrounding region.

Unfortunately, The Fair declined in the 19th-Century and, when it was last held in 1933, its attractions consisted of merely a youth with an ice-cream barrow. It was abolished in 1934. In 2011, a Commemoration of it was held on its 800th Anniversary and attempts have been made to revive it in some form in recent years.

There is more about Stourbridge Fair from Wikipedia at Stourbridge Fair, from the University of Cambridge at The 800-Year-Old Story Of Stourbridge Fair, and about modern attempts at a revival at Stourbridge Fair.

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Our Lady of Grace is a Title of Mary. The feast day associated with this title is February 7. The title of Our Lady of Grace is venerated in many countries throughout the world under various aspects. Many parishes, churches, and schools bear this name.

A major shrine in pre-Reformation England was that of "Our Lady of Grace" at Ipswich, also known as "Our Lady of Ipswich". Its first recorded mention is in 1152.[1]

In 1297, the marriage of Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, youngest daughter of King Edward I and Eleanor of Castile, took place at The Shrine of Our Lady of Grace.[2] During The Middle Ages, The Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Grace was a famous Pilgrimage destination, and attracted many Pilgrims, including King Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon.[3]

Only Walsingham attracted more Pilgrims. At the Reformation, the Statue was taken away to London to be burned in 1538, though some claim that it survived and is preserved at Nettuno, Italy.[4] Whether it was taken there by Catholic Sailors, according to local legend, or simply sold by associates of Thomas Cromwell, the Nettuno Statue appears to bear an English provenance.[5]

The Poly-Chromed Wooden Statue of Our Lady of Grace is carried in procession every year in Nettuno on The First Saturday of May. The Anglican Church of Saint Mary At The Elms, in Ipswich, England, houses a Copy of the Nettuno Statue.[6] Every year, Parishioners from Saint Mary's and The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Pancras, Ipswich, join in a Pilgrimage to the former site of The Shrine, which was just outside the City's West Gate.

With thanks to the Web-Site of The International Marian Research Institute at Dayton Ohio, HERE.

Saint Gordian And Saint Epimachus. Martyrs. Feast Day 10 May.

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Saints Gordian and Epimachus.
   Martyrs.
   Feast Day 10 May.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

English: Illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle

depicting Saint Gordian and Saint Epimachus.

Deutsch: Illustration aus der Schedel'schen Weltchronik, Blatt 132 verso

Date: 1493.

Source: Scan from original book.

Author: Michel Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (Text: Hartmann Schedel).

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Saint Gordian, a Roman Judge, was Converted by a Holy Priest, whom Julian The Apostate would have liked him to condemn.

Saint Gordian was Martyred towards 360 A.D., and was buried in the Crypt where already lay the remains of the Martyr Saint Epimachus (+ 250 A,D,), brought from Alexandria.

Mass: Sancti tui.

English: The Martyrdom of Saint Gordian (Gordianus).

Français: Martyre de saint Gordien (Martyrdom of Saint Gordian, Gordianus).

Cote: Français 185, Fol. 231v. Vies de saints,

France, Paris, XIVe siècle, Richard de Montbaston et collaborateurs.

Source: http://saints.bestlatin.net/gallery/gordianus_bnfms.htm

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Saints Gordianus and Epimachus were Roman Martyrs, who are Commemorated on 10 May.

Gordianus was a Roman Judge, who converted to Christianity. He was tortured and finally beheaded. His body was laid in a Crypt on the Via Latina, Rome, beside the body of Saint Epimachus, and the two Saints gave their name to the Cemetery of Gordianus and Epimachus. They are jointly Venerated by The Catholic Church with a Feast Day of 10 May in The Tridentine Calendar.

There are Churches Dedicated to the Saints in:

Aitrach, Germany;
Legau, Germany;
Merazhofen, Germany;
Pleß, Germany;
Stöttwang, Germany;
Unterroth, Germany;
Blevio, Italy.

Relics of both Saints were owned by Kempten Abbey in Bavaria.

Saint Antoninus. Bishop And Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 10 May.

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Saint Antoninus.
   Bishop and Confessor.
   Feast Day 10 May.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: Church of Saint Antoninus,

Alpes-Maritimes, France.

Français: Façade de l'église paroissiale Saint Antonin de Levens,

Alpes-Maritimes, France.

Photo: 14 July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Eric Coffinet.

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At the age of sixteen, Saint Antoninus entered The Order of Saint Dominic. Having become Archbishop of Florence (Communion), he excelled in his Pastoral Office by the austerity of his life, his Charity, and his Sacerdotal zeal (Introit, Epistle, Alleluia).

His prudence earned for him the Title of "Antoninus of Counsel". He died, rich in merits, in 1459.

Mass: Státuit.
Commemoration: Saint Gordian and Saint Epimachus. Martyrs.

English: Church of Saint Antoninus, Immensen, Germany.

Deutsch: St. Antoniuskirche in Immensen

Photo: 12 July 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Hydro

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Saint Antoninus of Florence, O.P. (1389 - 1459), was an Italian Dominican Friar, who ruled as an Archbishop of Florence. He is Venerated as a Saint by The Catholic Church.

He was born Antonio Pierozzi (also called de Forciglioni) on 1 March 1389 in the City of Florence, then Capital of an independent Republic, to Niccolò and Tomasina Pierozzi, prominent citizens of the City, Niccolò being a Notary.

The young Anthony was received into The Dominican Order in 1405, at the age of sixteen, at the new Priory of The Order in Fiesole, Florence, and given the Religious Habit by the Blessed John Dominici, Founder of the Community, becoming its first candidate. Soon, in spite of his youth, he was tasked with the administration of various Houses of his Order at Cortona, Naples, as well as Florence, which he laboured zealously to reform. These Communities had become part of a new Dominican Congregation of Tuscany, established by John Dominici in order to promote a stricter form of life within The Order, which had been devastated through its division in the Western Schism of the preceding Century.

English: Church of Saint Antoninus,

Emilia Romagna, Italy.

Italiano: Chiesa di Sant'Antonino,

Borgo Val di Taro, Emilia Romagna, Italia.

Photo: 11 July 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Davide Papalini.

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From 1433-1446, Antoninus served as Vicar of The Congregation. In this Office, he was involved in the establishment of the Priory of St Mark, in Florence. The Priory's Cells, including one for Cosimo de' Medici, were painted in frescos by Fra Angelico and his assistants.

Antoninus was Consecrated Archbishop of Florence on 13 March 1446, at the Dominican Priory in Fiesole, on the initiative of Pope Eugene IV, who had come to admire him through his participation in the major Church Councils of the period. He came to win the esteem and love of his people, especially by his energy and resource in combating the effects of the plague and earthquake in 1448 and 1453.

It was they who began the use of the diminutive form of his name which has come to prevail. Antoninus lived a life of austerity as Archbishop, continuing to follow The Dominican Rule. His relations with the Medici regime were close, but not always harmonious, with his serving several times as an Ambassador for The Republic to The Holy See during the 1450s.

Antoninus died on 2 May 1459, and Pope Pius II conducted his funeral. The Pope happened to be on his way to The Council of Mantua when he heard of the Archbishop's death. The Archbishop's wish was that he be buried at the Priory which he had Founded in the City.