Commemoration Of All Souls Of The Benedictine Order (O.S.B.). Today, 14 November.

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

In The Supplement For The Order Of Saint Benedict, contained within The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, there is listed all The Feasts associated with that Order.

Commemoration Of All Souls Of The Benedictine Order (O.S.B.).
   14 November.

Double.

Black Vestments.

Mass: Requiem, as on All Souls’ Day (2 November), except:

Collect: Deus, véniæ.
Secret: Deus, cujus.
Postcommunion: Præsta, quaésumus.

Saint Josaphat. Bishop And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 14 November.

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unless stated otherwise.

Saint Josaphat.
   Bishop And Martyr.
   Feast Day 14 November.

Double.

Red Vestments.

Martyrdom of Josaphat Kuntsevych.

Artist: Józef Simmler (1823–1868).

Date: Circa 1861.

Current location: National Museum in Warsaw, Poland.

Source/Photographer: cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl

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A native of Wladimir, in Volhynia (then Poland, now Ukraine), and belonging to a noble family, Josaphat Kuncewitcz embraced Monastic Life in The Order of Saint Basil. He always kept fresh the flower of his Chastity, which he had from his youth Consecrated to Mary.

Commissioned in spite of his early age to govern the Monastery of Bytene, he became shortly afterwards Archimandrite of Vilna and, lastly, very much against his wish, Archbishop of Polotzk, of The Ruthenian Rite.

The Apostolic zeal of the youthful Archbishop excited against him the hatred of Hell. Attacked at Vitebsk by the Schismatics, he was cruelly put to death in 1623, and obtained from God the conversion of his murderers.

Mass: Gaudeámus omnes in Dómino.

The Basilica of Saint Josaphat,

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America.

Copyright © 2005 Sulfur

Date: 4 March 2007 (original upload date).

Source: Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons

by James Steakley using CommonsHelper

Author:

The original uploader was Sulfur at English Wikipedia

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Josaphat Kuntsevych, O.S.B.M., (1580 – 12 November 1623) (Belarusian: Язафат Кунцэвіч, Jazafat Kuncevič, Polish: Jozafat Kuncewicz, Ukrainian: Йосафат Кунцевич, Josafat Kuntsevych) was a Monk and Archeparch (Archbishop) of The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, who was killed at Vitebsk, Vitebsk Voivodeship, in The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (now in Belarus), on 12 November 1623. He is "the best-known victim" of sectarian violence related to implementing The Union of Brest, and is declared a Martyr and Saint of The Catholic Church.

The Order of Saint Basil the Great (O.S.B.M. Latin: Ordo Sancti Basilii Magni, Portuguese: Ordem de São Basílio Magno, Ukrainian: Чин Святого Василія Великого, Chyn Sviatoho Vasyliia Velykoho), also known as The Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat, is a Monastic Religious Order of The Greek Catholic Church that is present in many Countries and has its Mother House in Rome (Santi Sergio e Bacco degli Ucraini).

The Order received approbation on 20 August 1631. Its Monks, Brothers, and Priests, work primarily with Ukrainian Catholics and are also present in other Greek-Catholic Churches in Central and Eastern Europe.

“The Man With No Name”.

  

“The Man With No Name”.

Available on YouTube

HERE

The Feast Day Of All Monks Of The Benedictine Order (O.S.B.). Today, 13 November.

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

In The Supplement For The Order Of Saint Benedict, contained within The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, there is listed all The Feasts associated with that Religious Order.

On 13 November is Celebrated The Feast Of All Monks Of The Benedictine Order (O.S.B.).

The Feast Of All Monks Of The Benedictine Order (O.S.B.).
   13 November.

Double of The Second-Class.

White Vestments.

Up to the end of the 16th-Century, there was no General Feast of this name for the whole Benedictine Order, since “The Order Of Saint Benedict”, in the modern sense, was unknown.

In individual Monasteries, as Monte Cassino, Cluny, Fontenelle, etc, a Feast of all the Saints proper to the Monastery was observed, on different dates; only by the Revision of The Monastic Breviary, by Pope Saint Paul V, in 1612, a General Feast of All Holy Monks of The Benedictine Order was instituted, on 13 November.

Mass: Gaudeámus omnes.
Epistle: Exhibeámus.
Gospel: Ecce nos relíquimus (from The Common of Abbots).
Creed: Is Said or Sung.
Preface: Of Saint Benedict (Page 19 in The Supplement For The Order Of Saint Benedict, contained within The Saint Andrew Daily Missal).

Saint Didacus. Confessor. Feast Day 13 November.

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unless stated otherwise.

Saint Didacus.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 13 November.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Didacus of Alcalá

Español: San Diego de Alcalá obra de Francisco de Zurbarán pintada, entre 1651 y 1653, al óleo sobre lienzo.

Artist: Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664)

Date: 1651-1653.

Collection: Museo Lazaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain.

This File: 10 August 2015.

User: Raimundo Pastor

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Born in Spain about 1400, Saint Didacus gave up all he possessed (Gospel, Communion) and entered, as a Lay-Brother, The Franciscan Monastery at Arrizafa. He devoted himself especially in contemplation, and was favoured by God by such wonderful light that he spoke of Heavenly things in an almost Divine way.

His ardent desire for Martyrdom, while he was in the Canary Isles, was partly satisfied by all manner of tribulations (Epistle). He returned to Rome in the year of The Jubilee, under the Pontificate of Pope Nicholas V, and was put in charge of The Sick at the Convent of Ara Cæli.

He practised so much Charity that, in spite of the scarcity which desolated the City, those who were committed to his care never wanted the necessities of life. The Passion of Jesus was the ordinary subject of his Meditations and Prayers.

Feeling that his end was near, and clothed only in an old torn Habit, with his eyes fixed on The Cross, he uttered the words of the Sacred Hymn: "Wood and Nails, full of sweetness, ye bear the sweetest of loads; how great your glory, since you have been judged worthy to bear The King of Heaven."

He piously gave up his Soul to God at Alcala de Henares in 1463,

Mass: Justus.

San Diego Pro-Cathedral,

Silay, Negros Occidental, Philippines.

Previously called Saint Didacus Parish Church.

Photo: 9 September 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Ninya Regalado

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San Diego Pro-Cathedral

(formerly known as Saint Didacus Parish Church)

Silay City, Negros Occidental, Philippines

Photo: 19 July 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: ClaireMRA

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San Diego Pro-Cathedral, formerly known as San Diego Parish Church, or Saint Didacus Parish Church, before its declaration as a Pro-Cathedral in 1994, is an Early-20th-Century Church in Silay City, Negros Occidental, Philippines.

It is the only Pro-Cathedral in the Country, and is unique in Negros Occidental for being the only Church in the Province featuring a Cupola, or Dome.

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893). The Victorian-Era Artist From Leeds, England.

"November".

Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).

Date: 1879.

This File: 19 September 2013.

User: Austriacus

(Wikimedia Commons)

"Nightfall on The Thames".

Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).

Date: 1880.

Current location: Leeds City Art Gallery, England.

Source/Photographer:

Direct link via Leeds Museum & Galleries.

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John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was a Victorian-era artist, a "remarkable and imaginative painter" known for his City night-scenes and landscapes.

His early paintings were signed "JAG," "J. A. Grimshaw," or "John Atkinson Grimshaw," though he finally settled on "Atkinson Grimshaw."

John Atkinson Grimshaw was born Leeds, England. In 1856, he married his Cousin, Frances Hubbard (1835–1917). In 1861, at the age of twenty-four, to the dismay of his parents, he left his job as a Clerk for The Great Northern Railway to become a painter.

He first exhibited in 1862, mostly paintings of birds, fruit and blossom, under the patronage of The Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. He became successful in the 1870s and rented a second home in Scarborough, which became a favourite subject of his paintings.

Several of his children, Arthur E. Grimshaw (1864–1913), Louis H. Grimshaw (1870–1944), Wilfred Grimshaw (1871–1937) and Elaine Grimshaw (1877–1970) became painters.

"A Moonlit Evening".

Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).

Date: 1880.

Current location: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum,

Madrid, Spain.

Source/Photographer:

posted to Flickr as John Atkinson Grimshaw -

A Moonlit Evening, 1880 at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid Spain with a Copy Fraud License

by Flickr user mbell1975.

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Saint Martin I. Pope And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 12 November.

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

Saint Martin I.
   Pope And Martyr.
   Feast Day 12 November.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

English: Saint Martin I.

Pope and Martyr.

Italiano: Cromolitografia in L. Tripepi,

Ritratti e biografie dei romani pontefici:

da S. Pietro a Leone 13, Roma, Vaglimigli Davide.

Date: 1879.

Author: Oleografia Panigati e Meneghini Milano.

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Saint Martin I succeeded Pope Theodore.

Having convoked at Rome a Council, where The Monothelites, who only admitted a Divine Will in Christ, were condemned, he was treacherously seized by order of the heretics Heraclius and Constant and carried away to Constantinople.

After enduring much suffering and humiliation, he was exiled to Chersonesus, where he died of fatigue in 655 A.D.

His body, Translated to Rome, was laid in The Church of Saint Sylvester and Saint Martin, the Apostle of Gaul.

Mass: Sacerdótes Dei.

Fr. Willie Doyle, SJ: A Brave Soldier Who Was Merry In God.

Father Willie Doyle, S.J.

Illustration: CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

Fr. Willie Doyle, SJ:

A Brave Soldier Who Was Merry In God.

Available on YouTube

HERE

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William Joseph Gabriel Doyle, MC (3 March 1873 – 16 August 1917), better known as Willie Doyle, was an Irish Roman Catholic Priest, who was killed in action while serving as a Military Chaplain to The Royal Dublin Fusiliers during The First World War.[1]

Doyle was born in Dalkey, Ireland, the youngest of seven children of Hugh and Christine Doyle (née Byrne).[1] He was educated at Ratcliffe College, Leicester.[2]

After reading Saint Alphonsus’ book, “Instructions And Consideration On The Religious State”, he was inspired to enter the Priesthood; he initially studied at Clonliffe College before 1891, when he entered Saint Stanislaus Tullabeg College,[3] and was an Ordained Jesuit Priest in 1907.[4] He served for five years on The Mission Staff.

Doyle served in the The Royal Army Chaplains’ Department of The British Army during The First World War, appointed as a Chaplain to The 48th Brigade of The 16th Irish Division.[4]

During The Battle of Loos, Doyle was caught in a German gas attack and for his conduct was Mentioned in Dispatches.[5]

A recommendation for a Military Cross was rejected as “he had not been long enough at The Front”.[5] Doyle was presented with “The Parchment of Merit” of The 49th (Irish) Brigade, instead. He was killed in The Battle of Langemarck, on 16 August 1917.[6]

General William Hickie, Commander-in-Chief of The 16th (Irish) Division, described Father Doyle as “one of the bravest men who fought or served out here.”[5]

Father Doyle’s body was never recovered, but he is Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial.[1]

Father Doyle was proposed for Canonisation in 1938, but this was not followed through.[2] His papers can be found in the Jesuit archives, Leeson Street, Dublin.[2]

A Stained-Glass Window, dedicated to his memory, is present in Saint Finnian’s Church, Dromin, County Louth, Ireland.

Despite his troubled relationship with The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, Irish author and playwright Brendan Behan is known to have always felt a great admiration for Father William Doyle. He praised Father Doyle in his 1958 Memoir “Borstal Boy”. Also, Alfred O'Rahilly’s biography of the fallen Chaplain is known to have been one of Behan’s favourite books.[7]

Irish folk singer Willie “Liam” Clancy was named after him due to his mother’s fondness for Doyle, although they never met.[8]

Doyle was awarded The Military Cross for his bravery during the assault on the village of Ginchy, during the The Battle of The Somme in 1916.[1][5]

He was also posthumously recommended for both The Victoria Cross and The Distinguished Service Order,[9] but was awarded neither.[2]

According to Patrick Kenny, anti-Catholicism may have played a role in The British Army’s decision not to grant Father Doyle both awards.[10]

In August 2022, The Father Willie Doyle Association was established to petition The Catholic Church to introduce a cause for Canonisation for Doyle.

In January 2022, “The Supplex Libellus”, the formal petition, was presented to Bishop Thomas Deenihan.

Having consulted with the Irish Bishops’ Conference and The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Deenihan issued an edict on 27 October 2022 announcing the opening of a Cause.

The opening session is due to take place on 20 November 2022 at The Cathedral of Christ the King, Mullingar, Ireland.

“Tommy” Bows His Head For His Fallen Comrades.

The “Tommy” statue,

officially named “1101”.

On Terrace Green,

Seaham, County Durham.

Picture Credit: OWEN HUMPHREYS/PA WIRE.

Illustration: BBC NEWS

Lance-Sergeant Stuart Laing,

1st Battalion Welsh Guards, plays “The Last Post” 

during a small Armistice Day Ceremony at The Cenotaph,

in Whitehall, London, marking over 100 years since the inauguration of the permanent version of The Cenotaph.

The bugle was found next to the body of a Welsh Guard

who fought during The Battle of The Somme in 1916.

Picture Credit: YUI MOK / PA WIRE.

Illustration: BBC NEWS

Remembrance Day. 11 November 2022.

 

Faure Requiem Op.48.

Durufle Requiem Op.9.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

They shall grow not old,

as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them,

nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the Sun,

and in the morning,

We will remember them.

Illustration: THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION

We will remember them.

Remembrance Day. At The Eleventh Hour. Of The Eleventh Day. Of The Eleventh Month. The Guns Fell Silent. Lest We Forget.

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unless otherwise stated.

LEST WE FORGET

HYMN TO THE FALLEN

Available on YouTube at

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LEYTON ORIENT FOOTBALL CLUB'S

SUPPORTERS' VISIT TO THE SOMME BATTLEFIELDS

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

“IN FLANDERS FIELDS”.

“LEST WE FORGET”.

Remembrance Day at the John McCrae House (birthplace, museum, and Memorial) in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. A detail shot of the "Altar" of the Memorial, with the complete poem "In Flanders Fields"and the line "LEST WE FORGET" inscribed.

Photo: 11 November 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lx 121.

Note: Part of a series of photographs taken at the John McCrae site in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, on 11 November 2009 (Remembrance Day).

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Illustration: LANDSCAPES

Portrait photo of John Alexander McCrae (1872–1918).

Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae

was a Soldier, Physician and Poet.

Date: 1918 or earlier.

Image from "In Flanders Fields, And Other Poems", 

by Lieut.-Col. John McCrae, M.D., with an essay

in character, by Sir Andrew Macphail (New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919): http://www.archive.org/

details/inflandersfields00mccr.

Author: Unknown.

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An autographed copy of the poem "In Flanders Fields".

Unlike the printed copy in the same book, McCrae's handwritten version ends the first line with "grow". Facsimile of handwritten version of McCrae's "In Flanders Fields", in a volume of his poetry where an acknowledgement is given "The reproduction of the autograph poem is from a copy belonging to Carleton Noyes, Esq., of Cambridge, Mass., who kindly permitted its use."

Date: 1919.

Source: Scan of McCrae's "In Flanders Fields And Other Poems", obtained from archive.org, converted to PNG and Black and White, slight rotation.

Author: John McCrae.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Illustrated Page by Ernest Clegg.

Note that the first line ends with "grow".

Page 1 of the main content from a Limited Edition Book containing an Illustrated Poem,

"In Flanders Fields".

Date: 1921.

Source: JP2 zip data at fieldsinflanders00mccrrich archive.org

Author: John McCrae and Ernest Clegg.

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The first chapter of "In Flanders Fields and Other Poems",

a 1919 collection of McCrae's works, gives the text of the poem as follows:

IN FLANDERS FIELDS

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The Larks, still bravely singing, fly,

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die,

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

"Bleuet de France".

Circa 1950.

Source: Own work.

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Remembrance Day (11 November) is a national holiday in France and Belgium. It commemorates The Armistice, signed between The Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on The Western Front, which took effect at 11:00 a.m. — the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month."

Illustration: LABOUR UNCUT

Armistice Day is one the most important military celebrations in France, since it was a major French victory and the French paid a heavy price in blood to achieve it. The First World War was considered in France as the "Great Patriotic War". Almost all French villages feature Memorials dedicated to the Fallen. In France, the Blue Cornflower (Bleuet de France) is used symbolically, rather than the Poppy.

"Ghosts of Vimy Ridge"

depicts the ghosts of The Canadian Corps on Vimy Ridge,

surrounding The Canadian National Vimy Memorial.

Date: 1931.

Source: Canadian House of Commons Collection, 

(AN: O-4714) [1]

Author: William Longstaff

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: The Australian Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, Somme, France.

Français: Villers-Bretonneux (Somme, France).

La croix du cimetière militaire et la tour

du Mémorial National Australien.

Photo: April 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Markus3 (Marc ROUSSEL).

(Wikimedia Commons)

Australian Remembrance Day.

Image: STITCHERS CORNER

"De Profundis.".

Psalm 129

(Douay–Rheims Bible).

By Orlando de Lassus.

Taken from The Prayers for The Dead.

Available on YouTube at

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Psalm CXXIX.

De Profundis.

Out of the depths

I have cried unto Thee, O Lord !

Lord, hear my voice.

Let Thine ears be attentive

To the voice of my supplication.

If Thou, O Lord, shalt mark iniquities,

Lord, who shall endureth ?

For with The Lord there is merciful forgiveness,

And by reason of Thy law

I have waited upon Thee, O Lord.

My Soul doth rely on His word:

My Soul doth hope in The Lord.

From the Morning Watch, even unto night,

Let Israel hope in The Lord.

For with The Lord there is mercy,

And with Him plentiful redemption.

And He shall redeem Israel,

From all his iniquities.

V. Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord.

R. And let Perpetual Light shine upon them.

De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine:

Domine, exaudi vocem meam.

Fiant aures tuae intendentes:

In vocem deprecationis meae.

Si iniquitates observaveris, Domine:

Domine, quis sustinebit ?

Quia apud te propitiatio est:

Et propter legem tuam sustinui te, Domine.

Sustinuit anima mea in verbo ejus:

Speravit anima mea in Domino.

A custodia matutina usque ad noctem:

Speret Israel in Domino.

Quia apud Dominum misericordia:

Et copiosa apud eum redemptio.

Et ipse redimet Israel,

Ex omnibus iniquitatibus ejus.

V. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine.

R. Et lux perpetua luceat eis.

". . . If ye break faith,

With us who die,

We shall not sleep,

Though Poppies grow

In Flanders fields."

Photo: 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: Zephyrinus.

South African Infantry Soldier stands guard

at The Johannesburg Memorial

on the 90th Remembrance Day Ceremony.

Image: DIGITAL JOURNAL

Delville Wood, near Longueval, The Somme, France.

Image: WORLD WAR ONE BATTLEFIELDS

Delville Wood was sometimes known as Devil's Wood, and the fighting there during The Battle of The Somme was particularly ferocious. The majority of Delville Wood was eventually taken by South African Soldiers on 15 July 1916, and they held on grimly during numerous German counter-attacks for six days, until they were relieved.

After the War, South Africa purchased the site in 1920, and it serves as a Memorial to those of that Nation who fell, not just there, but elsewhere.

The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier in Confederation Square, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, immediately following the Remembrance Day Ceremonies, 11 November, 2006. Since its installation, it has become traditional to place Poppies on the Tomb, after the formal Ceremony has concluded.

Photo: 11 November 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mikkel Paulson.

(Wikimedia Commons)

New Zealand Remembrance Day Ceremony.

NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE FORCE WEB-SITE

Armistice Day (also referred to as Remembrance Day) marks the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War One and commemorates the sacrifice of those who died serving New Zealand in this War, and all Wars and armed conflict.

The Great War of 1914 to 1918 was one of the most devastating events in human history. New Zealand, with a population of

1.1 million in 1914, sent 100,000 men and women abroad. 16,700 died and over 40,000 were wounded – a higher per capita casualty rate than any other country involved.

The coming of Peace, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, brought Blessed Relief for all involved.

They shall grow not old,

as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them,

nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the Sun,

and in the morning.

We will remember them.

We will remember them.

(Fourth stanza of Laurence Binyon's Poem "For the Fallen")

Illustration: IN CAELO ET IN TERRA