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Showing posts with label Benedictine saints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benedictine saints. Show all posts
Monday, January 8, 2018

St Wulsin, bishop of Sherborne (died c1002)

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Today (January 8) is the feast of St Wulsin, who was appointed superior of the restored abbey of Westminster circa 960. St Wulsin origina...
Monday, June 19, 2017

St Romuald OSB (June 19; Feb 7)

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Fr Angelico Today is the feast of St Romuald in some calendars - in the 1962 calendar his feast is celebrated in Febuary, but he actua...
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Monday, April 24, 2017

St Mellitus (April 24)

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St Augustine Gospels In the English Congregation, today is traditionally the feast of St Mellitus, the first Bishop of London in the ...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

St Antoinine of Sorrento OSB (14 February)

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Today the martyrology remembers St Antoinine, an abbot who probably lived in the ninth century.  According to the Wikipedia, he was born ...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

February 11: St Benedict of Aniane

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St Benedict of Aniane (747 – 821) was the great codifier of monastic practice and rules under the Carolingian Empire, and is often credite...
Friday, February 10, 2017

February 10:St Scholastica, Class I/II

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St Scholastica (c480-543) was the twin sister of St Benedict.  She originally set up a monastery at Subiaco, and followed her brother wh...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

January 21 : St Meinrad OSB (in some places)

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Saint Meinrad (died 861) was born into the family of the Counts of Hohenzollern and was educated at the abbey school of Reichenau, an is...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

January 12: St Benedict Biscop OSB

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Today, the Roman Martyrology (and the Ordo of the English Congregation of Benedictines) mentions St Benedict Biscop, a seventh century A...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

St Peter Orseolo (Jan 10)

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In the Benedictine calendar today (EF calendar Jan 15), today is the memorial of  St Paul the first hermit . But the martyrology also...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Blessed Richard Whiting OSB and Companions (Nov 29)

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The ruins of Glastonbury Abbey In some places today is the feast of Blessed Richard Whiting and companions, martyred under Henry VIII ...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

St Sylvester OSB (Nov 26)

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Saint Sylvester Gozzolini (1177 - 1267) is the founder of the Sylvestrine Congregation: "Born of the noble family of the Gozzol...
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Sunday, November 20, 2016

November 20: St Mechtilde OSB (in some places)

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The feast of St Mechtilde is not celebrated in all places, but I thought I'd put put a piece in her honour anyway! According to th...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

November 17: St Gertrude the Great OSB, Class II/III

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St Gertrude the Great (1256 - 1301) was one of a group of women mystics in this period, a student of St Matilda of Hackleborn.  She has be...
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Sunday, November 13, 2016

November 13: All Saints of the Benedictine Order and a call to arms

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This year All Saints of the Benedictine Order is only a commemoration, due to the Sunday.  But most religious orders have both an ...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

October 5: SS Maurus and Placid, OSB

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St Benedict receives SS Maurus and Placid Sodoma, c15th SS Maurus and Placid were both child oblates under St Benedict, and several...
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

August 21: Blessed Bernard Ptolemy OSB, Abbot, memorial

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The Magnificat antiphon for I Vespers reflects the readings for the first Nocturn of Matins tomorrow, from chapter 1 of the Book of ...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

August 20: Feast of St Bernard of Clarivaux "OSB", Class III

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Although the Benedictine calendar claims St Bernard (1090-1153) as a saint "of our [Benedictine] order", that is only true in t...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Notes on the feasts of February

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1 February  - St Ignatius (Class III) St Ignatius of Antioch - Pope Benedict General Audience ;  Matins reading St Brigid 2 February...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Feast of St Gregory the Great

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Antiphonary of Hartker of the monastery of Saint Gall c1000 St Gregory the Great is particularly noted for his contributions to the li...
Monday, September 17, 2012

St Hildegarde of Bingen OSB (Ben/OF), Sept 17

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Pope Benedict XVI formally declared St Hildegard a saint earlier this year, and extended her feast (which has long featured in the Benedict...