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Showing posts with label July. Show all posts
Showing posts with label July. Show all posts
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Feasts of July

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You can find links on notes about the feasts celebrated in the calendar in July below. July 1 Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our L...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

July 30: SS Abdon and Sennen, Martyrs, Memorial

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SS Abdon and Sennen were early Persian martyrs.  The Golden Legend relates their story: "Abdon and Sennen suffered martyrdom under D...
Friday, July 29, 2011

July 29: SS Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrice, Martyrs, Memorial

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c14th manuscript Today's saints are all early martyrs - Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrice were siblings martyred under Diocletian a...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

July 26: SS Joachim and Anne, Class III

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Tradition, drawing on the (non-canonical but very early) Gospel of James, gives us Saints Joachim and Anne as the names of the father and m...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

July 25: St James the greater, Class II

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St James the Moorslayer Anonymous, 18th century, Cuzco School of Peru St James was the son of Zabadee and Salome, and brother of S...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

July 23: Our Lady on Saturday; St Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr, Memorial

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 c6th mosaic, Basilica of St Apollinaris in Classe, Ravenna  St Apollinarius was the first bishop of Ravenna, appointed by St Peter ac...
Friday, July 22, 2011

July 22: St Mary Magdalen, Class III

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Today is the feast of the most famous penitent saint, St Mary Magdalene.  Few saints have attracted so many attempts at revisionist histor...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

July 20: SS Jerome Aemiliain, Joseph Calanctius and John Baptist de la Salle, Confessors, Memorial

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Today's saints are all founders of religious orders. St Jerome Emiliani (1481 – February 8, 1537) is the founder of the  Somaschi Fat...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

July 19: St Vincent de Paul, memorial

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One of the most famous saints by virtue of the society bearing his name, St Vincent de Paul (24 April 1581 – 27 September 1660) was a Catho...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

July 17: St. Leo IV OSB Pope and confessor

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Today is the feast of Pope St. Leo IV, whose pontificate lasted from 847 to 855. A Roman by birth, he was a Benedictine monk who served in ...
Friday, July 15, 2011

July 15: St. Henry II - Patron of Benedictine Oblates

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Today's saint in the Roman EF calendar, St Henry, actually has a strong Benedictine connection: indeed, Pope St Pius X declared him the...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

July 14: St Bonaventure, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor, Class III

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Claude François (Frère Luc), c1650-60 Pope Benedict XVI gave three General Audiences on the saint in 2010.  Here is the first, which outl...