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Showing posts with label September. Show all posts
Showing posts with label September. Show all posts
Friday, September 30, 2016

September 30: Feast of St Jerome, Priest, Confessor, Doctor of the Church, Class III

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St Jerome is of course best known for his translations of the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate) and commentaries on Scripture, but he was...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

September 29: Feast of the Dedication of St Michael the Archangel, Class I

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  The most famous shrine to St Michael in Western Christendom is of course Mont St-Michel in France, where St. Michael appeared to St. ...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Pope St Linus I, Memorial: September 23

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Pope Saint Linus I (d. ca. 76) was the second Bishop of Rome following St Peter.  St Irenaeus wrote: "The blessed apostles, th...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

September 22: St Maurice and Companions

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Saint Maurice was the leader of the Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century,  massacred at Agaunum, about 287, by order of Maximian Herc...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

September 21: Feast of St Matthew, Apostle, Class II

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From Pope Benedict XVI's August 30 2006 General Audience:   "Continuing the series of portraits of the Twelve Apostles that w...
Friday, September 16, 2016

September 17: St Hildegarde OSB, Memorial/Solemnity

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St Hildegarde (1098 – 1179), nun, mystic, writer and composer, was declared a doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012, and he...

St Cyprian of Carthage, memorial, September 16

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St Cyprian is an important saint for Benedictines, because St Benedict's Rule frequently alludes to his writings.  His feast is cel...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

September 15: Feast of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady

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Though this feast has medieval origins, it wasn't added to the universal calendar until 1814, and wasn't moved to this day unti...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

September 14: Exaltation of Holy Cross, Class II

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Once upon a time there were two feasts in the calendar associated with the recovery of the true Cross. The first, on May 3, celebrate...
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Friday, September 9, 2016

September 9: St Gorgonius, Martyr, Memorial

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According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, St Gorgonius  was martyred in 304 at Nicomedia with S Dorotheus and others during the persecuti...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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This is one of only three birthdays celebrated in the liturgical year: those of Our Lady, Our Lord, and St John the Baptist. The usefu...