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Showing posts with label saints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saints. Show all posts
Thursday, December 7, 2023

The feast of St Ambrose and the recycling of responsories (Responsories Pt 4)

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Late antique mosaic in St.Ambrogio church in Milan Source: Wiki commons St Ambrose Today is the feast of St Ambrose, a wonderful saint, who ...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

St Martin of Tours and the missing monastic saints of the Office

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Shield, on the medieval city walls of Aigues-Mortes, depicting St-Martin dividing his cloak with the beggar. Source: Wikicommons, photo by A...
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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Sunday, January 29, 2017

January 29: St Frances de Sales, Memorial

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Saint Francis de Sales , August 21, 1567 – December 28, 1622 was Bishop of Geneva and is a doctor of the Church. He is best known for h...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

January 28: St Cyril of Alexandria, Memorial

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Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376 - 444), bishop and doctor of the Church, played a central role in the first Council of Ephesus, but he remai...
Friday, January 27, 2017

January 27: St John Chrysostom, Class III

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I've become a considerable fan of St John Chrysostom of late largely due to his wonderful commentaries on many of the psalms.  But h...
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Thursday, January 26, 2017

January 26: St Polycarp

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St Polycarp (69 – 155 AD) was a 2nd century bishop of Smyrna, martyred for refusing to burn incense to the Emperor.  The  account of hi...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

January 25: Conversion of St Paul, Class III

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Pope Benedict XVI devoted a General Audience to the subject of St Paul's conversion, on 3 September 2008: "Today's Catech...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

January 24: St Timothy, Memorial

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St Timothy is most famous as the recipient of two of the letters of St Paul.  He accompanied St Paul on several of his journeys, and was...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

January 21: St Agnes Class II/III

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St Agnes of Rome (c. 291 – c.304) is one of the saints commemorated in the canon of the Mass.  The saint A member of the Roman nobil...
Friday, January 20, 2017

January 20: SS Fabian (Pope) and Sebastian (Martyrs), Class III

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Pope Saint Fabian was a layman when elected pope, a position he held from January 10, 236 until his martyrdom on January 20, 250.  St S...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

January 17: St Anthony, abbot, Class III

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St Anthony (c. 251–356) was not the first monk, but his Life, by St Athanasius, did much to promote the spread of monasticism, particula...
Monday, January 16, 2017

St Honorius of Fondi, January 16

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SS Honoratus and Benedict, 1499 The martyrology records the feast of St Honoratus of Fondi 'of whom blessed pope Gregory makes m...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

January 14: St Hilary, Bishop, Doctor of the Church, Memorial

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Hilary of Poitiers (c310 –368) was Bishop of Poitiers.  He has a particular importance to the Western monastic tradition for his patrona...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

January 10: St Paul the First Hermit, Memorial

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St Paul of Thebes (died circa 341) fled to the desert during the persecution of Decius and Valerianus around 250 AD.  St Jerome's li...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

January 4: St Titus, Bishop and Confessor, Memorial

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St Titus appears in the martyrology today with this description: "In Crete, the birthday of St Titus, who was ordained Bishop of ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

December 28: The Holy Innocents; Octave of the Nativity

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The Biblical account of the reasons for this ancient feast of the first martyrs for Christ is St. Matthew 2:16-18: "Herod perceiv...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

December 27: St John the Evangelist; Octave of the Nativity

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Pope Benedict XVI has given a series of General Audiences on St John: John, Son of Zebedee; John the Theologian; John, the See...