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Showing posts with label virgin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virgin. Show all posts
Monday, April 30, 2018

St Catherine of Siena (April 30)

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St Catherine rates only a memorial in the 1963 calendar, a grave injustice in my view for this important doctor of the Church. In any...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

St Agnes (January 21)

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 Zenobi Strozzi, c1448-9 From the 1962 Roman Martyrology: "At Rome, the passion of St. Agnes, virgin, who under Symphronius, ...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

St Catherine of Siena (April 30)

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The feast of St Catherine is displaced this year by the Sunday, but I wanted to include something for this important doctor of the Churc...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

St Agatha (Feb 5)

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Here is the Matins reading for St Agatha, today's saint: Agatha, born in Sicily of noble parents, suffered a glorious martyrdom at...
Monday, January 23, 2017

From the martyrology: SS Emerentiana and Martyrius (Jan 23)

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St Agnes cup, c14th In the Office today we celebrate the feast of St Emerentiana, of whom the martyrology says: "At Rome, the ...
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...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

Saints of the martyrology for January 5: St Telesphorus, Pope;St Apollinaris of Egypt; St Emiliana, virgin

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St Telesphorus St Telesphorus, who is commemorated today in the Extraordinary Form calendar, was pope between around 127 to 136 AD.  ...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

St Lucy (December 13)

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Saint Lucy (283–304), was a Christian during the Diocletian persecution. According to her legend, her mother was cured dysentery by th...
Friday, November 25, 2016

November 25: St Catherine of Alexandria

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Saint Catherine of Alexandria (born c282), is a martyr who was a noted scholar. The daughter of a pagan governor of Alexandria, she co...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Feast of St Caecilia

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Domenico Zampieri (or Domenichino; 1581 – 1641)  Reading 3 for Matins on the saint: Cecilia, a Roman virgin of noble birth, vowed her...
Saturday, October 15, 2016

October 15: St Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church, Class III

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Alonso del Arco (1635-1704) Pope Benedict XVI gave a General Audience on St Teresa on 2 February 2011: "In the course of the C...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

St Philip Benizi (EF)/St Rose of Lima (OF) - Aug 23

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Claudio Cuello St Rose of Lima (1586-1617) was the first canonised saint native to the Americas.  A Dominican tertiary, she devoted he...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Vigil of St Lawrence/St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, OF (Aug 9)

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Today is the feast of St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) Carmelite, martyred by the Nazis. Also today, the vigil of St. ...
Monday, August 8, 2016

St Mary of the Cross (Class I in Australia, August 8)

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Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ (15 January 1842 – 8 August 1909), or St Mary of the Cross, was an Australian nun who founded the Sisters ...
Monday, September 10, 2012

St Nicholas of Tolentino (EF only); St Pulcheria (Sept 10)

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"At Tolentino, in the March of Ancona, the departure from this life of St. Nicholas, confessor, of the Order of Augustinians." ...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

SS Felix and Adauctus/in some places, St Rose of Lima (Aug 30)

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 The Glorification of Felix and Adauctus Carlo Innocenzo Carlone  From the martyrology: "The feast of St. Rose of St. Mary, vi...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

St Clare (August 11, OF); St Tibertius, memorial; St Susanna

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From the martyrology: "At Assisi in Umbria, the birthday of St. Clare, virgin, the first of the Poor Ladies of the Order of Friars...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

St Cristina (July 24)

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Lorenzo Lotto, 1505 From the Roman Martyrology: At Tiro in Tuscany, on Lake Bolsena, St. Christina, virgin and martyr. Because she bel...
Monday, April 16, 2012

St Bernadette Soubirous (April 16): visions of Our Lady

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From the martyrology: "In the city of Nevers in France, St. Mary Bernard Soubirous of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity, a...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

From the martyrology: St Florentina, Virgin (Feb 28)

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The Martyrology for today records: "At Seville in Spain, the birthday of St. Leander, bishop of that city, and of St. Florentina, vir...