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Monday, August 20, 2012
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
St Hyacinth (EF), Aug 17
St Hyacinth (1185-1257) was a Dominican from Poland.
Educated in Paris and Bologna, he started out as a secular priest, but while in Rome he witnessed a miracle performed by Saint Dominic, and thereafter received the habit from him.
"One of his miracles is connected with a Mongol attack on a monastery in Kiev. Hyacinth was about to save a monstrance (or possibly a ciborium, it is unknown exactly which one) containing the Blessed Sacrament when he heard the voice of the Blessed Virgin Mary asking him to take her too. So he decided to take also the statue of the Holy Virgin. Despite the fact that it weighed far more than he could normally lift, it became miraculously weightless. Thus he saved both the Blessed Sacrament and the statue of Our Lady."
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
St Maximilian Kolbe (OF)/Vigil of the Assumption (EF/Benedictine), Aug 14
Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe, O.F.M. Conv. was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi German concentration camp of Auschwitz, in 1939. You can read more about his inspiring life here.
Today is also the Vigil of the Assumption in the traditional calendar.
Monday, August 13, 2012
SS Pontianus, Pope and Hippolytus, Martyrs, Memorial (August 13)
Pope Pontian |
Both were deported to the Sardinian salt mines, and died after harsh treatment there. Pope St Pontian resigned in 235 in order to allow a successor to be elected in his stead.
The legend for St Hipppolytus however is more colourful, as the martyrology relates:
"At Rome, blessed Hippolytus, martyr, who gloriously confessed the faith, under the emperor Valerian. After enduring other torments, he was tied by the feet to the necks of wild horses, and being cruelly dragged through briars and brambles, and having all his body lacerated, he yielded up his spirit. On the same day, suffered also blessed Concordia, his nurse, who being scourged in his presence with leaded whips, went to our Lord; and nineteen others of his house, who were beheaded beyond the Tiburtine gate, and buried with him in the Veran field."
Saturday, August 11, 2012
St Clare (August 11, OF); St Tibertius, memorial; St Susanna
From the martyrology:
"At Assisi in Umbria, the birthday of St. Clare, virgin, the first of the Poor Ladies of the Order of Friars Minor. Being celebrated for holiness of life and miracles, she was placed among the holy virgins by Pope Alexander IV...
At Rome, between the two laurels situation about three miles from the city, the birthday of St. Tiburtius, martyr, under the judge Fabian, in the persecution of Diocletian. After he had walked barefooted on burning coals and confessed Christ with increased constancy, he was put to the sword."
In the Extraordinary Form:
"Also at Rome, the holy virgin Susanna, a woman of noble race, and niece of the blessed Pontiff Caius. She merited the palm of martyrdom by being beheaded in the time of Diocletian."
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