tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73792105835676714762024-03-13T08:59:38.573-07:00CHERUPUSHPAM OF JESUSDAILY SAINTS.
TRAVELS OF SAINTS TO JESUS CHRIST IN THE HEAVEN.
JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.comBlogger1849125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-23600053142951107652020-01-30T00:43:00.002-08:002020-01-30T00:43:07.096-08:00BLESSED ANDREW OF MONTEREALE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Blessed Andrew of Montereale,<br />
Feast day: April 12<br />
Born at Mascioni near Rieti, Italy, in 1397;<br />
Died 1480;<br />
Cultus confirmed in 1764.<br />
When Andrew was 14 he joined the Augustinians at Montereale. After being ordained a priest, he preached for 50 years throughout Italy and France, while disciplining his own body by severe fasts. Known for his holiness and his learning, Andrew was for a time provincial of his order in Umbria</div>
JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-76622013098512441042020-01-30T00:41:00.003-08:002020-01-30T00:41:29.542-08:00SAINT CONSTANTINE OF GAP<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Constantine of Gap<br />
Also known as Constantius<br />
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Feast day: April 12<br />
Died 529.<br />
Constantine was the first bishop of Gap, France, about whom nothing else is known</div>
JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-23917964041926899802020-01-30T00:40:00.001-08:002020-01-30T00:40:15.300-08:00SAINT MECHTILDIS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Mechtildis,<br />
Died . 1200.<br />
Feast day: April 12<br />
Scottish Saint Mechtildis (Matilda) wanted to indulge in deeper prayer without bothering others, so she moved into the wilderness of Lappion, where she lived in a cabin </div>
JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-77224276029817079742020-01-30T00:39:00.002-08:002020-01-30T00:39:23.242-08:00BLESSED MEINHARD OF YXKILL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Blessed Meinhard of Yxkill,<br />
Feast day: April 12<br />
Died 1196.<br />
The Augustinian canon regular Meinhard preached in Latvia. In 1184, he was consecrated bishop and fixed his residence in Yxkill on the Düna.</div>
JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-38579841059833778562020-01-30T00:38:00.001-08:002020-01-30T00:38:17.888-08:00BLESSED PETER OF MONTEPIANO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Blessed Peter of Montepiano,<br />
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Feast day: April 12<br />
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Died 1098.<br />
A Vallombrosan abbot of San Virgilio at Brescia, who ended his life as a hermit at Montepiano, Tuscany, Italy</div>
JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-46652812306555215092020-01-29T23:59:00.000-08:002020-01-29T23:59:00.876-08:00SAINT ZENO OF VERONA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
St. Zeno of Verona<br />
Also known as Zenone<br />
Feast day: April 12<br />
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Born in North Africa;Zeno was probably born in Mauretania near Algiers before 302.<br />
Died at Verona, Italy, April 12, 371 or 380<br />
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Additional feasts in Verona are celebrated on May 21 (translation) and December 6 (episcopal consecration). Because Saint Zeno's sermon on the martyrdom of Saint Arcadius appears to be an eyewitness description,<br />
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Bishop of Verona, Italy, theological writer. A native of Africa, he was named bishop in 362 and proved an ardent opponent of Arianism. He also promoted discipline among the clergy and in liturgical life, built a cathedral, and founded a convent. Zeno wrote extensively on the virgin birth of Christ and other theological matters. He was the subject of numerous legends. F<br />
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On December 8, 362, during the reign of Julian the Apostate, Saint Zeno was consecrated bishop of Verona, Italy, possibly by Bishop Aussenzius of Milan. Soon after his arrival in Verona, he fought against the idolatry that had spread throughout the city; he even managed to reduce it in the surrounding country where paganism was more entrenched. He also strongly opposed the Arian heresy, and defended the eternal generation of the Word, the intimate union of the Holy Spirit and the Son with the Father.<br />
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His success, in part, was due to his training as an orator. Zeno drew large crowds for his sermons, 93 of which still exist--the earliest collection of Latin homilies we possess. In fact, the crowds were so massive whenever Zeno preached that he was obliged to build a bigger cathedral. Each Easter many whose hearts were converted were baptized into the faith. He preached often to a group of nuns who lived in a convent he himself had founded. Long before Saint Ambrose did the same in Milan, Zeno encouraged virgins living at home to be consecrated.<br />
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While Zeno had a reputation as a hard-working pastor, who was zealous in building churches, in almsgiving, and in purging Arianism, he is remembered primarily as an ecclesiastical writer, especially on the topic of the virgin birth of our Lord. His sermons are of interest for the information they provide about Christian teaching, worship, organization, and life in the fourth century. He emphasizes the importance of the Sacraments for the Christian life. To him, Baptism is "the sacrament that truly calls men from death to life." Even though his sermons never mention the Eucharist, he indirectly stresses its importance by speaking of the "precious bread and wine that comes from our Father's table" and admonishing his flock that "none of you should ever take the Sacrifice unworthily, because offering unworthily is sacrilege, and taking unworthily is deadly." Saint Zeno offers practical advice for the Christian life. He notes that faith in God's revealed truth is necessary, but more important for eternal salvation is charity.<br />
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Most of the extant details about Saint Zeno's life derive from medieval documents that mix facts and legend. According to these stories, Zeno loved fishing in the River Adige (the second longest in Italy) that flows through Verona and may have been a fisherman before his consecration. For this reason, his symbol today is a fish. He also chose to live in great poverty and seclusion. By the precepts and example of this good pastor, the people were so liberal in their alms, that their houses were always open to poor strangers, and none of their own country had the need even to ask for relief. He congratulates them upon the interest they accumulate in heaven by money bestowed on the poor, by which they not only subdue avarice, but convert its treasures to the highest advantage, and without exciting envy. "For what can be richer than a man to whom God is to acknowledge himself debtor?" This inspiration to charity proved vital when the Goths overran the neighborhood and took many captives. The people of Verona were foremost in offering all they possessed to ransom these prisoners.<br />
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Zeno is said to have saved the city of Pistoia, Italy, from flood by creating an exit for the waters of the Rivers Arno and Ombrone through what is now known as the Gonfolina Pass.<br />
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Saint Gregory the Great mistakenly calls Zeno a martyr, but the ancient missals of Verona and Saint Ambrose call him a confessor. This same Gregory relates a miracle that took place two centuries after Zeno's death based on an eyewitness account. In 589, when the River Adige threatened to drown most of Verona, the people flocked to the church of their holy patron Zeno. The waters seemed to respect its doors, they gradually swelled as high as the windows, yet the flood never broke into the church, but stood like a firm wall, as when the Israelites passed the Jordan; and the people remained there 24 hours in prayer until the waters subsided. The devotion of the people to Saint Zeno increased because of this and other miracles; and, in the reign of Pepin, son of Blessed Charlemagne and brother of Louis Debonnaire, Bishop Rotaldus of Verona, translated Zeno's relics into a spacious, new church.<br />
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The body of the saint lies today in one of the most beautiful Romanesque churches of Italy, San Zeno Maggiore in Verona. In the tympanum over the great west doorway is sculpted the dark-skinned saint, who holds a fishing rod as he tramples down the devil. Zeno's tomb is in the huge, 12th-century crypt, where they were placed in 807 after having rested in various churches</div>
JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-46045204243552829382020-01-29T23:18:00.002-08:002020-01-29T23:18:53.009-08:00SAINT WIGBERT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
St. Wigbert<br />
Wigbert of Friesland<br />
Feast day: April 12<br />
Death: 690<br />
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Missionary. An Anglo-Saxon, he went to Ireland and became a disciple of the Irish Saint Egbert. before journeying to Friesland, the Netherlands, where he spent time as a missionary. He died in Ireland.<br />
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St. Vissia<br />
Vissia of Fermo<br />
Feast day: April 12<br />
Death: 250<br />
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Virgin and martyr. This Italian maiden was put to death at Fermo, near Ancona, Italy, during the persecutions of Emperor Trajanus Decius 249-251</div>
JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-85862750029723650752020-01-29T23:15:00.000-08:002020-01-29T23:15:18.373-08:00SAINT VICTOR OF BRAGA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
St. Victor<br />
Victor of Braga<br />
Feast day: April 12<br />
Death: 300<br />
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Martyr. In his chronicle, Vasaeus records that Saint Victor was baptized by blood. The catechumen was beheaded at Braga, Portugal, under Diocletian for refusing to sacrifice to idols</div>
JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-34132972956630693632020-01-29T23:12:00.002-08:002020-01-29T23:12:57.315-08:00SAINT TETRICUS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
St. Tetricus<br />
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Tetricus of Auxerre,<br />
Feast day: April 12<br />
Death: 707<br />
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Saint Tetricus, abbot of Benedictine Saint-Germanus Abbey at Auxerre, was elevated to city's episcopal chair by popular acclamation. The saint died at the hand of his archdeacon Raginfred, who killed him with a sword as he lay asleep on a bench. Immediately he was venerated as a martyr</div>
JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-2089720667263603972020-01-29T22:52:00.002-08:002020-01-29T22:52:48.519-08:00SAINT SABAS THE GOTH<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
St. Sabas the Goth<br />
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Feast day: April 12<br />
Birth: 334<br />
Death: 372<br />
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Also Sabbas the Goth, a martyr in the area of modern Romania. He was a Goth converted to Christianity in his youth and became a lector in Targoviste, Romania, to a priest named Sansala.<br />
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The account of the martyrdom of Saint Sabas was recorded in a letter soon after his death at the hands of a Gothic ruler north of the Danube. Saint Jerome tells us that King Athanaric of the Goths began persecuting Christians in his tribe about 370. Sabas, converted to Christianity in his youth, was lector to the priest Sansala, apparently at Targoviste in modern Romania.<br />
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We are told that Sabas exemplified the Christian virtues of obedience and humility, and that he loved to sing the divine praises in church and decorate the altar. His desire for chastity was so great that he refrained from even speaking to women unless it was absolutely necessary. Most of all, Sabas loved the truth.<br />
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Sabas denounced the practice of some Christians of pretending to eat meat offered to pagan gods though in reality it had not been sacrificed to the gods by arrangement with some officers. He said that they had renounced the faith by their pretense. For this, he was forced into exile but later was allowed to return.<br />
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During another persecution the following year, some Christians swore that there were no Christians among them. Sabas loudly proclaimed his Christianity. After his first arrest, he was released as an insignificant fellow, owning nothing but the clothes on his back, 'who can do us neither good nor harm.'<br />
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Just before Easter 372, the persecution was renewed. Atharidus and his troops broke into the lodgings of the sleeping Sansala, bound him, and threw him on a cart. They pulled Sabas out of bed without allowing him to dress and dragged the modest saint naked over thorns and briars, forcing him along with whips and staves. At daybreak Sabas said to his persecutors: "Have not you dragged me, quite naked, over rough and thorny grounds? Observe whether my feet are wounded, or whether the blows you gave me have made any impression on my body." His body bore no bruises or abrasions, which enraged his tormentors, causing them to rack him on a make- shift devise.<br />
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Sabas refused an opportunity to escape when the mistress of the house in which they were lodged overnight, untied him. He spent the rest of the night helping the woman to dress victuals for the family.<br />
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The next day he was hung upon a beam of the house, and offered and refused meats that had been sacrificed to idols. One of Atharidus's slaves struck the point of his javelin against the saint's breast with such violence that all present believed Sabas had been killed. But he was unharmed. At this, Atharidus declared that Sansala should be dismissed, but Sabas must be drowned.<br />
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On the banks of the river, the officers wanted to let him go. Overhearing them, Sabas asked why they were so dilatory in obeying their orders? Then he continued, "I see what you cannot: I see persons on the other side of the river ready to receive my soul, and conduct it to the seat of glory: they only wait the moment in which it will leave my body."<br />
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Thereupon he was tied to a pole and held down in the Buzau (Mussovo) River until he was dead; 'This death by wood and water,' says the correspondent, 'was an exact symbol of man's salvation,' i.e., symbols of baptism and the cross. When he was dead, they drew his body out of the water, and left it unburied: but the Christians of the place guarded it from birds and beasts of prey.<br />
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Junius Soranus, duke of Scythia, a man who feared God, sent the body to Cappadocia. A letter was sent with these relics from the church of Gothia to that of Cappadocia governed by Saint Basil, which contains an account of the martyrdom of Sabas, and concludes thus: "Wherefore offering up the holy sacrifice on the day whereon the martyr was crowned, impart this to our brethren, that the Lord may be praised throughout the Catholic and Apostolic Church for thus glorifying his servants."<br />
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About 50 other Christians were martyred during this same persecution and are honored today</div>
JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-14815300826015499062020-01-29T22:50:00.001-08:002020-01-29T22:50:46.572-08:00SAINT ERKEMBODEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
St. Erkemboden<br />
Erkemboden of Therouanne,<br />
Feast day: April 12<br />
Death: 714<br />
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Benedictine bishop of Therouanne, France. He was originally a monk of St. Sithin, at St. Omer, France, succeeding St. Bertinus as abbot.<br />
Thereafter he became bishop of Thérouanne, while continuing to rule the abbey. He was bishop for 26 years. So many miracles occurred at his shrine that pilgrim came in droves, leaving so many offerings that within a few years of his death it was possible to built a cathedral in his honor</div>
JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-6033773307479415182020-01-29T22:49:00.002-08:002021-04-16T03:39:56.302-07:00SAINT DAMIAN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">St. Damian</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Damian of Pavia</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Feast day: April 12</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Death: 710</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Bishop of Pavia, in Lombardy, Italy. He was elected in 680. e played the role of peacemaker between the Byzantine emperor and the lombards. Shortly before his death he visited Constantinople. He also opposed the heretical Monothelite.</div><div><br /></div>
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JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-73813386801483998492020-01-29T22:47:00.002-08:002020-01-29T22:47:48.164-08:00BLESSED ANGELO OF CHIVASSO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Bl. Angelo of Chivasso<br />
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Feast day: April 12<br />
Born at Chivasso in Piedmont, in 1411;<br />
Died at Coni, in Piedmont, in 1495.<br />
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Moral theologian of the order of Friars Minor; From his tenderest years the Blessed Angelo was remarkable for the holiness and purity of his life. He attended the University of Bologna, where he received the degree of Doctor of Civil and Cannon Law. It was probably at the age of thirty that he entered the Order of Friars Minor. His virtues and learning soon gained the confidence of his brethren in religion, and he was four times chosen to fill the office of vicar-general of that branch of the order then known as the Cismontane Observance. In 1480 the Turks under Mahout II took possession of Otranto, and threatened to overrun and lay waste the "bel paese". Blessed Angelo was appointed Apostolic Nuncio by Pope Sixtus IV, and commissioned to preach the holy war against the invaders. The death of Mahomet and the ultimate retirement of the Turkish forces from the Italian peninsula were evidences that God favoured his mission. Again, in 1491, he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio and Commissary by Innocent VIII, conjointly with the Bishop of Mauriana, the purpose of their mission being to take active steps to prevent the spread of the heretical doctrines of the Waldenses.<br />
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But it was perhaps by this writings that Blessed Angelo rendered the greatest service to religion. His works are given by Wadding in the latter's "Scriptores Ordinis Minorum". By far the most noted of these is the "Summa de Casibus Conscientiae", called after him the "Summa Angelica". The first edition of the "Summa Angelica" appeared in the year 1476, and from that year to the year 1520 it went through thirty-one editions, twenty-five of which are preserved in the Royal Library at Munich. The "Summa" is divided into six hundred and fifty-nine articles arranged in alphabetical order and forming what would now be called a dictionary of moral theology. The most valuable and most important of these articles is the one entitled "Interrogationes in Confessione". It serves, in a way, as an index to the whole work. Judging the character of the work of Bl. Angelo as a theologian from this, his most important contribution to moral theology, one is impressed with the gravity and fairness that characterized his opinions throughout. Besides, the "Summa", being written "pro utilitate confessariorum et eorum qui cupiunt laudabiliter vivere", is a most valuable guide in matters of conscience and approaches closely, in the treatment of the various articles, to casuistic theology as this science is now understood, hence the title of the work, "Summa de Casibus Conscientiae". Benedict XIII approved the cult that had for long been paid to Bl. Angelo, especially by the people of Chivasso and Coni. The latter chose him as their special patron, while his feast is kept on 12 April throughout the order of Friars Minor.</div>
JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-53772813404667970982020-01-29T22:43:00.002-08:002020-01-29T22:43:50.437-08:00SAINT ALLERIUS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
St. Allerius<br />
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Feast day: April 12<br />
Death: 1050<br />
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Hermit and founder, a noble of Salerno, Italy. A member of the powerful Pappacarboni family of the region, Allerius was born in 930. He showed no disposition for the religious life until he was stricken with an illness. He vowed to become a monk if cured, and he kept his oath when restored to good health. He entered the famous monastery in Cluny, in France. After a time, Duke Gisulf ordered Allerius home to regulate the religious orders of Salerno. Allerius was not able to instill much discipline into these religious houses, so he retired to a hermitage just outside the city in 1011. Many hermits joined Allerius there, and with twelve of them he founded the Benedictine Abbey of La Cava. Records give him a life span of 120 years.</div>
JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-76317074262316771842020-01-29T22:43:00.000-08:002020-01-29T22:43:00.559-08:00SAINT JULIUS I POPE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
St. Julius<br />
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Feast day: April 12<br />
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Born in Rome;<br />
Died there in April 12, 352.<br />
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Saint Julius, son of Rusticus, was elected pope on February 6, 337, to succeed Pope Saint Mark. Soon Julius was involved in the Arian controversy when Eusebius of Nicomedia opposed the return of Saint Athansius to the see of Alexandria in 338. The Arian bishops in the East sent three deputies to Julius to accuse Athanasius. Julius shared the charges they presented with Athanasius, who thereupon sent his representatives to Rome. Upon questioning them, he decided that the accusations of Eusebius were false.<br />
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At the insistence of the Arians, Julius convened a synod in Rome in 340 or 341 in which Athanasius and other orthodox bishops participated. Neither the Arians or semi-Arians attended. When Julius demanded the they appear before him, they answered by convening the council of Antioch in 341 during which Eusebuis and his followers elected George as patriarch of Alexandria, whereupon the Arians elected Pistus (so now there are three bishops of the same see).<br />
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In a letter to the Eusebian bishops, Julius declared that Athanasius was the rightful patriarch of Alexandria and reinstated him. In it the Holy Father demonstrates the authority of the bishop of Rome. He writes:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSmqk6HB9G8bJOGFuHapDXrn1OdRXU1g3Jpmg18sNjVhjVr1HemtN69VqTseirVr-v9iY_zRCMI4UowyOYkLro4CMwmDdpoGyMvtNJtdPW_A3pTUwPfFYauoNeGHDzBj-eoT6lyr4DZI/s1600/SAINT+JULIUS+I+POPE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="156" data-original-width="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSmqk6HB9G8bJOGFuHapDXrn1OdRXU1g3Jpmg18sNjVhjVr1HemtN69VqTseirVr-v9iY_zRCMI4UowyOYkLro4CMwmDdpoGyMvtNJtdPW_A3pTUwPfFYauoNeGHDzBj-eoT6lyr4DZI/s1600/SAINT+JULIUS+I+POPE.jpg" /></a>"If they [Athanasius and Marcellus] had been guilty, you should have written to us all, that judgment might have been given by all: for they were bishops and churches that suffered, and these not common churches, but the same that the apostles themselves had governed. Why did they not write to us especially concerning the church of Alexandria? Are you ignorant, that it is the custom to write to us immediately, and that the decision ought to come from hence? In case therefore that the bishop of that see lay under any suspicions, you ought to have written to our church. But now, without having sent us any information on the subject, and having acted just as you thought proper, you require of us to approve your measures, without sending us any account of the reasons of your proceedings. These are not the ordinances of Paul, this is not the tradition of our fathers; this is an unprecedented sort of conduct. I declare to you what we have learned from the blessed apostle Peter, and I believe it so well known to everybody, that I should not have mentioned it, had not this happened."<br />
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This letter is considered one of the most momentous pronouncements of the Roman see, according to the historian Socrates, who wrote: "Julius, by virtue of the prerogative of his see, sent the bishops into the East, with letters full of vigor, restoring to each of them his see." Sozomen similarly writes: "For, because the care of all belonged to him, by the dignity of his see, he restored to every one his church."<br />
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The matter was not really settled until the Council of Sardica (Sofia), summoned by the Emperors Constans and Constantius in 342 or 343 at the urging of Julius, which declared Julius's action correct and that any deposed bishop had the right of appeal to the pope in Rome. It declared Athanasius and Marcellus of Ancyra as orthodox and restored them to their respective sees. (This was an ecumenical council but is considered as an appendix to the Council of Nicaea because it only confirmed its decrees, although it enacted 21 disciplinary canons.)<br />
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Julius, a model of charity and wisdom, also built several basilicas and churches in Rome before his death<br />
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JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-72895190758735093952020-01-29T02:57:00.002-08:002020-01-29T02:57:28.929-08:00SAINT AGERICUS OF TOURS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Agericus of Tours,<br />
Feast day: April 11<br />
Also known as Acry, Agery, Aguy, Airy<br />
Died . 680.<br />
Saint Agericus was a disciple of Saint Eligius, who became abbot of Saint Martin's in Tours, France, and spent himself entirely for his abbey</div>
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Aid of Achad-Finglas,<br />
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Feast day: April 11<br />
Date unknown.<br />
Abbot Saint Aid of Achard-Finglas, County Carlow, Ireland, may be identical with Saint Aed Maedhog. He is the titular of a church, an abbey, and several chapels</div>
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Eustorgius of Nicomedia<br />
Feast day: April 11<br />
Died . 300.<br />
Eustorgius, a priest of Nicomedia, Asia Minor, was probably martyred under Diocletian</div>
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Blessed George Gervase,<br />
Feast day: April 11<br />
Born in Bosham, Sussex, England;<br />
Died at Tyburn, England, in 1608;<br />
Beatified in 1929.<br />
In his youth, George had an adventurous career with Francis Drake in the West Indies. Later he was educated for the priesthood and entered the Benedictines at Douai. In 1603 George was ordained to the priesthood and sent to the English mission, where he was condemned and died for his priesthood</div>
JOMON GEORGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06410566459511282995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379210583567671476.post-65866269673955656402020-01-29T02:52:00.003-08:002020-01-29T02:52:36.306-08:00SAINT GUTHLAC OF CROYLAND<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Guthlac of Croyland,<br />
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Born in Mercia, . 673;<br />
Died at Crowland, Lincolnshire, England, in 714;<br />
Feast day: April 11<br />
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Feast day formerly on April 12; feast of his translation is August 30 and there is a commemoration on August 26.<br />
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As a young man of royal blood from the tribe of Guthlacingas, Guthlac had been a soldier for nine years, fighting for Ethelred, the King of Mercia. At age 24, he renounced both violence and the life of the world and became a monk in an Benedictine double abbey at Repton, which was ruled by an abbess named Elfrida.<br />
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Even in these early years his discipline was extraordinary. Some of the monks in fact disliked him because he refused all wine and cheering drink. But he lived down the criticism and gained the respect of his brothers. After two years in the monastery it seemed to him far too agreeable a place. On the feast of Saint Bartholomew about 701, he found a wet, remote, unloved spot on the River Welland in the Fens, which could be reached only by boat, and lived there for the rest of his life as a hermit, seeking to imitate the rigors of the old desert fathers.<br />
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His temptations rivalled theirs. Wild men came out of the forest and beat him. Even the ravens stole his few possessions. But Guthlac was patient, even with wild creatures. Bit by bit the animals and birds came to trust him as their friend. A holy man named Wilfrid once visited Guthlac and was astonished when two swallows landed on his shoulders and then hopped all over him. Guthlac told him, "Those who choose to live apart from other humans become the friends of wild animals; and the angels visit them, too- -for those who are often visited by men and women are rarely visited by angels."<br />
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Apparently, Guthlac was also had a vision of Saint Bartholomew, his patron. Nor was he entirely alone in his refuge: He had several disciples, Saints Cissa, Bettelin, Egbert, and Tatwin, who had cells nearby. Bishop Hedda of Dorchester ordained him to the priesthood during a visit. The exiled prince Ethelbald, often came to him for advice, learned from Guthlac that he would wear the crown of the Mercians.<br />
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When he was dying, Guthlac sent for his sister, Saint Pega, who was a hermitess in the same neighborhood Peakirk or Pega's church. Abbess Edburga of Repton sent him a shroud and a leaden coffin. A year after his death, Guthlac's body was exhumed and found to be incorrupt. Soon his shrine, to which his sister had donated his Psalter and scourge, began popular. When both King Wiglaf of Mercia 827-840 and Archbishop Ceolnoth of Canterbury who was cured by Guthlac of the ague in 851 became devotees, Guthlac's cultus grew and spread. A monastery was established on the site of Saint Guthlac's hermitage, which developed into the great abbey of Crowland, to which his relics were translated in 1136. There was another translation in 1196.<br />
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Guthlac's vita was recorded in Latin by his near contemporary Felix. Several others were composed in Old English verse and prose. Together with Saint Cuthbert, Guthlac was one of England's most popular pre-Conquest hermit saints</div>
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Isaac of Spoleto,<br />
Also known as Isaac of Monteluco<br />
Feast day: April 11<br />
Died 550. Saint Isaac was a Syrian monk who fled from the Monophysite persecution and founded a laura at Monteluco, near Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. He was one of the restorers of eremitical life in 6th century Italy</div>
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Blessed John of Cupramontana,<br />
Feast day: April 11<br />
Died 1303<br />
. John lived in the cave of Cupramonatan on Mount Massaccio for many years as a Camaldolese monk-hermit </div>
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Blessed Raynerius Inclusus,<br />
Feast day: April 11<br />
Died 1237.<br />
Raynerius Inclusus (i.e., 'shut up') lived as a hermit in a cell near the cathedral of Osnabrück. He spent 22 years in his cell wearing a coat of mail and heavy chains next to his skin</div>
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Blesseds Stephen & Hilderbrand,<br />
Feast day: April 11<br />
Died 1209.<br />
Stephen, a Cistercian abbot, and Hilderbrand, one of his monks, were killed by the Albigenses at Saint-Gilles, Languedoc, where they are venerated through a popular cultus</div>
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