St. Asclepiades
Feastday: October 18
Death: 217
Bishop of Antioch and martyr. Asclepiades was the successor of St. Serapion in Antioch, Turkey, serving that see from 211 until his death. lie is given the title of martyr because of the trials he endured during the persecutions of the time.
St. Athenodorus
Feastday: October 18
Death: 269
Bishop and martyr. Athenodorus was a member of a prominent pagan family at Neocaesarea, in Cappadocia. His brother was St. Gregory Thaumaturgus. He went with Gregory and their sister to Caesarea, in 223, planning to study law in Beirut, Lebanon. Origen was in Caesarea, and Athenodorus and Gregory were converted by him. Athenodorus was named bishop of an unnamed see in Pontus later in his life. He was martyred in the persecutions of Emperor Aurelian.
St. Gwen
Feastday: October 18
Death: 5th century
Image of St. Gwen
Widowed martyr sometimes called Blanche, Wenn, or Candida. She was the daughter of a Chieftain, Brychan or Brecknock. Saxon pagans martyred Gwen at Talgrarth.
Gwen Teirbron (French: Blanche; Latin: Alba Trimammis or Candida; possibly English: Wite) was a Breton holy woman and wife of Fragan who supposedly lived in the 5th or 6th century. Her epithet is Welsh for '(of the) three breasts'.
Veneration
Popular devotion interpreted Gwen's unusual physical and spiritual fecundity by God's gift to her of a third breast. Her iconography followed suit. Gwen is invoked for women's fertility. She is commemorated on 3 October in the Catholic Church (although this has been transferred from Saint Candidus of Rome), and on 18 July (NS) by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in Australia.[1]
Possible identification
She is interpreted by Dyfed Lloyd Evans as having been a euhemerized mother goddess
St. Justus of Beauvais
Feastday: October 18
Death: 287
St. Justus of Beauvais, Martyr (Feast day - October 18) Justus was born in 278 and lived at Auxerre, France, with his father. At that time, the persecution of Diocletian was in full force. Justus and his father went to Amiens to ransom a relative. While there, Justus was reported to the authorities to be a Christian magician, and soldiers were sent to arrest him. When confronted at Beauvais, Justus, who was nine years old, confessed that he was a Christian, and he was immediately beheaded. Legend has it that he then stood upright with his head in his hand, at which the soldiers fled.
Saint Justus of Beauvais (c. 278—c. 287) is a semi-legendary saint of the Roman Catholic Church. He may have been a Gallo-Roman martyr, but his legend was confused with that of other saints, such as Justin of Paris.[1]
Contents
1 History
2 Veneration
3 References
4 External links
History
Tradition states that he was a child of nine who was denounced as a Christian while on a trip with his father to Amiens to ransom or rescue an imprisoned relative during the persecutions of Diocletian. He was executed for confessing that he was a Christian and for refusing to give away the hiding place of his father and uncle.[2]
After he was beheaded, Justus' body then picked up the severed head and continued to speak.[2] Justus is thus one of the legendary cephalophores, the saintly "head-carriers" who miraculously continued to speak or move despite being decapitated. This legend was elaborated in subsequent centuries, and stated that the headless boy managed to convert pagan onlookers.
This miraculous act is said to have happened in a spot between Beauvais and Senlis now named after him: Saint-Just-en-Chaussée.
Veneration
Veneration for Justus was widespread in France, Belgium, and Switzerland[2] –where places named Saint-Just refer to him- and his cult spread to England as well.
Winchester claimed some of his relics from the 10th century.[1] In England the Annales monasterii de Wintonia reports that in 924 Athelstan donated to the treasury of Winchester the head of this martyr. It is possible that this may not have been the entire head but just a fragment of it, according to one scholar.[3]
In the first half of the 11th century, the diocese of Chur in Switzerland received his relics as well.
Additionally, the abbey of Malmédy in Belgium asserted that at the beginning of 10th century its monk had acquired -at a good price- the body of Justus.[3] Saint-Riquier also claimed his body.
Zutphen in the Netherlands also claimed some of his relics since at least the 14th century.[4] Franciscans brought an additional relic of Justus to Zutphen around 1450 when they established themselves there.[5] A confraternity dedicated to Ewald and Justus was established in 1454. His feast is celebrated on October 11 there.
St. Kevoca
Feastday: October 18
Death: 5th century
Welsh virgin, also called Keyne or Ceinwen. She is possibly one of the twenty-four children of the chieftain Brychan of Brecknock, Wales. Keyna supposedly became a hermitess on the banks of the Severn River in Somerset, England St. Cadoc, her nephew, convinced her to return to Wales. She founded churches in southern Wales and in Cornwall, England, and possibly in Somerset.
St. Monon
Feastday: October 18
Death: 645
Scottish pilgrim who moved to Ardennes, France, to become a hermit in that area. Monon was murdered at Nassogne, in Luxembourg, by a group of unrepentant sinners.
† இன்றைய புனிதர் †
(அக்டோபர் 18)
✠அல்கான்டரா நகர் புனிதர் பீட்டர் ✠
(St. Peter of Alcantara)
துறவி/ ஆத்ம பலம் கொண்டவர்:
(Friar, Mystic)
பிறப்பு: கி.பி. 1499
அல்கான்டரா, ஸ்பெயின்
(Alcántara, Spain)
இறந்து: அக்டோபர் 18, 1562 (வயது 62-63)
அரினாஸ் டி சான் பெட்ரோ, ஸ்பெயின்
(Arenas de San Pedro, Spain)
ஏற்கும் சமயம்:
ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை
(Roman Catholic Church)
முக்திபேறு பட்டம்: ஏப்ரல் 18, 1622
திருத்தந்தை பதினைந்தாம் கிரகோரி
(Pope Gregory XV)
புனிதர் பட்டம்: ஏப்ரல் 28, 1669
திருத்தந்தை ஒன்பதாம் கிளெமெண்ட்
(Pope Clement IX)
நினைவுத் திருநாள்: அக்டோபர் 18
பாதுகாவல்:
பிரேசில் (Brazil), நற்கருணை ஆராதனை (Eucharistic Adoration), எக்ஸ்ட்ரீமுதுரா (Extremadura), பாகில் (Pakil), லாகுனா (Laguna) மற்றும் இரவு காவலர்கள் (Night Watchmen)
அல்கான்டரா நகர் புனிதர் பீட்டர், ஒரு ஸ்பேனிஷ் ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன் துறவி (Spanish Franciscan Friar) ஆவார்.
புனிதர் பீட்டர், ஸ்பெயின் (Spain) நாட்டின், அல்கான்டரா (Alcántara) நகரில் பிறந்தவர் ஆவார். இவரது தந்தையார், அல்கான்டரா (Alcántara) நகரின் ஆளுநர் (Governor of Alcántara) பதவி வகித்த “பீட்டர் கராவிட்டா” (Peter Garavita) ஆவார். இவரது தாயார், “சனபியாவின்” (Noble Family of Sanabia) உன்னத குடும்பத்தைச் சார்ந்தவர் ஆவார். தமது பதினாறு வயதில் “சலமான்கா பல்கலை கழகத்திற்கு” (University in Salamanca) கல்வி கற்க அனுப்பப்பட்ட பீட்டர், சிறிது காலத்திலேயே ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன் (Franciscans) சபையில் சேர முடிவு செய்தார்.
கி.பி. 1515ம் ஆண்டு, வீடு திரும்பிய பீட்டர், “எக்ஸ்ட்ரீமடுரா” (Extremadura) நகரிலுள்ள ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன் சபையின் கண்டிப்பான கவனிப்புகளுள்ள (Stricter Observance) மடத்தின் ஒரு துறவியாக வீடு திரும்பினார். இருபத்தி இரண்டு வயதில் அவர் “படஜோஸ்” (Badajoz) நகரில், ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன் சபையின் மற்றுமொரு கண்டிப்புள்ள (Stricter Observance) ஒரு புதிய சமூகம் நிறுவ அனுப்பப்பட்டார். 1524ம் ஆண்டு, குருத்துவ அருட்பொழிவு செய்விக்கப்பட்ட அவர், அடுத்த வருடம் ரோப்ரேடில்லோ (Robredillo), பழைய கஸ்டிலில் (Old Castile) உள்ள புனித மரியாளின் ஏஞ்சல்ஸின் துறவு மடத்தின் பாதுகாவலராக நியமிக்கப்பட்டார். சில வருடங்கள் கழித்து அவர் பல வெற்றிகளுடன் பிரசங்கிக்க ஆரம்பித்தார்.
ஏழைகளுக்கு பிரசங்கிப்பதற்கு அவர் விரும்பினார். அவருடைய பிரசங்கங்கள், பெரும்பாலும் தீர்க்கதரிசிகளிடமிருந்தும், அறிவுப் பண்புடைய புத்தகங்களிலிருந்தும் எடுத்துக்கொள்ளப்பட்டனவாகும்.
கி.பி. 1538ம் ஆண்டு, "எட்ஸ்ட்ரீமடுரா" (Estremadura) நகரின் "சேன் கேபிரியல்" (St Gabriel) நகரிலுள்ள ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன் மாகான தலைவராக பணியமர்த்தப்பட்டார். ஆனால், துறவியரிடையே கண்டிப்பான சட்டதிட்டங்களை அமல்படுத்தும் அவரது முயற்சிகளுக்கு எதிர்ப்பு கிளம்பியபோது, அவர் தலைமை பதவியிலிருந்து விலகினார். அவர் அவிலா நகர் யோவானுடன் (John of Avila) போர்ச்சுகலின் அர்ராபிடா (Mountains of Arrábida) மலைகளில் ஓய்வுபெற சென்றார். விரைவிலேயே அநேகம் பிற துறவியரும் அவருடன் இணைந்துகொள்ள வந்தனர். சிறு சிறு சமூகங்கள் உருவாக்கப்பட்டன. “பர்ரேய்ரோ” (Barreiro) நகரிலுள்ள “பல்ஹாயிஸ்” (friary of Palhais) துறவு மடத்தின் பாதுகாவலராகவும், புகுமுக துறவியரின் தலைவராகவும் தேர்வானார். கி.பி. 1560ம் ஆண்டு, இந்த சமூகங்கள் “அர்ராபிடா” (Province of Arrábida) மாகாணத்தில் நிறுவப்பட்டன.
கி.பி. 1553ம் ஆண்டு, ஸ்பெயின் திரும்பிய அவர், மேலும் இரண்டு வருடங்களை தனிமையில் செலவிட்டார். பின்னர், ரோம் நகருக்கு வெறும்காலுடன் பயணித்த அவர், ஸ்பெயின் நாட்டில், மரபுசாராரின் தலைமையின் அதிகார வரம்பின் கீழே, ஏழை எளிய துறவியருக்கான மடங்களை நிறுவுவதற்கான திருத்தந்தை மூன்றாம் ஜூலியசின் (Pope Julius III) அனுமதி பெற்று வந்தார். “பெட்ரோசா” (Pedrosa), “பிளாசென்சியா” (Plasencia) மற்றும் அநேக இடங்களில் துறவு மடங்கள் நிறுவப்பட்டன.
ஏழைகளுக்கு நற்செய்தியைப் பிரசங்கிப்பதற்காக ஸ்பெயின் நாடு முழுதும் பயணித்த பீட்டர், மிகவும் கடின நோன்புகளையும் எளிமையையும் கடைபிடித்தார். புனிதர் தெரேசா (St. Teresa), புனிதர் பிரான்சிஸ் டி சலேஸ் (St. Francis de Sales) மற்றும் டொமினிக்கன் துறவியான “வணக்கத்துக்குரிய கிரணடாவின் லூயிஸ்” (The Venerable Louis of Granada) ஆகியோரால் ஒரு தலைசிறந்த படைப்பாகக் கருதப்பட்ட பிரார்த்தனை மற்றும் தியானத்தின் மீதான ஒரு புத்தகத்தை அவர் எழுதினார்.
செபத்தின்போதும், ஆழ்ந்த சிந்தனைகளின்போதும், அவர் முகத்தில் எப்போதும் ஒரு மகிழ்ச்சி கரைபுரள்வதை காணமுடிந்தது. மரணப்படுக்கையில் இருந்த அவருக்கு குடிக்க தண்ணீர் கொடுக்கப்பட்டபோது, “சிலுவையில் தொங்கிய என் இயேசு கிறிஸ்து தாகமாயிருந்தார்...” என்று கூறியவாறு அதனை மறுத்தார். 1562ம் ஆண்டு, அக்டோபர் மாதம், 18ம் தேதி, "அர்நேஸ்" (Arenas) நகரிலுள்ள மடாலயத்தில் முழங்கால்படியிட்டு செபித்துக்கொண்டிருந்த பீட்டர் மரித்துப்போனார். (இது, தற்போதைய "ஓல்ட் கேஸ்டில்" (Old Castile), "அவிலா மாகாணத்திலுள்ள" (Province of Ávila) "அரினாஸ் டி சான் பெட்ரோ" (Arenas de San Pedro) எனும் இடமாகும்.)
எப்போதும் சிறிது நேரமே உறங்கும் வழக்கமுள்ள பீட்டர், உட்கார்ந்தவாறே உறங்குவார் என்று கூறப்படுகிறது. அவரது சகோதர துறவியர் தூங்கிக்கொண்டிருந்த நேரத்தில் அவர் விழித்துக்கொண்டிருந்த காரணத்தால், அவர் இரவு காவலாளர்களின் பாதுகாவலர் ஆவார்.
St. Peter of Alcantara
Feastday: October 18
Birth: 1499
Death: 1562
Saint Peter of Alcantara was born in Alcantara, Spain in 1499. His father was the Governor of the province and his mother came from a noble family. He was privately tutored and attended the University of Salamanca. After he returned home from university, he joined the Franciscans.
Peter was accepted as a Franciscan Friar of the Stricter Observance in the Friary at Manxaretes Extramadura in 1515.
At the young age of 22, he was sent to found a community of the Stricter Observance at Badajoz.
He was ordained as a priest in 1524 and in 1525 he became Guardian of the friary of St. Mary of the Angels at Robredillo, Old Castile.
He later entered the Order of the reform of the Discalced Friars. By 1538, he was elected the Superior of St. Gabriel province. As the superior, he drew up new constitutions for the order of Stricter Observance, however these were met with resistance. Eventually he resigned from this post.
Peter then began a new life, one of less formal responsibility but one of greater spiritual responsibility. He took up his spiritual cross and preached with great success to the poor. Peter preferred preaching to this group more than any other and he frequently drew inspiration from the Old Testament books. His sermons often concentrated on the topic of on compassion.
When Peter was not preaching, he would spend long periods of time in solitude. From 1553 to early 1555, he spent this time alone in meditation and prayer. Following these two years of solitude, Peter made a pilgrimage to Rome, barefoot the entire way. While in Rome he obtained permission from Pope Julius III to establish friaries, departing on his new mission just before the Holy Father's death.
Along his way home, Peter established several friaries. These friaries were compelled to follow a strict constitution, mush like the ones he endeavored to impose in St. Gabriel province.
This time, his new constitution contained reforms that proved fruitful and were later adopted across Spain.
Peter was known for frequently experiencing ecstasy, a state where he was entirely consumed with the warmth and light of the Holy Spirit. These euphoric moments were common during his prayer and meditation. Some claim to have witness him levitate.
When he was close to death, Peter took to his knees and prayed. When he was offered water he refused it saying, "Even my Lord Jesus Christ thirsted on the Cross." Peter died in prayer on October 18, 1562.
Following his death, Peter was beautified by Pope Gregory XV on April 18, 1622. He was subsequently canonized by Pope Clement IX on April 28, 1669.
St. Peter of Alcantara is the patron saint of the Nocturnal Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
St. Tryphonia
Feastday: October 18
Death: 3rd century
Roman widow and martyr. Tradition states that she may have been the widow of the Christian enemy, Emperor Trajanus Decius or the widow of his son.
Bl. Francis Xavier Seelos
Feastday: October 5
Birth: 1819
Death: 1867
Beatified: April 9, 2000, Rome by Pope John Paul II
Image of Bl. Francis Xavier Seelos
Francis Xavier Seelos was born in Fussen, Germany, in 1819. Expressing his desire for the priesthood since an early age, he entered the diocesan seminary of Augsburg after completing his studies in philosophy. Upon learning of the charism and missionary activity of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, he decided to join and go to North America. He arrived in the United States on April 20, 1843, entered the Redemptorist novitiate and completed his theological studies, being ordained a priest on December 22, 1844. He began his pastoral ministry in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he remained nine years, working closely as assistant pastor of his confrere St. John Neumann, while at the same time serving as Master of Novices and dedicating himself to mission preaching. In 1854, he returned to Baltimore, later being transferred to Cumberland and then Annapolis, where he served in parochial ministry and in the formation of the Redemptorist seminarians. He was considered an expert confessor, a watchful and prudent spiritual director and a pastor always joyfully available and attentive to the needs of the poor and the abandoned. In 1860, he was a candidate for the office of Bishop of Pittsburgh. Having been excused from this responsibility by Pope Pius IX, from 1863 until 1866 he became a full-time itinerant missionary preacher. He preached in English and German in the states of Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. He was named pastor of the Church of St. Mary of the Assumption in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he died of the yellow fever epidemic caring for the sick and the poor of New Orleans on October 4, 1867, at the age of 48 years and nine months. The enduring renown for his holiness which the Servant of God enjoyed occasioned his Cause for Canonization to be introduced in 1900 with the initiation of the Processo Informativo . On January 27, Your Holiness declared him Venerable, decreeing the heroism of his virtues.
Francis Xavier Seelos, (January 11, 1819 – October 4, 1867) was a German Redemptorist who worked as a missionary in the United States frontier. Towards the end of his life, he went to New Orleans to minister to victims of yellow fever. He then died after contracting the disease.
St. Herodion
Feastday: October 17
Death: 136
Martyred bishop, the successor of St. Ignatius at Antioch, Turkey, where he served for two decades.
Saint Herodian (died 136 AD) was a 2nd-century Christian martyr and Bishop of Antioch, successor of Ignatius at Antioch, a title he held for two decades.[1]
Bl. Jane Louise Barre and Jane Reine Prin
Feastday: October 17
Death: 1794
Ursuline martyrs. Known in the religious life as Sisters Cordula and Laurentina respectively, the 3 were guillotined by officials of the French revolutionary government at Valenciennes and were members of the Ursuline nuns martyred during the French Revolution.
St. Louthiem
Feastday: October 17
Death: 6th century
Irish saint, patron of St. Ludgran in Cornwall, England. Also called Luchtighem
St. Mamelta
Feastday: October 17
Martyr of Persia. He was a pagan priest at Bethfarme. Converted to Christianity, he was stoned because of his faith and then drowned in a lake by Persian authorities.
St. Marie Magdalen Desjardin
Feastday: October 17
Ursuline martyr of the French Revolution. She was guillotined in Valenciennes with Marie Louise Vanot. In religion, Marie Magdalen was called Marie-Augustine. Marie Louise was called Natalie. Both received beatification in 1920.
St. Nothlem
Feastday: October 17
Death: 739
Archbishop of Canterbury. Originally a priest in London, he was named archbishop in 734. Notheim conducted research on the history of Kent which was collected by Abbot Albinus and in turn utilized by the Venerable Bede in the writing of his Ecclesiastical History.
This article is about the Archbishop of Canterbury. For the King of Sussex, see Nothhelm of Sussex.
Nothhelm (sometimes Nothelm;[3] died 739) was a medieval Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury. A correspondent of both Bede and Boniface, it was Nothhelm who gathered materials from Canterbury for Bede's historical works. After his appointment to the archbishopric in 735, he attended to ecclesiastical matters, including holding church councils. Although later antiquaries felt that Nothhelm was the author of a number of works, later research has shown them to be authored by others. After his death he was considered a saint.
Early life
Nothhelm was a contemporary of Boniface and Bede, whom he supplied with correspondence from the papal library following a trip to Rome.[4] He also researched the history of Kent and the surrounding area for Bede, supplying the information through the abbot of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury.[5] Before his appointment to the archbishopric, he was the archpriest of the Saxon-built St Paul's Cathedral, London.[6]
Archbishop
Named to the see of Canterbury in 735, Nothhelm was consecrated the same year.[7] Pope Gregory III sent him a pallium in 736.[8] He may have been appointed by Æthelbald, King of Mercia, whose councilor he was.[4] Whether or not he owed his appointment to Æthelbald, Nothhelm was one of a number of Mercians who became Archbishop of Canterbury during the 730s and 740s, during a time of expanding Mercian influence.[9] He held a synod in 736 or 737, which drew nine bishops;[8] the meeting adjudicated a dispute over the ownership of a monastery located at Withington.[10][a] A significant feature of this synod was the fact that no king attended, but yet the synod still rendered judgement in the ownership even without secular oversight, which was more usual.[11]
Nothhelm oversaw the reorganisation of the Mercian dioceses which took place in 737. The archbishop consecrated Witta as Bishop of Lichfield and Totta as Bishop of Leicester.[8] The diocese of Leicester was firmly established by this action,[12] although earlier attempts had been made to establish a bishopric there.[13] In 738, Nothhelm was a witness on the charter of Eadberht I, the King of Kent.[8]
Bede addressed his work In regum librum XXX quaestiones to Nothhelm, who had asked the thirty questions on the biblical book of Kings that Bede answered.[8] Bede's work De VIII Quaestionibus may have been written for Nothhelm.[5] While he was archbishop, Boniface wrote to him, requesting a copy of the Libellus responsionum of Pope Gregory I for use in Boniface's missionary efforts.[14] Boniface also asked for information on when the Gregorian mission to England arrived in England.[5] This text of the Libellus responsionum has been the subject of some controversy, with the historian Suso Brechter arguing that the text was a forgery created by Nothhelm and a Roman archdeacon. The historian Paul Meyvaert has refuted this view, and most historians incline towards the belief that the text is genuine, although it is not considered conclusively proven.[8]
Death and legacy
Nothhelm died on 17 October 739[7] and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral.[8] He is considered a saint, and his feast day is 17 October.[1] The antiquaries and writers John Leland, John Bale, and Thomas Tanner all felt that Nothhelm was the author of various works, but later research has shown them to be authored by other writers. A verse eulogy for Nothhelm, of uncertain date, survives in a 16th-century manuscript now at the Lambeth Palace library.[8]
