St. Martha October 20

 St. Martha

Feastday: October 20

Virgin martyr with Saula and companions in Germany. They are now assigned to the traditional cycle of St. Ursula.

Bl. Oleksa Zaryckyj October 20

 Bl. Oleksa Zaryckyj

Feastday: October 20

Birth: 1912

Death: 1963

Beatified: Pope John Paul II

Oleksa Zaryckyj was born October 17, 1912 in the village of Bilco, region of Ukraine in Lviv (Lvov). In 1931 he entered the seminary in Lviv and five years after he was ordained to the priesthood by Metropolitan Sheptytsky as a diocesan priest of the Archeparchy of Lviv of the Ukrainians. In 1948 he was captured by the Bolsheviks and was sentenced to ten years in prison and deported to Karaganda in Kazakhstan. Released early in 1957, Oleksa Zaryckyj was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Kazakhstan and Siberia, but did not have time to receive episcopal consecration. Shortly after he was re-interned in concentration camp Dolinka near Karaganda, where he died a martyr of the faith October 30, 1963. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II June 27, 2001, along with 24 other victims of the Soviet regime of Ukrainian nationality.

Athanasius Schneider, O.R.C. (born Anton Schneider on 7 April 1961) is a Kazakhstani Roman Catholic bishop, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan. He is a member of the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross of Coimbra. He is known for championing the traditional pre-Vatican II liturgy and practices of the Church and for protesting certain policies associated with Pope Francis.

Family and early life

Anton Schneider was born in Tokmok, Kirghiz SSR, in the Soviet Union. His parents were Black Sea Germans from Odessa in the Ukraine.[1] After the Second World War they were sent by Stalin to a gulag in Krasnokamsk in the Ural Mountains, where the family was closely involved with the underground church. Schneider's mother Maria was one of several women to shelter the Blessed Oleksa Zaryckyj, a Ukrainian priest later imprisoned at the infamous Karlag and in 1963 martyred by the Soviet regime for his ministry. The family traveled to the Kirghiz SSR after being released from the camps,[2] then left Central Asia for Estonia.[3] As a boy, Schneider and his three siblings would attend clandestine Masses with their parents, often traveling sixty miles from the family's home in Valga to Tartu, taking the first train in the morning under the cover of darkness and returning with the last train at night. Due to the great distance, infrequent visits by the clergy, and crackdowns by the Soviet authorities, they were able to make the trip only once a month.[1] In 1973, shortly after making his first Holy Communion in secret, Schneider emigrated with his family to Rottweil in West Germany.[4]

Training and priesthood

In 1982 in Austria, Schneider joined the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross of Coimbra, a Roman Catholic religious order within the Opus Sanctorum Angelorum, and took the religious name Athanasius. He was ordained a priest by Bishop Manuel Pestana Filho of Anápolis on 25 March 1990, and spent several years as a priest in Brazil before returning to Central Asia.[5] Starting in 1999, he taught Patristics at Mary, Mother of the Church Seminary in Karaganda. On 2 June 2006 he was consecrated a bishop at the Altar of the Chair of Saint Peter in the Vatican by Angelo Cardinal Sodano. In 2011 he was transferred to the position of auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Astana.[6] He is the General Secretary of the Bishops' Conference of Kazakhstan.[7]

Bishop Schneider speaks German, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, English, French and Italian, and he reads Latin and Ancient Greek.[8]

Views

Schneider is known for his traditionalism. He has criticized clergy members whom he believes do not fully adhere to the faith and instead surrender to what he calls a "cruel pagan world." In 2014, he compared them to "members of the clergy and even bishops who put grains of incense in front of the statue of the emperor or of a pagan idol or who delivered the books of the Holy Scripture to be burned." He alleged that the present Church is beset by "traitors of the Faith."[9]

Schneider has frequently travelled to conferences hosted by conservative and traditional Catholics. In 2018, he was warned by the Holy See to limit his travel outside his diocese, as canon law requires allows a bishop to be absent for no more than a month unless on official duty. This led to him increasingly appearing at conferences via video.[10]

Holy Communion

Schneider passionately supports the liturgical tradition of receiving Holy Communion on the tongue while kneeling, as a sign of love for the body and blood of Jesus.[11] This is the theme of his 2008 book Dominus Est,[12][13] published in Italian, and since translated into English, German, Estonian, Lithuanian, Polish, Hungarian and Chinese. The book contains a foreword written by Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, then the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship, currently Archbishop of Colombo and Metropolitan head of the church in Sri Lanka.[14] In the book, Schneider writes that receiving Holy Communion in this way had become standard practice in the Church by the 5th century, and that Pope Gregory I strongly chastised priests who refused to follow this tradition.[11] He wrote in 2009: "The awareness of the greatness of the eucharistic mystery is demonstrated in a special way by the manner in which the body of the Lord is distributed and received."[15]

Schneider offering Mass in 2009

Schneider has vigorously upheld the traditional teaching of the Church that divorce and remarriage outside of it constitutes the mortal sin of adultery, and thus makes one ineligible to receive Holy Communion.[9][16] In a 2014 interview, Schneider said that calls to change this practice came from "anti-Christian media." He suggested this was "a false concept of mercy," saying: "It is comparable to a doctor who gives a [diabetic] patient sugar, although he knows it will kill him."[9] In 2016, Pope Francis released the apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia which seemed to allow divorced and remarried persons to take the Eucharist, and this was put into practice by some bishops, arousing intense controversy. Schneider strongly criticized this, asserting that the perennial teaching is "more powerful and surer than the discordant voice and practice of admitting unrepentant adulterers to Holy Communion, even if this practice is promoted by a single Pope or the diocesan bishops."[16] On April 7, 2018, Schneider, along with conservative cardinals Raymond Leo Burke and Walter Brandmüller, participated in a conference rejecting the outline proposed by German bishops to allow divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive the Eucharist. Schneider spoke of the duty of popes to be "custodians" of authority.[17]

Clergy sex abuse

On August 25, 2018, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former apostolic nuncio to the United States, released an 11-page letter describing a series of warnings to the Vatican regarding sexual misconduct by Theodore McCarrick, accusing Francis of failing to act on these reports and calling on him to resign.[18] Schneider said that there was "no reasonable and plausible cause to doubt the truth content of the document." He demanded "ruthlessness and transparency" in cleansing the Church of evils, particularly "homosexual cliques and networks" in the curia that he and some others have blamed for helping to cause the abuse epidemic. Schneider called on all "cardinals, bishops and priests to renounce any compromise and any flirt with the world."[19]

Interreligious relations

Schneider stated in a January 2013 interview that proselytizing by "false religions and sects" should be restricted in majority-Catholic counties. "When there is (a Catholic majority) then false religions and sects have not the right to make propaganda there," he said. Schneider added that this does not mean that governments can "suppress them, they can live, but (governments) cannot give them the same right to make propaganda to the detriment of Catholics."[20]

Schneider has spoken out against Muslim immigration into Europe. He stated in a 2018 interview that heavy Muslim immigration during the 2010s was orchestrated by "international powerful political organizations...to take away from Europe its Christian and its national identity. It is meant to dilute the Christian and the national character of Europe." Schneider alleged that the Syrian Civil War was orchestrated by international powers with a view to stirring up a migrant crisis to de-Christianize Europe, and that mass immigration into Europe from Northern Africa was likewise "artificially created."[21]

Liturgy

Schneider is a strong promoter of the Tridentine Mass.[22] He has rebuked priests for using "a careless and superficial–almost an entertainment style" of liturgy, adding that liturgy must be conducted with "beauty and reverence." According to Schneider, "You cannot change the liturgy by the tastes of the time. The liturgy is timeless." Schneider has offered Mass in the Byzantine Rite numerous times, praising it as "permeated with respect, with reverence, with a supernatural spirit and adoration."[21]

Schneider criticized the closing of churches during the COVID-19 pandemic, remarking that numerous other establishments remained open, and proposing that churches could safely remain open if sanitary procedures were followed and additional Masses were offered to limit crowding.[23]

Declaration of Truths

At a theological conference in Rome in December 2010, Schneider proposed the need for "a new Syllabus" (recalling the Syllabus of Errors of 1864), in which papal teaching authority would correct erroneous interpretations of the documents of the Second Vatican Council.[24][25][26]

On June 10, 2019, Schneider, along with cardinals Burke and Jānis Pujats, as well as Kazakh archbishops Tomasz Peta of Astana and Jan Paul Lenga, published a 40-point "Declaration of Truths" "[1]" claiming to reaffirm traditional Church teaching. The bishops wrote that such a declaration was necessary in a time of "almost universal doctrinal confusion and disorientation." Specific passages in the declaration implicitly reply to writings of Pope Francis. The declaration states that "the religion born of faith in Jesus Christ" is the "only religion positively willed by God," seemingly alluding to the Document on Human Fraternity signed by Pope Francis which stated that the "diversity of religions" is "willed by God." Following recent changes to the Catechism to oppose capital punishment, the declaration states that the Church "did not err" in teaching that civil authorities may "lawfully exercise capital punishment" when it is "truly necessary" and to preserve the "just order of societies."[27]

Amazon Synod

In September 2019, Schneider and Burke published an 8-page letter denouncing six alleged theological errors in the working document for the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region, and asking that Pope Francis "confirm his brethren in the faith by an unambiguous rejection of the errors." Burke and Schneider criticized the Synod document for its "implicit pantheism," support for married clergy, a greater role for women in the liturgy, and excessive openness to Amazonian pagan rituals and practices. They asked the laity and clergy to pray at least one decade of the Rosary and to fast weekly for the rejection of such ideas over a 40-day period from September 17 to October 26.[28]

Second Vatican Council

In an article dated May 31, 2020 Schneider publicly declared that he had adhered to the opinion of many Traditional Catholics regarding the Second Vatican Council. He argued the Council introduced erroneous statements never before taught by the magisterium of the Church. He also states the novelties of the Council are directly responsible for the crisis of faith experienced in the Catholic Church in the second half of the 20th century and in the 21st century.[29]

St. Usthazanes October 20

 St. Usthazanes

Feastday: October 20

St. Usthazanes d.341, martyr. see St. Barsabas, martyr. An abbot in Persia, tortured and beheaded with his twele monks at Ishtar during the persecution of Sapor, he probably is identical with the leader of a group slain at Persepolis c. 342 and honored on October 20th or with St. Simon Barsabae.

புனித விட்டாலிஸ் ( St. Vitalis of Salzburg ) October 20

இன்றைய புனிதர் : 

(20-10-2020)

புனித விட்டாலிஸ் 

( St. Vitalis of Salzburg )

நினைவுத்திருநாள்; அக்டோபர் 20

சால்ஸ்பூர்க் நகர் ஆயர் :

பிறப்பு : 7ம் நூற்றாண்டு

இறப்பு : 20 அக்டோபர் 730 சால்ஸ்பூர்க் Salzburg, ஆஸ்திரியா

பாதுகாவல் : குழந்தைகள், கர்ப்பிணி பெண்கள்

புனித விட்டாலிஸ், தனது இளம் வயதிலிருந்தே மறைப்பணியாளராக வேண்டுமென்று ஆசைக்கொண்டார். இவர் சால்ஸ்பூர்க் ஆயர் ரூபர்ட் (Rubert) என்பவரிடம் கல்வி கற்றார். பிறகு ஆயர் ரூபர்ட் 27ம் நாள் மார்ச் 718ம் ஆண்டு இறந்துவிடவே, அவருக்கு பிறகு, அவரின் ஆசிரியர் பதவியை விட்டாலிஸ் (Vitalis) ஏற்றார்.

12 ஆண்டுகள் தொடர்ந்து அப்பணியை செய்தார். அதன்பிறகு விட்டாலிஸ் சால்ஸ்பூர்க்கில் ஆயர் பதவியை ஏற்றார். ஆயர் ரூபர்ட் பெரிய மறைபரப்பு பணியாளராக வேண்டுமென்று ஆசைக்கொண்டார். ஆனால் விட்டாலிஸ் அவ்விருப்பத்தை தன் பணியின் வழியாக நிறைவேற்றினார். இவர் சால்ஸ்பூர்க்கில் புகழ் வாய்ந்த மறைபரப்பு பணியாளராக திகழ்ந்தார்.

செபம் :

ஆற்றல் மிக்க இறைவா! 

குழந்தை பருவத்திலிருந்தே உம்மீது ஆர்வம் கொண்டு வாழ புனித விட்டாலிசை தூண்டினீர். உமது இறைத்திட்டத்தை அவரில் நிறைவேற்றினீர். இன்று எம்மை நீர் தயையுடன் கண்ணோக்கியருளும். உமது அன்பால் நாங்கள் தூண்டப்பட்டு என்றும் உம்பணியில் ஆர்வம் கொண்டு செயல்பட நீர் அருள்புரிய வேண்டுமென்று இறைவா உம்மை மன்றாடுகின்றோம்.

ஆமென்

---JDH---தெய்வீக குணமளிக்கும் இயேசு /திண்டுக்கல்.

Saint of the Day: (20-10-2020)

Saint Vitalis of Salzburg

Saint Vitalis

He came from the area around Salzburg and was a student of St. Rupertus. He accompanied his master on mission trips to the surrounding area and into the mountains.

Because of his excellent skills and his holy life, Rupertus appointed him Abbot of St. Peter and his successor as Bishop of Salzburg.

His missionary work mainly extended to the largely still pagan mountain regions. In Pinzgau, probably in Zeil am See, he founded a mission station and settled Benedictine monks there. Under the direction of their Bishop Vitalis, they developed a lively missionary activity and converted a great many people to the faith.

Vitalis is called the "Apostle of the Pinzgau".

He died in November 720 in Salzburg and was buried in the rock grave of St. Peter in Salzburg.

Legend has it that when Vitalis was doubted, the tomb was opened - and a lily grew out of his heart.

He is therefore represented with the lily sprouting from his heart, as the epitaph in the Church of St. Peter in Salzburg shows.

The city parish of St. Vitalis therefore chose

the heart with a lily as the motif for the parish seal.

---JDH---Jesus the Divine Healer---

✠ புனிதர் மரியா பெர்டில்லா போஸ்கார்டின் ✠(St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin)

† இன்றைய புனிதர் †

(அக்டோபர் 20)

✠ புனிதர் மரியா பெர்டில்லா போஸ்கார்டின் ✠

(St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin)

அருட்சகோதரி மற்றும் செவிலியர்:

(Nun and Nurse)

பிறப்பு: அக்டோபர் 6, 1888

பிரெண்டோலா, வெனேடோ, இத்தாலி

(Brendola, Veneto, Italy)

இறப்பு: அக்டோபர் 20, 1922 (வயது 34)

ட்ரெவிஸோ, இத்தாலி

(Treviso, Italy)

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

(Roman Catholic Church)

முக்திபேறு பட்டம்: ஜூன் 8, 1952

திருத்தந்தை பன்னிரெண்டாம் பயஸ்

(Pope Pius XII)

புனிதர் பட்டம்: மே 11, 1961

திருத்தந்தை இருபத்துமூன்றாம் ஜான்

(Pope John XXIII)

முக்கிய திருத்தலம்:

விசென்ஸா, வெனடொ, இத்தாலி

(Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)

நினைவுத் திருநாள்: அக்டோபர் 20

புனிதர் மரியா பெர்டில்லா போஸ்கார்டின், முதலாம் உலகப் போரின்போது, விமானப்படை தாக்குதல்களினால் பாதிக்கப்பட்டவர்களுக்கும், நோயுற்ற சிறார்களுக்கும் தன்னலமற்ற சேவையாற்றுவதில் உன்னத முத்திரை பொறித்த இத்தாலி நாட்டு கத்தோலிக்க அருட்சகோதரியும் செவிலியருமாவார். பின்னாளில், இவர் ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபையினால் புனிதராக அருட்பொழிவு செய்விக்கப்பட்டு, கௌரவிக்கப்பட்டார்.

ஆரம்ப வாழ்க்கை:

“அன்னா ஃபிரான்செஸ்கா போஸ்கார்டின்” (Anna Francesca Boscardin) எனும் இயற்பெயர் கொண்ட இவர், இத்தாலி நாட்டின் “வெனேடோ” (Veneto) பிராந்தியத்தின் “பிரெண்டோலா” (Brendola) எனும் நகரில் பிறந்தவர். இவரது பெற்றோர் விவசாய குடும்பத்தினைச் சேர்ந்தவர்கள் ஆவர். இவரது தந்தையான “ஆன்ஜெலோ போஸ்கார்டின்” (Angelo Boscardin), பின்னாளில் தமது மகள் மரியா பெர்டில்லா’வின் முக்திபேறு பட்டமளிக்கும் முன்னேற்பாட்டு செயல்முறை நடவடிக்கைகளின்போது, தாம் ஒரு பொறாமை குணமுள்ளவரென்றும், அடிக்கடி மது அருந்திவிட்டு, மகளை அடிக்கும் வன்முறையாளரென்றும் சாட்சியமளித்தார்.

குழந்தைப் பருவத்திலேயே குடும்பத்திற்காக வயல்வெளிகளில் வேலை செய்ய வேண்டியிருந்த காரணத்தால், தொடர்ந்து பள்ளிக்கு செல்ல இயலாதவராய் இருந்தார். பள்ளிக்கு சென்ற காலத்தில் கூட, அருகாமையிலுள்ள ஒரு வீட்டின் பணிப்பெண்ணாக பணி புரிந்தார். அவரால் குறிப்பிட்ட அளவு திறமைகளை காட்ட இயலவில்லை. குறிப்பாக, அவர் ஒரு புத்திசாலி பெண் இல்லை என்று கருதப்பட்டார். மேலும், பெரும்பாலும் அவர் பிறரின் நகைச்சுவையின் இலக்காக இருந்தார். இவையுள்ளிட்ட இவரது மந்தமான தன்மைக்காக, உள்ளூர் மதகுரு, இவரை வாத்து என்று கிண்டல் வார்த்தைகளால் அழைப்பார்.

அக்காலத்தில், பொதுவாக புதுநன்மை அருட்சாதனம் வாங்குவதற்கான வயது பன்னிரெண்டாகும். ஆனா இவர் தமது எட்டு வயதிலேயே புதுநன்மை அருட்சாதனம் வாங்க அனுமதிக்கப்பட்டார். இவர் தமது பங்கு மக்களின் “மரியாளின் குழந்தைகள் சங்கம்” என்னும் அமைப்பில் ஏற்றுக்கொள்ளப்பட்டிருந்தார். மரியா பெர்டில்லாவின் பங்குத்தந்தை இவருக்கு மறைக்கல்வி புத்தகமொன்றினை (Catechism) பரிசாக இவருக்கு அளித்திருந்தார். இவர் மரித்தபோது, அவர் அணிந்திருந்த துறவற சீருடைப் பையில் அப்புத்தகம் இருந்தது.

விசென்ஸா (Vicenza):

இவரது வழக்கமான மந்தத் தன்மை காரணமாக இவர் சேருவதற்காக விண்ணப்பித்திருந்த துறவற சபை ஒன்று இவரை நிராகரித்தது. பின்னர், 1904ம் ஆண்டு, விசென்ஸா நகரின் “தூய இருதயத்தின் மகள்கள்” (Daughters of the Sacred Heart) அமைப்பின் “புனித டோரதி’யின் ஆசிரியைகளின்” (Teachers of Saint Dorothy) உறுப்பினராக மரியா பெர்டில்லா ஏற்றுக்கொள்ளப்பட்டார். அங்கே வைத்துதான் “மரியா பெர்டில்லா” எனும் பெயரை ஏற்றுக்கொண்டார்.

தம்மைப்பற்றிய முந்தைய விமர்சனங்களை ஏற்கனவே மனதிற்குள் உள்வாங்கியிருந்த பெர்டில்லா, “புகுநிலை துறவியரின் தலைவியிடம்” (Novice-mistress), “என்னால் எதையும் செய்ய முடியாது; நான் எதற்கும் லாயக்கில்லாத பெண்; நான் ஒரு வாத்து; எனக்கு கற்பியுங்கள்; நான் ஒரு புனிதையாக வேண்டும்.” என்று அடிக்கடி சொல்வார். பெர்டில்லா, அந்த துறவு மடத்தில், ஒரு சமையலறை பணிப்பெண்ணாகவும், துணி துவைக்கும் பணிப்பெண்ணாகவும் மூன்று வருடங்கள் பணியாற்றினார்.

ட்ரெவிஸோ (Treviso) :

பின்னர், ட்ரெவிஸோ நகரிலுள்ள, அவர்களது சபையின் கீழுள்ள நகரசபை மருத்துவமனையில் செவிலியர் கல்வி கற்பதற்காக பெர்டில்லா அனுப்பப்பட்டார். பயிற்சிக் காலத்திலேயே ஒருமுறை இவர் சமையலறை பணிக்கு அனுப்பப்பட்டார். எப்படியும் பயிற்சியை முடித்த பெர்டில்லா, மருத்துவமனையின் சிறுவர்கள் வார்டில், “டிப்தீரியா” (Diphtheria) எனப்படும் தொண்டை அழற்சி நோய் பாதித்த நோயாளிகளுக்கு சேவை செய்ய அனுப்பப்பட்டார். “கேபர்ட்டோ” போரின் (Battle of Caporetto) பேரழிவினைத் தொடர்ந்து, ட்ரெவிஸோ (Treviso) நகரம் விமான தாக்குதலுக்கு உள்ளானபோது, அம்மருத்துவமனை இராணுவத்தின் கட்டுப்பாட்டின் கீழே வந்தது. மிகவும் மோசமாக பாதிக்கப்பட்டிருந்த நோயாளிகளுக்கு பெர்டில்லா ஆற்றிய நிகரற்ற சேவை இராணுவத்தால் கவனிக்கப்பட்டு வந்தது.

பெர்டில்லாவின் இத்தகைய அர்ப்பணிப்புமிக்க சேவைகள், உள்ளூரிலுள்ள ஒரு இராணுவ மருத்துவமனை நிர்வாகத்தின் கவனத்தை ஈர்த்தது. எப்படியும் அருட்சகோதரி பெர்டில்லாவின் சேவையை பாராட்ட மனமில்லாத அவருக்கு மேலுள்ள அருட்சகோதரியர், அவரை மீண்டும் சலவைப் பணிக்கு அனுப்பினார்கள். தொடர்ந்து நான்கு மாதங்கள் அதே சலவைப் பணியில் இருந்த பெர்டில்லா, அவரது தலைமை சகோதரியால் அங்கிருந்து மாற்றப்பட்டு, மருத்துவமனையின் குழந்தைகள் தனிமை வார்டுக்கு மாற்றப்பட்டார். அதன்பின்னர், விரைவிலேயே அவரது ஏற்கனவே நலிவடைந்திருந்த உடல் நலம், மேலும் மோசமானது. ஏற்கனவே பல ஆண்டுகளாக அவரது உடலிலிருந்த ஒரு கட்டியானது, மேலும் முற்றி, அறுவை சிகிச்சை வரை கொண்டுபோனது. நடந்த அறுவை சிகிச்சையில் அவர் பிழைக்கவில்லை. 1922ம் ஆண்டு, அக்டோபர் மாதம் இருபதாம் தேதி, 34 வயதான அருட்சகோதரி மரியா பெர்டில்லா போஸ்கார்டின் மரித்தார்.

† Saint of the Day †

(October 20)

✠ St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin ✠

Nun and Nurse:

Born: October 6, 1888

Brendola, Veneto, Italy

Died: October 20, 1922 (Aged 34)

Treviso, Italy

Venerated in: Roman Catholic Church

Beatified: June 8, 1952

Pope Pius XII

Canonized: May 11, 1961

Pope John XXIII

Major shrine: Vicenza, Veneto, Italy

Feast: October 20

Saint Maria Bertilla Boscardin was an Italian nun and nurse who displayed a pronounced devotion to duty in working with sick children and victims of the air raids of World War I. She was later canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.

Early life :

She was born Anna Francesca Boscardin at Brendola, Veneto. In her family and town, she was known as Annette. She was a member of a peasant family. Her father, Angelo Boscardin, would testify during her beatification process that he was jealous, violent, and frequently drunk. As a child, she could only attend school irregularly, as she was needed to help at home and in the fields. When she did attend school she also worked as a servant in a nearby home. She did not display any particular talents, was thought to be not particularly intelligent and was often the target of insulting jokes. These included being referred to as a "goose" for her slowness by a local clergyman.

She was allowed to make her First Holy Communion at eight and a half years old when the authorized age in those years was eleven. At twelve years old, she was accepted into the parish association of the “Children of Mary” association. The parish priest gave her a catechism as a gift. They found it in the pocket of her habit, when she died, at 34 years old.

Vicenza :

After being rejected for admission to one order because of her slowness, she was accepted as a member of the Teachers of Saint Dorothy, Daughters of the Sacred Heart at Vicenza in 1904, taking the name "Maria Bertilla". She herself internalized some of her earlier criticism, telling the novice-mistress of the order, "I can't do anything. I'm a poor thing, a goose. Teach me. I want to be a saint." She worked there as a kitchen maid and laundress for three years.

Treviso :

She was then sent to Treviso to learn nursing at the municipal hospital there, which was under the direction of her order. During her training period, she was once placed to work in the kitchen. However, upon completing her training, she was promoted to working with victims of diphtheria in the hospital's children's ward. During the air raids of Treviso following the disastrous Battle of Caporetto, the hospital fell under the control of the military. Sister Bertilla was noted for her unwavering care of her patients, particularly those who were too ill to be moved to safety.

This devotion to duty attracted the attention of the authorities of a local military hospital. However, her superioress did not appreciate Sister Bertilla's work and reassigned her to work in the laundry, a position she remained in for four months until being reassigned by a higher superior, who put Sister Bertilla in charge of the children's isolation ward at the hospital. Shortly thereafter, Sister Bertilla's already poor health got worse. A painful tumour which she had had for several years had progressed to the point of requiring an operation, which she did not survive. She died in 1922.

Veneration :

Her reputation for simplicity and devoted, caring hard work had left a deep impression on those who knew her. A memorial plaque placed on her tomb refers to her as "a chosen soul of heroic goodness ... an angelic alleviator of human suffering in this place." Crowds flocked to her first grave at Treviso. After a tomb was erected for her at Vicenza, it became a pilgrimage site where several miracles of healing were said to have taken place.

In 1961, 39 years after her death, she was canonized as a saint. The crowd in attendance included members of her family as well as some of her patients. Her feast day is October 20.

✠ புனிதர் காப்ரஸியஸ் ✠(St. Caprasius of Agen) அக்டோபர் 20

† இன்றைய புனிதர் †

(அக்டோபர் 20)

✠ புனிதர் காப்ரஸியஸ் ✠

(St. Caprasius of Agen)

கிறிஸ்தவ மறைசாட்சி:

(Christian martyr)

பிறப்பு: ---

இறப்பு: கி.பி. 303

அகென்

(Agen)

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

(Roman Catholic Church)

நினைவுத் திருநாள்: அக்டோபர் 20

புனிதர் காப்ரஸியஸ், ஒரு கிறிஸ்தவ மறைசாட்சியாகவும் நான்காம் நூற்றாண்டின் புனிதராகவும் அருட்பொழிவு செய்யப்பட்டவர் ஆவார். அவருடன் தொடர்புடைய மிகுதிகள் ஐந்தாம் நூற்றாண்டில் “அகென்” (Agen) என்னும் இடத்தில் கண்டுபிடிக்கப்பட்டன.

பதினான்காம் நூற்றாண்டின் இலக்கியவியலாளர் “அல்பன் பட்லர்” (Alban Butler) என்பவர், அவரை “அகென்” (Agen) மறை மாவட்டத்தின் முதல் ஆயர் என எழுதியிருக்கின்றார். அவருடைய எழுத்துக்களே புனிதர் காப்ரஸியஸ் பற்றிய ஒரே நிரூபணம் ஆகும்.

புனிதர் காப்ரஸியஸி'ன் வழிபாடு ஒன்பதாம் நூற்றாண்டில் “புனிதர் ஃபெய்த்” (Saint Faith) எனும் புனிதருடனும், “அகென்” மறை மாவட்டத்துடன் தொடர்புடைய “அல்பெர்ட்டா” (Alberta of Agen) என்பவருடனும் தொடர்புடையதாக இருந்தது. “புனிதர் ஃபெய்த்” (Saint Faith), புனிதர் காப்ரஸியஸி'ன் தாய் மாமனாக அறியப்படுகின்றார். காப்ரஸியஸி'ன் வழிபாடு, அவரது சகோதரர்கள் எனப்பட்ட “பிரைமஸ்” மற்றும் “ஃபெலிகன்” (Primus and Felician) ஆகியோருடனும் தொடர்புடையதாக இருந்தது.

“பிரேஃபெக்ட் டாசியன்” (Prefect Dacian) என்பவனால் கிறிஸ்தவர்கள் துன்புறுத்தப்பட்ட போது, காப்ரஸியஸ் “அகென்” மறை மாவட்டத்தின் அருகாமையிலுள்ள “மாண்ட்-செயின்ட்-வின்சன்ட்” (Mont-Saint-Vincent) எனும் இடத்திற்கு தப்பித்து ஓடிப்போனார். அங்கே, “புனிதர் ஃபெய்த்” (Saint Faith), “அடால்ப் மலையில்” (Atop the hill) துன்புறுத்தப்பட்டு கொல்லப்பட்டதை கண்டார்.

அல்பெர்ட்டா (Alberta), காப்ரஸியஸ், அவருடைய தாயார் (புனித காப்ரஸியஸி'ன் சகோதரி), காப்ரஷியஸி'ன் சகோதரர்கள் எனப்படும் “பிரைமஸ்” மற்றும் “ஃபெலிக்கன்” (Primus and Felician) ஆகிய அனைவருக்கும் மரண தண்டனை அளிக்கப்பட்டது. அனைவரும் தலை துண்டிக்கப்பட்டு மரித்தனர்.

† Saint of the Day †

(October 20)

✠ St. Caprasius of Agen ✠

Martyr:

Born: ---

Died: 303 AD

Agen

Venerated in: Roman Catholic Church

Feast: October 20

Saint Caprasius of Agen is venerated as a Christian martyr and saint of the fourth century. Relics associated with him were discovered at Agen in the fifth century. Local legends dating from the 14th century make him the first bishop of Agen, though, as Alban Butler writes, the only evidence to support his existence is the dedication of a church to him in the 6th century.

During the 9th century, his cult was fused with that of Saint Faith and Alberta of Agen, also associated with Agen. His cult was also fused with that of Primus and Felician, who are called Caprasius' brothers.

In the year 866, Faith's remains had been transferred to Conques, which was along the pilgrimage route to Compostela. Her cult, centred at the Abbatiale Sainte-Foy de Conques, spread along the pilgrim routes on the Way of St. James. The Church of San Caprasio, built at the beginning of the 11th century, is a First Romanesque church located at Santa Cruz de la Serós, which was on the Way of St. James.

Legend:

During the persecutions of Christians by the prefect Dacian, Caprasius fled to Mont-Saint-Vincent, near Agen. He witnessed the execution of Faith from atop the hill. Caprasius was condemned to death and was joined on his way to execution by Alberta, Faith’s sister (also identified as Caprasius' mother), and two brothers, named Primus and Felician. All four were beheaded.

In Agen, in Gaul, St. Caprasius, Martyr. He hid in a cave to escape furious persecution. But when he heard how the blessed virgin Foy was suffering for Christ he resolved to be open to suffering and prayed to the Lord that, if he judged him worthy of the glory of martyrdom, he should let clear water flow from the rock of the cave. When God did indeed grant this sign, he hastened to the contest and boldly earned the palm of martyrdom. This was during the reign of Emperor Maximian.

~ Roman Martyrology

St. Altinus October 19

 St. Altinus

Feastday: October 19

Death: 1st or 4th century

Bishop and possible martyr. In one record Altinus was a disciple of Christ, credited with founding the churches of Orleans and Chartres, France. Another states that he was a martyr of the fourth century.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sens and Auxerre (Latin: Archidioecesis Senonensis et Antissiodorensis; French: Archidiocèse de Sens et Auxerre) is a Latin Rite Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The Archdiocese comprises the department of Yonne, which is in the region of Bourgogne. Traditionally established in sub-apostolic times, the diocese as metropolis of Quarta Lugdunensis subsequently achieved metropolitical status. For a time, the Archbishop of Sens held the title "Primate of the Gauls and Germania". Until 1622, the Metropolitan Archdiocese numbered seven suffragan (subordinate) dioceses: the dioceses of Chartres, Auxerre, Meaux, Paris, Orléans, Nevers and Troyes, which inspired the acronym CAMPONT. The Diocese of Bethléem at Clamecy was also dependent on the metropolitan see of Sens. On December 8, 2002, as part of a general reorganization of the dioceses of France undertaken, at least in part, to respond to demographic changes, the Archdiocese of Sens-Auxerre ceased to have metropolitan rank and became a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Dijon, which became the centre of a new ecclesiastical province for the Burgundy administrative region. Consequently the Archbishop of Sens-Auxerre no longer has the privilege of wearing the pallium. The current Archbishop is Yves François Patenôtre.

History

Until the French Revolution, the Archbishop of Sens was also Viscount of Sens. In 1622, Paris had been elevated to a metropolitan see and the Sees of Chartres, Orléans and Meaux were separated from the ecclesiastical province of Sens. In return, the abbey of Mont Saint-Martin in the Diocese of Cambrai was united to the archdiocese. Sens was suppressed by the Napoleonic Concordat of 1802, which annexed to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Troyes the Dioceses of Sens and Auxerre. The somewhat complex agreement gave the title of Bishop of Auxerre to the bishops of Troyes, and the purely honorary title of Archbishop of Sens to the Archbishop of Paris (otherwise deprived of all jurisdiction over Sens). The Concordat of 1817 reestablished the Archdiocese of Sens and the Diocese of Auxerre, but this arrangement did not last. The law of July 1821, the pontifical brief of 4 September 1821 and the royal ordinance of 19 October 1821 suppressed the Diocese of Auxerre and gave to the Archdiocese of Sens the Department of the Yonne and the Dioceses of Troyes, Nevers and Moulins. A papal brief of 3 June 1823 gave to the Archbishop of Sens the additional title of Bishop of Auxerre. The Archbishop of Sens-Auxerre continued to reside at Sens until the 1920s, but is now resident at Auxerre, while his cathedra (seat) is at Sens Cathedral.[1].

The history of the religious beginnings of the church at Sens dates from Savinian and Potentian, and through legend to the Dioceses of Chartres, Troyes and Orléans. Gregory of Tours is silent regarding Savinian and Potentian, founders of the See of Sens; the Hieronymian Martyrology, which was revised before 600 at Auxerre (or Autun) ignores them. The cities of Chartres and Troyes have nothing about these men in their local liturgy prior to the 12th century, and that of Orléans nothing prior to the 15th, pertaining to the preaching of Altinus, Eodaldus and Serotinus (companions of Savinian and Potentian). Before the ninth century there was (in the cemetery near the monastery of Pierre le Vif at Sens) a group of tombs, among which are those of the first bishops of Sens. In 847, the transfer of their remains to the church of St-Pierre le Vif inspired popular devotion towards Savinian and Potentian. In 848, Wandelbert of Prüm named them the first patrons of the church of Sens. Ado, in his martyrology published shortly afterwards, speaks of them as envoys of the apostles and as martyrs. The Martyrology of Usuard (around 875) depicts them as envoys of the "Roman pontiff" and martyrs. In the middle of the 10th century the relics of these two saints were hidden in a subterranean vault of the Abbey of St-Pierre le Vif to escape the pillage of the Hungarians, but in 1031 they were placed in a reliquary established by the monk Odoranne. This monk (in a chronicle published about 1045) speaks of Altinus, Eodaldus, and Serotinus as apostolic companions of Savinian and Potentian, but does not view them as legitimate.

In a document which (according to the Abbé Bouvier) dates from the end of the sixth century or the beginning of the seventh—but according to Louis Duchesne, who labels the Gerbertine legend as written in 1046 and 1079 under the inspiration of Gerbert, Abbot of St-Pierre le Vif—is first described a legend tracing to Savinian and Potentian (and their companions) the evangelization of the churches of Orléans, Chartres and Troyes. After some uncertainty, the legend became fixed in the Chronicle of pseudo-Clarius, compiled about 1120. The Christian faith could not have been preached at Sens in the second century, but we know from Sidonius Apollinaris that in 475 the Church of Sens had its 13th bishop; the list of bishops does not indicate that the episcopal see existed prior to the second half of the third century or the beginning of the fourth.

Bishops and archbishops

Before 1000 AD

Among the bishops of Sens in the fourth century were:

St. Severinus, present at the Council of Sardica in 344

St. Ursicinus (356–387), exiled to Phrygia under Constantius through the influence of the Arians. Visited by St. Hilary on his return to Sens after three years of exile, around 386 he founded at Sens the monastery of Sts. Gervasius and Protasius.

Fifth century

St. Ambrose (died c. 460)

St. Agroecius (Agrice), bishop around 475

St. Heraclius (487–515), founder of the monastery of St. John the Evangelist at Sens

Sixth century

St. Paul (515–525)

St. Leo (530–541), who sent St. Aspais to evangelize Melun

Constitutus of Sens attended Fifth Council of Orléans in 549

St. Arthemius, present at the councils of 581 and 585, who admitted to public penance the Spaniard St. Bond and made a holy hermit from a criminal

Seventh century

St. Lupus (Lou, or Leu, born c. 573): bishop between around 609 and 623, son of Blessed Betto of the royal house of Burgundy and St Austregilde (founder of the monastery of Ste-Colombe and perhaps the monastery of Ferrières in the Gâtinais. Some historians believe it to have been founded under Clovis. He received from the king authorization to coin money in his diocese.

St. Annobertus (c. 639)

St. Gondelbertus (c. 642–643), whose episcopate is documented only by traditions of Senones Abbey dating from the 11th century

St. Arnoul (654–657)

St. Emmon (658–675), who around late 668 received the monk Hadrian, sent to England with Archbishop Theodore

(Perhaps) St. Amé (c. 676), exiled to Péronne by Ebroin; his name is suppressed by Duchesne as having been introduced to the episcopal lists in the 10th century

St. Vulfran (692–695), a monk of Fontenelle, who soon left the See of Sens to evangelize Frisia and died at Fontenelle before 704

St. Gerie, bishop c. 696

Eighth century

St. Ebbo, at first Abbot of St-Pierre le Vif; bishop before 711, in 731 he placed himself at the head of his people to compel the Saracens to lift the siege of Sens

His successor, St. Merulf

Hartbert, named in the acts of the Council of Soissons (March 744)[2]

Ninth century

Magnus, former court chaplain of Charlemagne; bishop before 802 and author of a handbook of legislation he used when traveling as missus dominicus (royal agent for Charlemagne); died after 817

Jeremias, ambassador at Rome of Louis the Pious in the affair of the Iconoclasts; died in 828

St. Alderic (829–836), former Abbot of Ferrières; consecrated Abbot of St. Maur des Fosses at Paris in 832

Vénilon (837–865) anointed Charles the Bald on 6 June 843 at the cathedral of Orléans, to the detriment of the archbishopric of Reims; his chorepiscopus (auxiliary bishop) was Audradus Modicus, author of theological writings including the poem "De Fonte Vitae" (dedicated to Hincmar) and the Book of Revelations, in which he sought to end the rift between Louis the Pious' sons. In 859 Charles the Bald accused Vénilon at the Council of Savonnières of having betrayed him; the matter resolved itself, but Vénilon was still considered guilty; the name of the traitor Ganelon (in the Chanson de Roland) is a corruption of Vénilon.

Ansegisus (871–883), at the death of Emperor Louis II, negotiated at Rome for Charles the Bald, bringing the letter of Pope John VIII inviting Charles to receive the imperial crown. Ansegisus was named by John VIII primate of the Gauls and Germania and vicar of the Holy See for France and Germany, and at the Council of Ponthion, was installed above the other metropolitans despite the Hincmar's opposition. In 880, he anointed Louis the Younger and Carloman II in the abbey of Ferrières. During the time of archbishop Ansegisus, while the See of Sens exercised primacy, a cleric compiled the Ecclesiastical Annals of Sens (French: Gestes des Archevêques de Sens), a history of the first two French dynasties.

Tenth century

Walter (Vaulter) (887–923): anointed Eudes in 888, Robert I in July 922, and Rudolph of France on 13 July 923 in the Church of St-Médard at Soissons; he inherited from his uncle Vaultier (Bishop of Orléans) a sacramentary composed between 855 and 873 for the Abbey of St-Amand at Puelle. This document (which he gave to the church of Sens) is an example of Carolingian art and is now in the National Library of Sweden.

St. Anastasius (967–976)

Sevinus (976–999): presided at the Council of St-Basle and incurred the disfavour of Hugh Capet by his opposition to the deposition of Arnoul.

1000–1200

Gelduinus (1032–1049) was deposed for simony by Pope Leo IX at the Council of Reims. The second half of the 11th century saw a decline in prestige for the Diocese of Sens. Under the episcopate of Richerius (1062–96), Pope Urban II withdrew primatial authority from the See of Sens to confer it on the archbishopric of Lyon, and Richerius died without having accepted this decision; his successor Daimbert (1098–1122) was consecrated at Rome in March 1098 after giving assurance that he recognized the primacy of Lyons. Bishop Henri Sanglier (1122–42) caused the condemnation by a council in 1140 of certain propositions of Abelard.

The see regained some prestige when Hugues de Toucy (1142–1168) crowned Constance (wife of King Louis VII) at Orléans in 1152 despite protests by the Archbishop of Reims, and during whose episcopate Pope Alexander III (driven from Rome) installed the pontifical court at Sens for 18 months, on the advice of the bishops.

Guillaume aux Blanches Mains (1168–1176), son of Thibaud II, Count of Champagne, uncle of king Philip Augustus and first cousin of Henry II of France, who in 1172 in the name of Pope Alexander III placed the Kingdom of England under an interdict and in 1176 became Archbishop of Reims

Gui de Noyers (1176–1193)

Michael of Corbeil (1194–1199), who combated the Manichaean sect of Publicans

1200–1500

Peter of Corbeil (1200–1222), who had been professor of theology to Pope Innocent III

Philippe de Marigny

William of Paris, who was also Inquisitor of France

Pierre Roger (1329–1330), later Clement VI

Guillaume de Brosse (1330–1338), who erected at one of the doorways of the cathedral of Sens an equestrian statue of Philip VI of Valois to perpetuate the remembrance of the victory won by the clergy over the pretensions of Pierre de Cugnières

Guillaume de Melun (1344–1375), who with King John II was taken prisoner by the English at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356

Guy de Roye (1385–1390)

Guillaume de Dormans (1390–1405)

Jean de Montaigu (1406–1415), killed at the battle of Agincourt[3]

Henri de Savoisy (1416–1422), who at Troyes in 1420 blessed the marriage of Henry V of England and Catherine of France

Jean Nanton (1422–1432)

Louis de Melun (1432–1474)

Tristan de Salazar (1475–1519), who concluded the first treaty of alliance between France and Switzerland

1500–1800

Étienne de Poncher 1519–1524

Antoine Duprat 1525–1535 (made cardinal in 1527)

Louis de Bourbon-Vendôme 1535–1557 (cardinal from 1517)

Jean Bertrand 1557–1560 (cardinal in 1559)

Louis de Lorraine 1560–1562 (Cardinal de Guise from 1553)

Nicolas de Pellevé 1562–1592 (cardinal from 1570)

Renaud de Beaune 1595 (lacked papal approval)

Cardinal du Perron 1606–1618

Jean Davy du Perron 1618–1621

Octave de Saint-Lary de Bellegarde 1621–1646

Louis-Henri de Pardaillan de Gondrin 1646–1674

Jean de Montpezat de Carbon 1674–1685

Hardouin Fortin de la Hoguette 1685–1715

Denis-François le Bouthillier de Chavigny 1716–1730

Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy 1730–1753 (first biographer of Marie Alacoque and member of the French Academy)

Paul d'Albert de Luynes 1753–1788 (Cardinal de Luynes after 1756 and member of the French Academy)

Loménie de Brienne 1788–1793: Minister of Louis XVI, cardinal in 1788; during the French Revolution he swore to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy but refused to consecrate the first constitutional bishops, returned to the pope his cardinal's hat, refused to become constitutional Bishop of Toulouse, was twice imprisoned by the Jacobins of Sens and died in prison of apoplexy.

1800–present

Anne, Cardinal de la Fare 1821–1829

Jean-Joseph-Marie-Victoire de Cosnac 1829–1843

Archbishop Patenôtre

Charles André Toussaint Bruno Raimond de la Lande 1843

Mellon de Jolly 1843–1867

Victor-Félix Bernadou 1867–1891

Pierre-Marie-Etienne-Gustave Ardin 1892–1911

Jean-Victor-Emile Chesnelong 1912–1931

Maurice Feltin 1932–1935 (became Archbishop of Bordeaux)

Frédéric Edouard Camille Lamy 1936–1962

René-Louis-Marie Stourm 1962–1977

Eugène-Marie Ernoult 1977–1990

Gérard Denis Auguste Defois 1990–1995 (became Archbishop of Reims)

Georges Edmond Robert Gilson 1996–2004

Yves François Patenôtre 2004–2015

Hervé Jean Robert Giraud 2015–present

Councils of Sens

Main article: Councils of Sens

A large number of Church councils were held at Sens between 600 and 1485. The first involved a controversy over the date of Easter which meant that St. Columbanus refused to attend. The Council of 1140 condemned the writings of Abelard. The Council of 1198 was concerned with the Manichaean sect of the Poplicani.[4]

St. Anthony Daniel October 19

 St. Anthony Daniel

Feastday: October 19

Birth: 1601

Death: 1648

Martyred Jesuit missionary slain by the Iroquois. Anthony was born in Dieppe, France, in 1601, and became a Jesuit in 1621. After teaching in European classrooms, he arrived in Arcadia, Canada in 1632, and was sent to Quebec a year later. There he founded a school for the young men of Huron, being successful in this mission. Captured by the Iroquois, the enemy of the Hurons, Anthony was slain near Hillsdale, Ontario, at Teanaustaye on July 4. He was canonized in 1930 and is venerated as a Martyr of North America.

For the video maker, see Antoine Daniel (YouTuber).

Saint Antoine Daniel (May 27, 1601 – July 4, 1648) was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and one of the eight Canadian Martyrs.[1]

Life

Daniel was born at Dieppe, in Normandy, on May 27, 1601. After two years' study of philosophy and one year of law, Daniel entered the Society of Jesus in Rouen on October 1, 1621. He was a teacher of junior classes at the Collège in Rouen from 1623 to 1627.[2] In 1627 he was sent to the College of Clermont in Paris to study theology. In 1630, Daniel was ordained to the priesthood. He then taught at the College at Eu.[3]

In 1632, Daniel and Ambroise Davost set sail for New France. Daniel's brother Charles was a sea-captain in the employ of the De Caen Company of France, representing Protestant-Huguenot interests. Captain Daniel had a French fort on Cape Breton Island in 1629.[4] They arrived at St. Anne's Bay, Cape Breton, where the two Jesuits remained for a year ministering to the French who had settled there.[3]

In the spring of 1633, Daniel and Davost joined Captain Morieult on his way to Quebec, and arrived there on June 24. Davost stopped at Tadoussac on the way, a French trading settlement at the confluence of the Taddoussac and St. Lawrence rivers.[3]

In 1634 Daniel travelled to Wendake with Jean de Brébeuf and Daoust. Daniel studied the Wendat (Huron) language and made rapid progress. He translated the Lord's Prayer, the Creed and other prayers into the Huron native tongue and set them to music. For two years, in what is now Quebec, he had charge of a school for Indian boys. He returned to Huronia in 1638 to relieve Brébeuf at the new mission.[5]

He returned to Teanaostaye, the chief town of the Huron, in July 1648. Shortly thereafter, the Iroquois made a sudden attack on the mission while most of the Huron men were away in Quebec trading. The priest rallied the defenders. Before the palisades had been scaled, he hurried to the chapel where the women, children, and old men were gathered. He gave them general absolution and, immersing his handkerchief in a bowl of water, he shook it over them, baptizing the catechumens by aspersion.[5]

Daniel, still in his vestments, took up a cross and walked toward the advancing Iroquois. The Iroquois halted for a moment, then fired on him. They put Daniel's body into the chapel, which they had set on fire. Many of the Huron escaped during this incident.[5]

Daniel was the first martyr of the missionaries to the Hurons.[2] Father Ragueneau, his superior, wrote of him in a letter to the Superior General of the Jesuits as "a truly remarkable man, humble, obedient, united with God, of never failing patience and indomitable courage in adversity."[6]

St. Aquilinus October 19

 St. Aquilinus

Feastday: October 19

Death: 695

Bishop and hermit,a military man who served King Clovis II. Aquilinus was born about 620 in Bayeux, France, and became a soldier, serving for forty years in the military. In 660, he returned to Chartres, in France, and married. He and his wife moved to Evreux and worked for the poor and suffering. In 670, Aquilinus was named bishop of Evreux, but he lived as a hermit most of the time.

St. Beronicus October 19

 St. Beronicus

Feastday: October 19

Death: unknown

Syrian martyr with Pelagia and forty nine companions. They were slain for the faith in Antioch, Syria

St. Charles Garnier October 19

 St. Charles Garnier

Feastday: October 19

Birth: 1606

Death: 1649

Charles Garnier was the son of the treasurer of Normandy. He was born at Paris, educated at Louis-le-Grand College there, and joined the Jesuits in Paris in 1624. He continued his studies at Clermont, taught at the Jesuit college at Eu for three years, and was ordained in 1635. The following year he was sent to Quebec, Canada, with Father Pierre Chastellain and two other priests as missionaries to the Huron Indians. Charles was murdered by a war party of Iroquois, the Hurons' traditional enemies, on December 7 at the Indian village of Etarita, where he was stationed. He was canonized in 1930 by Pope Pius XI as one of the North American Martyrs. His feast day is October 19.

Charles Garnier, S.J., (baptised at Paris, May 25, 1606 – December 7, 1649) was a Jesuit missionary working in New France. He was killed by Iroquois in a Petun (Tobacco Nation) village on December 7, 1649.[1][2]

Biography

The son of a secretary to King Henri III of France, Garnier was born in Paris in 1606. He attended the Collège de Clermont in Paris and joined the Jesuit seminary in Clermont in September 1624.[3]

After his novitiate, he returned to the College of Clermont as Prefect. After finishing his studies in rhetoric and philosophy, he spent two years teaching at the College of Eu as a teacher. Completing years of studies in language, culture and theology, he was ordained as a priest in 1635. His father initially forbade him from travelling to Canada where he would face almost certain death as a missionary, but he was eventually allowed to go.[4] Embarking on March 25, 1636, he described the crossing in a letter to his father,

We gave Viaticum to a sailor who had fallen from the top of the mizzenmast to the deck. He was well-disposed to die. However, as I saw him in great discomfort, unable to sleep, I gave him my cabin and went in with Father Chastelain in his, but the sick man found this cabin too stuffy so the next day I occupied it again but left him my mattress so he could sleep even in the midst of the cannons. Hearing this, the Captain made me take one of his.[5]

He reached the colony of New France in June. He travelled immediately to the Huron mission with fellow Jesuit Pierre Chastellain.[6] By early August he had arrived among the Nipissings.[5]

He served for the rest of his life as a missionary among the Huron, never returning to France. The Huron nicknamed him Ouracha, or "rain-giver", after his arrival was followed by a drought-ending rainfall. He was greatly influenced by fellow missionary Jean de Brébeuf, and was known as the "lamb" to Brebeuf's "lion".[3] In 1639 and 1640 he wintered in the land of the Petun. From 1641 to 1646 Garnier was at the Saint-Joseph mission.[6]

There were raids between Iroquois and Huron forces. When he learned that Brébeuf and Lalemant were killed in March 1649 by Iroquois after a raid on a Huron village, Garnier knew he too might soon die. On December 7, 1649, he was killed by musket fire from the Iroquois during an attack on the Petun village where he was living.[5]

Charles Garnier was canonized in 1930 by Pope Pius XI with the other seven Canadian Martyrs (also known as the North American Martyrs.)[6] His feast day is October 19.

St. Cleopatra October 19

 St. Cleopatra

Feastday: October 19

Death: 327

and her son John, with martyr Varus in Kemet (307 A.D.), 19 Oct

Saint Cleopatra (died 319 or 327) was a Christian saint who lived between the 3rd century and 4th century. She is venerated in the Catholic Church,[1] Oriental Orthodoxy[citation needed] and Eastern Orthodoxy[2].

Cleopatra originally came from a village called Edra near Mount Tabor in Lower Galilee.[3]

She was a contemporary of the holy martyr Saint Varus and had witnessed his suffering and execution. After Varus' death, Cleopatra had his remains taken to her home in Daraa, Syria where she had them buried with reverence.

Cleopatra was a widow, whose only child, was a son named John. By 319, John had attained the officer rank of centurion, but to her great sorrow, had died suddenly. Cleopatra, in grief, turned to the relics of Saint Varus, begging the saint to return her son. She dreamt that Varus and John appeared to her as radiant in bright attire with crowns upon their heads and took this to mean that the Lord had received John into the Heavenly Kingdom, and was comforted.[3]

She moved to live by the church that she had built was over the relics of Saint Varus and her son. Miracles were reported by people who had come to pray at the church. Cleopatra spent her remaining years in the service of God. She gave her property to the poor and spent her time praying and fasting.[3] She died in 327.

Apart from Cleopatra, her son John is also recognised as a saint in Orthodox Christianity. The feast day of Saints Cleopatra and John is 19 October.

St. Desiderius October 19

 St. Desiderius

Feastday: October 19

Death: 705

Benedictine monk and disciple of St. Sigiranus. He was a hermit at La Brenne, near Bourges, France.

St. Eadnot October 19

 St. Eadnot

Feastday: October 19

Death: 1016

Bishop of Dorchester, England, who was a champion of St. Oswald of York. He is listed as a martyr in some records, having been slain in an invasion by the Danes.

St. Ethbin October 19

 St. Ethbin

Feastday: October 19

Death: 600

Image of St. Ethbin

Abbot trained by St. Samson. Amonk at Taurac, Brittany, Ethbin survived a raid by the Franks in 556 and went to Ireland. There he became a hennit at Kildare. Ethbin was a Briton.