Blessed Hugh Faringdon November 15

 Blessed Hugh Faringdon

Also known as

• Hugh Cook

• Hugh Farrington

 

Profile

Abbot in Reading, England in 1520. Royal chaplain, member of Parliament, and close friend of King Henry VIII. When Henry split with Rome and ordered the dissolution of religious houses, Hugh refused to surrender his abbey. He was convicted of treason, and martyred.

Born

in Faringdon, Berkshire, England as Hugh Cook

Died

15 November 1539 in Reading, Berkshire, England

Beatified

13 May 1895 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmation

Saint Malo of Aleth November 15

 Saint Malo of Aleth

Also known as

• Malo of Brittany

• Mac'h Low, Machutus, Maclou, Maclovio, Maclovius, Macuto

 

Profile

An adult convert who was baptized by and became the spiritual student of Saint Brendan the Navigator. Monk at Llancarfan Abbey in Wales. One of the monks on the famous Voyage of Saint Brendan. Immigrant to Brittany where he helped in the missionary work of Saint Aaron of Brettany. First bishop of Aleth (modern Saint-Servan, France). Established churches in the area of Brittany now named Saint-Malo in his honour. Driven from the area to Saintes, France by opponents to his mission.

Born

c.520 in Wales

Died

15 November c.620 at Archingeay, France

Saint Findan of Rheinau November 15

 Saint Findan of Rheinau

Also known as

Findanus, Fintan 

Profile 

Captured by Norse raiders, who murdered the rest of his family, Findan was forced into slavery in the Orkney Islands. He escaped to Scotland and headed south, becoming a pilgrim to Rome, Italy. Monk at Farfa Abbey, Farfa Sabina, Italy. Monk and hermit in Rheinau Abbey, Rheinau, Switzerland for 22 years, living his last 17 years as a walled-in recluse.

Born

Leinster, Ireland

Died

• 879 at the Rheinau Abbey, Rheinau, Switzerland of natural causes

• relics enshrined in the Fintansaltar in the abbey church

Canonized

1114 by Pope Paschal II (cultus confirmation)

Representation

• dove

• pilgrim's staff

Blessed John Rugg November 15

 Blessed John Rugg

Profile

Former fellow of the two Saint Mary Winton colleges. Priest. First holder of the Wykehamical prebend "Bursalis" at the Chichester Cathedral. Obtained a dispensation from residence, and was living as a Benedictine monk at Reading, Berkshire, England in 1532. Believed to have hidden the hand of Saint Anastasius, a relic housed in the cathedral, when the king's men seized the relics in the Reading abbey, and which was rediscovered during renovations in 1786. For this, and for denying the king's as head of the Church, he was executed. Martyr. 

Born 

English

Died

• dragged through the streets, hanged, drawn, and quartered on 15 November 1539 at the main abbey gateway in Reading, Berkshire, England

• body left to rot in his chains as a warning for others

• body removed by locals and buried first at Bere Court

• relics re-interred in the 16th century

Beatified

13 May 1895 by Pope Leo XIII

Saint Joseph Mukasa November 15

 Saint Joseph Mukasa

Also known as

• Josef Mukasa

• Joseph Balikuddembe

• Joseph Mkasa Balikuddembe

• Joseph Mkasa

• Yosefu Mkasa

• Yosefu Mukasa Balikuddembe

Addtitional Memorial

3 June as one of the Martyrs of Uganda

Profile

Kayozi clan. Major-domo to King Mwanga of Uganda, and captain of the king's pages. Convert, joining on 15 November 1885. Rebuked the 18 year old king for his dissolute lifestyle, his drinking, his advances to the male court pages, and the martyrdom of Anglican missionary bishop James Hannington. Not the first Christian killed in Uganda, but the first Catholic martyr in the country. One of the Martyrs of Uganda who died in the Mwangan persecutions.

Born

1860 at Buganda, Uganda

Died

• beheaded on 15 November 1885 at Nakivubo, Uganda

• his body was burned

Canonized

18 October 1964 by Pope Paul VI at Rome, Italy

Saint Leopold III November 15 #புனித_மூன்றாம்_லியோபோல்ட் (1073-1136)

 #புனித_மூன்றாம்_லியோபோல்ட் (1073-1136)

நவம்பர் 15

இவர் ஆஸ்திரியாவைச் சார்ந்தவர். இவரது தந்தை ஆஸ்திரியாவின் ஆளுநராக இருந்தவர்.

தன் தந்தையின் மறைவுக்குப் பின் ஆஸ்திரியாவின் ஆளுநராக உயர்ந்த இவர், இறைப்பற்றிற்கும் அறச்செயல்களுக்கும் மிகச் சிறந்த எடுத்துக்காட்டாக விளங்கினார்.

1106 ஆம் ஆண்டு மூன்றாம் ஹென்றி  என்பவருடைய மகளை மணந்த இவர், இல்லறத்தில் நல்லறம் கண்டார். இவருக்கு இறைவன் ஒன்பது குழந்தைகளைக் கொடுத்து அருள்பாலித்தார். 

தனக்கு ஆஸ்திரியாவின் மன்னராவற்கான வாய்ப்பு வந்தபோதும், இவர் மிகுந்த தாழ்ச்சியோடு அதை மறுத்து தாழ்ச்சிக்கு எடுத்துக்காட்டாக விளங்கினார். இவர் பல துறவு மடங்களையும் கோயில்களையும் கட்டித் தந்தார் என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.

இவருக்கு 1486 ஆம் ஆண்டு புனிதர் பட்டம் கொடுக்கப்பட்டது.

Saint Leopold III

Also known as

• Leopold the Good

• Leopold the Pious

• Leopold the Valiant

• Leopold of Austria

• Leopold the Saint

Profile

Grandson of Emperor Henry III. Grandfather of Frederick Barbarossa. Educated by bishop Altman of Passau, Germany. At age 23 he succeeded his father as margrave (military governor) of Austria. Married to Agnes, widowed daughter of Emperor Henry IV. She brought two children into the marriage, and they had eighteenof their own, eleven of whom survived. Father of Otto of Freising, who wrote Leopold's biography, and of Duke Henry II of Austria, and step-father to King Conrad III of Germany. Founded Benedictine, Cistercian and Augustinian houses in 1106, and others later in life; houses in Heiligenkreuz, Klosterneuburg, and Mariazell still exist. Defeated the Hungarians to defend his homeland. Arranged the Concordat of Worms in 1122, an agreement that ended the battle over royal versus ecclesiastical investiture. Refused the throne of the Holy Roman Emperor in 1125. Active in support of the First Crusade.

Born

1073 at Melk, Lower Austria, Austria

Died

1136 at the abbey of Klosternburg, Niederosterrich, Austria of natural causes

Canonized

6 January 1485 by Pope Innocent VIII

Patronage

• against the death of children

• large families

• Lower Austria

• step-parents

• Austria (since 1663; proclaimed on 17 December 1913 by Pope Pius X)

• Upper Austria

• Abetone, Italy

Saint Rocco Gonzalez November 15

 Saint Rocco Gonzalez

Also known as

• Roch Gonzalez 

• Roque Gonzalez

Profile

Born to the Paraguayan nobility. Jesuit priest. One of the architects of the Jesuit Reductions in Paraguay. Realizing the damage of the slave trade, the Jesuits gathered the indigenous Indians and went inland. In Paraguay, beginning in 1609, they built settlements, taught agriculture, architecture, construction, metallurgy, farming, ranching and printing. By the time the Jesuits were expelled in 1767 they had 57 settlements with over 100,000 native residents.

Roch served as doctor, engineer, architect, farmer and pastor, supervised the construction of churches, schools and homes, and introduced care for cattle and sheep to the natives. He adapted his tactics to the locals love of ornament, dancing, and noise. On the great feasts of the Church, Roch solemnly celebrated Mass outside the little thatched church, and then the whole village dressed in their best and celebrated the rest of the day with games, bonfires, religious dances, flute music, and fireworks. Fierce warriors were softened by Roch's gentle Christianity, put aside their hatred for religion, and embraced the faith; violent revenge, previously part of the local culture, was abandoned.

This progress recevied a severe blow by the arrival of slave traders who were able to influence the Spanish crown and get permission for their activity. They lured natives away from the Reductions, betrayed them, and sold them into slavery. Roch became a stanch protector of their freedom, pleading the Indian cause so forcefully with the Spanish government that the Reduction of Saint Ignatius was finally left in peace.

Because of his success in evangelizing the natives, a local witch-doctor who was losing his power base murdered Roch along with Saint John de Castillo and Saint Alphonsus Rodriquez. One of the Jesuit Martyrs of Paraguay.

Born

1576 at Asunción, Paraguay

Died

martyred on 15 November 1628 at Caaro, Brazil, just as he finished celebrating Mass

Canonized

16 May 1988 by Pope John Paul II

Patronage

native traditions

Blessed Hélène-Marie-Philippine de Chappotin de Neuville November 15

 Blessed Hélène-Marie-Philippine de Chappotin de Neuville

 

Also known as

• Marie of the Passion

• Marie de la Passion de Chappotin

Profile

The death of two sisters and a cousin led Hélène to look for meaning in life, which led to her discerning a call to religious life. Her mother died when Hélène was 20 years old, and she put the religious life on hold to run her family home and help raise her younger siblings. In December 1860, having a great devotion to Saint Francis of Assisi, she was finally able to follow the call and joined the Poor Clares, but health problems forced her to return home. When she recovered, her confessor directed her to the Society of Marie Reparatrice which she joined in 1864, making her profession in Toulouse, France on 15 August 1865, taking the name Mary of the Passion. Missionary to India in March 1865. Provincial superior of three Reparatrice houses in July 1867. In the mid-1870's, she became embroiled in disputes among missionary houses in India which led to going to the Vatican to seek help settling the issue. On 6 January 1877 she obtained permission from Pope Pius IX to found the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. Worked with Servant of God Father Bernardin de Portogruaro. Due to internal politics and dissension, she was removed from her position as superior of the Order in March 1883; an inquiry by Pope Leo XIII cleared her of all allegations and she was re-elected to the position of Superior in July 1884. Today the Missionaries continue their good work with 2,000 sisters at 86 houses on four continents.

Born

21 May 1839 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France

Died

• 15 November 1904 in San Remo, Imperia, Italy of natural causes

• interred in a private oratory at the general house of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in Rome, Italy

Beatified

• 20 October 2002 by Pope John Paul II

• her beatification miracle involving the healing of a religious sister who suffered from "pulmonary and vertebral TBC, Pott's Disease"

Saint Joseph Pignatelli November 15

 Saint Joseph Pignatelli

Also known as 

• Giuseppe Maria Pignatelli

• José Pignatelli Moncayo

Additional Memorial

14 November (Jesuits)

Profile

His mother was Spanish, his father an Italian noble. An orphan at age 9, he became a resident student at the Jesuit college in Zaragoza. Joined the Jesuits in 1753 at Taragona at age 16, along with his brother. Developed tuberculosis, which weakened and haunted him the rest of his life. Ordained in 1763 at age 25. Teacher at Manresa, Bilboa, and Zaragoza. Ministered to men on death row.

Expelled with other Jesuits on 3 April 1767 by order of King Charles III. Being a member of the nobility, Joseph had a chance to stay, but he left with his exiled brothers. On the road they found that the Jesuits were being expelled from all countries except Prussia and Russia. Joseph stubbornly kept together a remnant of the order, and these would the restoration of the Jesuits three years after Joseph's death. Led and inspired the Jesuits during the 41 years of the Suppression of the Society. Considered the link between the old Jesuits, suppressed in 1773, and the new Jesuits, restored in 1814.

Groups of Jesuits reformed into societies such as The Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in France and The Society of the Faith of Jesus in Italy. The Jesuits survived in Russia, and though he lived in Italy, Joseph associated himself with them. In 1775, Pope Pius VI gave permission for Jesuits from other countries to rejoin the Jesuits in Russia, and in 1799 approved the opening of a novitiate in Colorno, Italy, making Joseph the Master of Novices. In 1801 King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia reinstated the Jesuits in his kingdom, and in 1815 he joined them himself.

In 1800 Pope Pius VII determined to completely restore the Society, but was unable until the fall of Napoleon. Despite their being virtually nothing left of the Society's resources, requests for the restored Jesuits to start schools poured in from every direction. Within a year the Society had as many members and as many foundations as the old Society had had in 1555.

Born

27 December 1737 at Zaragoza, Spain

Died

15 November 1811 in Rome, Italy of his life long fight with tuberculosis

Canonized

12 June 1954 by Pope Pius XII

Saint Raphael Kalinowski November 15

 Saint Raphael Kalinowski

Also known as 

• Joseph Kalinowski

• Raffael di San Giuseppe

• Raphael Joseph Kalinowski

• Raphael of Saint Joseph

Profile

Son of Andrew Kalinowski, prominent mathmatics professor at the College of Nobility, and Josepha Poionska Kalinowski. Studied at his father's school. Though he felt a call to the priesthood, Joseph decided on college first. He studied zoology, chemistry, agriculture, and apiculture at the Institute of Agronomy in Hory Horki, Russia, and at the Academy of Military Engineering at Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Lieutenant in the Russian Military Engineering Corps in 1857. Planned and supervised the construction of the railway between Kursk and Odessa. Promoted to captain in 1862, he was stationed in Brest-Litovsk. There he started, taught, and bore all the costs of a Sunday school, accepting anyone interested.

In 1863 he supported the Polish insurrection. He resigned from the Russian army and became the rebellion's minister of war for the Vilna region; he took the commission with the understanding that he would never hand out a death sentence or execute a prisoner. Arrested by Russian authorities on 25 March 1864. In June 1864 he was condemned to death for his part in the revolt, but the authorities feared they would be creating a political martyr, and commuted his sentence to ten years forced labour in the Siberian salt mines; part of his sentence was spent in Irkutsk where his relics recently sanctified a new cathedral.

Released in 1873, he was exiled from his home region in Lithuania. Moved to Paris, France, and worked as a tutor for three years. In 1877 he finally answered the long-heard call to the religious life, and joined the Carmelite Order at Graz, Austria, taking the name Raphael. Studied theology in Hungary, then joined the Carmelite house at Czama, Poland. Ordained on 15 January 1882.

Worked to restore the Discalced Carmelites to Poland, and for church unity. Founded a convent at Wadowice, Poland, c.1889. Worked with Blessed Alphonsus Mary Marurek. Noted spiritural director of both Catholics and Orthodox. Enthusiastic parish priest, he spent countless hours with his parishioners in the confessional.

Born

1 September 1835 at Vilna, Russian Poland (modern Vilnius, Lithuania) as Joseph Kalinowski

Died

15 November 1907 at Wadowice, Malopolskie, Poland of natural causes

Canonized

17 November 1991 by Pope John Paul II

Readings

Our Redeemer, ever present in the most Blessed Sacrament, extends His hand to everyone. He opens His heart and says, 'Come to Me, all of You.'" - Saint Raphael

Blessed Lucy of Narni November 15

 Blessed Lucy of Narni

Also known as

• Lucy Brocolelli 

• Lucy de Alessio

• Lucia Broccadelli

Profile

The eldest of eleven children of Bartolomeo Broccadelli and Gentilina Cassio. A pious child, at age five she received a vision of Our Lady, and at age seven she saw Mary and received a scapular from Saint Dominic de Guzman. By age twelve she had taken private vows and had decided to become a Dominican. However, her father died, she was placed in the care of her uncle, and at age 15 she was betrothed in an arranged marriage to Count Pietro de Alessio of Milan, Italy. Her fondness for Pietro and her duty to her family conflicted with her desire for the religious life, and the stress caused her to become ill until she received a vision of Mary, Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine. She finally married the count, but he understood that they would live as brother and sister.

Lucy took over the operation of the count's household. She taught catechism to the servants, began caring for the local poor, and spent her evenings in prayer. The servants claimed that Saint Catherine, Saint Agnes of Rome and Saint Agnes of Montepulciano helped her bake bread for the poor. At one point Lucy simply walked away from home, planning to become an anchorite; she claimed that Saint Dominic brought her back as she had other things to do; her husband had her locked up, possibly for what he considered her own safety. This became the breaking point for them; a few weeks later Lucy returned to her mother's home. Pietro eventually became a Franciscan and noted preacher.

In 1496 she moved to Viterbo, Italy, and joined a group of Dominican tertiaries. Her visions continued, she began to fall into ecstasies during prayer, and received the signs of the stigmata. Word of her visions and actions got around, and curiosity seekers came to gawk at her. Her bishop investigated her himself, but did not come to any conclusion about the nature of her visions, and referred her to the Inquisition. They investigated, reached no decision, and referred her to the Vatican. The Pope, with the help of Blessed Columba of Rieti, decided that the mystical signs were of God, and asked Lucy to pray for him.

Lucy returned to Viterbo where the locals were excited to have her back. However, the count of Ferrara, Italy who had just built a convent of Saint Catherine of Siena in Narni, Italy, asked Lucy to serve as its prioress; she agreed, with the plan to make it a house of very strict observance. This triggered a two-year conflict between the two cities which actually led to armed conflict when the count sent troops to Viterbo in 1499 to escort her to the convent. There she ran into additional problems as many novices were unable to live under the strict rules; there was sometimes a circus atmosphere at the house as the count brought visitors to show off Lucy, and would demand that she show signs of stigmata. In 1505 the Dominicans replaced her as prioress, and the new superior had her confined; for her remaining 39 years she lived in silence, speaking only to her confessor, completely obedient, never complaining, utterly forgotten by the outside world, and spending all free time in prayer, frequently going into ecstasies and receiving visions.

Born

13 December 1476 in Narni, Umbria, Italy as Lucy Brocolelli

Died

• 15 November 1544 at the Saint Catherine of Siena convent in Ferrara, Italy of natural causes

• miracles were reported at her tomb, people began to visit her grave to pray, and she was re-interred twice to make it easier for them

• interred in the cathedral in Ferrara

• body incorrupt

Beatified

1 March 1710 (cultus confirmed) by Pope Clement XI

St. Zachariah November 15

 St. Zachariah

Feastday: November 15

Death: 1st Century

 

Zachariah (f'irst century) The father of St. John the Baptist, also listed as Zachary. He was a priest in the temple of Jerusalern, the husband of St. Elizabeth, a cousin of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Receiving a vision from an angel, Zachariah was told that Elizabeth would bear a son named John. Zachariah was struck dumb until John was born. The birth of John the Baptist was recorded in Luke, chapter one. A minor tradition states that Zachariah was slain in the temple when he refused to tell King Herod where St. John the Baptist could be found. Feast day: November 15

St. Secundus, Fidentian, & Varicus November 15

 St. Secundus, Fidentian, & Varicus

Feastday: November 15

Death: unknown 

Martyrs put to death in Roman Africa. No details of their sufferings are extant.

St. Kanten November 15

 St. Kanten

Feastday: November 15

Death: 8th century 

Welsh founder, also listed as Cannen. He started Llangeanten Abbey in Powya, Wales

Bl. John Eynon November 15

 Bl. John Eynon

Feastday: November 15

Death: 1539

 

Martyred Benedictine of St. Giles, Reading. John served as the pastor of the local parish in St. Giles. He refused to surrender the parish to the authorities and was taken to Reading Abbey. He was executed at the abbey gateway with Blessed Hugh Farington and Blessed John Rugg. They were beatified in 1895.