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08 October 2020

✠ புனிதர் தாய்ஸ் ✠(St. Thaïs)அக்டோபர் 8

† இன்றைய புனிதர் †
(அக்டோபர் 8)

✠ புனிதர் தாய்ஸ் ✠
(St. Thaïs)
மனம்திருந்திய விலை மகள்:
(Repentant Courtesan)

பிறப்பு: கி.பி. நான்காம் நூற்றாண்டு

இறப்பு: கி.பி. நான்காம் நூற்றாண்டு 

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:
ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை
(Roman Catholic Church)
கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை
(Eastern Orthodox Church)

நினைவுத் திருநாள்: அக்டோபர் 8

புனிதர் தாய்ஸ், நான்காம் நூற்றாண்டில் “ரோம அலெக்சாண்ட்ரியா” (Roman Alexandria) மற்றும் “எகிப்திய பாலைவனப்” பகுதியைச் (Egyptian desert) சேர்ந்தவரும், ஒரு மனம் திருந்திய தேவதாசியுமாவார்.

சுயசரிதை :
இவர் நான்காம் நூற்றாண்டில், ரோமப் பேரரசின் கீழிருந்த எகிப்தில் வாழ்ந்ததாக அறியப்படுகின்றார். அவரது சரித்திரம், கிரேக்க திருச்சபையின் புனிதர்களின் வாழ்க்கையுடனான (Hagiographic) இலக்கியத்தில் சேர்க்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இத்தகைய இரண்டு வாழ்க்கை வரலாற்று ஓவியங்கள் இன்னும் உள்ளன. முதலாவது, கிரேக்க மொழியிலிருந்ததாகவும், பின்னர் ஐந்தாம் நூற்றாண்டில் லத்தீனில் மொழிமாற்றம் செய்யப்பட்டதாகும். இரண்டாவது, கி.பி. 1123ம் ஆண்டு, நமக்கு இடைக்கால இலத்தீனிலிருந்து (Medieval Latin) வந்ததாகும். தாய்ஸ், (Maurolycus) மற்றும் (Greven) மூலம் கிரேக்க மறைசாட்சியாகவும் அறியப்படுகிறார். தாய்ஸ் உள்ளிட்ட எகிப்தின் பாலைவனத்தைச் சேர்ந்த புனிதர்கள் மற்றும் துறவிகளின் வாழ்க்கை வரலாறு, "பாலைவன தந்தையர்களின் வாழ்க்கை" (Vitae Patrum [Lives of the Desert Fathers]) எனும் நூலிலிருந்து பெறப்பட்டது.

தாய்ஸ், ஆரம்ப காலத்தில் அலெக்சாண்ட்ரியா பெருநகரத்தில் வாழ்ந்த அழகான, வசதி படைத்த, தேவதாசி ஆவார். இதனால், இவர் திருச்சபையின் பார்வையில் ஒரு பொதுவான பாவியாகவே பார்க்கப்பட்டார். பின்னர், கிறிஸ்தவ சமயத்தைப் பற்றி விசாரித்து அறிந்துகொண்டு மனம் மாறிய தாய்ஸ், கிறிஸ்தவ மதத்தைத் தழுவினார். அவரது மன மாற்றத்திற்கு காரணம் ஒரு துறவி என்று சொல்லப்பட்டாலும், அந்த துறவி யார் என்பது தெளிவாக எங்கும் குறிப்பிடப்படவில்லை. எகிப்திய ஆயர் “புனித பாப்னுஷியஸ்” (St. Paphnutius), “புனித பாலைவனத்து அந்தோனியாரின்” (St. Anthony of desert) சீடர் “புனித பெஸ்ஸாரியன்” (St. Bessarion) மற்றும் “நைல் டெல்ட்டாவின்” (Bishop in the Nile Delta) ஆயர் “புனித செரபியன்” (St. Serapion) ஆகிய மூன்று துறவியரில் ஒருவரே தாய்ஸ் மனம் மாற காரணமானவர்கள் என்று அறியப்படுகிறது.

அவரது மனமாற்றத்தை ஏற்றுக்கொண்ட திருச்சபை, அவரை ஒரு அருட்சகோதரிகளின் பள்ளியில் அனுமதித்தது. அங்கே அவர் இருந்த மூன்று வருடங்களும் அவர் தனிமையிலே காலம் கழித்தார். தமது பாவத்திற்காக வருந்தி, கடுமையான தவமிருந்தார். அவர் இறப்பதற்கு முன்னர், பதினைந்து நாட்களே அங்கிருந்த அருட்சசோதரிகளுடன் சேர்ந்திருந்தார் எனவும் கூறப்படுகிறது.

† Saint of the Day †
(October 8)

✠ St. Thais ✠

Repentant Courtesan:

Born: 4th Century AD

Died: 4th Century AD

Venerated in:
Roman Catholicism,
Eastern Orthodox Church

Feast: October 8

When a saint is canonized today, his or her historical background is first thoroughly investigated. Centuries ago, when it was local bishops who approved the cult of saintly people, the approach was not so scientific. Thus certain persons came to be popularly venerated as saints about whose holiness or even whose existence there have since been some doubts.

For instance, in the eastern Christian churches, there is a feast on October 8 of St. Thais, a reformed prostitute. The Roman Martyrology (the list of saints drawn up for the Latin or western church) does not commemorate her.

The traditional story of the conversion of Thais is nevertheless fascinating and deserves to be recounted. Thais, the legend tells us, lived in Egypt in the fourth century. She had been brought up a Christian, but had foregone all standards of Christian morality, shrewdly selling her physical charms, and becoming a woman of wealth and notoriety.

Now, this was also the century when Egypt was experiencing its monastic revolution. Thousands of Christian men and women were inspired to flee to the deserts and become monks or nuns. One of these leading Egyptian monks decided to see if Thais could be converted from her life of sin to a life of penance. The monk is usually identified as the aged St. Paphnutius; but some versions of the legend call him Serapion; others, Bessarion.

Paphnutius, runs the story, doffed his religious habit for the time being, and donning secular clothes, went to the city (probably Alexandria) and knocked at the prostitute’s door. When she let him in, he said he wanted to speak to her, but in a more private place.

“What is it you fear?” she said. “If men, no one can see us here; but if you mean God, no place can hide us from His eye.”

The disguised monk was amazed. “You know that there is a God?”

“Yes,” she answered, “and I moreover know that Heaven will be the portion of the good and everlasting; Hell, the punishment of the wicked.”

“Is it possible,” he continued, “that you should know these truths and yet dare to sin and draw so many after you, before Him who knows and will judge all things?” As he continued to speak with the aid of the Holy Spirit, Thais began to see the inconsistency of her situation. She could recite the basics of the Faith, yet her actions contradicted it.

Finally, she broke down in tears. Throwing herself on her knees, she begged him, “Father, tell me what to do.” He told her he would return. Meanwhile, she promised to rid herself of her possessions. She hastened to take out into the public square her furniture, jewels, and other items acquired by sin. After inviting all who had given her these presents to join her in penance, she set fire to the pile. Then she hastened to the place of the meeting designated by Paphnutius.

Paphnutius took her to a monastery of nuns. There he prescribed a stringent penance. She was to be locked into a sealed cell and be given only bread and water. For prayers, he directed that she simply face the east and repeat, again and again, the petition “Thou who hast created me, have pity on me.”

It was a painful assignment, but Thais accepted it in good grace and mourned her way to holiness. After three years, Paphnutius, having consulted with other monastic leaders, released her. “God,” he now assured her, “has blotted out your sins.” Thais then went to join the rest of the nuns who lived the community life, but God took her to Himself two weeks later.

Catholic scholars are inclined today to consider the story of Thais, whatever her actual history, more fiction than fact, and to be repelled by the mode of penance imposed on her, however obediently accepted.

However, whether parable or fact or a little of both, the tale of St. Thais simply restates, does it now, the doctrine of the infinite mercy that God is ready to show to His prodigal sons and daughters.
~ Father Robert F. McNamara

புனித பெலாகியா St. Pelagia அக்டோபர் 8

இன்றைய புனிதர்: 
(08-10-2020)

புனித பெலாகியா 
St. Pelagia

நினைவுத் திருநாள் : அக்டோபர் 8
பிறப்பு :14 ஆம் நூற்றாண்டு(?)
இறப்பு : 14 ஆம் நூற்றாண்டு, அந்தியோக்கியா

இவர் மார்கரேட் என்ற மற்றொரு பெயரால் அழைக்கப்பட்டார். இவர் மிகவும் அழகு வாய்ந்த பெண்ணாக திகழ்ந்தார். இவர் அந்தியோக்கியாவில் சிறந்த நடிகையாக இருந்தார். அப்போது பெலாகியா தாறுமாறான வாழ்க்கை வாழ்ந்தார். அச்சமயத்தில் ஒருநாள் அந்தியோக்கியாவில் நடித்து கொண்டிருக்கும் போது குருவாக இருந்த புனித நானூஸ் (St. Nannus) அவரைக் கடந்து சென்றார். அவரைப் பார்த்த பெலாகியாவின் மனதில் ஏதோ ஒரு நெருடல் ஏற்பட்டது. உடனே நடிக்கும் பணியை விட்டு விட்டு , நானூஸ் போதித்து கொண்டிருந்த இடத்தை நோக்கி சென்று, அவரின் மறையுரையை கேட்டார். 

அம்மறையுரையானது இவரின் மனதை மிகவும் பாதித்தது. அவர் மனமுடைந்து, நானூஸ் அவர்களிடம் மனம் நொந்து அழுது, தனது வேதனைகளை பகிர்ந்தார். பின்னர் மனமாற்றம் பெற்று, திருமுழுக்குப் பெற்று, தனது நடிகைப் பணியை விட்டு விட்டு, கடவுளுக்காக வாழ முடிவெடுத்தார்.தன்னிடமிருந்த சொத்துக்கள் அனைத்தையும் விற்று, ஏழைகளுக்கு கொடுத்தார். அந்தியோக்கியாவிலிருந்து வெளியேறி, ஆண்கள் உடுத்தும் துறவற உடையை அணிந்து வாழ்ந்தார். 

பின்னர் எருசலேமிலிருந்த ஒலிவியட் (Olivette) என்றழைக்கப்பட்ட மலையில் குகையில் வாழ்ந்த துறவிகளுடன் சேர்ந்து, தானும் ஓர் துறவியாக வாழ்ந்தார். மிகக் கடினமான ஏழ்மையை தன் வாழ்வின் மனமாற்றத்திற்குப்பின் வாழ்ந்தார். இவர் அங்கிருந்தவர்களால் " தாடியில்லா துறவி" (Beardless Monk)என்றழைக்கப்பட்டார். இவர் தன்னுடன், தன்னைப் போன்று வாழ்ந்த, சில இளம்பெண்களின் வாழ்வையும் மாற்றி, அவர்களையும் துறவற வாழ்வை வாழ அழைத்தார். இறுதியில் ஏறக்குறைய 15 இளம் பெண்களும் இவருடன் சேர்ந்து, துறவிகளாக வாழ்ந்து, தங்களின் வாழ்வின் இறுதிவரை, கடவுளுக்காக வாழ்ந்தார். தங்களின் பேச்சிலும், செயல்களிலும் இறைவனை மட்டுமே முன்வைத்து வாழ்ந்தனர். 

செபம்:
வாழ்வை மாற்றுபவரே எம் இறைவா! தன்னுடைய அழகு, பணம், பொருள் அனைத்தையும் குப்பையென கருதி உம்மை பற்றிக்கொண்டு, மனமாற்றம் பெற்று, வாழ்ந்த, புனித பெலாகியாவைப்போல, நாங்களும் எங்களின் தீயச் செயல்களிலிருந்து மனமாற்றம் பெற்று, எம்மால் இயன்றவரை, மற்றவர்களுக்காகநாங்கள் வாழ, எம்மை மாற்றியருளும்.

---JDH---தெய்வீக குணமளிக்கும் இயேசு /திண்டுக்கல்.
Saint of the Day: (08-10-2020)

Saint Pelagia the Penitent

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St. Pelagia was head of a dance troupe in Palestinian Antioch, and lived a life of frivolity and prostitution. One day while she was still a dancer, Pelagia was passing by a church dressed with her very elegant and provocative clothing. Bishop Nonnus of Edessa was preaching at that moment. Even though the parishioners turned their faces away from the sinner, the Bishop noticed her great outer beauty and spiritual greatness. Later that day, he prayed in his cell for the sinner and learned that as she took care of the adornment of her body to appear beautiful, he and his fellow priests should put more work in adorning their wretched souls.
 
The following day Pelagia went to hear St. Nonnos preach. He was talking about the Last Judgement and its consequences. She was so moved and impressed with the sermon, that with tears of repentance in her eyes, she asked the Bishop to baptize her. Seeing the sincerity of her wishes and repentance, he agreed.
 
That same night the devil appeared to Pelagia urging her to return to her former life. She started praying and signed herself with the Sign of the Cross, after which the devil vanished.
 
She gave all her wealth and valuables to St. Nonnos so that he could distribute them and give them to aid the poor. The bishop then ordered their distribution and said: "Let this be wisely dispersed, so that these riches gained by sin may become a wealth of righteousness." She left Antioch dressed in man’s clothes.
 
After that, she journeyed to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, where she became a hermitess and lived in a cell disguised as the monk Pelagius. There she lived in great austerity, performing many penances in a ascetic seclusion which helped her attain many spiritual gifts. At her death she was buried in her cell. She was known as “the beardless monk” until her sex was discovered when she died. 

Even though a young teenager existed and suffered martyrdom at Antioch back in the fourth century, the story described here is a pious fiction that eventually helped arise more similar stories but under different names.

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

St. Benedicta October 8

 St. Benedicta


Feastday: October 8

Death: unknown


A virgin and martyr listed in the pre-1970 Roman Martyrology. Her birthday was celebrated in Laon, France, as a martyr.

St. Evodius October 8

 St. Evodius


Feastday: October 8

Death: 5th century


Bishop of Rouen, France. His relics were taken to Blame, near Soissons.

St. Keyne October 8

 St. Keyne


Feastday: October 8


 


St. Keyne (Keyna or Cain) was one of the twenty-four children of King Brychan of Brecknock, Wales. She refused several suitors' offers of marriage and became a hermitess on the banks of the Severn River in Somersetshire, England. After living there for several years, during which she traveled widely, she was persuaded by her nephew, St. Cadoc, to return to Wales, though exactly where she spent her last days is not known. During her travels, she founded numerous churches in South Wales, Cornwall, and perhaps somerset. Her feast day is October 8.

St. Badilo October 8

 St. Badilo


Feastday: October 8

Death: 870


Benedictine abbot. Badilo was a monk at Vezelay in France and became the abbot of Leuze in Hainault, Belgium.

St. Amor of Aquitaine October 8

 St. Amor of Aquitaine


Feastday: October 8

Death: 9th century


Hermit and founder of Munsterbilsen convent in Liege, Belgium. Also called Amour, he was born in Aquitaine, and lived as a hermit in Maastricht, Belgium.


St. Martin Cid October 8

 St. Martin Cid


Feastday: October 8



 

Cistercian abbot-founder and co-worker with St. Bernard. Martin was born in Zamora, Spain. He founded Val-Paraiso, a Cistercian abbey staffed with monks sent by St. Bernard.


 

Bl. Matthew de Eskandely October 8

 Bl. Matthew de Eskandely


Feastday: October 8

Death: 1309


Martyr of China. He was one of the first missionaries to reach China during the Middle Ages. Born in Buda, Hungary, he entered the Church and set out as a missionary to the Far East. Few details have survived of his labors, but it is known that he was martyred in China.

St. Nestor October 8

 St. Nestor


Feastday: October 8


 

Martyr. He was executed at Thessalonika under Emperor Diocletian, although the account of his martyrdom is considered dubious in its details. 

St. Palatias and Laurentia October 8

 St. Palatias and Laurentia


Feastday: October 8

Death: 302



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Christian martyrs who were put to death during the persecutions launched by Emperor Diocletian. According to tradition, Palatias was a noblewoman who resided in the city of Ancona, Italy. Converted to the faith by her slave, Laurentia, she was arrested with Laurentia and put to death at Fermo, near Ancona.

Bl. Peter of Seville October 8

 Bl. Peter of Seville


Feastday: October 8

Death: unknown


Martyr. Almost nothing is known about this saint beyond his martyrdom on an unknown date. While he figures into a variety of legends, he remains a mystery owing to the unreliability of these stories.


St. Reparata October 8

 St. Reparata


Feastday: October 8

Death: 3rd century



Virgin martyr of Caesarea, in Palestine. Known mainly through unreliable legend, she was supposedly a twenty year old girl in Caesarea who was denounced as a Christian during the persecutions launched by Emperor Trajanus Decius. She was tortured and thrown into a furnace. Miraculously surviving the flames, she still refused to sacrifice to the pagan gods and the Romans beheaded her.

St. Triduana October 8

 St. Triduana


Feastday: October 8



A virgin who, according to tradition, assisted St. Regulus in his mission to Scotland during the fourth century. She is also listed as Trallen and Tredwall. Her shrine at Restalrig was long venerated until its destruction in 1560 during the Scottish Reformation.


Saint Triduana, also known as Trodline, Tredwell, and in Norse as Trøllhaena, was an early Christian woman, associated with various places in Scotland. She lived at an unknown time, probably between the 4th and 8th centuries CE.[1]


According to the 16th-century Aberdeen Breviary, Triduana was born in the Greek city of Colosse, and travelled from Constantinople with Saint Rule, who brought the bones of Saint Andrew to Scotland in the 4th century AD.[2] A pious woman, she settled at Rescobie near Forfar in Angus, but her beauty attracted the attentions of a King of the Picts named Nectan. To stall these unwanted attentions, Triduana tore out her own eyes and gave them to Nechtan. Afterwards, she was associated with curing eye disorders. She spent her later years in Restalrig, Lothian, and healed the blind who came to her. She was buried at Restalrig when she died.[3]


The 17th-century Acta Sanctorum records a story of a blind English woman miraculously cured by Triduana. The saint appears to her in a dream, and instructs her to travel to Restalrig. She does so, and regains her sight at Triduana's tomb. The woman's daughter is later cured of blindness after praying to Triduana.[4]


In the 12th century, the Norse Earl of Orkney Harald Maddadsson punished bishop John of Caithness by having him blinded. According to the 13th-century Orkneyinga Saga, John prayed to "Trøllhaena", and later regained his sight when brought to her "resting place", possibly referring to a local northern shrine rather than Restalrig.[1]


The principal centre of devotion to Triduana was at Restalrig, now part of Edinburgh. The parish church has been rebuilt, but the associated 15th-century St Triduana's Aisle (originally two-storeyed) survives. This partly subterranean structure often flooded in the past, and was at one time assumed to be an unusually large and elaborate holy well (St Triduana's Well). The exterior of the aisle was heavily restored by the architect Thomas Ross in 1907, though its interior (which has a remarkable echo) retains its original rib-vault, and is a refined example of Scottish 15th-century architecture.[5][6] Other dedications to Triduana include chapels at Ballachly (Caithness), Loth (Sutherland), and on Papa Westray in Orkney.[1]


The Sicilian Saint Lucy is also said to have torn out her own eyes to put off an unwelcome suitor.[2]


In Buddhist scripture (Therigatha 14.1)[7] the Buddhist nun Subha also removed her eye in response to admiration from a suitor. In that case, the act served as a lesson in non-attachment to worldly things.


St Tredwell's Chapel, Papa Westray


St Tredwell's Chapel, Papa Westray

St Tredwell's Chapel, Papa Westray is a renowned Orkney pilgrimage-centre, standing on a conical mound on a small peninsula (about 4.5 metres high and 35 metres across at the water level) in St Tredwell's Loch. The remains of the late medieval walls can be seen, built over Iron Age remains, including a tunnel leading to a circular building or broch. The thick walls of the chapel and records of tracery work indicate an important and well-founded establishment.


The chapel was surveyed by Sir H. Dryden in 1870 when its walls, of variable thickness, were still up to 6 feet high and the interior measured 20 ft 3in by 13 ft 10ins. The chapel was cleared of rubble by William Traill around 1880. He found 30 copper coins dating between the reigns of Charles II and George III under the chapel floor, along with a female skeleton.


In The Archaeological Sites and Monuments of Papa Westray and Westray, R.G. Lamb (1983:19) notes:


Immediately outside the W wall Traill broke into a subterranean passage which he followed N then NW for some 10m, passing several sets of door-checks and a side-chamber and entering a 'circular building'. Finds from this structure, including a stone ball, are in NMAS (...); others are in Tankerness House Museum (...). The opening into the passage is now blocked by rubble; it is likely that this was part of a complex of late Iron Age buildings, on the wreckage of which the chapel was built. It is possible that that a broch lies at the core of the mound, on the lower SE slope of which a revetment-wall, 1.9m high and traceable for 11m, may be part of an outer wall or ringwork. A few metres to the N of the chapel are the footings of two small subrectangular buildings of indeterminate date. A cross-slab is said to have been seen some years ago in the deep water besides the islet, but an attempted recovery was unsuccessful.


St Tredwell or Triduana is associated as a 'holy virgin' with St Boniface in a medieval account of the mission from Jarrow to Pictland in 710 invited by King Nechtan. Legend has it that Nechtan fell in love with Triduana and praised her beautiful eyes. She responded by plucking them out and sending them to him skewered on a twig. Miraculous cures are associated with St Tredwell, particularly in those suffering from eye afflictions. Pilgrims travelled to Papay from all of Orkney and the north seeking a cure. Marwick, in a paper written in 1925, cites John Brand in his Brief Description of Orkney (1700) as having much to say of the chapel:


People used to come to it from other isles; before the chapel door was a heap of small stones, "into which the Superstituous People when they come, do cast a small stone or two for their offering, and some will cast in Money"; the loch is "held by the People as Medicinal"; "a Gentleman in the Countrey, who was much distressed with sore Eyes, went to this Loch and Washing there became sound and whole...with both which persons he who was Minister of the place for many years was well acquainted and told us that he saw them both before and after the Cure: The present minister of Westra told me that such as are able to walk use to go so many times about the Loch, as they think will perfect the cure before they make any use of the water, and that without speaking to any... not long since, he went to this Loch and found six so making their circuit..." "As for this Loch's appearing like Blood, before any disaster befal the Royal Family, as some do report, we could find no ground to believe any such thing.


In the 19th century the Minister of Westray, John Armit, noted that:


Such was the veneration entertained by the inhabitants for this ancient saint, that it was with difficulty that the first Presbyterian minister of the parish could restrain them, of a Sunday morning, from paying their devotions at this ruin, previous to their attendance on public worship in the reformed church. Wonders, in the way of cure of bodily disease, are said to have been wrought by this saint, whose fame is now passed away and name almost forgotten.


Dedication to St Triduana

Ss Ninian and Triduana’s Church, Edinburgh is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St. Triduana.

St. Ywi October 8

 St. Ywi


Feastday: October 8

Death: 690


Ywi (d.c. 690) + Benedictine monk and hermit at Lindisfarne Abbey, England. He was ordained a deacon by St. Cuthbert. When Ywi died as a hermit, his relics were enshrined at Wilton, near Salisbury. Feastday: October 8.


Iwig (alternatively, Iwi, Iwigius, or Ywi of Lindisfarne) was a saint venerated in Wiltshire in the Middle Ages. He was reputedly a Northumbrian monk, said to have died and to have been buried in Brittany.[1] Historian David Dumville called him "the other principal saint of Wilton", in reference to Saint Eadgyth.[2] He was supposedly a follower (alumnus) of Saint Cuthbert.[3]


He is listed in two 11th-century litanies.[1] A narrative of this century claimed that his relics had been brought to Wilton Abbey by Breton monks in the 10th-century, and left for safe-keeping at the altar of Saint Eadgyth.[1] The narrative claims that the relics subsequently became immovable [through the wish of the saint to reside there], though historian John Blair suspected that this story may have been invented to justify Wilton's theft of the relics.[1]


His feast day was celebrated on 8 October.[4] The Priory of Ivychurch in Wiltshire is thought to have been named after him.[3]