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30 September 2021

இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் அக்டோபர் 01

 St. Virila


Feastday: October 1

Death: 1000


Benedictine abbot. Although known largely through legend, he was definitely abbot of the monastery of St. Saviour, Leyre, in Navarre, France. He was a miracle worker, and his life has been the subject of many traditions.




St. Dodo


Feastday: October 1

Death: 750


Benedictine abbot trained by St. Ursmar. A monk at Lobbes, Belgium, he became abbot of Wallers-en-Faigne, France.



St. Melorius


Feastday: October 1

Death: unknown


Prince of Cornwall, England, who was murdered as a child. Also listed as Mylor, Melar, and Melorus, he was the victim of an uncle's ambitions. He was venerated in Amesbury, England, in Brittany, and in Cornwall. The tale has several versions, most dating to the Middle Ages.





St. Remigius

✠ புனிதர் ரெமிஜியஸ் ✠

(St. Remigius)



ஆயர் மற்றும் ஒப்புரவாளர்:

(Bishop and Confessor)


பிறப்பு: கி.பி. 437

செர்னி-என்-லான்னோய்ஸ், பிக்கார்டி, ஃபிரான்ஸ்

(Cerny-en-Laonnois, Picardy, France)


இறப்பு: ஜனவரி 13, 533

ரீம்ஸ், சாம்பெய்ன், ஃபிரான்ஸ

(Rheims, Champagne, France)


ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

(Roman Catholic Church)

ஆங்கிலிகன் சமூகம்

(Anglican Communion)

கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை

(Eastern Orthodoxy)


நினைவுத் திருநாள்: அக்டோபர் 1


பாதுகாவல்: ஃபிரான்ஸ் (France)


புனிதர் ரெமிஜியஸ், ஃபிரான்ஸ் (France) நாட்டிலுள்ள “ரீம்ஸ்” (Rheims) ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க மறைமாவட்ட ஆயரும், “ஃபிராங்க்ஸ்” (Apostle of the Franks) இன மக்களின் அப்போஸ்தலருமாவார். இவர், கி.பி. 496ம் ஆண்டு, டிசம்பர் மாதம், 25ம் தேதியன்று, “ஃபிராங்க்ஸ்” இன அரசரான (King of the Franks) “முதலாம் குளோவிஸுக்கு” (Clovis I) திருமுழுக்கு அளித்தார். இந்த திருமுழுக்கானது, முழு ஃபிராங்க் இன மக்களையும் கிறிஸ்தவ மதத்திற்கு மனம்மாற்ற வழிவகுத்தது. இது, திருச்சபைக்கு ஒரு பாரிய வெற்றியாகவும், ஐரோப்பிய வரலாற்றில் ஒரு விசேட நிகழ்வாகவும் அமைந்தது.


ரெமிஜியஸ், பாரம்பரியமாக, “கல்லோ-ரோமன்” (Gallo-Roman society) சமுதாயத்தின் மிக உயர்ந்த மட்டத்தில், லாவோன் (Laon), பிகார்ட்டிக்கு (Picardy) அருகிலுள்ள செர்னி-என்-லான்னோய்ஸ் (Cerny-en-Laonnois) என்ற இடத்தில் பிறந்தார். இவர், லாவோன் பிரதேச பிரபுவான (Count of Laon) “எமிலியஸ்” (Emilius) என்பவருக்கும், “சோய்சன்” ஆயரின் (Bishop of Soissons) மகளான “செலினாவுக்கும்” (Celina) மகனாகப் பிறந்தவர் என்பர். பின்னாளில், கி.பி. 486ம் ஆண்டு, “முதலாம் குலோவிஸுக்கு” (Clovis I) “சோய்சன்” நகரை வெற்றிகொண்டதாக வரலாறு உண்டு.


ரீம்ஸ் (Reims) நகரில் கல்வி கற்ற இவர், விரைவில் தமது கற்றல் மற்றும் புனிதத்தன்மைக்கு புகழ்பெற்றார். மேலும் அவரது உயர் நிலை காரணமாக, ஒரு பொதுநிலையினராக இருப்பினும், தமது 22 வயதில், ரீம்ஸ் ஆயராக (Bishop of Reims) தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டார். இவர், ஃபிரான்ஸ் நாட்டின் பெரும் வேந்தராகவும் (Lord Chancellor of France), “மெரோவிங்கியன் வம்ச” (Merovingian dynasty) தலைமை அதிகாரியாகவுமிருந்தார்.


“சோய்சன்” நகர தேவாலயத்தில் இருந்து திருடப்பட்ட புனித பாத்திரங்களை திரும்பப் பெறும் கதையானது, அவருக்கும் குளோவிஸுக்கும் இடையில் உள்ள நட்பான உறவுகளுக்குச் சான்று பகர்வதாகவும், ஃபிராங்க்ஸ் மன்னராக இருந்த குளோவிசை, அவர் புனிதர் வேதாஸ்ட் (Saint Vedast) மற்றும் குளோவிஸுக்கு மனைவியாக இருந்த பர்கண்டி இளவரசி புனிதர் க்ளோடில்ட் (Saint Clotilde) ஆகியோரின் உதவியுடன் கிறிஸ்தவத்திற்கு மனம் மாற்றினார். தாம் கிறிஸ்தவத்தை ஏற்றுக்கொள்ளும் முன்பே குளோவிஸ், ரெமிஜியஸ் மற்றும் ரீம்ஸ் நகர கிறிஸ்தவ மக்களுக்கு எண்ணற்ற நன்மைகளை வழங்கினார். டால்பாயாக் போரில் (Battle of Tolbiac) அலமன்னி (Alamanni) மீது வெற்றிகொண்ட பிறகு, ரீம்ஸ் நகரில் பெரும் எண்ணிக்கையில் கூடியிருந்த ஃபிராங்க்ஸ் மற்றும் ஆலமன்னி இன மக்களின் முன்னிலையில் தமக்கு திருமுழுக்கு அருட்சாதனம் வழங்குமாறு ரெமிஜியசை வேண்டினார். புனிதர் கிரகோரியின் கூற்றின்படி (Saint Gregory of Tours), சுமார் 3,000க்கும் மேற்பட்ட ஃபிராங்க்ஸ் இன மக்களுடன் க்ளோவிஸ் ஞானஸ்நானம் பெற்றார்.



அரசன் குலோவிஸ், ரெமிஜியசுக்கு எண்ணற்ற சமஸ்தானங்களை பரிசாக வழங்கினார். அதில், ரெமிஜியஸ் பல தேவாலயங்களை கட்டினார். பல்வேறு மறைமாவட்டங்களை நிறுவி, ஆயர்களை நியமித்தார். “டௌர்னை” (Tournai), “கேம்ப்ரை” (Cambrai) மற்றும் “தெரௌன்” (Thérouanne) ஆகிய மறைமாவட்டங்களை நிறுவிய அவர், கி.பி. 499ம் ஆண்டு, முதல் ஆயர்களை நியமித்தார்.


ரெமிஜியஸ், திருச்சபை கவுன்சில்களில் கலந்து கொள்ளவில்லை என்றாலும், கி.பி. 517ம் ஆண்டு, ரீம்ஸ் நகரில் ஒரு சபைக் கூட்டத்தை நடத்தினார். ஒரு சூடான விவாதத்திற்குப் பிறகு அவர் ஒரு ஆரிய இன ஆயரை கிறிஸ்தவராக மனம் மாற்றினார்.

Feastday: October 1

Birth: 437

Death: 533


St. Remigius or Remi, Bishop of Rheims was the great apostle of the Franks, and was illustrious for his learning, sanctity and miracles, which in his episcopacy of seventy and more years, rendered his name famous in the church. As a boy he made great progress in learning, and in the opinion of St. Sidonius Apollinaris, who was acquainted with him in the earlier part of his life, he became the most eloquent person in that age. When only twenty-two, too young to be a priest, much less a bishop, he was chosen in 459 to fill the vacant See of Rheims. But he was ordained and consecrated in spite of his youth, and amply made up for lack of experience by his fervor and energy.



Under the protection of King Clovis, who was baptized by Remigius, St. Remigius spread the gospel of Christ among the Franks, in which work God endowed him with an extraordinary gift of miracles. The bishops who were assembled in a conference that was held at Lyons against the Arians in his time, declared they were stirred to exert their zeal in defense of the Catholic Faith by the example of Remigius, "who", say they, "has everywhere destroyed the altars of the idols by a multitude of miracles and signs." St. Remigius, whom St. Gregory of Tours refers to as "a man of great learning, fond of rhetorical studies, and equal in his holiness to St. Silvester", died about the year 530. His feast day is October 1.



Saint Remigius (French: Remi or Rémi; c. 437 – January 13, 533), was the Bishop of Reims and "Apostle of the Franks". On 25 December 496 he baptised Clovis I, King of the Franks. This baptism, leading to the conversion of the entire Frankish people to Christianity, was a momentous success for the Church and a seminal event in European history.



Life

Remigius was born, traditionally, at Cerny-en-Laonnois, near Laon, Picardy, into the highest levels of Gallo-Roman society. He is said to have been son of Emilius, count of Laon (who is not otherwise attested) and of Celina, daughter of the Bishop of Soissons, which Clovis had conquered in 486. He studied at Reims and soon became so noted for his learning and sanctity, and his high status, that he was elected Bishop of Reims at age 21, though still a layman.[2] He was both Lord Chancellor of France and Référendaire of France.


The story of the return of the sacred vessels (most notably the Vase of Soissons), which had been stolen from the church of Soissons, testifies to the friendly relations existing between him and Clovis, King of the Franks, whom he converted to Christianity with the assistance of Saint Vedast (Vedastus, Vaast, Waast) and Saint Clotilde, the Burgundian princess who was wife to Clovis. Even before he embraced Christianity, Clovis had showered benefits upon Remigius and the Christians of Reims, and after his victory over the Alamanni in the battle of Tolbiac (probably 496), he requested Remigius to baptize him at Reims (December 25, 496) in the presence of a large company of Franks and Alamanni; according to Saint Gregory of Tours, 3,000 Franks were baptized with Clovis.[b]


King Clovis granted Remigius stretches of territory, in which Remigius established and endowed many churches. He erected bishoprics at Tournai; Cambrai; Thérouanne, where he personally ordained the first bishop in 499; Arras, where he installed St. Vedast; and Laon, which he gave to his niece's husband Gunband. In 530 he consecrated Medardus, Bishop of Noyon. Remigius' brother Principius was Bishop of Soissons and also corresponded with Sidonius Apollinaris, whose letters give a sense of the highly cultivated courtly literary Gallo-Roman style all three men shared.[3]



Baptism of Clovis by Paul Dubois, 1896, at the side of the Abbey of Saint-Remi, in Reims

The chroniclers of "Gallia Christiana" record that numerous donations were made to Remigius by the Frankish nobles, which he presented to the cathedral at Reims.[2]


Though Remigius never attended any of the church councils, in 517 he held a synod at Reims, at which after a heated discussion he converted a bishop of Arian views.[2] Although Remigius's influence over people and prelates was extraordinary, upon one occasion his condoning of the offences of one Claudius, a priest whom Remigius had consecrated, brought upon him the rebukes of his episcopal brethren, who deemed Claudius deserving of degradation. The reply of Remigius, still extant, is able and convincing.


Few authentic works of Remigius remain: his "Declamations" were elaborately admired by Sidonius Apollinaris, in a finely turned letter to Remigius, but are now lost.[4] Four letters survive in the collection known as the Epistulae Austrasicae: one containing his defence in the matter of Claudius, two written to Clovis, and a fourth to Bishop Falco of Tongres. The "Testament of Saint Remigius" is apocryphal. A brief and strictly legendary "Vita" was formerly ascribed to Venantius Fortunatus. Another, according to Jacobus de Voragine, was written by Ignatius, bishop of Reims.[5] A letter congratulating Pope Hormisdas upon his election (523) is apocryphal, and "the letter in which Pope Hormisdas appears to have appointed him vicar of the kingdom of Clovis is proved to be spurious; it is presumed to have been an attempt of Hincmar to base his pretensions for the elevation of Reims to the primacy, following the alleged precedent of Remigius."[6]


A Commentary on the Pauline Epistles (edited Villalpandus, 1699) is not his work, but that of Remigius of Auxerre.[7]


Remigius' relics were kept in the Cathedral of Reims, whence Hincmar had them translated to Épernay during the Viking invasions and thence, in 1099 to the Abbey of Saint-Rémy. His feast is celebrated on October 1.


Remigius is remembered in the Church of England with a commemoration on 1 October.[8]


Remigius and the Holy Ampulla


Late Carolingian ivory binding, c. 870, with miracles from the life of Saint Remigius. Top: The dying pagan asks Saint Remi for baptism, Centre: the Hand of God fills the two vials, Bottom: the dove of the Holy spirit delivering the Holy Ampulla at the Baptism of Clovis. The plaque manages to cover two versions of the story.

Main article: Holy Ampulla

Remigius is known through the legend of the Baptism of the Moribund Pagan, according to which a dying pagan asked for baptism at the hands of Remigius, but when it was found that there was no Oil of the Catechumens or sacred Chrism available for the proper administration of the baptismal ceremony, Remigius ordered two empty vials be placed on an altar and as he prayed before them the two vials miraculously filled respectively with the necessary Oil of the Catechumens and Chrism.


Apparently when the sepulchre containing the body of Remigius was opened in the reign of Charles the Bald and while Hincmar was the Archbishop of Reims, two small vials were found, the contents of which gave off an aromatic scent the likes of which was like nothing known to those present. If one recalls that when Remigius died the ancient art of perfumery was still known and practiced in the collapsing Roman Empire, but was unknown in the Carolingian empire four hundred years later, these vials may have originally been bottles of unguents used to cover the scent of decay of Remigius’ corpse during his funeral. But the memory of the two vials miraculously filled in the story of the Baptism of the Moribund Pagan, and the unusual, seemingly otherworldly scents issuing from these two vials found buried with Remigius combined to suggest to those present that these two vials were the miraculously filled vials of the legend.


It should be remembered as well that it was not uncommon for chalices, patens, and other sacred vessels to be buried with high-ranking clergymen.


Hincmar adroitly combined the discovery of the two vials, the legend of the Moribund Pagan, and the historical memory that Saint Remigius had baptized Clovis, all into the Legend of the Holy Ampulla (that contained the chrism used by Remigius when he baptized Clovis was miraculously supplied by heaven itself). Hincmar used the new legend to strengthen his claim that his own archepiscopal see of Reims (as the possessor of this heavenly sent chrism) should be recognized as the divinely chosen site for all subsequent anointings of French kings. The fate of the second vial is uncertain. It has been suggested that since in the original form of the legend this would have been the vial containing the Oil of the Catechumens and that the French coronation ordinals prescribe the Oil of the Catechumens, rather than Chrism, for the anointing of queens, it was subsequently used for anointing the queens of France[9] It is possible that a vial currently identified by some of the Bourbon Legitimists as the Sainte Ampoulle is actually this second vial.




Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

லிசியே நகரின் தெரேசா 

(கன்னியர் மற்றும் மறைவல்லுநர்)

நினைவுத் திருவிழா : அக்டோபர் 1, அக்டோபர் 3



பிறப்பு : ஜனவரி 2, 1873, அலேசான், பிரான்சு

இறப்பு : செப்டம்பர் 30 1897(அகவை 24) லிசியே, பிரான்சு

அருளாளர் பட்டம் : 29 ஏப்ரல், 1923, (பதினொன்றாம் பயஸ்)


புனிதர் பட்டம் : 17 மே 1925, (பதினொன்றாம் பயஸ்)

குறிப்பிடத்தகுந்த படைப்புகள்: ஓர் ஆன்மாவின்வரலாறு (தன்வரலாற்று நூல்)

முக்கிய திருத்தலங்கள் : புனித தெரேசா பேராலயம், லிசியே நகர், பிரான்சு


லிசியே நகரின் தெரேசா (Thérèse of Lisieux)(2 ஜனவரி 1873 – 30 செப்டம்பர் 1897) என்பவர் ஒரு பிரஞ்சு கார்மேல் சபைத் துறவியும், கத்தோலிக்க புனிதரும் ஆவார். மரி ஃப்ரான்சுவா தெரேஸ் மார்த்தின் (Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin) என்னும் இயற்பெயர் கொண்ட இவர் துறவற சபையில் குழந்தை இயேசு மற்றும் இயேசுவின் திருமுகத்தின் தெரேசா என்னும் பெயரைத் தேர்ந்துகொண்டார். குழந்தை இயேசுவின் தெரேசா என்னும் பெயரும், இயேசுவின் சிறு மலர் என்னும் பெயரும் இவருக்குச் சிறப்புப் பெயர்களாக அமைந்துள்ளன.


15 வயதே நிரம்பிய தெரேசா தம் இளம் பருவத்திலேயே இறை அழைத்தலுக்குச் செவிமடுத்து, 1888 இல், பல்வேறு தடைகளையும் தாண்டி, கார்மேல் சபையில் சேர்ந்தார். அவர் புகுந்த அடைப்புநிலை (cloistered) கார்மேல் சபை மடம் பிரான்சு நாட்டில் நோர்மாண்டி மாநிலத்தில் லிசியே (Lisieux) நகரில் அமைந்திருந்தது. அத்துறவற இல்லத்தில் தெரேசா ஒன்பது ஆண்டுகள் தங்கியிருந்தார். அங்கு திருப்பணிக் காப்பகப் பொறுப்பாளர்(sacristan), பயிற்சிநிலைத் துறவியரின் துணைப் பயிற்சியாளர் போன்ற பல பணிகளை ஆற்றினார். அவர்தம் வாழ்க்கையின் இறுதி பதினெட்டு மாதங்களில் அவர் "இறைநம்பிக்கையின் இருண்ட கால" வேதனையை அனுபவித்தார். அவர் காச நோயால் பீடிக்கப்பட்டு, தம் 24ஆம் அகவையில் இறையடி எய்தினார்.


இவரின் ஓர் ஆன்மாவின் வரலாறு என்னும் தன்வரலாற்று நூலை இவரின் இறப்புக்கு பின் சிறிதளவே அச்சிட்டு வெளியிட்டனர். ஆனாலும் அது பலராலும் படிக்கப்பட்டு, இவரை 20-ஆம் நூற்றாண்டின் மிகப்பெரும் புனிதருள் ஒருவராகப் பிறர் கண்டுணர வழிவகுத்தது. இவருக்கு முத்திப்பேறுபெற்ற பட்டம் 1923இலும், புனிதர் பட்டம் 1925இலும் வழங்கப்பட்டது. பதினொன்றாம் பயஸ் இவருக்கு புனிதர் பட்டம் வழங்கி, இவரைத் தம் ஆட்சியின் விண்மீன் ஆக்கினார் என்பர். 

குழந்தை இயேசுவின் புனித தெரேசாவுக்கு இன்று உலகம் முழுவதிலும் வணக்கம் செலுத்தப்படுகிறது.

தெரேசா ஒரு மறைந்த வாழ்க்கை வாழ்ந்து, அறியப்படாமல் இருக்க வேண்டும், என்றே விரும்பினார். ஆனால் இவரின் இறப்புக்கு பின் இவரின் தன்வரலாற்று நூல் இவரை வெளி உலகிற்கு காட்டியது. இவரின் கடிதங்கள், கவிதைகள், சமய நாடகங்களில், இறை வேண்டல்கள், மற்றும் இவரது கடைசி உரையாடல்கள், இவரது சகோதரிகள் பதிவு செய்த இவரின் ஓவியங்கள் மற்றும் புகைப்படங்கள் - (பெரும்பாலும் சகோதரி செலின்னால் செய்யப்பட்டவை) இவரைப் பலரும் கண்டுணர வழிவகுத்தது.

இவரது ஆன்மீக வாழ்வின் ஆழம், பலருக்கு ஊக்கமளிப்பதாக இருந்தது. இவர் அதனைப்பற்றி கூறும் போது, "என் வழி முழுவதும் நம்பிக்கை கொள்வதும் அன்பு செய்வதும் தான்" என்றார். தனது தாழ்ச்சியிலும் எளிமையிலும், இவர் கடவுளையே தனது புனிதமாக நம்பினார்.


புதியதொரு "சிறு வழியில்" ("little way") சென்று தெரேசா விண்ணகம் அடைய விரும்பினார். "இயேசுவைச் சென்று சேர்ந்திட ஒரு மின்தூக்கி (elevator) கண்டுபிடிக்க விரும்பினேன். சிறியவளான என்னைத் தூக்கி உயர்த்துகின்ற இயேசுவின் கைகளே அந்த மின்தூக்கி என அறிந்துகொண்டேன்" என்று தெரேசா குறிப்பிடுகின்றார்.


லிசியே நகரில் உள்ள, புனித தெரேசா பேராலயம், பிரான்சு நாட்டிலேயே, லூர்து நகருக்கு அடுத்து மிக அதிக திருப்பயணியர் வரும் இடமாக உள்ளது. 


பிறப்பு


தெரசா பிரான்ஸ் நாட்டில் அலேசான் என்னும் இடத்தில் கி.பி. 1873-ம் ஆண்டு சனவரி திங்கள் 2-ம் நாள் லூயிஸ்-செலின் தம்பதியரின் 9-வது குழந்தையாக பிறந்தார். தனது சிறுவயதிலேயே தன் தாயை இழந்தார்.15 வயதே நிரம்பிய தெரேசா தம் இறை ஆர்வத்தால் திருதந்தையின் சிறப்பு அனுமதி பெற்று , 1888-ம் ஆண்டு ஏப்ரல் திங்கள் 9-ம் நாள், கார்மேல் சபையில் சேர்ந்தார்.


சிறு வழியைக் கண்டுபிடித்தல்


தெரேசா கார்மேல் மடம் புகுந்த வேளையில் ஒரு புனிதையாக மாறவேண்டும் என்னும் தீர்க்கமான முடிவோடுதான் சென்றார். ஆனால், ஆறு ஆண்டுகள் துறவியாக வாழ்ந்தபின்னும், 1894இல் தான் எத்துணை சிறியவள், வலுவற்றவள் என்பதை உணர்ந்தார். எவ்வளவுதான் முயன்றாலும் தன்னிடம் குறைபாடுகள் பல இருந்ததை அவர் கண்டார். அளவற்ற அன்பு காட்ட அவருக்கு விருப்பமாயிருந்தாலும் அவரது சிறுமை அவரை மேற்கொண்டது.


படிப்படியாகத் தன் சிறுமையே தன் வளர்ச்சிக்கு வழியாகும் என்றும், தன் சிறுமையில் கடவுளின் உதவியை நாடிச் செல்வதென்றும் முடிவுசெய்தார்.தெரேசாவின் சகோதரி செலின் கொண்டுவந்திருந்த பழைய ஏற்பாட்டை தெரேசா புரட்டினார். அங்கே, நீதிமொழிகள் என்னும் நூலின் ஒரு பகுதி (9:4) அவரைக் கவர்ந்தது.


“அறியாப் பிள்ளைகளே, இங்கே வாருங்கள் என்று அறிவிக்கச் செய்தது; மதிகேடருக்கு அழைப்பு விடுத்தது”


என்று கடவுளின் "ஞானம்" பற்றி அந்நூலில் வரும் பகுதி தெரேசாவின் கண்களைத் திறந்தது.

அதுபோலவே, எசாயா இறைவாக்கினர் நூலில் வரும் 66:12-13 பகுதி தெரேசாவுக்குப் புதியதொரு பொருளை விளக்குவதாக அமைந்தது. இதோ அப்பகுதி:


“ஆண்டவர் கூறுவது இதுவே; ஆறுபோல் நிறைவாழ்வு பாய்ந்தோடச் செய்வேன்; பெருக்கெடுத்த நீரோடைபோல் வேற்றினத்தாரின் செல்வம் விரைந்து வரச் செய்வேன்; நீங்கள் பால் பருகுவீர்கள்; மார்பில் அணைத்துச் சுமக்கப்படுவீர்கள்; மடியில் வைத்துத் தாலாட்டப்படுவீர்கள். தாய் தன் பிள்ளையைத் தேற்றுவதுபோல் நான் உங்களைத் தேற்றுவேன்; எருசலேமில் நீங்கள் தேற்றப்படுவீர்கள்”


கடவுளின் வார்த்தையை விவிலியத்தில் கண்ட தெரேசா தனக்குக் கடவுள் தரும் செய்தி என்னவென்று உணர்ந்தார். தன் சிறுமையும் வலுவின்மையும் ஒரு குறையல்ல, மாறாக, அவற்றின் வழியாகவே இயேசு தன்னைப் புனித நிலையின் உச்சிக்கு இட்டுச் செல்வார் என்று அறிந்தார். எனவே, உள்ளம் தளர்வதற்கு மாறாக மகிழ்ச்சியடைய வேண்டும். இது தெரேசாவுக்கு ஓர் அற்புதமான கண்டுபிடிப்பாக அமைந்தது.

இதையே அவர் "சிறு வழி" (little way; பிரஞ்சு மூலத்தில் petite voie) என்று அழைத்தார். 1895 பெப்ருவரி மாதத்திலிருந்து தான் எழுதிய மடல்களில் எல்லாம் தெரேசா தன் பெயருக்கு முன்னால் "மிகச் சிறிய" (toute petite) என்னும் அடைமொழியை இடத் தொடங்கினார்.

தன் குறைகளை வெல்வதற்குத் தன் சொந்த சக்தி போதும் என்று தெரேசா எண்ணவில்லை. மாறாக, கடவுளிடத்தில் நம்பிக்கை வைத்து, தன் கடமைகளைப் பொறுப்போடு ஆற்றி, நற்செயல்கள் புரிந்து வாழ்ந்தால் அதுவே கடவுளின் விருப்பம் என்னும் உறுதிப்பாடு அவரிடம் இருந்தது.


"ஆண்டவர் ஒரு தாயை விடவும் பாசம் கொண்டவர் என்பது எனக்கு நன்றாகத் தெரியும். தன் குழந்தை அறியாத்தன்மையால் தவறு செய்யும்போது அதைத் தாய் மன்னித்துவிடுவார். குழந்தைகள் எப்போதும் குறும்புத்தனம் செய்வார்கள், கீழே விழுவதும், அழுக்கில் புரள்வதும், பொருள்களை உடைப்பதும் அவர்கள் வேலை. ஆனால் இதெல்லாம் நிகழ்ந்தபிறகும் பெற்றோர் தம் குழந்தைகளை அன்புசெய்வதில் குறைபடுவதில்லை" 


தன்வரலாற்று நூல் – ஓர் ஆன்மாவின் வரலாறு


தெரேசாவை வெளி உலகிற்கு தெரிவித்தது, அவரின் தன்வரலாற்று நூல் – ஓர் ஆன்மாவின் வரலாறு (L'histoire d'une âme) ஆகும். அதை அவர் தன் சபைத் தலைவியின் கட்டளைக்குப் பணிந்து எழுதினார். இதை 1985-இல் தன் இளம் பருவ நினைவுகளிலிருந்து எழுதலானார். மற்றும் 1986-இல் தன் சகோதரியும், அம்மடத்திலேயே கன்னியராகவும் இருந்த சகோ. திரு இருதயத்தின் மரியாளுக்கு எழுதிய கடிதத்தின் தொகுப்பும் சேர்த்து ஓர் ஆன்மாவின் வரலாறுஎன வெளியிடப்பட்டது.

இந்நூல் மறைத்திரு. பி.பி. சேவியரால் தமிழாக்கம் செய்யப்பட்டு, புதுவையில் உள்ள மிஷன் அச்சகத்தில் 1998-இல் வெளியிடப்பட்டது.


இறப்பு


தெரசா இறக்கும் தருவாயில் இருந்த போதும் அவர் முகத்தில் புன்னகை குறையவே இல்லை.அவர் காச நோயால் பாதிக்கப்பட்டு,1897-ம் ஆண்டு செப்டம்பர் திங்கள் 30-ம் நாள் தம் 24ஆம் அகவையில் இறையடி எய்தினார். இவருக்கு முத்திப்பேறுபெற்ற பட்டம் 1923-ம் ஆண்டு ஏப்ரல் திங்கள் 29-ம் நாள் வழங்கப்பட்டது.புனிதர் பட்டம் 1925-ம் ஆண்டு மே திங்கள் 17-ம் நாள் திருதந்தை பதினொன்றாம் பயஸால் வழங்கப்பட்டது. 1927-இல் குழந்தை இயேசுவின் புனித தெரேசா மறை பரப்பு நாடுகளின் துணை பாதுகாவலியாக பிரான்சிஸ் சவேரியாருடன் அறிவிக்கப்பட்டார். 1944-இல் பிரான்சு நாட்டின் பாதுகாவலியாக ஜோன் ஆஃப் ஆர்கோடு அறிவிக்கப்பட்டார். 19 அக்டோபர் 1997-இல் இரண்டாம் யோவான் பவுல் இவரை கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபையின் 33-ஆம் மறைவல்லுநராக அறிவித்தார். இவ்வாறு அறிவிக்கப்பட்டவர்களில் இவரே வயதால் மிக இளையவரும், மூன்றாவது பெண்ணும் ஆவார்.


புனித தெரேசாவின் பெற்றோருக்கு முத்திபேறுபட்டம்



தெரேசாவின் பெற்றோருக்கு புனிதர்பட்ட செயல்கள் துவங்கி உள்ளன. இவர்கள் திருத்தந்தை இரண்டாம் யோவான் பவுலால், 1994-இல் வணக்கத்திற்குரியவர் என அறிவிக்கப்பட்டனர். 2004-இல் மிலான் நகர பேராயர், நுரையீரலில் நோய் உள்ள ஒரு குழந்தைக்கு ஏற்பட்ட குணத்தை ஏற்றுக்கொண்டு, 12 ஜூலை 2008 அன்று, கார்தினால் சரைவா மார்டின்ஸ் முயற்சியால் இவர்களின் 150-ஆவது திருமண நாளன்று, திருத்தந்தை பதினாறாம் பெனடிக்டால்முத்திபேறுபட்டம் அளிக்கப்பட்டது. 


2011-இல் இவர்களின் கடிதங்கள் A Call to a Deeper Love: The Family Correspondence of the Parents of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, 1863-1885 என்னும் பெயரில் வெளியிடப்பட்டது.


Also known as

• Francoise-Marie Therese Martin

• Teresa of the Infant Jesus

• the Little Flower of Jesus

• the Little Flower

• Thérèse of the Child Jesus



Profile

Born to a pious middle-class French family of tradesmen; daughter of Blessed Louis Martin and Blessed Marie-Azelie Guérin Martin, and all four of her sisters became nuns. Her mother died when Francoise-Marie was only four, and the family moved to Lisieux, Normandy, France to be closer to family. Cured from an illness at age eight when a statue of the Blessed Virgin smiled at her. Educated by the Benedictine nuns of Notre-Dame-du-Pre. Confirmed there at age eleven. Just before her 14th birthday she received a vision of the Child Jesus; she immediately understood the great sacrifice that had been made for her, and developed an unshakeable faith. Tried to join the Carmelites, but was turned down due to her age. Pilgrim to Rome, Italy at for the Jubilee of Pope Leo XIII whom she met and who knew of her desire to become a nun. Joined the Carmelites at Lisieux on 9 April 1888 at age 15, taking her final vow on 8 September 1890 at age 17. Known by all for her complete devotion to spiritual development and to the austerities of the Carmelite rule. Due to health problems resulting from her ongoing fight with tuberculosis, her superiors ordered her not to fast. Novice mistress at age 20. At age 22 she was ordered by her prioress to begin writing her memories and ideas, which material would turn into the book History of a Soul. Therese defined her path to God and holiness as The Little Way, which consisted of child-like love and trust in God. She had an on-going correspondence with Carmelite missionaries in China, often stating how much she wanted to come work with them. Many miracles attributed to her. Declared a Doctor of the Church in 1997 by Pope John Paul II.


Born

2 January 1873 at Alcon, Normandy, France as Francoise-Marie Therese Martin


Died

7pm Thursday 30 September 1897 at Lisieux, France of tuberculosis


Canonized

17 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI


Patronage

• African missions

• sick people; against bodily ills, illness or sickness

• AIDS patients

• air crews or pilots; aviators

• Australia

• black missions

• florists and flower growers

• foreign missions (proclaimed on 14 December 1927 by Pope Pius XI)

• loss of parents

• missionaries

• parish missions

• restoration of religious freedom in Russia

• tuberculosis

• World Youth Day 2013

• France (1944 by Pope Pius XII)

• Russia

• Anchorage, Alaska, archdiocese of

• Cheyenne, Wyoming, diocese of

• Churchill - Baie d'Hudson, Manitoba, diocese of

• Fairbanks, Alaska, diocese of

• Fresno, California, diocese of

• Hamilton, Bermuda, diocese of

• Juneau, Alaska, diocese of

• Kisumu, Kenya, diocese of

• Corner Brook and Labrador, Newfoundland, diocese of

• Pueblo, Colorado, diocese of

• Witbank, South Africa, diocese of

• Apostleship of Prayer




Blessed Luigi Maria Monti


Also known as

Aloisius, Aloysius



Profile

Eighth of eleven children. His father died when Luigi was twelve years old. To support the family he made wooden craft items. After hours he gathered other devout craftsmen and farmers at his shop to form the prayer group The Company of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; the locals called them The Company of Friars. The group expanded their ministry to work with the poor and sick, and in 1846 Luigi took private vows of chastity and obedience, dedicating his life to God.


However, Luigi lived in a time of political paranoia. He and the other members of his Company were charged with meeting to conspire against the Austrian forces occupying his village. In 1851 the they were jailed in Milan for ten weeks, finally released when it became obvious they were a religious, not political group.


Joined the Sons of Mary Immaculate, spending six years as a novice. Studied nursing. Worked with the sick in the cholera epidemic in Brescia, Italy in 1855. With the help of Father Luigi Dossi, he founded The Congregation of the Sons of the Immaculate Conception, dedicated to care for the sick. Initially worked with the Capuchin Fathers, who were forming a similar group. Certified as a phlebotomist by the La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. In 1877, with the help of Pope Blessed Pius IX, Luigi finally founded his Congregation; he worked as its leader the rest of his life. The Sons willingly walked into the worst of epidemics, working in places that others were scared to go, giving their own beds to the sick. Luigi founded small communities throughout the region where men served in hospitals and as travelling nurses to the scattered, impoverished farmers. In 1882 they expanded their mission and founded orphanages with attached schools.


Though a layman all his life, Luigi was known as "Father" by the members of the Congregation and those he helped. He died at the age of 75, nearly blind, completely worn out, and working for the Congregation to the end.


Born

24 July 1825 at Bovisio Masciago, diocese of Milian, Italy


Died

1 October 1900 in Saronno, Varese, Italy of natural causes


Beatified

• 9 November 2003 by Pope John Paul II

• his beatification miracle involved the healing of Giovanni Luigi Iecle, a farmer from Bosa, Sardegna in 1961




Blessed Juan de Palafox Mendoza


Profile

Born the illegitimate son of an Aragonese noble, Jaime de Palafox, the Marquis of Ariaza; his father would not recognize him, his mother became a Carmelite nun, and Juan was raised by a family of millers. When the boy was ten years old, his father finally acknowledged him and took over his upbringing. Juan was educated at Alcalá and Salamanca, and served as a political administrator in Monzón, Spain in 1626. Member of the Council of the Indies, the body that administered the overseas territory of the Spanish Empire.



Juan was ordained a priest in April 1629. He served as chaplain to the Holy Roman Empress, Maria of Austria, who was also the sister of King Philip IV of Spain, and travelled with her around Europe. Chosen bishop of Tlaxcala, México on 3 October 1639 by Pope Urban VIII, he served for nearly 14 years, including as interim Archbishop of Mexico from 10 June 1642 to 23 November 1642. Part of his time was served as viceroy to King Philip. He founded the Biblioteca Palafoxiana library on 5 September 1646 with 5,000 volumes, the College of San Pedro, the College of San Pablo, the Dominican convent of Santa Inez, the Purísima Concepción girl's school, and he completed construction of the cathedral for Tlexcala. While he supported missionary work among the natives of his diocese, he forbade any attempt to force or coerce conversion.


Bishop Juan became involved in struggle with the Jesuits in New Spain over church financing, and whether the Jesuits would submit to his authority. The Jesuits refused to do so, and had the support of the new viceroy. After much political wrangling, including appeals to the Vatican, Juan was recalled to Spain and chosen bishop of the Diocese of Osma in Old Castile, Spain from 16 August 1653 until his death six years later. His writings, part of which concerned what he perceived to be lax theological standards of Jesuit missionaries, ran to 15 published volumes.


Born

24 June 1600 in Fitero, Navarra, Spain


Died

1 October 1659 in Osma, Soria, Spain of natural causes


Beatified

• 5 June 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI

• recognition celebrated at the Cathedral of La Asunción, El Burgo de Osma, Spain by Cardinal Angelo Amato



Blessed Cecilia Eusepi


Also known as

Maria Angela



Profile

Youngest of eleven children, Cecilia was baptized at the age of 9 days, and her father died when she was 2 months old. On 6 January 1915 the family moved to a small farm near Nepi, Italy, and came under the care of a maternal uncle. Cecilia received Confirmation on 27 May 1917, and made her First Communion on 2 October 1917. She was educated in a Cistercian convent school. In 1922 she joined the ''Servants of Mary'' (''Servites'') as a secular tertiary, receiving the scapular at the San Tolomeo ai Servi church, and taking the name ''Maria Angela''. Member of ''Catholic Action''.


Cecilia was drawn to religious life, and against her family's wishes, she became a Servite postulant in 1923. She studied in Rome, Pistoia and Zara from 1923 to 1926, hoping to become a missionary, but contracted tuberculosis and on 23 October 1926 returned to the family farm. Though her health deteriorated, she became known for her spiritual insights, and was a counselor to seminarians and members of ''Catholic Action''; local priests would ask her opinion on homilies they were planning. Her spiritual director, the Servite priest Gabriele Roschini, instructed her to keep a journal of her life and relationship with Christ. It covered the period 29 May 1927 to 12 September 1928 and was published as "Storia di un Pagliaccio" ("Story of a Clown").


Born

17 February 1910 in Monte Romano, Viterbo, Italy


Died

• 1 October 1928 in Nepi, Viterbo, Italy of tuberculosis

• she predicted the date of her death following a dream about Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

• she died singing a hymn to the Blessed Virgin Mary

• re-interred at the church of San Tolomeo ai Servi, Nepi on 16 March 1944


Beatified

• 17 June 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI

• beatification celebrated at the Piazza della Bottata in Nepi, Italy by Cardinal Angelo Amato

• the beatification miracle involved the healing of Tommaso Ricci on 4 August 1959 from injuries received in what should have been a fatal traffic accident



Saint Bavo of Ghent


Also known as

• Allowin

• Bavon of Ghent



Profile

Belgian nobleman who spent a wild youth, noted for selfishness; known to have sold his servants as slaves to local noble houses. Married. Widower. Converted after hearing a sermon by Saint Amand of Maastricht. Built an abbey on his estate, called Saint Peter's in his day and Saint Bavo's today. He turned it over to Saint Amand, and became a monk in the house. He finally gave his estate to the house, his belongings to the poor, and lived as a recluse in a hollow tree and later a cell in the forest near the abbey.


Born

589 at Brabant, Liege, Belgium as Allowin


Died

654 at Saint Bavo's abbey of natural causes


Patronage

• Ghent, Belgium

• Haarlem, Netherlands, city of

• Haalem-Amsterdam, Netherlands, diocese of

• Netherlands




Saint Romanos the Melodist


Also known as

• Romanos the Melode

• Romanos l'Hymnographe

• Romanos Melodhos

• Romanos Melodist

• Psaitis Dhikeosinis

• Righteous Chanter

• Sweet Singer

• Romain, Romano, Romanus, Glykophonos



Profile

Convert to Christianity from Judaism. Deacon, serving at the Church of the Resurrection in Beirut, Lebanon, and at Constantinople. Wrote hundreds of hymns in simple language, appealing to the hearts of the faithful. Of the thousand or so that he wrote, only 60 to 80 survive – but they are still sung today.


Born

c.490 in Syria


Died

c.556 of natural causes


Patronage

cantors




Saint Nicetius of Trier


Also known as

Nicetus, Nizier, Niketius



Profile

Born to a Gallo-Roman family, he was a religious youth. Monk at Limoges. Abbot. Knew and was highly thought of by King Theodoric I. Bishop of Trier, Gaul (part of modern Germany) in 532. A reformer and revitalizer, Nicetius rebuilt the cathedral and worked to bring back love of the faith in an area that was indifferently Christian. He travelled his diocese, preaching daily and speaking out against low morals of both commoners and aristocracy. Excommunicated King Clotaire I for the king's immorality; Clotaire exiled him. Attended the synods of Clermont in 535 and 549, Orleans in 549, Toul in 550, and Paris in 555. Reformed the clergy in his see, restoring discipline and stamping out clerical vice. Fought heresy, especially Monophysitism.


Born

latter 5th century at Auvergne, France


Died

• c.566 of natural causes

• buried in the church of Saint Maximin at Trier, Germany



Blessed Antoni Rewera


Additional Memorial

12 June as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II



Profile

Priest in the diocese of Sandomierz, Poland. Taught theology at the Sandomierz seminary. Founded the Daughters of the Seraphic Saint Francis. Arrested in March 1942 by the Gestapo and deported to the Dachau concentration camp as part of the Nazi persecutions of Catholics.


Born

6 January 1868 in Samborzec, Poland


Died

tortured to death on 1 October 1942 at the Dachau concentration camp, Bavaria, Germany


Beatified

13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II at Warsaw, Poland




Blessed Edward James


Also known as

• Gerald Edwards

• Gerard Edwards

• Edward Campion



Additional Memorial

• 29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai

• 1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University


Profile

Raised Protestant. Educated at Saint John's College, Oxford, but was not awarded a degree because he would not acknowledge the queen as the head of Christianity in England. Converted to Catholicism. Seminarian at Rheims and Rome, Italy. Ordained in 1583, he returned to England in 1585 to minister to covert Catholics. Imprisoned four and a half years with Blessed Ralph Crockett in Marshalsea prison in London. Executed for the crime of being a priest.


Born

at Breaston, Derbyshire, England


Died

hanged, drawn, and quartered on 1 October 1588 at Chichester, West Sussex, England


Beatified

15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI



Blessed Christopher Buxton


Additional Memorial

29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai



Profile

School and spiritual student of Blessed Nicholas Garlick in Tideswell, England. He began studying for the priesthood in Reims, France in 1582, and then at the English College in Rome, Italy in 1584. He was ordained a priest on 26 October 1586. In September 1587 he returned to England to minister to covert Catholics during the persecutions of Queen Elizabeth I. He was arrested in November 1587, imprisoned in Marshalsea, and condemned to death for the crime of being a priest. One of the Oaten Hill Martyrs.


Born

1562 in Tideswell, Derbyshire, England


Died

hanged, drawn and quartered 1 October 1588 in Canterbury, Kent, England


Beatified

15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI



Blessed Florencia Caerols Martínez


Also known as

Fiorenza, Florence



Profile

Lay women in the archdiocese of Valencia, Spain. Textile worker. President of the Union of Spanish Catholic Women in Valencia, a member of Catholic Action and the Daughters of Mary. Franciscan tertiary. Had a devotion to Saint Therese of Lisieux, and worked to spread devotion to her. Catechist. Known for her strong prayer life. Imprisoned and martyred in the Spanish Civil War for the crime of being a loyal Catholic.


Born

• 20 February 1890 in Caudete, Albacete, Spain

• baptized the same day


Died

shot on 2 October 1936 in Rotglá i Corbera, Játiva, Valencia, Spain


Beatified

11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II



Blessed Ralph Crockett


Also known as

Rodolfo


Additional Memorial

29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai



Profile

Educated at Christ College, University of Cambridge and at Glouscester Hall at the University of Oxford in England. Taught at Tibnam in Norfolk, England, and then at Littlehampton in Sussex, England. Studied at the seminary at Rheims, France. Ordained in 1585. Returning to England, he was arrested on board ship at Littlehampton on 19 April 1586 and sent to Marshalsea prison in London. Condemned on 30 September 1588 for the crime of being a priest in England. Martyr.


Born

Barton-on-the-Hill, Cheshire, England


Died

hanged on 1 October 1588 in Chichester, West Sussex, England


Beatified

15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI



Blessed Carmelo Juan Pérez Rodríguez


Profile

Baptized at the age of two days. Member of the Salesians of Don Bosco, making his profession at Carabanchel Alto in Madrid, Spain on 10 July 1927. He studied for the priesthood there and in then in Turin, Italy, and was a sub-deacon when the Spanish Civil War began. When he returned to Madrid on a break, he was spotted as a religious brother, imprisoned and eventually murdered by anti-Catholic forces. Martyr.



Born

11 February 1908 in Vimianzo, La Coruña, Spain


Died

shot on 1 October 1936 in Madrid, Spain


Beatified

28 October 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI



Blessed Álvaro Sanjuán Canet


Profile

Member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Studied at the seminary of Campello, Alicante, Spain, and then in Turin, Italy. Ordained in 1934. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, Father Álvaro fled to Cocentaina, Spain and went into hiding with his parents, but was found, briefly imprisoned and then executed. Martyr.



Born

26 April 1908 in Alcocer de Planes, Alicante, Spain


Died

during the night of 1 to 2 October 1936 in on the side of the road outside Villena, Alicante, Spain


Beatified

11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II



Blessed John Robinson


Additional Memorial

29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai



Profile

Married layman. Father of Francis who became a priest. Widower. Studied for the priesthood at Rheims, France, and was in his 50's when ordained in 1585. Returned to England to serve his old neighbours. Arrested in Lowestoft, imprisoned in London for two years, and martyred for the crime of priesthood.


Born

c.1530 at Ferrensby, West Riding, Yorkshire, England


Died

hanged, drawn and quartered on 1 October 1588 at Ipswich, Suffolk, England


Beatified

15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI



Saint Piaton of Tournai


Also known as

Piat, Piato, Piatone



Profile

Priest, ordained by Saint Dionysius the Areopagite. Early evangelist to the areas of Tournai, Belgium and Chartres in Gaul (modern France). Martyred in the persecutions of Emperor Maximian Herculeus.


Born

at Benevento, Italy


Died

• skull split by a soldier c.286 at Tournai, Belgium

• body discovered in the 7th century by Saint Eligius, who made a reliquary for them

• interred at Chartres, France

• miracles reported at his tomb


Patronage

Tournai, Belgium



Blessed Robert Wilcox


Additional Memorial

29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai


Profile

Studied for the priesthood in Rheims, France. Ordained in 1585. He returned to England in 1586 to work with covert Catholics in Kent during a period of persecutions. Martyr.


Born

1558 Chester, Cheshire, England


Died

hanged, drawn and quartered 1 October 1588 in Canterbury, Kent, England


Beatified

15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI



Blessed Robert Widmerpool


Additional Memorial

1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University


Profile

Studied in Oxford, England. Tutor to the sons of the Earl of Northumberland. Arrested for aiding a Catholic priest. Martyr.


Born

Widmerpool, Nottinghamshire, England


Died

hanged, drawn and quartered 1 October 1588 in Canterbury, Kent, England


Beatified

15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI



Blessed Gaspar Fisogiro


Also known as

• Gaspar Ueda Hikojiro

• Caspar Fisogiro


Additional Memorial

10 September (one of the 205 Martyrs of Japan)


Profile

Layman in the archdiocese of Nagasaki, Japan who sheltered Dominican missionaries. Member of the Confraternity of the Rosary. Marytr.


Born

Japan


Died

1 October 1617 at Nagasaki, Japan


Beatified

7 May 1867 by Pope Blessed Pius IX



Blessed Andrew Sushinda


Also known as

• Andreas Yoshida

• Andrew Gioscinda


Additional Memorial

10 September (one of the 205 Martyrs of Japan)


Profile

Layman in the archdiocese of Nagasaki, Japan who sheltered Dominican missionaries. Member of the Confraternity of the Rosary. Marytr.


Born

Japanese


Died

1 October 1617 at Nagasaki, Japan


Beatified

7 May 1867 by Pope Blessed Pius IX



Saint Wasnulf


Also known as

Vasnulfo, Wasnan, Wasnulfo


Profile

Seventh-century priest and noted preacher. Missionary to the Hainault region (along the border of modern Belgium and France) at the invitation of Count Vincent of Hainault. Miracle worker.


Born

Scotland


Died

• c.651 in Condé-sur-l'Escaut in Hainaut, Austrasian (in modern France)

• buried in Condé-sur-l'Escaut


Patronage

Condé-sur-l'Escaut, France



Blessed Diego Botello and Blessed Ferdinando di Salcedo


Profile

Franciscan friars and missionaries in the Caribbean. Martyred with a companion whose name has not come down to us.


Died

• shot with arrows in 1516 on the modern Haitian side of the island of Hispaniola

• bodies eaten by the killers; head and clothing displayed as trophies




Blessed Dominic of Villanova


Profile

Mercedarian friar at the convent of Santa Maria di Montflorite in Aragon, Spain. Commander of his house. Priest.



Died

buried at the convent of Santa Maria di Montflorite in Aragon, Spain



Saint Verissimus of Lisbon


Profile

Martyred with his sisters Saint Julia of Lisbon and Saint Maxima of Lisbon in the persecution of Diocletian.



Died

c.304 in Lisbon, Portugal



Saint Aizan of Abyssinia


Also known as

• Aizan of Ethiopia

• Abreha of...


Profile

Brother of Saint Sazan; friend of Saint Athanasius of Alexandria. Chieftain in Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia). Worked to spread Christianity in Africa.



Saint Maxima of Lisbon


Profile

Martyred with her sister Saint Julia of Lisbon and brother Saint Verissimus of Lisbon in the persecution of Diocletian.


Died

c.304 in Lisbon, Portugal



Saint Julia of Lisbon


Profile

Martyred with her brother Saint Verissimus of Lisbon and sister Saint Maxima of Lisbon in the persecution of Diocletian.


Died

c.304 in Lisbon, Portugal



Saint Sazan of Abyssinia


Profile

Brother of Saint Aizan; friend of Saint Athanasius of Alexandria. Chieftain in Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia). Worked to spread Christianity in Africa.



Saint Aretas


Also known as

Arethas


Profile

Martyred with 504 other Christians whose names have not come down to us.


Died

Rome, Italy



Saint Fidharleus


Profile

Restored the monastery of Rathlin Ireland, Ireland after one of the many Viking raids.


Died

762



Saint Crescens of Tomi


Profile

Martyr.


Died

martyred at Tomi (modern Constanta, Romania)



Saint Evagrius


Profile

Martyr.


Died

Tomi (modern Constanta, Romania)



Saint Priscus


Profile

Martyr.


Died

Tomi (modern Constanta, Romania)



Martyred in the Spanish Civil War


Thousands of people were murdered in the anti-Catholic persecutions of the Spanish Civil War from 1934 to 1939. I have pages on each of them, but in most cases I have only found very minimal information. They are available on the CatholicSaints.Info site through these links:


• Blessed Higinio Mata Díez

• Blessed Juan Mata Díez

29 September 2021

இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் செப்டம்பர் 30

 Saint Jerome

புனித ஹிரோனிமூஸ் (ஜெரோம்) மறைவல்லுநர்


St. Jerome


நினைவுத்திருநாள்: செப்டம்பர் 30




பிறப்பு : 347, ஸ்டீரிடன்(Stridon), டல்மாத்தியா(Dalmatia) குரோசியா


இறப்பு : 30 செப்டம்பர் 419 / 420, பெத்லஹேம், பாலஸ்தீனா


பாதுகாவல் : விவிலிய அறிஞர்கள், நூலகர்கள், மொழிப்பெயர்ப்பாளர்கள்


ஹிரோனிமூஸின் தந்தை ஓர் கிறிஸ்துவர். இவரை ரோம் நகருக்கு அனுப்பி, இவரின் தந்தை ஜெரோமை படிக்கவைத்தார். இவர் இலக்கணத்தை நன்றாக கற்றார். லத்தீன் மொழியையும், கிரேக்க மொழியையும் சரளமாக கற்றுத் தேர்ந்தார். அம்மொழியிலேயே பல நூல்களை படித்தார். ஜெரோம் 360 ஆம் ஆண்டு திருத்தந்தை லிபேரியஸ்(Liberius) என்பவரிடம் திருமுழுக்குப் பெற்று, கிறிஸ்தவராக மாறினார். இவர் ஒவ்வொரு ஞாயிற்றுக்கிழமையிலும், தவறாமல் தன் நண்பர்களுடன், மறைசாட்சியர்கள் மற்றும் திருத்தந்தையர்களின் கல்லறையும் சந்தித்து, செபித்து வந்தார். அருங்காட்சியகங்களுக்கு சென்று, அவர்களின் வரலாற்றை வாசித்தார். 


மூன்று ஆண்டுகள் வரலாற்றைப் படித்து அதில் ஆராய்ச்சி மேற்கொண்டார். பின்னர் தன் நண்பர்கள் சிலருடன் சேர்ந்து, அக்குயிலா(Aquileia) என்ற நாட்டிற்கும் மற்றும் பல அயல்நாடுகளுக்கும் சென்று ஆராய்ச்சிகளை மேற்கொண்டார். பின்னர் தன் நண்பர் போனோசாஸுடன்(Bonosus) சேர்ந்து, டிரேவஸ்(Treves) நகரிலிருந்த ஒரு துறவற சபையை சந்தித்து, அச்சபையில் தங்கி, மீண்டும் தன் ஆராய்ச்சிகளை மேற்கொண்டார். அப்போது அத்துறவிகளின் வாழ்வு இவரை கவரவே, தன்னை முழுவதுமாக இறைவனுக்கு அர்ப்பணிக்க எண்ணினார். அதன்பிறகு கத்தோலிக்க் நூலகம் ஒன்றை நிறுவினார். அப்போது புனித ஹிலாரியின் வாழ்க்கை வரலாற்றுப் புத்தகம் ஒன்று இவருக்கு கிடைத்தது. அப்புத்தகத்தை படித்தபின் இவர் மீண்டும் தனது சொந்த ஊரான ஸ்டீரிடன்னிற்குதிரும்பினார். 


அங்கு சில நாட்கல் மாணவர்களுடன் தங்கியிருந்தார். அம்மாணவர்களுக்கு கல்லூரியில் கற்றுக்கொடுத்தார். பின்னர் 373 ஆம் ஆண்டு ஏதென்ஸ், பித்தினியா, கலாத்தியா, பொந்து, கப்பதோக்கியா மற்றும் சிலிசியா என்ற நாடுகளுக்கு சென்று ஆராய்ச்சிகளை மேற்கொண்டு கல்லூரிகளில் கற்றுக்கொடுத்தார். பின்னர் அந்தியோக்கியா சென்று மறையுரை ஆற்றினார். இம்மறையுரை மிகவும் புகழ்பெற்றது. 


ஜெரோம் அந்தியோக்கிவிலேயே தங்கி மறைப்பணியை செய்தார். அப்போது உடல் நலக்குறைவால் மிகவும் பாதிக்கப்பட்டார். பாலைநிலத்தின் வெப்பம் இவரால் தாங்க முடியவில்லை. இருப்பினும் இறைவேண்டல் செய்து, மீண்டும் நல்ல உடல் நலம் பெற்றார். ஜெரோம் 380 ஆம் ஆண்டு கொன்ஸ்டாண்டினோபிஸ் சென்று, அங்கு விவிலியத்தி ஆராய்ச்சிகளை மேற்கொண்டார். பின்னர் பல புத்தகங்களை எழுதி, கிறிஸ்தவ வாழ்வையும், மறைபரப்பு பணியையும் செய்தார். சிறப்பான பணியை செய்த ஜெரோம் மீண்டும் நோய்வாய்ப்பட்டுஇறந்து போனார். 

Also known as

• Eusebius Hieronymus Sophronius

• Girolamo, Hieronymus, Jerom

• Man of the Bible



Additional Memorial

9 May (translation of relics)


Profile

Born to a rich pagan family, Jerome led a wild and misspent youth. Studied in Rome, Italy, and became a lawyer. He converted and joined the Church in theory, and was baptised in 365, but it was only when he began his study of theology that he had a true conversion and the faith became integral to his life.


He became a monk, then, needing isolation for his study of Scripture, he lived for years as a hermit in the Syrian deserts. There he is reported to have drawn a thorn from a lion‘s paw; the animal stayed loyally at his side for years.


Priest. Student of Saint Gregory of Nazianzen. Secretary to Pope Damasus I who commissioned Jerome to revise the Latin text of the Bible. The result was 30 years of work which we know as the Vulgate translation, the standard Latin version for over a millenia, and which is still in use today.


Friend and teacher of Saint Paula, Saint Marcella, and Saint Eustochium, an association that led to so much gossip that Jerome left Rome to return to desert solitude. He lived his last 34 years in the Holy Land as a semi-recluse, writing and translating works of history, biography, the writings of Origen, and much more. Doctor of the Church and Father of the Church. Since his own time, he has been associated in the popular mind with scrolls, writing, cataloging, translating, which led to those who work in such fields taking him as their patron – a man who knew their lives and problems.


Born

347 at Strido, Dalmatia


Died

• 419 of natural causes

• interred in Bethlehem

• relics at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome, Italy


Patronage

• archeologists

• archivists

• Bible scholars

• librarians; libraries

• schoolchildren; students

• translators

• Saint-Jérôme, Québec, city of

• Saint-Jérôme, Québec, diocese of

• Taos Indian Pueblo




Saint Francis Borgia


Also known as

Francisco de Borja y Aragon



Profile

Born to the nobility, the great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI; grandson of King Ferdinand of Aragon; son of Duke Juan Borgia. Raised in the court of King Charles V and educated at Saragossa, Spain. Married Eleanor de Castro in 1529, and the father of eight children. Accompanied Charles on his expedition to Africa, 1535, and to Provence, 1536. Viceroy of Catalonia, 1539-1543. Duke of Gandia, 1543-1550. Widower in 1546.


Friend and advisor of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Joined the Jesuits in 1548. Ordained in 1551. Notable preacher. Given charge of the Jesuit missions in the East and West Indies. Commissary-general of the Jesuits in Spain in 1560. General of the Jesuits in 1565. Under his generalship the Society established its missions in Florida, New Spain and Peru, and greatly developed its internal structures. Concerned that Jesuits were in danger of getting too involved in their work at the expense of their spiritual growth, he introduced their daily hour-long meditation. His changes and revitalization of the Society led to him being sometimes called the "Second Founder of the Society of Jesus". He worked with Pope Saint Pius V and Saint Charles Borromeo in the Counter-Reformation.


Born

28 October 1510 at Gandia, Valencia, Spain


Died

• 30 September 1572 at Ferrara, Italy

• relics translated to the Jesuit church in Madrid, Spain in 1901


Canonized

20 June 1670 by Pope Clement X in Rome, Italy


Patronage

• against earthquakes

• Portugal

• Rota, Marianas





Saint Gregory the Illuminator


Also known as

• Apostle to Armenia

• Gregorios ho phoster

• Gregory Lusavorich

• Gregory of Armenia

• Gregory the Enlightener

• Gregory, Illuminator of Armenia

• The Enlightener



Profile

Gregory's father Anak killed King Khosrov I of Armenia, and young Gregory was sent to Caesarea to avoid being killed in revenge. There he married, and was the father of two sons. Bishop of Ashtishat, Armenia where he became a hugely successful evangelist. Helped free Armenia from Persian rule. Miracle worker. Captured on his return to his native land, he was held prisoner and tortured for 13 years by the son of King Khosrov. Gregory's example led to the conversion of Khosrov to Christianity, and together they evangelized and converted most of Armenia.


Born

257, possibly in Parthia


Died

332 of natural causes


Patronage

Armenia



Blessed Felicia Meda


Profile

Eldest of three children, she was orphaned as a small girl, and had to care for her brother and sister. At age 12 she took a personal of chastity. At age 20 she gave away all she owned and joined the Poor Clares, becoming a nun at the convent of Saint Urusla in Milan, Italy; her sister later became a Poor Clare nun and her brother a Franciscan friar. Abbess of the Saint Urusla convent. Abbess of a newly founded house in Pesaro, Italy, appointed by Saint Bernardine of Siena at the request of the founder, a duchess who knew of Mother Felicia’s personal holiness.


Born

1378 in Milan, Italy


Died

30 September 1444 in Pesaro, Piceno, Italy of natural causes


Beatified

2 May 1807 by Pope Pius VII (cultus confirmation)



Saint Amatus of Nusco


Also known as

Amato di Nusco



Profile

Born to a wealthy family. First bishop of Nusco, Italy in 1048. He restored and built churches, and helped found the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria in nearby Fondigliano, Italy, a house that lasted 400 years.


Born

c.1003 in Nusco, Italy


Died

• 30 September 1093 of natural causes

• miracles reported at his grave site in Nusco, Italy

• relics translated to the The Church of Saint Stephen in Nusco


Patronage

• against earthquakes

• Nusco, Italy


Blessed Conrad of Urach


Profile

Priest. Canon of the church of Saint Lambert, the cathedral of Liège, when a young man. Cistercian monk at Villers, Belgium in 1199. Prior of Villers. Abbot of Villers in 1209. Abbot of Clairvaux in 1214. Abbot of Citeaux in 1217. General of the Cistercians. Created Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina by Pope Honorius III on 8 January 1219. Papal legate to France from 1220 to 1223. Ordered to suppress the Albigenses in France. Preached Crusade in Germany in from 1224 to 1226. Chosen pope at the death of Honorius III, but he declined the throne.


Born

c.1180


Died

1227 of natural causes



Saint Honoratus of Canterbury


Also known as

Honorius


Profile

Benedictine monk. Missionary to England by order of Pope Gregory the Great, and at the request of Saint Augustine of Canterbury. Bishop, ordained at Lincoln, England by Saint Paulinus of York. Archbishop of Canterbury, England in 627. Ordained Saint Felix of East Anglia as bishop for the East Angles. Ordained Saint Ithamar as bishop of Rochester.


Born

at Rome, Italy


Died

• 653 at Canterbury, England of natural causes

• relics in Saint Peter and Paul's church, Canterbury



Saint Simon of Crépy


Also known as

Simone


Profile

Born to the nobility, he was raised in the court of William the Conqueror in Normandy, France. Count of Crépy, France. His family arranged two marriages for him, but Simon felt a call to religious life, gave up his title and wealth, became a monk at the Condat Abbey in the Jura Mountains, and lived for a while as a hermit. Served in the Roman Curia, and was known for his work as a peace-maker between warring factions.


Died

• c.1082 in Rome, Italy of natural causes

• buried in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome



Saint Ursus the Theban


Also known as

Ursus of Solothurn


Additional Memorial

22 September as one of the Martyrs of the Theban Legion



Profile

One of the Martyrs of the Theban Legion.


Died

• beheaded c.287 in Agaunum (modern St-Maurice-en-Valais, Switzerland

• relics translated to Geneva, Switzerland in 473 by Queen Theudesinde

• relics in several churches in Switzerland


Patronage

Solothurn, Switzerland



Blessed Jean-Nicolas Cordier


Profile

Jesuit priest. Imprisoned on a ship in the harbor of Rochefort, France and left to die during the anti-Catholic persecutions of the French Revolution. One of the Martyrs of the Hulks of Rochefort.


Born

3 December 1710 in Saint-André, Meuse, France


Died

30 September 1794 aboard the prison ship Washington, in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France


Beatified

1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II



Blessed Frederick Albert


Also known as

Federico, Frederico, Fredrik



Profile

Priest. Founded the Congregation of the Vincentian Sisters of Mary Immaculate (Albertines).


Born

16 October 1820 in Turin, Italy


Died

30 September 1876 in Lanzo Torinese, Turin, Italy


Beatified

30 September 1984 by Pope John Paul II



Saint Victor the Theban


Memorial

22 September as one of the Martyrs of the Theban Legion



Profile

Soldier. Martyr. One of the Martyrs of the Theban Legion.


Died

beheaded c.287 in Agaunum (modern St-Maurice-en-Valais, Switzerland



Saint Antoninus of Piacenza


Profile

Soldier. Martyr. A vial of his blood is known to miraculously liquify. Somehow became associated the Theban Legion.



Died

martyred near Piacenza, Italy


Patronage

Piacenza, Italy



Saint Ismidone of Die


Also known as

Ismidón


Profile

Studied at the cathedral of Valance, France. Canon of the cathedral of Lyon, France. Bishop of Die, France in 1097. Twice made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Skilled negotiator and peace-maker.


Born

Grenoble, France


Died

1115 in Die, Gaul (in modern France)



Saint Eusebia of Marseilles


Profile

Nun in Marseilles, Provence, France.


Died

c.497 of natural causes



Saint Laurus


Also known as

Lery


Profile

Founded the monastery later known as Saint-Léry, on the River Doneff in Brittany, France.


Born

7th-century Wales



Saint Leopardus the Slave


Profile

Slave-servant in the household of Julian the Apostate. Martyr.


Died

362 in Rome, Italy



Saint Desiderius of Piacenza


Also known as

Desiderio


Profile

Martyr.


Died

Piacenza, Italy



Saint Enghenedl of Anglesey


Profile

Lived in the 7th-century. A church in Anglesey, Wales was dedicated to him.



Saint Midan of Anglesey


Also known as

Nidan


Profile

Venerated in Anglesey, Wales.


Died

c.610



Saint Castus of Piacenza


Also known as

Casto


Profile

Martyr.


Died

Piacenza, Italy



Saint Colman of Clontibret


Profile

Mentioned in some martyrologies, but no information has survived.



Martyrs of Valsery Abbey


Profile

An unknown number of Premonstratensian monks at the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Valsery, Picardie, France who were martyred by Calvinists.


Died

1567 at Valsery, Pircardy, France


28 September 2021

இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் செப்டம்பர் 29

 St. Eutychius


Feastday: September 29

Death: unknown


Martyr of Thrace. with Heracleas and Plautus. Nothing has survived about their martyrdom.



For the disciple of St. Benedict, see Saint Placidus.

Saint Placidus (Placitus), along with Saints Eutychius (Euticius), Victorinus and their sister Flavia, Donatus, Firmatus the deacon, Faustus, and thirty others, have been venerated as Christian martyrs. They were said to be martyred either by pirates at Messina or under the Emperor Diocletian.


In their Acts, this Placidus was confused with a saint of the same name who was a follower of St. Benedict. Thus, the legend of this unknown Sicilian martyr has him go to Italy in 541, and found a monastery at Messina, of which he was abbot, and where he was said to have been martyred with thirty companions.


The feast day of the martyr saints was not in the Tridentine Calendar, but was included in the General Roman Calendar from its 1588 to 1962 editions for celebration on 5 October,[1] the feast day of the two monks who were disciples of Saint Benedict of Nursia from their boyhood, Saint Maurus and Placidus.[2] Some traditionalist Catholics continue to observe pre-1970 calendars




St. Garcia


Feastday: September 29

Death: 1073


Benedictine abbot who was the companion of King Ferdinand I of Castile, Spain, in battles. A native of Qiuntanilla, Garcia was made abbot of Artanza Abbey in 1039. He became a counselor to the king and an advisor on military campaigns.



St. Ludwin


Feastday: September 29

Death: 713


Benedictine bishop of Trier, Germany. He was born in Austrasia, and trained by St. Basinus. Married he became a widower and founded the abbey of Mettlach before being consecrated a bishop.



Gabriel the Archangel

✠ புனிதர் கபிரியேல் ✠

(St. Gabriel)


அதிதூதர்:

(Archangel)


ஏற்கும் சமயம்: 

கிறிஸ்தவம்

(Christianity)

யூதம்

(Judaism)

இஸ்லாம்

(Islam)



கபிரியேல், ஆபிரகாமிய மதங்களின் நம்பிக்கையின்படி, கடவுளின் செய்தியை மனிதர்களுக்கு கொண்டு செல்லும் தேவதூதர் ஆவார்.


கடவுளின் முக்கிய அதிதூதர்கள் ஏழு பேரில் இவரும் ஒருவர். மரியன்னைக்கு மங்களவார்த்தையின் வழியாக இறைமகன் இயேசுவின் பிறப்பை முன்னறிவித்தவர். திருமுழுக்கு யோவானின் பிறப்பை, சக்கரியாசுக்கு முன்னறிவித்தவரும் இவர்தான்.


கிறிஸ்தவ நம்பிக்கைகள்:

இவரைப்பற்றிய குறிப்பு முதன் முதலில் காணக்கிடைப்பது தானியேல் நூலில் ஆகும். லூக்கா நற்செய்தியில் இவர் திருமுழுக்கு யோவான் மற்றும் இயேசு கிறிஸ்துவின் பெற்றோர்களுக்கு அவர்களின் பிறப்பை முன் அறிவிப்பதாய் அமைகின்றது. கத்தோலிக்க கிறிஸ்தவர்கள் இவரை அதிதூதர் என அழைக்கின்றனர்.


தனித்தீர்வையின்போது, இறைவனின் முன்னிலையில் நிற்பவர் இவர். இறைவனால் தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்படும் மக்களின் நெற்றியில் ஆசீர் அளிப்பவரும் இவர். இயேசுவின் பிறப்பை, பெத்லேகேமில் இடையர்களுக்கு அறிவித்தவர்.


இவர் தாழ்ச்சியையும், ஆறுதலையும் இறைவனிடமிருந்து பெற்று மக்களுக்கு தருகின்றார். இவர், பெர்சியா என்ற நாட்டிற்கு நிகழவிருந்த வீழ்ச்சியையும், வெற்றியையும் முன்னறிவித்தார். இவர் மரியன்னையிடம் கூறிய வாழ்த்துச் செய்தி, இன்று திருச்சபையில் மூவேளை செபமாக செபிக்கப்படுகின்றது.


இஸ்லாமிய நம்பிக்கைகள்:

இஸ்லாமிய சமயத்தில் இவர் ஜிப்ரீல் என்று அரபு மொழியில் அழைக்கப்படுகிறார். இறைவனின் செய்தியை அவரின் தூதுவர்களான நபிமார்களுக்கு கொண்டு செல்பவர் என புனித குரான் குறிப்பிடுகின்றது.


இவர், இயேசுவின் தாய் மரியாளுக்கு இயேசு பிறக்கும் நற்செய்தியை இறைவனிடம் இருந்து மரியாளிடம் கொண்டு சேர்த்ததாக குரான் குறிப்பிடுகிறது. 



இஸ்லாமிய நம்பிக்கையில், இவர்தான் அனைத்து இறைத்தூதர்களுக்கும் இறை செய்தியை கொண்டு சேர்த்ததாக நம்பப்படுகிறது.


மேலும், புனித குரான் இவர் மூலமாகவே முகமது நபியவர்களுக்கு அருளப்பட்டது என்பது இஸ்லாமிய நம்பிக்கை.


பிற நம்பிக்கைகள் :

சிலசமயங்களில், குறிப்பாக புது யுக இயக்கத்தினரால் பெண்பாலிலும் இவர் குறிப்பிடப்படுகிறார்.

Also known as

Fortitudo Dei; Gabr-el, Gabrielus, Gavri'el, Gavriel, Jibrail, Jibril



Profile

Archangel and messenger of God. One of the three angels mentioned by name in the Catholic Bible.


Appeared to the prophet Daniel to explain the prophet's visions relating to the Messiah. (Daniel 8:16-26; 9:21-27)

Appeared to Zachary in the temple to announce the coming of Zachary's son, John the Baptist, and to strike Zachary mute for his disbelief. (Luke 1:11-20)

Appeared to Mary to let her know she'd been selected to bear the Saviour. (Luke 1:26-38)

Born

wasn't


Died

hasn't


Name Meaning

• God is mighty

• God is my strength

• man of God

• my master is God

• strong man of God

• the strength of God


Patronage

• broadcasters

• clergy

• communications workers

• diplomats

• messengers

• philatelists; stamp collectors

• post offices, postal services and employees

• radio and radio workers

• telegraphs

• telephones

• television and television workers

• Portugal

• Seattle, Washington, archdiocese of

• Auchi, Nigeria, diocese of

St. Gabriella


Feastday: September 29



Gabriella is the feminine form of Gabriel. Angels are spirits without bodies, who possess superior intelligence, gigantic strength, and surpassing holiness. They enjoy an intimate relationship to God as His special adopted children, contemplating, loving, and praising Him in heaven. Some of them are frequently sent as messengers to men from on high. The name Gabriel means "man of God," or "God has shown himself mighty." It appears first in the prophesies of Daniel in the Old Testament. The angel announced to Daniel the prophecy of the seventy weeks. His name also occurs in the apocryphal book of Henoch. He was the angel who appeared to Zachariah to announce the birth of St. John the Baptizer. Finally, he announced to Mary that she would bear a Son Who would be conceived of the Holy Spirit, Son of the Most High, and Saviour of the world. The feast day is September 29th. St. Gabriel is the patron of communications workers



Michael the Archangel

✠ புனிதர் மிக்கேல் ✠

(St. Michael)


அதிதூதர்:

(Archangel)



ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

(Roman Catholic Church)

ஆங்கிலிக்கன் சமூகம்

(Angilikkan Communion)

கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை

(Eastern Orthodox Church)

எதியோப்பிய டெஹவெடோ திருச்சபை

(Ethiopian Tehawedo Church)

லூதரனியம்

(Luthernism)

இஸ்லாம்

(Islam)

யூதம்

(Judaism)



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பாதுகாவல்:

கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபையின் பாதுகாவலர்; கீவ், யூதர்களைப் பாதுகாப்பவர், காவலர், இராணுவ வீரர், காவலர், வியாபாரி, கடற்படையினர், வானிலிருந்து குதிக்கும் வீரர்


மிக்கேல் எனப்படுபவர் யூதம், கிறிஸ்தவம், இஸ்லாம் ஆகிய சமயங்களின் நம்பிக்கையின்படி ஓர் தேவதூதர் ஆவார். கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை, கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை, ஆங்கிலிக்கம், லூதரனியம் ஆகிய சபைகள் இவரை புனிதராகவும், அதிதூதராகவும் கொள்கின்றன. இவரை தலைமை தூதர் என விவிலியம் குறிக்கின்றது. எபிரேயத்தில் மிக்கேல் என்னும் பெயருக்கு கடவுளுக்கு நிகர் யார்? என்று பொருள் உண்டு.


பழைய ஏற்பாட்டில் மிக்கேல்:

பழைய ஏற்படான எபிரேய விவிலியத்தில், தானியேல் நூலில் மிக்கேல் பற்றி தானியேல் (தானியேல் 10:13-21) குறிப்பிடுகின்றார். அவர் உண்ணா நோன்புடன் ஓர் காட்சி காண்கிறார். அதில் ஒரு தூதர் மிக்கேல் இசுரயேலின் பாதுக்காப்பாளர் என மிக்கேல் அழைக்கப்படுகின்றார். தானியேல் மிக்கேலை "தலைமைக் காவலர்" என்று அழைக்கிறார். பின்னர் அதே காட்சியில் (தானியேல் 12:1) ""கடைசி காலத்தில்" பின்வரும் நிகழ்ச்சிகள் மிக்கேலின் பங்கு பற்றி தானியேலுக்கு அறிவுறுத்தபடுகிறது:


அக்காலத்தில் உன் இனத்தார்க்குத் தலைமைக் காவலரான மிக்கேல் எழும்புவார். மக்களினம் தோன்றியது முதல் அக்காலம் வரை இருந்திராத துன்ப காலம் வரும். அக்காலத்தில் உன் இனத்தார் விடுவிக்கப்படுவர். நூலில் யார் யார் பெயர் எழுதப்பட்டுள்ளதோ, அவர்கள் அனைவரும் மீட்கப்படுவார்கள்.


புதிய ஏற்பாட்டில் மிக்கேல்:

வெளிப்படுத்துதல் நூலில் விண்ணகத்தில் நடந்த போர் பற்றி குறிப்பிடப்படுகிறது. பின்வரும் விவிலிய வசனங்கள் அதை குறிக்கின்றது (வெளி 12 அதிகாரம் )

7. பின்னர் விண்ணகத்தில் போர் மூண்டது. மிக்கேலும் அவருடைய தூதர்களும் அரக்கப் பாம்போடு போர் தொடுத்தார்கள்: அரக்கப் பாம்பும் அதன் தூதர்களும் அவர்களை எதிர்த்துப் போரிட்டார்கள். 8 அரக்கப் பாம்பு தோல்வியுற்றது. விண்ணகத்தில் அதற்கும் அதன் தூதர்களுக்கும் இடமே இல்லாது போயிற்று. 9 அப்பெரிய அரக்கப் பாம்பு வெளியே தள்ளப்பட்டது. அலகை என்றும் சாத்தான் என்றும் அழைக்கப் பெற்ற அதுவே தொடக்கத்தில் தோன்றிய பாம்பு. உலகு முழுவதையும் ஏமாற்றிய அது மண்ணுலகுக்குத் தள்ளப்பட்டது: அதன் தூதர்களும் அதனுடன் வெளியே தள்ளப்பட்டார்கள்.



யூதா 1ம் அதிகாரம் ஒன்பதாம் வசனத்தில், மிக்கேல் பற்றி குறிப்பிடப்படுகின்றது.

9. தலைமைத் தூதரான மிக்கேல், மோசேயின் உடலைக் குறித்து அலகையோடு வழக்காடியபோது அதனைப் பழித்துரைத்துக் கண்டனம் செய்யத் துணியவில்லை. மாறாக, ஆண்டவர் உன்னைக் கடிந்து கொள்வாராக என்று மட்டும் சொன்னார்.

Additional Memorial

8 May - Apparition of Saint Michael and Protector of Cornwall


Profile

Archangel. Leader of the army of God during the Lucifer uprising. Devotion is common to Muslims, Christians and Jews, and there are writings about him in all three cultures. Considered the guardian angel of Israel, and the guardian and protector of the Church. In the Book of Daniel (12:1), Michael is described as rising up to defend the Church against the Anti-Christ.



The feast of the Apparition of Saint Michael commemorates appearance of the archangel to a man named Gargan in 492 on Mount Gargano near Manfredonia in southern Italy. Gargan and others were pasturing cattle on the mountain; a bull wandered off and hid in a cave. An arrow was shot into the cave, but it came flying back out and wounded the archer. The cowherds went to their bishop who ordered three days of fasting and prayer to seek an explanation for the mystery. At the end of the three days Michael appeared to the bishop and requested a church built in the honour of the Holy Angels in the cave. If you find medals or holy cards with 'relics' of Michael, they are probably rock chips from the cave, or pieces of cloth that have touched it.


Born

wasn't


Died

hasn't


Name Meaning

Who is like God? (the battle cry of the army of heaven)


Patronage

• against storms and dangers at sea

• against temptations

• artists

• bakers

• bankers and banking

• battle

• coopers or barrel makers

• dying people

• EMTs and paramedics

• fencers and fencing

• grocers

• haberdashers

• hatmakers or hatters

• holy death

• knights

• milleners

• paratroopers

• police officers

• radiologists and radiotherapists

• sailors, mariners, watermen

• security guards

• sick people

• soldiers

• swordsmiths

• Belarus

• England

• Germany

• Papua, New Guinea

• Vatican City (given in 2013)

• Greek Air Force

• Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel

• Siegburg Abbey

• at least 14 dioceses and 42 cities around the world


Representation

• balance or scales (helping to judge at the Last Judgment)

• banner (as the leader of the army of God)

• dragon (representing the defeated devil)

• sword (as a soldier of God)



Raphael the Archangel

✠ புனிதர் ரபேல் ✠

(St. Raphael)



அதிதூதர்:

(Archangel)


ஏற்கும் சமயம்: 

கிறிஸ்தவம்

(Christianity)

யூதம்

(Judaism)

இஸ்லாம்

(Islam)


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பாதுகாவல்: 

மருந்தாளுணர்கள்; குருடர்; உடல் நோய்கள்; நோயாளிகள்; கண் கோளாறுகள்; காதலர்கள்; செவிலியர்கள்; மன நோய்; பயணிகள்; இடையர்கள்; இளையோர்; பாதுகாவல் தேவதைகள்; சியாட்டில் உயர்மறைமாவட்டம் (Archdiocese of Seattle); 

மேடிசன் மறைமாவட்டம் (Diocese of Madison); மருத்துவர்கள்; பயணிகள்; இளைஞர்கள்;

டுபுக்யு உயர்மறைமாவட்டம் (Archdiocese of Dubuque); வாஷிங்க்டன்; பிலிப்பைன்ஸ்; ஆடு மேய்ப்பவர்கள்.


எபிரேய மொழியில் கூறப்படும் இவரின் பெயரின் பொருள் "கடவுள் குணமளிக்கின்றார்" என்பதாகும். இவரும் இறைவனின் முக்கிய தூதர்கள் எழுவரில் ஒருவர் ஆவார். இவர் கடவுளிடம் பரிந்து பேசி குணமளிக்கிறவராக இருக்கின்றார். நீண்ட பயணங்களிலும் பாதுகாப்பான பயணத்தை கொடுக்கின்றார்.



யூத மற்றும் கிறிஸ்தவ மரபுப்படி குணப்படுத்தும் இறைதூதர் ஆவார். கத்தோலிக்கர்கள் மற்றும் மரபுவழி திருச்சபையினரால் இறையேவுதல் பெற்ற நூலாக ஏற்கப்பட்ட விவிலியத்தின் பழைய ஏற்பாட்டுப் பகுதியாகிய இணைத் திருமுறைத் தொகுப்பைச் சேர்ந்த ஏழு நூல்களுள் ஒன்றான தோபித்து நூலில் அதிதூதர் புனிதர் ரபேல், குறிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார். விவிலியத்தில் பெயரோடு குறிக்கப்பட்டுள்ள மூன்று தூதர்களுள் இவரும் ஒருவர் ஆவார்.



விவிலியத்தில் கடவுளுடைய முன்னிலையில் பணிபுரியும் ஏழு வானதூதர்களுள் ஒருவர் தாம் என இவரே குறிப்பிடுவதாக உள்ளது.


இவரே தோபியாசும் அவர் மருமகள் சாராவும் மன்றாடியபோது அவர்களின் வேண்டுதல்களையும் நற்செயல்களையும் எடுத்துச்சென்று ஆண்டவரின் திருமுன் ஒப்படைதவரும், தோபியாசை சோதிக்க அனுப்பப்பட்டவரும், அவருக்கும் அவரின் மருமகள் சாராவுக்கும் நலம் அருளக் கடவுளால் அனுப்பப்பட்டவரும் ஆவார்.

Also known as

• Azariah

• Angel of Love

• Angel of Joy



Profile

Archangel. One of the three angels mentioned by name in Scripture, and one of the seven that stand before God's throne. Lead character in the deutero-canonical book of Tobit in which he travelled with (and guarded) Tobiah, and cured a man's blindness; hence his connection with travellers, young people, blindness, healing and healers. Traditionally considered the force behind the healing power of the sheep pool mentioned in John 5:1-4.


Born

wasn't


Died

hasn't


Name Meaning

• God has healed

• Healer from God

• God's remedy

• It is God who heals

• God Heals

• God, Please Heal


Patronage

• against all sickness or bodily ills

• against eye disease or eye problems

• mentally ill people; against insanity or mental illness

• against nightmares

• apothecaries, druggists, pharmacists

• blind people

• doctors, physicians

• guardian angels

• for happy meetings

• love; lovers

• nurses

• shepherds; shepherdesses

• sick people

• travellers

• young people

• Auchi, Nigeria, diocese of

• Dubuque, Iowa, archdiocese of

• MacKenzie - Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, diocese of

• Madison, Wisconsin, diocese of

• Seattle, Washington, archdiocese of


Representation

• angel holding a bottle or flask

• angel walking with Tobias

• archangel

• young man carrying a fish

• young man carrying a traveller's staff

1. வானதுதர்களின் படைப்பிரிவுகள் துதர்களின் ஒன்பது பிரிவுகள்🧚🏻‍♂️🧚‍♀️

https://youtu.be/s8FBygihr0E

2. காவல்துதரின் கடமைகள் ஆச்சியமுட்டும் 16 உண்மைகள்🧚‍♀️🧚🏻‍♂️

https://youtu.be/gfO2GtKZYkE


3. St. Raphael, Gabriel, Michael / மிக்கேல், கபிரியேல், இரபேல்/sep 29......🧚‍♀️🧚🏻‍♂️

https://youtu.be/UXjGOHiCfqw


4.  விவிலியத்தில் வானதுதர்கள்/ 14 அறிந்திராத உண்மைகள்🧚‍♀️🧚🏻‍♂️

https://youtu.be/SlDcVn7F1WI


5.  காவல் தூதர்கள்/oct 2🧚🏻‍♂️🧚‍♀️

https://youtu.be/vjM4QEn5rgQ?list=PLWxRl2HKiRaKRiBipEGjgnLF77o7_YmV9



Blessed Luigi Monza


Profile

Born to a poor farming family. Entered seminary at age 18, and was ordained in the archdiocese of Milan, Italy on 19 September 1925. Assigned to a parish in Vedano Olona, Italy. Imprisoned for four months, having been falsley accused of planning an attack on a local Fascist official. Re-assigned to the Shrine of Our Lady of Miracles in Saronno, Italy in 1929 where he worked as a youth minister. Re-assigned to the parish of San Giovanni in Lecco, Italy in 1936 where he continued his work with youth and famillies. Known for his work with the poor, the sick, and the unjustly accused and persecuted. Founded the women's Istituto Secolare delle Piccole Apostole della Carità (Secular Institute of the Little Apostles of Charity) in 1937. He and the women of the Institute spun off the "Our Family" Association to provided education and medical help for poor and disabled children. Both groups continue their good work today, and the Little Apostles have spread from Italy to Sudan, Brazil, Ecuador, China, Morocco, and Palestine. Father Luigi became the model of a parish priest, working as a spiritual guide for his parishioners, and through families for a return to the love of the faith and of each of other found in the original Christian communities.



Born

22 June 1898 in Cislago, Varese, Italy


Died

• 29 September 1954 in Lecco, Italy of a heart attack

• buried in the province of Como, Italy


Beatified

• 30 April 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI

• recognition celebrated in Milan, Italy




Blessed John de Montmirail


Also known as

• Seigneur de Montmirail on the Marne

• John de Monte Mirabili



Profile

French nobility, born to Andrew, Lord of Montmirail and Ferté-Gaucher, and Hildiarde d'Oisy. Trained in religion by his mother, and secular science by his schools. Soldier. Friend of Philip Augustus, later King of France. Married to Helvide de Dampierre, and father of several children. Spent time in the French court, leading a dissolute life.


At age 30 he met Jobert, Prior of Saint-Etienne de Montmirail, whose intervention and counsel caused his conversion. John built a hospital with special facilities for lepers, cared for the poor, practiced self-imposed austerities, and spent whole nights in prayer. He finally obtained his wife's permission to enter religious life; he provided for her and the children, gave the remainder of his wealth to the poor, and became a Cistercian monk at Longpoint abbey. There he gave himself so wholly to prayer and penance; had to be reprimanded for going to excess in his self-imposed austerities. Harassed and insulted by relatives and former friends.


Pope Leo XIII granted a special office in his honour for the diocese of Soissons.


Born

1165


Died

• 29 September 1217 at Longpoint abbey of natural causes

• miracles were reported at his tomb, which soon became a pilgrimage site



Saint Rene Goupil


Also known as

Renatus Goupil



Additional Memorial

19 October as one of the Martyrs of North America


Profile

Entered the Jesuit noviate in Paris, France, but his deafness prevented his joining the order. He studied medicine, and in 1639 offered to work as a medic for the Jesuit missionaries in America. Missionary to the Hurons, working as a donné, a layman who worked without pay. Worked in a hospital in Quebec, Canada in 1640. Assistant to Saint Isaac Jogues on his missionary travels. Captured and tortured by Iroquois, enemies of the Huron, for making the sign of the cross over a child's head, which was mistaken for some type of curse. While they were in captivity, Father Isaac received Rene into the Jesuits as a religious brother. First martyr in North America. His death by tomahawk in the head led to his patronage of people who work with or receive anasthesia.


Born

1606 at Anjou, France


Died

tomahawked in the head following two months of torture in 1642


Canonized

29 June 1930 by Pope Pius XI


Patronage

• anesthetists

• anesthesiologists



Blessed Antonio Arribas Hortigüela


Profile

Student at the minor seminary of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Canet de Mar, Spain, and then joined the congregation on 30 September 1928. Ordained a priest on 6 April 1935. Taught Latin and served as treasurer of the Missionaries‘s school. Known for his exceptional physical strength, he was a father figure to many of the boys in his school. He was captured by Communist militia on 21 July 1936 when the militia men took over the school. He and several brother Missionary priests escaped on the night of 3 August 1936, and tried to make it to France, but were re-captured in the mountains on 28 September 1936, taken by bus to the Pont de Ser, and executed for the crime of being a priest. Martyred in the Spanish Civil War.



Born

29 April 1908 in Cardeñadijo, Burgos, Spain


Died

• machine-gunned on 29 September 1936 at a ruined house next to the Pont de Ser, Seriñá, Girona, Spain by members of the Communist militia

• buried in a mass grave nearby

• relics re-interred in a niche in the cemetery of Canet de Mar, Spain on 30 March 1940


Beatified

• 6 May 2017 by Pope Francis

• beatification recognition in the Cathedral of Santa Maria, Girona, Spain, presided by Cardinal Angelo Amato



Saint Jan of Dukla


Profile

Hermit. Friar Minor Conventual in 1440. Priest. Preacher in Ukraine, Moldavia and Belarus. Often a local superior, and once led the Franciscan custody headquartered in Lvív, Ukraine. In 1463 he joined part of the Observant Franciscans, who observed their Rule very strictly. Helped repel a Tartar attack on Lvív in 1474. John's life was characterized by poverty, obedience, asceticism, and devotion to Our Lady. Sought to reconcile schismatics to the Church. Blind at age 70, he continued his ministry as preacher and confessor.



Born

1414 at Dukla, Podkarpackie, Poland


Died

29 September 1484 in Lviv, L'vivs'ka oblast', Ukraine of natural causes


Beatified

• 23 January 1733 by Pope Clement XII (cultus confirmation)

• 2 July 1994 by Pope John Paul II (decree of heroic virtues)


Canonized

10 June 1997 at Krosno, Poland by Pope John Paul II before approximately one million pilgrims


Patronage

• Lithuania

• Poland




Blessed Charles of Blois


Profile

Son of Guy de Chatillon, Count of Blois, and Margaret, sister of King Philip VI of France. Charles felt a call to be a Francescan friar, but political duty kept him in secular life. Married Joan of Brittany in 1337, and became Duke of Brittany which involved him in disputes political and military. Soldier. Captured Nantes, France. Attended Mass daily. Founded religious houses, helped the sick and poor. Made a barefoot pilgrimage to Rennes. In 1346 he was defeated and lost his dukedom to John de Montfort who imprisoned him and sent him to England to languish in the Tower of London until ransomed and released nine years later in 1355. Charles then spent nine more years unsuccessfully fighting to regain his dukedom before dying in battle. Along the way he founded several religious houses, and was known for his Christian treatment of prisoners.



Born

1320


Died

killed in battle on 29 September 1364 at Aurey, France


Canonized

1904 by Pope Pius X


Patronage

prisoners



Blessed Francesc de Paula Castelló Aleu


Profile

Lifelong layperson in the diocese of Lleida, Spain. Youngest of three children, his father died when Francesc was an infant. Educated by Marists in Lleida, Catalonia, and then by Jesuits at the Chemical Intitute in Barcelona, Spain. During his college years in Oviedo, he became politically active, and continued working with the Jesuits. Member of the Federation of Young Christians of Catalonia. Member of Catholic Action. Worked as a chemist in Lleida. Engaged to Maria Pelegri. Drafted into the army just before the start of the Spanish Civil War. Imprisoned on the night of 21–22 July 1936 by anti–Catholic militiamen. Dragged before a “people’s court”, he refused to renounce his faith. Martyr.



Born

19 April 1914 in Alicante, Spain


Died

29 September 1936 in Lleida, Spain


Beatified

11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II



Blessed Richard Rolle de Hampole


Additional Memorial

1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University



Profile

An excellent student all his life, he was educated at Oxford. Studied in Paris, France from 1320 to 1326. Returning to England, he lived as a hermit on his family's estate. Some family members threatened to have him committed as mentally ill, and he moved to the estate of his friend and college classmate John Dalton of Pickering in 1326. Visionary and mystic. After several years of prayerful solitude, he began wandering England. Spiritual director for a community of Cistercian nuns at Hampole, England. Noted spiritual writer.


Born

c.1300 at Thornton, Yorkshire, England


Died

29 September 1349 at Hampole, England of natural causes


Works

• De Incendio Amoris (The Fire of Love)

• Pricke of Conscience



Saint Maurice of Carnoet


Also known as

• Maurice Duault

• Maurizio di Langonnet



Profile

Studied at the University of Paris. Cistercian monk at Langonette Monastery in France in 1144. Abbot of the house in 1176. Founding abbot of Carnoet Abbey in Brittany. When the woods around the house were threatened by aggressive wolves, Maurice reminded his brothers that wolves were God's creations, too, but for their protection he prayed for help, some wolves died, and the attacks ceased.


Born

1117 in Brittany (in modern France) as Maurice Duault


Died

• 1191 of natural causes

• miracles reported at his tomb, including the resurrection of a boy who drowned



Blessed Nicolás Tum Castro Quiatan


Profile

Married layman of the diocese of Quiché, Guatemala. A catechist, altar server and acolyte. Martyr.



Born

1945 in Cholá, Uspantán, Guatemala


Died

29 September 1980 in Los Plátanos, Chicamán, Quiché, Guatemala


Beatified

• 23 April 2021 by Pope Francis

• beatification recognition celebrated in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala



Blessed Alericus


Also known as

Alaric, Adelric, Adalricus, Adalrai



Profile

Son of duke Burhard II of Swabia. Educated at Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Monk of Einsiedeln. Hermit on the island of Ufnau in Lake Zurich where his mother had lived in seclusion following her diagnosis with leprosy, and where he built a church dedicated to Our Lady.


Died

975 of natural causes





Saint Guillermo Courtet


Also known as

Guillaume, Vilhelm, William, Thomas of Saint Dominic



Profile

Dominican priest. Missionary to Japan. Arrested for his faith in Okinawa, and martyred soon after.


Born

c.1590 in Sérignan, Languedoc, France


Died

29 September 1637 at Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan


Canonized

18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II



Saint Miguel González de Aozaraza de Leibar


Profile

Dominican priest. Missionary to Japan. Arrested for his faith in Okinawa. Martyr.


Born

February 1598 Oñate, Guipúzcoa, Spain


Died

29 September 1637 at Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan


Canonized

18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II



Saint Vicente Shiwozuka de la Cruz


Also known as

• Vincentius Shiotsuka

• Vincentius of the Cross


Profile

Dominican priest. Martyr.


Born

c.1576 in Nagasaki, Japan


Died

29 September 1637 at Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan


Canonized

18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II



Saint Rhipsime


Also known as

Arsema, Hripsime, Ripsima, Ripsime



Profile

Virgin martyr, executed with a group of fellow Christian in Armenia. She and her fellow victims are honored as the first Christian martyrs of Armenia. Many highly fanciful tales have grown up to fill in the blanks in her life story.


Died

c.290 in Vagharshapat, Armenia



Saint Liutwin of Trier


Also known as

• Liutwin of Mettlach

• Ludwino, Liudvino



Profile

Married. A widower, he founded a monastery in Mettlach, Germany and became a monk there. Bishop of Trier, Germany.


Born

Austrasia (eastern modern France)


Died

c.713



Saint Lazaro of Kyoto


Also known as

Lazarus


Profile

Layman. Leper. Martyr.


Born

Kyoto, Japan


Died

29 September 1637 at Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan


Canonized

18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II



Saint Grimoaldus of Pontecorvo


Profile

ArchPriest in Pontecorvo, southern Italy. Around 1137 he built a church dedicated to an apparition of Saint John the Baptist.



Died

c.1137 of natural causes



Saint Dadas of Persia


Also known as

Didas


Profile

Persian noble. Related to King Shapur II. Married to Saint Casdoe. Martyred for refusing to deny Christianity during the persecution of Shapur II.


Born

c.310 in Persia


Died

stabbed with a sword in 368 in Persia



Saint Theodota of Thrace


Profile

Repentant prostitute. Convert. Tortured and martyred for refusing to sacrifice to Roman idols during the persecutions of Agrippa.


Died

318 in Thrace


Patronage

• converts

• martyrs

• torture victims



Saint Gabdelas of Persia


Profile

May have been the son of Saint Dadas and Saint Casdoes. Martyred with them for refusing to deny Christianity during the persecution of Shapur II.


Born

Persia


Died

stabbed with a sword in 368 in Persia



Saint Quiriacus of Palestine


Also known as

Ciriaco, Quiriaco


Profile

Hermit in Palestine who lived among several groups of hermits, and was renowned in each one for his holiness.


Born

Greece


Died

6th century



Saint Casdoe


Profile

Persian noble woman. Married to Saint Dadas. Martyred with him and Saint Gabdelas, who may have been their son, for refusing to deny Christianity during the persecutions of Shapur II.


Born

Persian


Died

368 in Persia



Blessed John of Ghent


Also known as

Hermit of Saint Claude


Profile

Benedictine monk at the abbey of Sainte-Claude in the Jura Mountains. Worked with Saint Joan of Arc.


Died

1439 of natural causes



Saint Sapor of Persia


Also known as

Shapor


Profile

Relative of King Shapur II who had him executed for his faith. Martyr.


Died

stabbed with a sword in the mid-4th century in Persia



Saint Fraternus of Auxerre


Also known as

Fraterno


Profile

Bishop of Auxerre, France. Martyr.


Died

c.450



Saint Diethardus of Eichstätt


Profile

Monk who evangelized the area of Eichstätt, Germany in the 8th century.



Saint Catholdus of Eichstätt


Profile

Monk who evangelized the area of Eichstätt, Germany in the 8th century.



Saint Anno of Eichstätt


Profile

Monk who evangelized the area of Eichstätt, Germany in the 8th century.



Saint Gudelia


Profile

Maiden martyred in the persecutions of Shapur II.


Died

c.340 at Persia



Martyrs of Thrace


Profile

Three Christian men murdered in Thrace for their faith. They are - Eutychius, Heracleas and Plautus.



Martyred in the Spanish Civil War


Thousands of people were murdered in the anti-Catholic persecutions of the Spanish Civil War from 1934 to 1939. I have pages on each of them, but in most cases I have only found very minimal information. They are available on the CatholicSaints.Info site through these links:


• Abundio Martín Rodríguez

• Antonio Martínez López

• Dario Hernández Morató

• Francesc de Paula Castelló Aleu

• Francisco Edreira Mosquera

• Gumersindo Gómez Rodríguez

• Jesús Moreno Ruiz

• José Del Amo y Del Amo

• José Vergara Echevarria

• José Villanova Tormo

• Joseph Oriol Isern Massó

• Pau Bori Puig

• Santiago Mestre Iborra

• Vicente Sales Genovés

• Virgilio Edreira Mosquera