இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் ஜனவரி 24

 St. Zama

Feastday: January 24

Death: 268

The first recorded bishop of Bologna, Italy. He was ordained by Pope St. Dionysius and entrusted with the founding of this illustrious see.

Bl. Anicet Hryciuk

Feastday: January 24

Birth: 1855

Death: 1874

Beatified: 6 October 1996 by Pope John Paul II

Member of the Podlachian martyrs.

Bl. Bartlomiej Osypiuk

Feastday: January 24

Birth: 1843

Death: 1874

Beatified: 6 October 1996 by Pope John Paul II

Layman and a father of two. Marytred of Podlasie. He was wounded at the scene, transported home where he prayed for his killers before dying.

Bl. Daniel Karmasz

Feastday: January 24

Birth: 1826

Death: 1874

Beatified: 6 October 1996 by Pope John Paul II

Daniel Karmasz was a layman from Legi, Poland. One of the Marytrs of Podlasie. During the shooting he carried a cross in his hand; it is now in the church in Pratulin.

Bl. Filip Geryluk

Feastday: January 24

Birth: 1830

Death: 1874

Beatified: Pope John Paul II

Filip Geryluk was a layman and father from Zaczopki, Poland. One of the Marytrs of Podlasie. Noted for encouraging the others to hold their ground and protect their church.

Bl. Ignacy Franczuk

Feastday: January 24

Birth: 1824

Death: 1874

Beatified: 6 October 1996 by Pope John Paul II

Ignacy Franczuk was a layman and father of seven children from Derlo, Poland. Ignacy was a Marytrs of Podlasie. When Blessed Daniel Karmasz was killed, Ignacy picked up the cross Daniel had carried, and encouraged the others to help defend their church.

St. Mardonius

Feastday: January 24

Martyr of Asia Minor with Eugene, Metellus, and Musonius, burned at the stake at an unknown location.

St. Messalina

Feastday: January 24

Death: 251

Virgin martyr and disciple of St. Felician, the bishop of Foligno, Italy. She received the veil from St. Felician and visited him in prison. Denounced as a Christian, she was ordered to sacrifice to the pagan gods. Refusing, Messalina was beaten to death.

Saint Felician(us) of Foligno (Italian: San Feliciano di Foligno) (c. 160 – c. 250) is the patron saint of Foligno.

Biography

According to Christian tradition, he was born in Forum Flaminii (present-day San Giovanni Profiamma), on the Via Flaminia, of a Christian family, around 160. He was the spiritual student of Pope Eleuterus and evangelized in Foligno, Spello, Bevagna, Assisi, Perugia, Norcia, Plestia, Trevi, and Spoleto.

He was later consecrated bishop of Foligno by Pope Victor I around 204 (he was the first bishop to receive the pallium as a symbol of his office).[2] He ordained Valentine of Terni as a priest. His episcopate lasted for more than 50 years; he was one of the first Christian bishops of northern Italy.[1] He was arrested at the age of 94 for refusing to sacrifice to the Roman gods during the persecutions of Decius. He was tortured and scourged, and died outside Foligno while being conveyed to Rome for his execution.

Saint Messalina

Saint Messalina

Saint Messalina was a consecrated virgin who had received the religious veil from Felician. She cared for him during his imprisonment, and for this she was also arrested and clubbed to death when she refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods.[3]

Veneration

A church was built over his grave at Foligno. His relics were transferred to Metz on October 4, 970. In 965 some relics were translated to Minden in Germany; Felician was thus erroneously considered a bishop of that German city (and he had a separate feast day of October 20), an error that entered the Roman Martyrology.[2] Some of his relics were later returned to Foligno in 1673-4.[2]

Foligno Cathedral preserves a statue of the saint, of silver and bronze, made by the sculptor Giovanni Battista Maini.

Bl. Onufry Wasyluk

Feastday: January 24

Birth: 1853

Death: 1894

Beatified: Pope John Paul II

Onufry Wasyluk (1853 - January 24, 1874), was one of the Martyrs of Podlasie in 1874 were slain by troops of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, because they refused to follow the Byzantine liturgy. Pratulin was part of Russia.

The martyrs were beatified on October 6, 1996 by Pope John Paul II. Their feast day is January 24.

Saint Francis de Sales

† இன்றைய புனிதர் †

(ஜனவரி 24)

✠ புனிதர் ஃபிரான்சிஸ் டி சலேஸ் ✠

(St. Francis de Sales)

ஜெனீவா நகர ஆயர்/ மறைவல்லுநர்:

(Bishop of Geneva/ Doctor of the Church)

பிறப்பு: ஆகஸ்ட் 21, 1567

சாடேயு டி சலேஸ், சவோய், தூய ரோம பேரரசு

(Château de Sales, Duchy of Savoy, Holy Roman Empire)

இறப்பு: டிசம்பர் 28, 1622 (அகவை 55)

லியோன்ஸ், லியோன்னைஸ், ஃபிரான்ஸ் அரசு

(Lyons, Lyonnais, Kingdom of France)

ஏற்கும் சபை: 

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

(Roman Catholic Church)

ஆங்கிலிக்கன் சமூகம்

(Anglican Communion)

நினைவுத் திருவிழா: ஜனவரி 24

முக்திப்பேறு பட்டம்: ஜனவரி 8, 1661

திருத்தந்தை ஏழாம் அலெக்சாண்டர்

(Pope Alexander VII)

புனிதர் பட்டம்: ஏப்ரல் 8, 1665

திருத்தந்தை ஏழாம் அலெக்சாண்டர்

(Pope Alexander VII)

பாதுகாவல்: 

ரொட்டி செய்பவர் (Baker); ஓரிகன் (Oregon); 

சின்சினாட்டி (Cincinnati); எழுத்தாளர்கள் (Writers); 

செய்தியாளர்கள் (Journalists); கொலம்பஸ் (Columbus); 

ஓஹியோ (Ohio); காது கேட்காதவர்கள் (Deaf people); 

கல்வியாளர் (educators); அபிங்டன் (Upington); 

தென் ஆப்பிரிக்கா (South Africa); வில்மிங்டன் (Wilmington); 

டெலவெயர் (Delaware); செய்தியாளர் (Catholic press); 

பாவ மன்னிப்பாளர் (Confessors) 

கிறிஸ்து அரசர் பேரரசு குருவின் கல்வி நிலையம் (The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest)

முக்கிய திருத்தலங்கள்: 

அன்னசி, ஹௌட்-சவோய், ஃபிரான்ஸ்

(Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France)

புனிதர் ஃபிரான்சிஸ் டி சலேஸ், ஜெனீவா நகரின் ஆயரும், ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபையின் புனிதரும் ஆவார். இவர் சீர்திருத்தத் திருச்சபையினரை மீண்டும் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபையோடு சேர்க்க அரும்பாடுபட்டார். இவர் ஒரு சிறந்த மறை சொற்பொழிவாளர். இவரின் புத்தகங்கள், குறிப்பாக "Introduction to the Devout Life" மற்றும் "Treatise on the Love of God" ஆகியன, ஆன்மீக உருவாக்கம் மற்றும் ஆன்மீக வழிகாட்டலுக்கு பெரிதும் பயன்படுகின்றன.

இளமைக் காலம்:

கி.பி. 1597ம் ஆண்டு, ஆகஸ்ட் மாதம், 21ம் நாள், ஃபிரான்ஸ் நாட்டில் உள்ள “சவோய்” (Savoy) குடும்பத்தில் பிறந்த இவரது தந்தையார், "ஃபிரான்காய்ஸ் டி சலேஸ்" (François de Sales) ஆவார். தாயார், "ஃபிரான்காய்ஸ் டி சியோன்னஸ்" (Françoise de Sionnaz) ஆவார். இவரது திருமுழுக்குப் பெயர் "ஃபிரான்சிஸ் பொனவென்ச்சுரா" (Francis Bonaventura) ஆகும்.

இவர், தமது பெற்றோருக்குப் பிறந்த ஆறு குழந்தைகளுள் முதல் குழந்தை ஆவார். இவருடைய தந்தையார், இவர் எதிர்காலத்தில் சிறந்ததோர் நீதிபதியாக வரவேண்டும் என்ற எண்ணத்தில், இவருக்கு அருகேயிருந்த நகரத்தில் உயர்தர கல்வி அளிக்கப்பட ஏற்பாடு செய்தார். எட்டு வயதில், அன்னேசி நகரிலுள்ள கப்புச்சின் கல்லூரியில் (Capuchin college in Annecy) கல்வி பயின்றார்.

கல்வி:

கி.பி. 1583ம் ஆண்டு, பாரிஸ் நகரில் உள்ள, இயேசு சபையின் கல்வி நிறுவனமான "காலேஜ் டி கிலர்மோண்டில்" (Collège de Clermont) "சொல்லாட்சி" மற்றும் "மனிதநேயம்" ஆகியவற்றில் உயர் கல்வி கற்க சென்றார்.

கி.பி. 1584ம் ஆண்டு, இறையியலில் விதி அல்லது நியதி பற்றின ஒரு விவாதத்தில் கலந்துகொண்டார். அப்போது, தான் கண்டிப்பாக நரகத்திற்கு செல்வது உறுதி என எண்ணி மிகவும் வருந்தினார். அதனால் ஏற்பட்ட துக்கத்தினால் கி.பி. 1586ம் ஆண்டு, டிசம்பர் மாதம், உடல் நலம் குன்றியது. கி.பி. 1587ம் ஆண்டு, ஜனவரி மாதம், தெற்கு ஃபிரான்ஸில் உள்ள ஆலயம் ஒன்றிற்கு திருப்பயணம் மேற்கொண்டார். அங்கே, "கருநிற மடோன்னா" (Black Madonna) என்றழைக்கப்படும் அர்ச்சிஷ்ட "மீட்பு" அன்னை கன்னி மரியாளின் (Our Lady of Good Deliverance) திருச்சொரூபத்தின் முன்னே செபம் செய்தார். கடவுளுக்கு தன் வாழ்வினை அர்ப்பணிக்க முடிவு செய்தார். தம்மை இறை அன்னைக்கு ஒப்புக் கொடுத்தார். கடவுள் அன்பாய் இருகின்றார் என விவிலியம் கூறுகின்றது; ஆதலினால், அவரிடம் முழு நம்பிக்கை வைத்து அவர் காட்டும் பாதையில் செல்ல தீர்மானித்தார்.

கி.பி. 1592ம் ஆண்டு, சட்டம் மற்றும் இறையியல் துறைகளில் முனைவர் பட்டத்தை பதுவா பல்கலைக்கழகத்தில் பெற்றார். இங்கே தான் தனக்கு இறை அழைத்தல் இருப்பதாக முதன் முதலில் உணர்ந்தார். படிப்பு முடிந்ததும், உடனே வீடு திரும்பாமல், இத்தாலியின் "லொரெட்டோ" (Loreto) என்னுமிடத்திலுள்ள மரிய அன்னை திருத்தலத்திற்க்கு திருப்பயணம் சென்றார்.

மனித நேயம், சொல்லாட்சிக் கலை, இறையியல், மற்றும் சட்டம் படித்தப் பின்னர், தன் தந்தை பார்த்து வைத்திருந்த செல்வந்தக் குடும்பப்பெண்ணை மணக்காமல் குருவாக தீர்மானித்தார். அப்போதய ஜெனீவா நகர ஆயரின் அழைப்பை ஏற்று, கி.பி. 1593ம் ஆண்டு, குருமடத்தில் சேர்ந்து, குருத்துவம் பெற்று, அம்மறைமாவட்ட தேவாலயத்தில் பணிபுரிந்தார்.

ஆயராக:

கி.பி. 1517ம் ஆண்டு, கிறிஸ்தவச் சீர்திருத்த இயக்கம் ஆரம்பமானதிலிருந்து, சுவிட்சர்லாந்தில் உள்ள ஜெனீவா நகரின் கத்தோலிக்க ஆயர்கள் ஃபிரான்ஸில் உள்ள அன்னெசி என்னும் இடத்தில் தங்கியிருந்தனர், ஃபிரான்சிஸ் பேராலயத்தில் பணிசெய்து கொண்டுருந்ததால், சவாய் நகரில் இருந்த சீர்திருத்தத் திருச்சபையினரிடமும் மறை பரப்பலானார், இவரின் முயற்ச்சியால் பலரும் கத்தோலிக்கத்திற்க்கு திரும்பலாயினர்.

இவர் ரோம் நகரம் மற்றும் பாரிஸ் நகருக்கு பயணம் செய்து திருத்தந்தை எட்டாம் கிளமெண்ட் மற்றும் ஃபிரெஞ்ச் அரசன் ஆறாம் ஹென்றியும் உடன்பாடு செய்ய வைத்தார்.

கி.பி. 1602ம் ஆண்டு, ஜெனீவா ஆயரின் இறப்புக்குப் பின், ஃபிரான்சிஸ் டி சலேஸ் புதிய ஆயராக அருட்பொழிவு செய்யப்பட்டார். இவரின் ஆயத்துவ பணியின்போது, எல்லோரும் இவரை சிறந்த மறையுரையாளராகவும், ஏழை எளியவரின் நண்பராகவும் கண்டனர். இவரின் புத்தகங்களில் இவரின் ஃபிரெஞ்ச், இத்தாலிய மற்றும் இலத்தீன் மொழிகளின் புலமை வெளிப்பட்டது.

கி.பி. 1610ம் ஆண்டு, ஜூன் மாதம், ஆறாம் தேதி, "புனித ஜேன் ஃபிரான்சிஸ் டி சான்ட்டலுடன்" (St. Jane Frances de Chantal) இணைந்து, "மாதா மிணவுதல் சபை" (Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary) என்னும் பெயரில், பெண்களுக்கான துறவர சபையினை நிறுவினார். இவர், "புனித பிலிப் நேரியின் சொற்பொழிவுக்கலை சபை" (Oratory of St. Philip Neri) என்ற பெயரில் ஆண்களுக்கான ஒரு சிறு சபையையும் தோற்றுவித்தார்.

கி.பி. 1622ம் ஆண்டு, டிசம்பர் மாதம், "சவோயின் பிரபு முதலாம் சார்லஸ் இம்மானுவலின்" (Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy) பரிவாரங்களுடன் பயணித்துக்கொண்டிருந்த ஃபிரான்சிஸ் டி சலேஸ், "லியொன்" (Lyon) சென்று சேர்ந்ததும், "விசிட்டேன்டைன் துறவு மடத்தின்" (Visitandine monastery) தோட்டக்காரரின் குடிலில் ஓய்வெடுப்பதற்காக தங்கினார். டிசம்பர் மாதம், 28ம் தேதி, மாரடைப்பால் பாதிக்கப்பட்ட இவர், இறைவனடி சேர்ந்தார்.

இறப்புக்குப் பின்:

திருத்தந்தை ஏழாம் அலெக்சாண்டர், ஃபிரான்சிஸ் டி சலேஸுக்கு கி.பி. 1661ம் ஆண்டு, அருளாளர் பட்டமும், நான்கு வருடத்துக்கு பின் புனிதர் பட்டமும் அளித்தார். கி.பி. 1877ம் ஆண்டு, திருத்தந்தை ஒன்பதாம் பயஸ், இவரை திருச்சபையின் மறைவல்லுநராக பிரகடணம் செய்வித்தார்.

இவரின் நினைவுத் திருவிழா நாள் ஜனவரி 24 ஆகும்.

Also known as

• Francis of Sales

• Gentle Christ of Geneva

• the Gentleman Saint

• Franz von Sales

Profile

Born in the castle of Château de Thorens to a well-placed Savoyard family, the eldest of twelve children born to François de Boisy and Françoise de Sionnz. His parents intended that Francis become a lawyer, enter politics, and carry on the family line and power. He studied at La Roche and Annecy in France, taught by Jesuits. Attended the Collège de Clermont in Paris, France at age 12. In his early teens, Francis began to believe in pre-destination, and was so afraid that he was pre-emptorily condemned to Hell that he became ill and eventually was confined to bed. However, in January 1587 at the Church of Saint Stephen, he overcame the crisis, decided that whatever God had in store for him was for the best, and dedicated his life to God.

Studied law and theology at the University of Padua, Italy, and earned a doctorate in both fields. He returned home, and found a position as Senate advocate. It was at this point that he received a message telling him to "Leave all and follow Me." He took this as a call to the priesthood, a move his family fiercely opposed, especially when he refused a marriage that had been arranged for him. However, he pursued a devoted prayer life, and his gentle ways won over the family.

Priest. In 1593 he was appointed provost of the diocese of Geneva, Switzerland, a stronghold of Calvinists. Preacher, writer and spiritual director in the district of Chablais. His simple, clear explanations of Catholic doctrine, and his gentle way with everyone, brought many back to the Roman Church. He even used sign language in order to bring the message to the deaf, leading to his patronage of deaf people.

Bishop of Geneva in 1602. He travelled and evangelized throughout the Duchy of Savoy, working with children whenever he could. Friend of Saint Vincent de Paul. He turned down a wealthy French bishopric to continue working where God had placed him. With Saint Jeanne de Chantal he helped found the Order of the Visitation . A prolific correspondent, many of his letters have survived.

The value of his writings led to his being declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Blessed Pius IX in 1877, and a patron of writers and journalists by Pope Pius XI in 1923. The Salesians of Don Bosco, the Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales, and the Missionaries of Saint Francis de Sales are named in his honour as is the Saint François Atoll in the Seychelles Islands.

Born

21 August 1567 at Château de Thorens, Savoy (part of modern France)

Died

• 28 December 1622 at Lyon, France of natural causes

• buried at the basilica of the Visitation, Annecy, France

• his heart was preserved as a relic at Lyon

• during the French Revolution his heart was was moved to Venice, Italy

Canonized

19 April 1665 by Pope Alexander VII

Patronage

• against deafness

• authors, writers (proclaimed on 26 April 1923 by Pope Pius XI)

• Catholic press

• confessors

• deaf people

• journalists (proclaimed on 26 April 1923 by Pope Pius XI)

• teachers, educators

• Champdepraz, Aosta, Italy

• 8 dioceses

Blessed Giuseppe Giaccardo

Also known as

Father Timoteo

Additional Memorial

19 October (Pauline Congregations)

Profile

Oldest of five children born to farm workers Stefano and Maria Cagna; his mother was devoted to Our Lady of the Rosary. When financial troubles hit, his father worked as a butcher and sacristan, and Giuseppe spent his early years in a house adjacent to his parish church; at one point he served as an altar boy for Blessed Giacomo Alberione, his future superior. Giuseppe early felt a call to the priesthood, and began his studies in October 1908; he was known as an exceptional student in seminary, but would not talk about it. Drafted into the army on 22 January 1915, he worked in a medical unit and later said that the locations of his military assignments put a severe test to his vows of chastity. He was released from service on 7 January 1916 due to chronic anemia, and returned to seminary where he spent his spare time tutoring other students.

Father Alberione wanted the young seminarian to work with him in his new Society of Saint Paul, but Giuseppe was informed that he could only remain a cleric if he stayed in seminary. He joined the Society on 7 April 1917, trained and supervised student printers, edited and proofread books and periodicals, all the while continuing his studies. Ordained on 19 October 1919, the first professed priest in the Society. He made his profession within the Society on 30 June 1920, taking the name Timoteo in honour of the disciple of Saint Paul the Apostle. He preached retreats, heard confessions, and each Sunday walked the 8 miles to Benevello, Italy to celebrate Mass for the parish there. He earned a degree in theology, with honours, from the College of Saint Thomas in Geona, Italy on 12 November 1920.

As the Society continued to grow, so did Father Timoteo's work load. He was noted within the Society for spreading the word of the Faith and of the Church's stance against the Facism that was coming to power in Italy; he was also known for his lack of administrative and financial skills, which often put him at odds with Father Alberione and dealing with overdue bills. Still, his devotion was so powerful that Father Alberione assigned Father Giuseppe to found the Society's first house in Rome, Italy; Pope Pius XI jumped for joy at the news. On 15 January 1926, Father Giuseppe and 14 students opened a small print shop in Rome, and began work on twelve diocesan weekly publications. Father Timoteo and his crew lived in a renovated warehouse with limited plumbing and no chapel. With no other priests to assist him, Father Timoteo served as house superior, father figure, spiritual director of both his house and the newly arrived group of Daughters of Saint Paul, house treasurer, and supervisor of the printing work they all did. They were perpetually short of money, and his work never ended, but visitors noted the serenity and dedication that pervaded the living and working areas.

In July 1927, Don Giaccardo managed to purchase a old vineyard from the Benedictines; the barn was transformed into a chapel, the winery to print shop, and the farm house into improved quarters for the Society; it became a central point for training, study and spiritual formation of new members of the Society. Father Giuseppe was made superior in Rome in 1932. On 10 June 1936, the old vineyard was designated the mother-house of the Society, and Don Giaccardo its superior; he laboured at task for the next decade, which were his most active years, and the period when the house was most know for its piety, observance and community. He worked with about 500 students and seminarians in Alba, Italy during this period, and kept his community together during the privations of World War II. Celebrated Mass every Friday at the mother house of the Pauline Sisters. He carried a small edition of the epistles of Saint Paul, and consulted them frequently for wisdom in dealing with his community; falsehoods saddened him, he would lose sleep to pray for Society members who had a conflict, he saw all history as being centered on Christ, and encouraged members of the Society to use all forms of media to spread the Faith.

Born

13 June 1896 in Narzole, Cuneo, Italy as Giuseppe Domenico Vincenzo Giaccardo

Died

• 24 January 1948 in Rome, Italy of leukemia

• his funeral was conducted in the apse of the Basilica of Saint Paul in Rome

• relics enshrined in the crypt of the sanctuary of Mary, Queen of the Apostles since 1966

Beatified

22 October 1989 by Pope John Paul II

Blessed Paula Gambara Costa

Also known as

Countess Costa

Additional Memorial

23 January (diocese of Brescia, Italy)

Profile

Born to the nobility, the eldest of seven children born to Giampaolo Gambara and Taddea Caterina Martinengo. In her youth, Paula showed an affinity to a quiet and devout life, felt a call to religious orders, and spent her spare time spent in prayer and spiritual reading. However, in the autumn of 1485 she was given in an arranged marriage to the Lodovico Antonio Costa, Count of Benasco, Piedmont in modern Italy. Mother of Giovanni Francesco in 1488; she celebrated by distributing large amounts of food to the poor. Lodovico was a philaderer who enjoyed the worldly life, the party life, hunting, feasting, and was abusive and contempuous with Paula for her pious life and her devotion to the poor; his mistress moved into the castle to live with them both in 1494, and soon after Paula began suffering severe migraines. She discussed the matter with her confessor and spiritual director, Blessed Angelo of Chiavasso, and decided to make the conversion of Lodovico the focus of her spiritual life, joining the Franciscan tertiaries in 1491, suffering the abuse of both her husband and their servants, and putting the needs of the poor and the sick above her own. Miracles are reported where bread given to the poor would multiply, and barrels of drink that her husband emptied would suddenly refil. Her prayers were finally answered in 1504 when Lodovico had a conversion, received a miraculous healing at the grave of Blessed Angelo Carletti, and became a penitent man; Paula began wearing her Franciscan habit in public instead of under her gowns as she had done until then. Widowed in late 1504, Paula devoted her remaining years to God and charity, which included financing the re-building of some area convents and monasteries.

Born

3 March 1463 in Verola Alghise (modern Verolanuova), Brescia, Duchy of Milan (in modern Lombardy, Italy)

Died

• 24 January 1515 in Binaco, Duchy of Milan (in modern Lombardy, Italy) of a fever

• buried in a church outside the walls of convent of Rocchetta that she had helped re-build

• the church was destroyed in 1536 during a war between Francis I and Charles V, and Paula's was re-interred in the nearby castle

• relics later enshrined in an urn in a chapel built by the Counts of Costa in the Franciscan monastery of Bene Vagienna

Beatified

14 August 1845 by Pope Gregory XVI (cultus confirmation)

Patronage

• difficult marriages

• married couples

• tertiaries, especially Franciscans

• victims of adultery

• widows

Blessed Marie Poussepin

Profile

Daughter of a stocking manufacturer, Marie was raised in a pious household and educated by her mother and the local parish priest. Her mother died when Marie was 22, at which point she took over running the house and raising her younger siblings. When her father died in 1683 she took over his business, modernizing it by bringing in machinery to do work previously done by hand; Marie learned to run all the machines, trained her employees, and set up one of the first support networks of benefits them. She joined the Dominican tertiaries in 1690, and began transferring business responsibility to her brother Charles. President of the local Confraternity of Charity, an affiliate of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in 1693 and 1694, and began caring for people in her home. In 1695 she moved to Sainville, France where she founded a house that would become the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin (Dominicans of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin; the community received legal recognition in 1724, diocesan approval in 1738, and they continue their good works today.

Born

14 October 1653 in Dourdan, Essone, France

Died

24 January 1744 in Sainville, Eure-et-Loir, France of natural causes

Beatified

20 November 1994 by Pope John Paul II

Saint Manchán of Lemanaghan

Also known as

• Manchán mac Silláin

• Mainchín, Manach, Manchianus

Profile

His mother was Mella, his father Sillán, son of Conall, descendant of Rudraige Mór of Ulster. Monk. Spiritual student of Saint Ciarán at Clonmacnoise. Founded a monastery to the west of Lemanaghan, Ireland, c.645 on land obtained by Saint Ciarán from the king of Connacht. The monastery has a healing well that came from a spring that opened when Manchán, out of water, struck a rock; there was also a separate cell where his mother retired. In addition to the contemplative life he led at the monastery, he evangelized the people around it, teaching scripture, being a spiritual teacher to any who would listen, and caring for the poor where he could. Poet.

Died

• 664 of plague

• relics enshrined in the church at Boher, County Offaly, Ireland in a reliquary created in 1130

Patronage

Liath Mancháin (modern Lemanaghan), County Offaly, Ireland

Saint Felician of Foligno

Additional Memorial

20 October (translation of relics to Minden, Germany)

Profile

Spiritual student of Pope Saint Eleutherius during his missionary days. Priest. Consecrated bishop of Foligno, Italy by Pope Victor I in Rome c.204; he was the first bishop given the pallium as symbol of his office. For a time, Felician was the only bishop in northern Italy. Ordained Saint Valentine of Terni as priest. Arrested, tortured and martyred at age 94 in the persecutions of Decius, dying en route to a triumph for Decius.

Born

c.158 in Foligno, Italy

Died

• c.250 just outside of Foligno, Italy

• a chapel was built over his grave

• the chapel later replaced by a church

• relics transferred to Metz, France on 4 October 970

• some relics translated to Minden, Germany

• some relics returned to Foligno in 1673 and 1674

Patronage

Foligno, Italy

Saint Babylas of Antioch

† இன்றைய புனிதர் †

(ஜனவரி 24)

✠ அந்தியோக்கியா நகர் புனிதர் பேபிலாஸ் ✠

(St. Babylas of Antioch)

அந்தியோக்கியா ஆயர்/ மறைசாட்சி:

(Bishop of Antioch and Martyr)

பிறப்பு: ---

இறப்பு: கி.பி. 253

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

(Catholic Church)

கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை

(Eastern Orthodox Church)

முக்கிய திருத்தலம்: கிரெமோனா (Cremona)

நினைவுத் திருநாள்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக் திருச்சபை = ஜனவரி 24

(Roman Catholic Church)

கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை = செப்டம்பர் 4

(Eastern Orthodox Church)

கிழக்கு கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை = செப்டம்பர் 4

(Eastern Catholic Church)

அந்தியோக்கியா நகர் புனிதர் பேபிலாஸ், "பேரரசர் டேசியஸ்" (Emperor Decius) காலத்தில், சிறைச் சாலையில் மரித்த "அந்தியோக்கியா ஆயர்" (Bishop of Antioch) ஆவார்.

அவர், "பேரரசர் மூன்றாம் கோர்டியன்" (Emperor Gordian III) ஆட்சிக் காலத்தில் (238-244), "ஆயர் ஜெபினஸ்" (Bishop Zebinus) என்பவரின் பின்வந்த, அந்தியோக்கியாவின் (Antioch) பன்னிரெண்டாம் ஆயர் ஆவார். கி.பி. 250ம் ஆண்டு முதலான "டேசியன் துன்புறுத்தல்கள்" (Decian persecution) காலத்தில், கிறிஸ்தவ விசுவாசத்தில் அவரளித்த உறுதியான வாக்குமூலம் காரணமாக, சிறையில் தள்ளப்பட்டு, துன்புறுத்தப்பட்டு மரித்தார். பின்னர் அவர் மறைசாட்சியாக (Martyr) வணங்கப்பட்டார்.

முக்கிய ஆதிகால கிறிஸ்தவ திருச்சபை தந்தையும் (Important Early Church Father), கான்ஸ்டான்டிநோபிள் பேராயருமான (Archbishop of Constantinople) "ஜான் கிறிசோஸ்டம்" (John Chrysostom) என்பவர் ஆயர் பேபிலாஸ் பற்றி எழுதிய போதனைகளின்படி, ஆயர் பேபிலாஸ் கிறிஸ்தவ மக்களால் மிகவும் விரும்பப்பட்ட ஆயர் ஆவார்.

ஒரு நாள் "பாகன் பேரரசன் நுமேரியன்" (Pagan Emperor Numerian) ஒரு இளம் பெண்ணை விக்கிரகங்களுக்கு பலியிடும்படி உத்தரவிட்டான். ஒரு அரசனின் மகளான அப்பெண், ஒரு போரில் பிணையாக நிறுத்தப்பட்டாள். இந்த குற்றச் செயலுக்குப் பின்னர், அவன் கத்தோலிக்கர்களை கேலி செய்வதற்காக, அந்தியோக்கியா பேராலயத்தினுள் நுழைய சென்றான். பேராலயத்தில் நுழைவாயிலில் அவனை தடுத்து நிறுத்திய பேபிலாஸ், அவனை நோக்கி, "தூய்மையற்ற, திமிர்த்தனமான மனிதனே, திரும்பிப் போ. நீ இங்கே நுழையாலாகாது." என்றார். வெறுப்பு நிரம்பிய நுமேரியனுக்கு இது பெரும் அவமானமாகப் போனது.

பின்னர், பேபிலாஸ் மற்றும் அவரது மூன்று சீடர்களையும் கைது செய்த நுமேரியன், விசாரணை என்ற பெயரில் அவர்களை அவமதித்தான். அவர்களில் ஒருவரான ஒரு துறவியைப் பார்த்து பரிகசித்து, "உங்கள் கடவுளின் பாடசாலையின் உங்கள் எஜமானரான முட்டாள்களுக்கு சுவாரஸ்யமான விஷயங்களை கற்பிக்க வேண்டும் என்று நான் நினைக்கிறேன்" என்றான். அதற்கு ஆயர் அவர்கள், "ஆமாம், ஞானத்தையும் சத்தியத்தையும் பிள்ளைகளுக்கு நான் கற்பிக்கிறேன். முட்டாள்களுக்காக, அவர்கள் என் பள்ளியில் கலந்து கொள்ளவில்லை; இல்லையென்றால் நீயும் அங்கே இருந்திருப்பாய்" என்றார்.

ஆயர் பேபிலாஸின் மூன்று சீடர்களையும் சித்திரவதை செய்த நுமேரியன், ஆயரிடம் சென்று, குழந்தைகளுக்கு இத்தகைய முட்டாள்தனத்தை கற்பிக்கும் எஜமானே, நான் சொல்வதை கேளுங்கள், இந்த நேரத்தில் நீங்கள்  தோற்றுவிட்டீர்கள். ஏனெனில் உங்கள் மூன்று மாணவர்களும் எங்கள் தெய்வங்களுக்கு பலியாகச் செலுத்தப்படவுள்ளனர் என்றான்.

தேவனுடைய மனுஷன் தமது கடுமையான பார்வையை அவனிடம் உறுதிப்படுத்தி பதிலளித்தார்: "நீ வெட்கமின்றி, பொய் சொல்கிறாய். நீ இயல்பாகவே இதை செய்கிறாய். ஏனென்றால், நீ பிசாசின் மகன், பொய்யில் சிறந்தவன்" என்றார்.

பேரரசன் நுமேரியன் அவருக்கு மரண .தண்டனையளித்தான்.

Also known as

Babila

Profile

Bishop of Antioch in 240. In 244 he refused entrance to liturgical services to emperor Philip the Arabian, due to the emperor having murdered his predecessor; he ordered him to take his place among the penitents by the church door, which the emperor did. During the persecutions of Decius, Babylas made an unwavering confession of faith in public; he was thrown into prison. Martyr.

Died

• of abuse and mistreatment in prisons c.260

• Babylas buried in his chains to symbolize his love and loyalty to God

• Caesar Gallus built a church at Daphne near Antioch in honor of Babylas, and his relics enshrined there

• Julian the Apostate consulted an oracle of Apollo near the shrine Babylas; when he received no answer, Julian blamed it on the proximity of the saint, and had the relics returned to their original burial site

• relics taken to Cremona, Italy in the middle ages

Blessed Luigj Prendushi

Profile

Studied in colleges and seminaries of Piedmont, Italy and Sarvano Skarnafacio. Ordained as a priest of the diocese of Sapë, Albania on 12 March 1921. Parish priest in Ipeshkvninë, Albania. Accused by the Communist government of being a spy for the Vatican, he was arrested on 8 December 1946, imprisoned, abused and finally executed in public as a lesson to anyone who intended to stay true to Christianity.

Born

24 January 1896 in Shkodrë, Albania

Died

24 January 1947 in Shelqet, Shkodrë, Albania

Beatified

• 5 November 2016 by Pope Francis

• beatification celebrated at the Square of the Cathedral of Shën Shtjefnit, Shkodër, Albania, presided by Cardinal Angelo Amato

Blessed Marcolino of Forli

Also known as

Marcolino Amanni

Profile

Joined the Dominicans at age ten and lived under their Rule for 70 years. Noted for his devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, his life of prayer, and his ability to counsel and re-invigorate the faith of his brothers. Supported the reform work of Blessed Raymond of Capua. There are reports of people who heard him in conversation with Mary - and they report hearing both sides of the conversation. Legend says that when Marcolino died an angel in the form of a beautiful child walked through the streets announcing the death, disappearing afterwards.

Born

1317 in Forli, Italy

Died

24 January 1397 of natural causes

Beatified

9 May 1750 by Pope Benedict XIV (cultus confirmed)

Blessed William Ireland

Also known as

• William Ironmonger

• William Iremonger

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Eldest son of William Ireland of Crofton Hall, Yorkshire, England and Barbara Eure of Washingborough, Lincolnshire, England. Studied at English College, Saint Omer, France. Joined the Jesuits at Watten, Belgium in 1655; made his profession and was ordained in 1673. Confessor to a Poor Clare convent at Gravelines, France. Sent to England in 1677 where he used the name William Ironmonger and ministered to covert Catholics. Jesuit procurator of the province. Arrested on 28 September 1678 and falsley accused of complicity in the Titus Oates Plot. Martyr.

Born

1636 in Lincolnshire, England

Died

hanged in 24 January 1679 at Tyburn, London, England

Beatified

15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

Saint Sabinian of Troyes

Also known as

Sabiniano, Sabinianus, Savinian, Savinien

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Brother of Saint Sabina of Troyes. Raised a pagan. Disillusioned with his life in Samos, he travelled to Gaul where he met and was converted by Saint Patroclus of Troyes. After Patroclus's martyrdom, Sabinian took up his teacher's work, preaching and baptizing in the area of the Seine. Martyred in persecutions of Marcus Aurelius.

Born

at Samos, Greece

Died

tortured and beheaded c.275 at Rilly near Troyes, France

Representation

• man with his throat pierced by a sword

• with Saint Sabina of Troyes

• with Saint Patroclus of Troyes

Saint Eusebia of Milas

#புனித_யூசேப்பியா (-479)

ஜனவரி 24

இவர் (#EusebiaOfRome) உரோமையைச் சார்ந்தவர்.

சிறுவயதிலேயே தன்னை ஆண்டவருக்கு அர்ப்பணித்து வாழ்ந்த இவரைப் பலரும் பெண் கேட்டு வந்தனர். இவரோ அவர்களுக்கு மறுப்புத் தெரிவித்துவிட்டு, சின்ன ஆசியாவிற்குச் (தற்போதைய துருக்கி)  சென்று துறவற வாழ்க்கை வாழத் தொடங்கினார்.

இவரது தூய வாழ்க்கையைப் பார்த்துவிட்டுப் பலரும் இவரைத் தேடி வந்தனர். அவர்களுக்கு இவர் நோய் நொடிகளிலிருந்து நலமளித்தார். 

இவ்வாறு பல்வேறு வல்ல செயல்களைச் செய்து, பலரையும் கிறிஸ்துவுக்குள் கொண்டு வந்த இவர், 497 ஆம் ஆண்டு இறையடி சேர்ந்தார்.

Also known as

• Eusebia of Mylasa

• Eusebia of Rome

• Eysèbios, Ksenija, Xenia

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Feeling a call to religious life, Eusebia declined several marriage proposals and finally moved to Milas, Caria in Asia Minor (in modern Turkey), taking the name Xenia, and living as a pious lay woman. No details about her life have survived, but she is reported to have been a miracle worker.

Born

5th century Rome, Italy

Saint Julian Sabas the Elder

Profile

Hermit in a cave in Mesopotamia on the banks of the Euphrates near Edessa, and then on Mount Sinai. Legend says he ate only once a week. Ministered to and encourged Christians persecuted by Julian the Apostate. Enemies proclaimed that Julian was a follower of Arianism. He travelled to Antioch in 372, made several public speeches against the heresy - then returned to his cave where he lived the rest of his life. A brief biography of Julian was written by Saint John Chrystostom.

Born

Mesopotamian

Died

377 of natural causes

Blessed Francesc de Paula Colomer Prísas

Also known as

Brother Pacià Maria of Barcelona

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Franciscan Capuchin friar. Murdered by Marxists in the Spanish Civil War.

Born

29 April 1916 in Barcelona, Spain

Died

24 January 1937 in Cerdanyola, Barcelona, Spain

Beatified

• 21 November 2015 by Pope Francis

• celebrated at the cathedral of Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia, Barcelona, Spain presided by Cardinal Angelo Amato

Blessed John Grove

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Layman. Servant of Blessed William Ireland and other Jesuits in London, England. Arrested on 28 September 1678, accused of having received £1500 to help in the Titus Oates Plot. Served time with Blessed Thomas Pickering. Martyr.

Died

hanged on 24 January 1679 at Tyburn, London, England

Beatified

15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

Readings

We are innocent, we lose our lives wrongfully, we pray God to forgive them that are the causes of it. - Blessed John, from the gallows

Saint Exuperantius of Cingoli

Also known as

Esuperanzio

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Fifth century bishop of Cingoli, Italy.

Born

North Africa

Patronage

• against plague

• Cingoli, Italy, diocese of

• Macerata-Tolentino-Recanati-Cingoli-Treia, Italy, diocese of

Saint Suranus of Sora

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Abbot of a monastery at Sora, Italy. When the Lombards invaded the region, Suranus gave away all the goods of the monastery to refugees. When the Lombards reached the monastery and found nothing left to plunder, they murdered Suranus for spite. Martyr.

Died

murdered by Lombard invaders c.580 at his monastery in Sora, Italy

Saint Bertrand of Saint Quentin

Also known as

Bertram, Bertran, Ebertram

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Benedictine monk. Friend and spiritual student of Saint Bertinus. Aide to Saint Omer. Missionary in northern France and Flanders, Belgium. Abbot of Saint Quentin abbey.

Died

7th century of natural causes

Saint Artemius of Clermont

Also known as

Arthemius

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Imperial Roman legate. While on his way to Spain on an mission, he fell ill and settled in Clermont, France. There his sanctity was so obvious that he was chosen bishop.

Died

396 of natural causes

Saint Macedonius Kritophagos

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Hermit in Syria. Called Kriptophagus (the barley eater) as he ate nothing but moistened grain for 40 years. Healer in Syria, Phoenicia, and Cilicia using prayer and holy water.

Saint Supporina of Clermont

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Holy woman whose relics are enshrined in the church of Saint Artemius in Clermont, France. No details of her life have survived.

Saint Vera of Clermont

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Holy woman whose relics are enshrined in the church of Saint Artemius in Clermont, France. No details of her life have survived.

Saint Guasacht

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Son of Maelchu, the man who "owned" Saint Patrick when he was enslaved. Converted by Saint Patrick. Helped to evangelize Ireland. Bishop of Granard, Ireland.

Saint Epolonius

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Spiritual student of Saint Babylas. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.

Died

c.260 of abuse and mistreatment in prison

Saint Prilidian

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Spiritual student of Saint Babylas. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.

Died

c.260 of abuse and mistreatment in prison

Saint Timothy of Antioch

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Spiritual student of Saint Babylas of Antioch. Martyr.

Saint Urban the Martyr

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Student of Saint Babylas. Martyr.

Died

of abuse and mistreatment in prison c.260

Saint Agapius of Antioch

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Spiritual student of Saint Babylas of Antioch. Martyr.

Saint Projectus

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Martyr.

Saint Thyrsus

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Martyr.

Martyrs of Podlasie

Also known as

Martyrs of Pratulin

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Podlasie is an area in modern eastern Poland that, in the 18th-century, was governed by the Russian Empire. Russian sovereigns sought to bring all Eastern-rite Catholics into the Orthodox Church. Catherine II suppressed the Greek Catholic church in Ukraine in 1784. Nicholas I did the same in Belarus and Lithuania in 1839. Alexander II did the same in the Byzantine-rite Eparchy of Chelm in 1874, and officially suppressed the Eparchy in 1875. The bishop and the priests who refused to join the Orthodox Church were deported to Siberia or imprisoned. The laity, left on their own, had to defend their Church, their liturgy, and their union with Rome.

On 24 January 1874 soldiers entered the village of Pratulin to transfer the parish to Orthodox control. Many of the faithful gathered to defend their parish and church. The soldiers tried to disperse the people, but failed. Their commander tried to bribe the parishioners to abandon Rome, but failed. He threaten them with assorted punishments, but this failed to move them. Deciding that a show of force was needed, the commander ordered his troops to fire on the unarmed, hymn-singing laymen. Thirteen of the faithful died, most married men with families, ordinary men with great faith.

We know almost nothing about their lives outside of this incident. Their families were not allowed to honour them or participate in the funerals, and the authorities hoped they would be forgotten. They were

• Anicet Hryciuk

• Bartlomiej Osypiuk

• Daniel Karmasz

• Filip Geryluk

• Ignacy Franczuk

• Jan Andrzejuk

• Konstanty Bojko

• Konstanty Lukaszuk

• Lukasz Bojko

• Maksym Hawryluk

• Michal Wawryszuk

• Onufry Wasyluk

• Wincenty Lewoniuk

Died

• shot on 14 January 1874 by Russian soldiers in Podlasie, Poland

• buried nearby without rites by those soldiers

Beatified

6 October 1996 by Pope John Paul II

Martyrs of Asia Minor

Profile

A group of Christians martyred together for their faith. The only details to survive are four of their names - Eugene, Mardonius, Metellus and Musonius.

Died

burned at the stake in Asia Minor

இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் ஜனவரி 23

 St. Barnard

Feastday: January 23

Death: 841

Benedictine archbishop, founder and member of the court of Charlemagne. He was born in the Frene province of Lyonnais, in 777, and was educated at court. lie became a Benedictine and restored Ambronay Abbey, becoming abbot of the monks. In 810, Barnard was made the archbishop of Vienne, France, where he founded Romans Abbey in 837. He died there. He was canonized in 1907.

St. Abakuh

Feastday: January 23

of Bamujeh. I am the martyr of Bamujeb, Fayum, and Kemet

St. Parmenas

Feastday: January 23

Death: 98

One of the seven deacons appointed by the Apostles to minister to the Hellenized Jews of Jerusalem who had converted to the Christian faith. Their labors were reported in the Acts of the Apostles. Parmenas is said to have to have spent many years preaching in Asia Minor before receiving martyrdom in Philippi, Macedonia, under Emperor Trajan.

Parmenas was one of the Seven Deacons. He is believed to have preached the gospel in Asia Minor. Parmenas suffered martyrdom in 98, under the persecution of Trajan.[1]

Christian tradition identifies him as the Bishop of Soli. Some take this to be Soli, Cyprus,[2] while others interpret it as Soli, Cilicia

Bl. Henry Suso

2021-01-23

துறவி திருக்காட்சியாளர் ஹென்றி சோய்சே Heinrich Seuse OP

பிறப்பு 

21 மார்ச் 1295, 

போடன்சே Bodensee

இறப்பு 

25 ஜனவரி 1366, 

உல்ம் Ulm, ஜெர்மனி

முத்திபேறுபட்டம்: 1831 திருத்தந்தை 16 ஆம் கிரிகோரி

இவர் ஓர் நீதிபதியின் மகன். இவர் இளைஞனாக இருக்கும்போது தன் தாயின் மீது கொண்ட அளவில்லா அன்பால், தன் தாயின் பெயரை தன் பெயராக மாற்றினார். இவர் தனக்கு 13 வயது நடக்கும்போதே தொமினிக்கன் சபையில் சேர்ந்தார். சபையில் சேர்ந்து 5 ஆண்டுகள் கழித்து தனது முதல் திருக்காட்சியை பெற்றார். தனது 40 ஆம் வயது வரை விடாமல் ஆண்டவரின் திருக்காட்சியை பெற்றார். ஒவ்வொரு முறையும் திருக்காட்சியை பெறும்போது இவரின் இதயத்திலும் மார்பிலும் இரும்பு இறங்கியதை போன்றதொரு கனத்தை உணர்ந்தார். அதன்பிறகு இவர் இயேசுவின் பெயரால் இரும்பு சங்கிலி ஒன்றை தன் கழுத்தில் அணிந்தார். இவர் தன் உடம்பை சில நேரங்களில் இரும்புக் கம்பியினாலும் கயிற்றினாலும் அடித்துக் கொண்டார். உணவு, நீர் உட்கொள்ளாமல் பல நாட்கள் வாழ்ந்தார். ஆனால் ஆண்டவர் மீண்டும் மீண்டும் திருக்காட்சியை அளித்து அவரது விசுவாச வாழ்வை மற்றவர்கள் கண்டு பாவித்து வாழ வேண்டுமென்று தூண்டினார். இவர் 1335 ஆம் ஆண்டிலிருந்து தமது இறப்பு வரை தொமினிக்கன் சபையிலிருந்த அனைத்து குருக்களுக்கும் ஆன்ம வழிகாட்டியாக திகழ்ந்தார். இவர் வாழும்போதே ஆண்டவரின் திருக்காயங்களை தம் உடலில் பெற்றார். இவர் இறந்தபிறகு அவர் வாழ்ந்த தொமினிக்கன் சபையிலிருந்த கல்லறையில் அடக்கம் செய்யப்பட்டார்.

Feastday: January 23

Birth: 1300

Death: 1366

Famed German Dominican mystic wrote many classic books. Born Heinrich von Berg in Constance, Swabia, he entered the Order of Preachers, the Dominicans, at an early age. Undergoing a conversion, he developed an abiding spiritual life and studied under Meister Eckhart in Cologne from 1322-1325. He then returned to Constance to teach, subsequently authoring numerous books of spirituality. As he supported Meister Eckhart  who was then the source of some controversy and had been condemned by Pope John XXII in 1329  Henry was censured by his superiors and stripped of his teaching position. He subsequently became a preacher in Switzerland and the Upper Rhine and was a brilliant spiritual advisor among the Dominicans and the spiritual community of the Gottesfreunde . He endured persecution right up until his death at Ulm. Pope Gregory XVI beatified him in 1831.

For other people named Suso, see Suso (disambiguation).

Henry Suso (also called Amandus, a name adopted in his writings, and Heinrich Seuse in German), was a German Dominican friar and the most popular vernacular writer of the fourteenth century (when considering the number of surviving manuscripts). Suso is thought to have been born on March 21, 1295. An important author in both Latin and Middle High German, he is also notable for defending Meister Eckhart's legacy after Eckhart was posthumously condemned for heresy in 1329.[1] He died in Ulm on 25 January 1366, and was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1831.

Biography

Suso was born Heinrich von Berg, a member of the ruling family of Berg. He was born in either the Free imperial city of Überlingen on Lake Constance or nearby Constance, on 21 March 1295 (or perhaps on that date up to 1297–99).[2] Later, out of humility and devotion to his mother, he took her family name, which was Sus (or Süs, meaning "sweet"). At 13 years of age he was admitted to the novitiate of the Dominican Order at their priory in Constance. After completing that year of probation, he advanced to do his preparatory, philosophical, and theological studies there.

In the prologue to his Life, Suso recounts how, after about five years in the monastery (in other words, when he was about 18 years old), he experienced a conversion to a deeper form of religious life through the intervention of Divine Wisdom. He made himself "the Servant of Eternal Wisdom", which he identified with the divine essence and, in more specific terms, with divine Eternal Wisdom made man in Christ. From this point forward in his account of his spiritual life, a burning love for Eternal Wisdom dominated his thoughts and controlled his actions; his spiritual journey culminated in a mystical marriage to Christ in the form of the Eternal Wisdom,[3] an allegorical Goddess in the Hebrew Bible associated with Christ in medieval devotion.[4][5]

Career

Suso was then sent on for further studies in philosophy and theology, probably first at the Dominican monastery in Strasbourg, perhaps between 1319 and 1321, and then from 1324 to 1327 he took a supplementary course in theology in the Dominican Studium Generale in Cologne, where he would have come into contact with Meister Eckhart, and probably also Johannes Tauler, both celebrated mystics.[6]

Returning to his home priory at Constance in about 1327, Suso was appointed to the office of lector (lecturer). His teaching, however, aroused criticism – most likely because of his connection with Eckhart in the wake of the latter's trial and condemnation in 1326–29. Suso's Little Book of Truth, a short defence of Eckhart's teaching, probably dates from this time, perhaps 1329. In 1330 this treatise, and another, were denounced as heretical by enemies in the Order. Suso traveled to the Dominican General Chapter held at Maastricht in 1330 to defend himself. The consequence is not entirely known – at some point between 1329 and 1334 he was removed from his lectorship in Constance, though he was not personally condemned.[6]

Knowledge of Suso's activities in subsequent years is somewhat sketchy. It is known that he served as prior of the Constance convent – most likely between 1330 and 1334, though possibly in the 1340s.[6] It is also known that he had various devoted disciples, a group including both men and women, especially those connected to the Friends of God movement. His influence was especially strong in many religious communities of women, particularly in the Dominican Monastery of St. Katharinental in the Argau, a famous nursery of mysticism in the 13th and 14th centuries. In the mid-1330s, during his visits to various communities of Dominican nuns and Beguines, Suso became acquainted with Elsbeth Stagel, prioress of the monastery of Dominican nuns in Töss. The two became close friends. She translated some of his Latin writings into German, collected and preserved most of his extant letters, and at some point began gathering the materials that Suso eventually put together into his Life of the Servant.

Suso shared in the exile of the Dominican community from Constance between 1339 and 1346, during the most heated years of the quarrel between Pope John XXII and the Holy Roman Emperor. He was transferred to the monastery at Ulm in about 1348. He seems to have remained there for the rest of his life. Here, during his final years (possibly 1361–63), he edited his four vernacular works into The Exemplar.

Suso died in Ulm on 25 January 1366.

Mortifications

Early in his life, Suso subjected himself to extreme forms of mortifications; later on he reported that God told him they were unnecessary. During this period, Suso devised for himself several painful devices. Some of these were: an undergarment studded with a hundred and fifty brass nails, a very uncomfortable door to sleep on, and a cross with thirty protruding needles and nails under his body as he slept. In the autobiographical text in which he reports these, however, he ultimately concludes that they are unnecessary distractions from the love of God.[7]

Writings

Suso and Johannes Tauler were students of Meister Eckhart, forming the nucleus of the Rhineland school of mysticism. As a lyric poet and "troubadour of divine wisdom," Suso explored with psychological intensity the spiritual truths of Eckhart’s mystical philosophy.[citation needed]

Suso's first work was the Büchlein der Wahrheit (Little Book of Truth) written between 1328 and 1334 in Constance. This was a short defence of the teaching of Meister Eckhart, who had been tried for heresy and condemned in 1328–29. In 1330 this treatise and another (possibly the Little Book of Eternal Wisdom) were denounced as heretical by Dominican opponents, leading Suso to travel to the Dominican General Chapter held at Maastricht in 1330 to defend himself.[6]

Suso's next book, Das Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit (The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom), written around 1328–1330,[6] is less speculative and more practical. At some point between 1334 and 1337 Suso translated this work into Latin, but in doing so added considerably to its contents, and made of it an almost entirely new book, which he called the Horologium Sapientiae (Clock of Wisdom). This book was dedicated to the new Dominican Master General, Hugh of Vaucemain, who appears to have been a supporter of his.[6]

At some point in the following decades, Stagel formed a collection of 28 of Suso's letters in the Grosses Briefbuch (Great Book of Letters), which survives. Suso also wrote a long text purporting to tell the story of his spiritual life and ascetic practices (variously referred to as the Life of the Servant, Life, Vita, or Leben Seuses), and revised the Büchlein der Wahrheit and the Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit. At some point in his later years, perhaps 1361–63, he collected these works, together with 11 of his letters (the Briefbüchlein, or Little Book of Letters, a selection of letters from the Grosses Briefbuch), and wrote a prologue, to form one book he referred to as The Exemplar.[8]

There are also various sermons attributed to Suso, although only two appear to be authentic.[8] A treatise known as the Minnebüchlein (Little Book of Love) is sometimes, but probably incorrectly, attributed to Suso.[8]

Suso was very widely read in the later Middle Ages. There are 232 extant manuscripts of the Middle High German Little Book of Eternal Wisdom.[9] The Latin Clock of Wisdom was even more popular: over four hundred manuscripts in Latin, and over two hundred manuscripts in various medieval translations (it was translated into eight languages, including Dutch, French, Italian, Swedish, Czech, and English). Many early printings survive as well. The Clock was therefore second only to the Imitation of Christ in popularity among spiritual writings of the later Middle Ages.[10] Among his many readers and admirers were Thomas à Kempis and John Fisher.[11]

Wolfgang Wackernagel and others have called Suso a "Minnesinger in prose and in the spiritual order" or a "Minnesinger of the Love of God" both for his use of images and themes from secular, courtly, romantic poetry and for his rich musical vocabulary.[12] The mutual love of God and man which is his principal theme gives warmth and color to his style. He used the full and flexible Alemannic idiom with rare skill, and contributed much to the formation of good German prose, especially by giving new shades of meaning to words employed to describe inner sensations.[13]

Legacy and veneration

In the world Suso was esteemed as a preacher, and was heard in the cities and towns of Swabia, Switzerland, Alsace, and the Netherlands. His apostolate, however, was not with the masses, but rather with individuals of all classes who were drawn to him by his singularly attractive personality, and to whom he became a personal director in the spiritual life.

Suso was reported to have established among the Friends of God a society which he called the Brotherhood of the Eternal Wisdom. The so-called Rule of the Brotherhood of the Eternal Wisdom is but a free translation of a chapter of his Horologium Sapientiae, and did not make its appearance until the fifteenth century.

Suso was beatified in 1831 by Pope Gregory XVI, who assigned 2 March as his feast day, celebrated within the Dominican Order. The Dominicans now celebrate his feast on 23 January, the feria, or "free" day, nearest the day of his death.

The words of the Christmas song In dulci jubilo are attributed to Suso

St. Marianne Cope

† இன்றைய புனிதர் †

(ஜனவரி 23)

✠ புனிதர் மரியான் கோப் ✠

(St. Marianne Cope)

கன்னியர்; துறவி; தொழுநோயாளருக்கு மறைப்பணியாளர்:

(Virgin, Religious, Missionary to Lepers)

பிறப்பு: ஜனவரி 23, 1838

ஹெப்பன்ஹைம், ஹெஸ்ஸே மாநிலம் (இன்று ஜெர்மனிப் பகுதி)

(Heppenheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse)

இறப்பு: ஆகஸ்ட் 9, 1918 (வயது 80)

கலாவுபப்பா, ஹவாயி (ஐக்கிய அமெரிக்க நாடுகள்)

(Kalaupapa, Hawaiʻi)

ஏற்கும் சமயம்: 

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

(Roman Catholic Church)

எப்பிஸ்கோப்பல் திருச்சபை (ஐ.அ.நா.)

(Episcopal Church)

அருளாளர் பட்டம்: மே 14, 2005

திருத்தந்தை பதினாறாம் பெனடிக்ட்

(Pope Benedict XVI)

புனிதர் பட்டம்: அக்டோபர் 21, 2012

திருத்தந்தை பதினாறாம் பெனடிக்ட்

(Pope Benedict XVI)

முக்கிய திருத்தலங்கள்: 

பிரான்சிஸ்கு சபை சகோதரிகளின் தலைமை இல்லத்தில் அமைந்த ஆலயமும் அருங்காட்சியகமும் (சீரக்யூஸ், நியூயார்க் மாநிலம், ஐக்கிய அமெரிக்க நாடுகள்)

(Saint Marianne Cope Shrine & Museum, 601 N. Townsend St. Syracuse, New York, U.S.)

நினைவுத் திருவிழா: ஜனவரி 23

பாதுகாவல்: 

தொழுநோயாளர், எய்ட்ஸ் நோயாளர்; ஹவாயி (Hawaiʻi)

மரியான் கோப் (Marianne Cope), ஜெர்மன் நாட்டில் பிறந்த அமெரிக்க நாட்டின் ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன் சபைத் துறவி ஆவார். அவர் ஐக்கிய அமெரிக்க நாடுகளின் நியூயார்க் மாநிலத்தில் உள்ள சீரக்யூஸ் நகரில் அமைந்த ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன் சபையில் (Sisters of St Francis of Syracuse, New York) உறுப்பினரும், நியூயார்க் நகரின் "புனித ஜோசப்" மருத்துவமனையின் (St. Joseph's Hospital) நிர்வாகியுமாவார்.

பிறரன்புப் பணிகளைப் புரிவதில் இவர் தலைசிறந்து விளங்கினார். குறிப்பாக, இவரும் பிற ஆறு அருட்சகோதரிகளும் இணைந்து ஹவாயியில் உள்ள மோலக்காய் தீவில் ஒதுக்கப்பட்டு வாழ்ந்த தொழுநோயாளருக்கு அன்புப் பணி செய்தனர். தொழுநோயாளரின் குடியேற்றத்தில் அவர்களோடு மிக நெருங்கிப் பழகி அவர்களுக்குப் பணி செய்தபோதிலும் மேரியானைத் தொழுநோய் தீண்டவில்லை. சிலர் அதை ஒரு அதிசயமாகவே காண்கிறார்கள்.

பிறப்பும் துறவற அழைத்தலும்:

"மரியா அன்னா பார்பரா கூப்" (Maria Anna Barbara Koob) என்ற திருமுழுக்குப் பெயர் கொண்ட மேரியான் கோப், பின்னர் அவரது குடும்பப் பெயர் கோப் (Cope) என்று மாற்றம் பெற்றது. "பீட்டர் கூப்" (Peter Koob) மற்றும் "பார்பரா விட்சென்பாச்சர்" (Barbara Witzenbacher) ஆகியோரின் மகளாகத் தோன்றிய மரியான் பிறந்த இடம், இன்றைய ஜெர்மனியில் அமைந்த "ஹெஸ்" (Hesse) மாநிலத்தின் "ஹெப்பன்ஹைம்" (Heppenheim) என்னும் நகர் ஆகும்.

மரியானுக்கு ஒரு வயதிருக்கும்போது அவர்தம் பெற்றோர் குடும்பத்தோடு ஐக்கிய அமெரிக்க நாடுகளுக்கு புலம்பெயர்ந்து வந்து சேர்ந்தார்கள். நியூயார்க் மாநிலத்தின் யூட்டிக்கா (Utica) என்னும் நகரில் அவர்கள் குடியேறினர். அங்கு, புனித ஜோசப் ஆலய பங்கில் அவர்கள் உறுப்பினர் ஆயினர். அப்பங்கைச் சார்ந்த புனித ஜோசப் கல்வியகத்தில் மேரியான் கல்வி பயின்றார். மேரியான் எட்டாம் வகுப்பில் படித்தபோது அவருடைய தந்தையின் உடல் ஊனமுறவே அவரால் வேலைக்குச் செல்ல இயலவில்லை. குடும்பத்தைப் பராமரிக்கும் பொறுப்பு மூத்த குழந்தையாகிய மரியானின் தலைமேல் விழுந்தது. அவர் ஒரு தொழிற்கூடத்தில் வேலைசெய்யப் போனார்.

மரியானின் தந்தைக்கு இயல்பாகவே அமெரிக்க குடியுரிமை கிடைத்ததால், அவரோடு குடும்ப உறுப்பினர் அனைவருக்கும் அமெரிக்கக் குடியுரிமை வழங்கப்பட்டது.

பீட்டர் கோப் கி.பி. 1862ல் இறந்தபோது மேரியானுக்கு வயது 24. அவருடைய குடும்பம் தன்னிறைவு பெற்றது. மரியான் குடும்பப் பொறுப்புகளைத் துறந்துவிட்டு ஒரு துறவியாக முடிவு செய்தார். இவ்வாறு அவரது இளமைப்பருவ ஆவல் நிறைவேறிற்று.

துறவற வாழ்க்கை:

நியூயார்க் மாநிலத்தின் சீரக்யூஸ் நகரில், மரியான் புனித பிரான்சிஸ்கு மூன்றாம் சபைத் துறவியர் பிரிவில் புகுமுக உறுப்பினராகச் சேர்ந்தார். பயிற்சிக்காலம் முடிந்ததும் பிற சகோதரிகளைப் போல அவருக்கும் துறவு உடை அளிக்கப்பட்டது. அவருக்கு வழங்கப்பட்ட துறவறப் பெயர் "மேரியான்" (Marianne). ஜெர்மனியிலிருந்து வந்து அமெரிக்காவில் குடியேறிய ஜெர்மன் மொழி மக்களுக்காக நிறுவப்பட்ட பள்ளியொன்றில் மரியான் ஆசிரியராகப் பொறுப்பேற்றார். பின்னர் அத்தகைய பள்ளிகளின் தலைமை ஆசிரியர் ஆனார்.

மரியான் தமது துறவற சபையின் ஆட்சிக் குழு உறுப்பினராக கி.பி. 1870ல் நியமிக்கப்பட்டார்.

மருத்துவ நிர்வாகப் பணி:

தமது சபையின் ஆட்சிக் குழுப்பொறுப்பில் இருந்தபோது நடு நியூயார்க் பகுதியில் இரு மருத்துவமனைகள் நிறுவப்பட மரியான் வழிவகுத்தார். மத, இன வேறுபாடின்றி அனைத்து மக்களுக்கும் மருத்துவ வசதி அளிப்பதை அம்மருத்துவமனைகள் கொள்கையாகக் கொண்டிருந்தன.

கி.பி. 1870-1877 காலக்கட்டத்தில் மரியான், சீரக்யூசில் புனித ஜோசப் மருத்துவ மனையின் நிர்வாகியாக நியமிக்கப்பட்டார். அப்போது, நியூயார்க் மாநிலத்தின் ஜெனீவா நகரில் அமைந்திருந்த மருத்துவக் கல்லூரியை சீரக்யூசுக்குக் கொண்டுவர மரியான் துணைபுரிந்தார். சீரக்யூஸ் நகரில் அந்நிறுவனம் "ஜெனீவா மருத்துவக் கல்லூரி" என்னும் பெயர் பெற்றது. மருத்துவக் கல்லூரியில் பயின்ற மாணவர்களுக்கு அத்துறையில் போதிய பயிற்சி கிடைக்க வேண்டும் என்றால் அவர்கள் மருத்துவமனையில் இருந்த நோயாளருக்கு மருத்துவப் பணி செய்யவேண்டும் என்று மரியான் அதற்கான ஏற்பாடுகள் செய்தார்.

அவ்வாறு செய்துகொண்ட ஒப்பந்தத்தில், மருத்துவ மாணவர்களின் பணி தங்களுக்குத் தேவையில்லை என்று நோயாளர்கள் அப்பணியை மறுப்பதற்கு உரிமை கொண்டுள்ளார்கள் என்னும் பிரிவையும் சேர்க்கச் செய்தார்.

இவ்வாறு மருத்துவத் துறையில் மரியான் சிறந்த அனுபவம் பெற்றார். அந்த அனுபவம் அவர் பிற்காலத்தில் ஆற்றவிருந்த மாபெரும் மருத்துவப் பணிக்கு ஒரு முன் தயாரிப்பாக அமைந்தது.

ஹவாயிக்குச் செல்ல அழைப்பு:

இதற்கிடையில் அன்னை மரியான் தமது துறவற சபைக்கு உயர் தலைவியாகத் தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டார். அவர் அப்பதவியை வகித்தபோது, கி.பி. 1883ல் அவருடைய உதவியைக் கோரி ஒரு வேண்டுகோள் வந்தது.

ஹவாயி நாட்டின் அரசராக இருந்த கலாக்காவுவா (Kalākaua) என்பவர், தம் நாட்டில் தொழுநோயால் பாதிக்கப்பட்ட நோயாளிகளுக்கு மருத்துவ உதவி அளிக்க மரியான் தமது சபைத் துறவியரை அனுப்பித்தர வேண்டும் என்று உருக்கமான வேண்டுகோள் விடுத்தார். அவர் ஏற்கெனவே 50க்கும் மேற்பட்ட பெண்துறவியர் சபைகளை அணுகியும் அவருக்கு எந்தவொரு சபையும் உதவிட முன்வரவில்லை என்றும் அவர் வருத்தம் தெரிவித்தார்.

மன்னரின் வேண்டுகோளைக் கேட்ட அன்னை மரியான் உள்ளம் உருகினார். உடனடியாக, தம் சபை சகோதரிகள் ஹவாயி சென்று தொழுநோயாளருக்கு மருத்துவ உதவி அளிக்கப்போவதாக வாக்களித்தார்.

மன்னருக்கு எழுதிய கடிதத்தில் அன்னை மரியான் பின்வருமாறு கூறினார்:

"உங்கள் தீவுநாட்டில் வாழ்கின்ற ஏழை மக்களின் உய்வுக்காக உழைப்பது குறித்து நான் பேராவல் கொண்டுள்ளேன். அப்பணியை ஆற்றுவதற்குத் தெரிந்துகொள்ளப்படுவோருள் நானும் ஒருத்தியாக இருக்கவேண்டும் என்று என் உளமார எதிர்பார்க்கின்றேன். அப்பணியை ஆற்றுவது எனக்கு அளிக்கப்படுகின்ற கவுரவம் எனக் கருதுகின்றேன். எந்த நோயைக் கண்டும் எனக்குப் பயம் இல்லை. எனவே, கைவிடப்பட்ட தொழுநோயாளருக்குப் பணிசெய்வதைப் பெருமையாகக் கருதுகின்றேன்."

ஹவாயிக்குப் பயணம்:

சபைத் தலைவியாக இருந்த அன்னை மரியான், தம்மோடு ஆறு சகோதரிகளை அழைத்துக்கொண்டு தொழுநோயாளருக்குப் பணிபுரிவதற்காக ஹவாயியின் "ஹொனலூலு" (Honolulu) நகருக்கு சீரக்யூசிலிருந்து புறப்பட்டுச் சென்றார். சகோதரிகள் குழு கி.பி. 1883, நவம்பர் 8ம் நாள் ஹொனலூலு போய்ச் சேர்ந்தது.

"எஸ். எஸ். மரிபோசா" (S. S. Mariposa) என்னும் பெயர்கொண்ட கப்பலில் பயணம் செய்த சகோதரிகள் ஹொனலூலு துறைமுகத்தில் தரையிறங்கியதும் “அமைதியின் அன்னை மரியாள்” பெருங்கோவிலில் மணிகள் மகிழ்ச்சிக் கீதம் ஒலித்தன.

ஹவாயி நாட்டின் பல தீவுகளிலிருந்தும் அனுப்பப்பட்ட தொழுநோயாளர்கள் வந்து கூடிய கக்காக்கோ மருத்துவ மனையை நிர்வகிக்கும் பொறுப்பு மரியானிடமும் சகோதரிகளிடமும் ஒப்படைக்கப்பட்டது. தொழுநோய் முற்றிய நிலையில் இருந்த நோயாளிகள் அம்மருத்துவ மனையிலிருந்து மோலக்காய் தீவுக்கு கப்பல்வழி அனுப்பப்படுவர். அங்கு கலாவாவோ தொழுநோயாளர் குடியேற்றத்திலும் அதற்குப் பின் கலாவுபப்பா குடியேற்றத்திலும் ஒதுக்கி அடைக்கப்படுவர். பிற மனிதர்களோடு தொடர்புகொண்டால் அவர்களுக்கும் தொழுநோய் தொற்றிவிடும் என்ற பயத்தில் தொழுநோயாளர்கள் ஒதுக்கப்பட்ட இடத்தில் அடைக்கப்பட்டார்கள். இவ்வாறு "தொழுநோயாளர் குடியேற்றம்" (Leper Colony) உருவானது.

தொழுநோயாளர் நடுவே தொடர்பணி:

ஓராண்டுக்குப் பின் ஹவாயி அரசு அன்னை மரியானிடம் இன்னொரு உதவி கோரியது. அக்கோரிக்கையை ஏற்று, அவர் ஹவாயியின் மாவுயி (Maui) தீவில் மலுலானி மருத்துவமனையை (Malulani Hospital) நிறுவினார். அதுவே மாவுயி தீவில் நிறுவப்பட்ட முதல் பொது மருத்துவமனை.

ஆனால், விரைவிலேயே அன்னை மரியானின் சேவை வேறு இடங்களில் தேவைப்பட்டது. ஹவாயியின் ஒவாகு (Oahu) என்னும் மூன்றாவது பெரிய தீவில் கக்காக்கோ (Kakaʻako) நகரில் அமைந்திருந்த மருத்துவமனையில் அரசு சார்பில் நியமிக்கப்பட்டிருந்த நிர்வாகி அம்மருத்துவமனையில் பராமரிக்கப்பட்ட தொழுநோயாளரைக் கொடுமைப்படுத்தினார் என்பதால் அங்கு நிலைமையைச் சரிப்படுத்த மரியான் அழைக்கப்பட்டார்.

தொழுநோயாளருக்கு இழைக்கப்பட்ட கொடுமையை மரியான் வன்மையாகக் கண்டித்தார். ஒன்றில் அரசு நிர்வாகி பணிநீக்கம் செய்யப்பட வேண்டும் அல்லது தானும் சகோதரிகளோடு ஹவாயியை விட்டு மீண்டும் சீரக்யூசுக்குத் திரும்பவேண்டும் என்று அவர் ஹவாயி அரசுக்கு நிபந்தனை விதித்தார். அரசு உடனடி நடிவடிக்கை எடுத்து, அரசு நிர்வாகியைப் பணிநீக்கம் செய்ததோடு, ஏற்கெனவே பணிச்சுமை தாளாமல் இருந்த மரியானும் சகோதரிகளும் கூடுதல் பொறுப்பாக கக்காக்கோ மருத்துவமனையையும் நிர்வகிக்கும்படி கேட்டது.

இவ்வாறு மரியான், தொழுநோயாளரின் எண்ணிக்கை நிறைந்து வழிந்த கக்காக்கோ மருத்துவமனையையும் நிர்வகிக்கலானார். ஹவாயி நாடு முழுவதிலும் தொழுநோயாளரைக் கவனித்துப் பராமரிக்க அன்னை மரியானின் சேவை இன்றியமையாதது என்று அரசும் திருச்சபையும் வலியுறுத்தியதால், மரியான் சீரக்யூசுக்குத் திரும்பி தம் சபையின் தலைமைப் பொறுப்பை ஏற்பது இன்னும் தள்ளிப்போடப்பட்டது.

அரசு விருது வழங்கப்படல்:

மேரியானும் சகோதரிகளும் ஹவாயியில் தொழு நோயாளரிடையே பணிபுரியச் சென்று இரண்டு ஆண்டுகள் கடந்தன. மரியானின் தலைமையில் சகோதரிகள் தன்னலம் கருதாது ஏழை நோயாளிகளுக்கு ஆற்றிய பிறரன்புச் சேவையையும் அரும்பணியையும் பெரிதும் புகழ்ந்த அந்நாட்டு மன்னர், மரியானுக்கு "கப்பியோலானி அரச அணியின் உறுப்பினர் சிலுவை" (Cross of a Companion of the Royal Order of Kapiolani) என்ற சிறப்புப் பதக்கம் வழங்கிக் கவுரவித்தார்.

பெண்குழந்தைகளுக்கு "கப்பியோலானி இல்லம்":

நாள் போகப்போக அன்னை மரியானின் பணிப்பளு கூடியதே தவிர, குறையவில்லை. ஓராண்டுக்குப் பின், இன்னொரு முக்கிய தேவை நிறைவேறப்பட வேண்டும் என்று அவர் உணர்ந்தார். தொழுநோய் வாய்ப்பட்டு குடும்பத்திலிருந்து பிரிக்கப்பட்ட நோயாளரின் பெண் குழந்தைகளுக்குக் கல்வியும் வாழ்க்கை முன்னேற்றமும் அளிக்கப்பட வேண்டும் என்று முடிவுசெய்த மரியான் ஹவாயி அரசிடம் ஒரு வேண்டுகோளை முன்வைத்தார். அதாவது தொழுநோயாளரின் பெண் குழந்தைகளின் நலனைப் பேணுவதற்கு ஒரு தனி இல்லம் உருவாக்க வேண்டும் என்று கேட்டார். அவ்வாறே "கப்பியோலானி பெண் குழந்தைகள் இல்லம்" உருவாக்கப்பட்டது.

தொழுநோயால் பாதிக்கப்படாதிருந்தும் அப்பெண் குழந்தைகள் தொழுநோயாளர் மருத்துவமனை வளாகத்திலேயே அமைந்த "கப்பியோலானி இல்லத்தில்" பராமரிக்கப்பட்டனர். தொழுநோயாளரோடு நெருங்கிய தொடர்புகள் கொண்டிருந்து தீட்டுப்பட்ட அக்குழந்தைகளைப் பராமரிக்க வேறு யாரும் முன்வராததால் மேற்கூறிய ஏற்பாடு செய்யப்பட்டது. மரியான் அக்குழந்தைகளின் பராமரிப்பையும் மேற்பார்வையிட்டார்.

இறப்பும் அடக்கமும்:

ஹவாயி நாட்டில் ஒதுக்கப்பட்டு தனிக்குடியேற்றத்தில் அடைக்கப்பட்டு அவதியுற்ற தொழுநோயாளருக்குப் பணிபுரிய தம்மையே அர்ப்பணித்த அன்னை மரியான் கி.பி. 1918ம் ஆண்டு, ஆகஸ்ட் மாதம், 9ம் நாள் இயற்கைக் காரணங்களால் இறந்தார். கடவுளுக்குப் பணிபுரிவோர் கடவுளால் உருவாக்கப்பட்ட மக்களுக்கும், குறிப்பாக, கைவிடப்பட்டோருக்கும் பணிபுரிய வேண்டும் என்பதே மரியானின் கொள்கையாய் இருந்தது.

ஹவாயியின் கலாவுபப்பாவில் பெண் தொழுநோயாளருக்கான இல்லத்தில், அவர் பணிபுரிந்த இடத்திலேயே அவர் அடக்கம் செய்யப்பட்டார்.

Feastday: January 23

Patron: of lepers, outcasts, those with HIV/AIDS, the Hawaii

Birth: January 23, 1838

Death: August 9, 1918

Beatified: May 14, 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI

Canonized: October 21, 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI

Saint Marianne Cope, O.S.F. is also known as Saint Marianne of Moloka'i. She was born in Germany on January 23, 1838 and spent much of her life working in Hawai'i working with lepers on the island of Moloka'i.

She was beatified in 2005 and declared a saint by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012.

Cope was born on January 23, 1838 in Heppenheim, in what was then the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Today, that region is part of Germany. She was baptized Maria Anna Barbara Koob, which was later changed to Cope.

Just a year after her birth, her family emigrated to the United States, settling in Utica. New York. Cope attended a parish school until she reached the eighth grade. By that time, her father had become an invalid and she went to work in a factory to support the family.

Her father died in 1862, and this along with her siblings maturity, permitted her to leave the factory to pursue a religious life. She became a novitiate of the Sisters of the Third Order Regular of Saint Francis based in Syracuse, New York. She took the name Marianne when she completed her formation.

German-speaking immigrants settled in large numbers in her area of New York state, so she became a teacher and later a principal at a school for immigrant children.

Cope also helped direct the opening of the first two Catholic hospitals in central New York. She arranged for students from the Geneva Medical College in New York to work at the hospital, but also stipulated that patients should be able to refuse treatment by them. It was one of the first times in history that the right of a patient to refuse treatment was recognized.

By 1883, Cope had become the Superior General of her congregation. It was at this time she received a plea for help from leprosy sufferers in Hawaii. King Kalakaua himself sent the letter asking for aid in treating patients who were isolated on the island of Moloka'i. The King had already been declined by more than 50 other religious institutes.

Mother Marianne, as she was then known, left Syracuse with six sisters to attend to the sick, and arrived on November 8,1883.

Once arrived, Mother Marianne managed a hospital on the island of O'ahu, where victims of leprosy were sent for triage. The most severe patients were sent to the island of Moloka'i.

The next year, Mother Marianne helped establish the Malulani hospital on the island of Maui.

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Her tenure at Malulani hospital did not last as she was soon called back to O'ahu to deal with claims of abuse from the government-appointed administrator there. Upon arrival and following an initial investigation, Mother Marianne demanded that he resign or she would leave. The government dismissed the administrator and gave her full management of the hospital there.

Although Mother Marianne was getting older, he workload only seemed to increase. Soon, she was responsible for orphans of women who had contracted the disease as well as clergy who had contracted the disease while working with lepers.

Eventually, Mother Marianne's work became a burden on her frail body and she was confined to a wheelchair. Despite this limitation, she continued to work tirelessly. Many noticed that despite all her years of work she never contracted leprosy herself, which many regarded as a miracle in itself.

Mother Marianne passed away on August 9, 1918 and was buried at Bishop Home.

In the years following her death, several miracles were reported in her name. In 1993, a woman was miraculously cured after multiple organ failure following prayers to Mother Marianne. The woman's subsequent recovery was certified by the Church and Mother Marianne was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI on May 14, 2005.

After her beatification, Mother Marianne's remains were moved to Syracuse, New York and placed in a shrine.

On December 6, 2011, an additional miracle was credited to her and approved by Benedict.

On October 21, 2012, she was officially canonized by Benedict.

Marianne Cope, also known as Saint Marianne of Molokaʻi, (January 23, 1838 – August 9, 1918) was a German-born American religious sister who was a member of the Sisters of St Francis of Syracuse, New York, and founding leader of its St. Joseph's Hospital in the city, among the first of 50 general hospitals in the country.[1] Known also for her charitable works, in 1883 she relocated with six other sisters to Hawaiʻi to care for persons suffering leprosy on the island of Molokaʻi and aid in developing the medical infrastructure in Hawaiʻi. Despite direct contact with the patients over many years, Cope did not contract the disease.

In 2005, Cope was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI.[2] Cope was declared a saint by the same pope on October 21, 2012, along with Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Native American.[3] Cope is the 11th person in what is now the United States to be canonized by the Catholic Church.[3]

Life

Birth and vocation

Cope was baptized Barbara Koob, later anglicizing her last name to "Cope". She was born on January 23, 1838, in Heppenheim in the Grand Duchy of Hesse to Peter Koob (1787–1862) and Barbara Witzenbacher (1803–1872). The following year her family emigrated to the United States, settling in the industrial city of Utica, New York. They became members of the Parish of St Joseph, where Cope attended parish school. By the time she was in eighth grade, her father had become an invalid. As the oldest child, Cope left school to work in a textile factory to help support her family.[4] Her father became naturalized as an American citizen, which at the time meant the entire family received automatic citizenship status.[citation needed]

By the time their father Peter Cope died in 1862, the younger children in the family were of age to support themselves, so Barbara pursued her long-felt religious calling. She entered the novitiate of the Sisters of the Third Order Regular of Saint Francis in Syracuse, New York. After a year of formation, Cope received the religious habit of the Franciscan Sisters along with the new name Marianne. She became first a teacher and then a principal in newly established schools for the region's German-speaking immigrants. Following the revolutions of 1848, numerous German immigrants entered the United States.[citation needed]

By 1870, Cope had become a member of the governing council of her religious congregation. She helped found the first two Catholic hospitals in Central New York, with charters stipulating that medical care was to be provided to all, regardless of race or creed. She was appointed by the Superior General to govern St. Joseph's Hospital, the first public hospital in Syracuse, serving from 1870 to 1877.[citation needed]

As hospital administrator, Cope became involved with the move of Geneva Medical College of Hobart College from Geneva, New York, to Syracuse, where it became the College of Medicine at Syracuse University. She contracted with the college to accept their students for treating patients in her hospital, to further their medical education. Her stipulation in the contract—again unique for the period—was the right of the patients to refuse care by the students. These experiences helped prepare her for the special ministry she next pursued.[5]

Call to Hawaii

In 1883, Cope, by then Superior General of the congregation, received a plea for help from King Kalākaua of Hawaii to care for leprosy sufferers. More than 50 religious congregations had already declined his request for Sisters to do this because leprosy was considered to be highly contagious. She responded enthusiastically to the letter:

I am hungry for the work and I wish with all my heart to be one of the chosen Ones, whose privilege it will be, to sacrifice themselves for the salvation of the souls of the poor Islanders... I am not afraid of any disease, hence it would be my greatest delight even to minister to the abandoned 'lepers.'[6]

The Sisters of St. Francis, at the Kakaʻako Branch Hospital.

Walter Murray Gibson with the Sisters of St. Francis and daughters of Hansen's disease patients, at the Kakaʻako Branch Hospital.

Cope departed from Syracuse with six other Sisters to travel to Honolulu to answer this call, arriving on November 8, 1883. They traveled on the SS Mariposa. With Mother Marianne as supervisor, the Sisters' task was to manage Kakaʻako Branch Hospital on Oʻahu, which served as a receiving station for Hansen's disease patients gathered from all over the islands. The more severe cases were processed and shipped to the island of Molokaʻi for confinement in the settlement at Kalawao, and then later at Kalaupapa.

The following year, at the request of the government, Cope set up Malulani Hospital, the first general hospital on the island of Maui. Soon, she was called back to the hospital in Oahu. She had to deal with a government-appointed administrator's abuse of the leprosy patients at the Branch Hospital at Kakaako, an area adjoining Honolulu. She told the government that either the administrator had to be dismissed or the Sisters would return to Syracuse. She was given charge of the overcrowded hospital. Her return to Syracuse to re-assume governance of the congregation was delayed, as both the government and church authorities thought she was essential to the success of the mission.

Two years later, the king awarded Cope with the Cross of a Companion of the Royal Order of Kapiolani for her care of his people.[7] The work continued to increase. In November 1885, Cope opened the Kapiolani Home with the support of the government, to provide shelter to homeless female children of leprosy patients. The home was located on the grounds of a leprosy hospital because only the Sisters were willing to care for children so closely associated to people suffering from leprosy.

In 1887, a new government came into office. It ended the forced exile of leprosy patients to Molokai and closed the specialty hospital in Oahu. A year later, the authorities pleaded with Cope to establish a new home for women and girls on the Kalaupapa peninsula of Molokai. She accepted the call, knowing that it might mean she would never return to New York. "We will cheerfully accept the work…" was her response.[5]

Molokai

Mother Marianne Cope and Sister Leopoldina Burns beside the funeral bier of Father Damien

Mother Marianne Cope (in the wheelchair) only a few days before she died.

Scales used by Mother Marianne Cope and the Sisters to measure medicine, Kalaupapa, Hawaii, late 1880s

In November 1888, Cope moved to Kalaupapa. She cared for the dying Father Damien, SS.CC., who was already known internationally for his work in the leper colony, and began to take over his burdens. She had met him shortly after her arrival in Hawaii.

When Father Damien died on April 15, 1889, the government officially gave Cope charge for the care of the boys of Kalaupapa, in addition to her existing role in caring for the female residents of the colony. A prominent local businessman, Henry Perrine Baldwin, donated money for the new home. Cope and two assistants, Sister Leopoldina Burns and Sister Vincentia McCormick, opened and ran a new girls' school, which she named in Baldwin's honor. A community of Religious Brothers was sought to come and care for the boys. After the arrival of four Brothers of the Sacred Heart in 1895,[8] Cope withdrew the Sisters to the Bishop Home for leprous women and girls. Joseph Dutton was given charge of Baldwin House by the government.[citation needed]

Death

Cope died on August 9, 1918, due to natural causes. She was buried on the grounds of the Bishop Home. In 2005, her remains were brought to Syracuse for reinterment at her motherhouse.[9] In 2014, her remains were returned to Honolulu and are enshrined at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace.

St. John the Almoner.

இன்றைய புனிதர் :

(23-01-2021) 

தான தர்மங்கள் செய்த தூய யோவான் (ஜனவரி 23)

தூய யோவான் (John the Almsgiver) தான தர்மங்களில் மிகவும் சிறந்து விளங்கியதற்கு காரணமாக அமைந்ததாகச் சொல்லப்படும் நிகழ்வு.

ஒரு சமயம் அவர் ஆலயத்தில் அமர்ந்து ஜெபித்துக்கொண்டிருந்தபோது பெண் ஒருவர் காட்சி தந்தார். பிற்காலத்தில்தான் தெரிந்தது அந்தப் பெண் வேறுயாருமல்ல அன்னை மரியாள் என்று. அவர் யோவானிடம், “நான்தான் விண்ணகத் தந்தையின் மூத்த மகள். என்மீது நீ பக்திகொண்டு, தான தர்மங்களைச் செய்து வந்தால், நான் உன்னை இயேசு கிறிஸ்துவுக்கு மிக நெருக்கமாக அழைத்துச் செல்வேன்” என்றார். அந்தப் பெண் – அன்னை மரியா - சொன்னதற்கிணங்க யோவான் ஏழை எளிய மக்களுக்கு தான தர்மங்களை வழங்கி வந்தார். அதனால் அவர் பிற்காலத்தில் புனிதராகும் பேறு பெற்றார்.

வாழ்க்கை வரலாறு

யோவான் 550 ஆம் ஆண்டினை ஒட்டி எபிபெனயுஸ் என்பவருக்கு மகனாகப் பிறந்தார். பிற்காலத்தில் இவர் வளர்ந்து சைப்ரசின் ஆளுநராக உயர்ந்தார். மனைவி மக்கள் என்று இவர் மிகவும் சந்தோசமாக வாழ்ந்துகொண்டிருந்தபோது திடிரென்று ஒருநாள் இவருடைய மனைவியும் பிள்ளைகளும் இறந்து போனார்கள். இதனால் வாழ்க்கையை வெறுத்துப் போன யோவான் எல்லாவற்றையும் துறந்து, குருமடத்தில் சேர்ந்து குருவாக மாறினார். ஒருசில ஆண்டுகளில் இவர் அலெக்ஸ்சாந்திரிய நகரின் ஆயராக உயர்ந்தார்.

இவர் அலெக்ஸ்சாந்திரியா நகரின் ஆயராக உயர்ந்த பின்னர் ‘நிபந்தனை இன்றி தான தர்மங்கள் செய்வது’ என்பதை விருதுவாக்காக எடுத்துக்கொண்டு தேவையில் இருக்கின்ற எல்லாருக்கும் உதவி செய்திட திட்டம் தீட்டினார். அதற்காக அவர் நகரில் இருந்த ஏழை எளியவர்களுடைய பட்டியலைத் தயாரித்தார். வாரத்தில் புதன் மற்றும் வெள்ளிக்கிழமையை அவர்களுக்காக ஒதுக்கி அவர்களுடைய வாழ்வு ஏற்றம் பெற அவர் கடுமையாக உழைத்தார்.

யோவான் ஏழை எளியவர்மீது மட்டுமல்லாமல் நோயாளிகள்மீதும் அதிக அன்பும் அக்கறையும் காட்டி வந்தார். வீட்டில் இருந்த நோயாளிகளையும் மருத்தவமனையில் இருந்த நோயாளிகளையும் சந்தித்து, அவர்களிடம் ஆறுதலாகப் பேச அவர் தவறியதே இல்லை. யோவானிடம் இருந்த மற்றொரு சிறப்பான குணம் அவர் எல்லாரையும் சமமாகவே பார்ப்பதுதான். இதனால் அவரை யாரும் எந்த நேரத்திலும் எளிதாய் அணுகி வரக்கூடிய சூழ்நிலை ஏற்பட்டது. இவ்வாறு ஏழைக்குப் பங்களானாக வாழ்ந்து வந்த யோவான் பெர்சிய நாட்டுப் படை அலெக்ஸ்சாந்திரியாவின் மீது படையெடுத்து வந்தபோது அதில் அவர் நாடுகடத்தப் பட்டு சைப்ரசிற்கு கொண்டு செல்லப்பட்டார். அங்கே அவர் 614 ஆம் ஆண்டு நோய் வாய்ப்பட்டு இறந்துபோனார்.

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

Feastday: January 23

Birth: 552

Death: 616

Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, called "the Almoner" because of his generosity to the poor. He was born into a noble family of Cyprus and was briefly married. When his wife and child died, he entered the religious life, and in 608 was named patriarch of Alexandria. He aided refugees from the Persian assaults on the Holy Land and built charitable institutions. John predicted his own death. He had to leave Alexandria when a Persian invasion troubled the region and had a vision of his demise. John went to Amathus, on Cyprus, where he died on November 11.

John the Merciful (Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Ἐλεήμων, romanized: Iōannēs ho Eleēmōn), also known as St John the Almsgiver, John the Almoner, John V of Alexandria, John Eleymon, and Johannes Eleemon, was the Chalcedonian Patriarch of Alexandria in the early 7th century (from 606 to 616) and a Christian saint. He is the patron saint of Casarano, Italy and of Limassol, Cyprus.

Early life

He was born at Amathus as the son of Epiphanius, governor of Cyprus, and was of noble descent. In early life he was married and had children, but his wife and children soon died, after which he entered religious life.

Patriarch of Alexandria

John the Merciful, second half of the 15th century, Warsaw National Museum

On the death of the Patriarch Theodore, the Alexandrians besought Emperor Phocas to appoint John his successor, which was accordingly done. One of the first steps he took was to make a list of several thousand needy persons, whom he took under his especial care. He always referred to the poor as his "lords and masters", because of their mighty influence at the Court of the Most High. He assisted people of every class who were in need.

He was a reformer who attacked simony, and fought heresy by means of improvements in religious education. He also reorganized the system of weights and measures for the sake of the poor, and put a stop to corruption among the officials. He increased the number of churches in Alexandria from seven to seventy.

The ministry of Vitalis of Gaza, a monk who worked among the prostitutes of the city, was a noteworthy episode of John's reign. The patriarch was considered to have behaved with wisdom for not punishing this monk who was notorious for visiting the seedy part of town, and his judgment was vindicated only after the death of Vitalis when the story of the monk's mission of mercy became known.[1]

Anecdotes about almsgiving

In his youth John had had a vision of a beautiful maiden with a garland of olives on her head, who said that she was Compassion, the eldest daughter of the Great King. This had evidently made a deep impression on John's mind, and, now that he had the opportunity of exercising benevolence on a large scale, he soon became widely known all over the East for his liberality towards the poor.

A shipwrecked merchant was thus helped three times, on the first two occasions apparently without doing him much good; the third time however, John fitted him out with a ship and a cargo of wheat, and by favourable winds he was taken as far as Britain, where, as there was a shortage of wheat, he obtained his own price.[2]

Another person, who was not really in need, applied for alms and was detected by the officers of the palace; but John merely said "Give unto him; he may be Our Lord in disguise." He visited the hospitals three times every week, and he freed a great many slaves. John is said to have devoted the entire revenues of his see to the alleviation of those in need. A rich man presented him with a magnificent bed covering; he accepted it for one night, but then sold it, and disposed of the money in alms. The rich man "bought in" the article, and again presented it to John, with the same result. This was repeated several times; but John drily remarked: "We will see who tires first."[3]

Another instance of his piety was that he caused his own grave to be dug, but only partly so, and appointed a servant to come before him on all state occasions and say "My Lord, your tomb is unfinished; pray give orders for its completion, for you know not the hour when death may seize you." When the Sassanids sacked Jerusalem in 614, John sent large supplies of food, wine, and money to the fleeing Christians. But eventually the Persians occupied Alexandria, and John himself in his old age was forced to flee to his native country, where he died.

Death and Veneration

John died in Cyprus somewhere between 616 and 620.

From Cyprus his body was moved to Constantinople, then in 1249 to Venice, where there is a church dedicated to him, the Chiesa di San Giovanni Elemosinario, although his relics are preserved in another church, San Giovanni in Bragora, in a separate chapel.

Another relic of him was sent by Sultan Bayezid II in 1489 to King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. It was placed in the private Royal Chapel in Buda Castle, which was dedicated to him. Now his body lies in the St. John the Merciful Chapel in St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava, Slovakia.

A church in Cospicua, Malta, is dedicated to him, and one of the bastions of the Santa Margherita Lines in the same city is also named after him.

Espousal of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Feast in honor of the Blessed Virgin's espousal to Saint Joseph. It dates from 1517 when it was granted to the nuns of the Annunciation by Pope Leo X with nine other Masses in honor of Our Lady. Adopted by many religious orders and dioceses, it was observed for a time by nearly the whole Church, but is no longer in the Calendar. It is the subject of a famous painting by Raphael and Viterbo.

Blessed Benedetta Bianchi Porro

Also known as

Bianchi Porro

Profile

Daughter of Guido Bianchi Porro and Elsa Giammarchi, the second of six children. Afflicted with poliomyelitis at an early age, leaving her with a crippled left leg and a need to wear a brace to prevent her spine from deforming. A clever and happy child, she began keeping a diary at age five; it became a lifelong record of her faith and the way she carried the cross of her disability. Much of her primary education was provided by Ursulines. In her teens she began to lose her hearing, and her overall health continued to deterioate.

At age 17 she enrolled in the University of Milan, Italy with a plan to study physics, but later changed to medicine. Some teachers objected to having a pre-med student who was so deaf that had to have written questions during an oral eximation, but Benedetta was an excellent student. In 1957 her studies had reached a point that she was able to diagnose herself; she had Recklinghausen Disease­-Neuro-Fibromatosis which leads to paralysis of the nervous system. She had surgery in 1958 to treat part of the condition, but it was of little benefit, and left the left side of her face paralysed. She continued her studies, but in 1959 she began losing the sense of touch, taste and smell, was completely deaf, and had to give up the idea of a medical career.

Benedetta had further surgery in August 1959; it left both legs paralyzed, and the young woman wheelchair bound. She then turned her sick room into a center of support and communication for others. Her friends from medical school were frequent visitors, and she began correspondences; in person or in print she was uniformly optimistic about life and the love of God. Benedetta and her family visited Lourdes in May 1962 in search of a cure; a paralyzed girl lying next to her was completely healed, but there was no change for Benedetta.

In Milan on 27 February 1963 Benedetta had another operation; it left her blind. She could barely speak, and could only move her right hand. However, the number of her visitors increased as word of her holiness and her gentle understanding of to love God even these circumstances. On 24 June 1963 she went again to Lourdes; as her family waited for her to be healed, she received her own miracle – the understanding that she would not change a thing about her condition.

Born

8 August 1936 at Dovádola, Forli, Italy

Died

• 23 January 1964 at Sirmione, Italy of complications resulting from her Recklinghausen Disease­Neuro-Fibromatosis

• buried in the cemetery at Sirmione

• body later transferred to a sarcophagus in the Benedictine Church of Saint Andrew, Dovadola, Italy

Beatified

• 14 September 2019 by Pope Francis

• beatification recognition celebrated at the Cathedral of Santa Croce in Forlì, Italy, presided by Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu

Saint Maimbod

Also known as

Mainbeouf, Mainbodo

Profile

Wandering missionary who made pilgrimages to tombs of saints and martyrs throughout Gaul and northern Italy, preaching to those he met on the way.

Born

Irish

Died

• c.880 in Kaltenbrunn, Alsace, Gaul (modern France)

• there are two stories of his death

• he was martyred by pagans while preaching to them

• a Burgundian nobleman gave Maimbod a gift of a fine pair of gloves as a reminder to pray for him; while Mainbod was praying at the church of Domnipetra, he was attacked by thieves who thought he had money because of the gloves

• buried at the church of Domnipetra, Kaltenbrunn, Alsace, Gaul

• miracles reported at his tomb, and during the translation of his relics

• Count Aszo of Monteliard asked the blind bishop Berengarius for a gift of the saint's relics; during the move, Berengarius miraculously recovered his sight, and he instituted the feast in honor of Mainbod

• relics destroyed in the 16th century

Canonized

c.900

Saint Emerentiana

#புனித_எமரண்டியனா (-304)

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இவர் (#StEmerentiana) உரோமையைச் சார்ந்தவர். புனித ஆக்னசின் சகோதரி.

மக்களுக்கு மறைக்கல்வியைக் கற்றுக்கொடுத்து வந்தவரான இவர், புனித ஆக்னசின் இறப்பிற்குப் பிறகு அவரது கல்லறையில் வேண்டுவதற்காகச் சென்றனர்.

அப்பொழுது சிலர் இவர் ஆக்னசின் சகோதரி என்றும், கிறிஸ்தவள் என்றும் அறிந்து இவரைக் கல்லால் எறிந்து கொன்றனர். இவ்வாறு இவர் ஆண்டவர் இயேசுவின்மீது கொண்ட நம்பிக்கைக்காகத் தம் இன்னுயிரைத் துறந்தார்.

இவரிடம் வேண்டிக் கொண்டால் வயிற்று வலி நீங்கும் என்றொரு நம்பிக்கை இருக்கிறது.

Also known as

Emerentia

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Foster-sister of Saint Agnes of Rome. Catechumen. While on her way to pray at Saint Agnes's grave a few days after her sister's martyrdom, she was confronted by an angry mob of pagans. Emerentiana professed her Christianity and her relationship to Agnes. Martyr.

Born

Roman

Died

• stoned to death c.304 at Rome, Italy

• buried in the cemetery at Via Nomentana

• relics later translated to the Basilica of Saint Agnes

Patronage

• against abdominal pains

• against colic

• against stomach ache

Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo

Also known as

Ildefonso, Ildefonsus

Profile

Born to the Spanish nobility. Nephew of Saint Eugene of Toledo. Studied at Seville, Spain under Saint Isidore of Seville. Monk at Agli (Agalia) on the River Tagus near Toledo, Spain while still a young man. Abbot at Agli. Attended the Council of Toledo in 653 and 655. Archbishop of Toledo in 657. Responsible for the unification of the Spanish liturgy. Noted writer, especially on Our Lady; only four of his works have survived. Reported to have received an apparition of the Virgin Mary during which she presented him with a chalice.

Born

607 at Toledo, Spain

Died

667 of natural causes

Patronage

San Ildefonso Indian Pueblo

Blessed Margaret of Ravenna

Also known as

• Margaret Molli

• Margarita, Margherita, Marguerite

Profile

Nearly blind. Pious youth, given to severe, self-imposed austerities. She attracted followers, and founded a religious community of men and women. She wrote a separate rule for the community, but the group did not survive her death, the members joining other, established groups.

Born

8 May 1442 at Russi, Ravenna, Italy

Died

23 January 1505 at Ravenna, Italy of natural causes

Beatified

never formally beatified or canonized, but a popular devotion developed soon after her death, the devotees referring to her as Blessed

Saint Andreas Chong Hwa-Gyong

Also known as

• Andeurea Jeong Hwa-Gyeong

• Andrea Tyong Hwa-Gyong

Additional Memorial

20 September as one of the Martyrs of Korea

Profile

Layman catechist in the the apostolic vicariate of Korea. Assistant to Saint Lawrence Imbert. Turned his home into a safe-house for Christians hiding from official persecutions, for which he was shot, arrested and finally executed. Martyr.

Born

1808 in Cheongsan, Chungcheong-do, South Korea

Died

strangled on 23 January 1840 in prison at Seoul, South Korea

Canonized

6 May 1984 by Pope John Paul II

Saint Dositheus of Gaza

Profile

Born a rich pagan, Dositheus spent a wild and worldly youth. During a visit to Jerusalem he was so impressed by Christians, by an horrific image of the torments of hell, and by the message of a woman he saw in a vision, he converted, and became a monk at Gaza. He was placed under the direction of Saint Dorotheus the Younger, who had a long and steady struggle to teach Dositheus discipline, and take him from his worldly ways. Dositheus learned, changed, and became known for his gentle and supportive ways with the sick. When he became too ill to care for other sick people, he prayed that God would relieve him of his life, and soon after, he died quietly in his sleep.

Died

c.530 of a respiratory problem, possibly tuberculosis

Saint Asclas of Antinoe

Profile

Arrested and tortured for his faith by order of Arrian, governor of Egypt, during the persecutions of Diocletian. While Asclas was in prison, Arrian had reason to cross the River Nile on government business - but found he was absolutely unable to leave the water's edge. Asclas sent word that the governor would never be able to cross the river until he acknowledged Christ in writing. Arrian wrote out the statement, and was promptly able to leave the river bank. He crossed the Nile, and the moment he was on the other side, he ordered that Asclas be tortured and drowned. Martyr.

Born

Thebaid, Egypt

Died

drowned in the River Nile at Antinoe, Egypt c.287

Saint Lufthild

Also known as

Lufthildis

Profile

Abused by a jealous step-mother for her kindness to the poor, Lufthild left home young to live as an often-homeless hermit in and around Cologne, Germany.

Died

c.850

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

• cultus confirmed by Archbishop Ferdinand von Wittelsbach of Cologne in 1623

Patronage

• child abuse victims

• hoboes

• homeless people

• tramps

Saint Messalina of Foligno

Profile

Spiritual student of Saint Felician of Foligno. Nun, receiving the veil from Saint Felician. During a period of persecution, Felician was imprisoned; when she visited him, Messalina was suspected of being a Christian. She was arrested, put on trial and ordered to sacrifice to pagan gods; she refused. Martyr.

Died

• beaten to death in 251

• relics re-discovered in 1599

•relics enshrined in the chapel of Our Lady of Loreto in the cathedral of Foligno, Italy

Abel the Patriarch

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Old Testament patriarch. Second son of Adam and Eve, slain by his brother Cain because the latter's oblation was not accepted favourably by God as was Abel's. For his death in this way he is regarded as a type of Our Saviour. His death symbolizes, too, the bloody sacrifice of the Cross and the unbloody one of the altar. He is mentioned in the Canon of the Mass, and his name holds first place in the Litany for the Dying.

Blessed Joan Font Taulat

Also known as

Brother Arnal Ciril

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Member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. Martyred in the Spanish Civil War.

Born

1 July 1890 in Viladamat, Girona, Spain

Died

23 January 1937 in Lleida, Spain

Beatified

• 13 October 2013 by Pope Francis

• beatification celebrated in Tarragona, Spain

Saint Agathangelus

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Adult convert to Christianity, baptized by Saint Clement of Ancyra. Deacon. Evangelized in Ancyra (in modern Turkey) with Saint Clement, and was martyred with him.

Born

Roman

Died

• martyred in 309 in Ancyra (in modern Turkey)

• relics returned to Paris, France by Crusaders in the 13th century

Blessed Juan Infante

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Mercedarian priest. With Blessed Juan Solorzano and Venerable Jorge of Seville, Blessed Juan accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the Americas, and was the first celebrate Mass in South America.

Saint Jurmin

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Prince. Relative of King Anna of East Anglia, England. Brother of Saint Etheldreda. Confessor of the faith.

Born

England

Died

• 653 of natural causes

• interred originally at Blythburgh, Suffolk, England

• relics enshrined at Bury Saint Edmunds in 1095

Saint Clement of Ancyra

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Fourth-century bishop of Ancyra in Galatia, Asia Minor. Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian and Maximinian.

Died

• 303

• relics later taken to Constantinople

• Crusaders later took the relics to western Europe

Saint Ormond of Mairé

Also known as

Armand

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Monk. Abbot of the monastery of Saint Mairé in France, c.587. He supported monastic expansion and evangelization in his region.

Born

French

Died

6th century

Saint Colman of Lismore

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Monk under Saint Hierlug. Abbot-bishop of the monastery at Lismore, Ireland in 698. During his leadership, Lismore's fame for holiness and scholarship reached its peak.

Died

c.702 of natural causes

Saint Amasius of Teano

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Forced into exile in Italy for his opposition to the Arian heresy. Bishop of Teano, Italy in 346.

Born

Greek

Died

356 of natural causes

Saint Martyrius of Valeria

Also known as

Martory

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Sixth century hermit in the Valeria (modern Abruzzo), Italy.

Saint Severian the Martyr

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Married to Saint Aquila. Martyr.

Died

in Julia Caesarea, Mauritania, North Africa

Saint Aquila the Martyr

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Married to Saint Severian. Martyr.

Died

in Julia Caesarea, Mauritania, North Africa

Saint Eusebius of Mount Coryphe

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Fourth-century hermit on Mount Coryphe near Antioch, Syria