St. Agapitus
Feastday: August 6
Death: 258
Martyr, deacon, and companion of Pope Sixtus II in death. He was with the pope when seized during the persecutions of Emperor Valerian. Agapitus and five other deacons-Felicissimus, Januarius, Magnus, Stephen, and Vincent- were martyred.
Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord
இயேசுவின் உருமாற்றம்
1456 ஆம் ஆண்டு கிறிஸ்தவர்களுக்கும் துருக்கியர்களுக்கும் இடையே பெல்கிரேட் என்னும் இடத்தில் கடுமையான போர் மூண்டது. இந்தப் போரில் ஹுன்யாடி ஜோன்ஸ் என்பவர் கிறிஸ்தவர்களின் சார்பாக நின்று போர்தொடுத்தார். போரின் முடிவில் கிறிஸ்தவர்கள் துருக்கியர்களை வெற்றிகொண்டார்கள். அவர்கள் இத்தகையதொரு வெற்றியை இறைவனின் துணையால்தான் பெற்றார்கள் என்பதை நன்கு உணர்ந்தார். இதை அறிந்த அப்போதைய திருத்தந்தை மூன்றாம் கலிஸ்துஸ் என்பவர் ஆண்டவரின் உருமாற்றப் பெருவிழாவை கிறிஸ்தவர்கள் துருக்கியர்களை வெற்றிகொண்ட அந்த ஆகஸ்ட் 6 ஆம் நாளில் கொண்டாடப் பணித்தார். அன்றிலிருந்து இன்றுவரை ஆண்டவரின் உருமாற்றப் பெருவிழா ஆகஸ்ட் 06 ஆம் தேதி கொண்டாடப்பட்டு வருகின்றது.
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Commemorates the revelation by Jesus of His divinity to Saint Peter the Apostle, Saint James the Great and Saint John the Apostle on Mount Tabor outside Jerusalem. The Old Testament patriarchs Moses and Elijah also appeared as a brilliant white light radiated from Christ.
The Feast of the Transfiguration is celebrated by various Christian communities in honor of the transfiguration of Jesus. The origins of the feast are less than certain and may have derived from the dedication of three basilicas on Mount Tabor.[1] The feast was present in various forms by the 9th century, and in the Western Church was made a universal feast on 6 August by Pope Callixtus III to commemorate the raising of the siege of Belgrade (1456).[2]
In the Syriac Orthodox, Malankara Orthodox, Revised Julian calendars within Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholic, Old Catholic, and Anglican churches, the Feast of the Transfiguration is observed on 6 August. In the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Feast of the Transfiguration is observed on the fourteenth Sunday after Easter.[3] In some Lutheran traditions preceding the reforms to the liturgy in the 1970s, the 6th of August was also observed as the Feast of the Transfiguration. In those Orthodox churches which continue to follow the Julian Calendar, August 6 falls on August 19 of the Gregorian Calendar. The Transfiguration is considered a major feast, numbered among the twelve Great Feasts in Byzantine Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In all these churches, if the feast falls on a Sunday, its liturgy is not combined with the Sunday liturgy, but completely replaces it.
The transfiguration can also be celebrated at other points in the Christian calendar, sometimes in addition to the feast itself. In the ancient western lectionary, the Ember Saturday in Lent included the Transfiguration. In the Revised Common Lectionary, followed by some Lutherans, United Methodists, Anglicans, and others, the last Sunday in the Epiphany season (that immediately preceding Ash Wednesday) uses the Gospel account, which has led some churches without established festal calendars to refer to this day as "Transfiguration Sunday." In the Church of Sweden and the Church of Finland, the story is read on the seventh Sunday after Trinity, the eighth Sunday after Pentecost.
Blessed Maria Francesca Rubatto
Also known as
• Anna Maria Rubatto
• Madre Rubatto
• Maria Francesca di Gesù
• Maria Francesca of Jesus
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Anna Maria lost her father at age four. In her teens she received a marriage offer from a local notary, but turned it down and made a vow of virginity. Her mother died when Maria as 19, and the girl moved to Turin, Italy where he became the friend of Marianna Scoffone, an Italian noblewoman who supported her as she visited parishes in the city, taught catechism to children, visited the sick in hospital, helped the poor and neglected. Marianna Scoffone died in 1882.
One morning after Mass at the Capuchin church in Loano, Italy, a stone fell from a nearby convent under construction, striking a young worker on the head. Anna Maria cleaned the wound and gave the man some money to live on while he recovered. The building was to house a community of women religious, and the sisters were looking for a spiritual guide. When they had heard of the incident in the church, they took it as a sign that Anna Maria was the person they were looking for. A Capuchin priest, Father Angelico Martini convinced her to enter the community, and after a year she joined them in the house. She took the name Sister Maria Francesca of Jesus, and on orders of Bishop Filippo Allegro, she became the superior and formation director of the group. Thus began the Institute of the Capuchin Sisters of Mother Rubatto.
In 1892 Sister Maria and some sisters went as missionaries to Montevideo, Uruguay and then spread their apostolate further into Uruguay and then Argentina. Mother Maria crossed to the Americas seven times, and was asked to begin a mission in the rain forest with Capuchin friars from Milan, Italy; she and six sisters stayed at the mission for three months. Eighteen months later, on 13 March 1901 the sisters, the Capuchin missionaries, and many of the faithful were martyred there.
Born
14 February 1844 at Carmagnola, Turin, Italy as Anna Maria Rubatto
Died
• 6 August 1904 of natural causes in Uruguay
• buried at Montevideo, Uruguay
Beatified
10 October 1993 by Pope John Paul II
Canonized
• on 21 February 2020 by Pope Francis promulgated a decree of a miracle obtained through the intercession of Blessed Maria
• the miracle involved the healing of a young man from Montevideo, Uruguay who was in a coma following a severe head injury in April 2000
• on 3 May 2021, a consistory of cardinals called by Pope Francis approved this canonization; further details are incomplete at this writing
Blessed Tadeusz Dulny
Also known as
• Tadeo, Taddeo, Thaddeus
• prisoner 22662
Additional Memorial
12 June as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II
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One of eight children born to Jan and Antonina Dulny, and raised in a very pious family. Seminarian in the diocese of Wloclawek, Poland where he was known for being devout, studious (though not a great student), and showing a true vocation to the priesthood. Arrested on 7 October 1939 with other seminarians and their teachers as part of the Nazi invasion of Poland that triggered World War II in Europe. They were all imprisoned in the Salesian College of Lad, which the Nazis had turned into a temporary detention center, and the teachers resumed covert instruction of the seminarians. Tadeusz was transferred to the Sachhausen concentration camp near Berlin, Germany on 26 August 1940, and then to the Dachau camp in Germany on 15 December 1940. There he was beaten, tortured, starved, over worked and basically abused to death over a period of 20 months; he was known to give his food rations to other prisoners whom he thought were in worse shape than he was. Martyr.
Born
8 August 1914 in Kszczonowice, Swietokrzyskie, Poland
Died
• 7 August 1942 in Dachau, Oberbayern, Germany of starvation
• body burned in the camp crematorium and ashes dumped with those of other prisoners
Beatified
13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II
Blessed Josep Domènech Bonet
Also known as
• Benet of Santa Coloma de Gramenet
• Benedict of Santa Coloma de Gramenet
• Giuseppe Doménech Bonet
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Josep joined the Capuchin Franciscan Friars Minor in 1909, making his solemn profession on 23 February 1913. Ordained a priest on 29 May 1915. He served at the Capuchin house in Manresa, Spain as novice master and porter. Father Josep was forced to abandon the convent and going into hiding on 22 July 1936 when Communist militia overran the place during the Spanish Civil War, but the Marxists soon located him, seized him, tortured him, ordered him to blaspheme, and when he refused, murdered him. Martyr.
Born
6 September 1892 in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Barcelona, Spain
Died
6 August 1936 in Pont de Vilamura, Manresa, Barcelona, Spain
Beatified
• 14 November 2020 by Pope Francis
• the beatification recognition was celebrated at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Manresa, Spain
Blessed Carlos López Vidal
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Lifelong layman in the archdiocese of Valencia, Spain. Sacristan of the collegiate church of Gandia, Spain. Married to Rosa Tarazona Ribanocha in October 1923. Member of several lay apostolate groups, including Catholic Action, and known as a man of faith and prayer with a devotion to the Sacred Heart. He gave shelter monks and nuns who were forced to go into hiding during the persecutions of the Spanish Civil War. The anti–Catholic militants eventually found him, as well. Martyr.
Born
1 November 1894 in Gandía, Valencia, Spain
Died
• shot on 6 August 1936 in La Pedrera de Gandia, Valencia, Spain
• body doused with gasoline, but his killers could not get it to burn
• buried in the Martyrs Cemetery in Gandia
Beatified
11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II
Saint Justus and Pastor of Alcala
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Teenage brothers who made a public proclamation of their Christianity, and were promptly arrested on the orders of Dacian, governor of Spain. Scourged to make the boys retract their confession; they refused. Martyrs.
Born
c.291-295 in Spain
Died
• scourged and beheaded in 304 at Alcala, Spain at ages 13 and 9
Patronage
• Alcalá de Henares, Spain, diocese of
• Alcalá, Spain
• Madrid, Spain
Blessed Gezelin of Schlebusch
Also known as
• Gezelin of Altenberg
• Gezelinus, Gezzelin, Gezzelino, Ghislain, Gisle, Gozelin, Jocelin, Schezelinus
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12th-century hermit and Cistercian lay brother at Altenberg Abbey where he worked as a shepherd. Miracle worker, including ending a drought by stabbing his shepherd's crook into the ground which caused a spring of water to erupt; the spring continues to flow today, and the water is known for healing powers.
Died
29 July 1149 in Gut Alkenrath, Schlebusch, Germany
Beatified
by the bishop of Cologne, Germany (confirmation of popular cultus)
Patronage
• children
• against epilepsy in children
• against eye disorders
• against headaches
Saint Gislain of Luxemburg
Also known as
• Gislain of Schetzelborg
• Gislain of Slebusrode
• Gislain of Schelebusschrath
• Escelino, Gezzelino, Gitzelon, Schetzelón
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Twelfth century forest hermit in Luxemburg who trusted so strongly to provide that he didn’t even bother with shelter. Legend says that Gislain’s reputation for holiness was that Saint Bernard sent Saint Acardo to visit the hermit and ask for his prayers for their new monastery in Hemmerode; Acardo, and a group of angels, later attended the death of Gislain.
Died
1138 of natural causes
Saint Glisente of Brescia
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Soldier in the army of Blessed Charlemagne. Following the battle of Mortirolo, Glisente retired from military life to live as a hermit on Mount Berzo near Brescia, Italy, and evangelize the valley region around it. Known for his zeal for the faith and his love of animals.
Died
• 796 on Mount Berzo, Brescia, Italy
• a parish church is built on his tomb on the side of the mountain
Blessed Guillermo Sanz
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Commander of the Mercedarians in Valencia, Spain. Imprisoned by invading Muslim Moors, then sent to live as a slave in Granada, Spain; slavery was the regular lot of captured Christians. When Guillermo continued to preach about Jesus, he was beaten; when that didn’t stop him, he was murdered. Martyr.
Died
• beheaded in 1409 in Granada, Spain
• body cut to pieces and thrown to the dogs
Pope Saint Hormisdas
திருத்தந்தை ஹோர்மிஸ்தாஸ் (Pope Hormisdas)
பிறப்பு
5 ஆம் நூற்றாண்டு,
ஃப்ரோஸினான்(Frosinone), இத்தாலி
இறப்பு
6 ஆகஸ்டு 523,
உரோம், இத்தாலி
திருத்தந்தையாக: 514-523
இவர் 514 ஆம் ஆண்டிலிருந்து 523 ஆம் ஆண்டு வரை திருத்தந்தையாக இருந்தார். திருச்சபையில் எண்ணிலடங்கா ஆலயங்களைக் கட்டினார். இவரது ஆட்சிக்காலத்தில், கான்ஸ்டான்ண்டினோபிளிலிருந்து 250 க்கும் மேற்பட்ட ஆயர்கள், உரோமுடன் இணைந்தார்கள். மற்றும் பல கீழை நாட்டு ஆயர்களையும் உரோம் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபையோடு இணைத்தார்.
திருமணமாகி மனைவியை இழந்த இவருக்கு சில்வேரியுஸ் Silverius என்ற பெயர் கொண்ட மகன் ஒருவர் இருந்தார். திருத்தந்தை ஹோர்மிஸ்தாஸிற்கு பிறகு, சில்வேரியுஸ் திருத்தந்தையாக தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டார். திருத்தந்தை ஹோர்மிஸ்தாஸ் தனது பதவி காலத்தில் பல நற்செயல்களை புரிந்தார். இறை இயேசு காட்டிய நற்செய்தி பாதையில் தனது வாழ்வை வாழ்ந்தார். இவர் தன் வாழ்வின் இடரான சூழலிலும் கூட மிக மகிழ்ச்சியான வாழ்வை வாழ்ந்தார். அக்காசியன் Acacian என்ற தப்பறைக் கொள்கைக்கு எதிராக போராடினார்.
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Married, and father of the future Pope Saint Silverius. Widower. Pope. Best known for the written work Formula of Hormisdas, a succinct confession of the faith, acceptance of which ended the Monophysite schism of Acacius in the Eastern church.
Born
at Frosinone, Latium (southern Italy)
Papal Ascension
514
Died
523 at Rome, Italy
Blessed William of Altavilla
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Born to the 13th century nobility, he gave up the worldly life to become a Mercedarian knight, and to devote himself and his worldly goods to the ransom of Christians enslaved by Muslims; in 1263 alone he rescued 208 of them. Spiritual student of Blessed William de Bas.
Born
France
Blessed Octavian of Savona
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Brother of Pope Saint Callistus II. Educated by Benedictines. Benedictine monk at Saint Peter's abbey at Pavia, Italy. Bishop of Savona, Italy in 1129.
Born
c.1060 at Quingey, diocese of Besancon, France
Died
1132 of natural causes
Beatified
1793 by Pope Pius VI (cultus confirmed)
Martyrs of Cardeña
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Two hundred Benedictine monks at the Saint Peter of Cardegna monastery, Burgos, Spain who were martyred in the 8th century by invading Saracens.
Died
buried by local Christians in a nearby churchyard in Burgos, Spain
Beatified
1603 by Pope Clement VIII (cultus confirmed)
Blessed Goderanno
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Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Cluny. Abbot of Maillezais Abbey. Bishop of Saintes, France.
Died
6 August 1074 of natural causes
Saint Stephen of Cardeña
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Monk. Abbot of the Castilian monastery of Cardeña in the archdiocese of Burgos, Spain where he led over 200 brother monks. Martyred by Saracens.
Died
872
Saint James the Syrian
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Monk at Amida (Diarbekir), Mesopotamia. Known as a miracle worker, and for his great austerities.
Born
Syrian
Died
c.500 of natural causes
Saint Hardulf of Breedon
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Hermit in Breedon, Leicestershire, England.
Died
7th century
Martyred in the Spanish Civil War
Thousands of people were murdered in the anti-Catholic persecutions of the Spanish Civil War from 1934 to 1939. I have pages on each of them, but in most cases I have only found very minimal information. They are available on the CatholicSaints.Info site through these links:
• Blessed Alejandro Casare Menéndez
• Blessed Andrés Soto Carrera
• Blessed José González Ramos Campos
• Blessed José María Recalde Magúregui
• Blessed Juan Silverio Pérez Ruano
• Blessed Saturnino Ortega Montealegre
