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16 June 2023

இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் ஜீன் 17

 St. Emily de Vialar

தூய எமிலி தே வியலர் (ஜூன் 17)

“ஒவ்வொரு நாளும் நான் ஆயிரமாயிரம் பிரச்சனைகளைச் சந்திக்கின்றேன். அப்படியிருந்தாலும் இறைவனுடைய அருட்கரம் என்னோடு இருப்பதால், நான் எதற்கும் அசையாமல் இருக்கின்றேன்” – எமிலி தே வியலர்.

வாழ்க்கை வரலாறு

இன்று நாம் நினைவுகூரும் எமிலி தே வியலர் 1779 ஆம் ஆண்டு, செப்டம்பர் திங்கள் 12 ஆம் நாள், தெற்கு பிரான்சில் உள்ள கெயிலாக் என்ற இடத்தில் பிறந்தார்.

எமிலியின் தாயார் பக்தியுள்ள பெண்மணி. எனவே இவர் தன்னுடைய ஒரே மகளான எமிலிக்கு பக்தி நெறியை ஊட்டி வளர்த்து வந்தார். தாயாரின் வளர்ப்பில் எமிலி நாளொரு மேனியும் பொழுதொரு வண்ணமுமாய் வளர்ந்து வந்தார். இப்படி வாழ்க்கையில் எல்லாமே நன்றாகப் போய்க்கொண்டிருந்த தருணத்தில், எமிலியின் தாயார் திடிரென இறந்துபோனார். அப்போது எமிலிக்கு வயது வெறும் 15 தான். தாயின் இழப்பை அவரால் தாங்கிக்கொள்ளவே முடியவில்லை.

இந்தச் சூழ்நிலையில் எமிலியின் தந்தை, அவருக்கு மணமுடித்துக் கொடுத்தால், தாயின் இழப்பை மறந்துவிட்டு அவர் சந்தோசமாக இருப்பார் என்று நினைத்துக்கொண்டு ஆடவன் ஒருவனை எமிலிக்கு மணமுடித்துக் கொடுக்க திட்டம் தீட்டினார். இதைக் கேள்விப்பட்ட எமிலி அதிர்ந்து போனார். ஏனென்றால் அவர் ஏற்கனவே தன்னை இறைவனுக்காக அர்ப்பணித்திருந்தார். தந்தை இவ்வாறு திட்டம் தீட்டுவதை அறிந்த எமிலி அவரிடத்தில் சென்று, “நான் ஏற்கனவே என்னை இறைவனுக்கு அர்ப்பணித்துவிட்டேன். அதனால் நான் யாரையும் மணமுடிக்கப் போவதில்லை” என்று மிக உறுதியாகச் சொன்னார். இதனால் எமிலியின் தந்தை மிகுந்த ஏமாற்றத்திற்கும் வருத்தத்திற்கும் உள்ளானார். தன் மகள் இப்படியோர் முடிவை எடுத்துவிட்டாளே என்று ஏமாற்றத்திற்கு உள்ளன எமிலியின் தந்தை அதனாலேயே நோய்வாய்ப்பட்டு படுத்தபடுக்கையானார்.

எமிலியின் கனவு, இலட்சியம் எல்லாம் பிரஞ்சுப் புரட்சியால் நிர்மூலமாகிப் போன கிறிஸ்தவக் கல்வி நிறுவனங்களுக்கு உயிர்கொடுப்பதும் ஏழை எளிய மக்களுக்கு சேவை செய்வதுதான். அதற்காகத்தான் அவர் எந்தவொரு ஆணையும் மணந்துகொள்ளாமல், நோய்வாய்ப்பட்டு கிடந்த தன் தந்தையைக் கவனித்துக்கொண்டு கன்னியாகவே இருந்தார். தந்தை நோய்முற்றி இறந்ததும் இறைப்பணிக்காக தன்னை முற்றிலும் அர்ப்பணிக்கத் தொடங்கினார்.

முதலில் தாய்வழி தாத்தாவின் சொத்துவழியாக ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட தொகை அவருக்குக் கிடைத்தது. அதைக்கொண்டு அவர் நகரில் ஒரு பெரிய கட்டடத்தைக் கட்டி, கல்விப்பணியையும், சமூகப் பணியையும் ஆன்மீகப் பணியையும் செய்யத் தொடங்கினார். இவர் ஆற்றிவந்த பணிகளைப் பார்த்துவிட்டு, முதலில் மூன்று பெண்களும், அவர்களைத் தொடர்ந்து எட்டுப் பெண்களும் அவரோடு சேர்ந்துகொண்டு பணி செய்யத் தொடங்கினார்கள்.

எமிலி செய்துவந்த சேவைகள் அனைத்தும் மக்களுடைய கவனத்தை ஈர்த்தன. அதனால் மக்கள் மத்தியில் அவருக்கும் அவர் ஏற்படுத்திய ‘The Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition’ நல்ல மதிப்பு உண்டானது. கார்டினல் மெர்சியர் என்பவர் எமிலிக்கு ஓர் ஆன்மீக குருவாக இருந்து, எல்லாவிதத்திலும் உறுதுணை புரிந்துவந்தார்.


இப்படி பல்வேறு பணிகளைச் செய்துவந்த எமிலி திடிரென நோய்வாய்ப்பட்டு 1856 ஆம் ஆண்டு, ஆகஸ்டு திங்கள் 24 ஆம் நாள் இறையடி சேர்ந்தார். இவருக்கு 1951 ஆம் ஆண்டு புனிதர் கொடுக்கப்பட்டது.

Emily de Vialar died in Marseilles on 24 August 1856. 

"The saint is dead," said the poor people who knew her kindness.[citation needed] She was declared on 24 June 1951; her 

feast day is 24 August in the General Roman Calendar, 

and celebrated on 17 June by the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition

Anne Marguerite Adelaide Emily de Vialar was the eldest child and only daughter of Baron James Augustine de Vialar and his wife Antoinette, daughter of that Baron de Portal who was physician-in-ordinary to Louis XVIII and Charles X of France. She was born at Gaillac in Languedoc in 1797. At the age of fifteen she was removed from school in Paris to be companion to her father, now a widower, at Gaillac; but unhappily, differences arose between them because of Emily's refusal to consider a suitable marriage.



For fifteen years, Emily was the good angel of Gaillac, devoting herself to the care of children neglected by their parents and to the help of the poor generally. In 1832, her maternal grandfather died, leaving her a share of his estate which was a quite considerable fortune. She bought a large house at Gaillac and took possession of it with three companions. Others joined them and three months later, the archbishop authorized the Abbe to clothe twelve postulants with the religious habit. They called themselves the Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition. Their work was to be the care of the needy, especially the sick, and the education of children. In 1835, she made her profession with seventeen other sisters, and received formal approval for the rule of the Congregation.


The foundress, in the course of twenty-two years, saw her Congregation grow from one to some forty houses, many of which she had founded in person. The physical energy and achievements of St. Emily de Vialar are the more remarkable in that from her youth she was troubled by hernia, contracted characteristically in doing a deed of charity. From 1850 this became more and more serious, and it hastened her end, which came on August 24, 1856. The burden of her last testament to her daughters was "Love one another". Her canonization took place in 1951; her feast is June 17th.


St. Adulf


Feastday: June 17

Death: 680


Bishop and missionary, venerated with his brother, Butulf. They were nobles of Saxon or Irish lineage who became monks. Both went as missionaries to Germany. There Adulf was made the bishop of Utrecht. Butulf returned to England and founded a religious house in 654, becoming widely respected for his holiness.



Saint Adulf (also Adolph, Adolf, Athwulf, Æthelwulf or Æðelwulf) (died c. 680 AD) was an Anglo-Saxon saint.

Life

Adulf is said to have been the brother of Botolph, but virtually nothing is known about his life. The story, which originated with a monk of Thorney, Folcard's, account of Botolph's life, that Adulf was at one-time bishop of Maastricht, is now generally thought to rest on a confusion of names and to have no substance. However, it does explain the reason today's saint is often honored as a bishop.[1]

The monastery at Iken, in East Anglia, was destroyed in Viking raids. It is said that when by the orders of Æthelwold of Winchester, Botolph's body was disinterred for translation to the new abbey of Thorney, Adulf's body was buried with it, and as it proved impossible to disentangle the bones, the remains of both saints were taken to Thorney, where the relics of Adulf remained.[2] The feast day of both saints is 17 June.


Saint Botulph of Ikanhoe

புனிதர் போட்வுல்ஃப் 

மடாதிபதி: 

பிறப்பு: கி.பி. 7ம் நூற்றாண்டு 

இறப்பு: கி.பி. 680 

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

ஆங்கிலிக்கன் சமூகம்

மரபுவழி திருச்சபை

லூதரன் திருச்சபை (குறிப்பாக, டென்மார்க் மற்றும் ஸ்வீடன் ஆகிய நாடுகளில்) 

நினைவுத் திருநாள்: ஜூன் 17 

பாதுகாவல்: பயணிகள் மற்றும் விவசாயம் 

புனிதர் போட்வுல்ஃப், ஒரு ஆங்கிலேய மடாதிபதியும் கிறிஸ்தவ புனிதரும் ஆவார். இவர் பயணிகள் மற்றும் விவசாயிகளின் பாதுகாவலருமாவார். 

சந்தேகமான விவரங்களைத் தவிர்த்து, புனிதர் போட்வுல்ஃப் அவர்களின் வாழ்க்கை வரலாறு பற்றின விவரங்கள் சிறிதளவே இருந்தன. அவர் மரணமடைந்து நானூறு வருடங்களின் பின்னர் “ஃபோல்கார்ட்” என்ற துறவி எழுதிய சரித்திர விவரங்களே இருந்தன. 

கி. பி. ஐந்தாம் நூற்றாண்டில் ஜெர்மனியிலிருந்து இங்கிலாந்து நாட்டுக்கு புலம்பெயர்ந்து சென்ற மக்கள் “ஏங்கில்ஸ்”  என்றழைக்கப்பட்டனர். இவர்கள் “மெர்சியா”, “நார்த்ஊம்ப்ரியா” மற்றும் “கிழக்கு ஏங்க்ளியா” ஆகிய அரசுகளை நிறுவி அதற்கு இங்கிலாந்து மற்றும் ஆங்கிலேய பெயர்களை அளித்தனர். 

காலக்கிரமமாகத் தொகுக்கப்பட்ட 653ம் வருடத்தின் ஆங்கிலோ-சாக்சன் நிகழ்ச்சிக் குறிப்புகள் மேற்சொன்ன மத்திய “ஏங்கில்ஸ்” “எர்ல்டோர்மன் பீடா” என்பவரின் வழிகாட்டுதலில் உண்மையான விசுவாசத்தைப் பெற்றதாக குறிப்புகள் உள்ளன. 

அரசன் “அன்னா”  கொல்லப்பட்டான். போட்வுல்ஃப் “இகான்ஹோவில்”  தேவாலயமொன்றினை கட்டியெழுப்ப தொடங்கினார். “ஸஃப்போல்க்”  என்னுமிடத்தில் துறவு மடமொன்றை நிறுவினார். 

“இகான்ஹோவில்” அவர் கட்டிய ஆலயத்தின் அஸ்திவாரத்தினருகே அவர் நல்லடக்கம் செய்யப்பட்டார். பல ஆங்கிலேய தேவாலயங்கள் அவர் பெயரில் அர்ப்பணிக்கப்பட்டன. பண்டைய “புனிதர்களின் ஆக்ஸ்ஃபோர்ட் அதிகாரத்தில்” அவர் பெயரில் அர்ப்பணிக்கப்பட்ட பழமையான ஆலயங்களின் எண்ணிக்கை 64 என்று குறிப்பிடப்பட்டிருந்தது. ஆனால், பிந்தைய ஆய்வுகள், அவர் பெயரில் அர்ப்பணிக்கப்பட்ட ஆலயங்களின் எண்ணிக்கை 71 என்றது.

Also known as

Botolph, Botulf, Botwulf



Profile

Born to a Christian Saxon noble family. Brother of Saint Adolph of Utrecht. Educated with his brother at the monastery of Cnobersburg (Burgh Castle), Suffolk under the direction of its founder, Saint Fursey. When Mercian forces under King Penda invaded the region, the boys were sent to study at the monastery at Bosanham, Sussex. He became a Benedictine monk at Farmoutiere-en-Brie, Gaul (modern northeastern France), and was sent back to the British Isles in 647 to establish the Benedictine Order there.


With the support of Saint Syre, Saint Aubierge, and their brother, King Anna of East Anglia, Botulph founded the monastery of Ikanhoe in East Anglia, declining the offer of a part of the royal estate, and settling for a wild, barren site that was removed from people, reported to be haunted by demons, and which would require endless work to sustain the monks. For many years it was believed that the area that grew up around it came to be called Botulph's Town, contracted to Botulphston, and later contracted to Boston in Lincolnshire, but recent reasearch has shown that the original site is another location. The Saxon Chronicle indicates that by 654 Botulph had attracted enough brother monks and hermits that work begain on the monastery. Through hard work and faith, the monastery grew in population; the monks built several structures, turned large areas of marsh and scrub into productive farming and grazing lands, and dispelled the people's fears of demons.


Botulph served as spiritual director for Saint Ceolfrith, and worked as a travelling missionary through rough, bandit-plagued areas of East Anglia, Kent and Sussex. His legacy continued for centuries in the strength of the Benedictine movement in the Isles, and in the dozens of churches named for him, many of them built at city gates to serve as safe-haven for travellers in times when robbers roamed the roads, and many in port or river towns.


Born

c.610 in East Anglia (part of modern England)


Died

• 17 June 680 of natural causes following a lengthy illness

• he died while being carried to chapel for compline services

• buried at Ikanhoe

• relics moved in 870 to keep them from being destroyed by invading Danes

• relics transferred to Grundisburgh in 983

• relics later distributed to monasteries at Thornery, Westminster, and Edmundsburg, Suffolk

• tradition says that for safety the cask of relics destined for Edmundsburg were taken there in the middle of the night, but the travellers were guided by a light that hovered above the relics' new shrine

• processions of the relics through Edmundsburgh has ended droughts there


Patronage

• agricultural workers, farm workers, farmers

• sailors, mariners, watermen

• travellers

• 7 cities


Representation

• abbot holding a church in his hand

• abbot holding a monastery in his hand

• blue field with undulating silver lines superimposed with an inverted gold chevron with a gold cross at its point (his coat of arms)



Saint Albert Chmielowski

புனிதர் ஆல்பர்ட் சிமியேலோவ்ஸ்கி 

மறைப்பணியாளர், நிறுவனர்:

பிறப்பு: ஆகஸ்ட் 20, 1845

இகொலோமியா, மலோபோல்ஸ்கி, போலந்து

இறப்பு: டிசம்பர் 25, 1916 (வயது 71)

க்ரகோவ், போலந்து அரசு

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

முக்திபேறு பட்டம்: ஜூன் 22, 1983, 

திருத்தந்தை இரண்டாம் ஜான் பவுல்

புனிதர் பட்டம்: நவம்பர் 12, 1989

திருத்தந்தை இரண்டாம் ஜான் பவுல்

நினைவுத் திருநாள்: ஜூன் 17

பாதுகாவல்:

ஏழைகளின் ஊழியர்கள் (Servants of the Poor)

ஏழைகளின் ஊழிய சகோதரிகள் (Sisters Servants of the Poor)

பிரான்சிஸ்கன் மூன்றாம் நிலை சபை (Franciscan tertiaries)

வீரர்கள், தொண்டர்கள், சாகுபடி, பயணிகள், புலாவி (Puławy),

சோஸ்னோவிக் மறைமாவட்டம் (Diocese of Sosnowiec), ஓவியர்கள்

புனிதர் ஆல்பர்ட் சிமியேலோவ்ஸ்கி, ஒரு “ஒப்புக்கொள்ளப்பட்ட போலிஷ் மறைப்பணியாளர்” (Polish Professed Religious) ஆவார். இவர், “ஏழைகளின் ஊழியர்கள்” (Servants of the Poor) மற்றும் “ஏழைகளின் ஊழிய சகோதரிகள்” (Sisters Servants of the Poor) ஆகிய சபைகளை நிறுவியவருமாவார். ஜனவரி கிளர்ச்சியில் ஈடுபட்டிருந்த இவருக்கு காலில் ஏற்பட்ட பலத்த காயம் காரணமாக, இவர் தமது கால் ஒன்றினை இழக்க நேர்ந்தது. இதன் காரணமாக, தமது வாழ்நாள் முழுதும் ஒரு மரத்தினாலான ஒரு பொய்க் காலை பொருத்தியவாறே வாழ்ந்தார்.

பிரபலமான ஓவியராக மாறிய அவர், தமது ஓவியங்களை ஏழைகளின் நிலை வாழ்க்கைக்கு ஆதரவாக அர்ப்பணிப்பதற்காக அனைத்தையும் கொடுக்க முடிவு செய்வதற்கு முன்னர், தமது ஓவியங்களின் பெரும்பகுதியை கருப்பொருள்களாக ஆன்மீகத்தைப் பயன்படுத்தினார். தொடக்கத்தில் “இயேசுசபையில்” (Jesuits) இணைந்த அவர், பின்னர் அதனின்றும் வெளியேறி, “தூய ஃபிரான்சிசின் மூன்றாம் நிலை சபையில்” (Third Order of Saint Francis) இணைந்தார்.

“ஆதாம் ஹிலரி பெர்னார்ட் சிமியேலோவ்ஸ்கி” (Adam Hilary Bernard Chmielowski) எனும் இயற்பெயர் கொண்ட இவர், “க்ரகோவ்” (Outskirts of Krakow) நகரின் புறநகரான “இகொலோமியா” (Iglomia) எனும் கிராமத்தில், கி.பி. 1845ம் ஆண்டு, ஆகஸ்ட் மாதம், 20ம் நாளன்று, வசதிவைப்புள்ள உயர்குல தம்பதியரான “அடெல்பர்ட்” (Adelbert Chmielowski) மற்றும் “ஜோசஃபின்” (Josephine Borzyslawska) ஆகியோருக்குப் பிறந்த நான்கு குழந்தைகளில் மூத்த மகனாகப் பிறந்தார். ஆகஸ்ட் மாதம் 26ம் நாளன்று, இவருக்கு திருமுழுக்கு அளிக்கப்படவிருந்தது. ஆனால், அன்றைய காலக்கட்டத்தின் குழப்பமான கொந்தளிப்பு நிலை காரணமாக, திருமுழுக்கு சடங்கிற்காக எந்தவொரு குருவும் கிடைக்கவில்லை. ஆகவே, அவருக்கு முறையான திருமுழுக்கு, 1847ம் ஆண்டு, ஜூன் மாதம், 17ம் நாளன்று நடைபெற்றது.

தனது குழந்தை பருவத்தில் அவரும் அவரது உடன்பிறப்புகளும் பெற்றோரை இழந்தனர். இதன் காரணமாக, இவர்களது அத்தையான “பெட்ரோநெலா” (Petronela) இவர்களை கவனித்து வளர்த்தார். பிற்காலத்தில், தனது பெற்றோரின் தோட்டத்தை நிர்வகிப்பதற்காக தன்னை தயார் படுத்திக் கொள்ளும் காரணத்திற்காக, “புலாவி” (Puławy) நகரிலுள்ள பாலிடெக்னிக் கல்லூரியில் விவசாயம் கற்றார். போலிஷ் தேசியவாத கிளர்ச்சியில் பங்கெடுத்துக் கொண்டபின், அவர் ஒரு காலை இழந்த போதிலும், அரசியலில் முக்கியத்துவம் பெற்றார். கி.பி. 1863ம் ஆண்டு, அக்டோபர் மாதம், முதல் தேதியன்று, ஒரு ரஷ்ய கையெறிகுண்டு வெடித்ததில், அவரது குதிரைக் கொல்லப்பட்டதுடன், அவரது கால் துண்டாடப்படுமளவிற்கு சேதமடைந்தது. அவருக்கு ஒரு மரக்கால் பொருத்தப்பட்டது. தமது வாழ்க்கையை கடவுளுக்கும், போலிஷ் விடுதலைப் போருக்கும் அர்ப்பணித்தார். காயமடைந்த ஆதாம், ஒரு காட்டுப்பாதாளியின் அறைக்கு கொண்டு செல்லப்பட்டார். மயக்க மருந்து இல்லாமலேயே அவருக்கு அறுவை சிகிச்சை நடந்தேறியது. அறுவை சிகிச்சையால் ஏற்பட்ட தாங்கொண்ணா வலி வேதனைகளை அவர் கடவுளுக்கே ஒப்படைத்தார்.

கிளர்ச்சியாளர்களின் மீதான ஜார்ஜிய அதிகாரிகளின் (Czarist authorities) கடுமையான பதிலடி, ஆதாமை போலந்து (Poland) நாட்டை விட்டு வெளியேற வைத்தது. பெல்ஜியம் (Belgium) நாட்டிலுள்ள “கெண்ட்” (Ghent) என்ற நகரில் குடியேறிய அவர், அங்கே பொறியியல் கற்க தொடங்கினார். இந்த காலகட்டத்தில், தம்மில் ஓவியத்திலும் திறமை இருந்தது என்பதை அவர் கண்டுபிடித்தார். அதிலும் வளர்ச்சியடைய தொடங்கினார். ஓவியப் பயிற்சி மற்றும் பணிகளுக்காக “பாரிஸ்” (Paris) மற்றும் “மூனிச்” (Munich) நகரங்களுக்கு பயணித்த அவர், நிறைய நண்பர்களை சம்பாதித்தார்.

கி.பி. 1874ம் ஆண்டு, அவரால் தனது தாயகத்திற்குத் திரும்ப முடிந்தது. அங்கே அவர் புகழ்பெற்ற கலைஞராக “க்ராகோவில்” பணியாற்றினார். மற்றும், கி.பி. 1870ம் ஆண்டு முதல் 1885ம் ஆண்டு வரை ஒரு ஓவியராக பணியாற்றினார். அவர் 61 ஓவியங்களை மொத்தமாக தயாரித்தார். ஆனால் அவரது படைப்புகள் அவருக்கு வாங்கித் தந்த புகழ் அவருக்கு பிடிக்கவில்லை. ஒரு சந்தர்ப்பத்தில், மனச்சோர்வுக்காக அவர் மருத்துவமனையில் அனுமதிக்கப்பட்டார். அவரது வலுவான அரசியல் நம்பிக்கைகள் மனிதனின் நிலைப்பாட்டிற்கும், மென்மையான, கருணையுள்ள ஆவியுடனான அவரது ஆர்வத்தையும் ஊக்கப்படுத்தியது. மேலும், இது ஏழைகளின் துன்பங்களை அவருக்கு உணர்த்தியது. தேவைப்படுகிறவர்களுக்கு உதவி செய்த அவர், க்ரகோவ் (Kraków) நகரிலுள்ள வீடற்றோருக்கான முகாம்களில் பணியாற்றினார்.

கி.பி. 1880ம் ஆண்டு, செப்டம்பர் மாதம், 24ம் தேதி, அவர் “ஸ்டாரா வைஸ்” (Stara Wies) கிராமத்திலுள்ள இயேசுசபையின் (Jesits) புகுமுக (Novitate) பயிற்சியில் இணைந்தார். பின்னர், ஒரு தியானத்தின்போது, ஒரு பயங்கரமான சோதனையை எதிர்கொண்டார். தமது முடிவுக்காக ஏக்கம் கொண்ட அவர், விரைவிலேயே நோய்வாய்ப்பட்டார். அவரது சகோதரர் ஸ்டானிஸ்லாவ் அவரை மீட்டெடுக்க வந்து, அவரை தனது வீட்டிற்கு அழைத்துச் சென்றார். அங்கு அவர் இயேசுசபைக்கு திரும்புவதில்லை என முடிவு செய்தார். விரைவிலேயே அவர் அசிசியின் தூய ஃபிரான்சிசின் மூன்றாம் நிலை சபையின் சட்டதிட்டங்களை கேள்வியுற்றார். அதன்பால் கவரப்பட்ட அவர், அந்த சபையில் சேர ஆர்வமானார்.

கி.பி. 1887ம் ஆண்டு, ஆகஸ்ட் மாதம், 25ம் தேதியன்று, அசிசியின் தூய ஃபிரான்சிசின் மூன்றாம் நிலை சபையில் இணைந்தார். துறவு ஆடைகளைப் பெற்றுக்கொண்ட அவர், “ஆல்பர்ட்” (Albert) எனும் பெயரை தமது ஆன்மீகப் பெயராக ஏற்றுக்கொண்டார். கி.பி. 1888ம் ஆண்டு, தமது சத்தியப் பிரமாணங்களை ஏற்றுக்கொண்ட இவர், ஆகஸ்ட் மாதம், 25ம் நாளன்று, “ஏழைகளின் ஊழியர்கள்” (Servants of the Poor) எனும் சபையை நிறுவினார். பின்னர், கி.பி. 1891ம் ஆண்டு, ஜனவரி மாதம், 15ம் நாளன்று, “அருளாளர் மரியா ஜப்லோன்ஸ்கா” (Blessed Maria Jabłońska) என்பவருடன் இணைந்து, ஏற்கனவே உள்ள சபைக்கு இணையான, பெண்களுக்கான “அல்பர்ட்டைன் சகோதரியர்” (Albertine Sisters) எனும் சபையை நிறுவினார். இச்சபையினர், வீடற்றவர்களுக்கும் ஏழைகளுக்கும் உணவு மற்றும் தங்குமிடம் ஏற்பாடு செய்து தந்தனர்.

அவர் கார்மேல் கான்வென்ட்டில் (Carmelite Convent) சிறிது காலம் செலவிட்டார். விரைவிலேயே தமக்கு மிகவும் பிடித்த எழுத்தாளரான “புனிதர் சிலுவையின் ஜானின்” (Saint John of the Cross) பிரசுரங்களை நன்கு அறிந்திருந்தார். விரைவிலேயே அவர் கார்மேல் காண்வென்ட்டின் தலைவரான “புனிதர் ரபேல் காலினோஸ்கி” (Saint Raphael Kalinowski) அறிமுகமானார். அவர், ஆல்பர்ட்டை கார்மேல் சபையில் சேருமாறு வலியுறுத்தினார். ஆயினும், இவர் ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன் சபையிலேயே நிலைத்து இருந்தார்.


வயிற்று புற்று நோயால் (Stomach Cancer) பாதிக்கப்பட்டிருந்த ஆல்பர்ட் சிமியேலோவ்ஸ்கி, கி.பி. 1916ம் ஆண்டின் கிறிஸ்து பிறப்பு தினத்தன்று மரித்தார். அவரது நிலை மோசமடைந்த காரணத்தால், அவர் டிசம்பர் 23ம் தேதியன்றே, “நோயில் பூசுதல்” (Anointing of the Sick) அருட்சாதனத்தைப் பெற்றார்.

Also known as

• Adam Chmielowski

• Adam Hilary Bernard Chmielowski

• Brat Albert

• Brother Albert

• Brother of Our Lord

• Brother of Our God

• Our God's Brother



Profile

Born to a wealthy aristocratic family, he initially studied agriculture in order to manage the family estate. Involved in politics from his youth, he lost a leg at age 17 when injured while fighting in an insurrection. In Krakow, he became a popular, well-known and well-liked artist. His interest in politics and art made him keenly aware of the human misery around him. A gentle and compassionate soul, he felt called to help those in need. After years of reflection, he understood that this desire was how God was calling him to service and Himself.


Franciscan tertiary, taking the name Albert. He abandoned painting, and began a life of working with and for the poorest of Krakow. In 1887 he founded the Brothers of the Third Order of Saint Francis, Servants of the Poor, known as the Albertines (named for him) or the Gray Brothers (after their rough gray habits). In 1891 he founded the women's congregation of the Order (Gray Sisters). The Albertines organized food and shelter for the poor and homeless.


Albert preached that the great calamity of our time was that so many refused to see and voluntarily relieve the suffering of their miserable brothers and sisters. The "haves" lived away from the "have-nots" in order to ignore them and leave their care to others.


In 1949, Pope John Paul II wrote a well-received play about Albert; the work was filmed in 1997, released as Brother of Our God. Albert was the spiritual teacher of Blessed Maria Bernardina Jablonska.


Born

20 August 1845 at Igoalomia (Aigolonija), Poland as Adam Hilary Bernard Chmielowski


Died

25 December 1916 at Krakow, Poland, of natural causes


Canonized

12 November 1989 by Pope John Paul II at Saint Peter's Square, Rome




Blessed Ranieri Scacceri


Also known as

• Ranieri of Pisa

• Ranieri de Aqua

• Rainer, Rainerius, Rainier, Raniero, Raynerius, Regnier



Profile

Son of a wealthy merchant, he spent a wild and sinful youth as a wandering minstrel and musician, partying all night, sleeping by day if at all. One evening, while performing for a merry crowd in a castle, he met a holy man whose name has not come down to us. Ranieri felt drawn to the man, talked with him, and asked that the man pray for him. Whatever the man told him, Ranieri had a conversion experience, burned his fiddle, and gave up the life of a minstrel.


Falling back on what he learned from his father, Ranier became a merchant, trading with sailors and travelling from port to port. He was very successful, and while he lived a better life, it was still a worldly life. He built up quite a fortune, but one day found that his money gave off an evil stench. Ranieri took it as a sign, gave away his forture, and became a poor and penitential monk.


He made several penitential pilgrimages to Jerusalem and assorted holy shrines. Conventual oblate in the Benedictine abbey of Saint Andrew in Pisa, Italy in 1153. Oblate at the abbey of San Vito (Saint Guy) in Pisa. There he became known as a serious Bible student and sometime preacher, bringing to the pulpit his experience of working in front of an audience. An excellent speaker, he was a popular and romantic figure as the troubadour who traded his music for God, and was known for healing the sick with holy water.


Born

1117 in Pisa, Italy


Died

• 1161 at the abbey of Saint Vito, Pisa, Italy of natural causes

• buried in the Pisa Cathedral


Beatified

by Pope Alexander III (cultus confirmation)


Patronage

Pisa, Italy


Representation

• bearded hermit in a hairshirt holding a rosary

• dying man in a hairshirt

• minstrel burning his instrument while raising his arms to God

• monk being raised up by devils

• young pilgrim in a hairshirt carrying a banner with the Pisan cross



Blessed Pierre-Joseph Cassant


Also known as

Marie-Joseph Cassant



Profile

A pious youth, Pierre-Joseph early felt a call to the priesthood, but after months of tutoring by his parish priest, it was obvious that Pierre-Joseph would not be able to master diocesan seminary studies. Instead, on 5 December 1894 he was sent to the Abbey of Sainte-Marie-du-Désert where the studies were simpler since there were no pastoral responsibilities, but where it was still an academic struggle. Benedictine Cisterian Trappist monk, taking the name Marie-Joseph. Member of the Association of Victim Souls. Ordained on 12 October 1902 after eight years of study; he lived nine months as a priest. Having developed tuberculosis, his health was already failing by the time of his ordination. He was sent home to his family for seven weeks to rest, but continued to decline and asked to return to the abbey where he spent his remaining time working in the infirmary.


Born

6 March 1878 in Casseneuil, Lot-et-Garonne, France as Pierre-Joseph Cassant


Died

17 June 1903 in Abbey of Sainte-Marie-du-Désert, Lévignac, Haute Garonne, France of tuberculosis


Beatified

3 October 2004 by Pope John Paul II


Canonized

over 2200 people from 30 countries claim to have received blessings thorugh Blessed Jean's intercession



Saint Herve


Also known as

Erveo, Harvey, Herveus, Hervues, Hervé, Houarniaule, Huva



Profile

Son of the bard Hyvarnion, Herve was born blind. His father died when Herve was an infant, his mother, Rivanone, became an anchoress, and the boy was entrusted to the care of his uncles and a renowned holy man with whom he stayed until his teenage years. He lived for a while as a hermit and bard, then joined a monastic school at Plouvien, France which had been founded by his uncle. Abbot at Plouvien. He migrated with part of his community to found a new house in Lanhouarneau. Singer. Minstrel. Teacher. Miracle worker. One of the most popular saints in Brittany, he figures in the area's folklore. Reported to have a special ministry of healing animals, and to have a domesticated wolf as a companion. Legend says that the wolf killed and ate the ox that Herve used to plow his fields; Herve then preached such a moving sermon the wolf repented his ways, moved to Herve's hermitage, and ploughed Herve's fields in place of the ox.


Born

Guimiliau, Brittany, France or unknown location in Wales (sources vary)


Died

• c.556 to c.575 (sources vary) of natural causes

• interred at Lanhouarneau, Brittany, France


Patronage

• against eye disease or eye problems

• blind people


Representation

blind man being led by a wolf



Blessed Paul Burali d'Arezzo


Also known as

• Paolo Burali d'Arezzo

• Scipione



Profile

Graduated from the University of Salerno in 1525, and then from the University of Bologna in 1536; the future Pope Gregory XIII was one of his teachers. Layman civil and canon lawyer in Naples, Italy for twelve years. Royal counsellor to Emperor Charles V in 1549. Auditor general of the army under Ferdinand of Toledo. Joined the Theatines on 25 January 1557, taking the name Paolo. Spiritual student of Blessed Giovanni Marinoni. Ordained on 26 March 1558. Papal ambassador to the court of Spain for Pope Pius IV in 1564. Superior of the Theatine house of Naples. Superior of the Theatine house of Rome, Italy. Worked with Saint Andrew Avellino. Bishop of Piacenza, Italy on 23 July 1568. Created cardinal on 15 May 1570 by Pope Saint Pius V. Archbishop of Naples, Italy on 19 September 1576. Implemented the decrees of the Council of Trent. Published a catechism for priests in 1577.


Born

1511 in Itri, diocese of Gaeta, Italy as Scipione


Died

• 17 June 1578 at Torre del Greco, on the side of Mount Vesuvius, kingdom of Naples, Italy of natural causes

• interred in the crypt in the basilica of Saint Paul Maggiore, Naples


Beatified

8 June 1772 by Pope Clement XIV



Saint Theresa of Portugal


Also known as

Tarasia, Teresa



Profile

Born a princess, the oldest daughter of King Sancho I. Married to King Alfonso IX of Leon, Spain; northern Portugal formed part of her dowry. Mother of three children. Several years into the marriage it was dissolved by the Vatican upon the revelation that Theresa and Alfonso were cousins. Single again, Theresa returned to Portugal where she converted the Benedictine monastery at Lorvão into a convent for 300 Cistercian nuns. Theresa then moved into the convent, though she did not take vows. In 1231 she left to settle a bitter succession dispute between her children over the throne of Leon. With peace between them, she returned to the convent, took vows, and remained there as a nun for the rest of her life.


Born

4 October 1178 in Coimbra, Portugal


Died

18 June 1250 at Lorvão Abbey, Portugal of natural causes


Canonized

20 May 1705 by Pope Clement XI (cultus confirmed)



Blessed Peter Gambacorta


Also known as

Peter of Pisa



Profile

Son of a government official and brother of Blessed Clara Gambacorta. At age 25, after a mis-spent youth and life at court, he left the world to become a beggar and hermit on Montebello in Umbria, Italy. Converted a band of thieves and bandits not just to Christianity but to religious life; he founded the Hermits of Saint Jerome with them. They were an ascetic group, observing fasts several days a week and a Lent each season of they year; the group soon built a church with hermit cells around it where they were all known for their piety and Peter as a miracle worker.


Born

15 February 1355 in Pisa, Italy


Died

17 June 1435 in Venice, Italy of natural causes


Beatified

9 December 1693 by Pope Innocent XII



Saint Hypatius of Chalcedon


Also known as

• Hypatius of Bithynia

• Hypatius of The Oak

• the Scholar of Christ


Profile

Monk. Following a vision, he became a hermit at age 19 in Thrace, then Constantinople, and then Chalcedon, Bithynia with a friend and fellow hermit named Jason. Abbot at Chalcedon. Fierce opponent of Nestorianism. Sheltered Saint Alexander Akimetes and others at his hermitage near Chalcedon when their lives were threatened by Nestorian heretics. Hypatius is credited with halting a revival of the Olympic games because of their pagan origins. Prophet and miracle worker.


Born

at Phrygia


Died

c.450 of natural causes



Blessed Philippe Papon


Profile

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



Born

5 October 1744 in Saint-Pourçain, Allier, France


Died

17 June 1794 aboard the prison ship Deux-Associés, in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France of general abuse a few moments after hearing the confession of another dying prisoner


Beatified

1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II



Martyrs of Chalcedon


Profile

Three well-educated Christian men who were sent as ambassadors from King Baltan of Persia to the court of emperor Julian the Apostate to negotiate peace between the two states, and an end of Julian’s persecutions of Christians. Instead of negotiating, Julian imprisoned them, ordered them to make a sacrifice to pagan idols, and when they refused, had them executed. Martyrs. Their names were Manuel, Sabel and Ismael.


Born

Persian


Died

• beheaded in 362 in Chalcedon (part of modern Istanbul, Turkey)

• bodies burned and no relics survive


Saint Phêrô Ða


Also known as

• Peter Da

• Peter Dja



Profile

Married layman in the apostolic vicariate of Central Tonkin (in modern Vietnam). Carpenter by trade, he served as sacristan at his parish. Imprisoned, tortured and executed in the persecutions of emperor Tu Duc. Martyr.


Born

c.1802 in Ngoc Cuc, Nam Ðinh, Vietnam


Died

burned at the stake on 17 June 1862 in Nam Ðinh, Vietnam


Canonized

19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II



Saint Himerius of Amelia


Profile

Monk at Amelia, Umbria, Italy. Bishop of Ameila.



Born

at Calabria, southern Italy


Died

• c.560 of natural causes

• relics translated to Cremona, Italy in 995


Patronage

Cremona, Italy



Maria in the Forest


Also known as

• Holy Mary in the Forest

• Maria im Walde



Location

wooded area near Dolina, Grafenstein, Carinthia, Austria


Dates

17, 18 and 19 June 1849


Profile

An apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three young shepherdesses in which Mary appeared as the Immaculate Conception.



Saint Avitus of Perche


Also known as

Avit, Avy


Profile

Monk at the Menat monastery in Auvergne, France. Abbot of the Micy monastery near Orleans, France. Hermit in area of Perche, France. His reputation for holiness led to would-be spiritual students to gather around his shack. Eventually there were so many that they were led to build a new monastery where Avitus served as abbot.


Died

c.530



Saint Antidius of Besançon


Also known as

Antel, Antible, Antidio, Tude


Profile

Spiritual student of Saint Froninus of Besançon. Bishop of Besançon, France. Martyred by Arian Vandals.


Died

c.265 in Ruffey, France



Saint Adolph of Utrecht


Also known as

• Adolph of Maastricht

• Adulf, Adulphus


Profile

Brother of Saint Botulph of Ikanhoe. Seventh-century monk. Missionary bishop to Saxony. Miracle worker.


Born

early 7th century England



Saint Rambold of Ratisbon

புனித ராம்வோல்டு (St.Ramwold)

துறவி

பிறப்பு 

901

செயிண்ட் எம்மரெம்(St.Emmeram), ட்ரியர்(Trier), ஜெர்மனி

இறப்பு 

17 ஜூன் 1000

செயிண்ட் எம்மரெம், ட்ரியர்

இவர் செயிண்ட் எம்மரெம் என்ற தான் பிறந்த ஊரிலிலேயே தன்னை இறைவனுக்கு அர்ப்பணமாக்கிய முதல் துறவி என்ற பெயர் பெற்றார். துறவியான 25 ஆண்டுகளில் தன் இரத்தத்தை ஈந்து, பல துறவிகளை உருவாக்கினார். துறவிகளுக்கென்று செயிண்ட் எம்மரெமில் ஓர் இல்லத்தையும் தொடங்கினார். பின்னர் பல துறவறமடங்களையும், பல ஆன்மீக வழிகாட்டும் இல்லங்களையும் தொடங்கினார். பின்னர் 739 ஆம் ஆண்டு ரேகன்ஸ்பூர்க்கில்(Regensburg) ஆயராக இருந்த வோல்ப்காங்க்(Wolfgang) அவர்களால் ராம்வோல்டு அவர்கள் தொடங்கிய துறவற இல்லம் "புனித பெனடிக்ட் துறவற சபை" என்ற பெயர் வழங்கப்பட்டது. அதன்பிறகு 975ல் ரேகன்ஸ்பூர்க்கிலும் புனித ராம்வோல்டு புனித பெனடிக்ட் சபையை தொடங்கினார். 

பல ஆண்டுகள் ராம்வோல்டு ரேகன்ஸ்பூர்க்கிலிருந்த துறவற இல்லத்தில் தன் இறுதி நாட்களை கழித்து காலமானார். இவரின் கல்லறை அத்துறவற இல்லத்திலேயே அடக்கம் செய்யப்பட்டது. சில வருடங்கள் கழித்து அவரின் கல்லறைமேல் ரிங் வடிவத்தில் ஒரு கெபி கட்டப்பட்டுள்ளது. இவருக்கென்று செயிண்ட் எம்மரெமில் ஓர் பேராலயமும் கட்டப்பட்டுள்ளது. செயிண்ட் எம்மரெம்மில் இவரின் வழியாகத்தான் துறவிகளும், துறவற சபைகளும் தோன்றியது.

Also known as

Ramnold of Ratisbon



Profile

Monk at the Saint Maximinus monastery in Trier, Germany. Abbot of Saint Emmeram in Regensburg, Germany.


Born

901


Died

1001 of natural causes



Saint Molling of Wexford


Also known as

Dairchilla, Molignus, Moling, Mullins, Myllin


Profile

Monk at Glendalough. Abbot of Aghacainid. Bishop of Ferns, Ireland.


Born

Wexford, Ireland


Died

697 of natural causes



Saint David of Bourges


Profile

Archbishop of Bourges, France in 785 where he served the remaining 30 years of his life.


Died

• 815 of natural causes

• interred in the church of the Saint-Laurent abbey in Bourges, France



Saint Diogenes of Rome


Profile

Martyr.


Died

• on the Via Salaria Vecchia, Rome, Italy

• buried in the Saint John the Martyr, Via Salaria, Rome

• relics moved to the Basilica of Santa Praxedes by Pope Paschal I



Saint Blasto of Rome


Profile

Martyr.


Died

• on the Via Salaria Vecchia, Rome, Italy

• buried in the Saint John the Martyr, Via Salaria, Rome

• relics moved to the Basilica of Santa Praxedes by Pope Paschal I



Saint Dignamerita of Brescia


Profile

Lay woman martyred with her two sons, whose names have not come down to us, in the persecutions of emperor Hadrian.


Died

beheaded the early 1st century in Brescia, Italy



Blessed Arnaldo of Foligno


Also known as

Arnold


Profile

Franciscan friar. Confessor, spiritual director and biographer of Blessed Angela of Foligno.


Died

1313



Saint Montanus of Gaeta


Profile

Soldier. Martyr.


Died

• drowned in the sea with a stone tied around his neck c.300 on Ponza, Italy

• relics translated to Gaeta, Italy



Saint Briavel of Gloucestershire


Also known as

Brevile


Profile

Sixth century hermit in Gloucestershire, England, and area now known as Saint Briavels.



Saint Nectan of Hartland


Also known as

Nighton


Profile

Sixth-century hermit in Hartland, Devon, England.


Born

Wales


Patronage

Hartland, England



Saint Prior


Profile


Early spiritual student of Saint Anthony the Abbot. Monk. Hermit. Lived to nearly 100 years of age.


Born

late 3rd century Egypt


Died

late 4th century of natural causes



Saint Gundulphus


Also known as

Gundulfus, Gondulf, Gondon, Gondulphus


Profile

Sixth century bishop in Gaul.


Died

at Bourges, France of natural causes



Saint Agrippinus of Como


Profile

Bishop of Como, Italy.


Died

615 of natural causes



Martyrs of Apollonia


Profile

A group of Christians who fled to a cave near Apollonia, Macedonia to escape persecution for his faith, but were caught and executed. Martyrs. The names we know are - Basil, Ermia, Felix, Innocent, Isaurus, Jeremias and Peregrinus.


Died

beheaded at Apollonia, Macedonia



Martyrs of Aquileia


Profile

Four Christian martyrs memorialized together. No details about them have survived, not even if they died together - Ciria, Maria, Musca and Valerian.


Died

c.100 in Aquileia, Italy



Martyrs of Chalcedon


Profile

Three well-educated Christian men who were sent as ambassadors from King Baltan of Persia to the court of emperor Julian the Apostate to negotiate peace between the two states, and an end of Julian's persecutions of Christians. Instead of negotiating, Julian imprisoned them, ordered them to make a sacrifice to pagan idols, and when they refused, had them executed. Martyrs. Their names were Manuel, Sabel and Ismael.


Born

Persian


Died

• beheaded in 362 in Chalcedon (part of modern Istanbul, Turkey)

• bodies burned and no relics survive



Martyrs of Fez


Profile

A group of Mercedarians sent to Fez, Morocco to ransom Christians imprisoned and enslaved by Muslims. For being openly Christian they were imprisoned, tortured, mutilated and executed. Martyrs - Egidio, John, Louis and Paul.



Died

beheaded in Fez, Morocco



Martyrs of Rome


Profile

A group of 262 Christians martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.


Died

• c.303 in Rome, Italy

• buried on the old Via Salaria in Rome



Martyrs of Venafro


Profile

Three Christian lay people, two of them imperial Roman soldiers, who were converts to Christianity and were martyred together in the persecutions of Maximian and Diocletian - Daria, Marcian and Nicander.



Died

• beheaded c.303 in Venafro, Italy

• by 313 a basilica had been built over their graves

• grave and relics re-discovered in 1930


Patronage

Venafro, Italy



Also celebrated but no entry yet


• Colman of Lynn

• Herbot

• Joseph-Marie Cassant


15 June 2023

இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் ஜீன் 16

 John Francis Regis

தூய யோவான் பிரான்சிஸ் ரெஜிஸ் 

பிறப்பு: 1597 ஜனவரி 31

பிரான்ஸ்,

இறப்பு: 1640 டிசம்பர் 30 

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை 

நினைவுத் திருநாள்: ஜூன் 16 

இன்று நாம் நினைவுகூரும் யோவான் பிரான்சிஸ் ரெஜிஸ் 1597 ஆம் ஆண்டு ஜனவரி திங்கள் 31 ஆம் நாள், பிரான்ஸ் நாட்டில் இருந்த ஒரு வசதியான குடும்பத்தில் பிறந்தார். இவர் தன்னுடைய தொடக்கக் கல்வியை தனது சொந்த ஊரிலே கற்றார். அதன்பின் இவர் தன்னுடைய மேற்படிப்பை இயேசு சபைத் துறவிகள் நடத்தி வந்த கல்லூரியில் கற்றார். அப்போது அங்கே இருந்த துறவிகளுடைய வாழ்க்கையால் தொடப்பட்டு, தானும் ஒரு துறவியாக மாறவேண்டும் என்னும் ஆசைகொண்டார் இவர். ஆசை கொண்டதும் மட்டுமல்லாமல் 1631 ஆம் ஆண்டு குருவாகவும் அருட்பொழிவு செய்யப்பட்டார். 

யோவான் பிரான்சிஸ் ரெஜிஸ் குருவாக மாறிய பின்பு ஆண்டவரின் நற்செய்தியை மக்களுக்கு எடுத்துரைத்து, ஆன்மாக்களை அறுவடை செய்யும் பணியில் மிக மும்முரமாக ஈடுபட்டார். மிகச் சிறந்த மறைபோதகராக விளங்கிய இவர், தன்னுடைய போதிக்கும் திறமையால் பலரையும் கிறிஸ்துவுக்குள் கொண்டு வந்து சேர்த்தார். 

இதற்கிடையில் இவர் இருந்த தூலூஸ் நகரில் பிளேக் நோய் பரவத் தொடங்கியது. இந்த நோய் பரவி பலரது உயிரையும் எடுத்துக்கொண்டது. இந்தச் சூழ்நிலையில் யோவான் பிரான்சிஸ் ரெஜிஸ் மிகச் சிறப்பான முறையில் பணிகளைச் செய்து, நோயால் பாதிக்கப்பட்ட மக்களுக்கு உதவி புரிந்து வந்தார். இவர் நோயாளிகள்மீது அதிகமான அக்கறை எடுத்துக்கொண்டு அவர்களுக்குப் பணிசெய்து வந்தார். நோயாளிகள் மட்டுமல்லாது கைவிடப்பட்டோர், விபச்சாரத் தொழிலில் ஈடுபட்டு வந்தோர் மறுவாழ்வு பெறுவதற்காகவும் பாடுபட்டார். அவர்களுக்காக விடுதி ஒன்றைக் கட்டி எழுப்பி, அதில் அவர்களை அமர வைத்து, அதன்மூலம் அவர்களுக்குச் சேவைகள் புரிந்து வந்தார். 

இதன்பிறகு இவர் விவியர்ஸ் நகர் சென்று, அங்கு நற்செய்தியை அறிவிக்கத் தொடங்கினார். இவர் ஆற்றிய நற்செய்திப் பணியினால் பலரும் கிறிஸ்தவ மதத்தைத் தழுவினார்கள். இப்படி பல்வேறு பணிகளைச் செய்து வந்த யோவான் பிரான்சிஸ் ரெஜிஸ் நிமோனியாக் காய்ச்சலால் பாதிக்கப்பட்டார். அந்த நோய் இவரைக் கடுமையாகத் தாக்கவே இவர் தன்னுடைய 43 ஆம் வயதில் அதாவது 1640 ஆம் ஆண்டு, டிசம்பர் 30 ஆம் நாள், இறையடி சேர்ந்தார். இவருக்கு 1737 ஆம் ஆண்டு புனிதர் பட்டம் கொடுக்கப்பட்டது.

Saint Francis Regis, SJ Preaching. Michel Ange Houasse. Beginning of the 18th-century. Museo del Prado. Madrid. Spain.

Jesuit missionary, priest, saint

Born 31 January 1597

Fontcouverte, Aude, France

Died 31 December 1640 (aged 43)

Lalouvesc, Ardèche, France

Venerated in Catholic Church

Beatified 18 May 1716, Rome, Papal States by Pope Clement XI

Canonized 5 April 1737, Rome, Papal States by Pope Clement XII

Major shrine Lalouvesc, France

Feast 16 June

Patronage Regis University; Regis High School (New York City); Regis Jesuit High School (Aurora, Colorado); lacemakers

Jean-François Régis, commonly known as Saint John Francis Regis and Saint Regis, (31 January 1597 – 31 December 1640), was a French priest of the Society of Jesus, recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in 1737. A tireless preacher, Regis is best known for his work with at-risk women and orphans.



Life

Jean-François Régis was born 31 January 1597, in Fontcouverte, Aude, in the Languedoc region of southern France. His father, Jean Régis, had recently been ennobled as a result of service rendered during the Wars of the League. His mother, Marguerite de Cugunhan, was of a noble family.[1] He was educated at the Jesuit College of Béziers. On 8 December 1616, in his nineteenth year, he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Toulouse and he took his vows two years later.[2]

After finishing his course in rhetoric at Cahors, Regis was sent to teach grammar at several colleges: Billom (1619–22), Puy-en-Velay (1625–27), and Auch (1627–28). While he was teaching, he also pursued his studies in philosophy at the scholasticate at Tournon. Noted for an intense love of preaching and teaching the Faith, as well as the desire to save souls,[1] Regis began his study of theology at Toulouse in 1628. Less than two years later, in 1630, he was ordained a priest at 31. The following year, having completed his studies, Regis made his tertianship.[3]

Regis was now fully prepared for his lifework and entered upon his apostolic career in the summer of 1631. He was a tireless worker who spent most of his life serving the marginalized.[4] As a newly ordained priest, he worked with bubonic plague victims in Toulouse. From May 1632 until September 1634, his headquarters was at the Jesuit College of Montpellier. Here he labored for the conversion of the Huguenots, visited hospitals, assisted the needy, withdrew from vice wayward women and girls, and preached Catholic doctrine with tireless zeal to children and the poor.[5] Regis is best known for his work with at-risk women and orphans. He established safe houses and found jobs for them.[4] Regis established the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, which organized charitable collections of money and food from the wealthy. He also established several hostels for prostitutes, and helped many become trained lace makers, which provided them with a stable income and an opportunity to avoid the threat of exploitation.[4]

In 1633, Regis went to the Diocese of Viviers at the invitation of the local bishop, Monsignor Louis II de la Baume de Suze, giving missions throughout the diocese.[3] From 1633 to 1640 he evangelized more than fifty districts in le Vivarais, le Forez, and le Velay.[1] Regis labored diligently on behalf of both priests and laypersons. His preaching style was said to have been simple and direct. He appealed to the uneducated peasantry and numerous conversions resulted.[3]

Regis's labors reaped a harvest of conversions. However, his boldness – perceived as arrogance in some cases – led to a conflict with certain other priests, a period of tension with the local bishop, and even threats of violence from those whose vices he condemned.[6] Although he longed to devote himself to the conversion of the indigenous inhabitants of Canada,[7] he remained in France all his life.

Regis walked from town to town, in rough mountainous areas where travel was difficult, especially in the winter.[4] He died of pneumonia at age forty-three on 31 December 1640,[8] at Lalouvesc (Ardèche), in France's Dauphiné region.

Veneration

John Francis Regis was beatified by Pope Clement XI on 18 May 1716,[6] and canonized by Pope Clement XII on 5 April 1737.

 Patronage

John Francis Regis is the patron saint of lacemakers, medical social workers, and illegitimate children.[9]


Saint Benno of Meissen

 மெய்ஸ்ஸன் நகர் புனிதர் பென்னோ 

ஒப்புரவாளர் மற்றும் மெய்ஸ்ஸன் மறைமாவட்ட ஆயர்: 

பிறப்பு: கி.பி. 1010

ஹில்ட்ஷெய்ம், ஸாக்சனி 

இறப்பு: ஜூன் 16, 1106

மெய்ஸ்ஸன் 

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை 

புனிதர் பட்டம்: மே 31, 1523

திருத்தந்தை ஆறாவது அட்ரியான் 

பாதுகாவல்: மீனவர்/ நெசவாளர் 

நினைவுத் திருநாள்: ஜூன் 16 

“ஹில்ட்ஷெய்ம்”  நகரின் வசதி வாய்ப்புள்ள பிரபுக்கள் குடும்பத்தின் வாரிசாகப் பிறந்த புனிதர் பென்னோ’வின் வாழ்க்கை வரலாறு பற்றின தகவல்கள் சிறிதளவே உள்ளன. உள்ளூரிலுள்ள புனிதர் மைக்கேல் துறவு மடத்தில்  கல்வி கற்ற இவர், கோஸ்லர் அத்தியாய நியாயஸ்தராக இருந்தார். இவர், கி.பி. 1066ம் ஆண்டு, அரசன் நான்காம் ஹென்றியால் மெய்ஸ்ஸன்” நகரின் ஆயரவை அதிகாரமுள்ளவராக நியமிக்கப்பட்டார். 

கி.பி. 1073ம் ஆண்டு, பென்னோ சாக்ஸன் நகர கலகத்தின் ஆதரவாளராக தோன்றினார். இருப்பினும், “லம்பெர்ட்” எனும் வரலாற்றாசிரியரும் சமகால அதிகாரிகளும் தங்கள் பங்குக்கு அவர்மீது மேலும் சிறிதளவு சாட்டினார்கள். அரசன் நான்காம் ஹென்றி கி.பி. 1075ம் ஆண்டு, பென்னோவை நாடு கடத்தினான். ஆனால் மறு வருடமே அவரை திரும்பி வர அனுமதித்தான். 

பட்டம் மற்றும் பதவியளிக்கும் கடுமையான சர்ச்சைகளில் பென்னோ திருத்தந்தை ஏழாம் கிரகோரிக்கு ஆதரவளித்தார். மேலும், கி.பி. 1077ம் ஆண்டு, அரசனுக்கு எதிரான “ரூடோல்ஃப்” என்பவரது தேர்தலில் பங்கெடுத்ததாக கூறப்பட்டது. 

எதிர் திருத்தந்தை மூன்றாம் கிளமென்ட்’டுக்கு எதிரானவர் என்ற காரணத்தால் “ரவென்னா” உயர்மறை மாவட்ட பேராயர் “கில்பர்ட்”  அவர்களுக்கு ஆதரவளித்தார். இதற்கு அரசன் நான்காம் ஹென்றியும் ஆதரவளித்தான். 

தமது செல்வாக்கினை “சாக்ஸன்” மக்களின் அமைதிக்காக உபயோகிப்பதாக பென்னோ வெளிப்படியாக வாக்குறுதியளித்திருந்தார். ஆனால் அதை அவரால் நிறைவேற்ற இயலாமல் போனது. 1097ல் திருத்தந்தையர் விருந்திற்கு வந்து திரும்புகையில் “இரண்டாம் அர்பன்”  அவர்களை சரியான திருத்தந்தையாக அடையாளம் கண்டார். இத்துடன் அவர் நம்பத்தகுந்த வரலாற்றிலிருந்து மறைந்து போனார். ஆயினும் தமது மறை மாவட்டத்திற்கு அதிக சேவையாற்றியிருந்தார். 


அதன்பின்னர் அவரது மறைப்பணிகளைப்பற்றியோ திருச்சபையை கட்டி எழுப்புவதற்கான ஆர்வம் பற்றியோ யாதொரு ஆதாரங்களும் கிடைக்கவில்லை. கி.பி. 1106ம் ஆண்டு, ஜூன் மாதம், 16ம் நாளன்று, பென்னோ இயற்கையாக மரணம் எய்தினார்.

Also known as

Benedict



Profile

Born to the Saxon nobility, the son of Blessed Bezela of Goda; as an adult he was heavily involved in the power politics of his day. Educated in the abbey of Saint Michael, Hildesheim, Germany. Priest. Canon at the imperial chapel at Gozlar, Hanover. Chaplain to Emperor Henry III. Bishop of Meissen in 1066. Participated in the synod of Forcheim, Germany in 1078.


He spent a year in prison for backing the nobility and Pope Saint Gregory VII against Emperor Henry IV over lay investiture and the control of the Church by the State. At one point he was summoned to Rome, Italy; he ordered the canons to lock the cathedral while he was gone in case emperor Henry tried to occupy it. Henry did, and threw the keys of the cathedral into the river as a symbol to show no one could lock the church against him. When Benno returned, he went to the river and found the key; legend says it was protected by a fish.


Following the death of Pope Gregory VII, Benno pledged his allegiance to the anti-pope Guibert, but in 1097 he returned to support of the lawful Pope Urban II.


Even with all the polical involvement and turmoil, Benno never lost sight of his calling as a diocesan bishop. He visited parishes, preached and conducted Mass, enforced discipline among his clergy, and fought simony any place he found it. He was an accomplished musician, supported music and chant in the churches and monasteries, and wrote on the Gospels. In his later years he served a missionary to the Wends.


Benno continued to be an involved and controversial figure in politics even after his death. His biographer, Jerome Emser, worked a lot of Church versus State material into the book. Martin Luther wrote a furious diatriabe against Benno's canonization.


Born

1010 at Hildesheim, Germany


Died

• 16 June 1106 of natural causes

• buried in the cathedral of Meissen, Germany

• when the cathedral was rebuilt in 1285, his relics were translated to the new structure, with many miraculous cures accompanying the move

• relics translated to the bishop's castle at Stolp when Saxony became Protestant

• relics translated to Munich, Germany in 1580


Canonized

1523 by Pope Adrian VI


Patronage

• anglers, fishermen

• weavers

• diocese of Dresden-Meissen, Germany

• Munich, Germany




Saint Lutgardis


Also known as

• Lutgardis of the Sacred Heart

• Lutgardis of Tongres

• Lutgardis of Aywieres

• Ludgard, Ludgardis, Luitgard, Lutgard, Lutgarde, Lutgart, Luthgard, Lutgarda



Profile

A pretty girl with a fondness for clothes and no apparent religious vocation, Lutgardis was sent to the Black Benedictine convent near Saint Trond at age 12 because her dowry had been lost in a failed business venture, and there was thus little chance for a life as a normal, married lay woman. In her late teens Lutgardis received a vision of Christ showing her His wounds, and in 1194 at age 20 she became a Benedictine nun with a true vocation. She had visions of Christ while in prayer, experienced ecstacies, levitated, and dripped blood from forehead and hair when enraptured by the Passion. Chosen as prioress of her community in 1205, she repeatedly refused to be abbess.


The Benedictine order was not strict enough for Lutgardis, and on the advice of her friend Saint Christina the Astonishing, in 1208 she joined the Cistercians at Aywieres (near Brussels in modern Belgium) where she lived for her remaining 30 years. She displayed the gifts of healing, prophecy, spiritual wisdom, and was an inspired teacher on the Gospels. Blind for the last eleven years of her life, she treated the affliction as a gift - it reduced the distraction of the outside world. In one of her last visions, Christ told her when she was to die; she spent the time remaining in prayer for the conversion of sinners.


Born

1182 at Tongres, Limburg, Belgium


Died

• 16 June 1246 at Aywieres (modern Awirs), Belgium of natural causes, just as night office began on the Saturday night following Feast of the Holy Trinity

• relics transferred to Ittre, Belgium on 4 December 1796 to avoid destruction in the French Revolution


Patronage

• birth, childbirth

• blind people, againts blindness

• disabled, handicapped of physically challenged people

• Belgium

• Flanders, Belgium


Representation

• woman with Christ showing her His wounded side

• blind Cistercian abbess

• Cistercian nun being blinded by the Heart of Jesus

• Cistercian to whom Christ extends his hand from the cross

• woman in attendance when Christ shows his Heart to the Father



Saint Cyriacus of Iconium


Also known as

Cyr, Cyricus, Quiriac, Quiricus



Profile

Son of Saint Julitta. When Cyriacus was a small child, his mother was sentenced to death at Tarsus during the persecutions of Diocletian. Cyriacus made a childish attack on Alexander, the sentencing magistrate, and announced that he was a Christian like his mother. The angry magistrate threw the child to the ground, smashing his skull and killing him instantly.


Some scholars claim that the entire story is fiction, and there is no question that earlier writers hugely embellished this popular and frequently retold story.


Blessed Charlemagne dreamed he was saved from death by a wild boar during a hunt by the appearance of a child who promised to save if Charlemagne would clothe him. The bishop of Nevers explained that the child was Cyriacus, and that he wanted the emperor to repair the roof of Saint Cyr's cathedral. This led to the Cyriacus' representation as a naked child riding a wild boar.


Born

c.301


Died

• c.304 at Tarsus by having his skull crushed

• relics enshrined at Nevers, France, and in the monastery of Saint-Amand in Tournai, France


Patronage

• against death of children

• torture victims


Representation

• child being thrown to the ground or down a set of steps by a judge

• child thrown to the ground with a fountain springing from his blood

• holding Saint Julitta by the hand

• naked child sitting a wild boar



Martyrs of Làng Cóc


Profile

A group of five Christian laymen, four farmers and a doctor, from the same village in the apostolic vicariate of Central Tonkin (in modern Vietnam). During the persecutions of emperor Tu Duc, they were each ordered to stomp on a cross to show their contempt for Christianity; they each refused. Imprisoned, tortured and martyred.

• Anrê Tuong

• Ðaminh Nguyen

• Ðaminh Nguyen Ðuc Mao

• Ðaminh Nhi

• Vinh Son Tuong



Born

in Ngoc Cuc, Nam Ðinh, Vietnam


Died

beheaded on 16 June 1862 in Làng Cóc, Nam Ðinh, Vietnam


Canonized

19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II



Saint Julitta of Iconium


Also known as

Juliot


Profile

Mother of Saint Cyriacus of Iconium. Widow. Moved from Iconium to Isauria to avoid persecution as a Christian. Tortured and martyred during the persecutions of Diocletian. Legend says that from the site of her burial there erupted a miraculous spring of water that cured the sick and improved the health of those who immersed in it.



Some scholars claim that the entire story is fiction, and there is no question that earlier writers hugely embellished this popular and frequently retold story.


Died

• c.304

• sources describe several methods, all horridly painful


Patronage

• against death of children

• single laywomen

• torture victims

• widows


Representation

• burned at the stake

• holding a cross and palm

• holding Saint Cyricus by the hand

• martyred, with a fountain springing from her blood

• standing near oxen




Blessed Donizetti Tavares de Lima


Profile

One of nine boys born to Tristão and Francisca Cândida Tavares de Lima; his father was a lawyer, his mother a professor. Ordained a priest in the diocese of São João da Boa Vista, Brazil in 1908. Serving as a parish priest, he became known as a miracle worker and healer. In 1955, in obedience to his bishop, Father Donizetti limited himself to normal parish work and never spoke of miracles again.



Born

3 January 1882 in Cássia, Brazil


Died

at 11.15am on 16 June 1961 in at the parish hall in Tambaú, Brazil of natural causes


Beatified

• 23 November 2019 by Pope Francis

• the beatification recognition was celebrated at the Church of São José, Tambaú, Brazil with Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu as the chief celebrant



Saint Aurelian of Arles


Also known as

Aurelian the Sinner



Profile

Bishop of Arles, Gaul (modern France) in 546. Founded a monastery and convent in Arles, and brought many relics to them including a piece of the True Cross. The Rule he gave each of the houses in his diocese stressed devotion to the saints and martyrs. Assisted at the Council of Orleans in 549. Referred to himself as Aurelian the Sinner. Papal vicar of Gaul under Pope Vigilius, from whom he received the pallium, one of the symbols of his high office.


Died

• 16 June 551 at Lyon, Gaul (modern France) of natural causes

• entombed at the chapel of Saint Nizier in Lyons



Saint Tycho of Amathus


Also known as

• Tycho of Amato

• Tycho of Amatante

• Tycho of Limassol

• Tychon, Ticon



Profile

Son of a poor baker. First bishop of Amathus (modern Limassol), Cyprus in the early 5th-century. Fought to rid Cyprus of its remaining pagan culture, idols and worship, particularly that related to Aphrodiate. Saint Joseph the Hymnographer composed an Office in his honour. Saint John the Merciful wrote a biography of him.


Died

c.425


Patronage

vine growers (legend says that revitalized a dead vineyard by planting and praying over a single dead leaf)



Blessed Antoine Auriel


Also known as

Constant


Profile

Priest and parochial vicar in the diocese of Cahors, France. Imprisoned on a ship in the harbor of Rochefort, France and left to die during the anti-Catholic persecutions of the French Revolution. One of the Martyrs of the Hulks of Rochefort.



Born

19 April 1764 in Fajolles, Lot, France


Died

16 June 1794 aboard the prison ship Deux-Associés, in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France


Beatified

1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II



Saint Ferrutio and Saint Ferreolus of Besançon


Profile

Brothers. Ferrutio was a priest, Ferreolus a deacon. They were sent by Saint Irenaeus of Lyons to evangelize the area of Besançon, France where they worked for 30 years. Martyrs.



Born

Asia Minor


Died

c.212 in the area of Besançon, France



Martyrs of Africa


Profile

A group of five Christians martyred together. We know nothing else but the names – Cyriacus, Diogenes, Marcia, Mica, Valeria


Died

unknown location in Africa, date unknown



Saint Aureus of Mainz


Also known as

Aureo


Profile

Brother of Saint Justina of Mainz. Bishop of Mainz, Germany. When the Huns attacked Mainz, Aureus fled briefly into exile, but returned. While celebrating Mass in the cathedral, he, his sister and everyone else there were massacred during the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Martyr.


Died

in the cathedral of Mainz, Germany while celebrating Mass


Representation

• bishop at the altar being murdered by Huns

• with Saint Justina of Mainz



Saint Palerio of Telese


Profile

Bishop of Telese, Italy. Saint Equizio of Telese served as his deacon.



Died

• buried in the church of San Palerio at an unknown point

• grave re-discovered following a vision in 1167

• relics re-discovered in 1712 when the old church was being demolished

• relics enshrined under the high altar of the church of Saint John the Baptist on 5 March 1713



Blessed Thomas Redyng


Also known as

Thomas Reding


Additional Memorial

4 May as one of the Carthusian Martyrs



Profile

Carthusian choir monk of the Charterhouse in London, England. Martyred for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the Church.


Died

starved to death on 16 June 1537 in Newgate Prison, London, England


Beatified

29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII



Saint Ismael of Menevia


Also known as

Osmail, Ysfael


Profile

Sixth century son of Budic, prince of Cornouaille, Brittany (in modern France), who was forced into exile at Dyfed, Wales. Budic later returned to Brittany, but his three sons preferred Wales where they all became holy men. Ismael was the spiritual student of Saint Teilo of Llandaff who ordained him bishop of Menevia, Wales. Several churches are dedicated in his honour in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, Wales.



Saint Justina of Mainz


Profile

Sister of Saint Aureus of Mainz. When the Huns attacked Mainz, Justina fled briefly into exile, but returned. While celebrating Mass in the cathedral, Justina, her brother and everyone else there were massacred during the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Martyr.


Died

martyred in the cathedral of Mainz, Germany while celebrating Mass


Representation

being murdered with Saint Aureus of Mainz



Saint Berthaldus


Also known as

Bertaud, Berthold


Profile

Hermit in the Ardennes region of France. Ordained by Saint Remigius of Rheims. The town of Chaumont grew up around his titular abbey and church in the archdiocese of Rheims, France. Indulgences for pilgrimages to Berhaldus' shrine were granted in 1451 and 1466.


Born

Ireland


Died

• c.540 of natural causes

• miracles reported at his death



Saint Similian of Nantes


Also known as

Sambin, Similiano



Profile

Bishop of Nantes, France. Saint Gregory of Tours testified to his holiness.


Died

310 of natural causes



Saint Graecina of Volterra


Also known as

Gracinea, Graeciniana


Profile

Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.


Died

• early 4th century

• relics discovered in the Camaldolese church of Saint Justus and Saint Clement, Volterra, Italy in 1140


Representation

young woman with a dagger



Saint Actinea of Volterra


Profile

Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.


Died

• beheaded at Volterra, Etruria, Italy in the early 4th century

• relics discovered in the Camaldolese church of Saint Justus and Saint Clement, Volterra, in 1140




Saint Cettin of Oran


Also known as

Cetagh, Cethach, Cethagh


Profile

Spiritual student of Saint Patrick. Bishop. Helped Patrick evangelize Ireland. His shrine at Orran was a place of pilgrimage for centuries, apparently survived into the 18th century.


Died

5th century of natural causes



Saint Ceccardus of Luni


Also known as

Cichardo, Ceccardo


Profile

Bishop of Luni, Italy. Martyr.



Died

c.860 in Carrara, Italy


Patronage

Carrara, Italy



Blessed Gaspare Burgherre


Profile

Mercedarian friar. A member of the Roman Curia, he resigned his position to work to free Christians enslaved by Muslims. Freed 200 of them in the Andalusia region of Spain.


Died

1497



Saint Colman McRhoi


Profile

Spiritual student of Saint Columba of Iona. Deacon. Helped found the monastery of Reachrain (modern Lambay Island), Dublin, Ireland, and served as its abbot.


Died

6th century of natural causes



Saint Amandus of Beaumont


Also known as

Amand, Amatius, Amantius


Profile

Hermit at Beaumont, archdiocese of Rheims, France.


Born

Scottish


Died

6th century of natural causes



Saint Aitheachan of Colpe


Also known as

• Aitheachan of Inbher Colpthai

• Athcain


Profile

Sixth century. While listed in multiple martyrologies, no details about him have surived.



Saint Maurus of San Felice


Profile

Sixth-century bishop. Pilgrim to Rome, Italy. Settle in the village of San Felice near Narni, Italy.


Born

Palestine



Saint Felix of San Felice


Profile

Sixth-century bishop. Pilgrim to Rome, Italy. Settled in the village of San Felice near Narni, Italy.


Born

Palestine



Saint Curig of Llanbadarn


Profile

Bishop of Llanbadarn, Wales. Several Welsh churches are dedicated to him.


Born

Welsh


Died

6th century



Saint Cunigunde of Rapperswil


Profile

Companion of Saint Ursula. Martyr.


Died

Rapperswil, Switzerland



Saint Crescentius of Antioch


Profile

Martyr.


Died

Antioch, date unknown



Saint Elidan


Also known as

Ilid


Profile

Nun in Llangurig, Denbigshire, Wales.



Also celebrated but no entry yet


• Ilpidius of Brioude

• Limbania

• Maria Teresa Scherer

• William of Monferrato

14 June 2023

இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் ஜீன் 15

 St. Dulas


Feastday: June 15

Death: 310


Martyr from Zephyrium, Cilicia, he called Tatian Dulas in some lists. He was arrested and refused to worship Apollo and other Roman gods. Tortured, Dulas died while being taken to Tarsus.

Saint Dulas was a Christian Saint during the Roman Empire.


At Zephirium, in Cilicia, St. Dulas, martyr, who, under the governor Maximus, was, for the name of Christ, scourged, laid on the gridiron, scalded with boiling oil, and after enduring other trials, received for his victory the palm of martyrdom.

After being tortured he was dragged to Tarsus and died on the way.

His feast day is June 15.


St. Alice

புனித ஆலிஸ் (1220-1250)

இவர் பெல்ஜியத்தில் உள்ள ஷேர்பெக் என்ற இடத்தில் பிறந்தார்.

தன்னுடைய ஏழாவது வயதிலேயே சிஸ்டர்சியன் துறவிகள் மடத்தில் சேர்ந்த இவர், அங்கேயே தன்னுடைய கல்வியைக் கற்கத் தொடங்கினார். கல்வியில் சிறந்து விளங்கிய இவர், தாழ்ச்சியோடும் இருந்தார.

இவருக்கு 20 ஆவது வயது நடக்கும்பொழுது தொழுநோயால் பாதிக்கப்பட்டார்‌. அதனால் இவர் தனிமைப்படுத்தப்பட்டார். தொழுநோயால் இவர் துன்பங்களை அனுபவித்துக் கொண்டிருந்த அதே வேளையில், கண்பார்வையையும் இழந்தார். இதனால் இவர் அடைந்த துயருக்கு அளவே இல்லை.

இப்படிப்பட்ட சூழ்நிலையில் இவர் நற்கருணை ஆண்டவர்மீது மிகுந்த பற்றுக் கொள்ளத் தொடங்கினார். அந்தப் பற்று இவருக்கு ஆறுதலையும் அரவணைப்பையும் நம்பிக்கையையும் தந்தது. சில நேரங்களில் நற்கருணை ஆண்டவர் இவருக்குக் காட்சி தந்து இவரைத் திடப்படுத்தினார்.

நாள்கள் செல்ல செல்ல இவருடைய உடலில் வேதனை மிகுதியானது. இதனால் இவர் தன்னுடைய முப்பதாவது வயதில் உடல்நலம் குன்றி இறையடி சேர்ந்தார்.

இவருக்கு 1907 ஆம் ஆண்டு திருத்தந்தை பத்தாம் பயஸால் புனிதர் பட்டம் கொடுக்கப்பட்டது. இவர் பார்வையற்றவர்கள், முடக்குவாதத்தால் பாதிக்கப்பட்டவர்கள் ஆகியோருக்குப் பாதுகாவலராக இருக்கிறார்

Feastday: June 15

Patron: of The Blind, the Paralyzed

Birth: 1220

Death: 1250



Alice was born at Shaerbeck, near Brussels. At the age of seven, she entered a Cistercian convent named Camera Sanctae Mariae, and she remained there for the rest of her life. The Cistercian community was inspired by her spirit of humility. However, at an early age, she contracted leprosy and had to be isolated. The disease caused Aleydis intense suffering, and eventually she became paralyzed and was afflicted with blindness. Alice's greatest consolation came from reception of the Holy Eucharist, although she was not allowed to drink from the cup because of the danger of contagion. However, the Lord appeared to her with assurance that to receive under one species, was sufficient. Known for visions and ecstasies, she died in 1250. Devotion to her was approved in 1907 by Pope Pius X.


There is much sickness and related suffering in the world today. Like St. Alice, we must try to turn our suffering into good and pray that God will give us the strength to endure and that we may be consoled through the reception of the Sacraments.




Alice of Schaerbeek (or Adelaide or Aleydis) (also known as Alice the Leper) (Dutch: Sint Aleydis, French: Sainte Alix), (c. 1220–1250) was a Cistercian laysister who is venerated as the patron saint of the blind and paralyzed. Her feast day is 15 June.


Life

Alice was born at Schaerbeek, near Brussels, then in the Duchy of Brabant. A frail child, at the age of seven, she was sent to be boarded and educated at the Cistercian La Cambre Abbey, where she remained for the rest of her life. The name of the abbey is derived from the Latin: Camera Sanctae Mariae (Chamber of Our Lady) and is recalled in the park southeast of Brussels called "Ter Kamerenbos / Bois de la Cambre" ("Chamber Woods").[2]


Alice was a very pretty girl and lovable child, and soon showed a high intelligence and a great love for God. She became a laysister at the abbey. However, at some 20 years of age (c. 1240), she contracted leprosy and had to be isolated in a small hut. The disease caused her intense suffering, which she offered for the salvation of sinners and the souls in purgatory.[3]


Eventually she became paralyzed and afflicted with blindness. Her greatest consolation came from reception of the Holy Eucharist, although she was not allowed to drink from the chalice because of the presumed danger of contamination. However, it is said that the Lord appeared to her with assurance that He was in both the consecrated bread and the wine.[2] She died in 1250, at the age of c. 30.


The little we know about Alice's life comes from a Latin biography, composed c. 1260–1275.[4] Authorship of the work is unknown. Scholars have typically believed that the author was an anonymous chaplain at La Cambre Abbey.[5] However, Martinus Cawley suggests that Arnulf II of Ghistelles, abbot of Villers Abbey 1270–1276, is its likely author.[6] Alice's biography was also translated into Middle Dutch, as witnessed by one extant manuscript.[7]


By decree of 1 July 1702, Pope Clement XI granted to the monks of the Congregation of St. Bernard Fuliensi the faculty to celebrate the cultus of Alice.[3] Devotion to Alice as a saint was approved in 1907 by Pope Pius X.[8]


Responses to Alice' Life

Alice' biography has been upheld as a model of Cistercian spirituality. Writing in 1954, Trappist monk Thomas Merton, for example, called the text "a practical and concise treatise of Cistercian asceticism."[9] Nevertheless, Alice of Schaerbeek was not particularly well known. Chyrsogone Waddell, reflecting on his entry into the Cistercian life in the 1950s, remarked on her obscurity, with Alice being mostly unknown even in devout Cistercian communities of the time.[10]


In recent years, Alice has become more well known in medieval scholarship as a member of the so-called "Holy Women of Liège" corpus of thirteenth-century Latin biographies.[11] This situates Alice, and her spirituality, in terms of the beguine movement, an innovation in medieval women's piety that saw women taking up an active religious life outside of monastic enclosure.


Saint Germaine Cousin

புனிதர் ஜெர்மைன் கஸின் 

ஃபிரெஞ்ச் புனிதர்:

பிறப்பு: கி.பி. 1579

பைப்ரேக், டௌலோஸ், ஃபிரான்ஸ்

இறப்பு: கி.பி. 1601

பைப்ரேக், டௌலோஸ், ஃபிரான்ஸ்

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

முக்திபேறு பட்டம்: மே 7, 1864

திருத்தந்தை ஒன்பதாம் பயஸ்

புனிதர் பட்டம்: ஜூன் 29, 1867

திருத்தந்தை ஒன்பதாம் பயஸ்

முக்கிய திருத்தலம்:

பைப்ரேக்

நினைவுத் திருநாள்: ஜூன் 15

பாதுகாவல்:

கைவிடப்பட்ட மக்கள் (Abandoned People), துஷ்பிரயோகம் செய்யப்பட்டவர்கள் (Abuse Victims), வறுமைக்கு எதிரானக (Against Poverty), ஊனமுற்றோர் (Disabled People), கிராமப்புற பெண்கள், (Girls from Rural Areas), நோய் (Illness), வறிய நிலை (Impoverishment), பெற்றோரை இழந்தோர் (Loss of Parents), உடல் பயிற்சி சிகிச்சையாளர்கள் (Physical Therapists)

புனிதர் ஜெர்மைன் கஸின், ஒரு ஃபிரெஞ்ச் புனிதர் ஆவார். ஃபிரான்ஸ் நாட்டின் “டௌலோஸ்” (Toulouse) நகரிலிருந்து 15 கிலோமீட்டர் தூரத்திலுள்ள “பைப்ரேக்” (Pibrac) எனும் கிராமத்தில் மிகவும் தாழ்ச்சியுள்ள பெற்றோருக்குப் பிறந்தவர்.

கத்தோலிக்க கலைக்களஞ்சியம் (Catholic Encyclopedia) இவரைப்பற்றி பின்வருமாறு எழுதுகிறது:

“தமது பிறப்பு முதலே எண்ணற்ற துன்பங்களை அனுபவித்தவராக இவர் குறிப்பிடப்படுகிறார். இவர் பிறக்கும்போதே ஒரு கை சிதைந்த நிலையிலும், “ஸ்க்ரோஃபுலா” (Scrofula) எனப்படும் காசநோய் சம்பந்தமான ஒரு நோயுடனும் பிறந்தார். இவர் கைக்குழந்தையாக இருக்கும்போதே தமது தாயை இழந்தார். இவரது தந்தை விரைவிலேயே மறுமணம் செய்துகொண்டார். புதிதாக வந்த மாற்றான்தாய் இவரை கொடுமைப்படுத்தினார். ஜெர்மைனுடைய நோயிலிருந்து பிற குழந்தைகளை பாதுகாப்பதாக பாசாங்கு செய்த மாற்றான்தாய், ஜெர்மைனை வீட்டிலிருந்து விலக்கி வைக்க தந்தையின் சம்மதம் பெற்றார். ஆகவே, ஜெர்மைன் குழந்தை பருவத்திலிருந்தே கால்நடை மேய்க்கும் பணியைச் செய்தார். இரவில் களைத்துப்போய் வீடு திரும்பினால் அவரது படுக்கை குப்பைகளாக இருக்கும் அல்லது ஈரமாக இருக்கும். இதுபோன்ற நடைமுறைகளால் குழந்தைப் பருவத்திலிருந்தே தாழ்ச்சியையும், பொறுமையையும் கற்றுக்கொண்டார். கடவுளின் பிரசன்னத்தின் அதிசய உணர்வுகளும் ஆன்மீக ஈடுபாடுகளும் பிறப்பு முதலே அவருக்கு இறை பரிசாக அளிக்கப்பட்டிருந்தன. இவையனைத்துமே இப்புனிதரது தனிமையான வாழ்க்கையின் ஒளி மற்றும் ஆசீர்வாதங்களின் ஆதாரமாக விளங்கின. வறுமை, நலிந்த மற்றும் தளர்ந்த உடல் நிலை, காலத்தின் கடுமையான பருவ மாற்றங்கள், பாசமும் அனுசரணையும் இல்லாத சொந்த குடும்பத்தினர், ஆகியவற்றுடன் தாமாகவே தேடி பெற்றுக்கொண்ட துன்பங்களும் தாழ்ச்சியுடனும் இன்னும் அதிக வேதனைகளைத் தந்தன. தினசரி உணவாக சாதாரண ரொட்டி மற்றும் தண்ணீர் ஆகியவற்றையே வழக்கமான உணவாக ஏற்றுக்கொண்டார். ஆசீர்வதிக்கப்பட்ட தூய நற்கருணையிலுள்ள இயேசு மீதும் அவரது கன்னித்தாய் மீதும் அவர் கொண்டிருந்த மாறாத அன்பு இவரது புனிதத் தன்மையை இன்னும் அதிகரித்தது. திருப்பலியில் தினமும் ஆர்வமுடன் கலந்துகொள்வார். ஆலய மணியோசை கேட்டதுமே தமது மந்தையை அப்படியே மேய்ச்சல் நிலத்தில் விட்டுவிட்டு திருப்பலியில் கலந்துகொள்ள ஓடுவார். கிட்டத்தட்ட ஓநாய் போன்ற காட்டு மிருகங்கள் உலவும் வனாந்தரங்களின் அருகில் மேய்ச்சல் நிலம் இருந்தும் என்றுமே அவரது மந்தைக்கு யாதொரு ஆபத்தும் ஏற்பட்டதில்லை.”

பாவச் செயல்களை சரி செய்யும் முயற்சியாக அவர் முன்னெடுத்த தவ முயற்சிகளும் அடிக்கடி நற்கருணை ஆராதனைகளில் அவர் பங்கெடுத்தமையும் குறிக்கத்தக்கது. மரியன்னையின் மீதுள்ள அவரது பக்தியும் அதிகரித்துக்கொண்டு போனதும் குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது. ஜெபமாலை மட்டுமே அவரது ஒரே புத்தகமாயிருந்தது. இயேசு மீதும் அவரது அதி தூய கன்னித் தாயின் மீதும் அவர் கொண்ட பக்தியும், அன்பும் அளவிட இயலாததும், குறிப்பிடத்தக்கதுமாகும். திருப்பலிக்கான முதல் ஆலய மணியோசை கேட்டதுமே எங்கிருந்தாலும் முழங்கால்படியிட்டு சிலுவை அடையாளமிடுவது அவரது குறிப்பிடத்தக்க கிறிஸ்தவ உயர் பண்பாகும்.

ஆழமற்ற நதியோரங்களிலும், அடை மழையின் பின்னும் அல்லது உறைபனி உருகும் காலங்களிலுமாக அல்லது சீரற்ற அனைத்து காலங்களிலும் அவரது பக்திமயமான தவ வாழ்க்கை சீராக இருந்தது. எழைகளின்பால் அவர் கொண்ட அன்பும் அக்கறையும் இன்னும் அதிகரித்தது. தமக்கு கிடைத்த உலர்ந்த ரொட்டியையும் பிறருடன் பகிர்ந்து உண்ணும் அவரது தாராள, உதார குணம் மிகவும் உயர்வானது.


கி.பி. 1601ம் ஆண்டின் கோடை காலத்தின் ஆரம்பத்தில் ஒருநாள் அதிகாலை, திராட்சைக் கொடிகளால் வேயப்பட்ட தட்டி (Pallet of Vine-Twigs) படுக்கையிலிருந்து எழுந்திருக்காததை கவனித்த இவரது தந்தை, இந்த இருபத்திரண்டு வயது புனிதர் விழிக்காமலேயே நித்திய வாழ்வை நோக்கிச் சென்றிருந்ததைக் கண்டார்.

Also known as

• Germaine of Pibrac

• Germana...


Profile

Daughter of Laurent Cousin, a farm worker, and Marie Laroche. Her mother died while Germaine was an infant. A sickly child, Germaine suffered from scrofula, and her right hand was deformed. Ignored by her father and abused by her step-family, she was often forced to sleep in the stable or in a cupboard under the stairs, was fed on scraps, beaten or scalded with hot water for misdeeds, real or imagined.



At age nine Germaine was put to work as a shepherdess, where she spent much time praying, sometimes using a rosary she made from a knotted string. She refused to miss Mass, and if she heard the bell announcing services, she set her crook and her distaff in the ground, declared her flock to be under the care of her guardian angel, and went to church; her sheep were unharmed during her absences. It is reported that once she crossed the raging Courbet River by walking over the waters so she could get to church.


Germaine was so poor it is hard to imagine she would be able to help others, but she was always ready to try, especially children whom she gathered in the fields to teach a simple catechism and share the little food she had. The locals laughed at her religious devotion, and called her 'the little bigot'.


Once in winter, her stepmother, Hortense, accused her of stealing bread by hiding it in her apron, and threatened to beat her with a stick. Germaine opened her apron, and summer flowers tumbled out. Her parents and neighbors were awed by the obvious miracle, and began to treat her as a holy person. Her parents invited her to rejoin the household, but Germaine chose to live as she had.


In 1601 she was found dead on her straw pallet under the stairs, and she was buried in the Church of Pibrac opposite the pulpit. When accidentally exhumed in 1644 during a renovation, her body was found incorrupt. In 1793 the casket was desecrated by an anti-Catholic tinsmith named Toulza, who with three accomplices took out the remains and buried them in the sacristy, throwing quick-lime and water on them. After the French Revolution, her body was found to be still intact save where the quick-lime had done its work.


Documents attest to more than 400 miracles or extraordinary graces received through the intervention of Saint Germain. They include cures of every kind (of blindness, both congenital and resulting from disease, of hip and of spinal disease), and the multiplication of food for the distressed community of the Good Shepherd at Bourges, France in 1845.


Born

1579 at Pibrac, France


Died

• 1601 in her parents' home in Pibrac, France, apparently of natural causes

• relics interred in the church at Pibrac


Canonized

29 June 1867 by Pope Blessed Pius IX


Patronage

• abandoned or neglected people

• abuse victims, child abuse victims

• against bodily ills, illness, sickness; sick people

• against impoverishment, poverty; poor people

• disabled, handicapped or physically challenged people

• girls from rural areas; peasant girls; country girls

• against the loss of parents

• shepherdesses

• unattractive people


Representation

• girl with a distaff (it's used in spinning thread)

• girl with a sheep

• girl with a shepherd's crook

• girl with a watchdog

• girl with flowers in her apron

• peasant girl dying alone in poverty

• peasant girl tending sheep

• peasant girl with flowers falling around her in winter


Storefront

• books, medals, pendants, rosary




Saint Luigi Maria Palazzolo


Also known as

Palazzolino (childhood nickname)


Additional Memorial

22 May (Diocese of Bergamo, Italy; Poverelle Sisters, based on the date of founding of the Sisters)



Profile

Youngest of eight boys born to Octavius and Theresa Antoine Palazzolo; his father died when Luigi was about 10 years old. Ordained a priest in the diocese of Bergamo, Italy on 23 June 1850. As a parish priest, he would occasionally encounter children who were abandoned or orphaned and living on their own; he would take them in and care for them until he could get them placed somewhere caring and safe. He founded the Little House of Divine Providence to care for neglected children, and the Work of Saint Dorothy home to care for abandoned girls. Founded the Brothers of the Sacred Family, a congregation that died out in 1928. With Venerable Maria Teresa Gabrieli, he founded the Sisters of the Poor (Poverelle Sisters; Palazzolo Institute) on 22 May 1869 to care for and educate neglected girls; the Sisters received papal approval from Pope Pius X on 25 May 1912, and continue their good work today in Brazil, Burkina Faso, Congo, Italy, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Peru and Switzerland. Founded an orphanage in Traona, Italy on 4 October 1872. Due to respiratory problems, Father Luigi had to sleep sitting up during the last year or so of his life.


Born

10 December 1827 in Bergamo, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (in modern Italy)


Died

• in the early hours of 15 June 1886 in Bergamo, Italy of natural causes

• he died murmuring the name "Jesus Christ" over and over

• buried in the cemetery of San Giorgio in Bergamo

• re-interred at the mother-house of the Poverelle Sisters, Via San Bernardino 56, Bergamo, on 4 January 1904


Beatified

• 19 March 1963 by Pope John XXIII

• beatification recognition celebrated in the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome, Italy

• one of the beatification miracles involved the healing of a young Sardinian woman with peritonitis and tuberculosis on the afternoon of 21 July 1956 when she had a vision of Father Luigi asking her to get out of bed and go to church to thank God for her cure

• another beatification miracle involved the 1959 healing of a 65 year old woman from a severe head injury that left her comatose; the cure followed the family praying for the intercession of Father Luigi


Canonized

• 15 May 2022 by Pope Francis

• the canonization miracle involved the healing of Sister Gianmarisa Perani, who had joined the Poverelle Sisters in 1950; in November 2015 was rushed into emergency surgery, experienced complications, lapsed into a coma, and two months later was declared to be terminal; the Sisters prayed for her, she soon after recovered, and is alive and well today


Patronage

Sisters of the Poor



Saint Vitus

புனிதர் வைட்டஸ் 

மறைசாட்சி, தூய உதவியாளர்:

பிறப்பு: கி.பி. 290

சிசிலி

இறப்பு: கி.பி. 303 (வயது 12–13)

லூக்கானியா, தற்போதைய பசிலிகட்டா, இத்தாலி

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை

நினைவுத் திருநாள்: ஜூன் 15

பாதுகாவல்:

நடிகர்கள்; நகைச்சுவையாளர்கள்; ரிஜெக்கா (Rijeka), குரோஷியா (Crotia); செக்கோஸ்லோவாக்கியா (Czechoslovakia); நடனக் கலைஞர்கள்; நாய்கள்; வலிப்பு நோய் (Epilepsy); மஸரா டெல் வல்லோ (Mazzara del Vallo), சிசிலி (Sicily); அதிக தூக்கம் (Over Sleeping); ப்ராக் (Prague), செக் குடியரசு (Czech Republic); நரம்பு சம்பந்தமான ஒருவித தசை வலிப்பு நோய் (Rheumatic Chorea); தூய வைட்டஸ் நடனம் (Saint Vitus Dance); செர்பியா (Serbia); பாம்பு கடி (Snake Bites); புயல்கள் (Storms); வாச்சா (Vacha), ஜெர்மனி (Germany); செவன் (Zeven), லோயர் சாக்சனி (Lower Saxony); ஹெட் கூயி (Het Gooi), நெதர்லாந்து (Netherlands); இ க்ளாம்பஸ் வைட்டஸ் (E Clampus Vitus).

புனிதர் வைட்டஸ், கிறிஸ்தவ பாரம்பரியங்களின்படி, சிசிலி நாட்டின் கிறிஸ்தவ புனிதரும் மறைசாட்சியுமாவார்.


இவர், கி.பி. 303ம் ஆண்டு, தூய ரோம பேரரசை ஒன்றாக ஆண்ட இரண்டு பேரரசர்களான (Roman Emperors) “டயாக்லேஷியன்” மற்றும் “மேக்ஸ்மியன்” (Diocletian and Maximian) ஆகியோரின் ஆட்சியில் நடந்த கிறிஸ்தவ துன்புறுத்தல்களின்போது மரித்தவர் ஆவார். ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபையின் மத்திய காலத்திற்குரிய பதினான்கு தூய உதவியாளர்களில் (One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers) ஒருவராக கொள்ளப்படுகிறார்.

கிறிஸ்தவ பாரம்பரயங்களின்படி, புனிதர்கள் “வைட்டஸ்” (Vitus), “மொடஸ்டஸ்” (Modestus) மற்றும் “கிரெசென்ஷியா” (Crescentia) ஆகிய மூவரும் பேரரசன் “டயாக்லேஷியனால்” (Diocletian) துன்புறுத்தப்பட்டு கொல்லப்பட்டனர்.

Also known as

Guy, Veit, Vith, Vito


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Legend says that Vitus was the son of a pagan Sicilian senator named Hylas. The boy was converted to Christianity at age twelve by his tutor, Saint Modestus, and his nurse Saint Crescentia. His father showed his objection to the conversion by having all three arrested and scourged.



Freed from prison by angels, they fled to Lucania, then Rome. There Vitus freed the son of Emperor Diocletian from an evil spirit. When Vitus would not sacrifice to the pagan gods in celebration, his cure was attributed to sorcery, and he and his household were arrested again. Tortured, and condemned to death, they were thrown to the lions; the lions would not touch them, so they were thrown into boiling oil. At the moment of their deaths, a immense storm destroyed several pagan temples in the region, which led to the tradition of protection against stormy weather. One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.


For obscure reasons, some 16th century Germans believed they could obtain a year's good health by dancing before a statue of Saint Vitus on his feast day. This dancing developed almost into a mania, and was confused with chorea, the nervous condition later known as Saint Vitus' Dance, the saint being invoked against it. His connection with such "dancing" led to his patronage of dancers, and later to entertainers in general and in particular.


When Vitus was thrown into the oil, a rooster was thrown into the oil with him, sacrificed as part of the ritual against sorcery. A rooster became a symbol for Vitus, and its connection with early rising led to Vitus's patronage and protection against oversleeping.


Died

boiled in oil c.303 in Lucania, Italy


Patronage

• against animal attacks

• against dog bites

• against epilepsy; epileptics

• against lightning

• against over-sleeping

• against rheumatic chorea or Saint Vitus Dance

• against snake bites

• against storms

• against wild beasts

• actors

• comedians; comediennes

• dancers

• dogs

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Representation

• dog

• rooster




Saint Bernard of Menthon

புனித.பெர்னார்டு (Bernhard of Aosta)

பாதுகாவல்: மலை ஏறுபவர்களுக்கும், ஆல்ப்ஸ் மலைவாழ் மக்களுக்கும

பிறப்பு 

923

அவோஸ்டா(Aostatal)

இறப்பு 

15 ஜூன் 1008

நோவரா(Novara)

புனிதர்பட்டம்: 1923, திருத்தந்தை 11 ஆம் பயஸ்

இவர் ஓர் சாதாரண குடும்பத்தில் மகனாக பிறந்தார். இவர் இறையியலையும், மெய்யியலையும், திருச்சபை சட்டங்களையும் கற்றுத் தேர்ந்தார். இவரது பெற்றோர் இவரின் கல்லூரி படிப்பை முடித்தபின், பணக்கார பெண்ணிற்கு திருமணம் செய்து வைக்க எண்ணினார். ஆனால் பெர்னார்டு இதை வெறுத்தார். இவரின் மனம் எப்போதும் ஆன்மீக வாழ்வையே நோக்கி சென்றது. இதனால் தன்னுடைய மறைமாவட்ட ஆயர் இல்லத்தில் சேர்ந்து பணியாளராக செயல்பட்டார். இவரின் பணியால் அம்மறைமாவட்ட மக்கள் ஏராளமான பயனை பெற்றனர். இவர் இறக்கும் வரை மறைமாவட்ட குருக்களின் கல்லூரியில் பணியாற்றினார். இவர் 1008 ல் அல்லது 1009 ல் இறந்திருக்கலாம் என்றும் கூறப்படுகின்றது. இவர் நோவரா என்ற ஊரில் அடக்கம் செய்யப்பட்டு, அவர் கல்லறையின் மேல் பேராலயம் ஒன்றும் கட்டப்பட்டுள்ளது. பின்னர் இத்தாலி மற்றும் சுவிட்சர்லாந்திற்கும் இடையில் இவர் நோயாளிகளை பராமரிப்பதற்கென ஓர் இல்லம் தொடங்கினார். நாளடைவில் இவ்வில்லத்தை புனித அகுஸ்தினார் சபையை சார்ந்தவர்கள் கைப்பற்றினர். இப்போது அந்நாடுகளுக்கு சுற்றுலாவிற்கு வரும் மக்கள் அவ்வில்லத்தில் இலவசமாக தங்கி, தங்களின் சுற்றுலாவை மேற்கொள்கின்றனர்.

Also known as

• Apostle of the Alps

• Bernard of Aosta

• Bernard of Aotha

• Bernard of Mentone

• Bernard of Montjoux



Profile

Born to the French nobility. Priest. Archdeacon of Aosta in 996. Evangelized the people of the Alps for over 40 years. Vicar-general of Alpine diocese. He started a patrol that cleared robbers from the mountains, and he established hospices for travellers and pilgrims to Rome, Italy; he established a community of Augustinian Hospitallers to staff them, and they continue their good work today. The large dogs, trained to search for lost victims in the mountains, are named for him.


Born

c.923 at Menthon, Savoy (in modern France)


Died

1008 at Novara, Italy


Canonized

1681 by Pope Innocent XI


Patronage

• Alpinists

• Alps (proclaimed by Pope Pius XI on 20 August 1923)

• Campiglia Cervo, Italy

• mountain climbers (proclaimed by Pope Pius XI on 20 August 1923)

• mountaineers

• skiers

• travellers in the mountains (proclaimed by Pope Pius XI on 20 August 1923)




Blessed Albertina Berkenbrock


Also known as

• Albertina Serva de Deus

• Albertina, Servant of God


Profile

Lay person in the diocese of Tubarão, Brazil. Raised in a pious family who insured that Albertina had a strong foundation in the faith. Baptized on 25 May 1919, Confirmed on 9 March 1925, and made her First Communion on 16 August 1928. At age 12 she was attacked by one of her father's employees, who tried to rape her. She fought back; when he realized he would fail and she would identify him, the attacker killed Albertina; she is considered a martyr in the defense of chastity.



Born

11 April 1919 in São Luís, Imaruí, Santa Catarina, Brazil


Died

stabbed in the heart with a pen knife during a rape attempt on 15 June 1931 in São Luís, Imaruí, Santa Catarina, Brazil


Beatified

• 20 October 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI

• recognition celebrated by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins in the cathedral of Tubarão, Brazil



Blessed Isfrid of Ratzeburg


Also known as

Isfried, Isfrido


Additional Memorial

17 February in the Diocese of Osnabrück, Germany and the Archdiocese of Hamburg, Germany



Profile

Premonstratensian canon at the Cappenenberg monastery in Westphalia (in modern Germany). Provost of the Premonstratensian house of Jerichow in 1159. Bishop of Ratzeburg, Germany in 1180; he served for 24 years, continued to live by the Premonstratensian rule, and was known for his simple life. He worked to bring the Wends to Christianity. Restored the monastery of Floreffe (in modern Belgium) after it burned, and built many churches throughout the region. Recorded miracles include changing water to wine when needed, and healing a blind man by reciting Scripture over him.


Born

c.1115 in Germany


Died

• 15 June 1204 at Ratzeburg, Holstein, Germany of natural causes

• buried in the choir of the cathedral in Ratzeburg


Beatified

20 March 1728 and 12 April 1728 by Pope Benedict XIII (cultus confirmation)



Saint Hilarion of Espalion


Also known as

• Hilarian of Lévinhac

• Hilarian of Perse

• Ylariano, Hylariano



Profile

Born to the Gallic nobility, he was known as a pious child. Priest in Lévinhac, France. He would often pass through an area of Muslim occupation, cross the River Lot, and celebrate Mass in the town of Perse. Martyr.


Born

c.700 in L•vinhac, France


Died

• beheaded c.793 in Perse, diocese of Rodez, France

• legend says that the body got up, washed the blood off the severated head, and then took it to his mother; he had jokingly promised he would do so every time she nagged him of the danger of passing through Muslim territory to being the Sacraments to the people of Perse

• buried in Lévinhac, France

• relics enshrined in Perse where they are a stop on the route for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela


Canonized

10 May 1883 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmation)



Saint Landelin of Crespin


Also known as

Landelinus, Lando, Landolin, Landolinus



Profile

Born to the nobility, Landelinus lived for a time as a highway bandit, but repented and became a Benedictine monk. Priest. Founded monasteries in France and Belgium including Lobbes, Beligum in 654; Aulne Abbey, Belgium in 656; Wallers, France in 657; Crespin, France in 670. Worked with Saint Ursmar. Spiritual director of Saint Hadelin of Lobbes and Saint Domitian of Lobbes.


Born

c.625 near Bapaume, France


Died

686 of natural causes




Blessed Pietro Spagnoli


Profile

Pietro became a Gerolamini (Hermits of Saint Jerome) monk as a young man, lived most of his adult life in the Gerolamini house of Montebello, Italy, and later retired from communal life to live as a hermit near Urbino, Italy. He was known as a very pious man, and devotion developed soon after his death.



Born

Urbino, Italy


Died

• 15 June 1415 at the hospice for the sick at the Gerolamini house of San Giovanni Battista near Urbino, Italy of natural causes

• buried under the side altar in the church of San Giovanni Battista the Forerunner

• relics enshrined in a crystal urn under the main altar of the church



Saint Edburgh of Winchester


Also known as

Eadburh, Edburga



Profile

Daughter of King Edward the Elder and Edgiva of Kent; grand-daughter of King Alfred the Great. As a child she was placed in the convent of Nunnaminster, Winchester, England, which King Alfred's widow had founded. She lived her whole life there, a holy nun and abbess.


Died

• 15 June 960 of natural causes

• interred at the Nunnaminster convent, Winchester, England

• some relics translated to Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire, England, which became famous for its miracles


Canonized

972 by Pope John XIII



Saint Eigil of Fulda


Also known as

Aegil, Aegilius, Aeigil, Aeigilus, Aigil, Egil, Eygil, Fiegil, Figil


Profile

Born to the Bavarian nobility; nephew of Saint Sturmi of Fulda. Educated in Fulda, Germany in the monastery of his uncle Sturmi. Eigil became a Benedictine monk in Fulda. Priest. Teacher at the monastery school. Abbot of the monastery in 817, a house that was in decline at that point. He restored the community, built churches, founded another house, and trained his successor, Saint Rabanus Maurus.


Born

c.750 in Bavaria, Germany


Died

15 June 822 in Fulda, Germany of natural causes



Saint Barbara Cui Lianshi


Also known as

• Barbara Cui Lianzhi

• Parui



Profile

Married lay woman in the apostolic vicariate of Southeastern Zhili (in modern China). Mother. Imprisoned, tortured and murdered for her faith. Martyr.


Born

c.1849 in Xiaotian, Hejian County, Hebei, China


Died

15 June 1900 in Liushuitao, Hejian County, Hebei, China


Canonized

1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II



Saint Achaicus of Corinth


Also known as

Akaikos, Akaikus


Profile

First-century Christian mentioned by the Saint Paul the Apostle in 1st Corinthians as taking correspondence back and forth between Paul and the Corinthians. Orthodox tradition makes him one of the 70 Disciples.



Saint Abraham of Cyriacus


Profile

While seeking to learn from hermits, Abraham was captured by bandits in Egypt, he was imprisoned and enslaved by them for five years before he could escape. Making his way to Europe, he lived as a hermit near Clermont, Gaul (modern France). Priest. Abbot of Saint Cyriacus abbey.


Born

on the banks of the River Euphrates in Mesopotamia (in modern Iraq)


Died

c.480 in Arvernia, Aquitaine (in modern France) of natural causes


Patronage

against fever



Saint Pierre de Cervis


Profile

Mercedarian. Commander of the convent of Santa Maria in Narbonne, France. Travelled to Moorish occupied Granada to ransom Christians imprisoned and enslaved by Moors, and to preach Christianity. He was immediately arrested, stripped of the money brought to ransom prisoners, beaten, imprisoned, tortured, and left to die. Martyr.



Born

Perpignan, France


Died

1422 in Granada, Spain



Saint Trillo of Wales


Also known as

Drillo, Drel



Profile

Son of an Amorican chief in Brittany, France. Missionary to Wales. Monk at Bardsey. The towns of Llandrillo in Denbighshire, and Llandrillo yn Rhos (Rhos-on-Sea) are named for him.


Born

6th-century Brittany


Died

6th-century


Patronage

• Llandrillo, Denbighshire, Wales

• Llandrillo yn Rhos, Wales



Saint Fortunatus of Corinth


Profile

First-century Christian mentioned by the Saint Paul the Apostle in 1st Corinthians as taking correspondence back and forth between Paul and the Corinthians. Orthodox tradition makes him one of the 70 Disciples.


Readings

I rejoice in the arrival of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus, because they made up for your absence, for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. So give recognition to such people. - 1st Corinthians 16:17-18



Blessed Peter Snow


Additional Memorials

• 29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai

• 22 November as one of the Martyrs of England, Scotland, and Wales


Profile

Priest in the apostolic vicariate of England during a period of persecutions of Catholics. Martyr.


Born

in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England


Died

15 June 1598 in York, North Yorkshire, England


Beatified

22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II



Blessed Ralph Grimston


Additional Memorial

22 November as one of the Martyrs of England, Scotland, and Wales


Profile

Married layman in the apostolic vicariate of England during a period of persecutions of Catholics. Martyr.


Born

in Nidd, North Yorkshire, England


Died

15 June 1598 in York, North Yorkshire, England


Beatified

22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II



Amos the Prophet


Profile

Eighth-century BC shepherd at Koa near Bethlehem. Of himself he said, "I am not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet; but I am a herdsman plucking wild figs." One of the Old Testament Minor Prophets, the book of Amos is one long denunciation of evildoers.



Died

scourged, and then an iron spike driven through his temples



Saint Vaughe of Ireland


Also known as

Beoc, Vauge, Vorech


Profile

Priest in the diocese of Armagh, Ireland. When he heard rumours that he was going to be chosen bishop of Armagh, Vaughe retired to live as a hermit in Penmarch, Cornwall, England. From his hermitage he would venture out to preach and evangelize the area residents.


Died

15 June 585 of natural causes



Blessed Thomas Scryven


Additional Memorial

4 May as one of the Carthusian Martyrs


Profile

Carthusian choir monk of the Charterhouse in London, England. Martyred for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the Church.


Died

starved to death on 15 June 1537 in Newgate Prison, London, England


Beatified

29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII



Saint Hesychius of Durostorum


Also known as

• Hesychius of Dorostoro

• Esichio, Hesykhios, Isychius


Profile

Imperial Roman soldier in Durostorum, Moesia (modern Silistra, Bulgaria). Martyred with Saint Julius of Durostorum.


Born

late 3rd-century


Died

c.304 at Dorostorum, Moesia (modern Silistra, Bulgaria)



Saint Tatian of Cilicia


Also known as

Dulas (nickname)


Profile

Scourged, burned, tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.


Died

• disemboweled c.300 in Zephyrinu, Cilicia, Asia Minor

• his body was thrown into a ditch, and a sheepdog stood guard over it until local Christians could give him proper burial



Saint Benildis of Cordoba


Also known as

Benilde, Benildes


Profile

Having seen the martyrdom of Saint Anastasius, Benildis was moved to make a public statement of her faith. Martyred by the Moors.


Died

• burned at the stake in 853 in Cordoba, Spain

• ashes thrown into the River Guadalquivir



Saint Lotharius of Séez


Profile

Founded a monastery in the forest of Argentan, France; it was later named Saint-Loyer-des-Champs in his honour. Bishop of Séez, France for thirty-two years.



Died

c.756 of natural causes



Saint Orsisius


Also known as

Orsiesius


Profile

Desert hermit. Writer. Spiritual student of Saint Pachomius in the desert in Egypt. Helped Pachomius develop the rules for the early desert monks. Head of the community of Tabenna. Saint Jerome translated some of his writings.


Died

380 of natural causes



Saint Hadelin of Lobbes


Also known as

Hadelinus of Lobbes


Profile

Benedictine monk. Spiritual student of Saint Landelin of Crespin at Lobbes, Belgium. Friend of Saint Domitian of Lobbes.


Died

c.686 of natural causes



Saint Julius of Durostorum


Also known as

• Julius of Dorostoro

• Giulio


Profile

Martyr


.

Born

late 3rd-century


Died

c.304 at Dorostorum, Moesia (modern Silistra, Bulgaria)



Saint Vouga of Lesneven


Also known as

Feock, Fiech, Veho, Vougar, Vougas


Profile

Sixth century bishop in Ireland. Retiring from public work, he settled in Brittany to live as a hermit near Lesneven, France.



Saint Constantine of Beauvais


Profile

A monk at Jumièges Abbey in France. Friend of Saint Philibert of Jumièges. Bishop of Beauvais, France.


Died

c.706 of natural causes



Saint Domitian of Lobbes


Profile

Benedictine monk. Spiritual student of Saint Landelin of Crespin at Lobbes, Belgium. Friend of Saint Hadelin of Lobbes.


Died

c.686 of natural causes



Saint Eutropia of Palmyra


Profile

Twelve-year-old girl martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.


Died

used as a target for archery practice in 303 in Palmyra, Syria



Saint Leonides of Palmyra


Profile

Sister of Saint Libya of Palmyra. Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.


Died

burned at the stake in 303 in Palmyra, Syria



Saint Libya of Palmyra


Profile

Sister of Saint Leonides of Palmyra. Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.


Died

beheaded in 303 in Palmyra, Syria



Saint Melan of Viviers


Profile

Bishop of Viviers, France from 519 until his death; he served for 30 years.


Died

c.549 of natural causes



Blessed Pedro da Teruel


Profile

Mercedarian friar. Ransomed at least 180 Christians enslaved by Muslims in north Africa.



Blessed Juan Rodriguez


Profile

Mercedarian friar. Ransomed at least 180 Christians enslaved by Muslims in north Africa.



Martyrs of Lucania


Profile

Eleven Christians martyred together. We known nothing else about them but the names - Anteon, Candidus, Cantianilla, Cantianus, Chrysogonus, Jocundus, Nivitus, Protus, Quintianus, Silvius, Theodolus


Died

Lucania (modern Basilicata), Italy, date unknown



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