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CALENDAR of the SAINTS
26 April 2009 Anno Dómini
"....and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. ~ ~ Apocalypse
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Blessed Alda
Also known as :
Married lay woman. Widow. Tertiary of the Holy Humility of Mary. She devoted her life to personal penance and charity to the poor, was given to religious ecstasies, and received visions. Greatly honored in Siena, Italy.
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Saint Basileus of Amasea
Bishop of Amasea in Pontus. When he was killed during the Licinius persecution of Christians by being thrown into the sea to drown, one of his disciples was directed to his body by an angel so it could be recovered and given Christian burial.
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Saint Clarentius
Succeeded Saint Etherius as bishop of Vienne.
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Pope Saint Cletus, Martyr
Also known as :
- Anacletus
- Anacletus I
Convert of Saint Peter, who ordained him. Third pope. He ordained an undetermined number of priests during his reign, but almost nothing else is known about him. Martyred 89 A.D. May have been the Cletus that Saint Augustine of Hippo wrote about. He is mentioned in the Canon of the Mass. His relics lay in repose in Saint Linus Church, Vatican City.
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Saint Dominic of Besians
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Saint Exuerantia
Also known as :
- Esperance
Nun. Her relics are venerated in Troyes, France. No other information has survived.
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Saint Franca Visalta
Also known as : Franca of Piacenza
Placed in the Benedictine convent of Saint Syrus at Piacenza, Italy in 1177 at age seven. Professed at age 14. Abbess while still young, but removed due to the severe austeries she imposed, and became isolated from most of her sisters. However, one of the sisters, Carentia, agreed with her discipline. When Carentia entered the Cistercian noviate at Rapallo, Saint Franca persuaded her parents to build a Cistercian house at Montelana, which they both then entered. Franca became abbess of the community, which later moved to Pittoli.
Maintained the strict austerities she imposed on herself, even in the face of failing health. Spent most nights in chapel, praying for hours.
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Blessed Gregory
Spanish Dominican. With Saint Dominic, he preached in the villages of the Somontano, near Barbastro, near the Spanish Pyrenees. While travelling from one village to another, they were caught in strong thunderstorm; they sought refuge under and overhanging rock, which was loosened by the rain, and fell on them. Crushed by a boulder in 1300 at Perarua; relics maintained at Besians, diocese of Barbastro, Spain
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Blessed John of Valence
Canon at Lyons, France. Pilgrim to Compostela, Spain. Benedictine Cistercian monk at Clairvaux under Saint Bernard. Founded the Cistercian house at Bonneval in 1117. Abbot at Bonneval. Bishop of Valence in 1141; he felt so unworthy of the position that he had to be physically carried to the altar to be ordained.
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Saint Lucidius of Verona
4th century bishop of Verona, Italy. Famous for a life of prayer and study.
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Pope Saint Marcellinus, Martyr
29th pope. Enlarged the catacombs. Reigned at the start of the Diocletian Christian persecutions, and was himself martyred 25 October 304 at Rome, Italy; interred in the Priscillian catacomb on the Via Salaria.
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Our Lady of Good Counsel
Also known as :
- Madonna del Buon Consiglio
Records dating from the reign of Paul II relate that the picture of Our Lady, at first called La Madonna del Paradiso and now better known as Madonna del Buon Consiglio, appeared at Genazzano, Italy, a town about twenty-five miles southeast of Rome, on 25 April 1467, in the old church of Santa Maria, which had been under the care of Augustinians since 1356. The venerated icon itself, which is drawn on a thin scale of wall-plaster little thicker than a visiting-card, was observed to hang suspended in the air without support; early tradition says that one could pass a thread around the image without touching it. Devotion to Our Lady in Santa Maria sprang up at once. Pilgrims began to pour in, miracles began and continue at the shrine.
In July 1467, Pope Paul deputed two bishops to investigate the alleged wonder-working image; no copy of their report is known to have survived. Devotion to Our Lady increased. In 1630, Pope Urban VIII made a pilgrimage to Genazzano, as did Pope Blessed Pius IX in 1864. On 17 November 1682 Pope Blessed Innocent XI had the picture crowned with gold by the Vatican Basilica. In 1727 Pope Benedict XIII granted the clergy of Genazzano an Office and Mass of Our Lady for 25 April, the anniversary of the apparition, elsewhere the feast being kept a day later so as not to conflict with that of Saint Mark the Evangelist. On 2 July 1753 Pope Benedict XIV approved the Pious Union of Our Lady of Good Counsel for the faithful at large, and himself enrolled therein as its pioneer member; Pope Pius IX and Pope Leo XIII were both later members. On 18 December 1779, Pope Pius VI, while re-approving devotion to Our Lady, granted all Augustinians an Office with hymns, lessons, prayer and Mass proper of double-major rite; with a plenary indulgence also for the faithful, to which Pope Pius VIII added another for visitors to the shrine. On 18 December 1884, Pope Leo XIII approved of a new Office and Mass of second-class rite for all Augustinians, while on 17 March 1903, he elevated the church of Santa Maria - one of the four parish churches in tiny Genazzano - to the rank of minor basilica. On 22 April 1903 he authorized the insertion in the Litany of Loreto of the invocation Mater Boni Consillii to follow that of Mater Admirabilis. The same pontiff on 21 December 1893 had sanctioned the use of the White Scapular of Our Lady of Good Counsel for the faithful.
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Saint Paschasius
Also known as :
A foundling whose background is completely unknown. Raised by monks after being found by nuns on the steps of Notre Dame of Soissons. Benedictine monk under Saint Adalard. Deacon. Teacher. Helped found the monastery at Corbie, France in 822, and to make the at one of the most famous places of learning in its day. He travelled Europe, speaking at councils, negotiating political and religious conflicts.
Against his will he was elected abbot of the Corbie monastery in 844. During undescribed trouble in the monastery in 851, he resigned his position to settle the dispute. He retired as a hermit to the monastery at Saint Riquiet at Cenula. Spent the rest of his life writing on history, philosophy, and theology. His The Body and Blood of Christ started the first controversy on the Eucharist, and cleared the way for a precise understanding of Transubstantiation.
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Saint Peter of Braga, Martyr
First bishop of Braga, Portugal.
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Blessed Rafael Arnáiz Barón
Also known as : María Rafael
Oblate friar of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance ( Trappist ).
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Saint Richarius
Also known as : Riquier
Born pagan. As a young man he protected Cadoc and Frichor, Irish missionaries in danger from local non-Christians. While in hiding, they converted him. He became a priest, travelling the country on a donkey and preaching the Gospel. Worked in England for several years, then returned to France to found an abbey at Centula. Abbot. Preacher. When King Dagobert visited him, he was so frank and blunt with his advice, the king gave him a large reward; he passed it on to the poor. The first to work on ransoming captives. Eventually resigned all offices and became a hermit.
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Saint Riquier
Abbot and hermit, also called Richarius. Born at Celles, near Amiens, France, he became a priest after rescuing two Irish missionaries from a murderous band of local pagans. After studying in England, he was ordained and returned home, where he founded an abbey at Celles over which he presided as abbot. He later resigned from his office and spent his remaining days as a hermit on the site of Forest Montiers Monastery. Abbeville is the modern site of Riquier’s foundation.
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Saint Stanislas Kubista
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Saint Stephan of Perm
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Saint Trudpert of Münstethal
Also known as : Trudbert
Abbot. Following a pilgrimage to Rome, he became a hermit at Münstethal. Some workers, paid by a local lord to clear difficult land to establish a foundation for Trudpert, were fed up with the hard work and killed Trudpert to end the job. Considered a martyr.
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