Saint Eustace And His Companions. Martyrs. Feast Day 20 September.

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Saint Eustace And His Companions. 
   Martyrs. 
   Feast Day 20 September.

Double.

Red Vestments.

English: Saint Eustace.

Français: Saint Eustace.

Русский: Евстафий Плакида.

Date: 17th-Century.

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Author: Anonymous.

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Eustace, also called Placidus, was illustrious at Rome, for his birth, his riches, and his Military valour. "One day," says the Legend, "while he was hunting a stag of extraordinary size, the animal suddenly turned and between its horns was seen a Crucifix."

Called by The Saviour, Eustace henceforth only pursued immortal life and, with his wife and two children, he enrolled himself in The Christian Militia. The Benedictine Abbey of Subiaco possessed for a long time the mountain where, according to Tradition, was shown the spot where the apparition had taken place.

Made a General in the Army by The Emperor Trajan, Eustace returned victorious from an expedition, but, having refused to thank the gods for this triumph, he was arrested and exposed to the Lions with his wife and children. The wild beasts, however, did them no harm.

"They were then shut up in a red-hot brazen bull," declares The Martyrology. "and their Martyrdom was completed by this torture." This was under Emperor Hadrian in 120 A.D.

Saint Eustace is one of The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints (see The Feast Day for 25 July).

Mass: Sapiéntiam.

Commemoration: Of The Vigil of Saint Matthew.

Solemn Pontifical Mass. Cathedral Basilica Of Saints Peter And Paul. Philadelphia. The Feast Of The Exaltation Of The Holy Cross. Thanksgiving For Summorum Pontificum.

This Article, by Gregory Dipippo, 

is taken from, and can be read in full at,

NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT

Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, United States of America.

Illustration: CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF SAINTS PETER AND PAUL

Solemn Pontifical Mass at The Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia,

for The Feast of The Exaltation of The Holy Cross.

The Celebrant was His Excellency Bishop Joseph Perry, Auxiliary of Chicago.

Video: 10th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum from Kearns Media Consulting LLC on Vimeo.

The Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Head Church of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. It was built from 1846-1864 and was designed by Napoleon LeBrun – from original plans by Reverends Mariano Muller and John B. Tornatore – with the Dome and Palladian facade designed by John Notman and Rev. John T. Mahoney added after 1850. The Interior was largely decorated by Constantino Brumidi. The Cathedral is the largest Catholic Church in

Pennsylvania, and was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

(Source: Philadelphia Architecture: A Guide to the City (2nd ed.)

Photo: 3 May 2013.

Source:  Own work.

Author: Beyond My Ken.

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Saint Januarius And His Companions. Martyrs. Feast Day 19 September.

English: The Martyrdom of Saint Januarius in the Amphitheatre at Pozzuoli.

Italiano: San Gennaro nell'anfiteatro di Pozzuoli.

Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653).

Date: Circa 1636.

Current location: Cathedral in Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy.

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Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless stated otherwise.

Saint Januarius (San Gennaro) and his Companions.

   Martyrs.

   Feast Day 19 September.

Double.

Red Vestments.

"At Pozzuoli, in Campania, Italy," says The Roman Martyrology, "The Feast of The Holy Martyrs, Januarius (San Gennaro), Bishop of Beneventum, Festus (his Deacon), Desiderius (his Lector), Socius (a Deacon of The Church at Misenum, Proculus (a Deacon of Pozzuoli, Eutychius, and Acutius, who, after having been bound with chains, were cast into prison and beheaded, under Emperor Diocletian (305 A.D.).

The body of Saint Januarius was taken to Naples and honourably buried in the Church where his blood is still preserved in a glass phial. When the phial is placed near the head of The Holy Martyr, the blood liquefies and bubbles as if it had just been shed."

This Miracle, known as The Miracle of Saint Januarius, still takes place. The blood, contained in two glass phials where it is coagulated into a dark-red mass, increases in volume and weight; on liquefying, it becomes bright-red, while the surface is covered with bubbles, wherefore it is said to boil.

The Miracle takes place three times a year: During the Feast of May, lasting nine days, from the First Sunday in the Month; in September, during eight days, from 19 September to 26 September; and on 16 December.

Mass: Salus autem.

Gospel: Sedénte Jesu.

Bishops Consecrate Scotland To The Sacred Heart Of Jesus And To The Immaculate Heart Of Mary.

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FSSPX NEWS

The Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia.

Illustration: FSSPX NEWS

Several thousand Faithful gathered in Carfin, Scotland, as the Bishops Consecrated their Country to The Sacred Heart of Jesus and The Immaculate Heart of Mary.

"We Consecrate Scotland to You; all that we have, all that we love, all that we are. To You, we give our minds and hearts, our bodies and Souls".

Such were the terms of the Solemn Act, read by The Scottish Bishops on 3 September 2017, after a Forty Days of Preparation Campaign.

Bishop John Keenan, of Paisley, explained to The Catholic Herald Newspaper that The Laity had begun the initiative for the Consecration. They had sent “continual Letters” asking that Scotland be Consecrated, in the spirit of The Consecration of Russia that Our Lady requested in Fatima, Portugal, one hundred years ago.

Saint Joseph Of Cupertino. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 18 September.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless stated otherwise.

Saint Joseph of Cupertino.

   Confessor.

   Feast Day 18 September.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: Saint Joseph of Cupertino is lifted in flight at the sight of The Basilica of Loreto,

Italiano: S. Giuseppe da Copertino si eleva in volo alla vista della Basilica di Loreto.

Artist: Ludovico Mazzanti (1686-1775).

Date: 18th-Century.

Current location: Church of Saint Joseph of Cupertino, Osimo, Italy.

Source/Photographer: http://www.turismosi.it/writable/risorse/

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A humble son of Saint Francis, whose Stigmata we Commemorated yesterday, Saint Joseph also glorifies The Cross of Jesus, which The Liturgy exalted, recently, on 14 September (The Exaltation of The Holy Cross).

Like the Seraphic Patriarch, he strove to remain attached to The Cross by absolute Poverty, heroic Obedience, and Virginal Purity.

Such was his spirit of sacrifice and Prayer, that he accepted with Holy Patience and great serenity to be misunderstood and calumniated (Offertory). Wherefore, God, Who exalts the humble, caused him to pass from the rank of Brother to that of Clerk and to be made a Priest.

He wrought such Miracles that he implored Heaven to withdraw from him the remarkable powers with which he was endowed. He died a Holy Death at Osimo, Italy, in 1663.

Mass: Diléctio Dei.

Gospel: Loquebátur Jesus.

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Joseph of Cupertino, O.F.M. Conv. (Italian: Giuseppe da Copertino) (17 June 1603 – 18 September 1663) was an Italian Conventual Franciscan Friar who is honoured as a Christian Mystic and Saint. He was said to be prone to miraculous levitation and intense ecstatic visions that left him gaping.

English: The Nave of the Basilica Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari,

Venice, Italy. Altarpiece:The Miracle of Saint Joseph of Cupertino.

Français: La partie droite de la nef de la Basilique Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari.

Tableau du retable : Le miracle de Joseph de Cupertinopar Giuseppe Nogari.

Italiano: Il lato destro della navata della Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari.

Pala d'altare : Il miracolo di Giuseppe da Copertino daGiuseppe Nogari.

Artist: Giuseppe Nogari.

Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari.

Giuseppe Nogari (1699–1766).

Photo: 30 May 2016.

Source: Own work.Author: Didier Descouens.

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The Impression Of The Stigmata of Saint Francis. Confessor. Feast Day 17 September.

English: Saint Francis of Assisi.

Polski: Św. Franciszek z Asyżu.

Artist: Cigoli (1559–1613).

Date: 1597-1599.

Current location: Hermitage Museum,

Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Source: Web Gallery of Art:

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unless stated otherwise.

The Impression of The Stigmata of Saint Francis.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 17 September.

Double.

White Vestments.

Two years before his death, Saint Francis retired to Mount Alverno, Italy, where he began a Fast of Forty Days in honour of Saint Michael The Archangel. And lo ! In the midst of his Meditations, he saw a figure, like a Seraphim, with six wings dazzling and burning, whose feet and hands were nailed to a Cross.

Aware that suffering is incompatible with the immortality of a Seraphic Spirit, he understood this to mean that he would become more like Jesus and bear his Cross after Him (Gospel), not by physical Martyrdom, but by a Mystical kindling of Divine Love.

English: Basilica of Saint Francis, 

Assisi, Italy.

Français: La Basilique Saint-François d'Assise.

Photo: 7 March 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Berthold Werner.

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And, in order that this Crucified Love might become an example to us all, five wounds, resembling those of Jesus on The Cross, appeared on his feet, hands, and side. From his side, blood flowed abundantly.

The facts were so fully authenticated, later, that Pope Benedict XI ordered them to be Commemorated every year, and Pope Paul V, to kindle in The Faithful The Love of Jesus Crucified, extended The Feast to the whole Church.

Mass: As on The Feast Day of Saint Francis of Assisi on 4 October, except Proper Collects and Gospel.
Gospel: Si quis vult.

Zephyrinus Visits Friends For The Week-End.

Illustration: PINTEREST