Saint of the day and Feast days-Part 3

[kelvinf]

We avoid the eyes of men to commit sin, yet we do it in God's presence.
St. Ambrose

[odhiambo]

Originally Posted by kelvinf

We avoid the eyes of men to commit sin, yet we do it in God's presence.
St. Ambrose

Never a truer statement!

[odhiambo]

Originally Posted by kelvinf

I understand "Santa Claus" was a poor translation of Saint Nicholas from either Dutch (Sinterklaas) or German (Sankt Nikolaus) to English.

A priest once said, when you translate, you betray.

Sinterklaas! gee! The priest was very right

[odhiambo]

December 8
Today is the Memorial of
Pope Saint Eutychian
Among many other Saints

[odhiambo]

Saint Eutychian
Pope
Also known as Eutychianus, or Eutychianos.
Virtually nothing is known about this saint, other than that he was born at Etruria , Tuscany, or Luni in Italy . He succeeded Felix I as Pope on January 4, 275 and died on December 7, 283 and was buried in the catacomb of Callistus.
He was the 27th pope,
His canonization was Pre-Congregation
Pope Saint Eutychian,
Pray for us!

[kelvinf]

Our Lady's purity was not snow but fire. It was the kindling purity of white heat, and not the chilling purity of white cold.
Father Vincent McNabb

Immaculate Mary, pray for us.

[The Reginator]

On this, The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary:

AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum.
Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae.
Amen.

[odhiambo]

December 9
Today we Remember the
Martyrs of Samosata
Among many other Saints

[odhiambo]

Martyrs of Samosata
In the year 297 in Samosata, somewhere in present day Turkey, seven Christians were martyred by Emperor Maximian for their refusal to perform a pagan rite to celebrate the Emperor’s victory over the Persians.
The martyrs were local magistrates Hipparchus and Philotheus and their converts: James, Paragnus, Abibus, Romanus, and Lollianus.
They were all crucified.
They were canonized by acclamation
Martyrs of Samosata,
Pray for us!

[The Reginator]

Originally Posted by odhiambo

Martyrs of Samosata
In the year 297 in Samosata, somewhere in present day Turkey, seven Christians were martyred by Emperor Maximian for their refusal to perform a pagan rite to celebrate the Emperor’s victory over the Persians.
The martyrs were local magistrates Hipparchus and Philotheus and their converts: James, Paragnus, Abibus, Romanus, and Lollianus.
They were all crucified.
They were canonized by acclamation
Martyrs of Samosata,
Pray for us!

Saints Hipparchus, Philotheus, James, Paragnus, Abibus, Romanus, and Lollianus,
Pray for us!

[odhiambo]

December 10
Today is the Memorial of
Saint Eulalia of Merida
Among many other Saints

[odhiambo]

Saint Eulalia of Merida
Martyr.
Eulalia was born in 290 in Spain. According to Dictionary of Saints by John J. Delaney, though a Saint by this name did live and suffer martyrdom in Merida Spain, what is known about her is legendary. According to the legend, she was a twelve year old Spanish girl who, despite her mother’s attempts to prevent her from doing so, denounced Judge Dacian for attempting to make Christians apostacize. She was tortured and put to death when she refused to sacrifice to the gods.
The year was 304.
Saint Augustine reportedly praised her martyrdom and Saint Prudentius also reportedly wrote a hymn in her honor.
Saint Eulalia of Merida,
Pray for us!

[odhiambo]

December 11
Today, let us Remember
Saint Daniel the Stylite
Among many other Saints

[odhiambo]

When I first read about this saint, I could not understand what they were talking about, still don't. It was the very, very first time I came across saints who lived thus. What of eating, sleeping, bathing, the call of nature; so many questions come to mind. How did they cope standing and praying constantly for years in a stylo with only standing room?

[odhiambo]

Saint Daniel the Stylite
Daniel was born in 409 at Maratha, near Samosata, which is present day Samsat, a small town in Turkey. At the age of twelve, he joined a nearby monastery and became a monk there.
On an occasion, he accompanied his abbot on a trip to Antioch. On the way, they stopped to see Saint Simeon the Elder on his pillar. If I may digress here for the benefit of anyone who may be wondering, as I did, "what is all this about stylites and pillars"? According to Catholic Encyclopedia "Stylites were solitaries who, taking up their abode upon the tops of a pillar (stylos), chose to spend their days amid the restraints thus entailed and in the exercise of other forms of asceticism." In other words, these were monks who spent their ascetic lives in pillars!
It appears that the first ever stylite was this Simeon the Elder.
Back at their monastery, when the abbot died, the other monks requested Daniel to be their abbot but he refused. He made a pilgrimage to the Holy land and lived for nine years as a hermit at Philemora,( Philempora) near Constantinople. He then decided to follow in the footsteps of Simeon and live on a pillar. He spent the next thirty three years, the age of Our Lord, on a series of pillars built near Constantinople and was ordained on one of them when he refused to come down for his ordination.
Daniel reportedly prophesied a disastrous fire in Constantinople in 465. He became famed for his holiness and healing miracles and attracted huge crowds with the sermons delivered from the top of his pillar. He counseled people from all walks of life. Daniel came down from the pillar only once to denounce Emperor Basilicus for a crime he had committed.
Daniel died on his pillar that was erected near Constantinople and he was buried at its foot.
He was canonized Pre-Congregationally.
Saint Daniel the Stylite,
Pray for us!