Saint of the day and Feast days-Part 3 - Page 28

odhiambo · #**406** Mar 20, '12, 7:45 pm

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Originally Posted by pollycarp

He helps me to keep up with a 60 year old house! I discuss things with him often.

Like a very special Spiritual Adviser?

odhiambo · #**407** Mar 20, '12, 7:45 pm

March 21
Today is the Memorial of
Saint Serapion.
Among many other Saints

odhiambo · #**408** Mar 20, '12, 7:50 pm

Saint Serapion the Scholastic.
Bishop and head of the famed catechetical school of Alexandria, Egypt. He is also known as Serapion of Arsinoe and also as Serapion of Thmuis ( Thumis). He is called “the Scholastic” because of his learning. Serapion was at first, a monk in the Egyptian desert and a friend and companion of Saint Anthony. If you remember, Saint Anthony left in his will, the gift of two sheepskin cloaks. One was for Serapion and the other was for Athanasius of Alexandria. Serapion was called from the desert to be bishop of Thmuis, Lower Egypt on the Nile delta. He was a close friend of Saint Athanasius and actively supported him against the Arians in Egypt.
He attended the Council of Sardis in 347. Besides Arianism, Serapion also fought against Manichaeism.
Serapion was a brilliant scholar and a theologian. He had a series of writings to his name, viz
He wrote a treatise against the Manichaeans; a treatise on the titles of the Psalms; a sacramentary called the Euchologium and a collection of liturgical prayers.
He was exiled by the ardent Arian Emperor Constantius II for his opposition to Arianism and his support of Saint Athanasius.
He died in exile in 370.
He was canonized Pre-Congregation.
Because of his opposition to Arianism, Serapion was exiled for a time by the Emperor Constantius II
Saint Serapion
Pray for us!

pollycarp · #**409** Mar 21, '12, 12:08 pm

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Originally Posted by odhiambo

Like a very special Spiritual Adviser?

He's always there for me.

odhiambo · #**410** Mar 21, '12, 8:24 pm

March 22
Today we remember
Saint Trien
Among many other Saints

odhiambo · #**411** Mar 21, '12, 8:27 pm

Saint Trien of Killelga
He is also known as Trienan of Killelga. Trien lived in the Fifth century. He was a disciple of Saint Patrick. He served as a missionary and then as abbot of Killelga Monastery in Ireland.
He was canonized Pre-Congregation
Saint Trien
Pray for us!

odhiambo · #**412** Mar 22, '12, 9:04 pm

March 23
Today is the Memorial of
Saint Rafqa
Among many other Saints

odhiambo · #**413** Mar 22, '12, 9:16 pm

Saint Rafqa.
This Saint is known by many names. Some of them are:
Agnes; Anissa; Lily of Himlaya
Little Flower of Lebanon; Petra; Petronilla; Pierette; Purple Rose; Rafqa Shabaq al-Rayes and
Rebecca.
Known as “the Little Flower of Lebanon” and “the Silent, Humble Nun”, Rafqa was born on 29 June 1832 in Himlaya, Lebanon. She was the only child of Mourad Saber Shabaq Al-Rayes and Rafqa Gemayel. Her mother died when she was six and her father remarried. The child did not get along well with her stepmother. When she was 14, she told her parents she wanted to become a nun. The father objected but she entered the Marian Order of the Immaculate Conception at Bikfaya as a postulant, taking the religious name of Anissa ( Agnes). She made her final vows in 1856.
In 1860, Anissa witnessed the massacre of Christians at Deir-el-Qamar.
In 1871, her Order merged with the order of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to form the Order of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
The sisters were given the choice of joining the new order, joining other orders, or being released from their vows. She prayed for guidance then on 12 July 1871, she joined the ascetic Baladiya Order of the Maronites and the Cloistered convent of Saint Simom in El-Qarn. (The Lebanese Order of Saint Anthony of the Maronites).She took the name Rafqa (Rebecca).
Gifted with supernatural visions and dreams, in 1885 Rafqa offered herself to Our Lord that she might share in His suffering. From that time, her health deteriorated steadily. She went blind, became paralised, and was in constant pain. She endured her suffering with joy and without complaint.
Rafqa died on 23 March 1914, at the Convent of Saint Joseph, Grabta, Lebanon. Four days after her death, her Mother Superior Ursula Doumit, experienced the first miracle brought about by Rafqa’s intercession.
She was beatified on 17 November 1985 by Pope John Paul II
and canonized on 10 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II.
Saint Rafqa,
Pray for us!

odhiambo · #**414** Mar 22, '12, 9:17 pm

From the evidence presented for her Canonization process, a group of specialists.in ophthalmology, neurology and orthopedics,
concluded that the Rafqa most likely suffered from disseminated tuberculosis, with widespread lesions affecting the eyes, the spine, etc.

odhiambo · #**415** Mar 23, '12, 9:29 pm

March 24
Let us remember today
Saint Aldemar
Among many other Saints

odhiambo · #**416** Mar 23, '12, 9:31 pm

Saint Aldemar the Wise
Aldemar was an abbot and a miracle worker called “the Wise”.
He was born in Capua, Italy. He became a monk in Monte Cassino and came to the attention of a princess of the region, Princess Aloara. When she built a new convent in Capua, Aldemar was appointed its director. As director of the convent, Aldemar reportedly performed many miracles and became known as “the Wise”. He was reassigned by his abbot to Monte Cassino, a move that the princess did not like at all. She wanted him to stay on as director of the convent, the abbot on the other hand, wanted him back at Monte Cassino. To escape the dispute, Aldemar moved to Boiana, Italy. Even here, a companion involved in the said dispute, attempted to kill him. Aldemar fled into the region of Bocchignano in the Abruzzi. He founded several more religious houses here which he directed until his death in 1080.
Saint Aldemar
Pray for us!

kelvinf · #**417** Mar 24, '12, 12:06 pm

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Originally Posted by odhiambo

Saint Aldemar the Wise
Aldemar was an abbot and a miracle worker called “the Wise”.
He was born in Capua, Italy. He became a monk in Monte Cassino and came to the attention of a princess of the region, Princess Aloara. When she built a new convent in Capua, Aldemar was appointed its director. As director of the convent, Aldemar reportedly performed many miracles and became known as “the Wise”. He was reassigned by his abbot to Monte Cassino, a move that the princess did not like at all. She wanted him to stay on as director of the convent, the abbot on the other hand, wanted him back at Monte Cassino. To escape the dispute, Aldemar moved to Boiana, Italy. Even here, a companion involved in the said dispute, attempted to kill him. Aldemar fled into the region of Bocchignano in the Abruzzi. He founded several more religious houses here which he directed until his death in 1080.
Saint Aldemar
Pray for us!

Seems like there have been many people in History called "xzy the Wise"

odhiambo · #**418** Mar 24, '12, 2:35 pm

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Originally Posted by kelvinf

Seems like there have been many people in History called "xzy the Wise"

Have we met one before now, I cannot quite remember

odhiambo · #**419** Mar 24, '12, 2:42 pm

March 25
Let us today remember
Saint Harold
Among many other Saints

odhiambo · #**420** Mar 24, '12, 2:50 pm

Saint Harold of Gloucester
Harold was a child who was martyred in Gloucester, England in 1168.
He was reportedly slain by several members of the Jewish community in the area. The ‘killers’ reportedly ‘confessed’, but only after brutal tortures.
Harold’s death was just one of other similar death resulting in the accusations of Jews in towns and cities across England: According to Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson, “the veneration of the child martyrs is often considered as an example of the pervasive anti-Semitism of the period”
SQPN notes that “The story of his martyrdom may be another instance of blood libel where his death was blamed on Jews who supposedly needed the blood of a Christian child for Passover rituals”
A blood libel is a false accusation against a religious minority of murder of children and use of their blood in religious rituals.
Harold was venerated as a martyr. He is listed as a saint and his feast day is March 25th.
Saint Harold of Gloucester
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