Julh-23-acem Sogglem Santam

Julh-22-acem Sogglem Santam.

Santancem Vatt: Julh 23-cem Sogglem Santam. (Concannim).
O Caminho dos Santos: Os Santos e festas da Dia 23 de Julho. (Portugej).
The Way of the Saints: All Saints of July 23. (Waspish).

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Saudações! A Paz de Jesus Cristo esteja com você! Boas festas de Nossa Senhora, nossa Mãe Maria, sob os títulos de Nossa Senhora do Premontre, Nossa Senhora do Monte Altino, São Ezequiel o Profeta e Santa Brigida da Suecia!

The Peace of Jesus Christ be with you! Happy feasts of Our Lady, our Mother Mary, under the titles of Our Lady of Premontre, Our Lady of Monte Altino, St Ezechiel the Prophet and St Bridget of Sweden!

1. MAJOR FEASTS

   1. St Bridget of Sweden
   2. St Ezechiel the Prophet
   3. St Joana of Orvieto
   4. St John Cassian
   5. St Romula

Historical events

Feasts of Mary, Mother of All Christians, Most Powerful Intercessor with her son, Jesus Christ

"Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God, and doth his will, him he heareth." John ix, 31.
2. July 23: Our Lady of Premontre — The Institution of the Order of Our Lady of Premontre by St Norbert in the year 1120, after a revelation from Our Lady.
   

   Our Lady of Premontre

   «Prémontré Abbey was the mother house of the Premonstratensian Order and was located at Prémontré about twelve miles west of Laon, in the nation of Picardy, in northwest France. The Order of Canons Regular of Premontre, also known as the Premonstratensians, White Canons, or the Norbertines, are a religious order founded at Premontre in 1120 by St Norbert of Xanten, later the Archbishop of Magdeburg, in 1120 on waste land that had previously belonged to the Abbey of St Vincent, Laon, to which it had been given by a former Bishop of Laon; the monks of St Vincent's had tried in vain to cultivate it. St Norbert was not a particularly pious young man until he had an encounter with God similar to that of St Paul. While riding through the countryside one bright day in the year 1115, Norbert had not gone far with the sky darkened due to a sudden storm. A bolt of lightning struck the ground near Norbert, causing his mount to rear and throw him to the ground. Norbert lay unconscious for some time, but when he awoke he went to his knees, calling out: "Lord, what dost thou wish that I should do?" A voice was heard to respond: "Avoid evil and do good." At that, Norbert was a changed man, determined to obey the heavenly command. He made a spiritual retreat and became a priest, giving away his estates and retiring to a life of rural solitude, applying himself to a life of prayer and contemplation. Saint Norbert left his hermitage from time to time to preach in France, Belgium and Germany, begging for his bread along the way. In time, a few good men were drawn to his sanctity and began to follow him. During this time St Norbert befriended St Bernard of Clairvaux, and it is thought that St Bernard's example inspired St Norbert to form a similar community for canons. A remote place in the marshy forested lands of Premontre was selected to be the place where they decided to make their place of retreat, devoting themselves to the chanting of the Divine Office, prayer and meditation. Soon they had a simple monastery and church in the wilderness. St Norbert prayed that he might know the will of God for his order, and he had a vision of St Augustine, who gave him his rule and said: "I am Augustine, Bishop of Hippo; behold here the rule which I have written; if your fellow-brethren, my sons, shall have observed it well, they shall stand without fear in the presence of Christ on the terrible day of the last judgment." St Norbert had a tender devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. She herself, Our Lady of Premontre, appeared to him in a vision, giving Norbert the white habit that he and his brothers in religion were to wear. Guerenus wrote in his commentaries on the Canticle of Canticles that: "St Norbert, with his holy Order, was raised up by Divine Providence to render conspicuous in his day two mysteries, the Blessed Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist and the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady." As shown in the charter of donation, the place was called "Præmonstratus", or "pratum monstratum" ("Pré-montré" or Prémontré), probably from a clearing (pré or meadow) made in the forest. The name, however, easily lent itself to the adapted meaning of "locus praemonstratus", "a place foreshown", as for example in the life of Godfrey of Cappenberg, one of Norbert's first disciples (1127): "Venit ad locum vere juxta nomen suum, a Domino premonstratum, electum et prædestinatum" ("He came to a place truly according to its name foreshown, elect and predestined of the Lord"). The founding tradition says that the Bishop of Laon and Norbert visited Prémontré about the middle of January and that the bishop gave the white habit to Norbert on January 25, the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul. At the conclusion of the Council of Liège (1131), Pope Innocent II and Norbert came to Laon and stayed with Bishop Bartholomew. They also visited Prémontré Abbey and were delighted to see some five hundred religious — priests, clerics, and lay-brothers — all united in the observance of their duties under Abbot Hugh of Fosse. It was the original Premonstratensian custom to establish double monasteries, but in the general chapter of 1141 it was decided to remove the convents of nuns to at least one league's distance from the abbeys of men. Hugh died on February 10, 1161, and was succeeded by Philip, then Abbot of Belval in the Forest of Argonne. Abbot John II founded in 1252 a college or house of studies for Norbertine clerics at the University of Paris. At the death of Virgilius, the 43rd Abbot General of Prémontré, Cardinal Francis of Pisa had intrigued so much at the Court of Rome that he succeeded in being named commendatory abbot of Prémontré, and in 1535 took possession of the abbey and all its revenues. Cardinal Francis was succeeded by Cardinal Hyppolitus d'Este, the papal legate in France, who also held the abbey in commendam until he died in 1572. The historian of the abbey Charles Taiée calls these two cardinals "les fléaux de Prémontré" ("the scourges of Prémontré"). After the death of Cardinal d'Este a free election was held and Jean des Pruets, Doctor of the Sorbonne, an earnest and zealous priest, was elected, and his election confirmed by Pope Gregory XIII, December 14, 1572. With great ability Des Pruets undertook the difficult task of repairing the financial losses and of promoting conventual discipline at Prémontré and other houses of the order. He died on May 15, 1596, and was succeeded by two further zealous abbots, Longpré and Gosset; but the latter was succeeded by Cardinal Richelieu, as commendatory abbot. The last abbot general, L'Ecuy, was elected in 1781. At the French Revolution the abbey was suppressed and confiscated, and the site sold to a certain Cagnon, who demolished several buildings and sold the material. Having passed through several hands, the property was bought by Paul Armand de Cardon de Garsignies, Bishop of Soissons, whose successor sold it to the Département of Aisne, by whom the buildings were converted into an asylum or psychiatric hospital. Of the old abbey as it was from the 12th to the 16th centuries hardly anything remains, but three large buildings of the 17th and 18th centuries are still standing, part of one of which is used as a church, dedicated to St Norbert. Most of the site is still in use as the psychiatric hospital founded in 1867. The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré (Latin: Candidus et Canonicus Ordo Praemonstratensis), also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines and, in Britain and Ireland, as the White Canons (from the colour of their habit), is a religious order of Canons regular of the Catholic Church founded in Prémontré near Laon in 1120 by Norbert of Xanten, who later became Archbishop of Magdeburg. Premonstratensians are designated by O.Praem. (Ordo Praemonstratensis) following their name.»
   
   «Norbert was a friend of Bernard of Clairvaux and was largely influenced by the Cistercian ideals as to both the manner of life and the government of his order. As the Premonstratensians are not monks but Canons Regular, their work often involves preaching and the exercising of pastoral ministry; they frequently serve in parishes close to their abbeys or priories.»
   
   Many who maintain the Marian Calendars have, apparently in some sort of "Chinese Whispers" conflated Premontre in Picardy with the Abbey of Our Lady of Premontre in Lancaster, England, and have claimed that St Norbert of Xanten had his famous foundational vision of Our Lady there, and founded the Premonstratensian Order at this Abbey of Our Lady of Premontre in Lancaster. That is incorrect.
   
   «A little below Lancaster, England, stand the ruins of what was once Cockersands Abbey, also known as Our Lady of the Marshes, and Our Lady of Premontre, because the Premonstratensians were responsible for its erection, changing the bleak and barren lands into fertile, profitable ones. When the dissolution of the Lancashire monasteries began in 1537, the Abbey seal was broken and the gold and jewels stolen by King Henry VIII. Furniture and goods were stolen and sold, and the monks' quarters stripped of their lead and left to fall into ruin and decay. Some who live around the ruins claim up to this date that at midnight the chant of the monks can be heard amid the cries and moans of the desolate. Since this monastery had been dedicated to Mary, at least one monk was set aside as the "Mary priest" whose special duty it was to offer daily or two or three times a week a votive Mass in honor of Our Lady of Premontre. He also rang the "Mary Bell" morning and evening and kept her shrine decked with flowers and lights and saw that the best vessels and finest linens were used on her feast days. Going on a pilgrimage to Mary's shrine, people would be "measured" for a candle by taking their length and breadth in the form of a cross and candles were made to equal the sum of these two numbers. The candles were coiled and carried to burn either in supplication or thanksgiving before Our Lady's image. On her feast days large candles, "wreathed with flowers" were burned in profusion. They were called "Gaud-candles" meaning joy and beauty; now the word degenerated from "gaud" — gaudy, means crude, loud, ugly. Hough de Pourte in 1318 left a yearly rent "to maintain a 3-pound candle to burn before Our Lady's altar daily at her High Mass," whilst John Baret at Bury requested in his will that at his burial and Requiem Mass five men should follow the coffin dressed in black to represent the five wounds of Our Blessed Lord, and five women dressed in white to represent the five joys of Our Blessed Lady. Each "must hold a candle of clean wax." Another man left a half acre of ground to purchase "Lady" candles to burn yearly to "lighten Our Lady's way." Countless more of these requests could be enumerated. And why this love of candles and light? Because like so much in the Catholic Church is symbolic. A light is put to the wick — the hard wax melts and overflows and is drawn downward with blessing from Our Lady; the light illumines our darkness of mind and soul — when our hearts are lit with God's love and that of His Blessed Mother, they soften, become filled with God's grace and light, and inevitably shine before men. May the candles of Our Lady of Premontre continue to lighten Our Lady in our souls and make us more and more Mary-like each day. May the number of votive Masses in Mary's honor increase and may there be again those who will be proud to style themselves "Mary priests." May hearts glow with love of her. Only through her intercession may we ever hope for the conversion of our land which is so rapidly falling prey to the mighty evils of these modern times in which we all need our Heavenly Mother more than ever before in the world's history.»


3. Our Lady of Monte Altino in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy.
   

   Our Lady of Monte Altino

   «The sanctuary of the Beata Vergine del Monte Altino is located on Monte Altino, in the Vall'Alta hamlet of Albino in the province of Bergamo in Lombardy, Italy, and is dedicated to the miraculous apparition of the Virgin on July 23, 1496. On July 23, 1496, Quinto Foglia, a charcoal burner, with his two sons went up the mountain to cut trees in order to process the wood into charcoal to sell during a time when the land had been afflicted by a severe drought and when it was very hot and dry. His tired children were complaining of thirst. The father, who knew he was too far from the Serio river that flows at the bottom of the valley, put his trust in Our Lady, and prayed to her for relief for his children's thirst. His trust was rewarded. The Virgin appeared to him on the spot and ordered him to strike a rock with his sickle. When he did that, fresh spring water began to flow which quenched the thirst of his children and which continues to flow. It is the miracle of trust that a man placed in the person he felt closest to him and was able to help him in times of need. The locals built a small chapel on the site of the apparition. The miracle of the fountain and the apparition of Our Lady initially led to the construction of a small votive chapel, according to tradition already present on September 5, 1496, but the number of faithful who continued to flock to the place forced the construction of a larger sanctuary, which remained unchanged until the end of the 17th century and which incorporated the original building. The church was enlarged at the beginning of the seventeenth century, the beam at the entrance has the date of 1611. At that date, the church already had the three-nave configuration with the larger central one and connected to the presbytery, where the altarpiece by Johnpaul Cavagna, the Descent of the Holy Ghost was placed. In 1848 the presbytery was enlarged with the covering of the fourteenth-century frescoes for the realization of the stuccoes of the niche that would contain the sculptural group. In 1865, the Cavagna painting was replaced by the sculptural group Madonna a Quinto Foglia and his two sons. The statue of Our Lady of Monte Altino was formally crowned with a golden crown by papal authorisation July 23, 1919 by Bishop Louis Merelli. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the sanctuary was again enlarged on a project by Louis Angelini. The premises were equipped with a chancellery, the bell tower was rebuilt, the large entrance arch was moved to the beginning of the avenue that connects to the staircase that accompanies up to the church, works that will continue until after 1930, with the re-consecration of the church and the complex of buildings in 1935 by bishop Adrian Bernareggi. The water that gushes from the rock is visible through a niche protected by a glass at the back of the church, and can be drunk and collected by the faithful through a small fountain next to it. Numerous artworks are preserved in the sanctuary, the most noteworthy are some frescoes attributed to Christopher Baschenis.»



Collective of Martyrs and IsoMartyrs

4. + The Holy Martyrs of Bizye in Thrace Saints Severus, St Memnon the Centurion, converted by Severus, and 38 Companions, under Diocletian.


5. + The Holy Martyrs of Bulgaria, many holy martyrs whom the impious emperor Nicephorus, whilst he was devastating the churches of God, put to death in various ways by the sword, the halter, arrows, long imprisonment, and starvation.


6. + The Holy Martyrs of Carabanchel Bajo, Madrid, Spain Saints Anacharius Benito Nozal, Philip Ruiz Fraile, Philip Valcobado Granado, Joseph Oses Sainz, Joseph Ruiz Martinez, Julius Mediavilla Concejero, Laurinus Proano Cuesta, Manuel Pérez Jimenez and Maurilius Macho Rodríguez, a group of nine Passionist priests, brothers and clerics who were martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


7. + The Holy Martyrs of Creueta del Coll in Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain Saints Francis Mayol Oliver, Michael Pons Ramis and Simon Reynes Solivellas, Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary of Mallorca, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


8. + The Holy Martyrs of Horta Saints Anne Ballesta Gelma, Dolors Vilaseca Gallego, Josepha Pilar Garcia Solanas, Josepha Panyella Domenech, Lucretia Garcia Solanas, Mary Montserrat Ors Molist, Mercy Mestre Trinche, Raymonda Ors Torrents, Teresa Rius Casas and Vincenta Jorda Marti, a lay woman and nine Minim nuns, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


9. + The Holy Martyrs of L'Arrabasada in Barcelona Saints Catherine Caldes Socias, Michaela of the Blessed Sacrament, baptized as Michaela Rullan Ribot, Paul Noguera Trias, 19 year old brother of the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary of Mallorca, and the laywoman Prudència Canyelles Ginestà de Aguadé, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, at the Sant Genís dels Agudells highway, Horta, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


10. + The Holy Martyrs of Macé or of Bayeux Saints Rasyphus (Rasiphus) and Ravennus, they were Britons who fled the invasion of Britain by the English, and settled in Gaul as hermits, founding their hermitage near the site of the current parish church of St Aubin in Macé in Normandy, near a miraculous spring of water. They were martyred, most probably, by Arian Goths. The two saints were venerated as great healers, responsible for many miracles. They were venerated in the diocese of Séez. Their relics were taken from St Aubin to the Bayeux Cathedral during the Viking invasions. The relics were then taken to Caen during the Wars of Religion. Finally, they were taken to Grancey in Champagne, where they rest today.


11. + The Holy Martyrs of Manzanares Saints Abilius Ramos y Ramos, Epiphanius Sierra Conde, Joseph Estalayo Garcia, Vincent Diez Tejerina, and Zacharias Fernandez Crespo, five Passionist clerics who were martyred together on July 23, 1936 in Manzanares, Ciudad Real, Spain, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


12. + The Holy Martyrs of Rome Saints Apollonius and Eugenius, martyrs, their history is lost.


13. + The Holy Martyrs of Rome Saints Trophimus and Theophilus, who received their crown of martyrdom by being beaten with stones, scorched with fire, and finally struck with the sword, in the time of the emperor Diocletian.



Collective of Saints not Martyrs and IsoMartyrs

14. + Saints Romula, Redempta, and Herundines or Herundo, virgins, at Rome, they are mentioned by Pope St Gregory in his writings. Herundines seems to be more probable than Herundo. Saint Romula or Romola lived in the 5th century in Rome. She was poor in goods and gold, but rich in the virtues of patience, silence and prayer. In her old age, she lived with her superior, St Redempta or Redenta, and another woman, whose name we do not know. They lived a common life in asceticism and prayer in a private house near the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Redempta was trained as a nun by the hermit Herundo (alternatively Erundine, Erundina, Herundina, Herundine) on the mountain at Præneste now Palestrina, not Palestine as several sources write. Romula was paralyzed for the last three years of his life. Romula died around 580. The three women were all highly respected by the Holy Pope Gregory I the Great (590-604), who writes about them: At the time when I was going to a convent, there was an old woman named Redempta who wore a nun's habit and lived by St Mary's Church here in the city. She was a disciple of the Hirundo who is said to have lived as a hermit on the mountain at Preneste. Now this Redempta had two disciples in nun's habits, one named Romula and the other, still alive, I do not remember the name of, although I would be able to recognize her. So the three lived together in the same house, rich in godliness but poor in the goods of this world. Romula surpassed her fellow sister Redempta by her great merits; admirably patient, and completely obedient, she observed the silence, and was tireless in prayer. But now it is often the case that those who are considered perfect by their fellow human beings, still in the eyes of the Creator have something imperfect about them. (In the same way as we ignorant men consider an unfinished sculpture and praise it as finished, while the artist, who probably hears our praise, further improves it by further polishing.) Romula was afflicted by the disease which doctors call by its Greek name, paralysis. For many years she was bedridden and almost completely deprived of the use of her limbs. But this ordeal did not make her impatient! The damage to the limbs only increased her virtues; she gave so much more to prayer that she was unable to do anything else. One night she shouted at Redempta, who, as I said, was like a mother to her two disciples: "Mother, come! Mother, come! » and this one stood up with the other disciple. What both happened, they both told many, and I also heard it: As they stood by her bed in the middle of the night, a light from heaven suddenly filled the whole cell. The light was so overwhelming that they were struck with awe and (as they later said) completely paralyzed. They heard the sound of many people coming in the cell door; they felt the crowd coming in, but told that out of fear and of the overwhelming nature of the light they could not see it; their eyes were closed to both. The shining light was followed by a wonderful fragrance, which was to relieve them of the fear of the radiant light, but when they could not cope with the latter, Romula began to comfort her superior Redempta in a loving voice with the words: "Fear not, mother, I shall not die yet." She said this repeatedly, and the light faded, but the smell remained. It also remained the second and third day. The fourth night she called again to her superior, who came; she asked for communion and got it. Redempta and the other disciple had not yet left the hospital when suddenly two choirs somehow stood up in the square outside the cell, and sang the Psalms of David. Their gender, they later said, they could hear from the voices: the men intoned, and the women answered. And while this heavenly liturgy took place outside the cell, Romula's holy soul was separated from the body. As she was taken up to heaven, the hymn was heard weaker and weaker as the soul rose higher and higher; then there was an end to both it and the smell. (Pope St Gregory the Great: Conversations (Dialogue), IV. 15, Aschehoug 2014). The relics of at least Romula and Redempta rest in Santa Maria Maggiore, while some relics are said to have been translated to Tivoli near Rome. The sacred death of Romula is often depicted in pictures.



Individual Saints

15. + St Aemilius Arce Diez, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


16. + St Alphonsus Canales Rojas, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


17. + St Anna or Susanna of Constantinople, born in a family of aristocrats, she was orphaned young and inherited a large fortune. Though she spent her money to support the poor, she attracted a steady stream of greedy suitors. To avoid marriage to a man named Agarenus, a union supported by Emperor Basil the Macedonian, Anne fled from Constantinople to Epirus in Leucadia c.869. She lived there the rest of her life as a hermitess. Died July 23, 918.


18. + St Apollinaris, bishop of Ravenna, today is his birthday in Our Lord. He was made a bishop by St Peter, and sent to Ravenna, where he endured for the faith of Christ many different tribulations. He afterwards preached the Gospel in Aemilia, where he converted many from the worship of idols. Finally, returning to Ravenna, he terminated his confession of Christ by a glorious martyrdom under the Caesar Vespasian.


19. + St Arthur Franco Castro, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


20. + St Baldwin or Baudoin, a Premonstratensian friar and canon of the Norbertine monastery of Notre Dame of Belval in Argonne, France. Abbot of the house in 1316. A physically small man, he was known as a man of great faith, strict with his own behavior, generous to the poor. Under his leadership, the house became a center for spiritual growth, and many of its brothers became abbots of other houses. Died July 23, 1348.


21. + St Bartolomew Carrillo Fernandez, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


22. + St Bridget, widow, her birthday in Our Lord today at Rome, her sacred body was taken to Sweden on October 7. Her feast is celebrated on October 8.


23. + St Conan, a Cornish saint, a companion of St Petroc in 6th century Cornwall, England.


24. + St Christinus Gondek, baptized as Wojciech Gondek, Franciscan priest, rector of Wloclaweck, Poland, martyred, murdered, by the German Nazi Infidels, July 23, 1942 at Dachau, not yet canonized by a Catholic Pope.


25. + St Ezechiel, Prophet, son of Buzi, exiled to Babylon about 598 BC. He began to prophesy five years later and continued for over twenty years. His prophecies form one of the books of the Old Testament and are given in forty-eight chapters. After a vision of the glory of the Lord, under various symbols, he foretells the fall of Jerusalem, its transgression, and the mark of those who are to be saved. He utters the destruction that will come on pagan nations and prophesies the restoration of Theocracy. God will demand penance, triumph over Gog and Magog, and establish a new kingdom of His own in which the city will be called, "The Lord is there" (Ezechiel 48). He is often quoted by Saint John in the Apocalypse; indeed there are many points of similarity between the writings of the Prophet and of the Apostle. He was buried in the sepulchre of Sem and Arphaxad, ancestors of Abraham. Many people were in the habit of going to his tomb to pray. Passages from the prophecy are read in the Divine Office during the first weeks of November.


26. + St Francis de Paula Ortega Montilla, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


27. + St James Lou Tiening, a priest in Chinese Mongolia, martyred, murdered, by the Boxers, July 23, 1900 in Xiaonuo, Inner Mongolia, China.


28. + St Joana Huguet Cardona, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


29. + St Joana of Orvieto, Joanna or Jane, Giovanna or Vanna, born to a peasant family and orphaned at age five, she worked as a seamstress and embroiderer. Refused marriage as a young woman, and became a Dominican tertiary at Orvieto, Italy. She was a visionary, prophetess, wonderworker and stigmatist. Died in the Lord, July 23, 1306.


30. + St John Cassian, he travelled as a pilgrim to the Holy Lands with his friend and relative St Germanus, then became a monk, first in Egypt, and then in Marseilles, France. Studied under St John Chrysostom, who ordained him a deacon. Defended Chrysostom in Rome, Italy. Founded the abbey of St Victor and a convent at Marseilles. His writings were recommended by St Benedict as treatises on the training of monks. Died in the Lord, July 23, 360.


31. + St John de Montesinos, Mercedarian missionary martyred by native Americans, July 23, 1619.


32. + St John de Luca, a Mercedarian friar highly esteemed in Italy and Spain. A polyglot, he was sent in 1343 to the Barbary Coast, he ransomed 116 Christians who had been enslaved in Algiers by the Muslim Infidels; as he travelled through the region he managed to convert many Infidels to the faith.


33. + St Joseph Sala Pico, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


34. + St Joseph Ruiz Montero, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


35. + St Leonard of Recanati, Italian Mercedarian bishop.


36. + St Leovigild Avalos Gonzalez, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


37. + St Liborius, bishop of Le Mans, confessor.


38. + St Luis Janer Riba, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


39. + St Marianus Fernandez-Tenllado Roldan, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


40. + St Mary Antonia Vergara Melgar de Ortega, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


41. + St Peter Ruiz de los Panos Angel, martyred, murdered July 23, 1936, by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.


42. + St Phocas the Gardener was greatly to be admired for his simplicity, according to what Surius relates. He cultivated a little garden, less to provide food for himself than to supply with vegetables and fruit those travelers and pilgrims who had heard of his liberality and stopped at his house; for no one ever knocked at his door who was not received with great charity and courtesy. This holy man was denounced for aiding and abetting Christians, to the governor of the province, who, resolving upon his death, sent soldiers privately in search of him with orders to kill him. They arrived one evening at his house, not knowing that it was his, entered it, and with the usual freedom of soldiery, demanded food. According to his custom, he received them willingly and kindly and gave them what little he had. He served them, too, at table, with so much charity and courtesy that they were delighted and captivated, and said between themselves that they had never met such a good-hearted man. And so they were led by his great simplicity and candor to ask him with confidence whether he knew anything of a certain Phocas, who helped and harbored Christians, and upon whose death the imperial prefect had resolved. The Saint replied that he knew him very well, and that he would willingly point him out to them so that they might go to rest quietly, without further inquiry, for on the next day he would show them an easy way of capturing him. He then spent the whole night in fervent prayer, and when it was day he went to visit the soldiers, and bid them good morning with his usual cordiality. They answered by reminding him of his promise to deliver up Phocas, whom they were seeking. "Do not doubt," he returned, "that I will find him for you. Consider that you have him already in your hands." "Let us go, then, and take him," they answered. "There is no need of going," he replied, "for he is here present. I am he. Do with me what you please." At these words, the soldiers were amazed and stupefied, both on account of the great charity which he had welcomed them and of the ingenuous sincerity with which he revealed himself to his persecutors, when he could so easily have escaped death by fleeing in the night. They gazed at each other in amazement, and neither of them dared to lay hands on one who had been so kind to them. They were more inclined to give him his life, and to report to the prefect that after long search they had not been able to discover Phocas. "No," said the Saint, "my death would be a less evil than to concoct such a fiction, and tell such a falsehood. Execute, then, the order you have received." So saying, he bared his neck and extended it to the soldiers, who severed it with one stroke and gave him the glorious crown of Martyrdom. This most candid fidelity was so agreeable to God that He immediately began, and still continues, to signalize it by illustrious miracles, especially in favor of pilgrims and sailors, to whom — in death as in life — the Saint has been most liberal of benefits and miraculous helps. In recognition of this, a custom came into use among travelers by sea, of serving to him every day at meals a part of the first dish, which was called the portion of Saint Phocas. This was each day bought by one or other of the voyagers, and the price deposited in the hands of the captain; and when they came into port, the money was distributed among the poor, in thanksgiving to their benefactor for their successful voyage.


43. + St Primitiva, virgin and martyr at Rome.


44. + St Rasyphus, martyr at Rome.


45. + St Valerian, a monk of Lerins, he was made bishop of Cimiez. Attended the Council of Riez in 439, and the Council of Vaison in 442. Some of his written homilies have survived.


46. + St Xavier Bordas Piferrer, Spanish Salesian priest, martyred, murdered, July 23, 1936by the Criminals, Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Usurpers of Spain, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to worship Satan, refusing to be traitors. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.

ALSO

1. Warner of Grez also called Werner or Garnier of Grey or Gray, died 22 or 23 July 1100.

DAMNED

1. Al Hasan II At-Thani, Unking of the Arab Colony "Morocco" in the Roman Mauretania.

OREMUS

Most Holy Mary, Mother of God, and our Mother, and all you Saints, Fathers, Mothers, Brothers, Sisters, Popes, Archbishops, Bishops, Hermits, Monks, Martyrs, Virgins, Champions and Heroes of Jesus Christ, whose feasts is today, named and unnamed, we pray to you for your intercession and guidance, lead us away from error and evil and into the Grace and Love of God, that with your assistance, we may join you in Eternity with the Living God, we make this prayer through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Who Lives and Reigns, in the Unity of the Godhead, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, forever and ever, Amen.

Lúcío Mascarenhas.

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Mary, Mother of All Christians, Most Powerful Intercessor with her son, Jesus Christ

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