Julh-25-acem Sogglem Santam
Santancem Vatt: Julh 25-cem Sogglem Santam. (Concannim).
O Caminho dos Santos: Os Santos e festas da Dia 25 de Julho. (Portugej).
The Way of the Saints: All Saints of July 25. (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 de Bouchet e dos Santos Tiago e Cristóvão!
The Peace of Jesus Christ be with you! Happy feasts of Our Lady, our Mother Mary, under the titles of Our Lady of Bouchet and Saints James and Christopher!
MAJOR FEASTS
- St James the Greater, one of the 12 Apostles.
- Vigil of Saints Joaquim and Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Ark of the New Covenant.
- St Christopher.
July 25. Notre Dame du Bouchet. "Two leagues and half from" Blanc in the province of Berry, France, "a pilgrimage which attracts a great concourse of pilgrims. The image of the Blessed Virgin is made of oakwood from the wood of an aged oak, where the first image was found. (Ex monumentis hujus loci.)"; Also in 1920 in Quebec.
July 25, 1920: Our Lady of Lac Bouchet, Quebec.
«The Saguenay Fjord is an ancient glacial valley that has been overrun with sea water. In the year 1828 a surveyor, Joseph Bouchette, ventured into the region for the purpose of collecting data for topographical maps. It was during this expedition that he found a suitable site for a future village, which Pascal Dumais and his family later settled. This marked the founding of the village of Lac Bouchette, with more and more people coming to settle in the area until the village had 300 inhabitants in about the year 1888. Our story actually begins with a man named Charles Robitaille, a salesman who traveled the roads in and around Quebec. During the winters he would have to cross frozen rivers, and it was in the winter of 1878 while trying to cross the Saguenay River that the ice broke under the weight of his horse and sleigh. Pulled beneath the surface of the icy waters, Charles was alone and completely helpless. Knowing he was dying, he implored the Blessed Virgin Mary to save him. Charles miraculously survived, and managed to escape from the river with his life. He knew the Virgin had assisted him, and so to honor Mary and her recent apparition at Lourdes, he asked Louis Jobin to create a huge statue of the Blessed Virgin sculpted in the image of Our Lady of Lourdes. He envisioned the statue in the heights overlooking the mouth of the river. The statue Jobin sculpted became known as Notre-Dame du Saguenay. The finished statue is an impressive 35 feet high, and weighs 3 tons. Sculpted of solid white pine, it was then sheathed in lead to protect the statue from the harsh weather. Hauling such a huge statue into place was a difficult task in the late nineteenth century. After being constructed, it was broken down into 14 separate pieces and then hoisted into place to be put together again. On the right side of the base of the statue, the sculptor affixed a lead plate on which is written: "Louis Jobin, Quebec." The statue made him the most famous sculptor of the time, and the statue has become a regional landmark, with visitors from the world over assembling at her feet to sing the Ave Maria. In 1889 the mission church of St Thomas Aquinas was built, and the next year Fr Joseph Ironwood became the first pastor. A second church was soon built, in 1898, as the population increased dramatically. Now, on the north shore of Lake Bouchet, in the province of Quebec, there stand the buildings of a friary and the sanctuary of Our Lady of the Sagueney. In 1920, a retired seminary professor Fr Elzear de la Marre. Finding a cave in the rock there, he set up in it an altar and a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, and so began the pilgrimage-shrine that has since grown steadily in popularity. Fr De la Marre built a house and a private chapel dedicated to St Anthony of Padua on the site, which later became known as the Hermitage of St Anthony and is one of the national shrines in Quebec. So began the pilgrimage-shrine that has since grown steadily in popularity. After Fr de la Marre’s death in 1925, the Capuchin Franciscans took over the property, built their house and church there, and ministered to the thousands of pilgrims who sought out the sanctuary. I was not able to determine the exact Notre Dame de Bouchet, here is what I have found:«The Abbey of Notre-Dame-du-Bouchet is a Cistercian abbey of nuns in the commune of Bouchet in the Papal State called Comtat Venaissin, in the Auvergne region. By the D251 from Suze-la-Rousse. Bouchet is a small plain village typical of Provence, with its path of plane trees to park in the shade, at the edge of a very small green river where a few ducks swim. It has a Romanesque church with a steeple, in yellow stone, founded in the 12th century, that stands on a small square. In the 12th century, a Cistercian abbey for women, Notre-Dame-du-Bouchet, was founded there. Attached in the 15th century to that of Aiguebelle, looted during the Reformation, it was transformed in the 19th century into a textile factory, which closed in 1971. Bought since then by the Cellier des Dauphins de Tulette and perfectly restored, the abbey is used as an aging cellar for wines. The abbey of Bouchet was the burial place of St Bertrand de Garrigue, preacher and companion of St Dominic, who, during a stay in Avignon, visited the nuns of Bouchet, fell sick and died at the abbey on April 6th or 18th, 1230, and was buried in the conventual cemetery. The cult grew rapidly and in 1253, the relics were translated to the abbey church. After the abbey was abolished in 1413, the Dominicans of Orange decided to bring the body of St Bertrand back to their convent: in 1414, they went to Bouchet, exhumed his relics and translated it to their convent, where it remained until December 20, 1561, the date on which the Dominican Church was attacked and burned by a troop of heretics. In 1562, during the Wars of Religion, the Baron des Adrets attacked Bouchet and destroyed part of the church. With the illegal occupation of the Papal State of Avignon including Bouchet, to France and during the French Revolution, the Satanists desecrated the church. In 1835, after the revolt of the silk workers from Lyon, the Abbey was converted into a textile factory. Notre Dame du Bouchet or of the Red Sea in Bouchet in Rosnay near Le Blanc in the region of Brenne in southern Berry, the ancient, pre-Roman Bituria
«Aimery Senebaud, son of Guy Senebaud, lord of Bouchet, participated in the 7th crusade, led by King St Louis, in 1248, and was taken prisoner with the king. It is in memory of this heroic period that, on his return to France, he gave the pond which adjoined his castle, of an elongated shape like the Red Sea, the name of the Red Sea. While hunting in the woods with which the country was then covered, he found a statue of Our Lady in the hollow of an oak tree on an islet located in the Red Sea lake, therefore the image is called Our Lady of Bouchet and also, Our Lady of the Red Sea, or Notre Dame de la Mer Rouge. He fell on his knees praying to Our Lady, then spread the news. Many devotees of Our Lady flocked to the statue, including the sick and infirm, and were healed. The lakes of Brenne were built, for the most part, by the monks of the Abbeys of S Cyran and Meobec in the Middle Ages in order to practice fish farming. Currently, there are almost 3,000 ponds with an area varying from less than one hectare to over 150 hectares like that of the Red Sea, these ancient man-made ponds and lakes are now part of the Parc naturel régional de la Brenne. The ponds are the main resource of Brenne thanks to their fishing and waterfowl hunting. To ease the pilgrimage, a causeway was built to the islet. The chapel is under the parish church of St Andrew. The Satanists of the Protestant Deformation, led by the Apostate Conde, destroyed the sacred image and sanctuary, but Christians did not cease from the pilgrimage. In 1567, a new statue was carved from the wood of the same oak tree. In 1601, the new sanctuary was completed and consecrated. The Satanists of the Misrevolution again destroyed the sanctuary in 1793, however, a pious woman had taken away and hidden the sacred statue, and on August 15, 1854, the rebuilt sanctuary was re-consecrated, the statue re-enshrined, and the pilgrimages resumed. This one does not seem to be it: Notre-Dame-Du-Bouchet in Bouchet in Guchen in the Pyrenees: http://patrimoine-de-france.com/hautes-pyrenees/guchen/chapelle-notre-dame-du-bouchet-19.php - + Roman Martyrology: The Holy Martyrs of Forcono in the Abruzzo Saints Florentius and Felix, natives of Sipontum.
- + Roman Martyrology & Alban Butler: The Holy Martyrs of Palaestina Saints Valentina, a virgin, who was led to an altar to offer sacrifice, but overturning it with her foot, she was cruelly tortured, and being cast into the fire with St Thea, another virgin, her companion, she went to her spouse. (See https://www.bartleby.com/210/7/253.html)
- + Saints Bantus and Beatus, 6th century priests and hermits in Trier / Treves.
- + St Alexius Worstius He joined the Premonstratensians (Candidus et Canonicus Ordo Praemonstratensis - OPraem), who are also called the Norbertines after their founder, Saint Norbert of Xanten (ca. 1080-1134), or White Canon after the color of the Order's suit. He became a canon in their monastery in Hradisko (ty: Hradisch) in Olomouc in Morava. In 1671 he was elected abbot of Hradisko, and this office he held until his death. He was a humble order man, pious and zealous, and he was a father who always carried his spiritual sons in his heart. At the same time, he was a faithful steward of the monastery's worldly possessions. After eight years as head of the monastery, he died in 1679 in the spa town of Teplice and was buried with the Premonstratensian nuns in Doksany (ty: Doxan). After many miracles that emphasized the sanctity of his life, in 1696 his relics were transferred to the "Holy Mountain," a place of pilgrimage under his monastery Hradisko, where they were buried in front of the altar of Our Lady. There, in 1902, the Congregation of Premonstratensian Women was founded by a fellow brother from the Strahov Monastery on the outskirts of Prague and the sisters from Zwierzyniec.
- + St Anthony, baptized as Angelo Nicola Lucci. He was born on August 2, 1682 in Agnone del Sannio in the diocese of Trivento nel Molise in Abruzzo in southern Italy, a city known for bell casting and copperworking. He was baptized the day after his birth. He was the son of Francis Lucci and Angela Paulantonio, who led an exemplary Christian life. He lost his father on March 12, 1694. He received private tuition from priests. For three years he attended school and church with brothers from the Franciscan Conventional Branch (Ordo Fratrum Minorum Conventualium - OFMConv). He was called to the priesthood, and as a 15-year-old he entered the province of Sant'Angelo, which included Molise and Capitanata. He started the novitiate on February 6, 1697 in Isernia with the name Anthony. After the end of the novitiate, he made his vows in August 1698. He then studied philosophy and theology at the schools of the order in Venafro, Alvito, Aversa, Agnone and finally in Assisi, where the blessed Francis Anthony Fasani was his fellow student. There he was ordained a priest on September 19, 1705. He then completed his studies within a year at the College of St Bonaventure on the Palatinate Hill in Rome. He devoted himself to teaching and preaching and was professor and head of study at Agnone from 1707 to 1709, and he completed his doctorate in theology in June 1709. He was then sent to Naples, where he taught theology at the House of St Lawrence. He was a guardian in Naples, and on February 8, 1718, he was elected provincial of order for the province of Sant'Angelo. In 1719 he was appointed rector of the prestigious College of St Bonaventure in Rome, a position he held for ten years. During this time he was a consultant for the Holy Inquisition, and he was one of the official theologians at two Roman synods. In 1729, Pope Benedict XIII (1724-30) appointed 47-year-old Anthony, the Bishop of Bovino, a small town southwest of Foggia in southern Italy and suffragette under Benevento. On February 7, 1729, the pope personally consecrated him bishop, and he then said to the assembled cardinals: "I have chosen for Bishop of Bovino an eminent theologian and a great saint." On March 7, 1729, he took possession of the diocese. He was an exemplary pastoral bishop and a firm defender of the rights of the poor and defenseless, and he was also a reformer of the clergy. He established free primary schools, provided toolkits for young men to start working, built a seminary, a number of churches and a cathedral. As a bishop, he continued to live a life as close to the Franciscan ideal as he could, and he gained a reputation for his evangelical poverty and simplicity. He gave his income to education and charity, and he was nicknamed Il Angelo della Carita, "The Angel of Charity." He visited the parishes in the diocese and renewed the evangelical life among the parish children. He left behind a number of writings, including a "Handbook of Theology," which became the order's official textbook for many years. At the request of the General of the Order, he wrote in 1740 Ragioni istoriche ("Historical Evidence"), which dealt with the blessed and holy in the first 200 years of the order and in which he argued that all the early Franciscan saints were conventuals. He died on July 25, 1752 in Bovino, almost 71 years old and after 23 years as a bishop, and he was buried in his cathedral. There, his tomb soon became a place of pilgrimage because of the miracles that were said to have taken place there. Francis Anthony Fasani testified about Anthony's holiness in the information process at the diocesan level for his beatification. Pope Pius IX (1846-78) recognized his heroic virtues on June 13, 1847, earning him the title Venerabilis or "Venerable," in the vestibule of the Basilica of the Twelve Apostles (Santi Dodici Apostoli), entrusted to the Franciscan Conventuals.
- + St Anthony of Olmedo Mercedarian friar. Missionary in Chile, bringing many to Christianity and instilling a love of devotions. Founded the Mercedarian convent of Santa Maria in Valdivia, Chile. Died of the plague while working with plague victims.
- + St Christopher (Christophorus), a descendant, along with Saints George the Dragonslayer, and Mercurius, who miraculously slew Julian the Apostate, of the Philistinian Goliath who had been slain by King St David. The Satanists-Apostates of Vatican2 tell us that Saints Christopher, George, Philomena, etc are myths and not real people! The Apostates dropped them from their Liturgical Calendars in 1970. He was a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman emperor Decius (reigned 249–251) or alternatively under the emperor Maximinus Daia (reigned 308–313). There appears to be confusion due to the similarity in names "Decius" and "Daia." He carried a child, who was unknown to him, across a river before the child revealed himself as Jesus Christ. Therefore, he is the patron saint of travelers, and small images of him are often worn around the neck, on a bracelet, carried in a pocket, or placed in vehicles by Christians. The oldest known church dedicated to St Christopher, was built May 450 to Sept 22nd 452, as found by archaeologists at the ancient site of the Holy Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon, which Council was held in the adjacent Basilica of St Euphemia, being built in the same time that the Council was in session. His original name was Offerus or Reprobus. He was a Canaanite, 5 cubits (7.5 feet (2.3 m)) tall and with a fearsome face. While serving the king of Canaan, he took it into his head to go and serve "the greatest king there was". He went to the king who was reputed to be the greatest, but one day he saw the king cross himself at the mention of the devil. On thus learning that the king feared the devil, he departed to look for the devil. He came across a band of marauders, one of whom declared himself to be the devil, so Christopher decided to serve him. But when he saw his new master avoid a wayside cross and found out that the devil feared Christ, he left him and enquired from people where to find Christ. He met a hermit who instructed him in the Christian faith. Christopher asked him how he could serve Christ. When the hermit suggested fasting and prayer, Christopher replied that he was unable to perform that service. The hermit then suggested that because of his size and strength Christopher could serve Christ by assisting people to cross a dangerous river, where they were perishing in the attempt. The hermit promised that this service would be pleasing to Christ. After Christopher had performed this service for some time, a little child asked him to take him across the river. During the crossing, the river became swollen and the child seemed as heavy as lead, so much that Christopher could scarcely carry him and found himself in great difficulty. When he finally reached the other side, he said to the child: "You have put me in the greatest danger. I do not think the whole world could have been as heavy on my shoulders as you were." The child replied: "You had on your shoulders not only the whole world but Him who made it. I am Christ your king, whom you are serving by this work." The child then vanished. Christopher later visited Lycia and there comforted the Christians who were being martyred. Brought before the local Roman ruler, he refused to sacrifice to the pagan gods. The ruler tried to win him by riches and by sending two beautiful women to tempt him. Christopher converted the women to Christianity, as he had already converted thousands in the city. The ruler ordered him killed. Various attempts failed, but finally he was beheaded. The Museum of Sacred Art at St Justina's Church (Sveta Justina) in Rab, Croatia claims a gold-plated reliquary holding the skull of St Christopher. According to church tradition, a bishop showed the relics from the city wall in 1075 in order to end a siege of the city by an Italo-Norman army. St Christopher is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
Roman Martyrology: St Christopher, martyr under Decius in Lycia. Being scourged with iron rods, cast into the flames, from which he was saved by the power of Christ, and finally transfixed with arrows and beheaded, he completed his martyrdom. - + St Colman O'Liathain, bishop-abbot of Lismore, died July 25, 725.
- + St Cugat, martyr. Born to an illustrious family in north Africa. He fled to Spain to avoid the persecutions of Diocletian. Teacher of Saints Juliana of Mataro and Semproniana of Mataro. Arrested for his faith in Barcelona, he was hauled before Governor Dacianus and ordered to sacrifice to idols; when he refused, he was imprisoned, tortured and executed. St Prudentius mentions him in his Hymns. Roman Martyrology: St Cucuphas, his martyrdom at Barcelona in Catalonia in Spain, under Diocletian and the governor Dacianus. After overcoming many torments, he was struck with the sword, and thus went triumphantly to Heaven.
- + St James the Greater, also called Santiago Matamoros or St James of Compostela, one of the 12 Apostles. July 25 is the feast of the Translation of the relics of St James from a coastal location in Galicia in Iberia, to Compostela.
Roman Martyrology: St James the Apostle, brother of the Evangelist St John, who was beheaded by Herod Agrippa about the feast of Easter. His sacred bones were on this day carried from Jerusalem to Spain, and placed in the remote province of Galicia, where they are devoutly honored by the far-famed piety of the inhabitants, and the frequent concourse of Christians, who visit them through piety and in fulfillment of their vows. - + Roman Martyrology: St Magnericus, bishop of Trier or Treves, confessor.
- + Alban Butler: St Nissen, an abbot in Ireland, whom St Patrick baptized, ordained deacon, and appointed abbot of Montgairt or Mountgarret, in the county of Wexford, on the borders of Kilkenny, of which place he is titular saint.
- + Roman Martyrology & Alban Butler: St Paul, a martyr in Palaestina, in the persecution of Maximian Galerius, and under the governor Firmilianus. He was condemned to capital punishment, but having obtained a short respite to pray, he besought God with all his heart, first for his own countrymen, then for the Jews and the Gentiles, that they might embrace the true faith, next for the multitude of the spectators, and finally for the judge who had condemned him and the executioner that was to strike him; after which he received the crown of martyrdom by being beheaded. (See https://www.bartleby.com/210/7/253.html).
- + St Theodemir, martyr, patron of Carmona, was a Spanish Benedictine monk who was murdered July 25, 851 in Cordoba. He was born in Carmona, Seville, although his date of birth is unknown. The main source for his life and martyrdom is the Memorialis Sanctorum, published by his contemporary St Eulogius, who cites Theodimir as a young Carmonese monk. At some point he left Carmona for Cordoba, attracted by the monastic environment at St Zoilus, where he lived as a Benedictine monk. Soon after he arrived at Cordoba, he was hauled by the Muslim Infidels before their "Qazi" who demanded that he apostatize to the filth of Mahomettanism, and when he refused, he was tortured, stabbed and beheaded. His remains are buried in the Monastery of St Zoilus. Roman Martyrology: St Theodemir, a monk, martyred, murdered, by the Muslim Infidels at Cordoba in Spain.
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 St Christopher ferrying the Child Jesus, by Bosch |
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.
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