Agost-1-acem Sogglem Santam

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The Way of the Saints: August 1

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See also the Church Calendar for this week: https://www.sainthelencatholicchurch.org/calendar.php

Major Feasts

1. The Chains of St Peter.
2. St Peregrinus of Modena.
3. The Seven Holy Maccabean Brothers-Martyrs under Antiochus.
4. The Eleven Holy Martyrs of Nowogrodek in East Poland.

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August 1, 1218: Apparitions of Nuestra Señora de la Merced to St Peter Nolasco, St Raymond of Pennafort and King James I of Aragon and Catalonia, asking for the Establishment of an Order for Redeeming Captives

«The Royal, Celestial and Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy and the Redemption of the Captives, in Latin: Ordo Beatae Mariae de Mercede Redemptionis Captivorum, abbreviated O. de M., also known as the Mercedarians, is a mendicant order established in 1218 by St Peter Nolasco in the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain, at that time in the Kingdom of Aragon, for the redemption of Christian captives. Its members are most commonly known as Mercedarians. One of the distinguishing marks of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy is that, since its foundation, its members are required to take a fourth vow: to die, if necessary, for another who is in danger of losing their faith. Between the eighth and the fifteenth centuries, medieval Europe was in a state of intermittent warfare between the Christian kingdoms of southern Europe and the Muslim polities of North Africa, Southern France, Sicily and Muslim occupied portions of Spain. The threat of capture, whether by pirates or coastal raiders, or during one of the region's intermittent wars, was a continuous threat to residents of Catalonia, Languedoc and the other coastal provinces of medieval Christian Europe. Raids by militias, bands and armies from both sides were an almost annual occurrence. For over 600 years, these constant armed confrontations produced numerous war prisoners on both sides. Mahomettanism's captives were reduced to the state of slaves since they were considered war booty. In the lands of Visigothic Spain, both Christian and Muslim societies had become accustomed to the buying and selling of captives, so much so that tenth-century Andalusian merchants formed caravans to purchase slaves ("Slavs") in Eastern Europe. In the thirteenth century, in addition to spices, slaves constituted one of the goods of the flourishing trade between Christian and Muslim ports. Starting before the First Crusade, many hospices and hospitals were organized by the chapters of cathedrals or by the monastic orders. Within the communal organizations of towns, local charitable institutions such as almshouses were established by confraternities or guilds, or by successful individual laymen concerned with the welfare of their souls. Broader-based and aristocratically-funded charitable institutions were more prominent, and the episodes of aristocratic and even royal ransom and its conditions, were the subject of chronicle and romance. The knights of the original Order of St John — the Knights Hospitaller — and the Templars in their origins are well known, and the impact of their organized charity upon the religious values of the High Middle Ages. All the biographers agree that, at some point in his youth, St Peter Nolasco became concerned with the plight of Christians captured in Muslim Infidel raids and that he decided to establish a religious order to succor these unfortunates. Nolasco began ransoming Christian captives in 1203. After fifteen years of work, he and his friends saw that the number of captives was growing day by day. His plan was to establish a well-structured and stable redemptive religious order under the patronage of Blessed Mary. The Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy (or the Order of Merced, O.Merc., Mercedarians, the Order of Captives, or the Order of Our Lady of Ransom) was one of many dozens of associations that sprang up in Europe during the 12th and 13th centuries as institutions of charitable works. The work of the Mercedarians was in ransoming impoverished captive Christians (slaves) held in Muslim hands, especially along the frontier that the Crown of Aragon shared with "Al Andalus" (Muslim Spain). The Order of Mercy, an early 13th century popular movement of personal piety organized at first by Nolasco, was concerned with ransoming the ordinary men who had not the means to negotiate their own ransom, the "poor of Christ." From the year 1192 certain noblemen of Barcelona had formed a confraternity for the purpose of caring for the sick in hospitals, and also for rescuing Christian captives from the Muslim Infidels. Tradition has it that around 1218, Nolasco and King James I of Aragon experienced separately a vision of the Virgin Mary, who asked them to found a religious order dedicated to rescuing the many Christian captives held by the Muslim Infidels. Nolasco's confessor, St Raymond of Pennafort, a Dominican friar and former canon of Barcelona, encouraged and assisted him in this project; and King James also extended his protection. On August 10, 1218, the new religious order for the Redemption of Captives was officially constituted at the main altar erected over the tomb of St Eulalia of Barcelona in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross (also known as the Cathedral of St Eulalia) in Barcelona. Bishop Berenguer de Palou gave Nolasco and his companions the white religious habit that they would wear as characteristic of the Order; he put them under the Rule of Saint Augustine as a norm for their life in common and he gave his authorization for the sign of his cathedral, the Holy Cross, to be on the habit of the Order. After that, Nolasco and the first Mercedarians made their religious profession there before the bishop. Their headquarters was the Monastery of St Eulalia of Barcelona, which served as the first Mercedarian convent and as a house of welcome for redeemed captives.» Another narrative: «Our Lady of Ransom appeared to St Raimund, a Dominican, on this day in the year 1218, and also to King James I of Aragon, and likewise to St Peter Nolasco in three separate apparitions, making known to all three that she desired each of them to contribute to establishing an order for redeeming captives. The Order they established is known as the Royal, Celestial, and Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy and of the Redemption of the Captives, it is also known as The Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy, the Order of Merced, the Order of Captives, or the Order of Our Lady of Ransom. At that time in history, during the 13th Century, the powerful Islamic Taifa kingdoms in Spain, as well as the Ottoman Empire at the opposite end of the Mediterranean Sea, operated a slave trade the scope of which has not been seen anytime else in history. The Spanish, particularly, were subject to raids in which they would be captured and imprisoned, sold into slavery and often forced to renounce their Catholic faith or face severe abuse, torture and death. It is estimated that in a single year more white Europeans were taken captive than the number of all the slaves shipped to America during the entire time of the African slave trade there. Long before the First Crusade, organizations like the knights of St. John Hospitaller and the Templars were formed to protect Christian pilgrims in the Holy Land, while the Hospitallers also ran hospices along the route to the Holy Land and even a hospital in Jerusalem. There were also charitable institutions, usually run by the nobility, that would ransom Christian captives from imprisonment. In the year 1203, a man named Peter Nolasco formed an organization that would ransom those who were not wealthy or prominent men, whom he called the "poor of Christ." St Peter Nolasco was not a priest, but he worked diligently to rescue Christian captives, and other men soon joined him in this charitable work. Unfortunately, there were far more captives than he was able to help, so Peter turned to God and His Blessed Mother in prayer for help. It was then that the Blessed Mother, Our Lady of Ransom, appeared to him on August 1, 1218, turning his order into a religious organization with the assistance of Saint Raymond, and the protection of King James I of Aragon. St Peter Nolasco went to the court of King James I the following day, and as the king had also received a vision of the Blessed Virgin, he was extremely supportive of what Peter Nolasco intended to do. In fact, King James considered himself a founder of the order, and gave his own illustrious coat of arms, with a cross above a shield with four red stripes on a gold background, to be worn on their breasts and scapulars. The cross is the Maltese Cross of the Knights of Saint John, the military order who had fought so magnificently against the Disease of Mahomettanism for centuries. On August 10th, the Celestial and Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy and the Redemption of the Captives was officially constituted at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Barcelona. One of the vows of its members is that they will take the place of captives, and even die for any Christian who was in danger of losing his Catholic faith. In 1235 Pope Gregory IX formally recognized the Order inspired by Our Lady of Ransom, which at one point was renowned for having rescued 70,000 Christian souls. It is estimated that 2,700 were rescued during the lifetime of St Peter Nolasco, who died in the year 1258.»

ROMAN MARTYROLOGY

1. At Rome, on Mount Esquiline, the dedication of the Church of St. Peter in Chains.
2. At Antioch, the martyrdom of the seven holy brothers, the Machabees, and their mother, who suffered under king Antiochus Epiphanes. Their relics were transferred to Rome, and placed in the Church of St. Peter, just mentioned.
   
   At Eonie, the holy virgins Faith, Hope and Charity, who won the crown of martyrdom under the emperor Hadrianus.
3. Also, at Rome, on the Latin road, the holy martyrs Bonus, a priest, Faustus and Maurus, with nine others, mentioned in the Acts of Pope St. Stephen.
4. At Philadelphia, now the city of Amman in the Arab colony of the Transjordan, the holy martyrs Cyril, Aquila, Peter, Domitianus, Rufus, and Menander, crowned on the same day.
5. At Pergen in Pamphylia, the holy martyrs Leontius, Attius, Alexander, and six husbandmen, who were beheaded in the persecution of Diocletianus, under the governor Flavianus.
6. At Gerona in Spain, the birthday of the holy martyr Felix. After enduring various torments, by order of Dacianus, he was cut with knives until he gave his undaunted soul to Christ.
7. At Vercelli, St. Eusebius, bishop and martyr, who for the confession of the Catholic faith, was banished to Scythopolis and thence to Cappadocia by the emperor Constantius the Arian. Afterwards returning to his church, he suffered martyrdom in the persecution of the Arians. His feast is kept on December 16.
8. In the diocese of Paris, St. Justin, martyr.
9. At Vienne, St. Verus, bishop.
10. At Winchester, in England, St. Ethelwold, bishop.
11. In the territory of Liswin, St. Nemesius, confessor.

OTHERS

1. The Dies Natalis of St Alphonse Mary of Liguria, canonized 1839, his feast is set by the Catholic Church for August 2.
2. The Martyrs of Nowogrodek — A group of 11 Polish nuns of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, martyred, murdered by the German Nazi Infidels August 1, 1943 in Nowogrodek in Soviet occupied East Poland, (illegally assigned, invaded and occupied by Soviet Russia as part of "Belarus" as Navahrudak, by the illegally and fraudulent Ribbentrop-Molotov Treaty), later also invaded and occupied by the German Nazi Infidels. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.
3. St. Aethelwold of Winchester.
4. St. Aled of Brecknock.
5. St. Kenneth, a "Welshman."
6. St Nathi or Nathias, bishop of Cuil Saccaile, now Teach Nathí or Taney, formerly Sacoyle, County Dublin, Ireland.
7. St Peregrinus, hermit, an Irish young prince of royal blood, who, after visiting the holy places in Palestine, led an austere eremitical life for forty years in the chain of mountains near Modena in Italy. He died in 643. He is honoured among the patrons of the country of Modena and Lucca, and from him that chain of the Appennine hills is called Monti di S. Pellegrini.
8. St Peter Julian Eymund, died August 1, 1868. Not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.
9. St. Rioch of Innisboffin.
10. St. Secundel, a Breton.
11. St. Sidwell.

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Ora pro nobis. Rogai para nos. Amcam mangnim cor.

Lucio Mascarenhas

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ST ALPHONSUS MARY OF LIGURIA

St Affonso de Ligori was historically recorded as having died August 1, 1787. For that reason, from his Canonization in 1839, his feast was kept for August 2, the then earliest free date on the liturgical calendar.

In October 1958, Pope Pius XII died. A group of Non-Catholics, Modernist Liberal Protestants, seized the Vatican. They openly reject the First Commandment, reject what the Catholic Church has always and unchangeably taught, instead teaching that all gods are one, all religions are true, all ways, "if walked in faithfulness," lead to Eternal Salvation. These are Satanists. In 1969, these Satanists have pretended to have changed the feast of St Affonso de Ligori from August 2 to August 1.

Only if you believe, with these Satanists, Roncalli, Montini, Luciani, Wojtyla, Ratzinger and Bergoglio, that the God of the Bible is the same as the Demons Allah, Buddha, Ganpati, Krishna, Rama, etc., only then can one accept the "Authority" of Non-Catholics to "change" a Catholic liturgical feast, to change the feast of a Catholic Saint!

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