Setem-28-acem Sogglem Santam

MAJOR FEASTS

1. Our Lady of Cambron
2. Our Lady of the Tabernacle
3. St Lioba
4. St Mark the Shepherd
5. St Wenceslas

1. 1. September 28, 1322: "Our Lady of Cambron, of the order of Citeaux, in Hainault, near Mons. It is said that this image, being struck by a wicked man, in the year 1322, bled copiously. (Histoire Camberon., Duaci. ann. 1602)."

      The Abbot Orsini wrote: "Our Lady of Cambron, of the order of Citeaux, in Hainault, near Mons. It is said that this image, being struck by a wicked man, in the year 1322, bled copiously." In the early 13th century a Jew named William who had embraced the true faith was employed by the Count of Hainaut. Once when traveling, he stopped at the Abbey of Cambron. In one of the rooms he saw a picture of the adoration of the Magi. In a rage, he slashed the figure of the Virgin Mary with his pike. A carpenter discovered him and would have killed him on the spot, were it not for the restraining hand of one of the religious. In the confusion, the man escaped. The Pope then resident at Avignon, to whom the case was referred, demanded the punishment of the man. He was captured, and then released for he continued to deny the accusations. The abbey of Cambron was founded on the River Blanche and was a daughter house of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. It was situated some leagues from Mons in Cambron-Casteau in Hainaut, Belgium, and took its name from the land on which it was built. Cambron, in its turn, had daughter houses in the abbeys of Fontenelle at Valenciennes and six other sites. The image of Our Lady formerly honored at Cambron was famous for a great number of miraculous cures. A chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Cambron, was built at Mons in 1550 in a part of the prince's park. In the following centuries the magistrates of Mons had a beautiful door built for the shrine, and added other embellishments. In 1559, thieves broke into the chapel and stole everything of value to be found there. There was a small oratory was very much frequented. After the French Revolution when the State took over all properties given to religious services, this chapel of Our Lady of Cambron was also taken. It was demolished after all the wood, iron, and lead was removed. The statue of the Blessed Virgin which decorated the altar, was then placed in the church of St Elizabeth at Mons. The abbey of Cambron was rebuilt in the 18th century, but was ordered vacated in 1783 by Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. It was later sold to a wealthy Count who built a mansion on the property, and the land remained in his family's hands until it was sold in 1993 to a family who turned the holy and once revered site into the location of a public zoo known as the Pairi Daiza.
   
   

   2. September 28, 1939: Our Lady of the Tabernacle or Nuestra Señora del Sagrario, Toledo, Castile, Spain

      There are several statues of Mary in Toledo's cathedral, but the most revered is Our Lady of the Tabernacle, the city's patron, who has held a place of honor there since the building of the present church in the 1200s. Her legend relates that the image, once owned by the Apostles, was brought to Toledo by St Eugenius II, bishop from 647 to 657. When the Muslim Infidel invaders approached in 711, the Christians hid the statue in a well in the cathedral cloister. When King Alfonso VI of León and Castile liberated Toledo, one story goes, the statue emerged from the well water holding a lighted candle. Another story holds that the well was dry, and that, alerted by a light that shone night after night on a section of the cathedral, people dug there and found the statue. On the spot is the present Blessed Sacrament Chapel, where Our Lady's statue accompanies the tabernacle containing the Body and Blood of her Son. The loquat wood statue is a classic medieval Virgin in Majesty, seated on a throne, with the Child in the middle of her lap. Canonically crowned May 30, 1926, the image was profaned by the Maranos and Traitors in the Spanish Civil War. It was formally crowned again September 28, 1939. The Virgin's feast day is celebrated with great festivities.


2. + The Holy Martyrs of the Roman province of Africa, now largely the Arab Colony of Tunisia Saints Martial, Lawrence, and twenty other martyrs.


3. + The Holy Martyrs of Antioch in Pisidia Saints Mark, a shepherd, Alphius, Alexander, and Zosimus, his brothers, Nicon, Neon Heliodorus, and thirty soldiers, who were converted to Christ on seeing the miracles of the same blessed Mark the Shepherd, and were crowned with martyrdom in different places and in various manners.


4. + St Conval or Conwall, an Irishman, and disciple of St Kentigern, founder of Glasgow, who preached and died in Scotland.


5. + St Dairi Baintreach or Daria the Widow.


6. + St Eustochium, daughter of St Paula, both followers of St Jerome, and nuns under his guidances, who was brought up at the manger of our Lord with other virgins, and being celebrated for merits, went to our Lord.


7. + St Exuperius, bishop of Toulouse, confessor. St Jerome bears to this blessed man a memorable testimony, relating how severe he was towards himself and how liberal towards others.


8. + St Lioba, virgin, wonderworker, an Anglo-Saxon, she came to Germany as a collaborator of St Boniface the Apostle of the Germans, her relative, she had been baptized as Truthgeba, but was affectionately called Lioba or Loved One, he appointed her abbess of Bischofsheim an der Tauber, she later founded the convent of Schornsheim near Mainz, where she died in the Lord, September 28, 772.


9. + St Machan, trained in Ireland and consecrated bishop in Rome, he is commemorated in Ecelesmachan in Linlithgowshire, and is said to have been a disciple of St Cadoc of Llancarvan; if so, he was contemporary with St Kentigern. When Cadoc quitted Scotland, on his way back to Wales, he left behind him an earnest worker to develop his mission among the Celts and the Picts. He was St Machan, who had been trained in Ireland, but who now devoted the rest of his life to the Clyde Valley. One of his centres was Dalserf, a parish formerly known as Machanshire. In the north end of the parish there is a property still called Machan, or Auld Machan, while the whole of the higher and bleaker lands to the south, between Auld Machan and Draffan in the parish of Lesmahagow, are still entitled Machanshire or Machanmuir. In the Inquest of King David I of Scotland, made about 1116 AD when he was Prince of Cumbria, concerning the lands belonging to the Church of Glasgow, a number of old churches can be recognised... Among them is the name Mecheyn, i.e. Machan.


10. + St Maximus, martyr, under the emperor Decius.


11. + St Privatus, martyr at Rome, he had been cured of ulcers by Pope St Callistus. For the faith of Christ he was scourged to death with leaded whips, in the time of the emperor Alexander Severus.


12. + St Silvinus, bishop of Brescia.


13. + St Sinach MacDara, hermit on the isle of Inis Cruach MacDara in County Galway, Ireland.


14. + St Solomon, bishop of Genoa, confessor.


15. + St Stacteus, martyr at Rome.


16. + St Tetta, virgin, abbess of Wimborne. Tetta ruled over 500 nuns as abbess of Wimborne Abbey in Dorsetshire. The size of the community permitted her to send many workers to St Boniface in Germany, at his request, including Saints Lioba and Tecla. Lioba's feast is also today.


17. + St Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia, martyr, renowned for holiness and miracles. Being murdered in his brother's house, he went triumphantly to Heaven.

DAMNED

1. Francis Turretini, September 28, 1687.