Decem-16-acem Sogglem Santam

Menology Entry for December 16:

(Crowned icon of Our Lady of the Raft).

Our Lady of Almadia, Spanish, or Madonna della Madia, Italian, for "Our Lady of the Raft:" «Bishop Romuald began work on a new Cathedral in the city of Monopoli in Apulia in Italy in 1107 A.D., but it was halted for the lack of roof beams. In the early morning of December 16, 1117 A.D., Our Lady thrice appeared to a parishioner Mercurius, at night, instructing him to advise Romuald that the needed wood beams had arrived in the harbor, & each time, Romuald dismissed Mercurius as deluded; a 4th time, Mercurius visited the harbor, & saw a raft floating, & once again rushed to Romuald, insisting that he had now himself seen the wood in the harbor. A Greek Icon of Our Lady was found on the raft. The raft beams were used to construct the roof. In 1738, an endowment by Julius Sacchi, Bishop of Monopoli, enabled reconstruction; the old church was razed, & construction began in 1742, being completed in the Baroque style in 1772. In 1770, the icon of Our Lady of Madia was crowned following a decree by Pope Clement XIII. In 1921, the cathedral was declared a minor basilica.» (link); 

(Restored Icon of Our Lady of the Raft).

«Pope Benedict XIII, who, as cardinal, had  several times prayed before the icon of Our Lady of the Raft, Madonna della Madia, with an Apostolic Brief of March 5, 1727 granted in perpetuity a plenary indulgence to those who, having confessed & taken communion, prayed before the Virgin of Madia during the Octave of the Assumption. The same Pontiff, with an apostolic brief of December 6, 1727, added a plenary indulgence to those who visit the Cathedral Church of Monopoli on December 16 &, furthermore, declared its altar privileged in perpetuity for all Requiem Masses (link);

Our Lady of the New Advent is a FALSE & DEMONIC "feast" observed by the Prostitute Church today, December 16; "New Advent" is the claim by the Apostate "Vatican2" Sect that the Pandemonium of the Latrocinium of "Vatican2," by summarily abrogating 2000 years of Catholicism, & replacing it with the Apostate Heresy of Modernism, Excommunicated by Pope St. Pius X, and which Modernist heresy is a subset of Liberal Protestantism, constitutes a "New Advent" or "New Pentecost," abrogating & supplanting the original Pentecost & Advent of Christ & of His Gospel! (link); 

St. Aggeus, Old Testament Prophet, or, as the Protestants call him, after the Deicides Jews (Apocalypse or Revelation ii, 9 & iii, 9), "Haggai," has his feast on December 29, on the Gregorian Calendar, or on December 16, on the Julian Calendar; the Prostitute Church imbecilically, brainlessly, mindlessly, "copies" the Cacodox heretics, regardless of the fact that the Cacodox celebrate St. Aggeus on December 29 Gregorian / December 16 Julian! (link); 

(The Blessed Virgin Mary in Glory with Archangel St. Gabriel & St. Eusebius, seated, holding a book, St. Sebastian, tied to a pillar, as he was martyred, & St. Roch, painted by Sebastian Ricci)

St. Eusebius, Bishop of Vercelli, Martyr, his Dies Natalis, or Birthday in the Lord, is on August 1, but his liturgical feast is today, Dec. 16, as set by Pope Benedict XIII; December 15 is a commemoration of his consecration as a bishop; the Prostitute Church pretends to have transferred his liturgical feast to August 2, which cannot be observed without Grave Mortal Sin, participating in its Apostasy (link1 & link2); 

The Holy Martyrs of Africa, the former Roman province of Africa; many holy virgins reached a happy termination of their martyrdom in the persecution of the Vandals, under the Arian King Hunneric, by having heavy weights tied to them, and burning plates of metal applied to their bodies; 

The Holy Martyrs of Babylon, Saints Ananias, Azarias & Misael, whose bodies were buried in a cavern at Babylon (Old Testament); 

The Holy Martyrs of Nicomedia Saints Philetaerus (Philetairos in Greek), & Companions; Philetaerus suffered twice, first under Diocletianus, then under Maximianus, two men assigned to execute him by beheading, found their hands frozen, paralyzed, converted & were themselves executed, Philetaerus was then sent into exile under guard of six soldiers & their captain, who, seeing his miracles, also believed; Philetaerus on his way to exile met St. Eubotius, & died, & was buried by him, while his seven guards themselves died, or, more probably, were executed for the faith; 

The Holy Martyrs of Ravenna, Saints Valentine, a military officer, Concordius, his son, Navalis, & Agricola, who suffered for Christ in the persecution of Maximianus; 

The Holy Martyrs of Tunis, Saints James & Adolf, Mercedarian ransomners, who despite paying the requested ransom for the liberation of Christians kidnapped by Mahomettan Infidels, were nevertheless tortured, & murdered, December 16, 1314 A.D.; 

St. Albina, Virgin, Martyr, under the emperor Decius; originally from Caesarea in Palestine, she was beheaded in the Decian persecution; her body, abandoned on a boat, landed in Campania at Scauri (near Formia), was transported to Gaeta,  & buried there next to that of St. Erasmus; 

St. Lambert Charles, nee Jaume Mases Boncompte, Catalan religious, member of the Brothers of Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers), murdered by Communist bandits, December 16, 1936, at Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, not yet canonized by a Catholic Pope; 

St. Philip Siphong Onphitak or Onphithakt, Laotian native of Songkhon in the Siamese Laos, tortured & murdered in Odium fidei (hatred of the faith), December 16, 1940, by Thailand Police; not yet canonized by a Catholic Pope; 

The Unruoching Saints: Duke St. Everard of Friulia, his wife St. Gisela, daughter of King Louis the Pious & granddaughter of Charlemagne, their son, St. Adelard of Burc, patrons of the monastery of St. Callixtus at Cysoing in Picardy; 

Empress St. Adelaide, also known as Alice (link); 

St. Adonis, Confessor, Bishop of Vienne (link); 

St. Bean, one of several Irish saints in Scotland with that name, he strongly does not seem to have been the Bishop of Mortlach, later transferred as Bishop of Aberdeen, whose feast is in October; 

St. Bernard II, Abbot of Portes, Bishop of Belley (link); 

St. Dominic Dosso, one of the first Mercedarian knights; 

St. Elizabeth of St. Francis, Claretian nun, died in the odor of piety, December 16, 1534, at Vila do Conde, Portugal; 

St. Flavitus, born in the mid-6th century in Lombardy, he was brought to the Champagne region of France as a prisoner of war, in 568 A.D., where his master made him intendant of his castle. After being slandered and falsely accused by his master's wife, he was able to cure them from an illness, so he was released out of gratitude. Upon being set free, he was ordained priest by St. Lupus at Sens, and retired to the solitude of Marcilly-le-Hayer, in the diocese of Troyes. He died on December 18, 630 A.D., but his liturgical feast is set for today, December 16;

St. Irenianus, Bishop of Gaza; 

St. Macarius of Collesano, monk in Basilicata, who, notable for his humility & fasting, wisely governed various monasteries between the slopes of Mercurio and Latiniano (link); 

St. Mary of the Angels; 

Patriarch St. Nicholas II Chrysoberges of Constantinopolis; 

St. Raynald of Bar, Abbot of Citeaux, 1133 A.D., to his death, December 16, 1151; 

St. Sebastian Maggi; 

St. Theoderic, Abbot of Rommersdorf (link); 

UNCANONIZED: 

Clemente Marchisio; 

Honoratus Kozminski, nee Florentinus Waclaw Jan Stefan Kozminski. 

And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.

V: All ye Holy Martyrs, pray for us

R: Thanks be to God