Decem-22-acem Sogglem Santam
Exsurge Domine, et Liberal Nos A Malo! ("Arise Lord, & Deliver us from evil!")
Arise, O Lord! How long will Thou allow that Sin, Evil & Injustice, be exalted, & allow evildoers to thread down, & supplant, Virtue, Goodness & Justice, to pass off evil as good, & good as evil, lies as truth, & truth as lies, thieveries & robberies as lawfulness, & lawfulness as thieveries & robberies?
«Ecce enim dies veniet succensa quasi caminus: et erunt omnes superbi et omnes facientes impietatem stipula: et inflammabit eos dies veniens, dicit Dominus exercituum, quae non derelinquet eis radicem et germen. Et orietur vobis timentibus nomen meum sol justitiae, et sanitas in pennis ejus: et egrediemini, et salietis sicut vituli de armento. Et calcabitis impios, cum fuerint cinis sub planta pedum vestrorum, in die qua ego facio, dicit Dominus exercituum.»
(«For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: & all the proud, & all that do wickedly shall be stubble: & the day that cometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not leave them root , nor branch. But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall arise, & health in His wings: & you shall go forth, & shall leap like calves of the heir. day that I do this, saith the Lord of hosts»)
Menology Entry for December 22:
Pilgrimage from Paris to Our Lady of Chartres, in Chartres, now called, "Our Lady of Christendom, re-commenced December 22, 1935 A.D. since the 1990s; this is a very ancient pilgrimage, first by the Gauls, who were prophetically informed of the Prophecy of the Savior that would be born of a virgin, and instituted the cult of Our Lady of Chartres at Chartres; this pilgrimage underwent many vicissitudes, being suppressed & revived several times, most recently by Charles Pierre Peguy in about 1908 A.D., but then, failing due to World War I, it was revived in 1935; it split in the 1980s with the Ambiscamnist heretics, followers of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, setting up a counter pilgrimage, the Pilgrimage of Tradition, from Chartres to Paris; copy-cats have sprung up worldwide, including one to Our Lady of Covadonga;
The Feast of the Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated on December 22, a reminder that the Mother of God is a source of protection, help, & succor; it is said to have been instituted to mark the anniversary of the approval of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) by Pope Honorius III in 1216 A.D.; On December 22, 1216 A.D., St. Dominic of Guzman knelt before Pope Honorius III at the Lateran Palace in Rome, & received from the Holy Father a papal bull entitled "Religiosam vitam," which extended Apostolic protection for the newly-formed Dominican order, & giving to St. Dominic & his brethren various legal rights & privileges & safeguards, in particular, to "receive & to keep" both members of the clergy & lay men who would "flee from the world to enter religious life;"
The Feast of the Conception, or Maternity, of St. Ana, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, & Maternal Grandmother of our Lord God Jesus Christ in His Humanity, the Conception by St. Ana of the Most Holy Mary, Mother of God;
The Holy Martyrs of Egypt, Saint Chaeremon, bishop of the city of Nilopolis, on an island in the Nile, & Companions, Martyrs in the Decian persecution, some of whom fled, & wandering in different directions through the Egyptian deserts, were killed by wild beasts; others perished by famine, cold & sickness; others again were murdered by barbarians & robbers, & thus all were crowned with a glorious martyrdom (link);
The Holy Martyrs of Ostia, Saints Demetrius, Honoratus & Florus;
The Holy Martyrs of Rhaitu, 43 monks massacred at Rhaitu in Egypt, which seems to be Al Tor on the west coast of the Sinai Peninsula, by the Blemmyes also called the Beja, in hatred of the Christian faith;
The Holy Martyrs of Rome, the martyrdom & birthday in our Lord, of thirty holy martyrs, who were all on one day crowned with martyrdom, in the persecution of Diocletian, between the two bay-trees on the Via Labicana;
St Flavian, Martyr, patrician, husband of Saint Dafrosa, & father of Saints Bibiana & Demetria, Prefect of Rome under Constantine II & Constantius II, when Julian the Apostate became emperor, the persecutions against Christians were resumed & Flavian was forced to resign his position as prefect, passing it into the hands of his bitter rival, & ardent supporter of paganism, a certain Apronianus; apprehended while burying the martyrs Priscus, Priscillianus & Benedicta, Flavian was branded on the face with the mark of the slaves & exiled to Aquae Taurinae where he was condemned to work in the baths; he was then martyred December 22, 362 A.D. (link);
St. Ischyrion, Martyr at Alexandria in Egypt, who, because he despised all the cruelties they made him suffer to force him to sacrifice to idols, they transpierced his bowels with a sharp-pointed stake, and thus put him to death (link);
St. Zeno, Martyr at Nicomedia, he was a soldier who derided Diocletianus for sacrificing to Ceres, wherefore he had his jawbones fractured, his teeth plucked out and his head struck off;
St. Abban, Abbot of Rosmictreoin, now called "New Ross," he is also known as Ewin, Abhan, or Evin, but whose name has been locally corrupted as "Stephen," "Neville," & "Nevin," was the contemporary & namesake of St. Abban of Magheranoidhe Some writers have confounded him with St. Evin of Monasterevan, in County Kildare. Even Colgan (followed by Dr. Lanigan) fell into the error of identifying Rosglas (Monasterevan) with Rosmictreoin (New Ross). St. Evin of Rosglas, author of the "Tripartite Life of St. Patrick," died December 22, at his own foundation, afterwards called Monaster Evin, in County Kildare, whereas St. Abba died at Ross, County Wexford (link);
St. Adam of Loccum, Cistercian monk & priest in the order's monastery at Loccum in Lower Saxony, he had twice been miraculously cured of illness. On the first occasion, while still a schoolboy, he picked up a stone that was lying among the building materials when the monastery at Loccum was being repaired, and began to hammer at it. His teacher saw him and gave him strict orders that he should put it down under pain of excommunication. Adam was so frightened that he fell ill and thought he was dying, but he then had a vision in which two saints told him that he would recover, and he was well again within an hour. On the second occasion, he was at school in Münster in Westphalia and suffering from eczema. He then had a vision of the Virgin Mary, who cured his condition. Adam died around 1210. He is beatified along with others of the same name in the menologies (calendars of saints) of the Cistercian order, and his feast day is December 22;
St. Amaswinthus, Abbot for 42 years in a monastery in Silva de Málaga in Andalusia, Spain. He died at cockcrow one day in 982, believing in the resurrection. His feast day is December 22 (link);
St. Athernaise the Silent, (Ernan, Ithernaisc, or Ethernascus) Irish missionary in the Fide region of Scotland, & is one of the most important patron saints of Clane in County Kildare. His feast day is December 22, but August 18 is also mentioned. The church at Lathrisk in Fifeshire was dedicated to him, jointly with John the Evangelist;
St. Bertheid, sister of St. Hermann I, Bishop of Munster, who founded Liebfrauenpfarrei, also called Liebfrauenkirche or Uberwasserkirche, and attached to it a monastery for canonesses, the "Corfu nuns", of which he instituted her the Abbess, the consecration of the monastery church took place on Christmas 1040, with both Emperor Henry III the Black & numerous bishops present. Bertheid died December 22, 1042 A.D., in Munster in the reputation of holiness;
St. Ernan MacEogan, nephew of St. Columba & sometime missionary to the Picts, died around 640 A.D., he is mentioned in the Martyrology of Tallaght on 1 January, his monastery in Ireland was at Druim-Tomma in the district of Drumhome, County Donegal, he's venerated as the patron saint of Killernan in Scotland & also of the parish of Drumhome, where a school has been dedicated to him, besides which, Kilviceuen ("church of the son of Eogan") in Mull, & of Kilearnadale in Jura, may have been dedicated in his honor; he is commemorated December 21 & 22, in the Scottish kalends;
St. Evin of Rosglas, author of the "Tripartite Life of St. Patrick," died December 22, Monaster Evin, in County Kildare, which monastery he had founded, & led;
Felix II, Bishop of Metz from 715 to 716 A.D., like his predecessor St. Aptatus, he emerged as a good shepherd of the Lord's flock entrusted to him & died December 22, 716 A.D. after only nine months in office (link);
St. Honoratus, Bishop of Toulouse, he is said to have consecrated St. Firminus II as the third bishop of Amiens. Firminus is said to have been the son of St. Faustinianus, who was converted to Christianity by the first bishop of Amiens in France, St. Firminus I, who was martyred in the city. Honoratus' tomb is said to have been found October 3, 1265 A.D. in the Basilica of St. Sernin in Toulouse & a cult developed as a result. His feast day is December 22;
St. Jutta, or Judoth, sister of Count Megenhard of Spanheim, on November 1, 1106 A.D., she took up life as a hermitess, living in a small house near St. Disibod's Disibodenberg Abbey. She taught local children for a living, including her neice St. Hildegard of Bingen much of whose great learning can be attributed to Jutta. Jutta gained a reputation for spirituality & devotion to God, & attracted many young female followers who grew into a Benedictine convent. Jutta served as their abbess from 1116 until her death 20 years later, December 22, 1136, at which point St. Hildegard took over (link);
St. Otto, Martyr, a nobleman, uncle of the Queen of Navarre, he joined the Mercedarian order, which sent him to Constantinopolis with the aim of redeeming the two Mercedarian redeemers, James Perez and Alfius of Palermo, who had fallen into the hands of the Mahomettan Infidels. As soon as he arrived in Constantinopolis, he explained the reason for his journey & was immediately imprisoned by order of Sultan Bajazet II, but learning that he belonged to a noble family, the sultan had him brought to his presence; Bajazet asked why he had hidden his nobility, Otto replied: "I have abandoned the nobility of the world to serve Jesus Christ." Since the sultan told him that he did not know Jesus Christ, Otto began to speak to him about it with ardour; this greatly offended Bajazet who ordered him to be taken back to prison where he was then administered a powerful poison, thus attaining the crown of martyrs, December 22, 1493 A.D.;
St. Ungerus or Hungerus the Frisian, Bishop of Utrecht, in West Frisia in 856 A.D., he fled the Viking depredations, to Roermond, then Deventer, and finally to Prum in Germany, where he died, December 22, 866 A.D. (link);
And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
V: Omnes vos Angeli et Sancti Dei:
A: Pray for us!
