Menology Entries for January 12:
Feast of the Most Holy Family constituting our Lord God Jesus Christ together with His mother, Mary, Mother of God, & His foster-father, St. Joseph. It is a Moveable feast. In 1921 A.D., Pope Benedict XV made it part of the General Roman Calendar & set it on the Sunday within the Octave of the Epiphany (cf. Epiphanytide); that is to say, on the Sunday between Jan. 7 through Jan. 13, all inclusive. In 2025, it falls on January 12;
Feast of the Baptism of our Lord & God Jesus Christ by St. John the Baptist: On January 12, 2025, Catholics celebrate the
Feast of the Most Holy Family, while
Roman Protestants "celebrate" the
Feast of the Baptism of our Lord; the latter feast is set up, by the Catholic Church, in the Catholic Calendar, the General Roman Calendar, for celebration on Jan. 13, as a major double, using for the Office & the Mass those said on the Octave of the Epiphany; however, if the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord occurrs on Sunday, the Office & Mass are to be those of the Feast of the Holy Family; the
Whore Church of the
Great Modernist Apostasy has pretended to change the calendar, which changes cannot be observed without grave affront to the Divine Majesty, a Mortal Sin;
(Pictured: Icon of the Madonna Advocata of the Via Lata, & the Church, showing the Protestant Table of the Abominations of Desolation placed before the desecrated altar!)
Feast of the Madonna Advocata also called the Madonna della Via Lata at the Church of Our Lady (Santa Maria) in the Via Lata, which is currently called the Via del Corso, in the city district of Pigna, in Rome, Italy, diagonally opposite from the church of San Marcello al Corso, at # 306 Via del Corso. On the high altar, in a very elaborate Baroque frame, is the church's icon of the Madonna Advocata, famous for having performed many miracles, said to have been painted in 1175 A.D., with an inscription reading "Fons lucis stela maris" ("fountain of light, star of the sea") & signed "Petrus pictor." A noted apparition of the Madonna Advocata occured Jan. 12, 1408 A.D.; the Greek design of the Sacred Icon is attributed to the temporary presence of refugee Greek monks who had fled to Rome during the Iconoclastic persecutions in Constantinopolis, but who had long before returned home; I am not able to locate an account of this apparition, however, I find that what occurred was sufficient to have the Church rededicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary shortly thereafter;
Feast of Our Lady the Conquistadora or Our Lady of the Conquest: I am not able to find a connection with January 12. The sacred image now called
La Conquistadora was carved in Spain, & brought to the Americas at an unknown time; it was brought from Mexico City to
La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asis—"
Royal City of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi," now shortened to "
Santa Fe," by the Franciscan missionary Fray Alonso da Benevidez & was installed in the Church of Santa Fe in the
Nuevo Reino de San Francisco, later called the
Reino de Santa Fe de Nuevo Méjico &
Province of Nueva Mexico, Jan. 25, 1626 A.D., under the title of
Nuestra Senora de La Asuncion or
Our Lady of the Assumption; throughout history, additional titles were added:
Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception,
Our Lady of Sorrows &
Our Lady of the Rosary; as the people of this border region became lukewarm, the Blessed Virgin Mary, after curing a 10-years old girl of a violent illness, conveyed through her a warning that the province would suffer a chastisement, & be destroyed, because of the lack of reverence it had for her priests & the holy faith ("Santa Fe"); the warning went unheeded, & in 1680, as warned, the aborigines rose up, on Aug. 12, 1680, in the
Pueblo Rebellion, massacring & driving out the settlers; during the rebellion, refugees from Santa Fe carried her to El Paso del Norte, now called "Ciudad Juarez," & later to the temporary settlement of El Real de San Lorenzo in 1686;
in 1688, Diego de Vargas (Diego de Vargas Zapata y Lujan Ponce de Leon y Contreras) was appointed Captain-General & Governor & commissioned to reclaim Nueva Mexico, which he began in July 1691, & which he achieved largely peacefully, with the help of the Blessed Virgin Mary, carrying back this sacred image, with the new title he gave her, of La Conquistadora; Vargas, equipped with a force of only 50 Spaniards & 100 Indian allies & refugees, wished to avoid bloodshed & so proceeded slowly, making peace treaties with the aboriginal Pueblo tribes, he reached the destroyed Villa de Santa Fe Sept. 12, 1692; however, despite a peace treaty with the Pueblo tribes of the area, they began to prevaricate & summoned their neighbors as reinforcements for a fight, the outnumbered Spaniards prayed hard to Our Lady & fought equally hard all day until they achieved a breakthrough late in the day, driving away the enemy, & entering & repossessing the city, commemorated by the Entrada ceremony; the site of the destroyed Church of Our Lady of the Assumption was rebuilt as the Church of the Reconquest, later transformed into the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi, while the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary was built at the site of the Spanish encampment originally outside the destroyed city; to commemorate these glorious events, until the Great Modernist Apostasy, the faithful used to hold processions from the Church of St Francis to the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, & back, along with lighting bonfires, called Zozobras;
The Holy Martyrs of Africa, being the (then) Roman province of Africa, Saints Zoticus, Rogatus, Modestus, Castulus, & forty soldiers gloriously crowned;
The Holy Martyrs of Constantinople, Saints Tygrius, priest, & Eutropius, lector, who suffered in the time of the emperor Arcadius;
The Holy Martyrs of Ephesus, under Emperor Constantine the Dungnamed ("Copronymus"), the passion of 42 holy monks, who endured martyrdom after being most cruelly tortured for the defense of sacred images;
St. Arcadius, Martyr, illustrious by his noble birth & miracles;
St. Satyrus, Martyr in Achaia; as he passed before an idol, & breathed upon it, making the sign of the cross on his forehead, the idol immediately fell to the ground; for this reason he was beheaded;
St. Tatiana, Martyr, at Rome, under Emperor Alexander, she was torn with iron hooks & combs, thrown to the beasts & cast into the fire, but, having received no injury, was beheaded, & thus went to Heaven;
St. Zoticus, Martyr at Tivoli;
St. Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx (
link);
St. Benedict, Abbot in England, Confessor;
St. John, Bishop of Ravenna, Confessor;
St. Probus, Bishop of Verona;
DAMNED:
Martinian of Belozersk, Russian Cacodox heretic;
