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Arise, O Lord! How long will Thou permit 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, latrociniae, thieveries & robberies as lawfulness, & lawfulness as latrociniae, 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 herd. And you shall tread down the wicked when they shall be ashes under the sole of your feet in the day that I do this, saith the Lord of hosts.»)
Pope St. Fabianus, Martyr at Rome, in the time of Decius, buried in the cemetery of Callistus; he was the bishop of Rome from January 10, 236 A.D., until his death on January 20, 250 A.D., succeeding Pope St. Anterus. He was succeeded by Pope St. Cornelius. Most of his papacy was characterized by amicable relations with the imperial government, & the schism between the parties of Pope St. Pontianus & St. Hippolytus was ended. He divided Rome into diaconates & appointed secretaries to collect the records of the martyrs. He also baptized Emperor Philip the Arab & his son, the first Christian Emperors, long before Emperor Constantine; Philip & his son had been Catechumens, & remained diffident of their Christian faith while on their thrones, until their deaths. According to the Liber Pontificalis, Fabian was a Patrician by birth, his father's name being Fabius, & was a layman, & a farmer in the outskirts of Rome. According to Eusebius of Caesarea's records, after the short reign of Pope St. Anterus, Fabian had come to Rome from the countryside when the new papal election was underway. "Although present", says Eusebius, Fabian "was in the mind of none." While the names of several illustrious & noble churchmen were being considered over the course of thirteen days, a dove suddenly descended upon Fabian's head. To the assembled electors, this strange sight recalled the gospel scene of the descent of the Holy Ghost on our Lord Jesus Christ at His baptism by St. John the Baptist. The assembly took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity, & cried out, "Fabianus for Pope!" During Fabian's pontificate of 14 years, there was a lull in the persecution which had resulted in the exile of both Anterus' predecessor Pope St. Pontianus & the antipope (& later saint) Hippolytus. Fabian had enough influence at court to effect the return of the bodies of both of these martyrs from Sardinia, where they had died at hard labor in the mines. It is said that he baptized the Emperor Philip the Arab & his son, & enjoyed some connections at court, since the bodies of Pontianus & Hippolytus could not have been exhumed without the emperor's approval. Although Christianity had spread throughout the Roman Empire, including Gaul, long before Fabian's time, according to St. Gregory of Tours, Fabian felt the need to send missionaries to Gaul (France), & sent out 7 bishops as "apostles to the Gauls" in A.D. 245: St. Gatianus to Tours, St. Trophimus to Arles, St. Paul to Narbonne, St. Saturninus to Toulouse, St. Dionysius or Denis to Paris, St. Austremonius to Clermont, & St. Martialis to Limoges. He also condemned Privatus, Bishop of Lambaesa in Africa, the originator of a new heresy. The Liberian Catalogue of the popes also reports that Fabian initiated considerable work on the catacombs, where honored Christians were interred, & where he also caused the body of Pontianus to be enshrined in the Catacombs of Pope St. Callixtus. With the ascension of Emperor Decius, the Roman government's tolerant policy toward Christianity came to an end. Decius ordered everyone in the Empire, with the exception of Jews, to demonstrate loyalty to Rome by offering incense to the cult images of deities that represented the Roman state. This was unacceptable to many Christians, who, while no longer obeying most of the laws of the Old Testament, took the commandment against idolatry seriously. Fabian was one of the earliest victims of Decius, dying as a martyr on Jan. 20, 250 A.D., at the beginning of the Decian persecution. He was interred in the catacomb of Pope St. Callixtus in Rome. Fabian's remains were later reinterred at San Sebastiano fuori le mura by Pope Clement XI where the Albani Chapel is dedicated in his honour. The church of Santi Fabiano e Venanzio a Villa Fiorelli (1936) in Rome is named in his honour, and also that of St. Venantius of Camerino who died in the same persecutions;
St. Sebastianus, Martyr at Rome, Jan. 20, 288 A.D., he was commander of the first cohort under the emperor Diocletianus, but for professing Christianity, & refusing to worship the Demons, he was bound to a tree in the centre of a vast field, shot full of arrows by shartshooting soldiers from the Roman province of Mauritania, now the Arab SettlerColony called "Morocco," & left for dead, being succored, he the next day surprised Diocletianus, reproaching him for his inhumanities, & was clubbed to death, & cast into the city's main sewer, the Cloaca Maxima; appearing to a believer, she recovered his remains & had it interred with honors, in the catacombs of Pope St. Callixtus; the word "Sebastos" is Greek for "praised, or praiseworthy, the same as the Latin "Augustus" (link);
OCTAVE OF CHRISTIAN UNITY: Paul Wattson was a revert from Protestantism, who became a priest. In 1908, the Catholic Church approved Fr. Paul Wattson's proposal of dedicating the 8 days, both days inclusive, of the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter at Rome, Jan. 18, & the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle, Jan. 25, as the "Octave of Christian Unity;" heretics were either expelled from the Church of Christ, or seceded from her; Christian Unity can only be achieved by a return to the maternal embrace of the Unstainable Bride of Jesus Christ, also called Uniatism, under some circumstances;
The Holy Martyrs of Rome Saints Basilides, Bassus, Eusebius & Eutyches, senators of the Senate of Rome, tortured & martyred in the Diocletianic persecution, on a Jan. 20, the precise history of these Martyrs is lost;
St. Abadius of Bilgai in Egypt, Martyr, a soldier in the Roman army, refusing to sacrifice to the Devils in the Diocletianic persecution, at the army camp or station of Khalakhis, he was discovered to be a Christian, was seized, tortured & thrown to his death off a rocky precipice at Bilgai;
St. Asclas or Ascla (incorrect), Martyr, hermit, martyred in the vicinity of the city of Arsinoe, under the Prefect Arrianus, in the Diocletianic Persecution, after many torments, he was drowned in the Nile, Jan. 20, 287 A.D., the Cacodox heretics observe him on May 20; some accounts mistake him for a woman, confused by his name;
St. Fechin or Feichin, Abbot, Martyr: of royal stock, he studied asceticism St. Nathy at Sligo; priest & hermit near Fore in Westmeath; he founded the Fobhar monastery in Westmeath for those who settled around him in imitation of his life, & served as its first abbot; then founded daughter monasteries on High Island & Omey Island, & near Arbroath in Scotland; he is considered a Martyr or Iso-Martyr as he died serving the victims of the plague;
St. Henry, Bishop of Uppsala in Sweden, Martyr, collaborator of King St. Eric IX Jedvardsson (May 18), Apostle of Finland, martyred by a Finnish soldier Lalli because he had been excommunicated for murder, Jan. 20, 1156 A.D., he was canonized 1158 A.D. (link);
St. Neophytus, Martyr in Nicaea in Bithynia, who, at the age of 15, was scourged, cast into a furnace, & exposed to wild beasts; as he remained uninjured, & constantly confessed the faith of Christ, he was at last killed with the sword; his name means "new plant," & the English word "Neophyte" originates from it;
St. Benedict Ricasoli, born at Coltiboni in the diocese of Fiesole; hermit, his parents founded a Vallumbrosan Benedictine monastery on a mountain near his birthplace, but he later withdrew in order to resume his life as a solitary hermit nearby; died in the peace of the Lord, Jan. 20, 1107 A.D.; cultus confirmatio, 1907 by Pope St. Pius X;
St. Bernard of Poncelli, distinguished by his sanctity, commander of the Mercedarians of Toulouse, in 1333 A.D., St. Natalia made her solemn profession, Bernard advised her to remain a Mercedarian tertiary so as not to leave her parents destitute, & guided her in the paths of perfection; the Mercedarians have inscribed him as a Saint in their menolog;
Blessed Bernard of Poncelli, was . In 1333, before him Saint Natalia Full of merits, he died a saintly death in the city of Toulouse.
St. Daniel, Abbot; born to the nobility, 1115 A.D. in Geraardsbergen or Grammont (link), in East Flanders, now in Belgium, he entered the Cistercian Benedictine abbey of Our Lady of Cambron-Casteau in the Hainaut, as a monk, and in 1164 A.D. was chosen 3rd abbot, Pope Lucius III availed of his services as legate, he helped broker peace between warring local princes, with the preparations for the Crusade, & established conditions for the founding of several daughter houses in the region; died in the peace of the Lord, Jan. 20, 1197 A.D., at his monastery & is inscribed as a Saint in the Cistercian menolog (link);
St. Desiderius or Didier, 33rd bishop of Therouanne in Picardy, a city that no longer exists, destroyed by Emperor Charles V, founder of the Cistercian abbey of Blandecques near Saint-Omer, towards the end of his life he resigned & prepared for death in a Cistercian monastery, died in the Lord, Jan. 20, 1194 A.D.;
St. Euthymius, Bishop in Judaea, in the reign of Emperor Marcianus, he adorned the Church by his zeal for Catholic discipline, & the gift of miracles, died in the peace of the Lord, Jan. 20, 473 A.D.;
St. Lughna or Blai, Abbot, one of the disciples of St. Columbanus, Priest of Cill Tarsna, perhaps today's Bally-arsma in County Tipperary, where the ruins of an ancient church erected in his honour remain; he is also recorded in the Martyrology of Donegal on Jan. 20;
St. Maurus, Bishop of Cesena, renowned for virtues & miracles;
St. Molagga or Molacca (possibly Loichen or Laga), was born in Liathmuine, now Shanballymore, to Dubhligh & Mioncolla, two poor & old parents, & was baptized by St. Cuimin Foda, Abbot of Kilcummin; having become a monk as a young man, built a monastery at Tulach Min Molaga, on the hill of Bawnanooneeny, then left on a pilgrimage to Scotland & Wales, meeting St. David of Menevia, from whom he received a bell as a gift & where he founded the monastery of Fermoy; returning to his monastery of Tulach Min Molaga, he died there, where his bed & tomb are mentioned, & was buried in Leaba Molagga; wonderworker or thaumaturge, he is credited with raising back from the dead, the wife of Cathal, king of Munster, in about 640 A.D.;
St. Wulfsi, hermit in England; «On the elevation of Aldred, Bishop of Worcester, to the archbishopric of York, by unanimous consent of the clergy & laity in the election of a successor, Wulstan was chosen, the king having granted them permission to elect whom they pleased. It chanced that the legates from the Pope were present at the election, but neither they nor the clergy & people could persuade Wulstan to accept the charge, of which he declared himself to be unworthy. At last, being sharply reproved for his obstinate willfulness by Wulfsi, a hermit, & being strongly urged by King St. Edward the Confessor, he yielded, & was consecrated on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 8, 1062 A.D.»
St. Wulstan II, consecrated Bishop of Worcester Sept. 8, 1062 A.D., Confessor, conspicuous for merits & miracles, he was ranked among the Saints by Pope Innocent III; his Dies Natalis was Jan. 20, 1095 A D., but his liturgical feast is set for Jan. 19;
NON-MARTYRS NOT YET CANONIZED BY A CATHOLIC POPE: According to Catholic Theology, Martyrs who died in the unity of the Church, do not need Canonization but those who did not die as Martyrs, need it:
1. Basil Anthony Marie Moreau;
2. Eusebius of Esztergom or of Gran, father of monasticism in Hungary;
3. Eustochia Calafato;
4. Francis Paoli;
5. Mary Christina of the Immaculate Conception nee Adelaide Brando;
ETERNALLY DAMNED, See Council of Florence Decree Cantate Domino:
Michael Tabansi, also called Cyprian, an Igbo from Biafra, died & damned, Jan. 20, 1964 A.D. at Leicester, England, ineffectually "canonized" a "saint" by the Whore Church of the Great Modernist Apostasy;
And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors, & holy virgins.
V: Omnes vos Angeli et Sancti Dei:
R: Orate pro nobis!
