Pope St. Gregory X. entombed in the Cathedral of Arezzo.
PRIMARY LITURGICAL FEAST OF THE DAY: Septuagesima Sunday. Pope St. Gregory X.
Our Lady of Liberation, Nossa Senhora do Livramento, Livrant Saibinn, Our Lady of Goa, Nossa Senhora da Goa, Goencem Saibinn, our Gracious Mother, intercede with our Lord God Jesus Christ, for your & our beloved Goa, Rome of the East, overrun by, & trod down under, the jackboots of the Forces of Darkness, & lying prostrated under these visceral Enemies of God & of His beloved Goa, & our larger national homeland, the Concan, deliver us from evil, from our twin benightments, & enslavements, the Occupation, & of the Whore Church, enlarge & liberate us from our spiritual & material captivity, as you had done before, delivering Goa from the Enemies of God & of His beloved Goa, from the Forces of Darkness, the Enacim, Amalecites, Canaanites, Philistines, Ammonites, Moabites, Etc., of our time & place: Paganism, Idalcao, the Dutch, English, Marathas, Mughals, the bandit Tipoo, son of Hyder, the Bonsales & Ranes, etc. Vindicate, & restore Mother Goa, O beloved Mother of God! We make this prayer through the same Lord God Jesus Christ, thy Son, Who is, in unity with God the Father, & God the Holy Ghost, one God, forever & ever, Amen!
V.: "Deliver us from the Shaitans!"*
R.: Amen!
(*Spontaneous prayer of Christians of Ceilão in wake of Mahomettan Infidels' Terror Attacks, Bombings of Churches Easter 2019 A D.)
FEB. 16: NOTRE DAME DE L'EPINE, L'EPINE, CHAMPAGNE, FRANCE OR OUR LADY OF THE THORNBUSH
On the night of the Feast of the Annunciation, March 24, 1400, when Charles of Poitiers was bishop of Chalons, some shepherds tending their flocks saw a thorn bush on fire near a Chapel of St. John the Baptist, near Chalons, in the Champagne, France. As they approached the light, they found that amidst the flames stood a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, unharmed by the flames, like with the Miracle of the Burning Bush on the Mount that appeared to the Prophet Moses. This prodigy continued all that night & into the next day & the news spread quickly, so that people from the surrounding communities crowded to the site, among them, Bishop Charles. When the prodigy ended, Charles reverently took the statue, carrying it in his own hands, to the nearby Chapel of St John the Baptist. On the site of the miracle, a Church was constructed as a shrine for the statue. Legend has it that the construction was aided by angels who worked on the site after the workmen left it at the end of their workday. The church, & the settlement that sprang up around it, came to be called Our Lady of the Thornbush, or, in French,
Notre Dame de la Epine, in modern French, l'Epine, and it quickly became a pilgrimage site. One of the earliest, & most famous pilgrims to Our Lady of the Thornbush, was St. Jean of Arc, Liberatrix of France from the English Occupation. During the usurpation of the Satanists of the "French Revolution," the miraculous statue of Our Lady of Thorns was hidden away to save it from desecration, but after peace was restored, it was re-enshrined, and the Church re-consecrated. Our Lady of the Thornbush or Notre Dame de l'Epine was granted Pontifical Coronation by Pope Leo XIII, & the Church was raised to a basilica by Pope St. Pius X in 1914 A.D.
I haven't been able to find the reason the feast of this icon is celebrated today, Feb. 16. Perhaps it commemorates the reconsecration of the Shrine after the desecration by the Satanists of the "French Revolution"! (
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ROMAN MARTYROLOGY 1914:
The birthday of blessed Onesimus, concerning whom the Apostle St. Paul wrote to Philemon. He made him bishop of Ephesus after St. Timothy, and committed to him the office of preaching. Being led a prisoner to Rome, and stoned to death for the faith of Christ, he was buried in that city; but his body was afterwards carried to the place where he had been bishop.
At Cumae, in Campania, the Translation of St. Juliana, virgin and martyr. Under the emperor Maximian, she was first severely scourged by her own father, Africanus, then made to suffer many torments by the prefect, Evilasius, whom she had refused to marry. Later being thrown into prison, she encountered the evil spirit in a visible manner. Finally, as a fiery furnace and a caldron of boiling oil could do her no injury, she terminated her martyrdom by decapitation.
In Egypt, St. Julian, martyr, with five thousand other Christians.
At Caesarea, in Palestine, the holy martyrs Elias, Jeremias, Isaias, Samuel, and Daniel, Egyptians, who of their own accord served the confessors of Christ condemned to labor in the mines of Cilicia, but were arrested on their return, and after being cruelly tortured by the governor Firmilian, under the emperor Galerius Maximian, were put to the sword.
After them, St. Porphyry, servant of the martyr Pamphilus, and St. Seleucus, a Cappadocian, who had been victorious in several combats, being again exposed to torments, won the crown of martyrdom, the one by fire, the other by the sword.
At Arezzo, in Tuscany, blessed Gregory X, a native of Piacenza, who was elected Sovereign Pontiff while he was archdeacon of Liege. He held the second Council of Lyons, received the Greeks into the unity of the Church, appeased discords among Christians, made generous efforts for the recovery of the Holy Land, and governed the Church in the most holy manner. (
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At Brescia, St. Faustinus, bishop and confessor.
Pope St. Gregory X. entombed in the Cathedral of Arezzo.
