Fevreir-21-acem Sogglem Santam
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(Concannim: Aizcem festam; Portugues: Festa dos santos do dia; English: Saints of the day).
PRIMARY LITURGICAL FEAST OF THE DAY: St Peter Mavimenus.
(Concannim: Aizcem festam; Portugues: Festa dos santos do dia; English: Saints of the day).
PRIMARY LITURGICAL FEAST OF THE DAY: St Peter Mavimenus.
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.)
ROMAN MARTYROLOGY 1914:
In Sicily, in the reign of Diocletian, the birthday of seventy-nine holy martyrs, who deserved by various torments to receive an immortal crown for the confession of their faith.
At Adrumetum, in Africa, during the persecution of the Vandals, the holy martyrs Verulus, Secundinus, Syricius, Felix, Servulus, Saturninus, Fortunatus, and sixteen others, who were crowned with martyrdom for the confession of the Catholic faith.
At Scythopolis, in Palestine, St. Severian, bishop and martyr.
At Damascus or at Maiuma opposite Gaza, St. Peter the Maiumene or 'Mavimenus,' who was killed by some Arabs, Mahomettan Infidels, who visited him in his sickness, because he said to them: "Whoever does not embrace the Christian and Catholic faith is lost, like your false prophet Mahomet."
[The Bollandists on St. Peter Maiumenus, an excerpt from the Acta Sanctorum, Februarius, vol. 3 (Antwerp, 1658), pp. 266–267. Historical Commentary on Saint Peter Maiumenus, Chartulary and Martyr in Gaza in Israel, Feb. 21, 743 A.D.: Maiuma is a city in Israel, in Palæstina Prima, only twenty stades away from Gaza, which Constantine the Great raised to the honour of a city because it had embraced the Christian faith, naming it Constantia after his son. Julian the Apostate, for the same reason, deprived it of its name, ordering it to be called λιμένα τῆς Γάζης (Portum Gazae, Port of Gaza), and subjected it to the Gazans. But thereafter Christian emperors restored it to the former dignity bestowed upon it by Constantine. Nicephorus Callistus recounts this more fully in book 10, chapter 4, as do other earlier writers. Here St. Peter Maiumenus, Πετρὸς ὁ κατὰ τὸν Μαϊουμᾶν, was either born or received the martyr's palm, as Theophanes writes. Baronius calls him Mavimenus, and has him crowned in Damascus, inscribing his memory in the Roman Martyrology thus: At Damascus, Saint Peter Mavimenus, who was killed by some Arabs visiting him when he was sick, when he said to them, 'Everyone who does not embrace the Christian Catholic faith is damned, just as Mahomet, your false prophet.' Baronius, like Maximus Margunius of Cythera, seems to have followed the Menæa, which state, for 9 February, Τῇ αὐτῆ ἡμέρᾳ ὁ ἅγιος ἱερομάρτυς Πέτρος ὁ Δαμασκηνὸς ξίφει τελειοῦται, 'on the same day the Hieromartyr St. Peter Damascene was finished by the sword.' The Menæa add: Ὁ διελέγξας τοὺς παραπλῆγας Πέτρος, Θνήσκει μονόπληξ τῷ διὰ ξίφους τέλει. (Peter, rebuking the madmen, fell by a single stroke, reaching his end by the sword). Although St. Peter, metropolitan of Damascus, also died by the sword, as we shall say on 4 October, what is said about the rebuke of the frenzied Mahometans properly applies to Maiumenus. Perhaps the author of the Menæa calls him 'Damascene' because Theophanes, after recounting the death of St. Peter Damascene, immediately adds about Maiumenus: Τούτου ζηλωτὴς καὶ ὁ ὁμώνυμος Πέτρος, ὁ κατὰ τὸν Μαϊουμᾶν ἐν τοῖς ἀυτοῖς ἀνεδείχθη χρόνοις, μάρτυς ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ αὐτομόλως. The most learned James Goar of the Order of Friars Preacher, Vicar General of the Congregation of St. Louis, translates: Eius æmulus & eiusdem nominis consors Petrus apud Maiumam, insigne pro Christo martyrium sub hæc tempora sponte tulit ('His imitator and namesake Peter willingly underwent a famous martyrdom at Maiuma in these times.') For his part, Anastasius the Librarian translates these words thus: Huius æmulator et Omonymus Petrus apud Maiumam eisdem temporibus ostensus est pro Christo Martyr vltroneus ('His imitator and homonym Peter was revealed as a willing martyr for Christ at Maiuma in the same times.') And Baronius himself writes the following in his Annals, vol. 9, year 742, n. 3, based on Theophanes: Huius æmulator homonymus Petrus apud Mauimenam iisdem temporibus ostensus est pro Christo Martyr vltoneus. ('His homonymous imitator Peter was revealed as a willing martyr for Christ at Mavimena in the same times.') It should not disturb anyone that St. John Damascene is said to have written his eulogy, for Damascus is not so far from Maiuma that the report of such a celebrated event could not have reached it swiftly. Even closer to Maiuma lies the Laura of St. Sabbas, where John was a monk at the time. Moreover, perhaps St. Cosmas, bishop of Maiuma, immediately conveyed the news of Peter's martyrdom to John, since both had together been educated at home and later became monks. But let us listen to Theophanes's account of this martyrdom, which occurred on the second year of Constantine Copronymus, who succeeded his father Leo the Isaurian upon his death on 18 June 741: 'His,' he writes, that is, of Peter, the most holy metropolitan of Damascus, killed at the orders of Valid, prince of the Arabs, imitator and namesake Peter willingly underwent a famous martyrdom at Maiuma in these times. Yea verily, when he was detained by illness, he invited the leading Arabs to a private conversation. He was known to them because of his office as chartulary of the public taxes, and they were his intimates. Then he spake to them, 'May ye receive from God, I pray, the reward for your journey to visit me, for although you are bereft of the light of faith, nevertheless you are to be counted among my friends. Therefore, I want you be witnesses of my testament, which is the following: He who believeth not in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the consubstantial and life-giving Trinity in the unity of the nature of its persons, is blinded in the eyes of his soul and worthy of everlasting punishment. Such a one was Mohamet, your false prophet and precursor of Antichrist. Hence if ye give any credence to me who now call upon heaven and earth as witnesses before you, abjure his fabulous and senseless teaching. This is present proof of my affection for you; heed this friendly counsel, lest you suffer the same torments as he.' The Arabs, hearing him uttering these holy words and others like unto them, were all seized by astonishment and fury. They bid the man farewell, judging him to have fallen into madness of mind. When he had regained strength from his illness, he began to vociferate loudly: 'Anathema on Mahomet and his fabulous teaching, and on all who believe in him!' Subjected forthwith to the punishment of the sword, he achieved his martyrdom. He was praised in sermons by our holy father John, who is justly called Chrysorrhoas on account of the spiritual grace of his speech and holiness, bright and radiant as gold. Thus Theophanes in Goar's new translation. He who is here called Chrysorrhoas — from χρυσὸς, which means 'gold', and ῥοὴ, 'flow'—is St. John Damascene, whom we shall discuss on May 6. Perhaps he bore the nickname Chrysorrhoas, akin to the Damascene river Chrysorrhoas, because he watered souls far and wide through his various books, like unto streams of his teaching. Strabo writes these words about this river in book 16: 'The Chrysorrhoas, beginning from the city and region of the Damascenes, is nigh entirely consumed in streams, for it waters many deep places.' And the river itself perhaps acquired its name because it was a source of great fertility and wealth for the inhabitants, and enriched them with its golden flow, as it were. He whom Theophanes calls Valid, prince of the Arabs — Οὐαλίδ υἱὸς Ἰσάμ — Anastatasius calls Hualiad or Uhalid, son of Hisan; the author of the Miscella, in Gruterus' edition, Uhalid, son of Isam; from Henry Canisius, Gizid, son of Habdimelich. Goar defines 'chartulary,' St. Peter's position, as an 'archivist' (scriniarium), that is, 'one who records deeds or accounts on charters and codies.' Anastasius explains: 'Because he was a chartulary, and gathered public tribute with due account.' He writes about the nickname Chrysorrhoas: 'He was well named Chrysorrhoas, because of the Holy Ghost's golden and shining grace which blossomed in him both in word and deed.']
At Ravenna, St. Maximian, bishop and confessor.
At Metz, St. Felix, bishop.
At Brescia, St. Paterius, bishop.
