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Prayers, Quips and Quotes: St. Edmund, Feast Day November 20

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St. Edmund
St. Edmund

The feast day of St. Edmund is celebrated on November 20.  He is the patron saint of kings and against plaque and torture. St. Edmund is honored as a martyr of the church.

St. Edmund was crowned King of East Angles on Christmas Day in 855.  He was only fourteen years old.  He modeled himself after King David in the Old Testament.  He tried to serve God in a way similar to King David.  He memorized the psalms written by David and was known for his  piety.

Kind Edmund was a wise ruler.  He was a kind king who believed in justice.  He cared for and served all in his kingdom, including the poor, orphans and widows.

When the Danish attacked, he fought back valiantly.  However, he was outnumbered and eventually captured.  The king was offered freedom in exchange for the Christian people.  King Edmund refused, saying he would never offend God and his people in this way.  He was then executed.

St. Edmund was tied to a tree and whipped.  King Edmund called on Jesus for strength.  He was then shot with arrows into all parts of his body.  Finally, he was beheaded.

King Edmund died in 870.  Many miracles were attributed to him after his death.

 

Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to heaven.

Quote of St. John Climacus, Feast day March 30

 

November is the Month of the Holy Souls

 

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Prayers, Quips and Quotes: St. Josephat, Feast Day Nov. 12

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St. Josaphat
St. Josaphat

The feast day of St. Josephat is celebrated on November 12.  He is a martyr of the church.

St. Josephat was born in Vladimir, Poland, in 1584. His birth name was Ioann Kuntsevych.  He was ordained a priest and became head of a monastery at Byline.  In 1604, in his early 20s, Kuntsevych entered the Monastery of the Trinity of the Order of Saint Basil the Great in Vilnius, at which time he was given the religious name of Josaphat.  He restored sanctuaries, built a convent and converted many souls. He became Archbishop of Polotsk in 1617 at the age of 38. He restored five cathedrals and aided the poor.

St. Josephat  sought to bring an end to the divisions which were dividing the church. However, six years after becoming bishop he was assassinated. His body was profaned. He was 44 years old. When his body was recovered nine days later it emitted a fragrance of roses and lilies. This caused many people to abandon the schism.

Five years after his death, St. Josephat’s body was found intact although his clothes had disintegrated.  He was canonized in 1867 by Pope Leo XIII.

 

“Learn to live at God’s hands.”

Quote of St. Edith Stein;  Feast day August 9

 

November is the Month of the Holy Souls

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Prayers, Quips and Quotes: St. Carina, Feast Day Nov. 7

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St. Carina and Companions

 

The feast day of St. Carina and companions is celebrated on November 7.

Very little is known about St. Carina other than her martyrdom. Under the rule of Emperor Julian the Apostate in the city of Ankara, she and her husband and thirteen year old son, Melasippus, were arrested in the year 360 for being Christian. They refused to renounce their faith. St. Carina and her husband were tortured to death. Their son was beheaded.

 

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues,

but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

   Quote of C. S. Lewis

 

November is the Month of the Holy Souls

 

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Prayers, Quips and Quotes: St. Theophane Venard, Feast Day Nov. 6

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St. Theophane Venard
St. Theophane Venard

 

St. Theophane was born in France in 1829. He entered the Foreign Mission of Paris.   He was ordained a priest in 1852 and became a missionary.  He worked for 15 months at Hong Kong before going to West Tonkin which is now Vietnam.

In Vietnam, he taught seminary and ministered to the people of Tonkin for four years.  He was arrested on Nov. 30, 1860 and tried for being a Christian.

During his trial he refused to renounce his faith. St. Theophane was caged for several months before he was beheaded in 1861. While being caged he was allowed to write many letters. Some of them survived. In a letter to his father he wrote,

“We are all flowers planted on this earth, which God plucks in His own good time; some a little sooner, some a little later…Father and son may we meet in Paradise. I, poor little moth, go first. Adieu.”

He was an inspiration to St. Thérèse of Lisieux who is known as the Little Flower.

On June 19, 1988 St. Theophane Venard was canonized by Pope St. John Paul II.  He is considered one of the martyrs of Vietnam.

 

Guide your ship well.

Let prudence take the helm,

let humility be the rudder,

God your compass,

Mary, your anchor of hope.

Quote of St. Theophane Venard

 

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Prayers, Quips and Quotes: St. Quintin, Feast Day October 31

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St. Quintin

The feast day of St. Quintin is celebrated on October 31.  St. Quintin was also known as Quintinus.  He was born in the third century in Rome, Italy.  His father was a Roman senator.

St. Quintin converted to Christianity.  He was a missionary who went to Gaul with St. Lucian of Beauvais.  He won many converts with his preaching.  In 286, he was arrested during the Marmian persecution.  He was tortured and beheaded in 287 at Augusta, Gaul which is now Saint Quintin, France.  His body was thrown into the river and then recovered and buried by the people he was instrumental in converting.  His tomb was a site known for miracles.

 

“What you call folly is supreme wisdom.  What is there wiser than to recognize the unique true God and to reject with disdain the counterfeits, which are mute, false and deceiving?

Quote of St. Quintin

 

October is the Month of the Most Holy Rosary

 

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Prayers, Quips and Quotes: Bl. Maria Restituta, Feast Day October 29

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Bl. Maria Restituta
Bl. Maria Restituta

 

The feast day of Bl. Maria Restituta is celebrated on October 29.  She was martyred by the Nazis when she refused to remove crucifixes from the hospital walls.

Helen Kafka was born in Vienna, Austria in 1894.  Her father was a shoemaker.  Helen’s first job was that of a salesgirl.  She then became an assistant caregiver at the Lainz public hospital.  It was at the hospital that she met the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity.  She joined the Order at the age of 20.  She took the name Restituta who was a marty in the 4th century.

Sister Restituta became a surgical nurse in 1919 working at the Moulding hospital.  After the Nazi invasion of the country she became an opponent of the Nazis.  When they ordered her to remove all the crucifixes on the walls of the hospital, she refused.  The Nazis then arrested her and charged her for “aiding and abetting the enemy in the betrayal of the fatherland and for plotting high treason”.

The last days Sister Restituta spent in prison were spent caring for other prisoners.  Even the communist prisoners spoke highly of her.  She was offered freedom if she left her religious order but she refused.

Bl. Maria was beheaded at the age of 48 on March 30, 1943 in Vienna.  Pope John Paul II beatified her on June 21, 1998.

 

“I have lived for Christ.

I want to die for Christ.”

Last words of Bl. Maria Restituta

 

October is the Month of the Most Holy Rosary

 

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