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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

 

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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

 

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Prayers, Quips and Quotes: St. John Roberts, Feast Day October 25

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St. John Roberts
St. John Roberts

 

The feast day of St. John Roberts is celebrated on October 25.  He is considered one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales whose joint feast day is October 25.

St. John Roberts was born to John and Anna Roberts in 1575 at Trawsfynydd, Merionethshire, North Wales.  He studied law.  While traveling in Paris he converted to Catholicism.    After studying at the English College at Vallodolid for a year he left to join the Abbey of St. Benedict.  He was ordained a priest and soon traveled to England.

While in England, St. John Roberts was arrested several times.  He returned to England and worked serving those afflicted by the plaque.  He was arrested a second time in 1604 while traveling to Spain.  Not knowing he was a priest he was soon released but he returned again.  On Nov. 5, 1605, he was arrested again and imprisoned at Westminster for seven months and exiled in 106 for 14 months.  He founded a house for English Benedictine monks during this time which eventually became known as the Monastery of St. Gregory.

Arrested again in 1607, he escaped after several months.  Knowing he would be executed if caught again, he still returned to England.   He was arrested on Dec. 2, 1610 as the Mass he was celebrating  came to an end.  When he refused to sign the Oath of Supremacy he was tried and condemned to death.

On Dec. 10, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.  His body disappeared during the French Revolution.

In 1970, St. John Roberts was canonized by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

“Were I to live longer, I would continue to do what I have been doing.”

Quote of St. John Roberts

 

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Prayers, Quips and Quotes: St. Laura of Cordoba, Feast Day October 19

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St. Laura of Cordoba

 

The feast day of St. Laura of Cordoba is celebrated on October 19.  She was a widow and martyr.

St. Laura lived in Spain in the ninth century.   It’s culture was primarily Muslim.  After her husband died she became a nun at Cuteclara .  She eventually became the abbess.

St. Laura is one of the 48 Martyrs of Cordoba.  She was captured and scalded to death by being placed in a vat of boiling lead.

It is You Jesus, stretched out on the cross, who gives me strength and are always close to the suffering soul.  Creatures will abandon a person in  his suffering, but You, O Lord, are  faithful.

Quote of St. Faustina

 

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Prayers, Quips and Quotes: St. Ignatius of Antioch, Feast Day October 17

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St. Ignatius of Antioch

The  feast day of St. Ignatius of Antioch is celebrated on October 17.  He is known as a church father and martyr.

At birth, St. Ignatius was named Theophorus.  He became the third Bishop of Antioch in around year 70.  The Roman Emperor Dometian declared that he was ‘god’ and required homage.  Those who refused were executed.

St. Ignatius led the Christians in Antioch by encouraging prayer and fasting.   Emperor Trajan had Ignatius arrested and sent to Syria in chains to be executed.   St. Ignatius was able to dictate letters to the six local churches while imprisoned.  Most of what we know about St. Ignatius is from his writing.

St. Ignatius had a devotion to the Bless Virgin Mary.  He wrote the following:

He who is devoted to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.

In the letters that survived, St. Ignatius warned of false teachers.  He focused on unity and the dangers of heresy.  He also emphasized the importance of the Eucharist and the humanity of Christ.

St. Ignatius was fed to the lions in the Amphitheater in Rome in the year 107.  His last words were:I am the wheat of the Lord.  I must be ground by the teeth of these beasts to be made the pure bread of Christ.

Quote of St. Ignatius of Antioch

 

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Prayers, Quips and Quotes: St.Callistus I, Feast Day October 14

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St. Callistus I
Pope and Martyr

 

The feast day of St. Callistus I is celebrated on October I.  He is honored as a Pope and martyr of the faith.

St. Callistus was a slave for a Roman who worked for Caesar.  He was put in charge of the bank by his master.  He manged to lose the money deposited and in fear he fled.  He was caught and sent to prison.  He was released and told to try to recover the money.  This time, he was arrested after getting into a brawl in a Jewish synagogue.  He was then sent to Sardenia to work in the mines.  The mistress of the emperor was able to influence his release.

Callistus became superintendent of the cemetery of St. Callistus.  He was ordained a deacon by the Pope and became the friend and adviser of the Pope.  When the pope died, Callistus was elected to be Bishop of Rome with a majority vote.  This led to a schism with his rival St. Hippolytus who became the first anti-pope.  Hippolytus accused Pope Callistus of sympathizing with heretics.  He also disagreed with Pope Callistus’ teaching about the power of Divine Mercy in the sacrament of confession.

In the year 236, both Pope Callistus and Hyppolytus were martyred during an uprising in Rome.  They were both canonized as saints.  It is believed that Hyppolytus made peace with the church before his death.

St. Callistus is the first pope after St. Peter to be honored as a martyr.

“God loves each one of us as if there were only one of us.”

Quote of St. Augustine;  Feast Day August 28

 

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