Festas de 22 de Junho

Junho 22, 2021

O Caminho dos Santos: Os Santos e festas da Dia 22 de Junho

Boa festa da Nossa Senhora de Narni e de Ta'Pinu, São Paulino da Nola, São Albano do Verulamio, São João Pescador, São Tomás More e São Cronan! Happy feast of Our Lady of Narni, and of Ta'Pinu, St Paulinus of Nola, St Alban of Verulamium, St John Fisher, St Thomas More & St Cronan!

✓ The Holy Ecumenical Council of Ephesus formally defined the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Mother of God, the Theotokos, June 22, 431 AD: "...begotten from the Father before the ages as regards his godhead, and in the last days, the same, because of us and because of our salvation begotten from the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God (Theotokos), as regards his manhood; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, only-begotten..."

✓June 22: Our Lady of Narni

«At Narni in Italy, there is a shrine to Our Blessed Mother. It is said the image spoke to St Lucia, to whom Our Lady gave the Infant to hold, while Lucia venerated the Mother and Child.

«Born in 1476, St Lucia lived in the town of Narni in Italy. As a small child she preferred religious articles to toys, sharing the former as well as the latter with her playmates. When only five years old, Lucia experienced her first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary. When she was seven years old, she visited an uncle in whose home a picture of angels was painted on the ceiling. Lucia secretly went there to pray. She was favored by a heavenly vision of Our Lady, who gave Lucia her Divine Son to hold. Our Lord gave Lucia a ring, and Saint Dominic, who was also present in the vision, gave her a scapular to wear at that time. At the age of 12, she made a vow of perpetual chastity, and decided she wanted to become a Dominican nun. 

«As she grew older, her family wished her to marry; at her objection, the Blessed Mother appeared to her and bade her be wedded and imitate her in the life at Nazareth. Her husband, Peter, agreed to respect her vow of virginity. Although she led a saintly married life, she still had visions, as Saints Catherine, Agnes, and Agnes of Monte Pulciano frequently appeared to her.

«Her desire to become a religious persisted. She finally influenced her husband to take the habit of St Francis, while she established at the Pope's request, a convent in Ferrara. She was marked with the stigmata of Christ on 25 February 1496. She suffered greatly spiritually, of course, but also physically, and did her best to hide the marks of favor. The members of her community for thirty-eight years were prejudiced against the saint, but Our Lady frequently consoled and strengthened her with visions. She died in 1544 and was beatified by Pope Benedict XIII.

«A shrine to Our Lady of Narni was erected in memory of St Lucia. Our Heavenly Mother granted many miracles after her death showing how pleasing she was to her and her Divine Son. She died November 15,  1544. Four years after her death, her body was exhumed and found to be incorrupt.»

✓ June 22, 1883 Apparition of Our Lady of Ta'Pinu, in Gozo, Malta

On this day, June 22, 1883, Our Lady appeared to a 45-year old farmhand named Carmela Grima near the chapel of Ta'Pinu. 

Several years after a private chapel was built, Philip Gauci, called Pinu in Maltese, purchased it in 1585. From him it came to be called "Ta'Pinu" or "Of Philip." In 1615, he restored it, and commissioned an oil painting of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for the altarpiece, called the  Madonna Ta'Pinu, which was completed in 1619.

Carmela was walking home from her work in the fields when the voice of Mary saying "Come, come!" She was confused and frightened, and began to run away from the place. The voice called again, and this time Carmela realised that the voice was coming from within the chapel, she went inside and said her usual prayers. Once she was inside, the Blessed Mother instructed her to pray three Hail Marys.

Carmela did as the voice asked and went on her way. Shortly afterwards Carmela fell ill and remained confined to her bed for more than a year. After this time, Carmela revealed her secret to a friend, Francesco Portelli, who in turn told her that about the same time he also heard a woman's voice asking him to pray from within the chapel. Shortly after this mysterious call Francesco's mother was miraculously healed by the intercession of Our Lady of Ta'Pinu. Miraculous healings followed in the area, and the chapel became a pilgrimage destination.

Bishop Peter Pace was informed about these events and after speaking to Carmela and Francesco he concluded that the voice was of heavenly origins. Devotion to Our Lady of Ta'Pinu grew rapidly, and numerous pilgrimages flocked to the chapel. As pilgrimages increased, there was a need for a larger church. Construction began on a new church at the site in 1920 and it was completed in 1931. Pope Pius XI designated the church as a minor basilica in 1932.

✓ Apparition of Our Lady of the Cape, Notre Dame du Cap in French, in Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, New France, June 22, 1888. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_the_Cape

INFAMY

Apostate Croatia celebrates the formation of the Communist Terrorist  First Sisak Partisan Detachment on 22 June 1941 that murdered hundreds of thousands of Christians. It is the Official and Statutory Virtue of Hypocrisy of the Antichristendom or "The West" to denounce the Crimes of the Nazis, Ustashe, etc., yet to celebrate those of the Communist terrorists who murdered hundreds of millions, far dwarfing the Nazis. 

ROMAN MARTYROLOGY

• The Translation of St Flavius Clemens, ex-consul and martyr, brother of Emperor Vespasian, uncle of Emperors Titus &  Emperor Domitian. Married to Domitian's niece, St Flavia Domitilla. Imperial consul with Domitian in 95. Martyred within a year for the faith of Christ by the emperor Domitian. His body was found in the basilica of Pope St Clement in Rome, and re-buried there with great pomp.

• The Holy Martyrs of Mount Ararat, ten thousand holy martyrs, who were crucified.

• The Holy Martyrs of Samaria, fourteen hundred and eighty souls, under Chosroes, king of Persia.

• The Holy Martyrs of Verulamium and Caerleon in Roman Brittania, now England and Wales, St Albanus, martyr under Diocletian, he gave himself up to save the priest St Amphibalus, his preceptor, whom he had harbored. After being scourged and subjected to bitter torments, he was sentenced to capital punishment. With him suffered St Heraclius, one of the soldiers that led him to execution, who was converted to Christ on the way, and merited to be baptized in his own blood. St Amphibalus, Julius or Julianus, Aaron, and many others, at both locations.

• St Consortia, virgin in the monastery of Cluny.

• Pope St Innocent V, who labored with mildness and prudence to maintain liberty for the Church and harmony among Christians. The veneration paid to him, Pope Leo XIII approved and confirmed.

• St John of Acquarola, bishop of Naples in Campania,  who was called to the kingdom of Heaven by St Paulinus, bishop of Nola.

• St John Fisher, bishop of Rochester and cardinal of the Holy Roman Church. For refusing to accept "King Henry VIII of England" as "Pope of England," he was beheaded by order of Henry, on Tower Hill in London, England.

• St Nicaeas or Nicaetas, bishop of Bomatia or Remesiana, modern Bela Palanka in Serbia, celebrated for his learning and holy life.

• St Paulinus, bishop of Nola in Campania, although a most noble and wealthy man, made himself poor and humble for Christ; and what is still more admirable, became a slave to liberate a widow's son, who had been carried to Africa by the Vandals, when they devastated Campania. He was celebrated, not only for his learning and exceptional holiness of life, but also for his power over the demons. His great merit has been extolled by Saints Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine and Gregory, in their writings. His body, at first transferred to Benevento, and thence to Rome, was restored to Nola by order of Pope St Pius X.

OTHER SOURCES

• The Holy Martyrs of the Battle of Sisak, June 22, 1593, Christian victory over the Infidels. 

• St Achatius, seems to be Agathius, but today is not his Dies Natalis, perhaps it is a translation of his relics. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathius.

• St Albinus, martyr at Rome, translated to Cologne, celebrated today in Bavaria. 

• St Altrude of Rome, Franciscan.

• St Christina, 15th century nun in Hamm, Westphalia, Germany, a stigmatist, attested by 12 witnesses.

• St Cronan the Great, abbot of Ferna,  now Ferns in Ireland. 

• St Crunnmael MacRonan of Berrech, Ireland. 

• St Eberhard, bishop of Salzburg. 

• St Exuperantius, 6th bishop of Como, champion against Arianism. 

• St Gregory I, bishop of Agrigento, prophet. 

• St Guaire Bic or Becc, Irish saint. 

• Commemoration of St Hesperius, 23rd bishop of Metz, died November 22, 548. 

• St Nicetas, bishop of Aquileia, in 452 he temporarily moved the Aquileians to the island of Grado for shelter from the depredations of the barbarian invaders.

• St Precia, daughter of St Goeric, grandniece of St Arnulf of Metz, first abbess of Epinal. An ancestor, through Arnulf, of the Carolingians, of its cadets, the House of Guise and the House of Habsburg-Lorraine that succeeded the Habsburgs. 

• St Riquardus, bishop, martyr or confessor, commemorated at Bruges, no other information. 

• St Rotrudis, Otrudis, or Rotraud, relics enshrined in the church of Saint Bertin, Saint Omer, France.

• St Rufinus, martyr at Alexandria, commemorated by the Martyrology of St Jerome.

• St Thomas More, Chancellor of England, martyred by the Satanists, Apostates, Infidels, Traitors of England under Henry VIII for refusing to accept the "King of England" as the "Pope of England." 

ALSO

• Alexandre-Antonin Taché, bishop of St Boniface in Manitoba, died  June 22, 1894. 

OREMUS

Holy Mary, Mother of God, and our Mother, and all you Saints, Fathers, Mothers, Brothers, Sisters, Popes, Archbishops, Bishops, Hermits, Monks, Martyrs, Virgins, Champions and Heroes of Jesus Christ, whose feasts is today, named and unnamed, we pray to you for your intercession and guidance, lead us away from error and evil and into the Grace and Love of God, that with your assistance, we may join you in Eternity with the Living God, we make this prayer through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Who Lives and Reigns, in the Unity of the Godhead, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, forever and ever, Amen.

Lúcío Mascarenhas.