Junh 26-acem Sogglem Santam

 Junho 26, 2021 

O Caminho dos Santos: Os Santos e festas da Dia 26 de Junho

Boa festa da Nossa Senhora de Meliapore, e de Trompone, e Santos Paio e Vigilio! Happy feast of Our Lady of Mylapore and of Trompone and of Saints Pelagius and Vigilius!

✓ June 26: Our Lady of Mylapore, East Indies 1542

«In the East Indies, in the south of the Indian subcontinent, was a city called Mayurapuram, the City of the Peacocks. It has apparently been encroach upon by the Ocean over the centuries and its remains are underwater. A hill called the Little Mount of St Thomas seems to be all that remains of it. In Portuguese it is called Meliapor, and the English called it Mylapore. It is now a suburb of the metropolitan city of Madras now renamed Chennai. On the Little Mount was the Hermitage Church of St Thomas the Apostle. According to tradition, the Apostle St Thomas came to the Indies in 52 AD. evangelizing in what is now Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia before traveling to the southern regions of the Indian subcontinent. Due to his success making converts to the True Faith, he was persecuted and finally martyred by the Hindus, pagans, in the year 72 AD, by being pierced through with a lance or spear, after he refused to worship their gods. The Portuguese, who were the first western Christians to arrive in the East, found it in ruinous condition and in the possession of Mahomettans. The Portuguese recovered and repaired the church, now the Basilica of São Tome. The church of Saint Thomas of Mylapore contains a Shrine of "Our Lady of Meliapor" which probably dates to Portuguese times. This is the shrine in the East Indies, where Saint Francis Xavier often retired to pray during his eleven years with the people of India. The Blessed Virgin Mary was Francis' constant source of strength and inspiration. The image before which Saint Francis used to pray is called Mylai Matha in Tamil, or Our Lady of Mylapore in English. It is an ancient statue about three feet tall. It can still be venerated at the church. It is known that  a church existed at Mylapore going back to the 1st century, and built by St Thomas. According to tradition, there was a huge log that had washed down the river to a place where it blocked the water and caused massive flooding. The local king was at a loss to remove the blockage, but having heard that St Thomas was a miracle worker, asked him for his assistance. St Thomas prayed and then touched the log, which made it so light that the king's men were suddenly able to easily pull it from the river. The king, in thanksgiving, gave the massive log to St Thomas, who used the wood he obtained from it to construct his church. The famed traveler Marco Polo visited the shrine in 1292, and a visitor known only as "Joseph" in 1501 thought the church comparable to the Church of Saint John and Saint Paul in Venice, but by the time the Portuguese came in 1517 the shrine was nothing but ruins. The good people knew that they were Christians, and nothing more; but they had Mary as their Mother, and she cleared the way into their hearts for the zealous Francis to sow the seed of Christ's Gospel. It was at Mary's shrine that Francis obtained the miraculous favors to raise people from the dead, cure the sick, convert sinners and bring to Christ thousands of souls. Regardless of where his journeying took him, Francis always returned to his "Lady of the Wayside" at Meliapor. Our Lady of Meliapor was his most beloved Mother and from her he received consolation and strength, spiritual delights second only to the joys of Paradise. The spirit of Francis is still at this shrine, and Mary continues to bestow upon her children miraculous graces and blessings.»

✓ Apparition of Our Lady of Trompone June 26, 1562, at Moncrivello in the diocese of Vercelli in the Piedmont, Italy, healing Dominica Millianotto. See https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santuario_della_Beata_Vergine_del_Trompone

ROMAN MARTYROLOGY

• The Holy Martyrs of the Caelian Hill in Rome Saints John and Paul, brothers. The former was steward, the other secretary of the virgin Constantia, daughter of the emperor Constantine. Afterwards, under Apronianus, prefect of Rome, under Julian the Apostate, they received the palm of martyrdom by being beheaded. These saints glorified God by a double victory: they despised the honours of the world, and triumphed over its threats and torments. They saw many wicked men prosper in their impiety, but were not dazzled by their example: They considered that worldly prosperity which attends impunity in sin is the most dreadful of all judgments. 

• The Holy Martyrs of Valenciennes Saints Salvius, bishop of Angouleme, and Superius.

• St Anthelmus, bishop of Belley. 

• St David, hermit at Thessalonica.

• St Maxentius, priest and confessor, abbot at Poitou, renowned for miracles.

• St Pelagius, martyred at Cordoba, in Spain, by the Muslim Infidels under Abderahman; he was a young man who gloriously consummated his martyrdom for the faith by having his flesh torn to pieces with iron pincers.

• St Perseveranda, virgin.

• St Vigilius, bishop of Trent, succeeded Abundantius as bishop of Trent in 385. He begged of St Ambrose, who was his metropolitan, rules for his conduct in his ministry, which that holy prelate gave him in a long letter, in which he exhorted him vigorously to oppose the practice of usury, and the custom of Christians intermarrying with infidels. There remained still many idolaters in the valleys of the diocese of Trent, who adored Saturn and other false divinities. St Vigilius sent Saints Sisinnius, Martyrius, and Alexander, to preach the faith to them, and afterwards wrote their acts, or a narrative of their martyrdom in a short letter to St Simplician, St Ambrose's successor, and in another longer to St John Chrysostom. He looked on their glory with a holy envy, and condemned himself as a mercenary and a coward so long as he saw his own crown deferred. His labours, however, were at length recompensed with the happiness of laying down his life for Christ, he was martyred at Trent, whilst he endeavored to root out the remains of idolatry, was overwhelmed with a shower of stones by cruel and barbarous men, and thus endured martyrdom for the name of Christ. 

OTHER SOURCES

• St Babolen, Irish missionary in France, abbot od St Peter of the Fosses, later called St Maurus of the Fosses. 

• St Brannock, or Barnoc, Brannoc, abbot of Braunton in Cornwall. 

• St Colman Partraighi or Colman Proinntighe, a deacon placed by St Columkille over the church founded by him in Reachrann, now Lambay Island, off the County Dublin coast. 

• St Corbican, an Irish hermit in the Low Countries who spent part of his day helping and instructing the peasants. 

• St Duthac, bishop and confessor in Scotland.

• St Raingarda of Auvergne, mother of St Peter Maurice or Peter the Venerable, 9th abbot of Cluny, she died June 24, 1135, and was buried June 26. In her last sickness, after having received the extreme-unction and viaticum, she made this prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, I very well know where this my body will be lodged: it will find an abode in the earth; but what retreat wilt Thou this night afford my soul? Who will receive or comfort it? No one can do it but Thyself, my Saviour! Into Thy hand I commend this Thy creature. I am a most ungrateful sinner; but I now ask of Thee that mercy which I have always implored, and to Thee I recommend my soul and body."

• St Rudolf of Gubbio

• St Soadbair or Soadbar, bishop. The Martyrologies of Tallagh and of Donegal register a festival for June 26 in honour of Soadbair or Soadbar, Bishop. His episcopal seat is not mentioned. 

DAMNED

Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgommery, traitor and Apostate, Terrorist, June 26, 1574. 

OREMUS

Most 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.