Junho-20-2021

Junho 20, 2021

O Caminho dos Santos 

Os Santos e festas da Dia 20 de Junho

Boa festa da Nossa Senhora de Luxemburgo, dos Santos Mártires de Kiev, dos Santos Mártires de Tyburn, dos Santos Mártires da Irlanda, e de São João Scalcione! Happy feast of Our Lady of Luxembourg, the Holy Martyrs of Kiev, the Holy Martyrs of Tyburn, of Ireland, and St John Scalcione!

✓Our Lady of Blachernae or Vlachernae (an area probably named for Vlach Romanian settlers, refugees from the Bulgarian Empire's conquest of their homeland), formerly outside Constantinople, later added to the city, there they had possessed the winding-sheet of Our Lady, given by the Empress St Pulcheria, who had received it from St Juvenal, bishop of Jerusalem. 

✓Our Lady of Consolation of the Afflicted of Luxembourg, officially also called «Maria Mater Jesu, Consolatrix Afflictorum, Patrona Civitatis et Patriae Luxemburgensis» ("Mary, Mother of Jesus, Consoler of the Afflicted, Patroness of the City and Country of Luxembourg")

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Consolation

«In 1624, a student of the Jesuit College, established in Luxemburg in 1607, went for a walk along the banks of the Alzette River which ran outside the city walls. Arriving at a place called the Rocks of Crispinus, he saw in the hollow of an oak tree, a statue of the Virgin and Child. He told some of the other students, and together they took the statue and placed it on the altar in their church. The next morning it had disappeared. It was afterward found in the hollow of the same oak. Once more they carried it to the church, but it again disappeared. Then the Jesuits decided that Our Lady wished to be honored in that particular spot of the oak tree, so they built a chapel and enshrined the statue in it, giving it the name of Our Lady of Consolation of the Afflicted. The shrine became quite a center of devotion; numerous miracles reputedly took place there, and many pilgrims visited the shrine. During the French Revolution the Duchy of Luxemburg became involved in the struggle. In 1795 the capital was taken, all the churches desecrated and the chapel of Our Lady was totally destroyed. The statue was saved by some quick-thinking soul and secreted in the vault of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. After the  Revolution was over, the statue was again available for public veneration, the church rebuilt and the image restored to it.»

ROMAN MARTYROLOGY

• The Holy Martyrs of Tomis in the Pontus Saints Paul and Cyriacus. 

• St Florentina, at Seville in Spain, sister of the holy bishops Leander and Isidore.

• St Macarius, he was baptized as Arius, bishop of Petra of the Nabataeans, to signal his opposition to Arius the Heresiarch, he changed his name, suffered much from the Arians, and was banished to Africa, where he rested in the Lord.

• St Novatus, son of the senator St Pudens, and brother of St Timothy and of  Saints Pudentina and Praxedes, his sisters. Their home was made the Church of the Good Shepherd.

• Pope St Silverius, imprisoned by the Arians on the Pontic Islands where he died. 

OTHER SOURCES

• 2nd Translation, June 20, 1001, of the Relics of King St Edward of England, within the Nunnery of Shaftesbury, he was Martyred March 18, 978, the first translation was February 18, 979.

• Translation of the Relics of King St Oswald of Northumbria, Martyr. 

• The Holy Martyrs of Kiev, see St Adalbert today. 

• The Holy Martyrs of Nagasaki, Martyred by the Buddhists and the Dutch Protestants, Saints Baltasar de Torres y Arias, Francis Pacheco, Gaspar Sadamatsu, John Baptist Zola, John Kisaku, Michael Tozo, Paul Shinsuke, Peter Rinsei and Vincent Kaun. 

• The Holy Martyrs of Salamis Saints Aristocles, Athanasius and Demetrianus.

• The Holy Martyrs of Tyburn Saints Anthony Turner, John Fenwick, John Gavan, 

Thomas Whitbread and William Barrow, Martyred for refusing to accept the "Kings of England" as "Popes of England."

• The Holy Martyrs of Wrocław or Breslau, St Benignus and Companions, Carthusian monks martyred by the Tartar invaders.

• St Adalbert or Albert, bishop of Magdeburg. And with him, I commemorate the Holy Martyrs of Kiev, a Latin missionary party invited by St Olga of Kiev from the Frankish Empire, but Martyred by her pagan son Sviatoslav, only Adalbert survived and escaped back to the West.

• St Bagne or Bain, 5th bishop of Terouanne, retired to live as a monk, then was elected 5th abbotof St Wandrille. 

• St Benigna, Cistercian nun in Trebnitz, today Trzebnica, Poland, martyred by the Mongols.

• St Berthold of Scheda, Premonstratiensian monk, brother of St Meinrich. 

• St Cassán of Cluain-Ratha, Irish saint.

• St Dermot O'Hurley, Irish bishop, murdered by the Satanists, Apostates, Traitors and Infidels of England  illegally occupying Ireland because he would not accept the "Kings of England" as "Popes of England, and of Ireland," not yet canonized by a Catholic Pope. 

• St Donough MacCready, Irish priest, murdered by the Satanists, Apostates, Traitors and Infidels of England  illegally occupying Ireland because he would not accept the "Kings of England" as "Popes of England, and of Ireland," not yet canonized by a Catholic Pope.

• St Elia or Eliada, 5th abbess of Ohren near Trier. 

• St Faolan MacAengus of Srathearn, Faelan Amlabair or the Dumb. Others record him as a stammerer.

• St Gemma, of Saintonge in France, Christian daughter of a pagan noble who Martyred her, beat her to death, when she refused an arranged marriage to a pagan.

• St Gobain of St Gobain, Irish priest, hermit at St Gobain, under the patronage of the Kings of the Franks, martyred by pagan Saxon invaders. 

• St Govan of St Govan's Head, he is also called Goven, Cofen, and also identified with the Arthurian knight Gawain, Govan was an early British (not English) hermit  who lived halfway down a cliff at St Govan's Head in Dyfed in Wales where his stone hut can still be seen. He is probably buried under the altar in the hut, which later became a small chapel. Govan was probably a disciple of St Ailbe. St Govan's Chapel on St Govan's Head, near Bosherton, is a small church clinging to the ragged rock halfway down the cliffs of a secluded headland.  Legends sprang up about the saint, and about the curative properties of the natural spring which used to rise just inside the door of the chapel. During the medieval period the holy well and cell became a place of pilgrimage for cripples seeking a cure, and the original cell was rebuilt as a small chapel in the 13th century. The chapel is a very simple rectangular building with a steeply pitched roof and bellcote. Access is by way of 52 stone steps from the top of the cliffs. Legend has it that the chapel was founded when St Govan hid in a rocky fissure of the cliff to escape from pirates. St Govan's Chapel is contained within the Pembrokeshire National Park, and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Trail runs along the nearby cliffs. 

• St Guibhsech, Irishwoman, of Cluain-boirenn now Cloonburren.

• St Hector, martyr under Diocletian. 

• St John Scalcione, Benedictine preacher, monk at Monte Virgine Abbey, founder-abbot of Our Lady of Pulsano Monastery at Pulsano, Italy. 

• St Latuinus, bishop of Séez (Roman Sagium) in France.

• St Margaret Ball, murdered by the Satanists, Apostates, Traitors and Infidels of England, illegally occupying Ireland, led by her son, the Quisling Walter, because she would not accept the "Kings of England" as "Popes of England, and of Ireland," not yet canonized by a Catholic Pope.

• St Menrich or Meinrich, born at  Lübeck, brother of St Berthold, founder-abbot of Mount or Berg Haslei near Fröndenberg, where he died. 

• St Methodius, bishop of Olympus in Lycia, then of Tyre in Phoenicia, martyred at Chalcis under Diocletian.

ALSO

• Margaret Ebner, not yet canonized by a Catholic pope.

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