Blessed Guillaume-Nicolas-Louis Leclerq

Jan 282009
 

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  • Guillaume-Nicolas-Louis Salomon

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LaSallian lay brother. One of the Martyrs of September.

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       Association “Le Souvenir des Martyrs de Septembre 1792″
       70, rue de Vaugirard
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Blessed Dominic Collins

Jan 192009
 

[Blessed Dominic Collins]
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  • Doiminic Ó Coileáin

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Son of John and Felicity Collins. Dominic embarked on a military career, and rose to the rank of Captain. However, following a trip to Santiago del Compostela in Spain, he resigned his commission to become a Jesuit novice and lay brother. Assigned to Ireland in 1601. Arrested on 17 June 1602, he was imprisoned, tortured and executed for promoting his faith. One of the Irish Martyrs.

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Blessed William Saultemouche

Jan 122009
 

[William Saultemouche]
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  • Guillaume Saltemouche

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Co-adjutor Jesuit lay brother. Preached against Protestantism at Aubenas in the Cevennes, and publicly argued theology with Calvinists. A band of Huguenot raiders dragged him and James Sales before a self-appointed court which publicly argued theology with them, lost the arguments in the minds of many of the onlookers, and then condemned them to prison and death. Martyr.

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Saint Gerard Majella

Dec 262008
 

[Saint Gerard Majella]
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Son of a tailor who died when the boy was 12, leaving the family in poverty. Gerard tried to join the Capuchins, but his health prevented it He was accepted as a Redemptorist lay brother serving his congregation as sacristan, gardener, porter, infirmarian, and tailor. Miracle worker.

When falsely accused by a pregnant woman of being the father of her child, he retreated to silence; she later recanted and cleared him, and thus began his association as patron of all aspects of pregnancy. Reputed to bilocate and read consciences. His last will consisted of the following small note on the door of his cell: “Here the will of God is done, as God wills, and as long as God wills.”

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The Most Blessed Sacrament is Christ made visible. The poor sick person is Christ again made visible. - Saint Gerard Majella

I see in my neighbor the Person of Jesus Christ. - Saint Gerard Majella

Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support? - Saint Gerard Majella

Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart? - Saint Gerard Majella

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  • “Saint Gerard Majella”. Saints.SQPN.com. 9 August 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-gerard-majella/>

Saint Thomas More

Dec 202008
 

[Saint Thomas More]
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  • omnium horarum homo (a man for all seasons, referring to his wide scholarship and knowledge)

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Studied at London and Oxford, England. Page for the Archbishop of Canterbury. Lawyer. Twice married, and a widower he was the father of one son and three daughters, and a devoted family man. Writer, most famously of the novel which coined the word Utopia. Translated with works of Lucian. Known during his own day for his scholarship and the depth of his knowledge. Friend of King Henry VIII. Lord Chancellor of England from 1529 to 1532, a position of political power second only to the king. Fought any form of heresy, especially the incursion of Protestantism into England. Opposed the king on the matter of royal divorce, and refused to swear the Oath of Supremacy which declared the king the head of the Church in England. Resigned the Chancellorship, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Martyred for his refusal to bend his religious beliefs to the king‘s political needs.

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  • beheaded on 6 July 1535 on Tower Hill, London, England
  • body taken to Saint Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London, England
  • his head was parboiled and then exposed on London Bridge for a month as a warning to other “traitors”; Margaret Roper bribed the man whose was supposed to throw it into the river to give it to her instead
  • in 1824 a lead box was found in the Roper vault at Saint Dunstan’s Church Canterbury, England; it contained a head presumed to be More’s

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What does it avail to know that there is a God, which you not only believe by Faith, but also know by reason: what does it avail that you know Him if you think little of Him? - Saint Thomas More

What men call fame is, after all, but a very windy thing. A man things that many are praising him, and talking of him alone, and yet they spend but a very small part of the day thinking of him, being occupied with things of their own. - Saint Thomas More

Although I know well, Margaret, that because of my past wickedness I deserve to be abandoned by God, I cannot but trust in his merciful goodness. His grace has strengthened me until now and made me content to lose goods, land, and life as well, rather than to swear against my conscience. God’s grace has given the king a gracious frame of mind toward me, so that as yet he has taken from me nothing but my liberty. In doing this His Majesty has done me such great good with respect to spiritual profit that I trust that among all the great benefits he has heaped so abundantly upon me I count my imprisonment the very greatest. I cannot, therefore, mistrust the grace of God. By the merits of his bitter passion joined to mine and far surpassing in merit for me all that I can suffer myself, his bounteous goodness shall release me from the pains of purgatory and shall increase my reward in heaven besides. I will not mistrust him, Meg, though I shall feel myself weakening and on the verge of being overcome with fear. I shall remember how Saint Peter at a blast of wind began to sink because of his lack of faith, and I shall do as he did: call upon Christ and pray to him for help. And then I trust he shall place his holy hand on me and in the stormy seas hold me up from drowning. And finally, Margaret, I know this well: that without my fault he will not let me be lost. I shall, therefore, with good hope commit myself wholly to him. And if he permits me to perish for my faults, then I shall serve as praise for his justice. But in good faith, Meg, I trust that his tender pity shall keep my poor soul safe and make me commend his mercy. And, therefore, my own good daughter, do not let you mind be troubled over anything that shall happen to me in this world. Nothing can come but what God wills. And I am very sure that whatever that be, however bad it may seem, it shall indeed be the best. - from a letter written by Saint Thomas More from prison to his daughter Margaret

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  • “Saint Thomas More”. Saints.SQPN.com. 13 August 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-thomas-more/>

Blessed Ralph Ashley

Nov 242008
 

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Worked as a cook at Douay College. Entered the English College at Valladolid on 28 April 1590 where he became a Jesuit lay brother. Ill health forced him to leave college and return to England. Along the way he was captured by Dutch heretics; he stood up to them and explained their errors. Finally landed in England on 9 March 1598.

Servant and assistant to Blessed Edward Oldcorne. Arrested on 23 January 1606 at Hindlip House, near Worcester, England in connection with the Gunpowder Plot, and for the crime of helping a priest. Transferred to the Tower of London on 3 February 1606 along with Father Garnet and Saint Nicholas Owen. Tortured for information on other Catholics and for the hiding places of priests. When they could get no information from him, he was transferred to Worcester, and condemned for his faith. Martyr.

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  • if you have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed Ralph, contact
       Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
       39 Eccleston Square
       London SW1V 1BX, UNITED KINGDOM

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  • “Blessed Ralph Ashley”. Saints.SQPN.com. 13 August 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-ralph-ashley/>

Blessed James Grissinger

Oct 192008
 

[Blessed James Grissinger]
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  • James Griesinger
  • James of Ulm

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Mercenary for the army of Naples, Italy in 1432. Disillusioned with military life, he spent five years as a secretary to a lawyer in Capua, Italy. Falling on financial hard times, he briefly rejoined the army, then left for his true vocation, becoming a Dominican lay brother in Bologna, Italy in 1441. He spent most of the next 50 years working in stained glass and painting images on the windows of churches.

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Saint Justina of Padua

Oct 062008
 

[Saint Justina of Padua]
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Young woman who took private vows of chastity and devotion to God. Martyr in the persecutions of Diocletian. Some mideaval documents describe her as a disciple of Saint Peter the Apostle, but that’s impossible. She is sometimes depicted in art as a nun, but never was, and some artists may have confused her with Saint Scholastica.

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  • “Saint Justina of Padua”. Saints.SQPN.com. 8 September 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-justina-of-padua/>
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