Section 22 of Lives of the Saints with Reflections for Every Day of the Year by Reverend Aben Butler The Slipper Fox recording is in the public domain, recording by Maria Theresa. November 1st All Saints The church pays day by day a special veneration to some one of the holy men and women who have helped to establish a way by their blood, developed by their labors, or edified by their virtues. But in addition to those whom the Church honors by special designation, or has inscribed in her calendar, how many martyrs are there whose names are not recorded? How many humble virgins in holy penitents?
How many Justin holy anchorites, or young children snatched away in their innocence? How many Christians have died in grace, whose merits are known only to God, and who are themselves known only in heaven? Now shall we forget those who remember us and their intercessions? These sides are they not our brethren, our ancestors, friends, and fellow Christians, with whom we have lived in daily companionship?
In other words, our own family? Yay, it is one family, and our place is marked out in this home of eternal light and eternal love. Reflection let us have a solicit to render ourselves worthy of, that chaste generation, so beautiful in the glory where it dwells. Number 2 All Souls The Church teaches us that the souls of the chest who have left this world soiled with the stain of being your sin remain for a time and place of expiation, where they suffer such punishment as may be due to their offenses.
It is a matter of faith that these suffering souls are relieved by the intercession of the saints in heaven and by the prayers of the faithful upon earth. To pray for the dead is, then, both an act of charity and a piety. We read in holy scripture, it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins. And when our Lord inspires single doo, abbot of Clooney, toward the close of the tenth century, though stowage in his order a general commemoration of all the faithful departed, it was soon adopted by the whole western church, and has been continued unceasingly to our day.
Let us, then, ever bear in mind the dead and offer our prayers for them. By showing this mercy to the suffering souls in purgatory, we shall be particularly entitled to be treated with mercy at our departure from this world, and to share more abundantly in the general suffriches of the church continually offered for all who have slept in Christ. Sick Malachi, Bishop During his childhood, Malachi would often separate himself from his companions to converse in prayer with God. At the age of twenty-five he was ordained priest.
With the devotion and zeal that he was being consecrated bishop of Connor, and shortly afterward he was met by Archbishop of his native city, Armog. This seat, having by a long standing abuse been held as an heirloom in one family, it required on the part of the saint a little tact and firmness to lay the dissensions caused by his election. One day while St. Malachi was bearing the dead, he was laughed at by his sister.
When she died, he said many masses for her. Sometime afterwards, in a vision, he saw her dressed in morning, standing in a churchyard, and saying that she had not tasted food for thirty days. Remembering that it was just thirty days since he last offered thee a durable sacrifice for her, he began again to do so, and was rewarded by other visions, and the last of which he saw her within the church, clothed in white, nearly altered, and surrounded by bright spirits. He twice made a pilgrimage to Rome to the salt-crisis figure.
The first time returning to the people they get amid the drive of his people with the Paul for Armog, but the second time bound for a happier home. He would take a note at Clairvaux. He died aged fifty-four, where he fame would have lived, and St. Bernard's monastery, on the 2nd of November 1148.
Reflection Our Lord said to sink her true, God accepts every still you step free, as if you had redeemed him from captivity, and will reward you in a fitting time for the benefit you have conferred. November 3, St. Ebert Bishop St. Ebert's early life is so obscured by popular traditions that we have no authentic account of his actions, he is set to be passionately addicted to hunting, and was entirely taken up in worldly pursuits.
One thing is certain, that he is the patron saint of hunters. Moved by divine grace, he resolved to renounce the world. His textured ordinary fervor, and the great progress which he made in virtue and learning, strongly recommended him to St. Lambert, Bishop of Maisturched, who ordained him priests, and entrusted him with the principal share in the administration of his diocese.
At Holy Prelate, he became barbarously murdered in 681, as St. Ebert was unanimously chosen as his successor. With incredible zeal he penetrated into the remote, embarrassed places of Ardean, and abolished the worship of idols, and as he performed the office of the apostles, God bestowed on him a light gift of miracles. He died on the 3th of May in 727, reciting to his last breath, the creed, and the Lord's prayer.
Reflection While the wise man has said wisdom may be applied to grace, but in order of the means of gentleness and a ting at its end with power. November 4, St. Charles Borromeo About fifty years after the Protestant heresy had broken out, our Lord raised up a mere youth to renew the face of his church. In 1560, Charles Borromeo, then twenty-two years of age, was created cardinal, and by the sight of his uncle, Pius IV, administered the affairs of the Holy See.
His first carers was the direction of the Council of Trent. He urged forward its sessions, readied its deliberations by continual correspondence from Rome, and by his firmness carried it to its conclusion. Then he entered upon a still more arduous work, the execution of his decrees. As part of Bishop of Milan, he enforced their observance, and thoroughly restored the discipline of his sea.
He found its goals for the poor, seminaries for the clerics, and by his community of oblates, trained his priests to perfection. In flexible and maintaining discipline, to his flock, he was most tender father. He was set by the roadside to teach a poor man the potter in Ave, and went into hovels the stench of which drove his attendants from the door. In the great plague he refused to leave Milan, and was ever by the sick and dying, and sold even his bed for their support.
So he lived, and so he died, a faithful image of the good shepherd, up to his last hour, giving his life for his sheep. Reflection Daily resolutions to a fill, at all costs, every duty demanded by God, as a lesson taught by St. Charles, and a lesson we must learn if we would overcome or corrupt nature and reform our lives. 5.
Saint Bertilly, Avas Saint Bertilly was born of one of the most illustrious families in the territory of Sozones, and the reign of Dagobur, the first. As she grew up, she learned perfectly to despise the world, and her anxiety desired to renounce it. Not daring to tell this to her parents, if she first installed at St. Gwen, by whom she was encouraged in her resolution.
The saint's parents were then made acquainted with her desire, which got inclined they're not to oppose. They conducted her to marry, a great monastery in Brie, four weeks from York, where she was received with great joy, and trained up in the strictest practice of monastic perfection. By her perfect submission to all her sisters, she seemed to everyone's servant, and acquitted herself with such great charity and edification, that she was chosen by Aras, to assist the Abas and her administration. About the year 646, she was appointed first to have the Abbius Chillis, which she governed for 46 years with equal vigor and discretion, until she closed her initial life in 692.
Reflection It is written that the saints raised themselves have emerged, going from virtue to virtue, as by steps. November 6, Saint Leonard Leonard, one of the chief personages of a court of Clovis, and for whom this monarch had stood his sponsor in baptism, was submed by the discourse and example of Saint Remagius that he relinquished the world in order to lead a more perfect life. The Bishop of Reims having trained Leonard to virtue, and became the apostle of such of the Franks as the Remain Paggons, but fearing that he might be summoned to the court by his reputation for sanctity, he went through secretly to the monastery of Mycie, near Orleans, and afterwards to the solitude of no black, near limeages. His charity not allowing him to remain inactive while there was so much good to be done, and ended up the work of comforting prisoners, making them understand that that captivity is sin was more terrible than any mere bodily constraint.
He won over a great many of these unfortunate persons, who came from many disciples, and whose behalf he founded a new monastery. Saint Leonard died about the year 550. Reflection The wicked shall be taken with his own iniquities, and shall be held by the courts of his own sin. November 7, Saint Willabord Willabord was born in Northumberland in 657, and went twenty years old when to Ireland to study interesting Eggbert, twelve years later he felt drawn to convert the Great Paggon tribes, who were hanging as a cloud over the north of Europe.
He went to a room with the blessing of the Pope, and with eleven companions reached Utrecht. The Paggons would not accept the religion of their enemies, the Franks, and Saint Willabord could only labor in the track of Peppin' Harris' door, converting the tribes whom Peppin' subjugated. At Peppin's urgent request, he had game went to Rome, and was consecrated hard to fish above which threatened. He was stately and cumbly in person, franking joyous, wise in council, pleasant in speech, and every work of God strenuous and unwearied.
Multitudes were converted, and the Saint built churches and appointed priests all over the land. He brought many miracles, and had the gift of prophecy. He lay return succinctly as bishop for more than fifty years, who loved the like of God in a man, and died full of days and good works. Reflection True zeal has its root in the law of God.
It can never be idle, it must labor, toil, be doing great things. It closed its fire. It is, like fire, insatiable. See if this spirit be in you.
November 8th, the Feast of the Holy Relics. Protestantism pretended to regard the veneration which the church pays to the relics of the saints as a sin, and contends that this pious practice is a remnant of paganism. The Council of Trent, on the contrary, has decided that the bodies of the Martyrs and other saints who were living members of Jesus Christ and temples of the Holy Ghost are to be honored by the faithful. This decision was based upon the established usage of the earliest days of the Church, and upon the teaching of the Fathers and of the Councils.
The Council orders, however, that all of the use of this devotion is to be avoided carefully and forbids any relics to be exposed, which have not been approved by the bishops, and these three dates are recommended to instruct the people faithfully in the teaching of the Church on the subject. While we regret, then, the heirs of the impious and the heretics led us profit by the advantages which we came by harkening to the voice of the Church. November 9th, St. Theodore Tyrell, Martyr.
St. Theodore was born of a noble family in the East, and enrolled while still a youth in the Imperial Army. Early in 306, the emperor put forth an edict, requiring all Christians to offer sacrifice, and Theodore had just joined the Legion and marched with them in De Pontus, when he had to choose between a postus and death. He declared before his commander that he was ready to be cut in pieces, and offered every them to his creator who had died for him.
Wishing to conquer him by gentleness, the commander left him in peace for a while that he might think over his resolution. But Theodore used his freedom to stand on fire with the Great Temple of Isis, and made no secret of this act. Still his judgment treated him to renounce his faith and save his life, but Theodore made the sign of the cross and answered, as long as I had breath, I would confess the name of Christ. After cruel torture, the Judge Baitom think of the shame to which Christ had brought him.
The shame, Theodore answered, I and all whom book his name take with joy. He was condemned to be burnt. As the flame rose, a Christian saw his soul rise like a flash of light to heaven. Reflection!
We are enlisted in the same service as the Holy Martyrs, and we too must have courage and constancy if we will be perfect soldiers of Jesus Christ. Let us take our part with them in confessing the faith of Christ, and despising the world that we may have our part with them in Christ's kingdom. November 10th St. Andrew of Alina.
After a holy youth, Lancelot Alina was ordained priest at Naples, at the age of 36 into the Theotime order, and took the name of Andrew to show his love for the cross. For fifty years he was afflicted with the most painful rupture that he would never use to carry. Once when he was carrying the vatacum and a storm and distinguished lams, heavenly light encircled him, guided his steps, and shouted him around the rain. But as a role his sufferings were unrelieved by God or man.
On the last day of his life, St. Andrew rose to see M.A.S., he was in his 89th year, and so weak that he could scarcely reach the altar. He began to let Judica, and fell forward in a fit of apoplexy. But on a storm mattress his old frame was convulsed in agony, while the fiend invisible form advanced to Caesar's soul.
Then, as his brethren prayed and wept, the voice of Mary was heard, admitting the saints guardian angels in the temper back to hell. A calm and holy smile settled on the features of the dying saint. As with a grateful salutation to the image of Mary, he breathed forth his soul to God. His death happened on the 10th of November of 1608.
Reflection. St. Andrew, who suffered so terrible in agony, is a special patron against sudden death. As can to be with you in your last hour, and to bring Jesus and Mary to your aid.
On November 11th St. Martin of Tours. When a mere boy, Martin became a Christian catecumin against his parents' wish, and at 15 was therefore seized by his father, a pagan soldier, and enrolled in the army. One winter's day, when stationed at a means, he met a beggar almost naked in frozen with cold.
Having no money, he cut his cloak in two, and gave him the half. That night he saw Euler close in the half cloak, and heard him say to the angels, Martin yet a catecumin hath wrapped me in this garment. This decided him to be baptized, and shortly after he left the army. He succeeded in converting his mother, but, being driven from his home by the Aryans, he took shelter with St.
Hillary, and had it near Portiers the first monastery in France. In 372 he was made Bishop of Tours. His flock, the Christian name, was still Pagan in heart. On arms and attended only by his monks, Martin destroyed the heathen temples and groves, and completed by his preaching and miracles, the conversion of the people.
When he is known as the Apostle of Gaul, his last eleven years were spent in humble toil to turn for his faults, while God may manifest by miracles the purity of his soul. Refaction. It was for Christ crucified that St. Martin worked.
Are you working for the same lord? November 12th St. Martin Pope. Saint Martin, who occupied the Romans from AD 649 to 655, incurred the enmity of the Byzantine court by his energetic opposition to the Mahle of B.
Light heresy, and the Exarch Olympius went so far as to endeavor to procure the assassination of the Pope as he stood at the altar in the Church of St. Mary Major. But the would-be murderer was miraculously struck blind, and his master refused to have any further hand in the matter. His successor had no such scruples.
He seized Martin and conveyed him on board a vessel down for Constantinople. After a three-month voyage, the island of Naxos was reached, where the Pope was kept in confinement for a year, and finally in 654, brought and changed in the Imperial city, he was then banished to the Tariq Kisterneys, where he lingered on for four months, and sickness and starvation, took on release to my death on the 12th November of 655. Reflection. There have been times in the history of Christianity, when its troops have seemed on the verge of extinction.
But there is one church whose testimony has never failed. If this is a church at St. Peter, you have a stalachey room and see. Put your whole trust in her teaching.
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St. St. was ever bright and sweet tempered, his posterities were felt as repurged by Paul who shamefully maltreated him. This ill usage in his own penises brought on a dangerous illness, and being in an Lutheran house, he was unable to stand for a priest.
He now remembered to have read of his patroness St. Barbara as she never permitted her clients to die without the Holy volticom. He had devoutly appealed to her aid, and she appeared with two angels who gave them the secret host. He was cured of this illness by our lady herself, and was bitten by her to enter the Society of Jesus.
To avoid his father's opposition, he was obliged to fly from Vienna, and, having proved his constancy by cheerfully performing the most menial offices, he was admitted to the officiated room. There he lived for ten short months, marked by repiety, obedience, and devotion to his Institute. He died as he had prayed to die, on the face of the assumption of fifteen sixty-eight at the age of seventeen. Reflection!
St. Stanislaus teaches us in every trial of life, and above all in the hour of death, to erase court, and to trust without fear to his aid. November 14th, St. Ditticus.
St. Ditticus was born in Spain in the middle of the seventeenth century. He was remarkable from childhood for his level of solitude, and when the youth retired and led a hermit life, occupying himself with weaving mats, like the fathers of the desert. Aiming at still higher perfection, he entered the order of St.
Francis. His want of learning and his humility would not allow him to aspire to the priesthood, and he remained a lay-brother to his death, perfect in his close observance of the vowels of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and mortifying his will and his senses, and every way that he could drive. At one time he was sent by his superiors to the Canary Islands, whether he went joyfully, hoping to win the crown of martyrdom. Such, however, was not God's will, and after making many conversions by his example in holy words, he was recalled to Spain.
They are after a long and painful illness, even his two days, embracing the cross which he had so dearly loved through his life. He died with the words of the hymn, and will still lead them on his lips. Reflection. If God be in your heart, he will be also on your lips, for Christ has said, from the abundance of the heart and mouth of Srikas.
St. Lawrence of total archbishop of Dublin. St. Lawrence, it appears, was born about the year 1125.
When only ten years old, his father delivered to the house to the house stage to the near-makmerkad, King of Lancaster, who treated the child with great inhumanity until his father obliged the tyrant to put him in the hands of the Bishop of Oglinda Lau, and the county of Wicklow. The holy youth wise fidelity in corresponding with a divine grace grew to be a model of virtues. On the death of the Bishop it was also abbot of the monastery. St.
Lawrence was chosen abbot in 1150, though at twenty-five years old, and governed his numerous community with wonderful virtue and prudence. In 1161, St. Lawrence was unanimously chosen to fill a new metropolitan sea of Dublin. About the year 1171 he was obliged for the affairs of his diocese to go over to England to see the King, Henry II, who was in at Canterbury.
The saint was received by the Benedictine Mount of Christchurch with the greatest honor and respect. On the following day, as the holy archbishop was advancing to the altar to officiate, a maniac who had heard much of his sanctity, and was led on by the idea of making so holy a man another St. Thomas struck him a violent blow on the head. All present concluded that he was mortally wounded, but the saint coming to himself asked for some water, dusted, and having his moon washed with it, the plow was immediately staunched, and the archbishop celebrated mass.
In 1175, Henry II of England became offended with Roderick, the monarch of Ireland, and St. Lawrence undertook another journey to England to negotiate a reconciliation between them. Henry was still moved by his piety, charity, and prudence that had granted him everything he asked, and left the whole negotiation to his discretion. Her saint ended his journey here below on the 14th of November, 1180, and was buried in the Church of the Abbeau, on the confines of Normandy.
November 15 was St. Gertrude Abbiss. Gertr was born in the year 1263 of a noble stacks and family, and placed at the age of five for education in the Benedictine and the Abbeau of Roddlesoirff. Her strong mind was carefully cultivated, and she brought legend with unusual elegance and force.
Above all, she was perfect in humility and mortification, and obedience, and an almonastic of references. Her life was credit with wonders. She has an obedience recorded some of her visions, in which she traces in words of indescribable beauty, the intimate converse of her soul with Jesus and Mary. She was gentle to all, most gentle to sinners, full of devotion to the saints of God, to the souls in purgatory, and above all, to the passion of our Lord and to his sacred heart.
She wrote her abbey with perfect wisdom and love for forty years. Her life was one of great and almost continual suffering, and her longing to be with Jesus was not granted till 1334, when she had reached her 72nd year. Reflection. In the preparation for death can be better than to offer and resign ourselves anew to the fine will, humbly, lovingly, with unvided confidence in the infinite mercy and goodness of God.
End of Section 22. Recording by Maria Theresa.