Section 26 of Lives of the Saints with Reflections for Every Day of the Year by Reverend Abbyn Butler This liberal fox recording is in the public domain, recording by Maria Theresa. Lives of the American Saints placed in the proper for the United States at the special petition of the third plenary council of Baltimore. St. Philip of Jesus, Martyr, patron of the city of Mexico.
Philip de las casas was born in the city of Mexico, where his parents settled after setting out for the new world from a least cost in Spain. They were earnest in all their religious duties, and brought up their family, Pius Lee, two sons entering the Augustinian order, one to die by the hands of the heathen. Philip at first showed little care for the pious teaching of his parents and the example of his brothers, but at last he resolved to forsake the world into the brief form Francis can comment of Santa Barbara at Pueblo. He was not yet waiting for the world in its vanities, and soon left in a vichyot.
Grieved at the inconstancy of his son, Alonso de las casas, sent him to the Philippine Islands with a large stock of goods and money to make purchases. In vain to Philip's he dissatisfied his heart with pleasure, he could not but feel that God called him to religious life. Gaining courage by prayer, he entered the Francis can comment of our Lady of the Angels at Malilla, and persevered, taking his vows in 1594. His officiate had produced a great spirit of poverty, obedience, and prayer, and he stopped by austerity to attend for the heirs of his youth.
His informarian, Brother Philip of Jesus, beheld our Lord and the person of the sick and attended them with holy care. The richest cargo that he could send to Mexico would not have gratified his father as much as the tidings that Philip was a professed friar. Alonso de las casas obtained from the commissionary of the order, directions that Philip to be sent to Mexico. He embarked on the Saint Philip in July 1596 with other religious, storm-stervive the vessel to the coast of Japan, and it was wrecked while endeavoring to enter a port.
Amid the storm, Philip saw over Japan a white cross in the shape used in that country, which after time became blood-red, remains so for some time. It was an omen of his coming victory. The commander of the vessel sent our saint into other religious to the emperor to solicit the permission to continue their voyage, but they could not obtain an audience. He then proceeded to Maccou to a house of his order to seek the influence of the fathers there, but the pilot of the vessel by idle boasts and excited the emperor's fears of the Christians, and the heathen ruler resolved to exterminate the Catholic missionaries.
In December, officers seized the number of the Franciscan fathers, three Jesuits, and several of their young pupils. Saint Philip was one of those arrested while they were in the choir singing the office. Philip wore with heroic patience the insults of the rabble, who assailed the martyrs on their way to prison, and heard with holy joy the sentence of death had been passed on them all. His left ear was cut off, and he offered this firstfruits of his blood to God with salvation about heat and land.
The martyrs were led through the streets of several towns with inscriptions declaring the cause of their death. They at last reached Nagasaki where crosses had been erected on a high hill near the bay. Once they fell up was led to that on which he was to die, and he now done a class that, exclaiming, O happy ship, O happy galleon for Philip lost for my gain, lost no loss for me with the greatest of all gain. He was bound to the cross while the rest under him gave way, so that he was strangled by the cords.
While repeating the whole name of Jesus, he was the first of the happy band to receive the deathstroke, a land's being driven across through his body, to the right shoulder, then another to the left, a third stroke being given to assure his death. The Spanish and Japanese Christians who witnessed his triumph caught his blood in their hats and in cloths to preserve his relics. Miracles attest to the power before God for these first martyrs of Japan. Pope Urban VIII granted permission to stay in office in mass in their honor, and papaya's the ninth formally canonized them.
The devotion to Saint Philip of Jesus and his native city throughout Mexico has always been very great. A church in a common of Compucian nuns are dedicated to him. His feast was in Spanish times kept with great solemnity in New Mexico, Texas, and California, and a settlement in Arizona bore his name. Saint Philip died at the age of twenty-five.
He is an example to encourage those who falter in the path of God's service. His prayers will aid those who are tempted and enable them to acquire strength through the cover-loss ground and go on with their new courage in the narrow way of the cross. His feast is celebrated February 5th. Saint Jarebius, Archbishop of Lima.
Jarebius Alfonso's McGrebucio, whose feast the church honors on April 27th, was worn on the 6th of November of 1538 at Marooka in the Kingdom of Leon and Spain. Prought up in the pius family where devotion was hereditary, his youth was a model to all who knew him. Attended devotion to the blessed virgin and the love of the poor marked this boy. He recited the rosary in the little office every day, and fasted every Saturday in honor of the mother of God.
As a schoolboy he gave away his own food to relieve the poor. His life as a student at Belladolid and Salamanca was joined in relaxation from his early spirit of prayer. All his leisure was given to devotion or to works of charity. His posterities were great and he frequently made long programages on foot.
The fame of Jarebius as a master of canon and civil law soon reached the ears of King Philip II who made him judge of Granada. That monarch marked an exalted virtue and ability of McGrebucio. About that time the sea of Lima and Peru fell vacant, and among those proposed, Philip found no one who seemed better endowed than our saint with all the qualities that were required at that city, where much was to be done to religion. He sent through the name of the Holy Judge and the sovereign pontiff confirmed his choice.
Tarebius, in vain sought to avoid the honor, and rid a long treatise, which he foreread it to Rome, to show how irregular it was to appoint a layman to such a position. The pope replied directly to him to prepare to receive holy orders and be consecrated. King Philip was secretly deaf to his appeal. Guiding at last by direction of his confessor, he prepared by a long retreat to receive minor orders on the sub-yaconship and deaconship.
Then he was ordained priest and consecrated. He arrived at Lima in 1587 and entered on his duties. All was in edification and ordered in his Episcopal city. A model of all virtue himself, he confessed daily in prepared for mass by long meditation.
The influence of the Holy Mian was soon felt. Saint Jarebius then began a visitation of his vast diocese, where he traversed three times, his first visitation lasting seven years and his second four. He held provincial councils, framing decrees of such wisdom that his regulations were adopted in many countries. Saint Jarebius preached, catechized, and confirmed far and wide.
He held deocens and synods and encouraged his bishops to do the same. Almost his entire revenues were bestowed on his creditors as he styled the poor, and he bore with intrepid patients. The vexatious opposition raised him in his reforms, maintaining the liberties of the Church without postolical courage. While the starging was sealed with the duties of priest and bishop, he was seized with the fatal illness during his third visitation, and died on the 23rd of March in the year 1666 at Santa, exclaiming as he received the sacred vieticum.
I rejoiced in the things that were said to me, we shall go into the house of the Lord. His holy, austere, and devoted life had made the people regard him as a saint in a constant benefactor. They regarded him now as their patron in heaven, and miracles rewarded their faith. The priests of his holy life and of the favors granted through his intercession induced Pope Innocent XI to be out of him, and he was canonized by Pope Benedict XIII in the year 1726.
Saint Jarebius was a model for all states, as a holy youth, as a pious and ill as laymen, and as a great and exemplary bishop. Saint Francis Solano. The diocese of Cordova in Spain was the birthplace of the saint, who won many thousands of souls to God. From his earliest years, he was characterized by modest behavior, prudent silence, and edifying meekness.
While still very young, he was always able to affect reconciliation between the most bitter enemies. Once, when he came upon two Spaniards, he were engaged in deadly strife. He threw himself between them, and kneeling down, prayed with so much fervor of the fierce combatants she, their daggers, and became reconciled to one another. His education was entrusted to the Jesuit Fathers, but his desire to follow the poor and double Jesus in perfect poverty and humility, and just him to enter the order of Saint Francis.
Soon he excelled everyone in the house of humility, obedience, fervor, and prayer, and self-denial. Sometimes he would pass the entire night on his knees before the terror knuckle. If he sought religious dellas for God's honor in love, he would say to him, Brother, let us see which of us can show Jesus more proof of love, fervor, and self-denial during this week. After his ordination, he preached the word of God in simple, unadorned language, but was so much fervor and heartfelt emotion, of those among his numerous audience, who had been traveling on the broad road of vice, abandoned it, and edged upon the neural path of a virtuous life.
He was no less jealous indeed than in word, from when the pestilence was raging in Grenada, he was untiring and fearless in his service to the plague-stricken inhabitants. Titting the sick and dying was a deciduous, and, as it were, maternal care, that the wandering people praised God, but the visible protection he manifested towards his servant. In the year 1584, he sailed for South America to preach the gospel to the Indians in Peru. On the same vessel with him were 600 new-growth slaves, while still at some distance from shore, the ship struck a ledge of rocks, and the danger of drowning was imminent.
The Captain hurried the officers and principal passengers into the only boat there was, and tried to induce the missionary to accompany them. But he refused to do so in these terms. Sir, you have done your duty, now I shall do mine. I stay here." He then consulted remaining passengers, directing their thoughts to heaven.
He knelt down with them and prayed fervently, exerting those who've been baptized, instructing those who were not, and comforting all. Meanwhile, the vessel was sinking, and the passenger stumbled with fear, but not so as all as missionary. He alone kept up his hope in God's mercy. Thus, three dreadful days were passed, until it last the Captain came with a lifeboat, and all were taken off in safety.
The missionary did not confine his ministry to Lima. He visited the forest and deserts inhabited by the Indians, who were cruel and bloodthirsty by nature, and who hated the Spaniards, because they had oftentimes been cruelly treated by them. But cooperated his peerless servant, to whom he had given the gifts of eloquence and power over wild beasts, lions, tigers, and snakes obeyed him, and the birds perched on his shoulders, singing with him the praises of God. By degrees he won the trust of the Indians, who marveled at his kindness.
They listened to his instructions, allowed him to baptize them, and followed him as grateful children followed with their father. In this way, 9,000 Indians were converted, and everything was in the most promising condition, when the missionary was recalled by an order from a superior to Lima. Which at that time was like the godless city of Nenevi. Francis preached with great effect to the hardened sinners.
He carried his mission everywhere, in the public streets, in the shameless theaters, in gambling dens, where, cross in hand, he frightened the evil doers by the might of his words, which echoed like a trumpet sounds of the last judgment. The result of his labors was that the whole city became converted. He brought many miracles on the sick and sorrowful, but was in himself the greatest miracle of all. Never busy, humble, joyful, and never uttering a single useless word.
In his leisure time he composed songs to the Christ child, and his blessed mother, and sung them to the accompaniment of his violin, so sweetly that his heroes were enraptured. His love of his neighbor was unbounded. He never thought evil of anyone, and put a good construction on every action, even when persecuted, gluminated, and held in suspicion by his religious brethren. The proverb, as our life is, so shall be our death, was fulfilled in Francis's case.
In his last painful sickness he prayed thus, O Jesus, how do I deserve such grace? That I were nailed to the cross, and I am served by my brethren, that which stripped of I close, and I am well covered. That is to receive blows, and I only receive good things. O my God!
His last words were, God be praised, after uttering which is sold apart at its earth, under life 14th, 16th, 16th, and 10th. His remains were honored by a grand funeral, and he was declared blessed by the puklimeth of 10th, 1675, and canonized by Benedict XIII in 1726. St. Francis's feast is held July 24th.
The End. End of Section 26, recording by Maria Theresa. End of Lives of the Saints with Reflections for Every Day of the Year by Reverend Albin Butler.