Tag: MIRACLES

Posted in MARIAN TITLES

Charlemagne Receives Two of Our Lady’s Robes & Memorials of the Saints – 11 August

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Our Lady’s Veil was given by the Byzantine Empress Irene as a gift to the Emperor Charlemagne. In 876, Charles the Bald, Charlemagne’s grandson, donated the unfathomably precious relic to Chartres, where it remains. One of the many miracles which it has performed, is the saving of Chartres from pagan Viking invaders. Rollo, the Norsemen’s chieftain, besieged the city, but when the bishop of Chartres processed with Our Lady’s veil around the city walls, the Christian army rallied and launched a ferocious counter attack, while the Vikings suddenly lost courage and fled in terror.

Later that same year, Rollo was baptised and granted Normandy as his fiefdom. The time of the Vikings was almost over.

Our Lady’s Veil at Chartres Cathedral
Rollo’s grave within Rouen Cathedral

St Philomena (Died 304) Virgin Martyr, “The Wonder Worker”

St Tiburtius Martyr
St Susanna of Rome (Died c 295) Virgin Martyr

St Alexander of Comana (Died c 251 ) Martyr “The Charcoal Burner”

St Cassian of Benevento
St Chromatius the Prefect
St Digna of Todi
St Equitius of Valeria

St Géry/Gaugericus of Cambrai (c 550 – 626), Bishop of Cambrai, France, Founder of Monasteries, Churches and of St Géry Island off Belgium, Géry devoted himself to the fight against paganism, Miracle-worker.

Bl Jean-Georges Rehm
Bl John Sandys
St Lelia
St Rusicola of Arles
St Rufinus of Marsi
Bl Theobald of England and Companion
St Taurinus of Evreux
Bl William Lampley

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Quote/s of the Day – 3 August – He heard my voice

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When I call upon the Lord, He heard my voice, from those who war against me; and He humbled them, Who is before all ages, and remains forever: cast your care upon the Lord, and He will support you.

Ps 54:17-20; 54:23

I saw an Angel come down from Heaven, having great power ; and the earth was enlightened with his glory. And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen: and is become the habitation of devils. For her sins have reached unto Heaven, and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities. Render to her as she also hath rendered to you, and double unto her according to her works. As much as she hath glorified herself, and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Rejoice over her, thou Heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, for God hath judged your judgment on her.

The Apocalypse of St John

And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle. And Pharaoh arose in the night, and all his servants, and all Egypt: for there was not a house wherein there lay not one dead.

Exodus 12: 29-30

Alas, my dear brethren, some of us do not even know what it is to be tempted because we hardly ever, or very rarely, resist. Which one of us can expect to escape from all these dangers? Which one of us will be saved? Anyone who wanted to reflect upon all these things could hardly go on living, so greatly terrified would he be! However, my dear brethren, what ought to console and reassure us is that we have to deal with a good Father Who will never allow our struggles to be greater than our strength, and every time we have recourse to Him, He will help us to fight and to conquer.

He expels demons with a command from heaven, and he leads those who had been possessed and kept in cruel bondage back to his own free service, he strengthens the impaired limbs of the paralytic, lest the beauty of his image be subject to a bodily deformity. He restored the dead to life, and he orders souls to return to their already decaying members, so that a double show of power would drive out both death and decay.

St Peter Chrysologus

The Saints stand around my Son like countless stars, whose glory is not to be compared with any temporal light. Believe me, if the Saints could be seen shining with the glory they now possess, no human eye could endure their light all would turn away, dazzled and blinded.

The Blessed Mother of God to St Bridget

Posted in SAINT of the DAY

Saint of the Day – 17 July – St Kenelm

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Saint Kenelm or Cynehelm, is an Anglo-Saxon saint, venerated throughout medieval England, and mentioned in the Canterbury Tales (The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, lines 290–301. William of Malmesbury, writing in the 12th century, recounted that “there was no place in England to which more pilgrims travelled than to Winchcombe on Kenelm’s feast day”.

Saint Kenelm was the son of Cenwulf, King of Mercia (796–821). According to 12th-century documents from Winchcombe Abbey, King Kenelm ascended the throne at the age of seven. He was beheaded at the instigation of his sister Cwenthryth, who wanted to take the throne, and his body was buried in an unmarked spot in Clent Forest, south of Birmingham. Saint Kenelm’s soul is said to have then risen in the form of a dove carrying a scroll. It flew to Rome, where it left the scroll at the feet of Saint Hierarch Pascal, Bishop of Rome. The message on the scroll read: ‘Down in a cow meadow, under a thorn, with his head missing, lies poor Kenelm, born king.’ Saint Pascal then wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who commissioned a group of monks to search for the king’s body. The discovery of his body led to the establishment of a chapel at the site, marked by miraculous events, including the ringing of church bells by themselves, and the emergence of a healing spring at the point where the exhausted monks struck the ground with their staffs.

While searching, the monks saw a pillar of light shining above a bush in Worcestershire. Buried beneath it, they found the body of Saint Kenelm. The monks transported his relics to Winchcombe Abbey, where they were kept and remained there for several hundred years, where miracles were reported. Wells marked the course of his body from the Clent Hills.

His sister, Queen Cwenthryth, was reading a Psalter when she heard the bells ringing unaided by human hands. When she was told that her brother’s body had been found, she cried ‘If that be true, may both my eyes fall upon this book.” Her eyes immediately fell from her head upon the book. She and her lover were put to death, and their bodies cast into a ditch.