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Pentecost XXI, Within the All Saints Octave, Notre-Dame D’Emminont / Our Lady of Emminont. France (12th Century) and Memorials of the Saints for 2 November

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Pentecost XXI
Within the ALL SAINTS OCTAVE

All Souls Day – (Will be celebrated tomorrow) The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed: Commemoration of the faithful departed in Purgatory. Abbot Odilo of Cluny instituted it in the Monasteries of his congregation in 998, other religious orders took up the observance and it was adopted by various Diocese and gradually by the whole Church. The Office of the Dead must be recited by the clergy on this day and Pope Benedict XV granted to all Priests, the privilege of saying three Masses of requiem – one for the souls in Purgatory
one for the intention of the Holy Father
one for the Priest’s intentions
If the feast should fall on Sunday it is kept on 3 November.
Patronage: Monselice, Italy
HERE:
https://anastpaul.com/2018/11/02/commemoration-of-all-souls-day-2-november/
AND:
https://anastpaul.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/the-commemoration-of-all-the-holy-souls-in-purgatory-2-november/

Notre-Dame D’Emminont / Our Lady of Emminont. Abbeville, France (12th Century) – 2 November:
HERE:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/11/02/the-commemoration-of-all-the-faithful-departed-all-souls-day-notre-dame-demminont-our-lady-of-emminont-abbeville-france-12th-century-and-memorials-of-the-saints-2-november/

St Ambrose of Agaune
St Ambrose of Agaune
St Amicus of Fonte Avellana
St Amicus of Rambone
St Baya of Scotland
St Domninus of Grenoble
St Erc of Slane
St Eustochium of Tarsus
St George of Vienne

Blessed John Bodey (1549-1583) Layman, Martyr, Husband and Schoolmaster.
Born in 1549 at Wells, Somerset, England and died on 2 November 1583 at Andover, England by being hanged, drawn and quartered for the crime of being a Catholic and refusing to accept Elizabeth I, Queen of England, as the Head of the Church. Blessed John was Beatified on 15 December 1929 together with Blessed John Slade (feast day 30 October), by Pope Pius XI.
His Life and Death:
https://anastpaul.com/2023/11/02/saint-of-the-day-2-november-blessed-john-bodey-1549-1583-layman-martyr/

Bl John Bodey left and St Swithun Wells, right at Winchester Catholic Cathedral

St Jorandus of Kergrist
St Justus of Trieste
St Marcian (4th Century) Confessor

Blessed Margaret OSC (1463-1521) Duchess of Alençon, Mother, Widow, Nun of the Poor Clares, Apostle of the sick, the poor and those suffering under unjust feudal lords.
Her Holy Life:
https://anastpaul.com/2022/11/02/saint-of-the-day-2-november-blessed-margaret-of-lorraine-osc-1463-1521/

St Maura of Scotland

St Theodotus (c260–c335) Bishop of Laodicea (in modern Turkey), Philosopher, possibly a Physician, Theologian. He initially defended the Arians but after being provisionally excommunicated, he repented his stance and became a defender of orthodoxy.
The Roman Martyrology reads today: “At Laodicea in Syria, St Theodotus, a Bishop, powerful in words and adorned with good works and virtues.”
His Life of Service:
https://anastpaul.com/2024/11/02/saint-of-the-day-2-november-saint-theodotus-c260-c335-bishop/

St Victorinus (Died c 304) Bishop of Pettau, Martyr, learned Exegetists on both the Old and the New Testament, ecclesiastical writer, theologian.
His Life and Death:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/11/02/saint-of-the-day-2-november-st-victorinus-of-pettau-died-c-304/

St Willebald of Bavaria

Martyrs of Isfahan – 5+ Saints: Acindynus, Pegasius and Anempodistus were Persian priests who were imprisoned, tortured, interrogated and Martyred in the persecutions of king Sapor II of Persia; he considered any Christian to be a Roman spy and anti-Persian.

Martyrs of Sebaste – 10 Saints: A group of ten soldiers in the imperial Roman army of Emperor Licinius Licinianus who were executed together for refusing to burn incense as a sacrifice to the emperor. The only details that have survived are five of their names – Agapius, Cartherius, Eudoxius, Styriacus and Tobias. They were burned at the stake in 315 in Sebaste

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Saint of the Day – 2 November – Saint Marcian (4th Century) Confessor

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Saint of the Day – 2 November – Saint Marcian (4th Century) Confessor, Hermit, Penitent, Mystic, Ascetic, Born on an unknown date in Cyrrhus, Syria and died in c387 at his desert hermitage there. Also known as – Marcian of Chalcis or Cyrus or Syria, Marcianus, Martianus, Markianos.

The Roman Martyrology reads today: “At Cyrus, in Syria, St Marcian, Confessor.”

Marcian lived in a desert in Asia Minor. He was fortunate to be remembered by an exceptional writer, St Theodoret, the Bishop of Cyrus, who, in 423, wrote a “History of the Monks” giving considerable prominence to our Marcian, who had been born in Cyrus and, therefore, a source of glory for that City.

Naturally, Theodoret also speaks of the desert cell, where there was room for only one person; he praises Marcian’s spirit of penance; he extols his supernatural gifts and mystical charism; he describes the Hermit’s ascetic life and recalls the admiration he was surrounded by in the desert. He also has the merit, rare among biographers of such figures, of recording the sayings of the wise solitary.

Once, for example, five Bishops came to visit Marcian to question him, or as we would say today, to interview him. They gathered around him, sitting, waiting for his first response which, however, did not come. Silent and motionless among those Bishops, old Marcian looked like a tree trunk, dark and wrinkled.

His interviewers, however, had not come to him because they were driven by curiosity or excited by the novelty. They made him understand that his silence could be a sign of humility but too, a lack of charity. Marcian then spoke:
“The Lord of the universe, continually speaks to us through creation; He instructs us through the Sacred Scriptures; He teaches us what we must do, frightening us with the threat of punishment and spurring us on with the promise of Divine rewards.
What could Marcian add to all this?
Marcian who, like the others, neither listens to his God nor follows His holy counsels?”

Another day, he was visited by a Hermit who lived in the same desert. Marcian offered him something to eat. The Hermit was scandalised. And the Saint then spoke, to re-establish what we would call the hierarchy of values.
“Fasting, must not be esteemed more than food.
Instead, we must esteem charity above all else.
Charity is commanded to us by the Lord and is pleasing to Him.
Fasting, however, depends on our own choice.
There is no doubt, we must honour God’s Commandment more than our own austerity.”

Despite this, he was austere. He fasted voluntarily and willingly; he disciplined and mortified himself but he did not make these things the purpose of his life. Man’s sole purpose is, in fact, charity, even if he dwells in the desert, far from men and the world.
Without charity, says St. Paul, we are nothing but clanging cymbals; all of us, even if we are Hermits in the desert!