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affcath:

On January 14, the Orthodox and Anglican churches commemorate Saint Kentigern, Missionary Bishop to Strathclyde and and Cumbria (in Scotland) in the late 6th century CE, commonly referred to as “Saint Mungo”. 

Almighty and everlasting God, we thank you for your servant Kentigern, whom you called to preach the Gospel to the people of northwestern Britain. Raise up in this and every land evangelists and heralds of your kingdom, that your Church may proclaim the unsearchable riches of our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Another plate are from My Book of the Church’s Year by Enid M. Chadwick, London : Mobray’s, no date. (from Eccentric Bliss)

This plate is from My Book of the Church’s Year by Enid M. Chadwick, London, Mobray’s, no date.

(HT Eccentric Bliss)

St. Alexander Nevsky. Photo from otkrovenia.com


Relics of 13 saints, including those of 13th century Russian national hero, Knyaz Alexander Nevsky, have been stolen from a church in St. Petersburg, a law enforcement source reported on Wednesday.

(HT St. Elias… Today!)

demonagerie:

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 757, f. 369v (martyrdom of St Vincent). Missale ad usum fratrum minorum. Milan, c.1385-90.

“Vincent was archdeacon of the church at Saragossa. Valerian, the bishop, had an impediment in his speech; thus Vincent preached in his stead, and answered in his name when both were brought before Dacian, the president, during the persecution of Diocletian. When the bishop was sent into banishment, Vincent remained to suffer and to die. First of all, he was stretched on the rack; and, when he was almost torn asunder, Dacian, the president, asked him in mockery “how he fared now.” Vincent answered, with joy in his face, that he had ever prayed to be as he was then. It was in vain that Dacian struck the executioners and goaded them on in their savage work. The martyr’s flesh was torn with hooks; he was bound in a chair of red-hot iron; lard and salt were rubbed into his wounds; and amid all this he kept his eyes raised to heaven, and remained unmoved. He was cast into a solitary dungeon, with his feet in the stocks; but the angels of Christ illuminated the darkness, and assured Vincent that he was near his triumph. His wounds were now tended to prepare him for fresh torments, and the faithful were permitted to gaze on his mangled body. They came in troops, kissed the open sores, and carried away as relics cloths dipped in his blood. Before the tortures could recommence, the martyr’s hour came, and he breathed forth his soul in peace.” [Alban Butler, Lives of the Saints]

Saint Alban

adamthenorman:

Here is St. John of Damascus [675-749. 27 March (Dec.4)]. Born in Damascus, John served as his father before him in the court of the Muslim Khalif. When the Byzantine Empire was convulsed over Iconoclasm, John wrote eloquent defenses of icons, fervently upholding the importance and worthiness of the symbols and images with which we worship God. He argued that when God became incarnate as the human Jesus Christ, the divine entered into the whole of the material, physical universe, sanctifying and making holy matter itself. Thus we can use the stuff of the physical world in our worship, because it is holy: marked by God’s own hand. John became a monk at Mar Saba near Jerusalem, and wrote a great compendium of Christian doctrine unsurpassed for many, many centuries.

Here is St. Theodora of Palestine [April 2], a virgin-martyr. She is one those whom Eusebius called “the shining lights of Palestine”, martyred in the Great Persecution of the early fourth century (Eus., HE 8.6).

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