#capuchin saint

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Saint Lawrence of Brindisi Doctor of the Church 1559-1619 Feast Day: July 21 Patronage: Brindisi, Italy

Saint Lawrence of Brindisi was raised and educated in Italy by the Franciscans. At 16, he entered the Capuchin order, continuing his extensive studies in theology, philosophy, and languages. Talented as a linguist in over six languages, and an orator with a great memory, he was sent all over Europe serving as a peacemaker, chaplain, teacher, evangelist, and writer. He founded convents and monasteries to help serve the Church in troubled times. In 1959, St. Lawrence was declared a Doctor of the Church.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[cellabella-illuminates]

New icon now listed in my online shop!

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Some details below:

$52.00 (shipping included!)

DIMENSIONS – Approximately 5” x 7.5” x 0.25”

DAMAGE-FREE HANGING – While not included, this wooden icon is flat on the backside which is perfect for hanging with Command Strips. No nails or hooks required!

ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION – This is one of my illustrations of the St. Pio, more well known as “Padre Pio”. The original was a commissioned piece painted with black gouache. At the top of the icon are hand-painted gold letters that spell out “St. Pio” and surrounding his portrait are white daisies.

BEAUTIFULLY HANDMADE ICON – Each icon is crafted with wood, acrylic paint, and printed paper before being carefully sealed with a UV-protective glossy finish. Each icon is meant to have imperfections due to their unique, unfinished nature so brush strokes will be visible. On the back includes a sticker with my logo, “Cella Bella Illuminations” and my website.

[bisayangprayle]

Just sharing a quick drawing again with my watercolor to introduce this "simple man" yet another treasure of the Capuchins who was canonized 256 years ago.

Today, October 11 is the memorial of St. Seraphin of Montegranaro, a Capuchin religious (lay brother)

Seraphin De Nicola, baptized Felix, was born in Montegranaro, Italy, in 1540. His father and brother were masons but Felix was not strong or skilled, so he was sent to work as a shepherd, a job he enjoyed because it allowed him to be by himself and pray. When his father died, his older brother needed Felix to help with the business. He was given tasks he could not complete and his ill-tempered brother would beat him and belittle him. A friend urged him to accept his more spiritual side and suggested he speak with the Capuchins. He joined the Capuchins as a lay brother when he was eighteen. He served in various friaries as porter and quaestor. His life was noted for its unaffected simplicity, close union with Christ, and great love for the poor and for sinners. He died at Ascoli in 1604.

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Blessed Diego José de Cádiz Illustrator unknown

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (July 6)

July 6 marks the feast day of St. Maria Goretti, a young virgin and martyr whose life is an example of purity and mercy for all Christians.

St. Maria Goretti is best known for her commitment to purity and the courageous defence of her faith at the young age of eleven that made her willing to undergo death rather than participate in a sin against God.

She is also remarkable for the forgiveness she willingly granted her attacker as she lay on her deathbed.

Maria was born on 16 October 1890 in Corinaldo, Italy. Her father, a farmer, died of malaria when she was young, and her mother had to work to support their six children.

Maria took care of the younger children while her mother worked. She prayed the Rosary every night for the repose of her father’s soul.

She grew in grace and maturity. Her cheerful obedience and piety were noticed by those around her.

On 5 July 1902, a neighbouring farm hand, Alessandro Serenelli, tried to rape Maria.

On several prior occasions, Alessandro had harassed Maria with impure advances, all of which she has vehemently rejected.

This time, he locked her in a room and tried to force himself upon her.

She fought against him, shouting, "No! It is a sin! God does not want it!"

She warned him that this was the path towards hell.

When Maria declared that she would rather die than submit to this sin, Alessandro angrily grabbed her and stabbed her 14 times with a knife.

Maria was found bleeding to death and rushed to the hospital.

As she lay dying, she forgave Alessandro for the crime he had committed against her, saying:

"Yes, for the love of Jesus, I forgive him...and I want him to be with me in Paradise."

Although the doctors tried to save her, she died two agonizing days later, only eleven years old.

Alessandro was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

He remained unrepentant until one night, eight years into his prison term, when Maria appeared to him, dressed in white, gathering lilies in a garden.

She smiled, turned towards Alessandro, and offered him the flowers. Each lily he took transformed into a white flame. Then Maria disappeared.

From that moment, Alessandro converted and found peace. He repented of his crime and changed his life.

He was released from prison three years early and begged forgiveness from Maria’s mother, which she duly granted.

Alessandro moved to a Capuchin monastery, working in the garden as a tertiary for the remainder of his life.

He was one of the witnesses who testified to Maria's holiness during her cause of beatification, citing the crime and the vision in prison.

Many miracles were attributed to Maria Goretti after her death.

Pope Pius XII beatified her on 27 April 1947 and canonized on 24 June 1950, becoming the youngest Roman Catholic saint officially recognised by name.

Her feast day is celebrated by the Church on July 6.

She is the patron saint of purity, rape victims, young women, and youth in general.

On her feast day in 2003, Pope John Paul II spoke about St. Maria Goretti at his Sunday Angelus, noting that her life provides an exemplary witness of what it means to be "pure of heart."

"What does this fragile but christianly mature girl say to today's young people, through her life and above all through her heroic death?" asked the Pope.

"Marietta, as she was lovingly called, reminds the youth of the third millennium that true happiness demands courage and a spirit of sacrifice, refusing every compromise with evil and having the disposition to pay personally, even with death, faithful to God and his commandments."

"How timely this message is," the Holy Father continued.

"Today, pleasure, selfishness and directly immoral actions are often exalted in the name of the false ideals of liberty and happiness.

It is essential to reaffirm clearly that purity of heart and of body go together, because chastity ‘is the custodian’ of authentic love."

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St. Maria Goretti

Patron Saint of Abused Children and Rape Victims

Maria Goretti was born a poor peasant child in Italy in 1890, the third of six children. When she was nine, her family's situation grew even worse, when her father died of malaria. Maria's mother dutifully took her husband's place in the fields, while little Maria took her mother's role in caring for her siblings. The family was able to survive by working the fields of a Count, a job they shared with a man named Giovanni Serenelli and his teenager son Alessandro. Mr. Serenelli kept most of the profits from the farming, leaving the Goretti family quite poor and frequently hungry.

Through all the difficulties, Maria did her best. When neighbors or kindly merchants would give Maria a treat, she would take it home to share with her brothers and sisters. Cheerful and intelligent, Maria was also beautiful, with chestnut hair complementing her delicate features.

On Maria's frequent trips into the nearby village to sell eggs and chickens and to buy supplies for her family, she would visit the shrine of Our Lady of Graces. Her family being too poor to pay for Masses in her father's memory, every night Maria would recite the five Mysteries of the Rosary for the repose of her father's soul.

In June of 1902, 20-year-old Alessandro Serenelli began ordering 11-year-old Maria to perform various difficult chores, none of which could be completed to his satisfaction, and she was often reduced to tears. Alessandro also began making advances on Maria. She rebuffed them all, but, unfortunately, said nothing to her mother, for fear of causing trouble.

On July 5, 1902, Alessandro ordered Maria to mend one of his shirts. As Maria sat mending, caring for her little sister Theresa, Alessandro burst in and motioned Maria into a bedroom. As usual, she refused, but this time, he grabbed her, pulled her into the bedroom, and closed the door. He demanded that she submit to him, but she told him that it would be a sin. Enraged, Alessandro stabbed her 14 times in her heart, lungs, and intestines, and then fled to his bedroom, where he pretended to be asleep.

When little Theresa woke up and began to cry, the family discovered Maria lying on the floor. She survived for 20 hours in the hospital, undergoing surgery without anesthesia. Asked if she forgave her murderer, she replied, "Yes, for the love of Jesus I forgive him...and I want him to be with me in Paradise." She died on July 6.

Unrepentant, Alessandro was convicted, and sentenced to 30 years in prison. In his eleventh year of imprisonment, he had a vision of Maria. He saw a garden. where a young girl, dressed in white, was gathering lilies. She smiled, and came near him, and encouraged him to accept an armful of the lilies. As he accepted them, each lily transformed into a still white flame. Maria then disappeared.

Alessandro's conversion was complete. When he was released from prison after serving 28 years, his first act was to travel to Maria's mother to beg her forgiveness. He then found a job as a gardener in a Capuchin monastery, a job he held for the rest of his life.

Along with 30 other witnesses, Alessandro testified as to Maria's sanctity during her Cause of Beatification. In 1950, she was canonized in a ceremony attended by a quarter million people, including her mother, the first mother ever to see her child canonized.

[la-pheacienne]

Me: Hugo isn't obsessed with details, you are just lazy fucks

Hugo: In the dining-room, a long and superb gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My Lords Charles Brulart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendome, Grand Prior of France, Abbe of Saint Honore de Lerins; Francois de Berton de Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; Cesar de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, Seignor of Glandeve; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez.

[wyrmsfornerves]

Hi! Younger artist here, I just saw your post with all those super cool monster designs and I took a quick stroll through your blog, and I was wondering if you had any specific inspirations for those designs or where you get inspo for character designs in general? Or perhaps some tidbits on how you learned how to make wild designs like that?

Sorry if this is a bit of a big ask, I just think it's really cool and I was curious!

Hello! Thank you for your question and apologies for taking so long to answer, I just got really excited and wanted to be thorough! 

My biggest piece of advice is research and develop a visual library of reference material! Your visual library is like a mental database of everything you’ve ever seen in your life, and this is what you can pull from to design concepts. 

There are a couple ways to start this as a practice: 

Notice what you see! It can be a chair, a sunset, a shoe, the light on a tree, but if you see something you think is beautiful or interesting, mentally make a note of it!

Document what you like! With computers and cameras this is a lot easier to do nowadays, but if you see something interesting to you, document it. You can draw it, or take/save a photo to folder. 

Organize it! I highly recommend coming up with a system for referencing back to find things, either through image tags or folders or even a manual filing system. 

Pay attention to your personal preferences and experiences. Try to think about what draws you to certain visual elements, identifying them can lead you to more things you like. Also pay attention to what you don’t like and why, it doesn’t necessarily need to be bad or amoral, we all have personal tastes. 

Get out of your comfort zone! I recommend trying to see something you’ve never seen before often. Find a new artist, a new genre, research a new type of design movement, go to a new place, etc. 

Try to find context for your research! For example, If you really love a specific era of fashion, research that time period and the way historical context informs it. Context can be really important, especially if you are working with references new to you!

Important Note 01: You don’t want to copy or rip-off these things. In my experience the best way to avoid that is to have a lot of reference points for any project and embrace your authentic personal interests, experiences, and identity. 

Important Note 02: Like any research, be conscious of primary person vs secondary sources! One is not better than another necessarily, but I find I work my best with a  mix of both. I like to start with primary sources and then move to secondary sources, Ie: looking at authentic suits of armor before moving to contemporary armor concept art. You don’t have to do this, it’s just something I find helpful. 

Important Note 03: While mostly I’m referring to visual references, audio, music, and writing are also super helpful!

Ok now, how do you curate all that for a project. For those monster illustrations I wanted to explore how color can be horrific. Keywords: Color & Horror. So I start looking through references for things that have the effect I want color wise, vivid and maximalist, and things that I find scary or horrifying. Here are some of the things I knew about or discovered during the research process that had the vibe I wanted. 

Notable Influences 

Color and Design 

Peruvian & Guatemalan Textiles and Traditional Clothing 

Spanish Traditional/Folk Clothing 

Sammezzano Castle, Italy

Nasir al-Mulk Mosque, Iran

Russian Traditional/Folk Costumes 

Fonthill Castle, Pennsylvania

Zhangye National Geopark

Nick Cave - sculpture artist

Lousie Zhang

Magnhild Kennedy - “Damselfrau”

Horror

Catacomb Saints

Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo

Japanese Yokai

Greek & Roman Mythology

Mandrills & Monkeys

Charles Fréger’s Photographs of  European Pagan Costuming

Avant Garde Fashion

Alexander McQueen

Vedas by  Nicolas Alan Cope and Dustin Edward Arnold 

Stephen Jones - Hats

Mummies

Reliquaries

Marina González Eme

Lorenzo Nanni

H.R Giger

Intersections of Color & Horror

Microscopic Imagery

Moths, Beetles & Shrimp

Suspiria (1977)

AJ Fosik

Hungry | Johannes J. Jaruraak

Once you’ve gathered these references in one place (like a moodboard, folder,  or Pinterest board) It’s time to pay attention to wear aesthetics intersect, what patterns are coming up, what proportions of color, what textures reoccur, what elements of clothing reoccur, etc.. What relationship do different images have with each other, what emotional effect do they create. 

Now that you’ve studied up, it’s time to sketch, try and create things that feel similar to the work you are looking at but not copy it, instead try mixing things together. Experiment! Let your personal style and preferences sink in! Interpret what you’ve learned!

From there, it’s more of a design process, how to use proportion, light, anatomy, perspective, form, repetition, etc, to create the desired effect. Then you refine and refine.

For new or different projects you repeat the process, maybe you use similar points of reference, maybe you go a completely different direction. 

Anyway that was long, but I hope it was helpful!

[anastpaul]

Saint/s of the Day – 7 August – Blessed Agathangelus Nourry OFM.Cap (1598-1638) and Blessed Cassian Vaz Lopez-Neto OFM Cap (1605-1638) Martyrs, Friars of the Capuchin branch of the Friar’s Minor, Missionaries. Agathangelus was born on 31 July 1598 near Vendome, France and died by being stoned to death or hanged with the cords of his own Habit (records vary) on 7 August 1638 at Dibauria, Abyssinia. Also known as – Agathangelo Noury, Agathangelus of Vendome, Agathangelus Noury, Agathange Noury of Vendôme.

(via Saint/s of the Day – 7 August – Blessed Agathangelus Nourry OFM.Cap (1598-1638) and Blessed Cassian Vaz Lopez-Neto OFM Cap (1605-1638) Martyrs – AnaStpaul)

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - M. Myriel Becomes M. Bienvenu, LM 1.1.2 (Les Miserables 1925)

The episcopal palace of Digne adjoins the hospital. The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology of the Faculty of Paris, Abbé of Simore, who had been Bishop of Digne in 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about it had a grand air,—the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb gallery which was situated on the ground floor and opened on the gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d’Embrun; Antoine de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendôme, Grand Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; César de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a table of white marble. The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a small garden.

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Veronica Giuliani

1660-1727

Feast day: July 9

Saint Veronica, an Italian Capuchin Poor Clare, whose baptismal name was Ursula, is one of the greatest mystics in the Church. Her life was one of the cross and pain, uniting her sufferings with Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection, eventually receiving the stigmata. In her Diary of 22,000 pages, we learn of her ecstatic visions of Jesus, saints, souls in purgatory and of the devil. St. Veronica was devoted to the Eucharist and Sacred Heart, trusting God totally, abandoning herself completely to His will. Her heart is incorrupt to this day.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[angeltreasure]

Hi Angel, I would really appreciate prayers!

Saint Pio Prayer

O God, You gave Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, Capuchin priest, the great privilege of participating in a unique way in the Passion of Your Son.

Grant anonymous through his intercession the grace needed the most which they desire; And above all, grant them the grace of living in conformity with the death of Jesus, to arrive at the glory of the resurrection.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT PIO OF PIETRELCINA (Padre Pio) Feast Day: September 23

"Pray, hope, and don't worry."

Pio of Pietrelcina was born Francesco Forgione to Grazio Mario Forgione and Maria Giuseppa Di Nunzio, both were peasant farmers in Pietrelcina, a town in the province of Benevento, in the southern region of Campania, Italy on May 25, 1887. He had an older brother, Michele, and three younger sisters, Felicita, Pellegrina, and Grazia (who was later to become a Bridgettine nun).

At a young age, he made the decision to dedicate his life to God, and began a life of penance. One day after listening to a Capuchin friar, who was seeking donations in the countryside, he determined to become a religious priest.

In 1903, he entered the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, and took the name of Pio. After his ordination seven years later in 1910, he was assigned to the mountain convent of San Giovanni Rotondo, near Foggia, where he remained his whole life. Pio was endowed with exceptional spiritual gifts, such as reading the soul of his penitents, bilocation, experiencing heavenly visions and ecstasies. On the other hand, he was constantly afflicted with physical illness. He believed that the love of God is inseparable from suffering, and that suffering for the sake of God is the sure way to reach him. Pio was often obsessed by the devil, who terrified him with horrible screams and loud noises, or by burning and destroying the furniture of his room, or by brutally beating his body.

In 1910, Padre Pio received the stigmata of Our Lord: red marks appeared in his chest, hands and feet, accompanied by acute pain. At times, he also experienced the pain of the crowning with thorns and of the scourging.

Padre Pio died on September 23, 1968 in San Giovanni Rotondo at the age of 81, after making his last confession and renewing his Franciscan vows, while holding a rosary in his hands. Millions of pilgrims visited San Giovanni Rotondo during his lifetime, and many more afterwards. Pio was beatified by Pope St. John Paul II on May 2, 1999, and canonized as a saint by the same pope on June 16, 2002 at the Vatican.

As Padre Pio had said: "After my death I will do more. My real mission will begin after my death."

[monasteryicons]

An icon of purity and forgiveness

Over 500,000 people from around the world gathered for Saint Maria’s canonization in Rome in 1950 – a testimony to the impact that her story and example had and still has on countless Christians.

Born in Italy in 1890, Saint Maria grew up in a family of poor sharecroppers. The family's search for work led them to the western coast of Italy, where shortly after her father died of malaria.

A struggle to the death

Her 19-year-old neighbor Allesandro became infatuated with the young girl and propositioned her several times, to no avail. On July 5, 1902 he could control himself no longer and made sexual advances to the young girl, who struggled as he strangled her and rebuffed him shouting "No! It is sin! God does not want it!" Allesandro's lust transformed to violent anger and he stabbed Maria fourteen times with a long knife.

“Father, forgive them…”

Doctors struggled in vain to save her life. She underwent surgery without anesthesia, and halfway through the surgery woke up. She insisted it stay that way. The hospital pharmacist asked Maria "Think of me in Paradise." "Who knows which of us is going to be there first," she said, looking at the old man. "You, Maria," he replied. "Then I will gladly think of you," she said. After twenty painful hours of suffering during which she forgave and prayed for her attacker, Maria passed to heavenly life fortified by the Last Sacraments, her last earthly gaze resting upon a picture of the Blessed Virgin.

One of the youngest canonized saints of the Catholic Church, Maria was pronounced a saint by Pope Pius XII fifty years later in 1950. Saint Maria's mother and her murderer attended the canonization ceremony together. Calling her a "Saint Agnes of the 20th century," the pope proposed her as a patroness of modern youth, and since then she has been venerated as icon of purity and the patron of young women and victims of rape. Half a million people attended the ceremony outside of Saint Peter's Basilica, When the pope asked them, "Young people, are you determined to resist any attack on your chastity with the help of the grace of God?" the resounding answer was "YES!"

A murderer repents

After thirty years of hard labor, Allesandro was released and visited Maria's mother, asking her pardon and accompanying her to Christmas Mass in the parish church where before the hushed congregation he acknowledged his sin and asked God's forgiveness and the pardon of the community. He became a laybrother at a Capuchin monastery, working as its receptionist and gardener until his death in 1970.

Her feast day is July 6th. Monastery Icons’ icon of Saint Maria is available in our full range of formats and sizes – plaques and prints from 4 inches to 5 feet tall.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (July 21)

St. Lawrence of Brindisi, whose feast we celebrate on July 21, is a Doctor of the Church.

He was born Caesar de Rossi on 22 July 1559 in Naples. As a boy, he studied with the Conventual Franciscans and later went to study in Venice.

There, he discerned a call to enter the Capuchin Franciscans and took the name Lawrence.

Fluent in Hebrew and expertly versed in the Bible, he worked as a diplomat for the secular powers in Europe and as a missionary.

In 1596, he was commissioned by the Pope to work for the conversion of the Jewish people and to combat the spread of Protestantism.

He was a great preacher and refused a second term as minister general of his order in favor of preaching.

He died on 22 July 1619.

He was beatified by Pope Pius VI on 1 June 1783 and was canonized by Pope Leo XIII on 8 December 1881.

In 1959, Pope John XXIII declared him Doctor of the Church with the title "Apostolic Doctor."

[why-bless-your-heart]

Hey, do you know anything off the top of your head about St Padre Pio of Pietrelcina?

Like, is he famous or something?

Particluarly revelvant to the situation of the last few years?

Something like that?

OhohoHO yes. He is famous.

St. Padre Pío was a priest, specifically a capuchin monk, not to be confused with the capuchin monkeys. He was a mystic and miracle-worker, known in his lifetime for his visions, levitation, discernment of souls, healing, bilocation, and stigmata (five supernaturally inflicted wounds that mimic the ones Christ received on the cross), which he bore for 50 years. He gave spiritual direction to Karol Wotjyla and prophesied his election to the position of pope (Pope St. John Paul the Great). He died September 23rd, 1968, and his body is incorruptible. There are. So many. Miracles attributed to him.

Despite being a saint whose life was marked by spectacle, his spirituality was always very grounded. He was always very shy of attention and would often be sharp with people who came to him in the confessional for his celebrity status instead of for the sacrament. The saying he is most known for is “Pray, hope, and don’t worry!”

As for any particular relevance of the last few years, he was an Italian who lived through both WWI and WWII. His time was marked by upheaval and panic, to which he responded with love of Christ and neighbor. Incidentally, he’s also the patron saint of teenagers and those suffering from stress.