#st Clement

[anastpaul]

St Clement I – Papacy (c88–c101) Pope Martyr, Miracle-worker. St Clement is considered to be the first Apostolic Father of the Church, one of the three chief ones together with St Polycarp and St Ignatius of Antioch. Papal Ascensi,on c 88. Born in Rome, Italy and died by drowning at Chersonesus, Taurica, Bosporan Kingdom (modern Greece). His Life and Death: https://anastpaul.com/2022/11/23/saint-of-the-day-23-november-st-clement-i-c-88-c-101-pope-martyr/ AND: https://anastpaul.com/2021/11/23/saint-of-the-day-23-november-st-pope-clement-i-died-c-101-martyr/

(via St Clement I – Papacy (c88–c 101) Pope Martyr, St Felicity, Widow, Martyr, St Columban and all the Saints for 23 November – AnaStpaul)

[forgeatsweetwater]

Wishing everyone, near and far, a very merry St. Clement's* Day!

(yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Thanksgiving in the US too, and Wolfenoot...but it's All About Clem!)

*one of the Patron Saints of blacksmiths and metalworkers

[scowling24-7]

The beach.

[maypoleman1]

23rd November

St Clement’s Day

Clement I Bishop of Rome (c1000 AD). Source: Wikipedia

Today is St Clement’s Day. Clement was one of the early bishops of Rome, held by the Roman Catholic Church to be the fourth Pope. He lived in the first century at a time when Christianity, whereas not yet attracting the wholesale persecution of future years, was being considered a subversive nuisance by the Roman Empire. Clement got the wrong side of the authorities during the reign of the Emperor Trajan and was allegedly executed by being tied to an anchor and thrown overboard to drown, which he did. This made him the patron saint of sailors and blacksmiths.

In former days Clementing parades took place in which mock anvils and axes were carried with Old Clem, a blacksmith in effigy, being the centrepiece. The parades would usually conclude with a feast, a bonfire and the ritual Firing the Anvil, in which a real anvil had a hole made in its side which was then filled with gunpowder and lit. This highly dangerous stunt would result in a loud explosion and the anvil being lifted high in the air, to the watching crowd’s delight unless the now lethal piece of ironmongery happened to land on someone. Celebration of St Clement’s Day was once very widespread but by the end of the nineteenth century it had completely died out, its traditions being subsumed into Bonfire Night.

[ashleywritesstuff]

A Christmas Eve bedtime story from my Queen, Gwendoline Christie.

[tinyshe]

“Let us fix our gaze on the Blood of Christ and realize how truly precious It is, seeing that It was poured out for our salvation and brought the grace of conversion to the whole world” (Pope St. Clement I).

[haveyoureadthispoem-poll]

"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house / Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; / The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, / In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there."

Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!

[empirearchives]

Napoleon with a puppy

🥺

[rangersfc-1872]

2024/25 SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP MATCH DAY 7

Rangers 2-0 St Johnstone 6th October 2024 Ibrox Stadium

Černý (34', 58'), Hagi (81' sent off)

[inlandvoid]

“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”

- Clement Clarke Moore (A Visit from St. Nicholas)

[anastpaul]

(via Quote/s of the Day – 23 November – St Clement I – AnaStpaul)

[thattowntertainment]

Winter holidays are a time for otherworld mischief; even before CC Moore [allegedly] penned his little rhyme.

We did a parody of that.

We also have this year’s Horrorama playlist.

Happy holidays to all and have a good fright.

[goldenlilium-ocs]

🌾 for Tara

~ @nightingaleflowlibrary

This is actually perfect timing because I’ve been thinking of making a partner for Tara to join the gang!

Tara isn’t someone to be viewed objectively. She’s not the muse, always the one behind the camera. Except to *him*. He sees nobody else but her, as cheesy as that sounds. It’s never hard to pick her out in a crowd. Not because of her colourful style or the fact that she’s usually the loudest in the room, but because of the energy she exudes. She radiates confidence and joy. She knows everyone and everyone knows her. It’s like she’s an omnipresent force. He wishes he could be the one to keep her grounded in time for just a moment

Asks here

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Men who offer laudatory speeches to the rich ... are insidious because, although mere abundance is by itself quite enough to puff up the souls of its possessors, and to corrupt them, and to turn them aside from the way by which salvation can be reached, these men bring fresh delusion to the minds of the rich by exciting them with the pleasures that come from their immoderate praises, and by rendering them contemptuous of absolutely everything in the world except the wealth which is the cause of their being admired. In the words of the proverb, they carry fire to fire, when they shower pride upon pride, and heap on wealth, heavy by its own nature, the heavier burden of arrogance.

Οἱ μὲν τοὺς ἐγκωμιαστικοὺς λόγους τοῖς πλουσίοις δωροφοροῦντες ... ἀσεβεῖς μέν, ὅτι παρέντες αἰνεῖν καὶ δοξάζειν τὸν μόνον τέλειον καὶ ἀγαθὸν θεόν, ἐξ οὗ τὰ πάντα καὶ δι᾿ οὗ τὰ πάντα καὶ εἰς ὃν τὰ πάντα, περιάπτουσι τούτου τὸ γέρας ἀνθρώποις ἐν ἀσώτῳ καὶ βορβορώδει βίῳ κυλινδουμένοις καὶ τὸ κεφάλαιον ὑποκειμένοις τῇ κρίσει τοῦ θεοῦ.

—St Clement of Alexandria (Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς), The Rich Man's Salvation (c 190 CE)

[Robert Scott Horton]

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