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3rd February

St Werburga’s Day

Icon of St Werburga of Chester from the Parish of St Elisabeth the New Martyr, Wallasey. Source: Saints’ Bridge website.

Today is St Werburga’s Day. Werburga was an early English royal convert to Christianity, being the daughter of Wulfhere, the first Christian king of Mercia. She became Abbess of Weedon Abbey in Northamptonshire (although she is most closely associated with Chester). Werburga has had attributed to her what must have been one of the oddest miracles performed by the Anglo-Saxon saints.

Apparently the countryside around the Abbey was plagued by a flock of ravenous and aggressive geese, so Werburga ordered the local farmers to co-operate and round up the annoying birds. The captive geese were brought before the Abbess and promptly repented of their anti social behaviour and promised Werburga that they would behave from now on. Unfazed by the conversational geese, Werburga freed her feathered prisoners. But the next day they were back, the chief gander complaining bitterly to her that one of his gang had gone missing and that, damningly, a set of goose bones had been spied inside the Abbey kitchen. Werburga had her cook brought forth who, under questioning, confessed to the crime. The saint, ever magnanimous, forgave the cook, but then demanded to see the bones, whereupon she reanimated them back into the bird who had been slaughtered, alive and well. At that the talking geese departed, well satisfied.

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SAINTS NOVEMBER 25

St. Catherine of Alexandria, Roman Catholic Virgin and Martyr whose feast day is November 25th. Fifty pagan philosophers are said to have debated with St Catherine, hoping to convince her to abjure her faith. Instead, Catherine converted them to Christianity. Furious, the Emperor ordered her to be put to death on a spiked wheel; but the wheel broke. Eventually, she was martyred by beheading. She is the patroness of philosophers and preachers.

St. Peter of Alexandria, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr. He is called the “seal and complement of martyrs” as he was the last Christian beheaded by Roman authorities. Feastday: November 25

ST. MOSES, MARTYR IN ROME Saint Moses of Rome. After the execution of Pope saint Fabian under Emperor Decius, he administered the Church with the help of the priests and bishops who were in Rome. Helped reconcile repentant apostates who were sick and about to die. Imprisoned for nearly a year for his faith. Martyr .Nov 25

St. Alnoth, 700 A.D. Herder and hermit, mentioned in the life of St. Werburga. Alnoth tended cows on the lands of St. Werburga's monastery at Weedon, in Northhampton, England. He was badly used by a local official, earning a reputation for holiness and patience. Alnoth retired from active life and became a hermit. Two robbers accosted him in his hermitage, slaying him. He is honored locally as a martyr, and his tomb at Stowe, near Bubrook in Northhampton, became a popular shrine for pilgrims.

B. LUIGI AND MARIA BELTRAME QUATTROCCHI, SPOUSES The riches of faith and love of the husband and wife Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi, are a living proof of what the Second Vatican Council said about the call of all the faithful to holiness, indicating that spouses should pursue this goal, " propriam viam sequentes", "following their own way" (Lumen gentium, n. 41). Nov. 25

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Unique Tudor Names

Surprisingly, not every person in Tudor England was named Thomas. Some of these names are actually cute and creative, but some are also very questionable. I found all of these from a list of women in the Tudor era.

Avis, Godlina, Millicent, Chrysogna, Griselda, Winifred, Levina, Marion, Lettice, Sybil, Thomasine, Werburga, Petronella, Sylvestra, Luisa, Isotta, Theophila, Christabel, Camilla, Dousabella, Prudentia, Welthian, Theodosia, Dorcas, Colubra, Aurelia, Eulalia, Blandina, Cordell, Miriam, Morphita, Frideswide, Marcella, Dionysia, Fionnuala, Gilles, Adeline, Nazaret, Arabella, Goditha, Honora, Sabine, Philadelphia, Alathea, Dinghen.

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Chester Cathedral: Shrine of Saint Werburga

[rtrixie]

You know what would help the Anglos a LOT in preserving their identity? Remembering their countless native Saints, from Ss. Edmund to Guthlac to Werburga to Alban to Aidan to Chad(!) and so many more! Tragically, the Normans and Protestants both decimated what was once truly an isle of hundreds of holies, so far too many are now obscure and local or just forgotten. Of course the Orthodox venerate them the most now. Heavy Anglo Orthodox blogspot has a great series on them.

This is true. So much was lost especially during the closing of the monasteries and later the puritan outgrowths of protestantism, it’s tragic.

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Η Αγία Βερβούργα γιορτάζει σήμερα 3 Φεβρουαρίου 2021

Η Αγία Βερβούργα (Werburga ή Werburgh ή Wereburga ή Wereburg ή Verbourg) είναι προστάτιδα του Τσέστερ (Chester) και ήταν ηγουμένη στα μοναστήρια του Weedon, Trentham, Hanbury, Minster στο Sheppy και Ely. Γεννήθηκε στο Staffordshire τον έβδομο αιώνα μ.Χ. και κοιμήθηκε στο Trentham, στις 3 Φεβρουαρίου μεταξύ των ετών 699 μ.Χ. και 707 μ.Χ.Continue reading

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I was away in Northumberland so this episode was also delayed. I’ll try to be more diligent in the future, but each of these posts does take a fair few hours of my time. Stupid garbage series.

‘Message to the Emperor’ William Compton dies of the “sweating sickness” at Compton Wynates, his house in Warwickshire. As King Henry VIII receives positive news of his war against Emperor Charles, the sickness spreads like a wildfire. Henry flees the palace and London, and starts having doubts about the future and his ability to rule the country. Both Anne Boleyn and Cardinal Wolsey are stricken with the disease, but recover. Wolsey sends agents to the exiled Pope asking for him to make a favorable decision on Henry’s ‘Great Matter’ but Clement instead sends his legate, Cardinal Campeggio, to make a final decision in England.

Sickness! Everyone is scared and dying! Plague imagery!

Straight Out of Warwickshire

This episode is focusing mainly on the 1528 outbreak of the Sweating Sickness. This is an unusual illness in that it occurred mainly in England from 1485 to 1551 and then vanished. No one is quite sure what it was (although there are researchers who think that it may be an unknown species of hantavirus) but it was pretty serious as sufferers did not gain immunity – you could catch it again and again until you sweated yourself to death. It was not a pleasant illness.

Anyway, William Compton is being punished for the GAY by being the first to catch the disease. In the middle of rural Warwickshire. Even though epicentres for outbreaks for the Sweat were in busy city centres.

Yeah, disease works that way.

The doctor cuts open William Compton’s back in a display of ‘Wow, medicine was so backwards and disgusting five hundred years ago! It was so stupid and people were so stupid because they believed in the theory of the four humours!’. Well, to that I say, you’re stupid actually. Medicine and doctors did not aim to cure sickness in the sixteenth century. That’s a modern perspective. A doctor is there to make a patient feel better – but the ultimate cure is dependant on the will of God. A Tudor doctor will make you feel better and comfortable, but if you’re trying to get him to prepare an actual cure to combat disease, you’re not asking the right guy.

Not surprisingly, seeing as he died in real life, Compton cops it. This random woman is his ‘common-law wife’ Mary Hastings.

That would actually be his second wife, Elizabeth Stonor, who was pregnant at the time of Compton’s death. He had been married before to Werburga Bereton and had three children. I guess they’re cutting out Peter Compton – his son – out of this to avoid pissing off the real Compton family.

William Compton’s family does still exist, by the way. They’re the Marquesses of Northampton, and they still live in the same home used by William Compton.

But Thomas Tallis has come to see what has happened to his lover. He passes by this ALREADY EXISTING MASS GRAVE BECAUSE LOOK IT’S ALREADY FULL OF SKELETONS –

And William’s body has just been thrown into a quick grave. Even though it wasn’t, and he was buried in the chapel. Which you can still go see.

Our romantic subplot never went anywhere yet the audience needs some kind of emotion…

ROCKE ANYDE ROLLE

Thomas is sad for about ten seconds while he writes a sad song for this lost beloved. Then he sleeps with one of the Fucking Sisters.

So much for the gay agenda, I suppose.

But she dies, so I guess that this epidemic is purely spread by Thomas Tallis sleeping with people. Either way, this whole subplot was meant to have some sort of emotional resonance but it merely annoys me for being needlessly designed to promote controversy and ‘naughtiness’.

I’m Henry VIII and I’m Mortally Terrified of Death

Henry doesn’t take news of this epidemic very well. That’s very much based on real life, as the real Henners was terrified of disease and illness. His brother had died young, and with Henry having no real male heirs, there was a high chance that the Tudor dynasty would come to a complete end or would result in another highly devastating English civil war.

A lot of Henry’s actions make much more sense when you realise he was on a constant knife edge of fear pretty much all the time.

Do you guys wanna buy some drugs?

Henry did really create and mix his own herbal remedies for conditions and to ward off illness. I have no idea whether they were effective or not (I’m saying probably not) but he didn’t die of the Sweat, so kudos.

Henry and Anne decide to frolic in the countryside with the new French ambassador, only to come back to London to find a rampaging zombie mob of sick people. Henry leaves Anne to the mob (what a guy) to make her own way home, orders Katherine to travel to Wales, and that he will stay in Whitehall by himself for… reasons.

In actuality, Henry left London. Like he did every summer, because he wasn’t stupid and knew that disease spreads in city centres and that it was most prevalent in the summer months. He may not have known about viruses and bacterium but IRL Henry knew enough to realise that staying in London in the middle of a really serious disease outbreak is just the worst thing you could do.

The pain on Maria Doyle Kennedy’s face as Henry says he still loves her enough to save her and offers her a kiss is both beautiful and heart-breaking. Stop searching for emotional moments with ridiculous subplots, writers. This should be the emotional heart of the show.

Anne’s maid, however, catches and dies of the Sweat within a day and Anne catches the disease while nursing her. It’s said that’s how she actually got the Sweat, and it would make sense. The modern world’s view of the employer/servant dynamic is very much shaped by the Victorian ideals, with master being far, far, far above the lowly servant. It was different in the sixteenth century, with the boundaries being far more blurred and not as distant. Your servant was a reflection and part of you, in a way, and not subject to the whole ‘must be invisible and never seen around the house’. Servants were an integral part of the household, and in a society that did not hold individualisation as the philosophical ideal, it was pretty likely you’d be close with your personal servants. Most would even sleep in the same room as you, on a trunkle bed from beneath your own. They would be there to serve you and your body for nearly all of the day, and so, it makes sense why Anne should care so much for someone who should matter not at all to her personally.

There’s a lot of changes to our society that the Enlightenment made and we presume that they apply to all of history. How we treat those in service is one.

Henry sits down and eats a whole plate of salmon to himself, because he’s a big fat pig who can’t control himself. Or some other such clever observation. But it turns out that being on your own in a palace full of sick people is scary…

If… only I’d had time… to be more evil…

Even Cardinal Wolsey is sick so Henry must escape!

Are you in Northumberland? How the fuck did you get there?

Oh my god, I’m an orc!

Henry freaks out because he’s convinced he’s going to die, but he’s fine.

Anne gets better (although her brother-in-law, Mary’s husband, died in the outbreak, as well as countless others, including the wife and daughters of Thomas Cromwell), so it’s all fine.

Squishy, reunited true love.

This Isn’t a Great Matter, It’s Merely an Okay One

Despite all of this, Henry’s quest for an annulment continues on. England and France are now allied against the Emperor, all that war stuff behind them.

Henry’s annoyed that the Emperor hasn’t impregnated his underage daughter, but Wolsey is sending lawyers to the Pope that will smooth all this matter over shortly. After all, why should the Pope, a virtual prisoner to the Emperor, support the Emperor?

I have no idea.

Wolsey is a FUGLY BIATCH.

Katherine, meanwhile, has been communicating secretly with the Emperor and is assured that he won’t let the annulment happen.

In all honesty, the only real reason (in my opinion) why the annulment couldn’t happen is that of the influence of the Emperor Charles. There have been other kings who have received annulments in far worse circumstances – for instance, Louis XII of France annulled his marriage to his wife Joan in far seamier circumstances, alleging that her body was deformed and it was impossible to have sex with her. The timing of Henry’s annulment just sucked. If only he’d tried earlier, I’m fairly sure that the Pope would have granted it.

The Pope (Clement VII, to be clear, as his name is never actually said in show thus far) is not particularly warm to Henry’s case. He doesn’t think that Henry’s drive to marry Anne is a particularly good reason – and he’s not exactly in a position to piss off the Holy Roman Emperor. So he’s sending a Cardinal to hold a court with Wolsey to decide on the marriage.

I kind of low-key love Cardinal Campeggio. He is the definition of ‘over it’. He doesn’t want to go to England, he doesn’t want to be involved, he wants none of it. It’s going to go well, you can tell.

You Simply Must – Oh Holy God, Thomas

Thomas More gets pretty creepy in this episode. Firstly, he starts to act like an apocalypse cult leader towards his family when the Sweat is rampaging around London.

He then starts talking about the real disease that’s killing people. Do you know what the real disease is, family? Protestantism.

Thomas, people are dying.

  Thomas is against violence, but the only way to cure a disease is to kill all those with criticisms of the Catholic Church by burning them alive.

Thomas, you’ve got some issues.

Walk, Walk, Passion, Baby, Work It, Move that Bitch Crazy

Ugh.

That’s Da Vinci’s La Belle Ferronière. It’s from the 1490s. I am fed up of these shitty cheap pseduo-medieval gowns that have nothing to do with the 1520s but look like continental gowns from thirty years before. It shouldn’t be difficult to get it right! It would surely take more effort to get these specifically continental designs of medieval outfit than just asking for Tudor gowns from costumiers!

This! This is what your ladies need to be wearing! There’s such a huge difference and it makes me very angry and frustrated. The shapes, styles, fabrics, weights, and flow of fabric are so completely different!

And the characters don’t wear enough jewellery. There should be more jewellery.

Is that… is that an over-gown with padded shoulders? In the heraldic Tudor colours? I’m shocked. It’s almost great, apart from the long trousers.

Thomas More wants to burn people alive because you’re all dressed so badly.

This is actually Thomas More with his family. Who are dressed correctly and not in a cheap approximation of ‘YE OLDE ENGLANDE’.

An eighteenth century shawl on a cheap Primark medieval wench dress. Poor.

Okay, for a start, this lady is wearing a corset on the outside. Uh uh. But you know what I want to wear when I’m someone who spends my time cleaning and picking up after people? Flimsy, transparent, white sleeves that will instantly get dirty, damaged, and ruined when I do the slightest amount of work.

YAS Thomas Boleyn, YAS. Good outfit! And something halfway decent for Anne, for once.

No one cares about your cleavage, Henners, And don’t wear your leather jacket to the table.

Monogrammed royal boxer shorts. Uh, nope. Put on a nightshirt, love, no one wants to see that.

And that’s the end of the sweating sickness. Do you feel good that you survived? Come back next time for more bad history, questionable writing, and terrible clothes.

Unpicking the Tudors; S1 E7 I was away in Northumberland so this episode was also delayed. I'll try to be more diligent in the future, but each of these posts does take a fair few hours of my time.

[churchcrawler]

St Werburgh's, Bristol by Robert Cutts Via Flickr: St Werburgh's Church was once a City Church. It had been erected in 1761 in Corn Street, Bristol, and dedicated to St Werburga who is said to be the daughter of Wulferus, the 7th-century king of Mercia. But, a century later, Corn Street had become an important thoroughfare and the church was a bottleneck. When it was decided to widen the street in the mid 1870s part of the plan was to demolish the church. However, to placate the conservationalists, it was decided to relocate it. In 1878, the process of moving it brick by brick a couple of miles northeast began. Its new venue was the far end of Mina Street just west of the Narroways Hill Station on the old Great Western Railway. The area around the relocated church soon became known as St Werburgh's. As the 20th century progressed the importance of Corn Street as an arterial route diminished to the extent that, towards the end of the century, the part beyond Small Street was pedestrianised

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Το παρασκήνιο της εκλογής του νέου Μητροπολίτη Κεφαλληνίας

του Βαγγέλη Μαζαράκη

Δεν έχουν περάσει ούτε σαράντα ημέρες καλά καλά από το θάνατο του τελευταίου μητροπολίτη αλλά οι ζυμώσεις και το παρασκήνιο για την εκλογή του νέου είναι σε έξαρση τις τελευταίες ημέρες.

Αδελφικά μαχαιρώματα, συζητήσεις επί συζητήσεων, ταξίματα, κουβέντες και πλησιάσματα κυριαρχούν αυτόν τον δεκαπενταύγουστο. Η Κεφαλονιά την περίοδο αυτή ευτύχησε στον ίδιο κήπο να φυτρώνουν όμορφα, ευωδιαστά λουλούδια και πολύ σκληρά αγκάθια που θέλουν με κάθε τρόπο να πνίξουν τα πρώτα.

Κρίνω ότι επειδή έχω την τύχη να γνωρίζω μερικά πράγματα, δεν θα έπρεπε τη στιγμή αυτή να σιωπήσω. Και δεν πρέπει γιατί σε αντίθεση με το πρόσφατο παρελθόν λίγα πράγματα βγαίνουν προς τα έξω με αποτέλεσμα να κινδυνεύουμε να την πατήσουμε σαν τις μωρές παρθένους.

Η Κεφαλονιά κατά τη γνώμη μου θέλει ένα νέο δεσπότη, οπωσδήποτε Κεφαλλονίτη, ο οποίος να μπορεί ως εις εξ ημών να μας ανεχθεί και να τον ανεχθούμε. Πρέπει να έχει διάφανη γνωστή βιωτή και τα πάντα τα σχετικά με τη ζωή του να τα γνωρίζουν οι πάντες.

Μητροπολίτης που θα ρθει από το πουθενά και δεν θα είναι και Κεφαλλονίτης, θα πρέπει να γνωρίζει ότι έχει να αντιμετωπίσει τους …..μεγάθυμους αλλά και οξύθυμους συμπατριώτες μας, οι οποίοι πολλές φορές στον εκκλησιαστικό χώρο δρουν σύμφωνα με τη ρήση «θέλοντας ο βλάχος και μη θέλων ο ζωγράφος φορέσαν στο Χριστό τσαρούχια».

Καταλαβαίνουν τι θέλω να πω αυτοί που πρέπει. Επίσης, θα πρέπει να γνωρίζει ότι θα αντιμετωπίσει μια κινδυνεύουσα να χάσει τα προνόμια – τα όποια προνόμια θεωρεί πως κέκτηται,- ομάδα η οποία θεωρείται προστατευόμενη πρώην Μητροπολίτη και η οποία έχοντας αποκτήσει πρόσβαση στη σύνοδο (λάθος το νομίζει, αλλά το νομίζει) προσπαθεί να εξασφαλίσει την επόμενη ημέρα για αυτήν πλησιάζοντας έναν των υποψηφίων που φαίνεται να έχει την….. αυλική εύνοια.

Θέλω ξεκάθαρα να δηλώσω ότι θεωρώ τόσο τον Κερνίτσης Χρύσανθο όσο και τον Αρχιμανδρίτη Νικόλαο Χαρτουλιάρη, αξίους να είναι οι δυο του τριπρόσωπου με τρίτον τον εκλεκτό των συνοδικών μεγάρων και ένας εκ των δυο να εκλεγεί Κεφαλληνίας. . Γνωρίζω και το όνομα και τη θέση του τρίτου αλλά δεν είναι ακόμη η ώρα για αποκαλύψεις.

Απορίας άξιον είναι τι εν προκειμένω πράττουν οι αρχές και οι εξουσίες του τόπου που στο πρόσφατο παρελθόν επέδειξαν και καλώς, ζηλευτή δράση. Διερωτώμαι αν εξέλειπαν οι λόγοι για τους οποίους και σωστά αγωνίστηκαν για την τελευταία εκλογή; Ή πλέον δε μας νοιάζει ας έρθει όποιος και να είναι, και ας γίνει ότι και αν γίνει;

Ελπίζω ότι θα πρέπει σύντομα να ενεργοποιηθούν οι πάντες σε τοπικό επίπεδο και στο χέρι μας είναι να αναδειχθεί ο Μητροπολίτης που χρειάζεται και ο οποίος θα πρέπει να ξεκινήσει από το άνοιγμα της ντουλάπας με τους κρυμμένους σκελετούς που σίγουρα υπάρχουν. ….οψόμεθα.

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[silvestromedia]

SAINTS FOR FEBRUARY 03

Bl. John Nelson, 1578 A.D. Jesuit martyr of England, a native of Skelton, near York. He was ordained at Douai at the age of forty. Sent to London in 1576, he was arrested in London and martyred at Tyburn by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. John became a Jesuit just before his death.

ST. BLAISE, BISHOP OF SEBASTE AND MARTYR-A physician in Armenia who was made a bishop, he is attributed with many miracles. One of these involved the miraculous removal of a fish bone from a young boy’s throat – which is why he is considered protector from throat diseases. After refusing to deny the Faith, he was beheaded in 316.

St. Margaret of England. Cistercian nun. She was born in Hungary, to an English mother who was related to St. Thomas of Canterbury, England. She went with her mother on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and lived a life of austerity and penance in Bethlehem. Her mother died there, and Margaret made pilgrimages to Montserrat, in Spain, and to Puy, France. There she entered the Cistercian convent at Suave-Benite. When she died, her tomb became a pilgrimage shrine.

St. Werburga, 699 A.D. Benedictine nun and patroness of Chester, England. The daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia and St. Ermenilda, she was born in Staffordshire. Werburga resolutely refused to marry, insisting instead that she become a nun at Ely. After studying under St. Etheldreda, she departed the convent of Ely in 675 and assisted her uncle Ethelred, who was now king, in reforming the convents of the realm. She also founded communities at Hanbury, Trentham, and in Wedon, in Northamptonshire. Her remains were transferred from Trentham to Chester, where she became venerated as the patron saint of the city. She was reputed to have the ability to read the minds of others and was revered in her lifetime for miracles.

St. Werburg, 785 A.D. Widow and abbess. A woman from Mercia, England, she became a nun after her husband died. Werburg entered a convent, possibly Bardney, where she became abbess.

St. Caellainn, 6th century. Irish saint also called Caoilfionn. She is listed in the Martymlogy of Donegal, and a church in Roscommon is named in her honor.

ST. ANSGAR, BISHOP OF HAMBURG AND BREMEN, APOSTLE OF SCANDINAVIA

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SAINTS NOVEMBER 25

St. Catherine of Alexandria, Roman Catholic Virgin and Martyr whose feast day is November 25th. Fifty pagan philosophers are said to have debated with St Catherine, hoping to convince her to abjure her faith. Instead, Catherine converted them to Christianity. Furious, the Emperor ordered her to be put to death on a spiked wheel; but the wheel broke. Eventually, she was martyred by beheading. She is the patroness of philosophers and preachers.

St. Peter of Alexandria, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr. He is called the “seal and complement of martyrs” as he was the last Christian beheaded by Roman authorities. Feastday: November 25

ST. MOSES, MARTYR IN ROME Saint Moses of Rome. After the execution of Pope saint Fabian under Emperor Decius, he administered the Church with the help of the priests and bishops who were in Rome. Helped reconcile repentant apostates who were sick and about to die. Imprisoned for nearly a year for his faith. Martyr .Nov 25

St. Alnoth, 700 A.D. Herder and hermit, mentioned in the life of St. Werburga. Alnoth tended cows on the lands of St. Werburga's monastery at Weedon, in Northhampton, England. He was badly used by a local official, earning a reputation for holiness and patience. Alnoth retired from active life and became a hermit. Two robbers accosted him in his hermitage, slaying him. He is honored locally as a martyr, and his tomb at Stowe, near Bubrook in Northhampton, became a popular shrine for pilgrims.

B. LUIGI AND MARIA BELTRAME QUATTROCCHI, SPOUSES The riches of faith and love of the husband and wife Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi, are a living proof of what the Second Vatican Council said about the call of all the faithful to holiness, indicating that spouses should pursue this goal, " propriam viam sequentes", "following their own way" (Lumen gentium, n. 41). Nov. 25

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SAINTS FOR FEBRUARY 03

Bl. John Nelson, 1578 A.D. Jesuit martyr of England, a native of Skelton, near York. He was ordained at Douai at the age of forty. Sent to London in 1576, he was arrested in London and martyred at Tyburn by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. John became a Jesuit just before his death.

St. Margaret of England. Cistercian nun. She was born in Hungary, to an English mother who was related to St. Thomas of Canterbury, England. She went with her mother on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and lived a life of austerity and penance in Bethlehem. Her mother died there, and Margaret made pilgrimages to Montserrat, in Spain, and to Puy, France. There she entered the Cistercian convent at Suave-Benite. When she died, her tomb became a pilgrimage shrine.

St. Werburga, 699 A.D. Benedictine nun and patroness of Chester, England. The daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia and St. Ermenilda, she was born in Staffordshire. Werburga resolutely refused to marry, insisting instead that she become a nun at Ely. After studying under St. Etheldreda, she departed the convent of Ely in 675 and assisted her uncle Ethelred, who was now king, in reforming the convents of the realm. She also founded communities at Hanbury, Trentham, and in Wedon, in Northamptonshire. Her remains were transferred from Trentham to Chester, where she became venerated as the patron saint of the city. She was reputed to have the ability to read the minds of others and was revered in her lifetime for miracles.

St. Werburg, 785 A.D. Widow and abbess. A woman from Mercia, England, she became a nun after her husband died. Werburg entered a convent, possibly Bardney, where she became abbess.

St. Caellainn, 6th century. Irish saint also called Caoilfionn. She is listed in the Martymlogy of Donegal, and a church in Roscommon is named in her honor.

ST. BLAISE, BISHOP OF SEBASTE AND MARTYR-A physician in Armenia who was made a bishop, he is attributed with many miracles. One of these involved the miraculous removal of a fish bone from a young boy’s throat – which is why he is considered protector from throat diseases. After refusing to deny the Faith, he was beheaded in 316.

ST. ANSGAR, BISHOP OF HAMBURG AND BREMEN, APOSTLE OF SCANDINAVIA

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St. Alnoth, 700 A.D. Herder and hermit, mentioned in the life of St. Werburga. Alnoth tended cows on the lands of St. Werburga's monastery at Weedon, in Northhampton, England. He was badly used by a local official, earning a reputation for holiness and patience. Alnoth retired from active life and became a hermit. Two robbers accosted him in his hermitage, slaying him. He is honored locally as a martyr, and his tomb at Stowe, near Bubrook in Northhampton, became a popular shrine for pilgrims.

St. Catherine of Alexandria, Roman Catholic Virgin and Martyr whose feast day is November 25th. Fifty pagan philosophers are said to have debated with St Catherine, hoping to convince her to abjure her faith. Instead, Catherine converted them to Christianity. Furious, the Emperor ordered her to be put to death on a spiked wheel; but the wheel broke. Eventually, she was martyred by beheading. She is the patroness of philosophers and preachers.

St. Peter of Alexandria, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr. He is called the “seal and complement of martyrs” as he was the last Christian beheaded by Roman authorities. Feastday: November 25

B. LUIGI AND MARIA BELTRAME QUATTROCCHI, SPOUSES The riches of faith and love of the husband and wife Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi, are a living proof of what the Second Vatican Council said about the call of all the faithful to holiness, indicating that spouses should pursue this goal, " propriam viam sequentes", "following their own way" (Lumen gentium, n. 41). Nov. 25

ST. MOSES, MARTYR IN ROME Saint Moses of Rome. After the execution of Pope saint Fabian under Emperor Decius, he administered the Church with the help of the priests and bishops who were in Rome. Helped reconcile repentant apostates who were sick and about to die. Imprisoned for nearly a year for his faith. Martyr .Nov 25

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Bl. John Nelson, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr. He was arrested in London and martyred at Tyburn by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. Feastday February 3

St. Margaret of England. Cistercian nun. She was born in Hungary, to an English mother who was related to St. Thomas of Canterbury, England. She went with her mother on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and lived a life of austerity and penance in Bethlehem. Her mother died there, and Margaret made pilgrimages to Montserrat, in Spain, and to Puy, France. There she entered the Cistercian convent at Suave-Benite. When she died, her tomb became a pilgrimage shrine.

St. Anatolius, 9th century. Scottish bishop and hermit. Anatolius left his see and Scotland to make a pilgrimage to Rome. He became a hermit at Salins, France. Another tradition states that Anatolius was a bishop in Galicia, Spain.

St. Werburg, 785 A.D. Widow and abbess. A woman from Mercia, England, she became a nun after her husband died. Werburg entered a convent, possibly Bardney, where she became abbess.

St. Werburga, 699 A.D. Benedictine nun and patroness of Chester, England. The daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia and St. Ermenilda, she was born in Staffordshire. Werburga resolutely refused to marry, insisting instead that she become a nun at Ely. After studying under St. Etheldreda, she departed the convent of Ely in 675 and assisted her uncle Ethelred, who was now king, in reforming the convents of the realm. She also founded communities at Hanbury, Trentham, and in Wedon, in Northamptonshire. Her remains were transferred from Trentham to Chester, where she became venerated as the patron saint of the city. She was reputed to have the ability to read the minds of others and was revered in her lifetime for miracles.

St. Caellainn, 6th century. Irish saint also called Caoilfionn. She is listed in the Martymlogy of Donegal, and a church in Roscommon is named in her honor.

ST. ANSGAR, BISHOP OF HAMBURG AND BREMEN, APOSTLE OF SCANDINAVIA. The “apostle of the north” (Scandinavia) had enough frustrations to become a saint—and he did. He became a Benedictine at Corbie, France, where he had been educated. Three years later, when the king of Denmark became a convert, Ansgar went to that country for three years of missionary work, without noticeable success. Feb. 3

ST. BLAISE, BISHOP OF SEBASTE AND MARTYR. A physician in Armenia who was made a bishop, he is attributed with many miracles. One of these involved the miraculous removal of a fish bone from a young boy’s throat – which is why he is considered protector from throat diseases. After refusing to deny the Faith, he was beheaded in 316. Feb. 3

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ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS February 3 St. Anatolius, 9th century. Scottish bishop and hermit. Anatolius left his see and Scotland to make a pilgrimage to Rome. He became a hermit at Salins, France. Another tradition states that Anatolius was a bishop in Galicia, Spain.  

St. Werburg, 785 A.D. Widow and abbess. A woman from Mercia, England, she became a nun after her husband died. Werburg entered a convent, possibly Bardney, where she became abbess.  

St. Werburga, 699 A.D. Benedictine nun and patroness of Chester, England. The daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia and St. Ermenilda, she was born in Staffordshire. Werburga resolutely refused to marry, insisting instead that she become a nun at Ely. After studying under St. Etheldreda, she departed the convent of Ely in 675 and assisted her uncle Ethelred, who was now king, in reforming the convents of the realm. She also founded communities at Hanbury, Trentham, and in Wedon, in Northamptonshire. Her remains were transferred from Trentham to Chester, where she became venerated as the patron saint of the city. She was reputed to have the ability to read the minds of others and was revered in her lifetime for miracles.  

St. Caellainn, 6th century. Irish saint also called Caoilfionn. She is listed in the Martymlogy of Donegal, and a church in Roscommon is named in her honor.  

Bl. John Nelson, 1578 A.D. Jesuit martyr of England, a native of Skelton, near York. He was ordained at Douai at the age of forty. Sent to London in 1576, he was arrested in London and martyred at Tyburn by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. John became a Jesuit just before his death.  

St. Margaret of England. Cistercian nun. She was born in Hungary, to an English mother who was related to St. Thomas of Canterbury, England. She went with her mother on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and lived a life of austerity and penance in Bethlehem. Her mother died there, and Margaret made pilgrimages to Montserrat, in Spain, and to Puy, France. There she entered the Cistercian convent at Suave-Benite. When she died, her tomb became a pilgrimage shrine.