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Feast of Mary Help of Christians

The Feast of Mary Help of Christians was instituted by Pope Pius VI. To commemorate his own sufferings and those of the church during his exile Pope Pius VII extended the feast of the Seven Dolours of Mary to the Catholic Church on 18 September 1814. To give thanks to God and Our Lady, on 15 September 1815 he declared 24 May, the anniversary of his first return, to be henceforth the feast of Our Lady, Help of Christians.

The Marian feast has been celebrated by the Order of Servites since the 17th century. The veneration to Mary became popular under this title in Rome especially, where the feast was especially promoted by John Bosco and Vincent Pallotti. Bosco was an ardent promoter of devotion to “Mary, Help of Christians”. He built a huge basilica in her honour in 1868 and founded a religious congregation for women, under the title of, “The Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians”.

The church focuses in this feast on the role of Our Lady’s intercession in the fight against sin in the life of a believer. In addition, it focuses on Our Lady as one who assists Christians as a community, through her intercession, in fighting against anti-Christian forces.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Help_of_Christians#:~:text=Mary%2C%20the%20Help%20of%20Christians,Roman%20Calendar%20on%2024%20May.

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Saint Cristóbal Magallanes Jara

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Saint Cristóbal Magallanes Jara, also known as Christopher Magallanes, was born in Totatiche, Jalisco, Mexico. He worked as a shepherd in his youth and enrolled in the Conciliar Seminary of San José in Guadalajara at the age of 19.

Saint Cristóbal Magallanes Jara was ordained at the age of 30 at Santa Teresa in Guadalajara in 1899 and served as chaplain of the School of Arts and Works of the Holy Spirit in Guadalajara. He was then designated as the parish priest for his hometown of Totatiche, where he helped found schools and carpentry shops and assisted in planning for hydrological works, including the dam of La Candelaria.

He took special interest in the evangelization of the local indigenous Huichol people and was instrumental in the foundation of the mission in the indigenous town of Azqueltán. In July 1915, he opened the Auxiliary Seminary of Totatiche, which achieved a student body of 17 students by the following year and was recognized by the Archbishop of Guadalajara, José Francisco Orozco y Jiménez, who appointed a precept and two professors to the seminary.

Saint Cristóbal Magallanes Jara wrote and preached against armed rebellion, but was falsely accused of promoting the Cristero Rebellion in the area. He was martyred, being killed without trial on the way to say Mass during the Cristero War.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crist%C3%B3bal_Magallanes_Jara

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Saint Bernardino of Siena

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Saint Bernardino of Siena was an Italian priest and Franciscan missionary preacher in Italy. He was born in 1380 to the noble Albizzeschi family in Massa Marittima, Tuscany. He was left orphaned at six, he was raised by a pious aunt.

In 1397, after a course of civil and canon law, he joined the Confraternity of Our Lady attached to the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala. Three years later, when the plague visited Siena, he ministered to the plague-stricken, and, assisted by ten companions, took upon himself for four months entire charge of this hospital.

In 1403 he joined the Observant branch of the Order of Friars Minor (the Franciscan Order). He was ordained a priest in 1404 and was commissioned as a preacher the next year.

He was a systematizer of Scholastic economics. His preaching, his book burnings, and his “bonfires of the vanities” made him famous/infamous during his own lifetime because they were frequently directed against sorcery, gambling, infanticide, witchcraft, homosexuals, Jews, Romani “Gypsies”, usury, etc. For more than 30 years, he preached all over Italy and played a great part in the religious revival of the early fifteenth century, which made him known as “the Apostle of Italy”.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardino_of_Siena

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Saint Theophilus of Corte

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Saint Theophilus of Corte was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor. He loved silence and solitude and found it a better method of communication with the Lord while exhorting his fellow Franciscans to do the same to reflect on the goodness of God.

He studied under the Franciscans and in 1693 he joined their order and assumed his religious name. He completed his theological studies in Rome with distinctions and began his theological studies in Naples. He made his profession in Salerno in 1694 and was ordained to the priesthood in Naples at the convent of Santa Maria La Nova. He founded houses for the order in the Tuscan region and in Corscia in places such as Zuani and Fucecchio.

He was a reformer who become known for his preaching and evangelization efforts. He was known for his cheerful demeanor and his willingness to assist others while also known for his tireless dedication to silence and solitude which he exhorted his fellow friars to exercise in order to better commune with God.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_of_Corte

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Saint Paschal Baylón

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Saint Paschal Baylon was a Spanish Roman Catholic lay professed religious of the Order of Friars Minor. He was born in Torrehermosa. From his seventh to his twenty-fourth year, he led the life of a shepherd, and during the whole of that period exercised a salutary influence upon his companions.

He was at first denied the chance to join the Franciscans on account of his age, prompting him to return to his duties as a shepherd. In 1564 he joined the Reformed Franciscans as a religious brother. He was urged to become an ordained priest but he felt that was not the path for him.

He lived this life in contemplation and silent meditation, often as he worked. He was a contemplative and had frequent ecstatic visions. He would spend the night before the altar in silence some nights. But he also shrugged off those notions of him gaining a reputation coming from that pious nature.

As porter his duties entailed tending to the poor who came to the friars’ door. Paschal gained a reputation for his remarkable humility, unfailing courtesy, and generosity. He was best known for his strong and deep devotion to the Eucharist.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschal_Bayl%C3%B3n

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Saint Honoratus of Amiens

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Saint Honoratus of Amiens was the seventh bishop of Amiens. He was born in Port-le-Grand near Amiens to a noble family. Noting his pious inclinations, his family entrusted his education to his predecessor in the bishopric of Amiens, Saint Beatus.

Saint Honoratus resisted being elected bishop of Amiens, believing himself unworthy of this honour. During his bishopric, he discovered the relics of Victoricus, Fuscian, and Gentian, which had remained hidden for 300 years.

His devotion was widespread in France following reports of numerous miracles when his body was exhumed in 1060. After his death, his relics were invoked against drought and floods to ensure a good wheat harvest.

Saint Honoré is the patron of a Carthusian establishment at Abbeville, which was founded in 1306. He is the patron saint of bakers and pastry chefs.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honoratus_of_Amiens

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Saint Isidore the Laborer

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Saint Isidore the Labourer, also known as Saint Isidore the Farmer, was born in Madrid. He spent his life as a hired hand in the service of the wealthy Madrilenian landowner Juan de Vargas on a farm in the city’s vicinity.

Saint Isidore married Maria Torribia, known as Santa María de la Cabeza in Spain. Saint Isidore and Maria had one son. On one occasion, their son fell into a deep well and, at the prayers of his parents, the water of the well is said to have risen miraculously to the level of the ground, bringing the child with it. The number of miracles attributed to him has been counted as 438.

He died on died on 15 May 1130. He is the Catholic patron saint of farmers, and of Madrid, El Gobernador, Jalisco and of La Ceiba, Honduras. He is often portrayed as a peasant holding a sickle and a sheaf of corn. He might also be shown with a sickle and staff; as an angel plows for him; or with an angel and white oxen near him.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_the_Laborer

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Saint Matthias

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Saint Matthias, according to the Acts of the Apostles, was chosen by the apostles to replace Judas Iscariot following the latter’s betrayal of Jesus and his subsequent death.

There is no mention of a Matthias among the lists of disciples or followers of Jesus but according to Acts, he had been with Jesus from his baptism by John until his Ascension. No further information about Matthias is to be found in the canonical New Testament. The tradition of the Greeks says that St. Matthias planted the faith about Cappadocia and on the coasts of the Caspian Sea, residing chiefly near the port Issus.

His calling as an apostle is unique, in that his appointment was not made personally by Jesus, who had already ascended into heaven, and it was also made before the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the early Church.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_the_Apostle

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Feast of Our Lady Fatima

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Feast of Our Lady Fatima
Our Lady of Fatima is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.

Between May 13 and October 13, 1917, three Portuguese children–Francisco and Jacinta Marto and their cousin Lucia dos Santos–received apparitions of Our Lady at Cova da Iria near Fatima, a city 110 miles north of Lisbon. Mary asked the children to pray the rosary for world peace, for the end of World War I, for sinners, and for the conversion of Russia.

Mary gave the children three secrets. Following the deaths of Francisco and Jacinta in 1919 and 1920 respectively, Lucia revealed the first secret in 1927. It concerned devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The second secret was a vision of hell. When Lucia grew up she became a Carmelite nun and died in 2005 at the age of 97.

Pope John Paul II directed the Holy See’s Secretary of State to reveal the third secret in 2000; it spoke of a “bishop in white” who was shot by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows into him. Many people linked this vision to the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981.

The feast of Our Lady of Fatima was approved by the local bishop in 1930; it was added to the Church’s worldwide calendar in 2002.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1timahttps://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/our-lady-of-fatima/

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Saint Leopold Mandic

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Saint Leopold Mandic was a Croatian Capuchin friar and Catholic priest, ordained to the priesthood at the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice. After his ordination, Mandić was sent to posts in various Capuchin friaries in the Venice region and in his native Croatia.

Saint Leopold Mandic was physically malformed and delicate, he grew to a height of only 1.35 m (4’5″), with a clumsy walk. He developed tremendous spiritual strength in spite of his disabilities and became extremely popular in his ministry as a confessor, often spending 12–15 hours in the confessional.

Common to all his assignments was that of the duty of a confessor at the church which the friars served. This went on until 1906, when he was assigned to the Friary of Santa Croce in Padua. It was there that he would spend the rest of his life. He became known as an Apostle of Confession and an Apostle of Unity. He made a famous prayer that is the forerunner of today’s ecumenism.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Mandi%C4%87

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