A few Saints for the last week in August . Monday 26 August, 2024
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Saint Zephorinus, PM Feast day - 26 August
Little is known about St. Zephyrinus, who was pope of Rome from c. 198 or 199 until 217. The antipope who opposed him, Hippolytus, says he was a simple and avaricious man. He adds that Zephyrinus relied too much on his deacon, Callixtus, who was in charge of the church's cemetary. Zephyrinus battled the heresies of adoptionism, modalism, and monarchianism; the antipope also accuses him of being a modalist.
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Saint Joseph Calansanctius, C
Saint Augustine owes his conversion to his mother St Monica. She undertook many years of penance and prayer for her brilliant but wayward son, Augustine
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Beheading of St John the Baptist
The Church celebrates the beheading of Saint John the Baptist on the 28 August
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Saint Rose of Lima, V
Rose of Lima, TOSD (born Isabel Flores de Oliva; 20 April 1586 – 24 August 1617) (Latin: Rosa Limana, Spanish: Rosa de Lima) was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, who became known for both her life of severe penance[4] and her care of the poverty stricken of the city through her own private efforts.
Rose of Lima was born to a noble family and is the patron saint of embroidery, gardening and cultivation of blooming flowers. She was the first person born in the Americas to be canonized as a saint.[1]
Her Feast day is 30 August
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Saint Raymond Nonnatus, C
Leonard Edward Feeney (February 18, 1897 - January 30, 1978) was an American Jesuit Catholic priest, poet, lyricist, and essayist.. He articulated an interpretation of the Catholic doctrine extra Ecclesiam nulla salus ("outside the Church there is no salvation"). He took the position that baptism of blood and baptism of desire are unavailing and that therefore no non-Catholics will be saved. [1]
Edited Under Fr. Leonard Feeney M.I.C.M. — Saint Benedict Center
“Essential to the understanding of our chaotic times is the knowledge that the Jewish race constitutes a united anti-Christian bloc within Christian society, and is working for the overthrow of that society by every means at its disposal.” — April 1958.
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