Saints for the last week in August . Monday 26 August, 2024

 

 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

 

Joseph Calasanz, also known as Joseph Calasanctius and Iosephus a Matre Dei, was a Spanish Catholic priest, educator and the founder of the Pious Schools, which provided free education to poor boys. For this purpose he founded the religious order that ran them, commonly known as the Piarists. He was a close friend of the renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei. Joseph is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church, following his 1767 papal canonization.

 

His Feast day is 27 August

 

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Saint Augustine of Hippo, BCD

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

 

 

Raymond Nonnatus, O. de M., is a saint from Catalonia in Spain. His nickname refers to his birth by Caesarean section, his mother having died while giving birth to him. Raymond is the patron saint of childbirth, midwives, children, pregnant women, and priests defending the confidentiality of confession.

His feast day is 31 August 

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And a little about Fr. Leonard Feeney - since he died in 1978 cannot be officially declared a saint

 

 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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