zabbazooey Posted November 27, 2005 Posted November 27, 2005 [img]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y105/lateralus98/DontCheat.jpg[/img]
argent_paladin Posted November 27, 2005 Posted November 27, 2005 Sorry about going awol on you guys, The Dominican Saint holding the children is St.. Zdislava: [quote]St. Zdislava of Lemberk, Matron 1220?-1252 Feast Day: January 1 (January 4 on the Dominican Calendar, May 30 in the Czech Republic) St. Zdislava of Lemberk St. Zdislava was a noblewoman, born in Brno (now in the Czech Republic). She was a sweet and pious child, who learned from her mother the arts of healing with both herbs and prayers. After an early attempt at eremitical life, she returned to society and later married Duke Havel of Lemberk. Their marriage is said to have been a challenge for them both. St. Zdislava was required to dress and act as befit a duchess; the Duke had to put up with her outstanding generosity to the poor. She raised four children in the castle of Lemberk, but her care extended to all the needy of the land. She became known as a great healer and a source of comfort for those fleeing the Tartar invasions from the East. (The well from which she drew healing water still exists.) When the Polish missionaries St. Hyacinth and Bl. Ceslaus arrived at Lemberk, they brought news of the Order of Preachers, founded some years before by St. Dominic. St. Zdislava was excited by the opportunity to perform her works of mercy within the Dominican framework, and she became an early lay Dominican. (The Third Order of St. Dominic was not formally organized until 1285.) Spurred by her new apostolic calling, St. Zdislava urged her husband to build a hospice for poor pilgrims. She herself funded the construction of a church, the Priory of St. Laurence -- even visiting the site at night, to move beams and stones into place without others knowing. She was a frequent communicant, a visionary, a catechist, a healer, and an advocate for prisoners. Church of Sts. Lawrence and ZdislavaSt. Zdislava died in 1252 and is buried in the church she built, now called the Church of Sts. Laurence and Zdislava (shown in the picture on the right), in the Czech village of Jablonné v Podjestedi. She was canonized in 1995. Saint Zdislava of Lemberk, model for the domestic Church, pray for us![/quote]
argent_paladin Posted November 27, 2005 Posted November 27, 2005 [quote name='zabbazooey' date='Nov 26 2005, 08:04 PM'][img]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y105/lateralus98/DontCheat.jpg[/img] [right][snapback]801100[/snapback][/right] [/quote] St. Vacheslav?
zabbazooey Posted November 27, 2005 Posted November 27, 2005 wait..in english it's wenceslaus :applause:
argent_paladin Posted November 27, 2005 Posted November 27, 2005 Hee, hee! I cheated. I read the Old Church Slavonic on the icon. I says : "St. *something* King Vacheslav"... But I guess that is fair right? I shouldn't be penalized for knowing Slavonic.
argent_paladin Posted November 27, 2005 Posted November 27, 2005 Next time you should make sure you don't have the answer on the picture. Even if it is in an obscure dead language. [img]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/zpaladin/75be0966.jpg[/img] As always, this saint is a Dominican.
traichuoi Posted December 8, 2005 Posted December 8, 2005 I haven't lost my touch! [quote]CATHERINE del Ricci Memorial 2 February Profile Patrician. Her mother died when Catherine was an infant; she was raised by her godmother, but considered Our Lady her true mother, and developed a great devotion. As a child, she could speak to her guardian angel, and the angel taught her prayers for the rosary. At age 6 she moved to the convent school of Montecelli; her aunt was the abbess. Catherine developed a devotion to the Passion. Her father, Peter, objected to her plans to join a convent, then relented, then changed his mind again. Catherine continued her prayers at home, but when he changed his mind she fell ill. It was only when he at last agreed on her vocation that she recovered. Dominican tertiary. She received visions and had ecstacies, but these caused some problems and doubts among her sisters - outwardly she seemed asleep or dully stupid when the visions were upon her. Catherine though everyone received these visions as part of their lives with God. She was stricken with a series of painful ailments that permanently damaged her health. Catherine met Philip Neri in a vision while he was alive in Rome; they corresponded. Could bilocate. Said to have received a ring from the Lord as a sign of her espousal to him; to her it appeared as gold set with a diamond; everyone else saw a red lozenge and a circlet around her finger. Permanent stigmatist. At age 20 she began a 12-year cycle of weekly ecstasies of the Passion from noon Thursday until 4:00pm Friday, often accompanied by serious wounds. Her sisters could follow the course of the Passion, as the wounds appeared in order from the scourging and crowning with thorns. At the end she was covered with wounds and her shoulder was indented from the Cross. The first time, during Lent 1542, she meditated so completely on the crucifixion of Jesus that she became ill, and was healed by a vision of the Risen Lord talking with Mary Magdalene. Crowds came to see her, skeptics and sinners being converted by the sight. The crowds became to numerous and constant that the sisters prayed that the wounds become less visible; He made them so in 1554. Three future popes (Cardinals Cervini, Pope Marcellus II; Alexander de Medici, Pope Leo XI; Aldobrandini, Pope Clement VIII) were among the thousands who sought her prayers. Novice-mistress. Sub-prioress. Prioress at age 30. Noted reformer of her house. Correspondent with Saint Charles Borromeo and Pope Saint Pius V. Born 23 April 1522 at Florence, Italy Died 2 February 1590 at Prato, Italy Beatified 23 November 1732 by Pope Clement XII Canonized 29 June 1746 by Pope Benedict XIV Patronage bodily ills; illness; sick people; sickness [/quote]
traichuoi Posted December 8, 2005 Posted December 8, 2005 [img]http://members.cox.net/anguyen14/CHEATER.jpg[/img] German patron of annual gathering of those between 16 and 30
Piccoli Fiori JMJ Posted December 12, 2005 Posted December 12, 2005 These are usually so tough! Let's see if I can do some research...
argent_paladin Posted December 12, 2005 Posted December 12, 2005 Blessed Adolf Kolping [quote]Born in the village of Kerpen, Adolph became a shoemaker at an early age because of his family’s economic situation. Ordained in 1845, he ministered to young workers in Cologne, establishing a choir, which by 1849 had grown into the Young Workmen’s Society. A branch of this began in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1856. Nine years later there were over 400 Gesellenvereine (workman’s societies) around the world. Today this group has over 400,000 members in 54 countries across the globe. More commonly called the Kolping Society, it emphasizes the sanctification of family life and the dignity of labor. Father Kolping worked to improve conditions for workers and greatly assisted those in need. He and St. John Bosco in Turin had similar interests in working with young men in big cities. He told his followers, “The needs of the times will teach you what to do. ”Father Kolping once said, “The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.” He and Blessed John Duns Scotus are buried in Cologne’s Minoritenkirche, served by the Conventual Franciscans. The Kolping Society’s international headquarters is at this church. Kolping members journeyed to Rome from Europe, America, Africa, Asia and Oceania for Father Kolping’s beatification in 1991, the 100th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s revolutionary encyclical Rerum Novarum (On the Social Order). Father Kolping’s personal witness and apostolate helped prepare for that encyclical. [/quote]
argent_paladin Posted December 12, 2005 Posted December 12, 2005 [img]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/zpaladin/8031d52d.jpg[/img] Another Dominican. This one is a blessed.
traichuoi Posted December 13, 2005 Posted December 13, 2005 [quote name='argent_paladin' date='Dec 11 2005, 08:41 PM']Blessed Adolf Kolping [right][snapback]821188[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Paladin...you rock!
argent_paladin Posted December 13, 2005 Posted December 13, 2005 Well, it was mainly your hint. "patron of annual gathering of those between 16 and 30 " That was clearly WYD and he looked German, so I just googled "World Youth Day Cologne Patron Saint" and he came up, along with Albert the Great, etc. OK, here's a hint of my own... He is incorrupt.
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