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AUGUST 29 — THE BEHEADING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
He was received by the people as the true herald of the Most High God, and his voice was, as it were, a trumpet sounding from heaven to summon all men to avert the divine judgments, and to prepare themselves to reap the benefit of the mercy that was offered them. The tetrarch Herod Antipas having, in defiance of all laws divine and human, married Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, who was yet living, St. John the Baptist boldly reprehended the tetrarch and his accomplice for so scandalous an incest and adultery, and Herod, urged on by lust and anger, cast the Saint into prison. About a year after St. John had been made a prisoner, Herod gave a splendid entertainment to the nobility of Galilee. Salome, a daughter of Herodias by her lawful husband, pleased Herod by her dancing, insomuch that he promised her to grant whatever she asked. On this, Salome consulted with her mother what to ask. Herodias instructed her daughter to demand the death of John the Baptist, and persuaded the young damsel to make it part of her petition that the head of the prisoner should be forthwith brought to her in a dish. This strange request startled the tyrant himself; he assented, however, and sent a soldier of his guard to behead the Saint in prison, with an order to bring his head in a charger and present it to Salome, who delivered it to her mother. St. Jerome relates that the furious Herodias made it her inhuman pastime to prick the sacred tongue with a bodkin. Thus died the great forerunner of our blessed Saviour, about two years and three months after his entrance upon his public ministry, about a year before the death of our blessed Redeemer.
REFLECTION. — All the high graces with which St. John was favored sprang from his humility; in this all his other virtues were founded. If we desire to form ourselves upon so great a model, we must, above all things, labor to lay the same deep foundation.
~ Pictorial Lives of the Saints (1878)
St. John the Baptist, pray for us.
| 2 |  AUGUST 29 — THE BEHEADING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
St. JOHN THE BAPTIST was called by God to be the forerunner of his Divine Son. In order to preserve his innocence spotless, and to improve the extraordinary graces which he had received, he was directed by the Holy Ghost to lead an austere and contemplative life in the wilderness, in the continual exercises of devout prayer and penance, from his infancy till he was thirty years of age. At this age, the faithful minister began to discharge his mission. Clothed with the weeds of penance, he announced to all men the obligation they lay under of washing away their iniquities with the tears of sincere compunction; and proclaimed the Messiah, who was then coming to make his appearance among them.
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AUGUST 29 — THE BEHEADING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
He was received by the people as the true herald of the Most High God, and his voice was, as it were, a trumpet sounding from heaven to summon all men to avert the divine judgments, and to prepare themselves to reap the benefit of the mercy that was offered them. The tetrarch Herod Antipas having, in defiance of all laws divine and human, married Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, who was yet living, St. John the Baptist boldly reprehended the tetrarch and his accomplice for so scandalous an incest and adultery, and Herod, urged on by lust and anger, cast the Saint into prison. About a year after St. John had been made a prisoner, Herod gave a splendid entertainment to the nobility of Galilee. Salome, a daughter of Herodias by her lawful husband, pleased Herod by her dancing, insomuch that he promised her to grant whatever she asked. On this, Salome consulted with her mother what to ask. Herodias instructed her daughter to demand the death of John the Baptist, and persuaded the young damsel to make it part of her petition that the head of the prisoner should be forthwith brought to her in a dish. This strange request startled the tyrant himself; he assented, however, and sent a soldier of his guard to behead the Saint in prison, with an order to bring his head in a charger and present it to Salome, who delivered it to her mother. St. Jerome relates that the furious Herodias made it her inhuman pastime to prick the sacred tongue with a bodkin. Thus died the great forerunner of our blessed Saviour, about two years and three months after his entrance upon his public ministry, about a year before the death of our blessed Redeemer.
REFLECTION. — All the high graces with which St. John was favored sprang from his humility; in this all his other virtues were founded. If we desire to form ourselves upon so great a model, we must, above all things, labor to lay the same deep foundation.
~ Pictorial Lives of the Saints (1878)
St. John the Baptist, pray for us. | 8 |
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AUGUST 28 — ST. AUGUSTINE, Bishop and Doctor
For a long time he struggled between the violence of his passions and the force of divine grace; but having read a passage in St. Paul to which a heavenly voice directed him, the battle was at an end, and the prayer of St. Monica granted. He was baptized by St. Ambrose; and having returned to Hippo, his native town, he was made priest and, eventually, bishop and doctor of the Church. He died in 430 in such strict poverty that he made no will, having nothing left to bequeath.
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“ Tolle lege! tolle lege!”
(High and clear in sweet command,)
“ Tolle lege! tolle lege!”
Sang an angel close at hand;
“In thy darkness and thy need,
Take and read, oh! take and read !”
~ ELEANOR C. DONNELLY
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Favorite Practice
“Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh.”
~ Short Lives of the Saints (1884)
St. Augustine, ora pro nobis. | 57 |
| 5 |  AUGUST 28 — ST. AUGUSTINE, Bishop and Doctor
AUGUSTINE, the gifted son of St. Monica and the pagan Patricius, from his early years displayed a wonderful genius and thirst for knowledge. Having become entangled in his youth in the bonds of heresy and vice, he would have been lost but for the prayers and tears of his devoted mother. He was teaching at Milan when the eloquence of St. Ambrose attracted him to a Catholic church.
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AUGUST 28 — ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
He persisted in his irregular life until he was thirty-two. Being then at Milan professing rhetoric, he tells us that the faith of his childhood had regained possession of his intellect, but that he could not as yet resolve to break the chains of evil habit. One day, however, stung to the heart by the account of some sudden conversions, he cried out, "The unlearned rise and storm heaven, and we, with all our learning, for lack of heart lie wallowing here." He then withdrew into a garden, when a long and terrible conflict ensued. Suddenly a young fresh voice (he knows not whose) breaks in upon his strife with the words, "Take and read ;" and he lights upon the passage beginning, " Walk honestly as in the day." The battle was won. He received baptism, returned home, and gave all to the poor. At Hippo, where he settled, he was consecrated bishop in 395. For thirty-five years he was the centre of ecclesiastical life in Africa, and the Church's mightiest champion against heresy; whilst his writings have been everywhere accepted as one of the principal sources of devotional thought and theological speculation. He died in 430.
REFLECTION. — Read the lives of the Saints, and you will find that you are gradually creating a society about you to which in some measure you will be forced to raise the standard of your daily life.
~ Pictorial Lives of the Saints (1878)
St. Augustine of Hippo, pray for us. | 40 |
| 7 |  AUGUST 28 — ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
St. AUGUSTINE was born in 354, at Tagaste in Africa. He was brought up in the Christian faith, but without receiving baptism. An ambitious school-boy of brilliant talents and violent passions, he early lost both his faith and his innocence.
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AUGUST 27 — ST. CESARIUS, Bishop
Having been falsely accused of conspiring against the state, he was exiled from his diocese by Alaric and Theodoric successively; but both times the false charges were made to redound to the glory of the gentle bishop, and he was welcomed back to his see with open arms, the last time loaded with the costly gifts of Theodoric, which Cesarius at once disposed of in order to give the proceeds to his beloved poor. He died in 542.
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Far off he descries an Elysium blest,
With gush of clear fountains, and music, and rest;
Religion’s blest teaching his spirit controls,
And points all his hopes to the country of souls.
~ MRS. M. S. WHITAKER
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Favorite Practice
By doing well to “put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.”
~ Short Lives of the Saints (1884)
St. Cesarius, ora pro nobis. | 54 |
| 9 |  AUGUST 27 — ST. CESARIUS, Bishop
ST. CESARIUS was the archbishop of Arles in the sixth century. The gentleness of his character found expression in his writings; and his piety established public ceremonies in his diocese which were admirably organized. His charity was so great that he even sold the sacred vessels of the Church in order to ransom captives whose souls were exposed to danger.
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AUGUST 27 — ST. JOSEPH CALASANCTIUS
When he reached the Holy City, his heart was moved by the vice and ignorance of the children of the poor. Their need mastered his humility, and he founded the Order of Clerks Regular of the Pious Schools. He himself provided all that was necessary for the education of the children, receiving nothing from them in payment, and there were soon about a thousand scholars of every rank under his care. Each lesson began with prayer. Every half-hour devotion was renewed by acts of faith, hope, and charity, and towards the end of school-time the children were instructed in the Christian doctrine. They were then escorted home by the masters, so as to escape all harm by the way.
But enemies arose against Joseph from among his own subjects. They accused him to the Holy Office, and at the age of eighty-six he was led through the streets to prison. At last the Order was reduced to a simple congregation. It was not restored to its former privileges till after the Saint's death.
Yet he died full of hope. "My work," he said, "was done solely for the love of God."
REFLECTION. — "My children," said the Cure of Ars, "I often think that most of the Christians who are lost are lost for want of instruction; they do not know their religion well."
~ Pictorial Lives of the Saints (1878)
St Joseph Calasanctius, pray for us. | 149 |
| 11 |  AUGUST 27 — ST. JOSEPH CALASANCTIUS
St. JOSEPH CALASANCTIUS was born in Arragon, a.d. 1556. When only five years old, he led a troop of children through the streets to find the devil and kill him. He became a priest, and was engaged in various reforms, when he heard a voice saying, "Go to Rome," and had a vision of many children who were being taught by him and by a company of angels.
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AUGUST 26 — ST. ZEPHYRINUS, Pope and Martyr
Eight heresiarchs put forth their false doctrines, and Tertullian fell into heresy and did not acknowledge his error. Natalis. who had generously confessed the faith, fell in like manner, but, touched by divine grace, cast himself in time at the feet of Pope Zephyrinus, and humbly sought for reconciliation. The holy Pontiff received the strayed sheep, and continued in person to contend manfully against the upholders of heresy. He is believed to have suffered martyrdom, his death taking place in the year 219.
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Reliant on God’s aid, he rests
His hand upon the helm,
Guiding the Bark that foes surround
But never overwhelm.
~ LADY FULLERTON
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Favorite Practice
To say to yourself from time to time, “When cedars have fallen, how shall the frail reeds stand?”
~ Short Lives of the Saints (1884)
St. Zephyrinus, ora pro nobis. | 83 |
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AUGUST 26 — ST. ZEPHYRINUS, Pope and Martyr
Eight heresiarchs put forth their false doctrines, and Tertullian fell into heresy and did not acknowledge his error. Natalis. who had generously confessed the faith, fell in like manner, but, touched by divine grace, cast himself in time at the feet of Pope Zephyrinus, and humbly sought for reconciliation. The holy Pontiff received the strayed sheep, and continued in person to contend manfully against the upholders of heresy. He is believed to have suffered martyrdom, his death taking place in the year 219.
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Reliant on God’s aid, he rests
His hand upon the helm,
Guiding the Bark that foes surround
But never overwhelm.
~ LADY FULLERTON
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Favorite Practice
To say to yourself from time to time, “When cedars have fallen, how shall the frail reeds stand?”
~ Short Lives of the Saints (1884)
St. Zephyrinus, ora pro nobis. | 1 |
| 14 |  AUGUST 26 — ST. ZEPHYRINUS, Pope and Martyr
THE fifth persecution against the Christians was in progress when Pope Zephyrinus ascended the papal chair. He neglected nothing, and even exposed his own life, to uphold and cheer the confessors. The persecution only ceased at length to give place to the outbreak of numerous heresies.
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AUGUST 26 — ST. ZEPHYRINUS, POPE AND MARTYR
Under this furious storm this holy pastor was the support and comfort of the distressed flock of Christ, and he suffered by charity and compassion what every confessor underwent. The triumphs of the martyrs were indeed his joy, but his heart received many deep wounds from the fall of apostates and heretics. Neither did this latter affliction cease when peace was restored to the Church. Our Saint had also the affliction to see the fall of Tertullian, which seems to have been owing partly to his pride. Eusebius tells us that this holy Pope exerted his zeal so strenuously against the blasphemies of the heretics that they treated him in the most contumelious manner; but it was his glory that they called him the principal defender of Christ's divinity. St. Zephyrinus filled the pontifical chair seventeen years, dying in 219. He was buried in his own cemetery, on the 26th of August. He is, in some Martyrologies, styled a martyr, which title he might deserve by what he suffered in the persecution, though he perhaps did not die by the executioner.
REFLECTION. — God has always raised up holy pastors zealous to maintain the faith of His Church inviolable, and to watch over the purity of its morals and the sanctity of its discipline. We enjoy the greatest advantages of the divine grace through their labors, and we owe to God a tribute of perpetual thanksgiving and immortal praise for all those mercies which He has afforded His Church on earth.
~ Pictorial Lives of the Saints (1878)
St. Zephyrinus, pray for us. | 64 |
| 16 |  AUGUST 26 — ST. ZEPHYRINUS, POPE AND MARTYR
St. ZEPHYRINUS, a native of Rome, succeeded Victor in the pontificate, in the year 202, in which Severus raised the fifth most bloody persecution against the Church, which continued not for two years only, but until the death of that emperor in 211.
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AUGUST 25 — ST. LOUIS OF FRANCE, Confessor
A monument of the holy king’s charity and wisdom exists in his code of laws known “the Ordinances of St. Louis,’’ which became as dear to the French as the laws of Edward the Confessor were to the Anglo-Saxon race. His tenderness, truth, and generous consideration for the rights of others made him the idol of his own nation and the umpire of all neighboring kings. His private character was rendered inexpressibly beautiful by his fidelity to his wife, his obedience to his noble mother, and paternal love for his numerous offspring. He led two Crusades to the Holy Land; and died at Carthage in the year 1270.
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His pure baptismal robe of grace
Unstained through life he wore:
The lily-sceptre of the just
King Louis brightly bore.
~ HARRIET SKIDMORE
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Favorite Practice
To say to yourself from time to time, “When cedars have fallen, how shall the frail reeds stand?”
~ Short Lives of the Saints (1884)
St. Louis, ora pro nobis. | 125 |
| 19 |  AUGUST 25 — ST. LOUIS OF FRANCE, Confessor
LOUIS IX, king of France, was born at Poissy in 1215, and combined all the qualities of a hero, statesman, and saint. His devout mother, Blanche of Castile, from his infancy impressed upon him that it was better to incur death than commit one mortal sin, and even the infamous Voltaire bore this testimony to the character of St. Louis: “Il n'est guère donné à l’homme de pousser la vertu plus loin.”
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AUGUST 25 — ST. LOUIS, KING
When his courtiers remonstrated with Louis for his law that blasphemers should be branded on the lips, he replied, "I would willingly have my own lips branded to root out blasphemy from my kingdom." The fearless protector of the weak and the oppresed, he was chosen to arbitrate in all the great feuds of his age between the Pope and the Emperor, between Henry III and the English barons.
In 1248, to rescue the land which Christ had trod, he gathered round him the chivalry of France, and embarked for the East. There, before the infidel, in victory or defeat, on the bed of sickness or a captive in chains, Louis showed himself ever the same, the first, the best, and the bravest of Christian knights. When a captive at Damietta, an Emir rushed into his tent brandishing a dagger red with the blood of the Sultan, and threatened to stab him also unless he would make him a knight, as the Emperor Frederick had Facardin. Louis calmly replied that no unbeliever could perform the duties of a Christian knight. In the same captivity, he was offered his liberty on terms lawful in themselves, but enforced by an oath which implied a blasphemy, and though the infidels held their swords' points at his throat, and threatened a massacre of the Christians, Louis inflexibly refused.
The death of his mother recalled him to France; but when order was re-established, he again set forth on a second crusade. In August, 1270, his army landed at Tunis, and, though victorious over the enemy, succumbed to a malignant fever. Louis was one of the victims. He received the Viaticum kneeling by his camp-bed, and gave up his life with the same joy that he had given all else for the honor of God.
REFLECTION. — If we cannot imitate St. Louis in dying for the honor of God, we can at least resemble him in resenting the blasphemies offered against God by the infidel, the heretic, and the scoffer.
~ Pictorial Lives of the Saints (1878)
St. Louis, pray for us. | 76 |
