ST QUINTIN, MARTYR - 31st OCTOBER

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1. St Quintin [d. A.D. 287] was a Roman, descended of a senatorian family, and is called by his historian the son of Zeno.

Full of zeal for the kingdom of Jesus Christ, St Quintin staid at Amiens, endeavouring by #StQuintin #Oct31
2. his prayers and labours to make that country a portion of our Lord’s inheritance.

God made him powerful in words and works, and his discourses were accompanied by great numbers of miracles, and illustrated and enforced by a most holy and mortified life.

In the year 286,
3. Rictius Varus, prefect of the praetorium, heard of the great progress the Christian faith had made at Amiens, and ordered St Quintin to be seized, and assailed his constancy by subjecting him to tortures.

The holy martyr, strengthened by Him whose cause he defended,

#Jesus
4. preserved a perfect tranquillity of mind in the midst of such torments as filled the spectators with horror.

Being ashamed to see himself vanquished by his courage and virtue, Rictius Varus caused his body to be pierced with two iron wires from the neck
#Christianity
5. and iron nails to be struck under his nails, and, lastly, his head to be cut off. This was executed on the 31st of October, in 287.

Martyrdom, when we are called to it, is an homage we owe to God, and a debt due to faith and religion.

#Christians #JesusChrist
#EarlyChurch
6. Happy are they whom God, by a special grace, allows to seal their fidelity to him by their blood!

No testimony can be more authentic, more glorious to God, more edifying, more convincing. God chose it for one of the sublime means to accomplish His work. #ThyKingdomCome
7. Are we witnesses to God and his holy religion, at least by lives of self-denial, meekness, and sanctity?

Or do we by a contrary deportment disgrace his holy church, of which we have the honour to be members, and expose his adorable name to the blasphemies of infidels?
8. (Excerpts from Fr Butler's "Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints")

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1 Nov
ALL SAINTS

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1. The Church in this great festival honours all the saints. It is an image of that eternal great feast which God himself continually celebrates in heaven with all his saints, whom we humbly join in praising his adorable goodness
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2. for all his mercies.

In this and all other festivals of the saints, God is the only object of supreme worship.

To what an immense height of immortal glory has he raised the saints! and by what means? His grace conducted them by humility, patience, charity, and penance,
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29 Oct
ST MARCELLUS THE CENTURION, MARTYR - 30th OCTOBER

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1. The birthday of the emperor Maximian Herculeus was celebrated in the year 298, with extraordinary feasting and solemnity. Pompous sacrifices to the Roman gods
made a considerable part
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2. of this solemnity.

Marcellus, a Christian centurion or captain of the legion of Trajan, then posted in Spain, not to defile himself with taking part in those impious abominations, cast away his military belt at the head of his company, declaring aloud that he was
#Jesus
3. a soldier of Jesus Christ, the eternal King. The soldiers informed Anastasius Fortunatus, prefect of the legion, by whose order Marcellus was committed to prison.

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29 Oct
BL. CHIARA BADANO -29th OCTOBER

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1. Chiara Badano was born in Sassello, in the province of Savona (Diocese of Acqui), a very longed-for child, to Maria Teresa Caviglia and Ruggero Badano on October 29, 1971. When Chiara was in the third grade at school #ChiaraBadano Image
2. she came in contact with the Focolare Movement, founded by Chiara Lubich, which changed her life. Since then, Chiara used to say, "I must give Jesus with my conduct." At the age of sixteen, Chiara felt called to the missions.

She was diagnosed with a malignant bone tumour
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She abandoned herself and the illness gradually became marginal for her,
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26 Oct
ST ELESBAAN, KING AND CONFESSOR - 27th OCTOBER

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1. St Elesbaan was king of the Axumite, who were a powerful 6th century nation, during the reign of Justin the Elder. The mildness and prudence of his government was a sensible
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2. proof how great a blessing a people enjoy in a king who is free from inordinate passions and selfish views, to gratify which princes so often become tyrants.

This good king, however, was obliged to engage in a war. But his motives were justice and God's glory; and the
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Dunaan, a Jew who had usurped the sovereignty in Arabia Felix, persecuted the Christians.

The Emperor Justin the Elder engaged St Elesbaan to transport his forces into Arabia, and drive away the usurper Dunaan.
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26th OCTOBER: ST ALFRED THE GREAT

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1. St Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, was born around 849 - the fifth son of the king.

Having become king himself on 23 April 871, Danish invaders posed a severe threat #StAlfredTheGreat #Oct26 #UK #England #SaintOfTheDay
2. but he managed to establish Saxon supremacy.

Alfred improved the quality of life of his subjects: he issued laws, restored and founded monasteries, including Shaftesbury Abbey.

A patron of the arts, literature and other Church matters, he was loved in his #medievaltwitter
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24 Oct
THE SIX WELSH MARTYRS AND THEIR COMPANIONS - 25th OCTOBER

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1.Saint Richard Gwyn, a school master from Montgomeryshire, and Saints John Jones, Philip Evans, John Lloyd, David Lewis and John Roberts, all priests or religious, died for the Faith #WelshMartyrs #Oct25 #Wales
2. between the years 1584 and 1679. They are commemorated on October 25 in Wales, along with the hundreds of English men and women from all walks of life martyred during the protestant reformation, for their courage and constancy.

#Welsh #martyrs #CatholicTwitter
3. PRAYER:

Almighty God,
who in our country raised up martyrs
from every walk of life
to vindicate the authority of your Church
in teaching and worship,
grant at their intercession, we pray,
that all our people may be gathered once again
to celebrate the same sacraments
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