Saints for the Week of June 14th through 20th
WORD SEARCH AND PUZZLE using the names and some info are at the end of the post. Enjoy.
The lives of saints are very interesting, and obviously exciting – most of them martyred for their faith … most get lost in the mists of time. Here I link their names to a contemporary website like Wikipedia, which allows interesting details presented in a modern way – otherwise I link to the best sites I can find with the fewest ads. Please let me know of any broken links in this website 🙂
14: Basil the Great – care of the poor, theologian, guidelines for monastic life, worked with thieves and prostitutes to reform, great saint in Church of England, the Byzantine Rite, the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Macedonian Orthodox Church.
Docmael – 6th c, Brittany, France, “fervour in the practice of all virtues, especially prayer and penance.”
Psalmodius of Ireland – miracles attributed to … hermit
Rufinus and Valerius – imperial tax collectors who were pious Christians, tortured and beheaded.
15: Vitus or Guy, Crescentia, and Modestus – Vitus, also called Guy, belonged to an illustrious Sicilian family. His father, learning that he had been baptized, delivered him to the judge Valerian to be scourged, but he was struck blind. The prayers of the saint obtained his father’s recovery but did not convert him. Vitus was then saved from his father’s cruelty by Modestus, his tutor, and by Crescentia, his nurse, who took him to another part of the country. There his holiness became so famous that Diocletian had recourse to him to deliver his son who was tormented by the devil. Guy healed him, but the ungrateful prince, having failed to induce the saint to worship the false gods, caused him to be arrested with Modestus and Crescentia. They were plunged into a cauldron of molten lead and flaming resin and were the quartered.
Germaine Cousin – “ … the wife of François de Beauregard, presented as a thanks-offering a casket of lead to hold the remains. She had been cured of a malignant and incurable ulcer in the breast, and her infant son whose life was despaired of was restored to health on her seeking the intercession of Germaine. This was the first of a long series of wonderful cures wrought at her relics.”
Landelin – former brigand who converted and founded abbeys and a monastery to make amends …
Vauge of Ireland – hermit who went out to preach … Cornwall, England.
16: John Francis Regis – French priest, patron of lacemakers, medical social workers and illegitimate children – worked with the Mohawk natives in North America, where a church is named for him.
Aurelian – originally a pagan priest, baptized, ordained a priest then the second bishop of Limoges, France.
Ferreolus, Ferrutius – brothers, tortured and beheaded … have been represented in stained glass, paintings, and statues in many churches and chapels in the two dioceses of the Franche-Comté: Saint-Claude and Besançon.[5]
Quiriqus and Julietta – Greek son and his mother – According to legend, Julietta and her three-year (sometimes described as three-month) old Quriaqos had fled to Tarsus and were identified as Christians. Julietta was tortured, and her three-year-old son, being held by the governor of Tarsus, scratched the governor’s face and was killed by being thrown down by some stairs.
17: Nicander and Marcian – members of the imperial army in the Balkans area, martyred in what is today Romania, probably late second century, probably in front of their wives and families.
Avitus or Avy – born Auvergne, France, mid-fifth century, wanted to be hermit but later made an abbot.
18: Marcus and Marcellianus – In 286 – twin brothers from a distinguished family who were Church deacons and wouldn’t sacrifice to Roman gods or relinquish their faith at their parents’ pleading – suffered martyrdom.
Ephriam the Syrian – born at Nisibis in Mesopotamia and was one of the lights of the Church … his father, a pagan priest, cast him out of his home, and he then went as a hermit in the desert and was ordained deacon of Edessa … He went to Caesarea in Cappodocia were he met St. Basil. In order to refute the numerous errors which were being spread by the prayers and canticles of heretics, he wrote poems and Christian hymns, celebrating the mysteries of the lives of Christ, the Blessed Virgin and the saints, which is why he’s called “the harp of the Holy Ghost.”
Marina – Portuguese saint, virgin and martyred, one of nine daughters.
19: Gervasius and Protasius – Sons of St. Vitalia and St. Valeria, these two saints were martyred under Nero at Milan in the first century. They are the patron saints of Milan and haymakers, and invoked for the discovery of thieves.
Boniface – leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of the Frankish Empire during the 8th century. First archbishop of Mainz. Killed in 754.
Die or Deodatus – established monastery, became a hermit in a cell.
Juliana Falconieri – …Born at Florence, Italy in 1270, of the illustrious Falconieri family, she gave such signs of holiness that her uncle, St. Alexis Falconieri, declared to her mother that she had given birth to an angel. Juliana consecrated her virginity to God at 15, and founded the Order of Mantellate. She was asked to take charge of the whole Order of Servites. … She was devoted to the Holy Eucharist and received It miraculously on her death bed in 1341. Patron saint of bodily ills and the sick.
20: Gobain of Ireland – an Irish Benedictine monk who preferred solitude and was murdered by raiders.
USING THE INFO: words into puzzle format … words into Word Search format Note: multiple words with a space don’t have the space in the puzzles!
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