July 23rd - Saint Apollinaris of Ravenna
Hildi
(d. 79)
When Saint Peter, setting out for Rome, left Antioch after seven years as
its spiritual Head, he took with him several of the faithful of that city,
among them Apollinaris, a disciple of Jesus Christ. He consecrated him
bishop a few years later and sent him to Ravenna as its first bishop.
His first miracle was on behalf of the blind son of a soldier who gave him
hospitality when he first arrived in the city of Ravenna. When the apostle
told him of the God he had come to preach and invited him to abandon the
cult of idols, the soldier replied: "Stranger, if the God you preach is as
powerful as you say, beg Him to give sight to my son, and I will believe in
Him." The Saint had the child brought and made the sign of the cross on his
eyes as he prayed. The miracle was instantaneous, to the great amazement of
all, and news of it spread rapidly. A day or so later, a military tribune
sent for him to cure his wife from a long illness, which again he did. The
house of the tribune became a center of apostolic action, and several
persons sent their children to the Saint to instruct them there. Little by
little a flourishing Christian assembly was formed, and priests and deacons
were ordained. The Saint lived in community with the two priests and two
deacons.
The idolatrous priests aroused the people against him, as we see the enemies
of Saint Paul do in the Acts of the Apostles. He was left half-dead on the
seashore, after being severely beaten, but was cared for by the Christians
and recovered rapidly. A young girl whom he cured after having her father
promise to allow her full liberty to follow Christ, consecrated her
virginity to God. It was after this that, in the time of Vespasian, he was
arrested and interrogated and again flogged, stretched on the rack and
plunged into boiling oil. Alive still, he was exiled to Illyria, east of the
Adriatic Sea.
He remained three years in that country, having survived a shipwreck with
only a few persons whom he converted. Then he evangelized the various
districts, with the aid of his converts. When an idol ceased to speak during
his sojourn in one of these regions, the pagans again beat him and threw him
and his companions on a ship which took them back to Italy. Soon imprisoned,
he escaped but was seized again and for the last time subjected to a
flogging. He died on July 23rd of the year 79. His body lay first at
Classis, four miles from Ravenna, and a church was built over his tomb;
later the relics were returned to Ravenna. Pope Honorius had a church built
to honor the name of Apollinaris in Rome, about the year 630. From the
beginning the Church has held his memory in high veneration.
Source: Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin
(Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 8.
Bible Quote:
7 Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into
thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own
flesh. 8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health
shall speedily arise, and thy justice shall go before thy face, and the
glory of the Lord shall gather thee up. (Isaias 58:7-8)
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Martyrology
At Orvieto in Etruria (in Italy), Blessed Joan, commonly called Vanna,,
virgin, of the Third Order of St. Dominic. She was illustrious for her
singular innocence, her meditation on divine truth, and an abundance of
heavenly gifts. A semi-duplex feast.
At Ravenna, the birthday of St. Apollinaris, bishop. He was ordained at Rome
by St. Peter the Apostle and sent to Ravenna. He suffered varied and
manifold punishments for the faith of Christ; afterward he preached the
Gospel in Emilia and recalled many persons from idolatry. At last he
returned to Ravenna, and under Vespasian Caesar gained a glorious martyrdom.
A memory.
At Le Mans in Gaul, St. Liborius, bishop and confessor.
At the same place, St. Rasyphus, martyr.
Also at Rome, the suffering of St. Primitiva, virgin and martyr.
Likewise, the holy martyrs Apollonius and Eugene.
On the same day, the birthday of the holy martyrs Trophimus and Theophilus.
In the reign of the Emperor Diocletian, they were stoned and tortured with
fire. At last, put to the sword, they were crowned with martyrdom.
In Bulgaria, many holy martyrs. The wicked Emperor Nicephorus, who laid
waste the churches of God, caused them to be slain by various kinds of
deaths: by the sword, by the rope, by arrows, by long imprisonment, and by
starvation.
At Rome, the holy virgins Romula, Redempta, and Herundo, of whom Pope St.
Gregory has written.
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To Our Lady, Queen of Angels:
August Queen of Heaven!
Sovereign Mistress of the Angels!
Thou who from the beginning hast received from God
the power and mission to crush the head of Satan,
we humbly beseech thee to send thy holy Legions, that,
under thy command and by thy power,
they may pursue the evil spirits,
encounter them on every side,
resist their bold attacks and drive them hence
into the abyss of eternal woe. Amen.
V. Our Lady, Queen of Angels,
R. Preserve and deliver the faithful of the world
from the evil amongst them.
marika
"Hildi" <hildi...@excite.com> wrote in message
news:UKuEe.46505$rb6.5272@lakeread07...
> July 23rd - Saint Apollinaris of Ravenna, Bishop, Martyr
> (d. 79)
>
> When Saint Peter, setting out for Rome, left Antioch after seven years as
> its spiritual Head, he took with him several of the faithful of that city,
> among them Apollinaris, a disciple of Jesus Christ. He consecrated him
> bishop a few years later and sent him to Ravenna as its first bishop.
I will be in Rome and Antioch the weekend of March 1
All they needed to do was get an answering machine they didn't have to beat
him up just becasue he couldn't leave messages anymore
>Soon imprisoned,
> he escaped but was seized again and for the last time subjected to a
> flogging. He died on July 23rd of the year 79. His body lay first at
> Classis, four miles from Ravenna, and a church was built over his tomb;
> later the relics were returned to Ravenna.
i think your memory is going, hA! is somebody getting to you with that
soup? how could they be returned to ravenna if they started in classis?
I guess the angels are all hers!
we get no angel action at all
mk5000
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