Subj : =?UTF-8?Q?7_October_'_St_Libaire_the_Great?= To : All From : rich Date : Tue Oct 06 2020 09:40:18 From: rich 7 October ' St Libaire the Great Also known as Lievi=C3=A8re =C2 (Died 362) =C2 Virgin, Martyr and a Holy Cephalophoria (like St Denis ' one = who carries his head in his hands and walks away).. Patronage ' Sainte-Livi=C3=A8re, Haute-Marne, France. Additional Memorials ' 8 = October (Toul-Nancy, France), Pentecost Monday (procession in Grand, France commemorating the return of the relics) and on the 1st Sunday in October (procession in Grand, France). These Memorials relate to the translation of the Relics of St Libaire in these towns. Libaire the Great was born to an imperial Roman patrician Christian family, the daughter of Bacchus Lientrude. Her six sisters are also Saints, they are Am=C3=A9e, France, Gertrude, Hilda, Lintrude, Menne, Ode, Pusinne and Suzanne. She worked for her family as a shepherdess, spending her time with the flocks spinning, praying and singing hymns. While traveling on his mission to re-convert Gaul to paganism, emperor Julian the Apostate found her in the field, guarding her sheep. She was on her knees praying and singing. Julian tried to get her to renounce Christianity by showing her a golden statue of Apollo, with a sparkling brilliance. She struck it with her distaff and the statue fell apart. He was furious and had her beheaded. Legend says that a healing spring sprang from the place of her murder and that her body picked up the severed head and carried it back to town where she combed out the hair to make it more presentable before burial. St Libaire's relics have been enshrined in many towns in France and are venerated by various feasts in the Churches built in her honour. They are in Grand, Rambervillers, Burey-en-Vaux, Affracourt, Damelevieres, L=C3=A9panges-sur-Vologne, Toul-Nancy and in her own town, Sainte-Livi=C3=A8re, Haute-Marne. =C2 https://anastpaul.com/2019/10/ Saint Quote: At the resurrection the substance of our bodies, however disintegrated, will be united. We must not fear that the omnipotence of God cannot recall all the particles that have been consumed by fire or by beast, or dissolved into dust and ashes, or decomposed into water, or evaporated into air. --St. Augustine, The City of God Bible Quote: =C2 Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God.=C2 But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.=C2 For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the beginning of his substance firm unto the end. [Hebrews 3:12-14] DRB <<>><<>> A prayer-hymn for virtue: A tone of pride or petulance repressed, A selfish inclination firmly fought, A shadow of annoyance set at naught, A murmur of disquietude suppressed. A peace in pressure possessed, A reconcilement generously sought, A purpose put aside -- a banished thought, A word of self-explaining unexpressed. Trifles they seem, these petty soul restraints, Yet they who prove them such must need possess, A constancy and courage grand and bold. They are the trifles that have made the Saints; Give me to practice them in humbleness, And nobler power than mine doth no one hold. --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .