Subj : =?UTF-8?Q?12_February_=E2=80=93_Saint_Eulalia_of_Barcelona?= To : All From : rich Date : Thu Feb 11 2021 09:19:00 From: rich 12 February =E2=80=93 Saint Eulalia of Barcelona Sanctified Virgin, forerunner of professed nuns. She was martyred at the age of 13 or 14. Born c 290 in Barcelona, Spain and died on 12 February 303 in Barcelona. Patronages =E2=80=93 Barcelona, Barcelona Cathedral, against drought, against dysentery, boatmen, mariners, pregnant women, for rain, safe sailing, safe seafaring, sailors, travellers, watermen. Saint Eulalia (Aulaire, Aulazia, Olalla, Eul=C3 ria) (c 290=E2=80=9312 Fe= bruary 303) was a 13-year-old Christian virgin who suffered martyrdom in Barcelona during the persecution of Christians in the reign of emperor Diocletian. There is some dispute as to whether she is the same person as Saint Eulalia of M=C3=A9rida, whose story is similar. For refusing to recant her Christianity, the Romans subjected her to thirteen tortures, including =E2=80=93 putting her into a barrel with knive= s (or glass) stuck into it and rolling it down a street (according to tradition, the one now called Baixada de Santa Eulalia =E2=80=9CSaint Eulalia's descent=E2=80=9D), cutting off her breasts, crucifixion o= n an X-shaped cross. She is depicted with this cross, the instrument of her martyrdom. Finally, she was decapitated. A dove is supposed to have flown forth from her neck following her decapitation. This is one point of similarity with the story of Eulalia of M=C3=A9rida, in which a dove flew from the girl's mouth at the moment of her dea= th. In addition, Eulalia of M=C3=A9rida's tortures are sometimes enumer= ated among the Barcelona martyrs and the two were similar in age and year of death. St Eulalia was Canonised in 633. Eulalia is commemorated with statues and street names throughout Barcelona. Her body was originally interred in the church of Santa Maria de les Arenes (St Mary of the Sands, now Santa Maria del Mar, St Mary of the Sea). It was hidden in 713 during the Moorish invasion and only recovered in 878. In 1339, it was relocated to an alabaster sarcophagus in the crypt of the newly built Cathedral of of the Holy Cross and St Eulalia.=C2 The festival of Saint Eulalia is held in Barcelona for a week around her feast day on 12 February. One of the most well-known and endearing parts of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia of Barcelona is the crypt of Saint Eulalia. The magnificent Gothic tomb incorporates Romanesque elements from other sources, such as the bases and capitals holding up the structure of the polychromed marble sarcophagus solemnly inaugurated in 1339. The sculptor is known to have come from the region of Pisa. St Eulalia's sarcophagus is crowned by five images =E2=80=93 four angels wi= th candlesticks and, in the centre, the image of the Eulalia. The crypt has a keystone representing Saint Eulalia and the Christ Child placing a crown on the Saint of Barcelona. Behind the Gothic sepulchre is the original sepulchre of Saint Eulalia, which was found by the bishop Frodoino in 878 in the cemetery of Santa Mar=C3=ADa del Mar and a piece of broken marble with the original inscription commemorating her. see https://anastpaul.com/2020/12 Saint Quote: A slight sabre-cut will separate my head from my body, like the spring flower which the Master of the garden gathers for His pleasure. We are all flowers planted on this earth, which God plucks in His own good time: some a little sooner, some a little later...Father and son may we meet in Paradise. I, poor little moth, go first. Adieu. --St. Theophane Venard Bible Quote: If you forgive men their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you your offenses. (Matthew 6:14) <><><><> Self-Love =E2=80=9CBy self-love we mean here, an inordinate love of self. We are not forbidden to love ourselves. In fact, this is something natural to us and, therefore, intended by God. We should love ourselves, however, in a properly ordered manner. In the first place, we must love God above everything and, therefore, more than ourselves. God is our creator and our Redeemer and our final end. Everything comes to us from Him and for this reason, everything must return to Him. We should not be self-centred but, God-centred. In other words, we must direct all our actions towards God, not towards ourselves. We cannot set our own ego in the place which belongs to God, still less above Him. To do so, would be equivalent of robbing God, because everything is His and we ourselves belong to Him. If we have any intelligence at all, let us remember that God gave it to us. If we have sound health, strength, or good looks, let us remember, that these are His gifts. If we have amassed a great store of cultural or artistic learning as a result of our ability and study, let us not become too attached to it, nor look for praise and admiration. It is God who gave us this ability and the energy and enthusiasm to cultivate it. Honour and glory are due to God alone!=E2=80=9D by Antonio Cardinal Bacci --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .