Subj : October 6th - St. Faith, Virgin and Martyr To : All From : rich Date : Thu Oct 05 2017 10:06:36 From: rich October 6th - St. Faith, Virgin and Martyr WHEN this maiden was summoned to answer for her Christianity before the procurator Dacian at Agen she signed herself with the cross and called to Heaven for help. Thus strengthened, she turned to Dacian, who asked her, =E2=80=9CWhat is your name ? She answered, =E2=80=9CMy name= is Faith (Fides) and I endeavour to have that which I am named=E2=80=9D. Then he ask= ed, =E2=80=9CWhat is your religion?=E2=80=9D and she said, =E2=80=9CI have serv= ed Christ from my infancy, and to Him I have consecrated myself=E2=80=9D. Dacian was disposed to be merciful, and appealed to her. =E2=80=9CCome, child, remember your youth and beauty. Renounce the religion you profess and sacrifice to Diana; she is a divinity of your own sex and will bestow on you all sorts of good things.=E2=80=9D But Faith replied, =E2=80=9C The divinities of the Gentiles are evil. How then can you expect me to sacrifice to them ? =E2=80=9D--=E2=80=9C You pres= ume to call our gods evil! =E2=80=9Dexclaimed Dacian. =E2=80=9CYou must instantly offer= sacrifice, or die in torment.=E2=80=9D-- =E2=80=9CNo!=E2=80=9D she cried, =E2=80=9C I= am prepared to suffer everything for Christ. I long to die for Him.=E2=80=9D Dacian ordered a brazen bed to be produced and the saint to be bound on it. A fire was kindled under, the heat of which was made still more intolerable by the addition of oil. Some of the spectators, struck with pity and horror, exclaimed, =E2=80=9CHow can he thus torment an innocent girl only for worshipping God= !=E2=80=9D There- upon Dacian arrested certain of them, and as these refused to sacrifice they were beheaded with St. Faith. The legend of St. Faith is untrustworthy and confused with that of St. Caprasius (October 20), but her cultus was widespread in Europe during the middle ages. The chapel in the eastern part of the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedra= l in London is still called St. Faith's. Its predecessor before the Great Fire was the church of the parishioners of St. Faith's parish= in Faringdon Ward Within, their parish church having been pulled down when the choir of the cathedral was lengthened in the year 1240. The legend of St. Faith and of the miracles worked at her shrine was unusually popular in the middle ages. In BHL. 38 distinct Latin texts, nn. 2938-2965, are enumerated, and these gave rise to a considerable literature in the vernacular which is of great philological interest. See, for example, Hoepfener and Alfaric, La Chanson de Ste Foy (2 vols., 1926), and the review of the same work in the Analecta Bollandiana, vol. xlv (1927), pp. 421-425. An early and relatively sober text of the passio (which does not mention St. Caprasius by name) is printed in the Acta Sanctorum, October, vol. iii. Cf. also Bouillet-Servi=C3=A8res, Ste Foy (1900) and Duchesne, Fastes =C3=89piscopau= x, vol. ii, pp. 144-146. The mention of St. Faith in the Hieronymianum (CMH., p. 543) affords some presumption that she did actually suffer at Agen, but the date is problematical. Saint Quote: The Sacred Heart of Christ is an inexhaustible fountain and its sole desire is to pour itself out into the hearts of the humble so as to free them and prepare them to lead lives according to his good pleasure. --St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Bible Quote: And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind? do they not both fall into the ditch? The disciple is not above his master= : but every one shall be perfect, if he be as his master. (Luke 6:39-40) <><><><> Come Lord Jesus Come Lord Jesus, take away scandals from Your kingdom which is my soul, and reign there. You alone have the right. For greediness comes to claim a throne within me; haughtiness and self-assertion would rule over me; pride would be my king; luxury says, "I will reign"; ambition, detraction, envy and anger struggle within me for the mastery. I resist as far as I am able; I struggle according as help is given me. I call on my Lord Jesus. For his sake I defend myself, since I acknowledge myself as wholly his possession. He is my God, Him I proclaim my Lord. I have no other king than my Lord, Jesus Christ. Come, then, O Lord, and disperse these enemies by your power, and you shall reign in me, for you are my King and my God. - Amen. --Saint Bernard of Clairvaux --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .