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Saturday Oct 09, 2021
Saturday Oct 09, 2021
Saint Basil, the Bishop of Caesarea
January 1
Saint Basil of Caesarea (ca. 330 – January 1) was also called Basil the Great. He was the bishop of Caesarea and a pre-eminent clergyman in the fourth century. He is a saint of the Orthodox Church of the Roman Church and one of the four main Greek Church Fathers, Saint Athanasius, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, and Saint John Chrysostom.
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Saturday Oct 09, 2021
Saturday Oct 09, 2021
Saint Simeon Stylites- The Animal Healer Saint for January 5
The man we ended up knowing as saint Simeon was born in the year 390, in what is now Syria. He was the son of a humble and Christian family. Until he reached adolescence, Simeon helped his father work with the cattle. He used to always ask an old priest to explain the Scriptures to him. This priest soon realized that Simeon had a vocation for the monastic life. Hearing this, Simeon felt that his calling was to give himself totally to God.
The Saint and the Snake
But once a huge terrible looking snake settled at the fencing of the column, and people began to be fear visiting the saint.
And snake continued to live very quietly near the saint – there wasn’t any reason for him creeping away.
However, once a big motto got in the snake’s eye.
The snake coiled, turned from the pain, and finally crept up to the column and let the saint know with his mere appearance that he suffered from great pain and needed his help.
St. Simeon felt sorry for the unfortunate snake.
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Saturday Oct 09, 2021
Saturday Oct 09, 2021
Venerable Paul of Obnora-the Tree dweller, patron Saint of Wild Birds
Saint Paul of Obnora is the Saint of the day for January 10th.
Saint Paul of Obnora was a famed disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh. He was born in Moscow in the year 1317. Saint Paul of Obnora distinguished himself from his youth by piety and kindliness towards the poor and the suffering ones and the animals. His rich parents prepared him for marriage and secular Life. Still, at twenty-two years of age, he secretly left his parental home and received the tonsure at the Nativity Monastery on the Volga in the Yaroslav diocese. Believing that communication with people would confuse and divert him from his contemplations, St. Paul asked his teacher to give him a blessing for a hermitage.
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Saturday Oct 09, 2021
Saturday Oct 09, 2021
Saint William of Montevergine- Animal Parton Saint for June 25th
Today, on June 25th, we celebrate the Feast Day of Saint William of Vercelli, also known as Saint William of Montevergine.
Also known as William the Abbot, he was a Catholic hermit and the founder of the Congregation of Monte Vergine, or “Williamites.” He is a recognized saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
Saint William undertook a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
During this pilgrimage, he asked a blacksmith to make an iron implement that would encircle his body and increase his suffering to wear for the duration of the trip.
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Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Today, February 3rd, we celebrate the feast of Saint Blaise.
This is another episode of The Saints that loved Animals, from The Cathedral of the Soul Animal Chaplaincy Program.
The Universal Church remembers the life and witness of Saint Blaise, a 3rd-century Armenian bishop,[sPause sec=0.2 ePause] who endured terrifying torments, and surrendered his life rather than repudiate his Faith.
It is said that Saint Blaise was renowned as a wonderworker, effecting miraculous cures.
He was a physician, and bishop of Sebastea in historic Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey) revered as a Christian saint and martyr.
Numerous miracles were attributed to him, including the cure of diseased beasts during his refuge, thus accounting for his also being the patron saint of wild animals.
In addition, at least one account of Saint Blaise identifies his pastoral care for the Christian faith and the animals of the wilderness.
Another story says that as Bishop Blaise was being taken to prison, he met an old woman whose pig had been stolen by a wolf. When ordered by the bishop, the wolf returned the pig to the woman – alive! While the bishop was in jail, it is believed that the same woman brought him two wax candles, to light the darkness of his cell.
He was venerated as the patron of those who sufferers from throat diseases. Saint Blaise is venerated as a saint in Catholic, Orthodox, and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
This legend hints at how the saints represent, in his Pious holiness, the restoration of a paradise lost and regained in Christ.
The ease and familiarity with which the Biblical Adam, shared with nature before the fall is recapitulated in Saint Blaise.
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Learn more about Other Animals patron saints, and their prayers.
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Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Today, September 25, we celebrate the feast of Saint Sergius of Radonezh
The Holy man known as Sergius of Radonezh was a spiritual leader and monastic reformer of medieval Russia. Together with Venerable Seraphim of Sarov, he was one of the Russian Orthodox Church's most highly venerated saints.
Saint Sergius of Radonezh lived in the 1300s and is considered by Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Christians alike to be one of the greatest Russian saints.
Born Barfolomei Kirillovich in 1314, Saint Sergius of Radonezh came from a once-wealthy family and lived with his parents until their deaths in 1334.
He made his home at one point in the wilderness, like the hermits of old.
Under various forms and multiple times, it is said that the demons attack Sergius, but so exhausted did they become of the saint's righteousness that they attempted to frighten him out of the wilderness using wild animals.
Wolves, bears, and other beasts were sent forth to frighten the ascetic but did not cause him to forget his faith and centering prayers. Eventually, the animals let him be. All except for one bear.
Sensing that this bear came not to frighten him but rather was searching for food, the Russian anchorite began sharing his only food with the bear—a slice of bread.
Sergius of Radonezh is also a saint who cured many people, both from bodily and mental illnesses. There are known cases of curing people with deadly diseases and those possessed by demons. He brought calmness and blessings to all lives he touched, being them animals or People. Read more about this saint at:
http://cathedralofthesoul.org/2020/09/25/saint-sergius-of-radonezh-the-guardian-of-bears/
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Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
St. Gobnait was a holy woman of Ireland who had a special relationship with bees. So much so that she is the patron of bees and beekeepers. But it wasn’t only honey and wax she received in return for her care of her diminutive friends. Legend says that she once drove away a marauding band of cattle raiders by siccing her bees on them.
Bees, by the way, have a particular significance in Celtic lore as symbols of the soul, so St. Gobnait’s closeness to these busy creatures also has a spiritual significance.
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Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Saint Bernard of Menthon and his Wonder Dogs
Saint Bernard of Montjoux (Italian: San Bernardo di Mentone) or Bernard of Menthon was probably born in Italy. He became a priest, and then he was made Vicar General of Aosta, and spent more than four decades doing missionary work in the Alps. He is credited to be the founder of the famed hospice and monastery which has served travelers for nearly a millennium as a refuge in the most dangerous part of the western Alps.
Animal Guides and Rescuers
Since the most ancient times, there has been a path across the Pennine Alps leading from the Aosta Valley to the Swiss canton of Valais. The traditional route of this pass is covered with perpetual snow from seven to eight feet deep. It drifts sometimes accumulate to the height of forty feet. Although the pass was dangerous, especially in the springtime on avalanches, French and German pilgrims often used it on their way to Rome.
This is called Saint Bernard’s pass, the most famous pass through the Alps in the history of Italy, through which Napoleon passed with his troops, determined to conquer the territory.
The Witness of the dangers of the passage and pilgrims involved in storms or hit by small avalanches was buried in the snow. This way, Saint Bernard created this inn; he placed some disciples there, in the middle of the eleventh century, on the top of the mountain.
The monks also began breeding dogs who'd be perfect for the sorts of mountain rescues needed in the area. The breed that resulted -- now known as St. Bernard -- is an enormous dog with a low-hanging, heavy tail and a white coat with red or brown brindle, and black around the face. Their temperament is that of a "gentle giant" -- calm, sweet, and wonderful with children. These beautiful animals are often shown in pictures sporting little wooden kegs around their necks with which to bring brandy to the stranded in order to revive them.
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Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Saint Neot was a four-foot-tall monk from Glastonbury, England, who died in 877. His Feast Day is celebrated on July 31.
Contemporary records of St. Neot's life are limited, and in many cases, vague and self-ambiguous. Some surviving documents describe his life, and writers in the last few centuries have arrived at different conclusions from them. In early life, he was under pressure to become a soldier.
Still, when he was old enough, he devoted himself instead to religious life. Therefore, as a young man, he became a novice monk, living in Glastonbury Abbey, about the middle of the ninth century. He was extremely diligent.
Read more about Saint Neot here:
http://cathedralofthesoul.org/2021/11/03/saint-neot-patron-saint-of-fish/
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Saint Martin de Porres: The Animal Whisper
Today November 3rd, we celebrate the feast of Saint Martin de Porres.
Saint Martin de Porres was also known as the Animal Whisper, and patron of animal shelters," much like St. Francis was. He is the first recorded saint known to be funded various animal shelters. To Saint Martin de Porres, all creatures in creation were equally loved, and he inaugurated the first shelters for stray cats and dogs.
Read more about Saint Martin at
http://cathedralofthesoul.org/2021/11/04/saint-martin-de-porres-the-animal-whisper/