Santa, Doctora y Hija de la Iglesia

"Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself."

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*Originally Posted 10.15.2011*

St. Teresa of Ávila or St. Teresa of Jesus. This Spanish saint is one of the heavyweights. She received visions and was a mystical writer. Founded the Discalced Carmelite reform and was declared a Doctor of the Church. This great saint has many quotables, like the bookmark of St. Teresa:

Let nothing disturb you; Let nothing frighten you. All things are passing. God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Nothing is wanting to him who possesses God. God alone suffices.

She is a patron of Spain, loss of parents, those ridiculed for their piety, against sickness, and those in need of grace.

Sancta Teresia Abulensis, ora pro nobis.

Norbertine Beer... Sort Of

Last time I talked about a couple of "secular" beers (Huh? Secular beers? What I mean are beers not brewed by religious), one having origins with a religious order and the other named after an order. Another secular beer that used to be brewed by religious is Leffe ale. Brewed in Belgium and known as an abbey beer (Abbey beers are beers not brewed by Trappists, beers brewed under an arrangement with a monastery or beers that use the monastic angle in their branding).

 Leffe has it's roots with the Canons Regular of Prémontré. The abbey was founded in 1152, went through all kinds of calamities like a flood, a fire, plague, marauders, and the French Revolution which saw the end of the brewing until the Abbey was able to brew again in 1952. They don't brew the beer anymore, a commercial enterprise does, but royalties go to the abbey.

Brüder und Bier

Franzikaner Weissbier

I came across this animation on the Franziskaner website. It is an official trademark of Franziskaner Wiessbier(wheat beer). I find it mesmerizing.

The brewery dates back to the 14th century. It wasn't brewed by Franciscans though, the brewery just happened to be across the street from a friary.

There is another weissbier maker in Munich that uses a friar as their trademark, Paulaner. They are younger than Franziskaner, and actually do have origins with a religious order, the Order of Minims, but they don't have a mezmorizing animated graphic.

Sankt Bruno von Köln

St. Bruno of Cologne (I've always wondered why we translate  Köln to Cologne). Born in Köln, became a priest, professor of theology in Rheims (Pope Urban II was one of his students), founded the Carthusian Order (one of the most austere monastic orders, said to nunquam reformata quia nunquam deformata, which translates to never needed reform because the were never deformed. Rhymes in English and Latin),  and was counselor to Pope Urban II (who was one of his students in Rheims). He is a patron of diabolically possessed people. Today his feast falls on both calenders of the Roman rite.


Sanctus Bruno, ora pro nobis

San Francisco de Asís

In honor of St. Francis's upcoming feast day here ares some of the Franciscan related stuff I've done so far. Captions link to original posts.

St. Francis of Assisi 

Clip Art 18: Franciscan Tau

 Religion (St. Padre Pio)

St. Clare of Assisi

Growing Ranks FFI

St. Anthony of Padua

St. Colette

St. Joseph Cupertino

 Franciscan Friar: Order of Friars Minor

Franciscan Friar: Order of Friars Minor Conventual

Capuchin, Franciscan Friar: 
Order of Friars Minor Capuchins

Sisters Minor of Mary the Immaculate

Angel of the Trenches

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Archives, Photographer unknown

Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus, take the place of Mother who is there no longer - Prayer of an artilleryman found at the Carmel Chapel in Lisieux, among the many testimonies left in thanksgiving for the saint's protection. Read more here.

Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face appeared on the battlefields and at the trenches of WWI. Artillery, planes and regiments where named after her. I'm sure the whiny atheist of today that like to complain about crosses in the middle of the desert would find that fine and dandy.

Sancta Teresia a Iesu infante, ora pro nobis

Muñequitos Monasticos: Augustinian Canons

The Canons Regular of St. Augustine. I'm still unsure on their organization and origins, but I know they go back as far as some of the other ancient orders. They have such a unique habit that I had to illustrate them. In this case I based the caricature on the Canons of the Klosterneuburg Monastery. They wear a distinctive tie looking garment called a sarozium, like a scapular it drapes in the back as well as the front. The sarozium evolved from the rochet(demonstrated in the second figure). The canons remove the sarozium and replace it with a rochet when in the church. Particular to the professed canons at Klosterneuburg are the violet mozzetta with tassels for offices of the church and the tassels instead of fringes on the cassock's sash.

These are the third Canons Regular I've covered in this series, the others being the Crosiers and the Norbertines. If anyone is wondering what the Canons Regular are, they are essentially priest that live communally, like monks, following the Rule of St. Augustine.

San Mateo Evangelista

I posted the following last year, I used the representation of the inkwell for St. Matthew, the above is a more common representation. 

Today is the feast of Apostle and Evangelist St. Matthew. He was a publican and tax collector before he followed Our Lord. Was the first to record the account and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Among his patronages are;  bookkeepers, security forces, and  tax collectors.


Sancte Matthæe, ora pro nobis

Guiseppe Desa

In the old Calendar today is the feast of one St. Joseph of Cupertino. At the age of eight he started having ecstatic visions which he continued to have the rest of his life. He was rejected by the Conventual Franciscans for "being to dumb" and after a brief stint dismissed by the Capuchin Franciscans "for being too clumsy" (having ecstasies out of nowhere will cause you to drop the odd plate here and there). He was eventually accepted into the Third Order by a Franciscan convent near Cupertino as a stable worker. Over time was able to win the friars over and accepted him as a full lay brother and despite not being well educated or able to read well, was ordained a priest. Along with his trances he also levitated, thus his most famouse attribute. His ecstasies and levitatios were too much and was kept out of sight until his death.

He's the patron for people associated with aviation and air travel, because of his miraculous levitations, but if you are not one of those book smart people and are doing your best to improve your education, or have a difficult test coming up, this is the saint for you. The Conventuals rejected him for his lack of education and was said to be a poor reader, yet he was able to be ordained as a member of the Catholic sacerdotal ranks.

For a fuller story check out this biography at EWTN.com. His early life was pretty depressing. He should also be the patron of people with difficult parents, for his mother was tough on him, especially after he was dismissed by the Capuchins. She wanted nothing to do with him, but then she was kind of the catalyst that got him back into religious life... still, she was a bit difficult. He also makes a great patron for those that have been asked to leave a religious community after it has been decided that it was not the life for them.

Santus Iosephus or pro nobis

Clip Art XXVIII

I tried to get this done for yesterday's Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, but problems with the program I was using made me recreate it on another program. The good news is I found a good temporary solution to my graphics creating problem, so I should be back to regularly posting stuff.

Here you have a stylized cross with the monogram of Our Lord's name in the center.

Click on the image to see it in full size, it's looks better.

BEER!

Inspired by my MS Paint creation from the last post, I created the following with an online program that will cease to exist this weekend, so it leaves me back to the search for a temp solution until my technical issues are remedied.

Salve

Not much stuff going on around here, I know.

I'm still working on getting a way to create graphics with out resorting to traditional means or MS paint.

This is what happens when I use MS Paint

Pax