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Music of Advent, Day 9, Second Monday – Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending

This hymn is not Catholic in origin or use, but was inspired by the Dies irae and so makes a good follow up to the Second Sunday in Advent. A Catholic Analysis of the Words by Monsignor Charles Pope, and a defense of Catholics singing this hymn by Father Dwight Longenecker Hymns and Carols ofContinue reading “Music of Advent, Day 9, Second Monday – Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending”

6 December – Saint Dionysia, Saint Majoricus, & Companions

Dionysia, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilianus, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus Modern Hagiography Bibliotheca Sanctorum Martyrologium Romanum Roman Martryology Dictionary of Saintly Women Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler. Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould. Victories of the Martyrs by Saint Alphonsus Liguori. Medieval Hagiography BHL Victor of Vita, History of the Vandal Persecution, Book 3 ArtContinue reading “6 December – Saint Dionysia, Saint Majoricus, & Companions”

6 December – Saint Asella

Modern Hagiography Bibliotheca Sanctorum Martyrologium Romanum Roman Martryology Dictionary of Saintly Women The Lives of Saints by Francis Weninger. Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould. Contemporary Hagiography BHL Letter from Jerome to Asella. A eulogy of Asella in a letter from Jerome to Marcella. Mention of Asella by Palladius in his Lausiac History. ArtContinue reading “6 December – Saint Asella”