Rievaulx Abbey.

Rievaulx Abbey,

Yorkshire, England.

Photo: 15 October 2009.

Source: From geograph.org.uk

Author: Simon Palmer

(Wikimedia Commons)

"Salve Regina

By

The Monks Of The Abbey Of Notre Dame.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/d5p_U8J0iRQ

Saint Agnes' Second Feast (Sanctae Agnetis Secundo). Feast Day 28 January.

Unless otherwise stated, Text is taken from
"The Liturgical Year", by Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Translated from the French by Dom Laurence Shepherd, O.S.B.
Christmas, Book II.
Fourth Edition.
Volume 3.

Saint Agnes.

Artist: Domenichino (1581–1641).

Date: 1620.

Current location: Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, England.

References: The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Church of Saint Agnes Outside-the-Walls

(Sant'Agnese fuori le mura),

Rome, Italy.

Photo taken during a survey of Roman Monuments, 1911 [1].

Date: 1911.

This File: 16 November 2005.

User: Panairjdde.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following three paragraphs are taken from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

The Church of Saint Agnes Outside-the-Walls (Italian: Sant'Agnese fuori la mura) is a Titulus Church, Minor Basilica, in Rome, on a site sloping down from the Via Nomentana, which runs North-East out of the City, still under its ancient name.

What are said to be the remains of Saint Agnes are below The High Altar. The Church is over one of the Catacombs of Rome, where Saint Agnes was originally buried, and which may still be visited from the Church. The Church was built by Pope Honorius I in the 7th-Century, and largely retains its original structure, despite many changes to the decoration.

In particular, the Mosaic, in the Apse, of Agnes, Honorius and another Pope, is largely in its original condition. The current Cardinal Priest, of the Titulus S. Agnetis Extra moenia, is Camillo Ruini.

Lazzaro Morelli Statue (1661-1662) of Saint Agnes,

atop the Colonnade in Saint Peter's Square, Vatican.

[Editor: Lazzaro Morelli (1619 – 1690) was an Italian Sculptor of the Baroque period.]

This File: 6 November 2011.

User: Cloudbound.

Original Upload Log: 2011-10-30 15:09:48 | Dickstracke | 57569 | 307×600 | Lazzaro Morelli, statue of St. Agnes atop the colonnade in St. Peter's Square, 1661-62 Statue: {{PD-art-3d}} Photo: {{Cc-by-2.0|Photographed by Richard Stracke in St. Peter's Square}}

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: Saint Agnes.

Spanish: Santa Inés.

Artist: Cesare Dandini (1596–1657).

Source/Photographer: www.pintura.aut.org

(Wikimedia Commons)

Christmas.
28 January.
Saint Agnes.
Her Second Feast.

Five days after the Martyrdom of the Virgin Emerentiana (Editor: Feast Day 23 January), the parents of the glorious Saint Agnes visited the tomb of their child, during the night. There to weep and Pray. It was the eighth day since Saint Agnes' Martyrdom.

Whilst they were thinking upon the cruel death, which, though it enriched their child with a Martyr's Palm, had deprived them of her society, Agnes suddenly appeared to them: She was encircled with a bright light, and wore a Crown on her head, and was surrounded by a Choir of Virgins of dazzling beauty. On her Right-Hand, there stood a beautiful White Lamb, the emblem of The Divine Spouse of Agnes.

Turning towards her parents, she said to them: "Weep not over my death: For I am now in Heaven, together with these Virgins, living with Him whom I loved on Earth with my whole Soul."

It is to Commemorate this glorious apparition that The Holy Church has instituted this Feast, which is called Saint Agnes' Second Feast (Sanctae Agnetis Secundo). Let us Pray to this fervent spouse of The Divine Lamb, that she intercede for us with Him, and present us to Him in this Life, until it be given to us to possess Him face-to-face in Heaven. Let us unite with The Church in the following Prayer, which she uses in today's Office:

Antiphon.
Stans a dextris ejus Agnus nive candidior.
Christus sibi Sponsam et Martyrem consecravit.

Versicle.
Specie tua, et pulchritudine tua.

Responsary.
Intende, prospere procede et regna.

Oremus.
Deus qui nos annua beatae Agnetis
Virginis et Martyris tuae solemnitate laetificas:
da quaesumus, ut quam veneramur officio,
etiam piae conversationis sequamur exemplo.
Per Christum Dominum nostrum.
Amen.

Antiphon.
Standing at her Right-Hand,
as a Lamb Whiter than Snow,
Christ consecrated her to Himself
as His Spouse and Martyr.

Versicle.
With thy comeliness and thy beauty.

Responsory.
Set out, proceed prosperously, and reign.

Let Us Pray.
O God, Who rejoicest us
by the yearly Solemnity of Blessed Agnes,
the Virgin and Martyr: Grant, we beseech Thee,
that we may imitate her life,
to whose memory we pay this honour.
Through Christ Our Lord.
Amen.

Rievaulx Abbey.

Rievaulx Abbey,

Yorkshire, England.

Photo: 15 October 2009.

Source: From geograph.org.uk

Author: Simon Palmer

(Wikimedia Commons)

" Silencium"

by 

John Harles.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/Cc9pUwuaqNs

17th-Century Turkish Woven Chasuble.

Date: 17th-Century.

Geography: Turkey.

Culture: Islamic.

Medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; lampas (kemha).

Dimensions: Textile: H. 46 in. (116.8 cm) W. 27 1/2 in. (69.9 cm).

Classification: Textiles-Woven.

Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906.

Accession Number: 06.1210.

Image: THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

The following Text is taken from THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

A large number of Ottoman Silk Textiles were destined for export to Europe, where they functioned as Secular and Religious Garments. This Chasuble, an Ecclesiastical Vestment worn by High Church Officials, is a fine example of the synthesis of Eastern and Western displays of wealth through the donning of Silk and Gold Garments.

The design features large-scale Palmettes and Serrated Leaves imbued with tiny Pomegranate Blossoms, highlighted by Gold-Wrapped Weft Threads. The elegant contrast between Sky Blue and Crimson is achieved through the Lampas (Kemha) Technique, which combines two different Weave Structures to create Solid Areas of Colour by floating the Unused Warp Threads on the back of the Cloth.

A Little Levity To Lighten Your Day.

Illustration: ALLPOSTERS.CO.UK

18th-Century Embroidered Italian Chasuble.

Italian Chasuble.

Date: 18th-Century.

Culture: Italian, probably Sicily.

Medium: Silk, metallic thread.

Dimensions: W. 29 in. (73.7 cm); L. of shoulder to hem 43 3/4 in. (111.1 cm).

Classification: Textiles-Embroidered.

Credit Line: Gift of Catherine M. Randazzo Guirreri and John J. Randazzo,

in memory of the Saverio Randazzo Family, 1984.

Accession Number: 1984.462.1.

Image: THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

The following Text is taken from THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

According to Tradition and Testimony, this Chasuble — together with its matching Stole, Maniple, Chalice Veil, and Burse — was made in Sicily, as a gift from his Bishop for Nicolo Spedaliere (also recorded as Spitaleri), Head Priest of the Mother Church of Partanna, Sicily.

It is entirely feasible that the Vestments were made by a Women's Religious Order, or at a School, that practiced this type of Embroidery. The nearly symmetrical pattern of full-blown, semi-naturalistic flowers, small blossoms, curving leaves, and scrolls, is characteristic of the Late-Baroque Ornamentation that appears on some Sicilian Vestments and Italian Vestments from the Late-17th- to the Mid-18th-Century.

Similarly typical is the combination of Painterly Polychrome Silk Embroidery, worked in Long- and Short-Stitches and French Knots, with Metal Thread couched in a variety of Patterns. Although the Chasuble maintains its Traditional Surface Division into Central Orphrey and Side Panels, which previously may have been of different materials, there is no structural reason to do so, as the entire Decoration is Embroidered and the Pattern flows over these boundaries.

Saint Anthony Of Padua. Confessor And Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day 13 June.

Text is taken from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Saint Anthony of Padua.

Doctor of The Church.

Hammer of Heretics.

Professor of Miracles.

Pray for us.
Image: UNA VOCE OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO

Saint Anthony of Padua, O.F.M. (born Fernando Martins de Bulhões; 15 August 1195 – 13 June 1231), also known as Anthony of Lisbon, was a Portuguese Catholic Priest and Friar of The Franciscan Order. He was born and raised by a wealthy family in Lisbon and died in Padua, Italy.

He was noted by his contemporaries for his forceful Preaching and expert knowledge of Scripture, he was the second-most-quickly Canonised Saint, after Peter of Verona. He was proclaimed a Doctor of The Church on 16 January 1946. He is also the Patron Saint of finding things or lost people.