#third order of st. francis

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THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT BENEDICT JOSEPH LABRE The Poor Man of the Forty Hours Adoration and the Beggar of Perpetual Adoration Feast Day: April 16

Benedict Joseph Labre was truly eccentric, one of God's special little ones. Born in France and the eldest of 18 children, he studied under his uncle, a parish priest.

Because of poor health and a lack of suitable academic preparation he was unsuccessful in his attempts to enter the religious life. Then, at age 16, a profound change took place. Benedict lost his desire to study and gave up all thoughts of the priesthood, much to the consternation of his relatives.

He became a pilgrim, traveling from one great shrine to another, living off alms. He wore the rags of a beggar and shared his food with the poor. Filled with the love of God and neighbor, Benedict had special devotion to the Blessed Mother and to the Blessed Sacrament.

In Rome, where he lived in the Colosseum for a time, he was called 'the poor man of the Forty Hours devotion' and 'the beggar of Rome.' The people accepted his ragged appearance better than he did. His excuse to himself was that 'our comfort is not in this world.'

On April 16, 1783, the last day of his life, Benedict dragged himself to a church in Rome and prayed there for two hours before he collapsed, dying peacefully in a nearby house. Immediately after his death, the people proclaimed him a saint.

Benedict Joseph Labre was canonized by Pope Leo XIII in 1881.

Source: Franciscan Media

[howisthepope]

Pope's Francis' death: what happens now?

mourning rites last 9 days

funeral will take place in St. Peter's square

Conclave will start in 15 to 20 days in order to elect a new pope

The conclave will take place in the Sistine Chapel. The cardinals will decide on which day is starts based on practical considerations.

How does the conclave work?

All cardinals under 80 can take part, voting is secret. For a new pope to be elected, there needs to be a 2/3 majority.

Because of the two-thirds majority needed, it can take multiple rounds before a pope is elected.

Every time the vote is inconclusive, they burn the paper ballots together with chemicals to produce black smoke.

When the vote is conclusive, they ask the elected cardinal to accept the position and what name he will take as the pope.

When the cardinal accepts the position, they burn the ballots again with different chemicals, this time producing white smoke

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Margaret of Cortona

1247-1297

Feast day: February 22

Patronage: against temptations; falsely accused people; homeless people; insanity; loss of parents; mental illness; midwives; penitent women; single mothers; people ridiculed for their piety; reformed prostitutes; sexual temptation; single laywomen

When St. Margaret was 7 her mother died. Leaving an unhappy home at 17 she ran away with a man and bore him a son. She wanted to marry him as he had promised, but he refused. One day she was led to his murdered body by his dog. This crime shocked Margaret into a life of prayer and penance. After 3 years she joined the Third Order of Saint Francis and began regular communications with God.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

[beardedmrbean]

The Sovereign Order of the Temple of Christ, which claims to represent the modern-day Knights Templar, has recently filed a new reconciliation lawsuit against Pope Francis.

Third Legal Action

This marks the third legal action the group has taken in less than two years, as they demand the rehabilitation of the order that was disbanded in 1312.

The plaintiffs argue that the Templar order was dissolved unjustly on April 2, 1312, during the Council of Vienne. They assert that this decision was made through an Apostolic Letter issued by Pope Clement V rather than through a formal judicial ruling, according to El Economista.

They claim that the disbanding was a grave error pressured by King Philip IV of France, known for his hostility towards the Templars.

The lawsuit highlights that the order was dismantled through an “infamous process without evidence.”

At the time of their arrest, it is stated that there were approximately 15,300 knights, of whom 650 were killed, while 14,650 managed to escape. Their Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, was burned at the stake on March 18, 1314, marking a tragic end to the order.

Seek Private Audience

In addition to rehabilitation, the plaintiffs are seeking financial compensation for the confiscation of their properties, which they claim were largely handed over to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, also known as the Knights of Malta.

The group has outlined several specific demands, including the recognition of the Templar priesthood under the Melchizedek rite, permission to establish oratories and chapels, and the return of the Church of Vera Cruz in Segovia.

Moreover, they want all medieval Templars who were tortured or killed to be recognized as martyrs and are asking to form a military body to intervene in religious conflicts.

The order has requested that the Pope issue a decree encompassing all these demands and communicate it to parishes and convents.

Additionally, they seek a private audience with the Pope to discuss their requests in more detail. Historically, this isn't the first time the Sovereign Order of the Temple of Christ has sought rehabilitation, as they have previously filed similar requests in 2005, 2006, and 2007, as well as ordinary lawsuits in subsequent years.

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Queen Elizabeth of Hungary and the Court Painter

Artist: James Dromgole Linton (English, 1840–1916)

Date: c. 1910

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Sheffield Museums, United Kingdom

Elizabeth of Hungary

Elizabeth of Hungary (7 July 1207 – 17 November 1231), also known as Elisabeth of Thuringia, was a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary and the landgravine of Thuringia.

Elizabeth was married at the age of 14, and widowed at 20. After her husband's death, she regained her dowry, using the money to build a hospital where she herself served the sick. She became a symbol of Christian charity after her death in 1231 at the age of 24 and was canonized on 25 May 1235. She is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. She was an early member of the Third Order of St. Francis, and is today honored as its patroness.

[whencyclopedia]

Anne, Queen of Great Britain

Anne reigned as Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1702 and then, following the 1707 Act of Union, over a united kingdom as Queen of Great Britain until her death in 1714. The last of the Stuart monarchs, Anne's reign witnessed the Spanish War of Succession which helped Britain establish itself as a major world power.

The Stuart Family

James II of England (r. 1685-1688) took over the throne from his late brother Charles II of England (r. 1660-1685) since the latter had no legitimate heir. James was a Catholic, but part of the deal which allowed him to succeed his Protestant brother in 1685 was that he promise to raise his two daughters as Protestants. James' first wife was Anne Hyde, the daughter of the Earl of Clarendon (m. 1660). The couple had two daughters: Mary (b. 1662) and the younger Anne, born on 6 February 1665 at St. James' Palace. Anne Hyde died of illness in 1671, and King James married again, this time to Mary (d. 1718), the daughter of the Duke of Modena. The royal couple had a son, James Francis Edward, who was born on 10 June 1688. There were rumours that the prince was an outsider brought in for convenience, and Anne herself had her suspicions about his legitimacy. The birth relegated Mary and Anne to second and third in line to the throne respectively. For Anne, in particular, the improbable likelihood of her becoming the monarch meant that she did not receive the education or preparation enjoyed by other future sovereigns.

The arrival of a new heir to the throne, who would surely be brought up a Catholic like both his parents, coupled with the king's pro-Catholic policies and authoritarian manner seriously worried many in Parliament. In order to maintain the integrity of Parliament and the achievements of the English Reformation and the primacy of Protestantism in England, several nobles now looked abroad for an alternative king. The obvious choice was William, Prince of Orange. The Dutchman was a Protestant and, in command of a powerful navy, he would be a very useful ally. Further, William was closely connected to the British royal family. William was, through his mother, the grandson of Charles I of England (r. 1625-1649), and he had married James II's daughter Mary in 1677. William was keen to have England's navy, professional army, and resources to aid him in his ongoing conflict with Louis XIV of France (r. 1643-1715).

As it turned out, William's invasion of England was remarkably tranquil, and King James, seeing desertions left, right, and centre – including by his daughter Anne – took the prudent action of escaping to France. This was the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The Prince of Orange became William III of England and his wife Mary II of England (r. 1689-1694). The two ruled jointly until Mary died of smallpox in December 1694. Anne had an uneasy relationship with William whom she described in letters with derogatory terms such as "the Dutch monster" (Cannon, 308). Largely, the royal in-laws kept their relationship distant and formal.

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Lydia O'Connor and Nina Golgowski at HuffPost:

The 133 cardinals who assembled in the Vatican for the top-secret conclave have chosen the Roman Catholic Church’s first U.S.-born pope: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost. Prevost, who will now go by his selected papal name of Pope Leo XIV, succeeds the late Pope Francis, who died at age 88 last month. Thousands filled the streets of Vatican City and cheered as Pope Leo XIV, a 69-year-old native of Chicago and polyglot with dual nationalities, stepped out on the balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square to cheers while wearing red and white. His appearance came roughly an hour after plumes of white smoke streamed from a Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday, signaling that a new leader of the Roman Catholic Church ― a faith with more than 1 billion followers ― had been selected by a two-thirds majority vote of the cardinals, the church’s most senior clergy under the pope. “Peace be with you,” he said in his first speech as pope, which he gave in Italian, Spanish and Latin, but not English. [...] Pope Leo XIV is originally from Chicago’s South Side, according to the Chicago Sun Times, and earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Villanova University in Pennsylvania in 1977 before receiving his theology degree from the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago in 1982. After completing his studies in canon law in Rome, he served two decades in Peru, where he worked as a missionary, parish priest, teacher and became the archbishop of Chiclayo, in the country’s northwest. He was also appointed the prior general, or leader, of the Order of St. Augustine in 2001 after joining the religious order in 1977. He became a naturalized Peruvian citizen in 2015 and was brought to the Vatican in 2023 by the former pope, Francis, where he has served as the head of the office that vets bishop nominations. The 267th pontiff was selected after several rounds of voting over two days. In 2013, it took five rounds of voting in under two days for the cardinals to choose Francis. The fastest conclave lasted only 10 hours in 1503, while the longest lasted nearly three years in 1268.

History was made: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost chose Pope Leo XIV to his Papal name, becomes the first pope from the US (and North America), He is just the 2nd from the Western Hemisphere. Pope Leo XIV was from the South Side of Chicago, and spent most of his career out of the US.

See Also:

Daily Kos: Trump loses another election

The Guardian: Robert Francis Prevost becomes Pope Leo XIV as cardinals elect first US pontiff

Charlotte's Web Thoughts (Charlotte Clymer): An American for Pope and a Great Choice

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St. Elizabeth of Hungary or The Miracle of the Roses by Gustave Moreau, 1879

Elizabeth of Hungary (7 July 1207 – 17 November 1231), also known as Elisabeth of Thuringia, was a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary and the landgravine of Thuringia.

Elizabeth was married at the age of 14, and widowed at 20. After her husband's death, she regained her dowry, using the money to build a hospital where she herself served the sick. She became a symbol of Christian charity after her death in 1231 at the age of 24 and was canonized on 25 May 1235. She is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. She was an early member of the Third Order of St. Francis, and is today honored as its patroness.

[anastpaul]

St Elizabeth of Hungary TOSF (1207-1231) Widow, Princess, Third Order Franciscans, Mother, Apostle of the poor, the sick, the needy.. She was Canonised on 27 May 1235 by Pope Gregory IX at Perugia, Italy. Patronages – hospitals, nurses, bakers, brides, countesses, dying children, exiles, homeless people, lace-makers, widows. all Catholic charities and the Third Order of Saint Francis. About St Elizabeth: https://anastpaul.wordpress.com/2017/11/17/saint-of-the-day-st-elizabeth-of-hungary-1207-1231-t-o-s-f/ Her Feast Day is 19 November – movedto the 17 November in 1969

(via St Pontian, Pope and Martyr, St Elizabeth, Widow and the Saints for 19 November – AnaStpaul)

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (June 17)

Founder of the Albertine Brothers and Sisters, and one of the saints who inspired the vocation of the young Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was born on 20 August 1845 as Adam Hilary Bernard Chmielowski.

Born into a wealthy and aristocratic family in Igołomia, on the outskirts of Kraków Congress Poland, Adam was the oldest of four children.

Actively involved in politics from his youth, Adam lost a leg fighting in an insurrection against Czar Alexander III at age 18.

In Krakow, he became a popular artist and his talent in the subject led him to study in Munich and Paris.

A kind and compassionate person, Adam was always deeply aware of human suffering and felt called to help those in need. 

Realizing that God was calling Him to a life of service, he returned to Krakow in 1874, determined to dedicate his talents to the glory of God. 

Instead of continuing his work as an artist, he decided to care for the poor and became a Secular Franciscan, taking the name Albert.

In 1887, Albert founded the Brothers of the Third Order of Saint Francis, Servants of the Poor, known as the Albertines or the Gray Brothers. 

Then, in 1891, he founded a community of Albertine sisters, known as the Gray Sisters.

The Albertines organized food and shelter for the poor and homeless of any age or religion. 

Albert preached on the great crisis that results from a refusal to see and aid the suffering individuals in society.

In 1949, Pope John Paul II, who was at the time Father Karol Wojtyla, wrote a well-received play about Albert called Our God’s Brother. 

John Paul II later said that he found great spiritual support for his own vocation in the life of St. Albert, whom he saw as an example of leaving behind a world of art, literature and theater to make a radical choice for the priesthood.

Brother Albert died on Christmas Day in 1916. 

Pope John Paul II beatified him on 22 June 1983 and canonized on 12 November 1989.

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The churches of the town of Dunwich slowly falling into the sea one after another, as described in a topographical and historical description of the county of suffolk (1829):

"Gardner, in his historical account of Dunwich, observes, that one of the two carves of land, taxed in the reign of Edward the Confessor, was found to be swallowed up by the sea, at the time of the survey made by order of William the Conqueror. The church of Felix, and the cell of monks, were lost very early. In the first year of Edward the Third, the old port was rendered entirely useless, and before the twenty-third year of that king's reign, a great part of the town, with upwards of 400 houses, which paid rent to the fee-farm, with certain shops and windmills, were devoured by the sea. After this the church of St. Leonard was overthrown; and, in the fourteenth century, the churches of St. Martin and St. Nicholas were also destroyed by the waves. In 1540, the church of St. John Baptist was taken down; and in the same century the chapels of St. Anthony, St, Francis, and St. Catharine, were overthrown, with the South Gate and Gild Gate, and not one quarter of the town left standing. ... In the reign of Charles I, the foundation of the Temple buildings yielded to the irresistible force of the undermining surges, and in 1677 the sea reached the market-place. In 1680 all the buildings north of Maison Dieu lane were demolished, and in 1702 the sea extended its dominion to St. Peter's church, on which it was divested of the lead, timber, bells, and other materials, the walls only remaining, which tumbled over the cliff as the water undermined them; and the town hall suffered the same fate. In 1715 the gaol was undermined and in 1729 the farthest bounds of St. Peter's churchyard fell into the sea. In December 1740, the wind blowing very hard from the north-east, and continuing for several days, occasioned terrible devastations for a great part of the cliffs were washed away, with the remains of St. Nicholas's churchyard, as also the great road which formerly led into the town. ... All Saints, as observed before, is the only church of which any portion is still standing.*"

*All Saints Church has, since this account was written, entirely fallen into the sea.

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On July 30th 1746 Francis Towneley, an English Jacobite of The Manchester Regiment was executed in London.

Colonel Francis Toneley was executed at Kennington Common along with eight other officers from the Manchester Regiment; George Fletcher, David Morgan, Thomas Chadwick, Andrew Blood, John Berwick, Thomas Deacon, Thomas Syddall and James Dawson. He was said to have been calm and dignified, wearing a suit of black velvet made for the occasion.

Townley was born in Lancashire to a Roman Catholic family and many of his family joined the Jacobite cause. His father and grandfather both fought to return the throne to King James II when he was exiled and his brother Richard was part of the Jacobite Rising in 1715. However, most of Francis Townleys involvement was in the ’45 Rising.

In 1728 Townley went to France and received a commission in the royal service. He would stay in France for over a decade before he returned to England where he was sent a colonels commission from King Louis XV of France. This enabled him to raise a force of Jacobites to aid Prince Charles Edward Stuart and the Jacobite cause. Townley headed to Manchester where he spent several months as a guest of the Jacobites in the town.

A few days before Prince Charles entered Manchester himself Townley rode out to join him and was told that all those in England who joined the Prince would be commanded by Townley as part of the Manchester Regiment. A few men of the town volunteered, and were made officers, but most of the rest, about three hundred in total, received payment for joining the Princes army.

The Manchester Regiment followed the Prince down to Derby and on their retreat back up to Carlisle. Here Townley was given orders to remain at Carlisle and defend the town, while the prince and his army continued their retreat into Scotland. Townley was determined to fight for the town and it was against his wishes that the governor of the town, a man called Hamilton, surrendered.

With the surrender Townley was thus taken prisoner and put to trial. In his defence Townley said that as a French officer he should be treated as a prisoner of war. He was a commissioned officer of France, not the Stuarts, and therefore was not a traitor. This defence however was not allowed and Townley was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death.

His body was interred in the graveyard at St Pancras Old Church, one of the few places in London reserved for Catholic burials. Along with that of George Fletcher, his head was placed on a pike on Temple Bar; the journalist John Taylor reported that it was later removed by friends of his nephew Charles Townley.

Author Katherine Grant, who is a direct descendant, states the relic was returned to his wife Mary and kept in the family chapel. In the 1930s, it was moved to Drummonds Bank in London, before being interred at St Peter's Church, Burnley in the late 1940s.

The third pic is a satirical poster from 1746 and poem regarding the Jacobite Rebellion showing severed heads on poles include those of Francis Townley and George Fletcher.

There’s a great article about Towneley, well mainly his head, at the link below.

https://www.theguardian.com/.../grisly-inheritance...

[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA Feast Day: May 13

The Blessed Mother appeared on May 13, 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, to three little shepherds: Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto.

As they were praying the Holy Rosary, she appeared over a small oak tree, dressed in pure white, and said: 'Have no fear; I come from heaven, I want you children to come here on the thirteenth of each month, until October. Then, I will tell you who I am.'

In the course of the apparitions, the beautiful Lady requested to build a church in that place, to pray the rosary every day, and to add after each mystery the so-called 'Fatima Prayer', for the conversion of sinners.

After showing the fires of hell, she said: 'Did you see the hell, where the souls of the poor sinners are cast down? The Lord, in order to save them, wants to establish all over the world the devotion to my Immaculate Heart.'

Then, the Lady revealed the three secrets.

The first was about the war; she said: 'This terrible war is about to finish; however. if men do not stop offending the Lord, there will start a more terrible one.'

The second, was about Russia and the spread of Communism.

The third secret was to be reserved for the Pope, and included a reference to an assassination attempt of the Holy Father, which, in fact, happened on May 13, 1981, John Paul II was shot at St. Peter's Square by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish assassin who was a member of the militant fascist group Grey Wolves.

On October 13th, the Lady appeared and said: 'I am the Lady of the Rosary, and I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and ask pardon for their sins. People must say the rosary.'

Francisco died on April 4, 1919 at the age of 10 in Aljustrel, while Jacinta followed him at the age of 9 on February 20, 1920 at Queen Stephanie's Hospital in Lisbon, and they were both beatified by John Paul II in 2000, and seventeen years later by Pope Francis on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first apparition.

Lucia, in the meantime, died on February 13, 2005 at the age of 97 in Coimbra, and was accorded the title Servant of God, as the first major step toward her canonization.

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Saint Margaret of Cortona

1247-1297

Feast day: February 22

Patronage: against temptations; falsely accused people; homeless people; insanity; loss of parents; mental illness; midwives; penitent women; single mothers; people ridiculed for their piety; reformed prostitutes; sexual temptation; single laywomen

When St. Margaret was 7 her mother died. Leaving an unhappy home at 17 she ran away with a man and bore him a son. She wanted to marry him as he had promised, but he refused. One day she was led to his murdered body by his dog. This crime shocked Margaret into a life of prayer and penance. After 3 years she joined the Third Order of Saint Francis and began regular communications with God. 

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[lboogie1906]

Mathilda Taylor Beasley (November 14, 1832 - December 20, 1903) was the first African American nun to serve in the state of Georgia. She was born in New Orleans. She educated slaves in her home in Savannah before the Civil War although this was illegal at the time. She was baptized as a Catholic in 1869, possibly in preparation for her marriage to Abraham Beasley, a wealthy free African American restaurant owner in Savannah, who died in 1877. After becoming a Franciscan nun in England, she returned to the US and founded a group of African American sisters in Georgia, called the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis. She attempted to affiliate her group with the Franciscan Order but was unsuccessful. She started one of the first orphanages in the US for African American girls. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[thecrenellations]

I think of these death threats from the Lymond Chronicles frequently.

Courtesy of Philippa Somerville, Jerott Blyth, and Margaret Douglas. None of these end up happening (although I guess I can’t strictly say that about the third), but there’s such conviction behind them.

context and full quotes:

Philippa after Lymond first meets Joleta, The Disorderly Knights. “On hearing of it Philippa burst into ungainly tears and announced, to any who could hear her, that if she also had had a pistol she would have taken care to shoot Francis Crawford dead.”

Jerott at the beginning of Pawn in Frankincense. ‘That’s what I do,’ said Lymond. ‘I sit on my brood-patch and think. I’m going to Constantinople. You’re going to Flaw Valleys, England, with Philippa. Graham Malett is going to be Grand Master of the Order of St. John.’ ‘Graham Malett is going to die,’ said Jerott mildly. ‘And I’m going to kill him.’ There was a silence.

Margaret Lennox to Lymond at the end of The Ringed Castle. “Before you die, there must be nothing you have not experienced. When you die — and I shall be there — it will be an experience which no man has savored. Guard your health, Mr. Crawford. I should not like you to leave us too soon.”