Encyclopedical Hagiography

I bought a book in Frostburg ...  Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers

"... follow the book to its source" (Vitae Patrum)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitae_Patrum


there's more! (Apophthegmata Patrum)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophthegmata_Patrum

Saint Thecla

two questions during study and research of Saint Thecla ...

What is the Byzantine Rite?

What is the Alexandrian Rite?

1.  Wikipedia: "The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or Constantinopolitan Rite, is the liturgical rite used by the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Greek/Byzantine Catholic churches, and in a modified form, Byzantine Rite Lutheranism."

2.  Wikipedia: "The Alexandrian Rite is the liturgical rite used by the Coptic Orthodox church of Alexandria, Eritean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, as well as by the three corresponding Eastern Catholic Churches."


Saint Thecla is a demoted saint in Roman Catholicism since the 1960s (September 23), but she still is a saint in the Byzantine Rite (September 24) and also in the Alexandrian Rite (October 3); nonetheless, the Acts of Paul and Thecla are found in the New Testament Apocrypha (this is Saint Thecla and Saint Paul, Apostle) (also, this is not the Acts of Paul)


Online articles of interest:

A Story that demonstrates a woman in active ministry:
Can an early Christian story show a woman as an apostle?
http://www.bibliotraveler.com/can-an-early-christian-story-show-a-woman-as-an-apostle/


The Acts of Paul and Thecla
Translated probably by Jeremiah Jones, (1693-1724)
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/primary/thecla.html


Saint Thecla: The Iconography
https://www.christianiconography.info/thecla.html

St. Thecla:  Altarpiece of the Chapel of St. Thecla Burgos Cathedral, Spain

Saint Peter (Summer 2019)

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This summer, FHG is studying St. Peter ...

St. Peter  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter


excerpt:

"What can we do about the kinds of surroundings we can't escape - a negative workplace, a difficult home life, freindships that nudge us away from virtue and faith?  Are there practical things we can do to hold on to our faith in these areas?  Are there situations we can actively avoid within these places?  How can we constructively change negative environments?  Are we ever called by God to remove outselves from environments that we consider essential to our education or livelihoods, even in a painfully sacrificial way?"

Gray, Tim (2014).  Lectio: Peter - Cornerstone of Catholicism.  Greenwood Village, Colorado; Augustine Institute

Participation Kit
https://www.lighthousecatholicmedia.org/store/title/lectio-peter-participant-kit

Augustine Institute
https://www.augustineinstitute.org/

Catholic Website
https://formed.org/

Happy Easter 2019

Easter Homily by Saint John Chrysostom (EWTN version)
http://www.ewtn.com/FAITH/TEACHINGS/resub1.htm


Saint John Chrysostom and Paschal Homily at wikipedia:
1.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chrysostom
2.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschal_Homily

3 years of hagiography

Frostburg Hagiography just turned 3 years old!


Happy Valentine's Day!

... here are links to Valentine posts over the years at Frostburg Hagiography

2016

http://fbhygp.blogspot.com/2016/02/saint-valentines-day-february-14th.html

2017

http://fbhygp.blogspot.com/2017/02/happy-valentines-day.html

2018
http://fbhygp.blogspot.com/2018/02/getting-ready-for-valentines-day.html

... currently, Frostburg Hagiography is studying/researching: St. Peter Julian Eymard - 
https://stpeterjulianeymard.com/monographs/

Saint Anthony of Egypt (Abbot)

note:  this is about the Roman Catholic feast day on January 17; the Egyptian Coptic Catholic Church and Egyptian Orthodox Church observe the feast day on January 30

... in contact with Constantine himself (more at https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-anthony-of-egypt-119 )

St. Anthony (Abbot) of Egypt can be related to the metaphor "eye of a needle" because of the quote from Jesus in Matthew 19 ("camel to pass through the eye of a needle" biblical verse is read on St. Anhony of Egypt's feast day in certain Christian churches)

Memorial of St. Anthony of Egypt (Catholic mass readings)

Liturgy Archive January 17 Saint of the Day - St. Anthony of Egypt (Abbot)

Saint Anthony the Great
A Coptic icon, showing, in the lower left,St. Anthony with St. Paul the First Hermit

check out the Catholic mass readings over a six year period, if the memorial mass readings of St. Anthony of Egypt are not read ...

2019:  http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/011719.cfm

2018:  http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/011718.cfm

2017:  http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/011717.cfm

2016:  Sunday

2015:  http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/011715.cfm

2014:  http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/011714.cfm

be sure to also check out this online copy of "The Sayings of the Desert Fathers" (St. Anthony of Egypt is listed) - http://www.g4er.tk/books/sayings-of-the-desert-fathers.pdf

Another Anthony ... his feast day is June 13

Saint Anthony of Padua
Anthony of Padua with the Infant Jesus by Francisco de Zurbarán, 1627–1630

Discovering Hagiography in Indonesia

Is there hagiography in Indonesia?

map of Indonesia

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/asia/indonesia/

a patron saint of Indonesia

• saint thomas the apostle
• https://catholicsaints.info/saint-thomas-the-apostle/

ecumenicial situation in Indonesia

• The 2019 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is January 18 - 25, 2019, and throughout the year.
• https://www.oikoumene.org/en/press-centre/events/week-of-prayer-for-christian-unity

churches in Indonesia

• five remarkable churches in Indonesia
• https://www.indonesia.travel/cn/en/trip-ideas/5-remarkable-churches-in-indonesia