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New Saints and Blesseds of The Carmelite Order 5 5 X 8 5
New Saints and Blesseds of The Carmelite Order 5 5 X 8 5
JULY 2015
This smaller version of Incarnation Magazine
is dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel,
chief patron of the Order, who appeared to
Saint Simon Stock on July 16, 1251, with the
small Brown Scapular and this promise:
"Take this Scapular, it shall be a sign of salvation, a
protection in danger and a pledge of peace. Whosoever
dies wearing this Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire."
Not all of the new Saints and Blesseds of the Carmelite Calendar are
represented in this issue: Bl. Candelaria of St. Joseph, Bl. Teresa Maria
Manetti of the Cross, St. Joachina de Vedruna de Mas, Bl. Maria
Crocifissa de Curcio, Bl. Josepha Naval Girbes, Bl. Maria Mercedes
Prat, Bl. Maria Teresa Scrilli, St. Henry de Osso, and Bl. Kuriakos
Chavara. Look for them and others in future issues of
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SAINT MARY OF
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a delicious broth that gave her strength. The woman dressed her
wound, and then told her that she would enter a Carmelite monastery,
make her vows in another, and die in another. This prediction proved
true, because Mary later entered the Carmel of Pau, France. She
assisted a foundation in India where she made her vows, and she died
in the Carmel that she had helped to found in Bethlehem. Awaking in
a confessional in a Franciscan church located in Jerusalem, Mary
began working as a domestic. A series of positions led her to the family
that brought her to France, where she began her religious life as a
Sister of St. Joseph of the Apparition, but her mystical graces alarmed
the sisters, and they did not accept her there. Her novice mistress
brought her to the Carmel of Pau, where she was accepted and given
the name Mary of Jesus Crucified. She died in the Carmel
of Bethlehem from a fall that wounded her leg in 1878. Mary of Jesus
Crucified was just canonized by Pope Francis on May 17, 2015.
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SAINT
TERESA OF
THE ANDES
Jesus alone
is beautiful.
He is my
only joy.
I call for
Him, I cry after Him, I search
for Him within my heart.
St. Teresa of the Andes
Born in Santiago, Chile, on July 13, 1900, Juanita Fernandez
Solar, one of six children of devoted Catholic parents, began
her life with Jesus at an early age. At the age of fifteen, she
made a private vow of virginity, which she renewed
continually until she entered the Carmel of the Holy Spirit in
the town of Los Andes at the age of eighteen. Juanita had been
praying for many years, and had worked to overcome her
difficult personality traits such as pride and anger. Her
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SAINT
EDITH STEIN
(SR. TERESA
BENEDICTA
OF THE CROSS)
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SAINT
MARIA
MARAVILLAS
OF JESUS
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SAINT
RAPHAEL
KALINOWSKI
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The photos above show Joseph Kalinowski as an officer in the Russian army,
and later as a tutor to Prince August Czartoryski, who was beatified in 2004.
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BLESSED ELIA
OF SAINT
CLEMENT
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BLESSED
ISIDORE BAKANJA,
MARTYR OF THE
BROWN SCAPULAR
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LOUIS and
AZELIE
MARTIN
SOON-TOBE SAINTS
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BLESSED
MARIA
CANDIDA
OF THE
EUCHARIST
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BLESSED
TITUS
BRANDSMA
Born 1881 Anno Brandsma to Titus and
Tjitsje Brandsma, small dairy farmers in
Friesland, Holland. Five of their six
children entered religious life. Titus
began his studies with the Franciscans,
and entered the Carmelite novitiate in
Boxmeer in 1898, taking his father's
name Titus for his religious name. He was ordained in 1905,
studied at the Roman Gregorian University, and graduated in
1909 with a doctorate in philosophy. Titus dedicated his life to
education, particularly to Carmelite mysticism, philosophy, and
journalism. In 1923 he helped found the Catholic University of
Nijmegen in Holland, where he taught and served as
rector. In 1935, he completed a lecture tour in the United States
at various Carmelite institutions, and in the same year he was
appointed by his archbishop to serve as advisor to Catholic
journalists in Holland. In January of 1942, the Third Reich had
invaded Holland and ordered Catholic newspapers to print Nazi
propaganda. Titus hand-delivered a letter written by the Dutch
bishops to the editors of 14 newspapers asking them not to obey,
before he was arrested on the 19th of January. By the 19th of June,
he was in Dachau concentration camp, where he was
hospitalized. On the 26th of July he was killed with a lethal
injection administered by a nurse as part of the Nazi medical
experimentation on prisoners.
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Above: Titus as a boy, as a young Carmelite (left) with his family, and
as an adult. Below: Titus as a scholar and journalist; his prison cell.
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BLESSED
MARIA
SAGRARIO
OF SAINT
ALOYSIUS
GONZAGA
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BLESSEDS
MARIA
PILAR,
TERESA,
AND MARIA
ANGELES
Murdered by communists in
1936 during the Spanish Civil
War: Sisters Maria Pilar of
Saint Francis Borgia, 58 years
old, Teresa of the Child Jesus,
27, and Maria of the Angels, 31. On July 22, eighteen nuns of the
Carmelite monastery in Guadalajara went into hiding in secular
dress. These three martyrs hid in the basement of a hotel. Two
days later, making their way along a street, a woman soldier
recognized them as nuns and ordered them to be shot. Sr. Maria
of the Angels died instantly. Sr. Maria Pilar, although wounded,
cried out: "Long live Christ the King!" This infuriated the
soldiers, who shot at her and slashed her with a knife. She died
with the words, "My God, pardon them. They do not know what
they are doing." Sr. Teresa was led to a nearby cemetery where,
after her words "Long live Christ the King!" she also was shot in
the back. They were beatified by Saint Pope John Paul II on
March 29th, 1987. Their feast day is observed on July 24th, the
day of their martyrdom.
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BLESSED
HILARY
JANUSZEWSKI
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BLESSED
ALFONSE
MAZUREK
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BLESSED
FRANCIS
PALAU Y QUER
Blessed Francis Palau y Quer, like so
many other Carmelites, writes beautifully
of the union of the soul with God in
mystical marriage. He was born in Spain
in 1811, the seventh of nine children of Jose
Palau and Maria Antonia Quer. He entered the Order in 1832
and was ordained a priest in 1836 during a period of civil unrest
that resulted in the closing of his monastery. Blessed
Francis lived in exile and in solitude in France, coming back to
Spain in 1851 to found what he called "The School of Virtue" for
catechetical instruction. The school was suppressed in 1854,
forcing Francis into solitude again until 1860 on the rocky coast
of Ibiza where he shared mystically in the sufferings of the
Church. It was here that his writings, "The Struggle of the Soul
with God," were born.
In 1861, Francis founded the
Congregation of Carmelite Brothers and Sisters. He died at
Tarragona in 1872 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on
April 24th, 1980. From "Fr. Francisco Palau, OCD, Letters"
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man takes place in the Interior. The order that appears and is
shown outside is the work and effect of the order inside. The
three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, aided by the
highest and most sublime gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as
understanding, wisdom, knowledge, and counsel, unite the
creature, the human spirit, with his God, the soul with the Word
of God. It is this sacred union that you must seek, hold and
possess; in it lie the spiritual life, health and strength, and from
it originate all the other virtues. The soul looks to God under two
aspects or forms: first as the object of all its affections, or as an
infinitely good and lovable being, and this imagining robs the
heart; and insofar as he is good, infinitely beautiful, that is,
infinitely perfect, he captures our intellectual vision, our
thoughts and meditations. In this regard, the theological virtues
and their gifts cause God and the soul to become one single thing
through love and purity of thoughts. While this divine union
takes place primarily and mainly in the soul, all the other virtues
are like aids, attendants and armies of that guard, that assist and
protect this work. This is the love of God for the soul and the love
of the soul for God. Moreover, while the said union is worked out
and ordered, another union begins; this is the one about which I
have told you many times: the soul unites first with God as its
beloved, as the center of its affection and vision, and then as its
King, Lord, master and universal governor of the whole world.
The first union turns the soul into a goddess, that is, it deifies,
divinizes and makes it God's spouse. The second one elevates it
to the dignity of queen, co-redeemer of the world, lady and
princess. The first is the love of God and the second, the love of
neighbor, and since the love of God and of neighbor sums up the
whole of God's work in the heart of men, and since this is the
work to be started, continued and perfected in us and the
fulfillment of the whole law, no one can enter the kingdom of
God if this has not been done to a degree of perfection that God
alone knows.
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BLESSEDS
JACQUES
RETOURET,
JOHN
BAPTIST,
MICHAEL
AND JAMES
priests and martyrs
for their refusal to
take the oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the
French Revolution which, among other things, demanded
election of future popes and bishops by popular vote. Saint Pope
John Paul II beatified 63 priests and religious on October 1, 1995,
who had been imprisoned on board two ships stationed in
Rochefort Bay, France, for ten months awaiting deportation into
slavery. The following are excerpts from Resolutions Drawn Up
by the Priests Imprisoned on the Ship Les Deux Associes: They
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BLESSEDS
EUFRASIO
AND
EUSEBIO
OF THE
CHILD JESUS
Born February 8, 1897,
Eufrasio Barredo Fernandez (Eufrasio of the Child Jesus) in
Asturias, Spain, where he was martyred on October 12, 1934. He
was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI on October 12, 2007. Ovidio
Fernandez Arenillas (Eusebio of the Child Jesus) was born 21
February 1888 in Castifale, Leon, Spain. He was martyred during
the Spanish Civil War, 1936, in Toledo, along with fifteen other
Carmelites who were beatified on October 28, 2007 by Pope
Benedict XVI. (Please see newsaints.faithweb.com for more
information on the martyrs of the Spanish Civil War.)
BLESSED LUKE
OF SAINT JOSEPH
As long as God preserves my
vocation, I will not lower my
head in shame for anybody
because I am a religious ... If we
die for the truth, we will have
triumphed. Fr. Luke was beatified
along with four Carmelite friars from the
California/Arizona Province on October
28th, 2007, by Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. The friars are: Fathers
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From left to right: Father Eduardo of the Child Jesus, Father Pedro of St. Elijah, Father
Vincent of the Cross, Brother Angel of St. Joseph
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BLESSEDS
ANGEL PRAT
AND SIXTEEN
COMPANIONS