Saint Agnes of Bohemia
Foundress of the Institute of the Sisters of the Company of the Cross.
Born on 30 January 1846 in Seville, Spain, and given the baptismal name Maria of the Angels Guerrero Gonzalez, the future saint was affectionately known as Angelita. Her father worked as a cook in the convent of the Trinitarian Fathers, where her mother also worked in the laundry. They had 14 children, with only six reaching adulthood.
Angelita was greatly influenced by the teaching and example of her pious parents, and was taught from an early age how to pray the Rosary. She could often be found in the parish church praying before the image of Our Lady of Good Health, while her mother prepared a nearby altar. In their own home, a simple altar was erected in honour of the Virgin Mary during the month of May, where the family would recite the Rosary and give special honour to Our Lady.
AS Pastries from Seville’s cloistered convents sent to homes throughout Spain through e-commerce
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Sevilian entrepreneur Elisenda García has created hechoenelconvento.com [madeintheconvent.com], a website directed at selling pastries manufactured by cloistered nuns. These are natural products with deep-seated roots in traditional baking that the client can enjoy in a few hours and without leaving his or her house. Elisenda collaborates with nuns in the province of Seville, while she dreams of expanding the project with other artisan products, made, of course, in the convent.
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Abandoned St. Agnes Convent House
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With the help of a local historian, who was a previous student here, I was able to find out a great deal about this sites history. This convent was built by public subscription on land donated by the local landlord for the Sisters of Mercy in 1864. It also served as a Girls secondary school, with the boys school eventually amalgamating to form one mixed school. Its doors closed in 1999 and has been left derelict ever since, with plans to redevelop never coming to fruition...
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Our Italian language and culture school is located in BOLOGNA. (WWW.STUDYITALIAN.IT)
There is a saying that the Bolognese do not realize how beautiful their city is. Actually, they are well aware of it! Bologna is the result of a magical and alchemic mixture of art and culture. It has 12 city museums, 1 national museum, 4 church museums, 4 private-owned museums, 16 University museums and an invaluable Jewish museum. But it is also a lively and cheerful place, brought alive by the thousands of university students who have been flocking to the Alma Mater Studiorum the oldest University in the world every year since 1088 AD, the year of its establishment !!! In two words: Art and culture.
Bologna, the capital of the Emilia-Romagna region, is a city steeped in history and culture. Surrounded by green hills, the town conceals countless artistic and architectural treasures in the shade of its towers and porticoes. It is one of the most amazing urban centres in existence and rarely are citizens as proud of their hometown as the Bolognese. The old town centre is extensive, well-preserved and rich in memories of the many civilisations that have lived here over the ages. The urban structure was defined by the Romans. The medieval street system, that extends from the city centre like the spokes of a wheel, was laid down by the Longobards. Numerous convents bear witness to the bygone power of the Popes and the impressive Jewish ghetto, still intact today, is also movingly reminiscent. Another fine feature of the town are its picturesque red brick towers. In the past there were over 200 of these, each demonstrating the power of the important families who built them.
Two of the finest examples, the Asinelli Tower and the unfinished Garisenda Tower, have now become a symbol of the town. But what really distinguishes Bolognas urban character are its porticoes. No other city in the world can boast a monumental procession of arcades that stretches, almost without interruption, for over thirty five kilometres. Admired by visitors for centuries, this unique example of architectural harmony has recently been submitted for nomination as a World Heritage Site. An important centre in medieval times, Bologna is not only famous for being the birthplace of the oldest university in the western hemisphere, it was once also one of Europes major harbours. In bygone times, large, industrial cities depended on water and Bolognas advanced technical system of waterwaysand canals facilitated mercantile navigation and enhanced its business activities. Today, most of Bolognas canals flow underground, but many have been recently restored and opened to visitors. Bologna is also an important gastronomic centre. Its inhabitants regard preparing and savouring food, not as a mere necessity, but as a refined art where new and classic flavours are blended with skill and passion
Crisis for the monasteries of Ciociaria (Italy)
The convents across a difficult period. The strong crisis of vocations and the higher average age of religious are creating problems in the management of several religious structures. A situation that now also affects the convent of San Lorenzo, in the higher part of Piglio towards Altipiani di Arcinazzo, where remained only the superior, father Angelo Di Giorgio, 77 years. So close one of the most beautiful monasteries of the province of Frosinone, eight centuries of history behind it, the only one still active in Franciscan Ciociaria.
Mr Zingaretti Lazio region today visited the monastery of Collepardo, in the province of Frosinone in Lazio (Italy), will invest immediately one hundred thousand euros for the revival of the monastery of Certosa di Trisulti in order to kick off operations to protect the time and the Church .
Interview: Nicola Zingaretti Italian politician, President of the Lazio region
അനുദിന വിശുദ്ധർ (Saint of the Day) January 23rd - St. Vincent Pallotti & St. Ildephonsus
അനുദിന വിശുദ്ധർ (Saint of the Day) January 23rd - St. Vincent Pallotti & St. Ildephonsus
St. Vincent Pallotti, Priest (Feast - January 22) Born in Rome in 1795, St. Vincent became a priest and dedicated himself completely to God and cared for souls. He dreamed of gaining for Christ all non-Catholics, especially the Mohammedans. To this end he inaugurated a revolutionary program which envisaged the collaboration of the laity in the apostolate of the clergy. But St. Vincent was also well aware of the many deprivations in the natural sphere that hindered the spread of the Faith. He thus obtained and spent huge sums for the poor and underprivileged. He founded guilds for workers, agriculture schools, loan associations, orphanages and homes for girls - all of which made him the pioneer and precursor of Catholic Action. His great legacy was the congregation which he founded for urban mission work, known as the Society for Catholic Action. This indefatigable laborer for Christ in 1850 from a severe cold which he most likely caught on a cold rainy night after giving his cloak to a beggar who had none.
St. Ildephonsus is highly regarded in Spain and closely associated with devotion to the Blessed Virgin which he fostered by his famous work concerning her perpetual virginity. Born around 607, Ildephonsus came from a noble family and was probably a pupil of St. Isidore of Seville. While still quite young, he entered the Benedictine monastery of Agalia near Toledo and went on to become its Abbot. In that capacity he attended the Councils of Toledo in 653 and 655.
In 657 the clergy and people elected this holy man to succeed his uncle, St. Eugenius, as Archbishop of Toledo. He performed his episcopal duties with diligence and sanctity until his death in 667. This saint was a favorite subject for medieval artists, especially in connection with the legend of Our Lady's appearance to present him with a chalice. St. Ildephonsus was a prolific writer, but unfortunately only four of his works have survived. Among these are the one already mentioned and an important document of the history of the Spanish Church during the first two-thirds of the seventh century, entitled Concerning Famous Men.
അനുദിന വിശുദ്ധർ (Saint of the Day) April 10th - St. Michael de Sanctis & St Paternus
അനുദിന വിശുദ്ധർ (Saint of the Day) April 10th - St. Michael de Sanctis & St. Paternus
Michael de Sanctis was born in Catalonia, Spain around 1591. At the age of six he informed his parents that he was going to be a monk. Moreover, he imitated St. Francis of Assisi to such a great extent that he had to be restrained. After the death of his parents, Michael served as an apprentice to a merchant. However, he continued to lead a life of exemplary fervor and devotion, and in 1603, he joined the Trinitarian Friars at Barcelona, taking his vows at St. Lambert's monastery in Saragosa in 1607. Shortly thereafter, Michael expressed a desire to join the reformed group of Trinitarians and was given permission to do so. He went to the Novitiate at Madrid and, after studies at Seville and Salamanca, he was ordained a priest and twice served as Superior of the house in Valladolid. His confreres considered him to be a saint, especially because of his devotion to the Most Blessed Sacrament and his ecstacies during Mass. After his death at the age of thirty-five on April 10, 1625 many miracles were attributed to him. He was canonized in 1862 by Pope Pius IX. St. Michael de Sanctis is noted in the Roman Martyrology as being remarkable for innocence of life, wonderful penitence, and love for God. He seemed from his earliest years to have been selected for a life of great holiness, and he never wavered in his great love of God or his vocation. As our young people look for direction in a world that seems not to care, St. Michael stands out as worthy of imitation as well as of the prayers of both young and old alike. His feast day is April 10.
St. Paternus.The first 5th century saint. He followed his father's path by becoming a hermit in Wales. He founded the monastery at the great church of Paternus, and became a bishop of that region. He was known for his preaching, charity and mortifications. Scholars believe his story is an amalgam
Light opera | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:56 1 Italian comic opera
00:03:56 2 French iopéra comique/i and iopérette/i
00:05:33 3 German isingspiel/i and Viennese ioperetta/i
00:07:15 4 Spanish izarzuela/i
00:10:05 5 English light opera
00:14:15 6 Russian comic opera
00:18:13 7 North American operetta
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00:20:38 9 External links
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Comic opera denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending.
Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a new operatic genre, opera buffa, emerged as an alternative to opera seria. It quickly made its way to France, where it became opéra bouffon, and eventually, in the following century, French operetta, with Jacques Offenbach as its most accomplished practitioner.
The influence of the Italian and French forms spread to other parts of Europe. Many countries developed their own genres of comic opera, incorporating the Italian and French models along with their own musical traditions. Examples include Viennese operetta, German singspiel, Spanish zarzuela, Russian comic opera, English ballad opera, and Savoy Opera.
Brigit of Kildare
Saint Brigit of Kildare , also known as Brigit of Ireland, is one of Ireland's patron saints along with Patrick and Columba. Her name is also variously spelled as Brigid, Bridget, Bridgit, Bríd, and Bride and she is sometimes known as Mary of the Gael. Irish hagiography makes her an early Irish Christian nun, abbess, and founder of several monasteries of nuns, including that of Kildare in Ireland, which was considered legendary and was highly revered. Her feast day is 1 February, formerly celebrated as the Imbolc quarter-day of the pagan Irish year, which marked the beginning of spring, lambing, lactation in cattle, etc.
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A Marian apparition is a reported supernatural appearance by the Blessed Virgin Mary. The figure is often named after the town where it is reported, or on the sobriquet given to Mary on the occasion of the apparition.
Marian apparitions sometimes are reported to recur at the same site over an extended period of time. In the majority of Marian apparitions only one person or a few people report having witnessed the apparition. Exceptions to this include Zeitoun, and Assiut where thousands claimed to have seen her over a period of time.
Some Marian apparitions and their respective icons have received a Canonical coronation from the Pope, most notably Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Fátima, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Our Lady of Manaoag, Our Lady of the Pillar, Our Lady of Walsingham, and many others.
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This list of Catholic artists concerns artists known, at least in part, for their works of religious Roman Catholic art. It may also include artists whose position as a Roman Catholic priest or missionary was vital to their artistic works or development. Because of the title, it is preferred that at least some of their artwork be in or commissioned for Catholic churches, which includes Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Pope.
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