Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Two New Doctors Chruch



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SNO
Name
    Lived  From - To
Canonized On
Feast Day
1
1499 -1569
31 May 1970
10th May
2
1098-1179
10May2012
17th Sep
 
 
 
 
 

St. Hildegarden (Hildegard von Bingen )




Ø  12th-century German nun
Ø  The first woman to be officially recognized as a "prophetess" by the Roman Catholic Church
Ø  German writer, composer,German mystic
Ø   Benedictine abbess
Ø  Known as the as the “Sibyl of the Rhine”
Ø  She founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg  and Eibinge
Ø  Declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI on 7 October 2012
Born
1098 at Bermersheim, Rhineland Palatinate (modern Germany)
Died
17 September 1179 at Bingen, Rhineland Palatinate (modern Germany) of natural causes
Beatified                
26 August 1326 by Pope John XXII
Canonized
10 May 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI
Feast
17 September



 
Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century German, was the first woman to be recognized as a prophetess by the Roman Catholic Church. Hildegard has inspired both church leaders and feminists for years.
 
She was born at Rheinhesse in Germany in 1098. She was the tenth child of Hildebert and Mechthild von Bermersheim, minor nobility of the Holy Roman Empire. Hildegarde of Bingen was dedicated at birth to the church. At age of 8 her aristocratic family sent Hildegarde to be educated by an anchoress named Jutta von Spanheimat a Monastery in Disibodenberg near Rheinhesse. Hildegard of Bingen took the veil and made her nun's vows at the age of 15. A convent was built next to the Monastery and Hildegarde became the Abbess. She then founded a convent at Bingen.
 
Hildegarde suffered from terrible migraines which many believed led to her visions. She confided the visions only in Jutta and in a monk named Volmar. The visions clarified the meaning of major Biblical and religious texts. She documented this in the Scivias.
 
St. Hildegard was one of the most active women of her time. She wrote about theology and morals, but also about medicine and science. She even found the time to compose 78 musical pieces.
 
 
Hildegard once said, “These visions which I saw—I beheld them neither in sleep nor dreaming nor in madness nor with my bodily eyes or ears, nor in hidden places; but I saw them in full view and according to God’s will, when I was wakeful and alert, with the eyes of the spirit and the inward ears.”
 
Hildegard of Bingen died in 1179 at the age of 82 years of age. *Although, she has been considered a saint for centuries, she has officially recognized as a saint by Pope Benedict XVI on 10th May 2012.
 
Declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI on 7 October 2012.

St. John Of Avila



Ø  Declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI on 7 October 2012
Ø  Saint John of Ávila, called the "Apostle of Andalusia"
Ø  He was a Spanish priest, preacher, scholastic author, and religious mystic
Born
6 January 1499 at Almodovar del Campo (Ciudad Real), Toledo, New Castile, Spain
Died
10 May 1569 at Montilla, Spain of natural causes
Venerated
8 February 1759 by Pope Clement XIII (decree of heroic virtues)
Beatified                
4 April 1894 by Pope Leo XIII
Canonized
31 May 1970 by Pope Paul VI
Feast
10th May
Patronage
Andalusia, Spain, Spanish secular clergy



 
He was born on 6 January 1499 or 1500 in Almodóvar del Campo (Ciudad Real, in the Archdiocese of Toledo). He was the only son of devout Christian parents, Alonso Ávila and Catalina Gijón, who were wealthy and of high social standing.
 
When John was fourteen years old, he was sent to study law at the prestigious University of Salamanca. He left his studies at the end of the fourth term, after a profound experience of conversion. This prompted him to return home to devote himself to meditation and prayer.
 
Following the death of his parents, he liquidated most of his large fortune, and gave it to the poor. Ordained in 1525. He wanted to be a missionary in the West Indies and Mexico, but became a travelling preacher in Andalusia for 40 years, re-evangelizing a region previously ruled by the Moors.
 
He spoke boldly against the sins of the ruling classes, made powerful enemies, and at one point was imprisoned in Seville, Spain by the Inquisition, accused of false teachings; the charges were dismissed, John was released, and his preaching became more popular than ever.
 
Spiritual director of Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Francis Borgia, Saint John of God, Saint John of the Cross, Saint Peter of Alcántara, and Saint Louis of Granada.
 
From early 1551 John was the victim of constant ill-health. He spent the last years of his life in semi-retirement in the town of Montilla in the Province of Córdoba. He died there on 10 May 1569, and in accordance with his wishes was buried in that city, in the Jesuit Church of the Incarnation, which now serves as the sanctuary to his memory.
 
Blessed John of Avila's works were collected at Madrid in 1618, 1757, 1792, 1805; a French translation by d'Andilly was published at Paris in 1673; and a German translation by Schermer in six volumes was issued at Ratisbon between 1856 and 1881. His best known works are the "Audi Fili" (English translation, 1620), one of the best tracts on Christian perfection, and his "Spiritual Letters" (English translation, 1631, London, 1904) to his disciples.
 
Declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI on 7 October 2012.