Today is the feast of Saint Michael de Sanctis, also known as St. Michael of the Saints, a Spanish Discalced Trinitarian priest, the patron of cancer patients. Michael Argemir was born on September 29, 1591 at Vic, Catalonia, Spain. At age 6, he told his parents that he planned to become a monk and began modeling his life after Saint Francis of Assisi. Michael’s parents died when he was about ten years old. He then served as an apprentice with a local merchant. During this apprenticeship, he continued his fervent devotion to the Lord, especially to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. At the age of 12, he joined the Trinitarian Friars at Barcelona, taking his vows at St. Lambert’s monastery in Saragosa four years later. Shortly afterwards, 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. Twice he served as Superior of the hou
I'm also John Paul II. No problems with that!
ReplyDeleteMan, I came back with being Pope St. Pius X. I'm not a Rad Trad at all, but I grew up in NH during the post V2 frenzy of guitar choirs and pop-psych hymns. I look back on it with a shiver, not living in Lincoln, Nebraska and practicing the faith under the auspices of Bp. Bruskewitz. Biiiiig difference.
ReplyDeleteI no speakee no Latin, but I dig the connection when we do the Kyrie or Agnus Dei. I've even got the Vulgate on my Palm pilot along side the Douay translation, just to make sense of it.