There was a fascinating article recently in, I believe, the Journal of
Ecclesiastical History which attempted to trace the growth of the legend of
Simon Stock and the scapular. There seem to have been two Simons who were
often conflated and the business of the scapular had its origins in rivalry
with the Dominicans. The latter gave up the scapular quarrel when the rosary
began to take off as the quintessential Dominican devotion in the 15th
century. Theologians were not happy with the promise of heaven on Saturday
for chaste scapular wearers and a fifteenth century council (the one in
Florence I believe) asked the indulgence not be preached, though it was
allowed to continue.
jw
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Subject: Interim Saints - July 16th
Interim Saints - July 16th
EUSTATHIUS, Patriarch of Antioch (about A.D. 336)
The famous Council of Nicæa met in the year 325, to hear and condemn
the teaching of Arius. Among the Syrian bishops present, the first in
dignity was the orthodox Eustathius, who either was, or was on the
point of being made, patriarch of Antioch, the capital of Syria, the
metropolis of the Eastern Church, then called 'the city of God.'
HELIER, martyr (6th cent.)
Sigebard, a heathen noble living at Tongern, in the modern kingdom of
Belgium, was married to a Swabian lady named Lusegarde, and for seven
years they were childless. A Christian priest, living near, named
Cunibert, then promised them a son, if they would give the child to him
after it was born, to be by him educated in a Christian life . . . The
child was named by him Helier . . . some pirates landed in the island,
and discovered his retreat by the screaming of the sea-gulls round the
mouth of the cave. One of them smote off his head.
VITALIAN, bishop (about 7th cent.)
S. Vitalian was an old bishop of Capua; and when he had reached the
age of seventy, a party of his clergy thought that they had had quite
enough of his rule . . . One night some of them got into his bedroom
and carried off his clothes, substituting for them a set of female
attire. When the bishop heard the summons to matins, he tumbled out of
bed, and in the dark dressed himself, with no small difficulty, - for
somehow hooks and buttons would not come in the accustomed places.
When he appeared in church, the clergy somthered their laughter, and
let the poor old man proceed with the service till day broke, and the
people assembled in the church, when he became an object of general
derision.
REYNILDIS or RAINILDA. virgin martyr (7th cent.)
This virgin Martyr was the daughter of Witiger and S. Amalberga (July
10th), her brother was S. Adalbert, bishop of Cambrai, and her sister,
S. Gudula (Jan 8th) . . . The Huns at this time made their terrible
invasion of Germany, and their advanced posts swept Hainault and
Brabant. Some of these barbarians came to Saintes, where they killed
S. Reynildis . . .
OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL (A.D. 1251)
The Order of Mount Carmel commemorates this day the giving of the
scapular to S. Simon Stock, fifth general of the Order . . . [Pope John
XXII] promulgated his famous bull, "Sabbathine" so called, because it
proclaimed that all who wore the scapular in life would be delivered
from the flames of purgatory on the ensuing Saturday; and which,
therefore, made it a matter of the greatest advantage for a member of
the Congregation of the Scapular to die as late as possible on a
Friday.
Oriens.
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