Saints Who Defended The Eucharist

[picchick]

In light of the recent situation concerning Prof. Meyers and the Holy Eucharist, I thought it would be a good idea to learn about saints who courageously defended the Eucharist or had a strong devotion to the Eucharist. I think it would be a good idea to ask them for their intercession. Please feel free to share saints.
[center]St. Tarcisius[/center]
[center]Third Century[/center]
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Tarcisius was a twelve-year-old acolyte during one of the fierce Roman persecutions of the third century, probably during that of Valerian. Each day, from a secret meeting place in the catacombs where Christians gathered for Mass, a deacon would be sent to the prisons to carry the Eucharist to those Christians condemned to die. At one point, there was no deacon to send and so St. Tarcisius, an acolyte, was sent carrying the "Holy Mysteries" to those in prison. On the way, he was stopped by boys his own age who were not Christians but knew him as a playmate and lover of games. He was asked to join their games, but this time he refused and the crowd of boys noticed that he was carrying something. Somehow, he was also recognized as a Christian, and the small gang of boys, anxious to view the Christian "Mysteries," became a mob and turned upon Tarcisius with fury. He went down under the blows, and it is believed that a fellow Christian drove off the mob and rescued the young acolyte.

The mangled body of Tarcisius was carried back to the catacombs, but the boy died on the way from his injuries. He was buried in the cemetery of St. Callistus, and his relics are claimed by the church of San Silvestro in Capite.

In the fourth century, Pope St. Damasus wrote a poem about this "boy-martyr of the Eucharist" and says that, like another St. Stephen, he suffered a violent death at the hands of a mob rather than give up the Sacred Body to "raging dogs." His story became well known when Cardinal Wiseman made it a part of his novel Fabiola, in which the story of the young acolyte is dramatized and a very moving account given of his martyrdom and death.

Tarcisius, one of the patron saints of altar boys, has always been an example of youthful courage and devotion, and his story was one that was told again and again to urge others to a like heroism in suffering for their faith. In the Passion of Pope Stephen, written in the sixth century, Tarcisius is said to be an acolyte of the pope himself and, if so, this explains the great veneration in which he was held and the reason why he was chosen for so difficult a mission.

[url="http://www.ewtn.com/library/mary/tarcis.htm"]http://www.ewtn.com/library/mary/tarcis.htm[/url]

Edited July 21, 2008 by picchick

[Selah]

Thanks Picchick

Saint Pascal Baylon

[img]http://saints.sqpn.com/saintp16.jpg[/img]

Memorial
17 May
Profile
Son of the pious peasants Martin Baylon and Elizabeth Jubera. From youth he displayed great devotion to the Eucharist. Worked as a shepherd from ages 7 to 24, and was a good influence on an often rowdy group. Franciscan lay brother with friars of the Alcantarine Reform, often serving as cook or doorkeeper. His charity to the poor and afflicted, his unfailing courtesy and humility were remarkable even by Franciscan standards. While travelling in France, he defended the Real Presence against the blasphemies of a Calvinist preacher, and narrowly escaped death at the hands of a Huguenot mob. Poorly educated, he was still a counselor sought by rich and poor alike. His cultus is especially strong in Spain and southern Italy, in Central and South America.
Born
24 May 1540 (feast of Pentecost) at Torre Hermosa, Aragon, (modern Spain)
Died
15 May 1592 (Whitsunday) at Villa Reale, Spain
Beatified
29 October 1618 by Pope Paul V
Canonized
16 October 1690 by Pope Alexander VIII
Patronage
cooks
Eucharistic congresses and organizations (proclaimed by Pope Leo XIII)
Obado, Bulacan, Philippines
Representation
in adoration before a vision of the Host
Images
Gallery of images of Saint Pascal
Additional Information
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia, by Oswald Staniforth
Google Directory
Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
New Catholic Dictionary
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Society

[url="http://saints.sqpn.com/saintp16.htm"]http://saints.sqpn.com/saintp16.htm[/url]

Edited July 21, 2008 by Selah

[picchick]

Saint Pascal Baylon, pray for us!

Edited July 21, 2008 by picchick

[dominicansoul]

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Saint Hyacinth, aka: Święty Jacek aka: Jacek Odrowąż (b. c. 1185 – d. August 15, 1257)

During an attack on a monastery, Hyacinth managed to save a monstrance containing the Blessed Sacrament and statue of Mary, though the statue weighed far more than he could normally have lifted; the saint is usually shown holding these two items.

Memorial: August 17th.

[url="http://saints.sqpn.com/sainth06.htm"]http://saints.sqpn.com/sainth06.htm[/url]

...great Dominican saint!

[Lil Red]

+J.M.J.+
Pope St. Pius X!

[picchick]

[center]St. Pius X[/center]
[center]1566–1572[/center]

[center][img]http://www.knanayacatholics.com/StPiusX.jpg[/img][/center]

[mommas_boy]

Here's a sad (glorious?) one:

[url="http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/2008/03/24/martyr-of-the-eucharist/"]http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/2008/0...-the-eucharist/[/url]

How a young Chinese girl inspired Archbishop Fulton Sheen to make a Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament every day.

A couple of months before he died Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was interviewed on national television. One of the questions he was asked was this: “You have inspired millions of people all over the world. Who inspired you? Was it a pope?” He responded that it was not a pope, cardinal, another bishop, or even a priest or nun, but rather an eleven-year-old Chinese girl.

He explained that when the communists took over China, they imprisoned a priest in his own rectory near the church. After being locked up in his own house, the priest looked out the window and was horrified to see the communists enter the church. Once inside, they went into the sanctuary, broke open the tabernacle and in a hateful act of desecration, threw down the ciborium scattering the Hosts on the floor. The priest knew exactly how many Hosts had been in the ciborium: thirty-two.

When the communists left they either didn’t notice, or didn’t pay any attention to a small girl praying in the back of the Church who saw everything. That night she returned, and slipping past the guard at the rectory, entered the Church where she made holy hour perhaps of reparation for the desecration she witnessed of the Blessed Sacrament.
After her holy hour she went into the sanctuary, and kneeling down, she bent over and received Jesus in Holy Communion with her tongue.

Each night, the girl returned to the church to make her holy hour and receive Jesus in Holy Communion on her tongue just as she did the first night. On the thirty-second night, after having consumed the last Host, she accidentally made a noise that awoke the guard who was asleep at his post by the priest’s residence. From his bedroom window, the priest could only watch in horror as the heartrending scene unfolded before his eyes. The girl tried to run away but the guard caught up with her and beat her to death with the butt of his rifle.

When Bishop Sheen heard the story he was so inspired that he promised God he would make a holy hour before the Blessed Sacrament every day for the rest of his life. And he was not only faithful to his promise, but he took every opportunity to spread this devotion of the daily holy hour before the Blessed Sacrament.

We don’t know the name of the eleven-year-old Chinese girl of our story, but her heroic act of going to the church every night at the risk of her life to adore and receive Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament serves as a powerful testimony against the attitude of so many Catholics today who show nothing but callous indifference toward the Real Presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.

An excerpt from
TREASURE IN CLAY
The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“I resolved also to spend a continuous Holy Hour every day in the presence of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament . . . The Holy Hour. Is it difficult? Sometimes it seemed to be hard; it might mean having to forego a special engagement, or rise an hour earlier, but on the whole it has never been a burden, only a joy . . . . The purpose of the Holy Hour is to encourage a deep personal encounter with Christ. The holy and glorious God is constantly inviting us to come to Him, to hold converse with Him, to ask for such things as we need and to experience what a blessing there is in fellowship with Him . . . I have found that it takes some time to catch fire in prayer. This has been one of the advantages of the daily hour. It is not so brief as to prevent the soul from collecting itself and shaking off the multitudinous distractions of the world. Sitting before the Presence is like a body exposing itself before the sun to absorb its rays. Silence in the Hour is a tete-a-tete with the Lord. In those moments one does not so much pour out written prayers, but listening takes its place. We do not say:
“Listen, Lord, for Thy servant speaks,”
but “Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth.”

[kujo]

I feel very torn about this issue, particularly because it took place at my parish and in my community. I don't know what I would (should) have done. I feel like my enthusiasm would've caused me to react the same way my fellow student did when this kid took the Eucharist, but my mind tells me to be diplomatic.

My friend actually spoke to Professor Meyers last weekend at a conference he was speaking at. I'm told the guy was a "jerk" and was very rude and not very logical. Good thing I haven't met him...not sure I'd be able to control my emotions...

[Lil Red]

[quote name='picchick' post='1604239' date='Jul 20 2008, 08:02 PM'][center]St. Pius X[/center]
[center]1566–1572[/center]

[center][img]http://www.knanayacatholics.com/StPiusX.jpg[/img][/center][/quote]
+J.M.J.+
i guiseppe sarto! here's more information at the [url="http://saints.sqpn.com/saintp06.htm"]Patron Saints Index[/url].

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven.

- Pope Saint Pius X

[salterrae]

JM + JT

You've got the years wrong for Pope St. Pius X. 1566 - 1572 would be for Pope St. Pius V.

Pope St. Pius X's papacy would be 1903 - 1914. His birth to death would be 1835 - 1914.

Edited July 21, 2008 by salterrae

[Lil Red]

+J.M.J.+
[url="http://saints.sqpn.com/sainti10.htm"]Blessed Imelda Lambertini[/url] is another one.
[center][img]http://saints.sqpn.com/sainti10.jpg[/img][/center]
Memorial
12 May

Profile
Daughter of Count Egano Lambertini of Bologna and Castora Galuzzi. While still a child, she put together a little oratory in her house, and spent much time there in prayer. She felt drawn to religious life, and planned to become a nun. Student at Dominican Convent of Valdi-Pietra in Bologna, partly in preparation for religious life. Had a great devotion to Saint Agnes of Rome, of whom she may have had visions, to Mary as Queen of Angels, and to the Holy Eucharist. On 12 May 1333 she miraculously received her First Communion, and immediately after died in an ecstasy of love and joy.

Born
1322 at Bologna, Italy

Died
Feast of the Ascension, 12 May 1333 Bologna, Italy
relics at the Church of Saint Sigismund in Bologna

Beatified
1826 (cultus confirmed)

Canonized
pending; if you have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed Imelda, contact
Chiesa San Sigismondo
Via San Sigismondo, 7
40126 Bologna, ITALY

Patronage
first communicants (named by Pope Saint Pius X)

Prayers
Lord Jesus Christ, you received into heaven Blessed Imelda who loved you in the eucharistic banquet. By her prayers may we learn to approach your holy table with that same fervent love and so fulfill our longing to be with you, who live and reign with the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. - General Calendar of the Order of Preachers

Representation
very young Dominican novice kneeling before the altar with a sacred Host appearing above her

Can anyone receive Jesus into his heart and not die?

- Blessed Imelda

[mommas_boy]

[quote name='Lil Red' post='1604450' date='Jul 21 2008, 11:34 AM']+J.M.J.+
[url="http://saints.sqpn.com/sainti10.htm"]Blessed Imelda Lambertini[/url] is another one.
[center][img]http://saints.sqpn.com/sainti10.jpg[/img][/center][/quote]

Ya. I'm a particular fan of Imelda. I believe that she is an Incorruptible, as well:

[center][img]http://immaculata-one.com/Incorrupt_Saints/Blessed%20Imelda%202.jpg[/img][/center]

Edited July 21, 2008 by mommas_boy

[picchick]

[quote name='kujo' post='1604436' date='Jul 21 2008, 11:17 AM']I feel very torn about this issue, particularly because it took place at my parish and in my community. I don't know what I would (should) have done. I feel like my enthusiasm would've caused me to react the same way my fellow student did when this kid took the Eucharist, but my mind tells me to be diplomatic.

My friend actually spoke to Professor Meyers last weekend at a conference he was speaking at. I'm told the guy was a "jerk" and was very rude and not very logical. Good thing I haven't met him...not sure I'd be able to control my emotions...[/quote]

Prayers to help your torn feelings

[quote name='salterrae' post='1604448' date='Jul 21 2008, 11:34 AM']JM + JT

You've got the years wrong for Pope St. Pius X. 1566 - 1572 would be for Pope St. Pius V.

Pope St. Pius X's papacy would be 1903 - 1914. His birth to death would be 1835 - 1914. [/quote]

oops...I am sorry....I have no idea what I was reading when I was writing that because when I looked back to figure what I was, they all have the dates you give I am going nuts The funny thing is when I was posting that I had a funny feeling like, maybe I need to double check those dates. But of course, I was in a hurry so I posted instead. Pope St. Pius X was probably behind me shaking his head, and then St. Jude was behind him saying, "Yeah, I know how you feel..."

AHHHH!!!! I just found out that HE was the one to canonize St. Joan of Arc!!!!! YAY! He was also the one who lowered the age of recieving communion

[center]St. Juliana Falconieri[/center]
[center]1270-1341[/center]
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Foundress of the Servite nuns, fasted so rigorously throughout her life that she was unable to even receive Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament on her death bed. She begged the priest to bring the Eucharist near, so that she could at least be next to Jesus. When he brought the Lord to her, St. Juliana wanted to kiss Him, but the priest would not allow her to. She then asked for a corporal (holy cloth) to be placed on her chest, over her heart, so that Jesus could be placed there for a moment. The priest agreed. As soon as the Sacred Host was laid on her chest, Our Lord in the Eucharist disappeared! And St. Juliana, having been united with her Love, died--her face radiant with joy. The priests and sisters fell to their knees at this miracle. When the Sisters later prepared her body for burial, they found on her breast--where Jesus had been placed--an outline of the Crucified Christ, encircled by the Host.


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[center]St. Pierre Julian Eymard[/center]
[center]1811-1868[/center]
[center][img]http://www.acfp2000.com/Sections/Children/eymard.jpg[/img][/center]

Founder of the Society of the Blessed Sacrament, and of the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament, born at La Mure d'Isère, Diocese of Grenoble, France, February 4, 1811. From early childhood he gave evidence of great holiness and most tender devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. In 1829, he entered the novitiate of the Oblates of Mary, but illness compelled him to return home. At the age of twenty he entered the grand seminary of Grenoble, and was ordained priest July 20, 1834. He returned to the Marist novitiate in 1839. In 1845 he was appointed Provincial of the Oblates of Mary. His entire spiritual life was centered around the Eucharist. It was the subject of his sermons and exhortations, the object of his worship and prayers. Those who fell under his spiritual direction were taught by his counsel to fix their attention on the Blessed Sacrament.

In January of 1851 Peter Eymard made a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Fourvières, and there promised Mary to devote his life to founding a congregation of priests whose principal duty should be to honor the Blessed Sacrament. Having obtained the necessary ecclesiastical permission, he procured a small house in Paris, in which he and a single companion took up their abode. Here, on January 6, 1857, the Blessed Sacrament was exposed, and the nascent community of two members commenced the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament as prescribed by their rule. Their founder received his first encouragement for the work in a laudatory Brief, blessing the work and its author, and signed by Pius IX, in 1857. Five years after, in 1862, Peter Eymard had enough spiritual sons to open a regular novitiate. From this date the congregation spread rapidly, until now its houses may be found in Rome, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Canada, the United States, and South America. The Servants of the Blessed Sacrament, a congregation of cloistered women who carry on perpetual adoration in their convents, were also founded by him in 1858. The Priests' Eucharistic League and the Archconfraternity of the Blessed Sacrament are evidences of his zeal among priests and the faithful. Peter Eymard's writings have been collected, and form four volumes: "The Real Presence", which has been translated into English; Retreat at the Feet of Jesus Eucharistic", "La Sainte Communion", and "L'Eucharistie et la Perfection Chrétienne". These writings have received the approbation of the Holy See. He died August 1, 1868. The author was declared Venerable August 11, 1908 and canonized on December 9, 1962 by Pope John XXIII .

[let_go_let_God]

St. Pius X is the patron of my parish. It's a quaint little church andI hope he would have liked us.

God bless-
LGLG