• May 10th - St. Catald of Taranto

    From rich@1:396/4 to All on Wed May 9 10:12:38 2018
    From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

    May 10th - St. Catald of Taranto (Tarentum), Bishop
    (Also known as Cataldus, Cathaluds, Cattaldo, Cathal)

    Born in Munster, Ireland, 7th century. Saint Catald was a pupil, then
    the headmaster of the monastic school of Lismore in Waterford after
    the death of its founder, Saint Carthage. Upon his return from a
    pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he was shipwrecked at Taranto in southern
    Italy and chosen by the people as their bishop. He is the titular of
    Taranto's cathedral and the principal patron of the diocese. This
    epitaph is given under an image of Saint Catald in Rome:

    Me tulit Hiberne, Solyme traxere, Tarentum Nunc tenet: huic ritus,
    dogmata, jura dedi.

    This has been loosely translated as: Hibernia gave me birth: thence
    wafted over, I sought the sacred Solymean shore. To thee Tarentum,
    holy rites I gave, Precepts divine; and thou to me a grave.

    It is odd that an Irishman, should be so honoured throughout Italy,
    Malta, and France, but have almost no recognition in his homeland. His
    Irish origins were discovered only two or three centuries after his
    death, when his relics were recovered during the renovation of the
    cathedral of Taranto. A small golden cross, of 7th- or 8th- century
    Irish workmanship, was with the relics. Further investigations
    identified him with Cathal, the teacher of Lismore.

    Veneration to Catald spread, especially in southern Italy, after the
    May 10, 1017, translation of his relics when the cathedral was being
    rebuilt following its destruction at the hands of Saracens in 927.
    Four remarkable cures occurred as the relics were moved to the new
    cathedral. When his coffin was open at that time, a pastoral staff of
    Irish workmanship was found with the inscription Cathaldus Rachau.
    There is a town of San Cataldo in Sicily and another on the southeast
    coast of Italy (Benedictines, D'Arcy, Farmer, Husenbeth, Kenney,
    Montague, Neeson, Tommasini).

    Saint Catald is depicted in art as an early Christian bishop with a
    mitre and pallium in a 12th century mosaic at Palermo (Roeder). He is
    the subject of a painting on the 8th pillar of the nave on the left in
    the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem (D'Arcy, Montague). There
    are also 12th-century mosaics in Palermo and Monreale depicting the
    saint (Farmer). Catald is invoked against plagues, drought, and storms (Farmer).


    Saint Quote:
    The garden of the Lord, brethren, includes-- yes, it truly includes--
    includes not only the roses of martyrs but also the lilies of virgins,
    and the ivy of married people, and the violets of widows. There is
    absolutely no kind of human beings, my dearly beloved, who need to
    despair of their vocation; Christ suffered for all. It was very truly
    written about him: who wishes all men to be saved, and to come to the acknowledgement of the truth.
    -- Saint Augustine of Hippo

    Bible Quote
    I had many things to write unto thee: but I would not by ink and pen
    write to thee. 14 But I hope speedily to see thee, and we will speak
    mouth to mouth. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Salute the
    friends by name. (3 John 1:13-14)


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    Prayer for Charity:

    O my Jesus, Thou who art very Love,
    enkindle in my heart that Divine Fire
    which consumes the Saints and transforms them into Thee.
    O Lord our God,
    we offer Thee our hearts
    united in the strongest and most sincere love of brotherhood;
    we pray that Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament
    may be the daily food of our souls and bodies;
    that Jesus may be established as the center of our affections,
    even as He was for Mary and Joseph.
    Finally, O Lord, may sin never disturb our union on earth;
    and may we be eternally united in heaven with Thee
    and Mary and Joseph and with all Thy Saints.
    Amen.
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