Saints Celebrated on this Day Feb 4

Subject: Saints Celebrated on this Day Feb 4 Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:43 am

Saints Celebrated on this Day

St. Joan of Valois
St. Aldate
St. Andrew Corsini
St. Aventinus of Chartres
St. Vulgis
St. Vincent of Troyes
St. Theophilus the Penitent
St. John de Britto
Bl. John Speed
St. John Stone
St. Joseph of Leonissa
St. Liephard
St. Rembert
St. Nicholas Studites
St. Nithard
St. Obitius
St. Modan

Subject: Re: Saints Celebrated on this Day Feb 4 Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:44 am

February 4, 2006
St. Joseph of Leonissa
(1556-1612)

Joseph avoided the safe compromises by which people sometimes undercut the gospel. Born at Leonissa in the Kingdom of Naples, Joseph joined the Capuchins in his hometown in 1573. Denying himself hearty meals and comfortable quarters, he prepared for ordination...
Joseph avoided the safe compromises by which people sometimes undercut the gospel. Born at Leonissa in the Kingdom of Naples, Joseph joined the Capuchins in his hometown in 1573. Denying himself hearty meals and comfortable quarters, he prepared for ordination and a life of preaching.

In 1587 he went to Constantinople to take care of the Christian galley slaves working under Turkish masters. Imprisoned for this work, he was warned not to resume it on his release. He did and was again imprisoned and then condemned to death. Miraculously freed, he returned to Italy where he preached to the poor and reconciled feuding families as well as warring cities which had been at odds for years. He was canonized in 1746.
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In one of his sermons, Joseph says: "Every Christian must be a living book wherein one can read the teaching of the gospel. This is what St. Paul says to the Corinthians, ‘Clearly you are a letter of Christ which I have delivered, a letter written not with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh in the heart’ (2 Corinthians 3:3). Our heart is the parchment; through my ministry the Holy Spirit is the writer because ‘my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe’ (Psalm 45:1)."
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