New Saints and Blesseds of the Carmelite Order

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INCARNATION MAGAZINE NEW SAINTS AND BLESSEDS JULY 2015

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SAINT MARY OF JESUS CRUCIFIEDEverything passes here on earth. What are we? Nothing but dust, nothingness, and God is so great, so beautiful,so lovable and He is not loved. ST. MARY OF JESUS CRUCIFIED

Holy Spirit,inspire me. Love of God consume me. Along the true road, lead me. Mary, mygood mother, look down upon me. With Jesus, bless me. From all evil, all illusion, alldanger, preserve me. ST. MARY OF JESUS CRUCIFIED

Mary Baouardy was born in 1846 in Abellin, near Nazareth. She was the first surviving childof Georges and Mary Baouardy, poor powder-makers who had lost twelve boys ininfancy. Mary was born in answer to a novena to the Blessed Virgin in Bethlehem, with thepromise that she would be named for her. Two years later, her brother Paul was born, andthen, tragically, both parents died of an infectious disease, leaving Mary and Paulorphaned. They went to live with different relatives, and never saw each other again. Theseevents were only the first of many sufferings in store for little Mary. Her wealthy uncle treatedher well, but as was the custom during those times, he had arranged a marriage for her whenshe was only thirteen. Mary had always loved Jesus and the Virgin, and she did not want tomarry. She prayed. The night before her wedding, Jesus spoke to her, telling her that He would help her. She cut of

her beautiful long braids, wrapped the jewels she had been given in them, and sent them to her uncle. This madehim furious, and from that day Mary was treated as a household slave. In her anguish, she befriended another servanta man who was a Muslim. He promised to help her to deliver a letter to her brother in a different town. But whenshe went to his home with the letter, he tried to force her to renounce her faith in Christ. This she refused to do, andthe angry man slit her throat. The next thing Mary remembered was a beautiful woman in blue came to her with adelicious broth that gave her strength. The woman dressed her wound, and then told her that she would enter aCarmelite monastery, make her vows in another, and die in another. This prediction proved true, because Mary laterentered the Carmel of Pau, France. She assisted a foundation in India where she made her vows, and she died in theCarmel that she had helped to found in Bethlehem. Awaking in a confessional in a Franciscan church located inJerusalem, Mary began working as a domestic. A series of positions led her to the family that brought her to Francewhere she began her religious life as a Sister of St. Joseph of the Apparition, but her mystical graces alarmed thesisters, and they did not accept her there. Her novice mistress brought her to the Carmel of Pau, where she was

accepted and given the name Mary of Jesus Crucified. She died in the Carmel of Bethlehem from a fall that woundedher leg in 1878. Mary of Jesus Crucified was just canonized by Pope Francis on May 17th, 2015.*******************

St. Mary is shown here as a novice andas a professed nun of the black veil.

Although she made her profession asa lay nun, that is, a sister who doesnot chant in the choir and wears a

white veil, she was given the blackveil. Mary of Jesus Crucified, alsoknown as the Little Arab, received

many gifts of the Holy Spirit. She wasseen to levitate, had gifts ofknowledge, spoke with her guardianangel, and received the stigmata.

Here in the peace of the Lord reposes Sister Mary of Jesus Crucified, professed religious of the white veil. A soul ofsingular graces, she was conspicuous for her humility, her obedience and her charity. Jesus, the sole love of her hearcalled her to Himself in the 33rd year of her age and the 12th year of her religious life atBethlehem,26 August1878.(Words engraved on the tombstone of Saint Mary of Jesus Crucified in Bethlehem, the Carmel that she founded.)
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SAINT TERESA OF THE ANDES

Jesus alone is beautiful. He is

my only joy. I call for Him, I cry

after Him, I search for Him

within my heart.

St. Teresa of the Andes

Born in Santiago, Chile, on July 13, 1900, Juanita Fernandez Solar,

one of six children of devoted Catholic parents, began her life with

Jesus at an early age. At the age of fifteen, she made a private vow

of virginity, which she renewed continually until she entered the

Carmel of the Holy Spirit in the town of Los Andes at the age of

eighteen. Juanita had been praying for many years, and had worked to overcome her difficult

personality traits such as pride and anger. Her prioress recognized holiness in her new postulant, who

confided to her that Jesus had told her that she would die young. Within a few months after her clothing

day, October 14, 1919, Juanita, now Sr. Teresa of Jesus, contracted typhus and died in her convent. Her

prioress allowed her to make her solemn vows on her deathbed. Juanita was not yet twenty years of

age. She was beatified in 1987 and canonized in 1993 by Pope John Paul II, who proposed her example

as a model for youth. She is the first Chilean canonized saint. Her feast day is celebrated on July 13th.

I want to be athirst with love so that other souls may possess this love I would die to creatures and to

myself so that He may live in me from the letters of St. Teresa of the Andes

I want to be athirst with love so that other souls may possess this love I would die to

creatures and to myself so that He may live in me St. Teresa of the Andes

Juanita at age eighteen months and eigh teen years, her First Comm union, and her cell in Carm el.


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SAINT EDITH STEIN(BENEDICTA OF THE CROSS)Born on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur (Day of

Atonement), the youngest of eleven children of an observant Jewish familyin Breslau, Germany, in 1891, "smart Edith" as she was called by friendsand family renounced her faith as a young girl. Her search for truth ledher to the study of philosophy, at which she excelled at the University ofGottingen and the University of Freiburg. In 1916, she received herdoctorate at the University of Freiburg with her dissertation On theProblem of Empathy. She became a member of the faculty and worked asassistant to the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, a ProtestantChristian. After reading the Life of Saint Teresa of Avila, Edithwas baptized a Catholic on January 1st, 1922. She taught at a DominicanCatholic school in Speyer until 1931, and then served as a lecturer at the

Catholic affiliated Institute for Scientific Pedagogy in Munster until forcedto resign in 1933 by Nazi persecution. In October of 1934, she entered the Carmelite monastery in Colognetaking the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Blessed of the Cross). In obedience to superiors, Sr. TeresaBenedicta continued her contribution to the field of philosophy with the work Finite and Eternal Being,anexploration of the possibilities of a Catholic phenomenology by combining the teaching of St. ThomasAquinas and Husserl. As Nazi persecution increased, Sr. Teresa Benedicta and her sister Rosa, who hadbecome a Catholic and was serving the monastery as an extern sister, took shelter in the Carmelitemonastery of Echt, Holland where she wrote The Science of the Cross,a study of St. John of the Cross. InJune of 1939, Sr. Teresa Benedicta requested permission of her prioress to offer her life for her people, for

the Church, for the salvation of Germany and for the peace of the world. "I beg the Lord to take mylife and my death....for all concerns of the sacred hearts of Jesus and Mary and

the holy Church, especially for the preservation of our holy Order, in particularthe Carmelite monasteries of Cologne and Echt, as atonement for the unbelief ofthe Jewish people, and that the Lord will be received by His own people, and Hiskingdom shall come in glory, for the salvation of Germany and the peace of theworld; at last for my own loved ones, living or dead, for all that God gave to me:that none of them will go astray. By August of the following year, the Nazis had invaded theNetherlands. Sr. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross and her sister Rosa were arrested along with two hundredand forty-three baptized Jews living in the Netherlands. Several days later, at the notorious Auschwitzconcentration camp, Saint Edith Stein was martyred together with her sister Rosa and many other Jewish

Christians in a gas chamber.


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SAINT MARAVILLAS OF JESUSThe St. Teresa Association is a group ofmonasteries of Discalced Carmelite Nunsformed in 1975 to strengthen one another inliving our contemplative vocation in theChurch. Membership is based on spiritualaffinity rather than geographical boundaries,and we share a common desire to bear witnessin these times to the charism and spirit of theOrder of Discalced Carmelite Nuns foundedby St. Teresa of Avila in 1562.Maria de las Maravillas

wasborn in Madrid, Spain, on November 1, 1891 to Luis and ChristinaPidal, devout Catholics. Her father was the Spanish Ambassador to the Vatican. Maria was a deeplyreligious child who made a vow of chastity at the age of five. She wanted to enter the Carmel of Madridafter reading the works of St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila, but her entrance was delayed untilthe age of twenty-seven after her father's death. Before making her solemn vows in 1924, Sr. Maria hadalready founded a Carmelite monastery six miles south of Madrid, in Getafe. This was the first of manyTeresian Carmelite Monasteries founded by Mother Maravillas, who served as prioress throughout herlife. In 1972, she received permission from the Holy See to establish the Association of Saint Teresa asmembers of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. Although beginning in Spain, there are now at least tenmonasteries of the Association in Canada and the United States. The monasteries belonging to theAssociation keep the observance as established by St. Teresa of Avila in 1582. After a life of service, MotherMaravillas died peacefully in one of the Carmels she had founded in Aldehuela, Spain, at the age of eighty-

four, on December 11, 1974.

Mother Maravillas of Jesus was canonized by Saint Pope JohnPaul II in 2003. Her feastday is December 11th.Yesterday, Sunday, on climbing the stairs to go to the upper choir for the sung MassI was quite recollected, yet without any particular thought, when I heard clearly withinme, "My delight is to be with the children of men." These words which made a strongimpression on me, I understood were not for me this time, but rather in the nature of arequest the Lord was making me to offer the whole of myself to give Him these soulsHe so much desires. It is hard to explain, but I saw clearly, that a soul which sanctifiesitself becomes fruitful in attracting souls to God. This so deeply moved me that

I offered with my whole heart to the Lord all my sufferings of body and soul for thispurpose, despite my poverty. It then seemed to me that this offering was right, but whawas strictly important was to surrender myself, wholly and completely to the divine willso that He could do what He desired in me and likewise I would accept the pain alongwith the pleasure. I seemed to understand that what pleased Him was not the greatessacrifice but rather the exact and loving fulfillment in the least detail of that will. In thisI understood many things I find hard to explain, and how He wished me to be verysensitive in this fulfillment, which would carry me a long way in self-sacrifice and love.


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SAINT RAPHAEL KALINOWSKICanonized in 1991 by Saint Pope John Paul II, Raphael Kalinowski is

the first male Carmelite to be raised to the altars since St. John of the

Cross. Born in 1835 in Vilnius, Poland, which at the time was under

Russian rule (formerly a Polish-Lithuanian territory), Joseph was the

second of nine children of Andrew Kalinowski, who remarried twice

after the death of Joseph s mother Josephine Polanska. Like his father

who taught mathematics, Joseph excelled at math and engineering

under the patronage of the Imperial Russian Army, which he joined

at the age of eighteen. Although promoted to Lieutenant and then

Captain, Joseph resigned from the Russian army in 1863 to join the

Polish uprising in the Vilnius region, a choice which cost him

dearly. In 1864 he was arrested and sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to ten years in

the labor camps after a treacherous nine-month trek through the salt-mines of Siberia. He was able to

continue some of his scholarly work for the Russian Geographical Society during the later years of his

imprisonment, and then he was released 1873. Exiled from his homeland of Lithuania, Joseph went to

Paris and then returned to Warsaw, where he became the private tutor of Prince August Czartoryski

who later became a priest and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2004. In 1877, Joseph joined the

Carmelites in Linz, where he was given the name Raphael of St. Joseph. He was ordained a priest in

1882 at the monastery in Czerna, where he served as prior beginning in 1883. From there, St. Raphael

Kalinowski worked to establish the Carmelite monastery in Wadowice, where he served as prior. He

also helped to found two Carmelite monasteries for Discalced Carmelite nuns. He died in Wadowice of

tuberculosis in 1907 where, fourteen years later, Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) was born.

The photos above show Joseph Kalinowski as an officer in the Russian arm y, and later as a tutor

to Prince Augu st Czartoryski, who was beatified in 2004 shown at right).


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LOUIS AND ZELIE MARTINSOON-TO-BE SAINTSThe parents of Saint Therese of theChild Jesus (Therese of Lisieux) will

be canonized on October 18th

of thisyear. They will be the first marriedcouple to be canonized together.Louis Martin (1823 1894) was born in BordeauxFrance, into a military family. From his youth he longed

for monastic life, and attempted to join the Augustinians and later, the Carthusians, in the hope of becominga priest. His difficulty learning Latin and further discernment led him to abandon these efforts. Resolvedto live piously as a single man, Louis moved to Alencon, where he set up a successful watchmaking andjewelers shop. He lived happily there for several years, caring for his mother, as the only surviving child ofPierre-Francois Martin and Marie-Anne-Fanie Boureau.

God had other plans. One day, at the age of thirty-five, as he was crossing the Saint-Leonard Bridge, henoticed a young lady, who noticed him. An interior voice spoke then to Marie-Azelie Guerin, known asZelie. This is he whom I have prepared for you.

Zelie Guerin Martin (18311877), also born into a military family whose father served in the police forceand later retired at Alencon, had longed to be a religious sister of the Daughters of Charity. She studiedunder the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, where she learned the delicate skill of lacemaking. Before theirmarriage in 1858, Zelie had already established a successful lacemaking business, operated from her home

Within three months of their providential meeting, Louis and Zelie were married at midnight, July 13 th

at the cathedral of the Assumption in Alencon. The couple saw their marriage as a work of God, decidingthat God would always be the first served in their home. From the beginning, they decided to try tomaintain perfect chastity, adopting an eleven-year-old child of a distressed widower as an act of charity andparenthood. Upon the advice of a priest-friend, after ten months the happily married couple decided to have

as many children as possible to offer to the Lord. They were blessed with nine children, all given the firsname of Marie. But only five survived to adult life. These five young women all entered religious life, forwhich their mother Zelie had prayed fervently.

Family life at the Martin household was joyful and pious. The family prayed together each day, withdaily Mass and a reading from the daily liturgy of the hours. Among the saints familiar to the family wereSt. Louis de Montfort, St. Francis de Sales and St. Vincent de Paul. In the city of Paris, in 1830, a youngmember of the congregation of the Daughters of Charity, founded by St. Vincent de Paul, named CatherineLaboure had received a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary, asking her to promote the use of what is nowknown as the Miraculous Medal, with the words, Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who haverecourse to Thee. The devotion was approved and spread rapidly throughout France, although the dogmaof the Immaculate Conception had not yet been proclaimed. On the other side of France, in the southern

town of Lourdes, in 1858 a young peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous reported the apparition of abeautiful ladywho identified herself as the Immaculate Conception, confirming the recent dogmaticproclamation of Pope Pius IX. Surely these events influenced the spirituality of the Martin family.

The family was not poor, thanks to the prosperity of Zelies business. Louis had retired from hiswatchmaking. Tragedy struck the family with the deaths of four of their beloved children, but they did notlose hope. God sent little Therese, their youngest, who will become a great saint, canonized in 1925, andproclaimed Doctor of the Church in 1997 by Saint Pope John Paul II.


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The death of Zelie in August of 1877 of breast cancer at the age of forty-sixleft Louis with his five daughters, the youngest being only four years oldGrief-stricken, he sold Zelies lace-making business and moved the familyto Lisieux, where Zelies brothers family also lived. His oldest daughtersMarie and Pauline cared for the younger girls, with the help of hiredservants. During these years, Louis gave himself over more and more to his

first lovethe love of Godeven maintaining a small hermitage on someproperty in the country, where he loved to retire for contemplation and a biof fishing. Therese, for whom he held a deep, fatherly affection, calling herhis little queen, would sometimes accompany him on these excursionsand on visits to the Blessed Sacrament.

One by one, Louisdaughters left the family circle to enter convents. FirstMarie entered the Carmel of Lisieux, and later Pauline. This left three girlsLeonie, Celine and Therese, at home. Asking for her fathers permission toenter the Carmel of Lisieux at the age of fifteen must have been one of themostpainful sacrifices of Thereses life. Not long after she had entered, herfather confided to his three daughters in Carmel that he had visited the

church where he had married their mother. My God, I am too happy. Itsnot possible to go to Heaven like that. I want to suffer something for you.He offered himself then to God. This was in May of 1888. Less than ten years later, his youngest daughterwould offer herself as a Victim of Merciful Love. In 1889, after suffering two paralyzing strokes, Louis Martinwas committed to the care of the Good Savior hospital in Caen, a decision that was enforced by his devotedbrother-in-law Isidore Guerin, who became legal guardian of the family. In 1892, returning to the home inLisieux paralyzed and unable to speak, Louis was cared for devotedly by his daughters Leonie and Celineuntil his death in 1894. Soon both Leonie and Celine had entered convents. The deepest desire of Louis andZelie Martin had been fulfilled: all of their children on earth had been consecrated to God.

BREAKING NEWS: Bishop Jean-Claude Boulanger of the diocese of Lisieux

announced his intention of officially opening the

CAUSE FOR THE BEATIFICATION OF LEONIE

MARTIN, third child of Louis and Zelie Martin and

SISTER OF ST. THERESE. Leonie Martin (Sister

Francoise-Therese) June 3, 1863 to June 16,

1941, was a Visitandine Nun at the convent of

Caen, France, for most of her life. Miracles have

been reported to have occurred at her gravesite.

Leonie was known as the difficult child of the

family. She attempted to join the Poor Clares

three times before finally discovering her true

vocation with the Visitation Nuns, founded by

Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Jane Frances

Chantal in 1610. It was Thereses Little Way of Spiritual Childhood, of which

Leonie was a devoted disciple, which opened up for her a path of spiritual growth.

Youngest daughter of Louis and Zelie

Martin, the future Saint and Doctor of

the Church, Therese of the Child Jesus


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BLESSED ELIA OF SAINT CLEMENTTheodora, a name meaning "gift of God," was bornJanuary 17, 1901, in Bari, Italy. She entered theCarmelite monastery there at the age of nineteen,

and died seven years later on Christmas day aftermaking her total offering of herself to God in 1924.She was beatified in 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI.From her writings: My Delight, who could ever separateme from You? Who could be capable of breaking thesestrong chains that keep my heart attached toYours? Perhaps the abandonment of creatures? It is

precisely this that unites the soul to its Creator. . . . Perhapstribulations, suffering, crosses? It is in these thorns that the

canticle of the soul that loves You is freest and lightest.Perhaps death? But this will be nothing but the beginningof true happiness for the soul. . . . Nothing, nothing can

separate this soul from You, not even for a brief moment. It was created for You and is losif it does not abandon itself to you. My life is love; this sweet nectar surrounds me, thismerciful love penetrates me, purifies me, renews me, and I feel it consuming me. The cry ofmy heart is: Love of my God, my soul searches for You alone. My soul, suffer and be quiet;love and hope; offer yourself, but hide your suffering behind a smile, and always move on . .. . I want to spend my life in deep silence, in the depths of my heart, in order to listen to the

gentle voice of my sweet Jesus.

Souls, I will search for a way to cast you into thesea of Merciful Love: souls of sinners, but aboveall souls of priests and religious. To this end myexistence is slowly disappearing, consumed likethe oil of the lamp that watches near the

Tabernacle. I sense the vastness of my soul, its infinitegreatness that the immensity of this world cannotcontain. It was created to lose itself in You, my God,because You alone are great, infinite, and thus You alonecan make me completely happy.


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BLESSED MARIA CANDIDA OF THE EUCHARISTMaria Barba was born in 1884 and grew up in Palermo, Sicily whereher father served as a judge. She wanted to begin religious life atthe age of fifteen, but had to wait twenty years. After her entranceand formation in the Carmel of Ragusa, she was elected

prioress. She worked to revive the spirit of St. Teresa of Avila in hercommunity. Under her leadership the community grew enough tomake a foundation in Syracuse. She also helped to bring theCarmelite friars back to Sicily. But she is best known for her manywritings on the Holy Eucharist: To contemplate with deep faithour Beloved in the Sacrament, to live with Him Who comes to usevery day, to remain with Him in the depths of our hearts, this isour life! The more intense this intimate life is the more we will beCarmelites and make progress in perfection. This contact,this union with Jesus is everything: what fruits of virtue will comefrom it! You must have this experience. To live with Jesus and to

live by His virtues, is to listen to His beautiful voice, to His mostloving wish and immediately obey it, to please quickly Him. Oureyes close, longing to find Him again, to contemplate Him in thedepths of our hearts: is this not the reason why He gives us Holy Communion in the morning? Is it notthe attraction for Him that remains in the Blessed Sacrament, where He lives? I do not know how to separatethe ciborium in the sacred Tabernacle from the ciborium in our hearts! Oh how many times, even thoughwe are in the choir, before His sacred Presence, at times exposed, we experience with our Jesus the need togo deeply into ourselves, and there rediscover and remain! What mystery of love is this intimacy with ourBeloved! I reflect on this, sometimes with emotion, and give praise to Him Who is Love! And with tears Icontemplate this intimacy. Everything here on this earth is nothing for us, withdrawn as we are, far fromHim Who loved us so much; our eyes no longer see anything: we close them again to lose ourselves in thesame sacred environment, we close them anxious to find Him again, to see Jesus! The most delightfulMystery of Love! He allows Himself to be found by the heart that searches for Him, by the soul that knowshow to do without many things for love of Him. To be close to our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, like theSaints in Heaven, who contemplate the supreme Good, is what we must do, according to our Holy MotherTeresa. Seven times a day, we come together around the throne (of our Good God), the sacred Tabernacle,reciting the divine praises: oh how much faith merits such lofty activity, what dying to self! May adorationand love accompany and beautify everything!(from Eucharist: True Jewel of Eucharistic Spirituality)

After serving as prioress until 1947, Mother Candida was diagnosed with a tumor in her liver. She died onthe 12th June 1949. It was the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity. She was beatified March 21, 2004, by SaintPopeJohn Paul II, who described Maria Candida as "an authentic mystic of the Eucharist the unifyingcenter of the whole of life, following the Carmelite tradition.

"She was so in love with Jesus in the Eucharist that she felt a constant and ardentdesire to be a tireless apostle of the Eucharist."Saint Pope John Paul II


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BLESSED TITUS BRANDSMABorn 1881 Anno Brandsma to Titus and Tjitsje Brandsma, smalldairy farmers in Friesland, Holland. Five of their six childrenentered religious life. Titus began his studies with the Franciscansand entered the Carmelite novitiate in Boxmeer in 1898, taking his

father's name Titus for his religious name. He was ordained in 1905studied at the Roman Gregorian University, and graduated in 1909with a doctorate in philosophy.

Titus dedicated his life to education, particularly to Carmelitemysticism, philosophy, and journalism. In 1923 he helped found theCatholic University of Nijmegen in Holland, where he taught andserved as rector. In 1935, he completed a lecture tour in the United

States at various Carmelite institutions, and in the same year he was appointed by hisarchbishop to serve as advisor to Catholic journalists in Holland.

In January of 1942, the Third Reich had invaded Holland and ordered Catholic newspapersto print Nazi propaganda. Titus hand-delivered a letter written by the Dutch bishops to theeditors of 14 newspapers asking them not to obey, before he was arrested on the 19th of

January. By the 19th of June, he was in Dachau concentration camp, where he washospitalized. On the 26th of July he was killed with a lethal injection administered by a nurseas part of the Nazi medical experimentation on prisoners.

Blessed Titus Brandsma was beatified by Pope Saint John Paul II in 1985.

Titus as a boy, as a young Carmelite (left) with his family, and as a professor and journalist during his adult life.


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BLESSED MARIA SAGRARIOOF SAINT ALOYSIUS GONZAGABorn in Lilo, Spain, to Ricardo Moragas and Isabel Cantarero

January 8, 1881, Elvira was the first woman in Spain to becomea pharmacist, like her father, at which she excelled. Sheentered a Carmelite monastery in Madrid at the age of thirty-five, made her solemn profession of vows on Epiphany1920, was elected prioress in 1927 and became novice mistressin 1930. Her desire to be a martyr was fulfilled when, on July20th of 1936, (a few week earlier she had again been elected

prioress of the community), her convent was attacked. Mother Maria found shelter for all ofher daughters in the homes of friends, but was herself arrested, along with another Sister, on

August 14th. Refusing to reveal the hiding places of her daughters, Blessed Maria was shotto death on August 15th, Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Her daughters

survived the ordeal and were spared. She was beatified in 1998 by Saint Pope John Paul II.

BLESSEDS MARIA PILAR,TERESA, AND MARIA ANGELESMurdered by communists in 1936 during the SpanishCivil War: Sisters Maria Pilar of Saint Francis Borgia, 58

years old, Teresa of the Child Jesus, 27, and Maria of theAngels, 31. On July 22, eighteen nuns of the Carmelite

monastery in Guadalajara went into hiding in seculardress. These three martyrs hid in the basement of ahotel. Two days later, making their way along a street,a woman soldier recognized them as nuns and orderedthem to be shot. Sr. Maria of the Angels died

instantly. Sr. Maria Pilar, although wounded, cried out: "Long live Christ theKing!" This infuriated the soldiers, who shot at her and slashed her with aknife. She died with the words, "My God, pardon them. They do not know what

they are doing." Sr. Teresa was led to a nearby cemetery where, after her words"Long live Christ the King!" she also was shot in the back. They werebeatified by Saint Pope John Paul II on March 29th, 1987. Their feast day isobserved on July 24th, the day of their martyrdom.


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BLESSED HILARY JANUSZEWSKIBlessed Hilary was born June 12, 1907, in Krajenki, Poland, andgiven the name Pawel by his parents, Martin and Marianne. Heentered the Carmelite Order in 1927 in Cracow, and wasordained priest in 1934 after completing his studies at

the International College of Saint Albert in Rome. As one ofthe best students, he obtained a lectorate in theology from theRoman Academy of Saint Thomas, and returned to Cracow in

1935 where he was appointed Professor of Dogmatic Theology and ChurchHistory at the Institute of the Polish Province. In 1939 he was appointed prior ofthe community. The Nazis had invaded Poland a few weeks earlier. Within a

year, several friars had been arrested and deported. Fr. Hilary offered his life inexchange for an older and sick friar. By April of 1941 he was imprisoned in the

concentration camp at Dachau along with several other Carmelites, includingBlessed Titus Brandsma whom he joined in prayer.

In response to an outbreak of typhus in the camp, thirty-two priests offered tohelp. Fr. Hilary joined them. On March 25, 1945, just a few days before theliberation of the camp, Fr. Hilary died of typhus at Dachau. His body wascremated there. Along with 108 Polish martyrs of the Second World War, FatherHilary Januszewski was beatified by Saint Pope John Paul II on June 13, 1999.

BLESSED ALFONSE MARIA MAZUREKBlessed Alfonse Maria Mazurek was born March 1st, 1891, inPoland. He attended seminary school during his youth, joinedthe Carmelite Order in 1912 and was placed in charge of theMinor Seminary. In 1930 he was elected prior of the Carmelitemonastery in Czerna. On August 24, 1944, Nazis invaded themonastery. Fr. Alfonse was separated from the others and

tortured. He was taken by military car to a dirt path where he was kicked andforced to walk a great distance before he was shot and wounded. He was kickedmore and his mouth filled with dirt by the Nazi guards who had mortally

wounded him. Some brother friars found him, and he received absolution beforehis death on August 28th. He was beatified on June 13, 1999, by Saint Pope JohnPaul II along with 108 Polish martyrs of the Second World War.


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BLESSED FRANCIS PALAU Y QUERBlessed Francis Palau y Quer, like so many other Carmelites, writesbeautifully of the union of the soul with God in mysticalmarriage. He was born in Spain in 1811, the seventh of nine children ofJose Palau and Maria Antonia Quer. He entered the Order in 1832 andwas ordained a priest in 1836 during a period of civil unrest that resultedin the closing of his monastery. Blessed Francis lived in exile and insolitude in France, coming back to Spain in 1851 to found what he called"The School of Virtue" for catechetical instruction. The school wassuppressed in 1854, forcing Francis into solitude again until 1860 on therocky coast of Ibiza where he shared mystically in the sufferings of theChurch. It was here that his writings, "The Struggle of the Soul withGod," were born. In 1861, Francis founded the Congregation ofCarmelite Brothers and Sisters. He died at Tarragona in 1872 and wasbeatified by Pope John Paul II on April 24th, 1980.

From "Fr. Francisco Palau, OCD, Letters" Published Rome, CarmeliteMissionares, 1997 (Note: Juana was Bl. Francisco's spiritual daughter; the direction in this letter is beautifu

for any to read and ponder.) To Juana Gratias: Gramat (France) He is celebrating the octave of the Feast ofOur Lady of Mt. Carmel, putting his interior life in order, as though these were the last days of his lifeVarious possible ways for union-communion with God. Directives for Juana Gratias on prayer andexamination of conscience. JMJ, Day of Our Lady of Carmel, 1857, Long Live Jesus! Dearest sister in JesusChrist, We are celebrating the octave of our most holy Mother, Our Lady of Carmel, and I shall spend itputting my things in order as though these were the last days of my life. Now for your affairs. I am awaitingyour letter in order to see to your exterior life. In the meantime, let us see the interior. God's great work inman takes place in the Interior. The order that appears and is shown outside is the work and effect of theorder inside. The three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, aided by the highest and most sublimegifts of the Holy Spirit, such as understanding, wisdom, knowledge, and counsel, unite the creature, thehuman spirit, with his God, the soul with the Word of God. It is this sacred union that you must seek, hold

and possess; in it lie the spiritual life, health and strength, and from it originate all the other virtues. Thesoul looks to God under two aspects or forms: first as the object of all its affections, or as an infinitely goodand lovable being, and this imagining robs the heart; and insofar as he is good, infinitely beautiful, that is,infinitely perfect, he captures our intellectual vision, our thoughts and meditations. In this regard, thetheological virtues and their gifts cause God and the soul to become one single thing through love and purityof thoughts. While this divine union takes place primarily and mainly in the soul, all the other virtues arelike aids, attendants and armies of that guard, that assist and protect this work. This is the love of God forthe soul and the love of the soul for God. Moreover, while the said union is worked out and ordered, anotherunion begins; this is the one about which I have told you many times: the soul unites first with God as itsbeloved, as the center of its affection and vision, and then as its King, Lord, master and universal governorof the whole world. The first union turns the soul into a goddess, that is, it deifies, divinizes and makes it

God's spouse. The second one elevates it to the dignity of queen, co-redeemer of the world, lady andprincess. The first is the love of God and the second, the love of neighbor, and since the love of God and ofneighbor sums up the whole of God's work in the heart of men, and since this is the work to be started,continued and perfected in us and the fulfillment of the whole law, no one can enter the kingdom of God ifthis has not been done to a degree of perfection that God alone knows. Here we have life, health andstrength! Although I am far behind, I am happy to preach, talk, write and meditate on this great work.


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BLESSEDSJACQUESRETOURET,

JOHNBAPTIST,MICHAELAND JAMES,priests and martyrs for theirrefusal to take the oath of the CiviConstitution of the Clergy duringthe French Revolution which

among other things, demandedelection of future popes and bishops by popular vote. Saint Pope John Paul II beatified 63 priests andreligious on October 1, 1995, who had been imprisoned on board two ships stationed in Rochefort BayFrance, for ten months awaiting deportation into slavery. The following are excerpts from ResolutionsDrawn Up by the Priests Imprisoned on the Ship Les Deux Associes: They will never give themselves upto useless worries about being set free. Instead, they will make the effort to profit from the time of theirdetention by meditating on their past years, by making holy resolutions for the future, so that they can findin the captivity of their bodies, freedom for their souls ... If God permits them to recover totally or in partthis liberty nature longs for, they will avoid giving themselves up to an immoderate joy when they receivethe news. By keeping their souls tranquil they will show they support without murmur the cross placed onthem, and that they are disposed to bear it even longer with courage and as true Christians who never letthemselves be beaten by adversity. They will not show grief over the loss of their goods, no haste to recoverthem, no resentment against those who possess them. They will never get mixed up in the new politics,being content to pray for the welfare of their country and prepare themselves for a new life, if God permitsthem to return to their homes, and there become subjects of edification and models of virtue for the peopleby their detachment from the world, their assiduousness in prayer, and their love for recollection and piety.

BLESSEDS EUFRASIO ANDEUSEBIO OF THE CHILD JESUSBorn February 8, 1897, Eufrasio Barredo Fernandez (Eufrasioof the Child Jesus) in Asturias, Spain, where he was martyredon October 12, 1934. He was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI onOctober 12, 2007. Ovidio Fernandez Arenillas (Eusebio of theChild Jesus) was born 21 February 1888 in Castifale, LeonSpain. He was martyred during the Spanish Civil War, 1936, inToledo, along with fifteen other Carmelites who were beatifiedon October 28, 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI. (Please seenewsaints.faithweb.comfor more information.)

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