Timon was one of the seven deacons ( Acts 6.. 15), and is so called by AC (infra, p. 169 ). [187] wrote from hearsay that she had died and been buried in Jerusalem. After their feet had been washed, they approached Mary's couch and greeted her with reverence. They put on broad girdles which they carried with them, engraved with letters. After three years' sojourn here Mary had a great longing to see Jerusalem again, and was taken there by John and Peter. In the night I saw Peter and Andrew asleep on their journey in different places but not very far apart from each other. Men typically married at about 30, when they were sufficiently established in their trade to support a family. I saw her once traveling to Nazareth with Seraphia (Veronica) before Jesus' baptism. THE HOLY VIRGIN MAKES THE WAY OF THE CROSS FOR THE LAST TIME. (Luke 3:23-38; Matthew 1:1-16). So I went with her over sea and land, and we soon reached Jerusalem. If she was then sixty-four years old (as AC says here), she was born in 20 B.C. Besides Mara she had two other daughters, and the sons of one of these became disciples. Thus all three came to Mary's house, where they met John. After a pause she continued, marking on her fingers the figures she mentioned: See this number, a stroke I and then a V, does not this make four? I saw that the Apostles, holy women, and other Christians, when they approached these Stations to pray before them, kneeling or lying on their faces, brought out from under their robes a Y-shaped cross about a foot long, which they set up in the hollow on the various stones by means of a prop at its back. The date at the heading of this section of AC's statement shows that she was speaking less than two months after this event, which therefore had a great topical interest. Afterwards I entered into a vision of Christ's miracles and acts of healing near Jerusalem, and saw many of these healings again. It is Transitus Mariae which tells us of Mary's burial at Gethsemane. AC suggests that James went directly to his martyrdom after the Assumption, in which case the Assumption must have taken place in AD. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. She gave her blessing first to James alone, and then to his three companions together, after which James went to join in the service. It is a very lonely place, but has many fertile and pleasant slopes as well as rock-caves, clean and dry and surrounded by patches of sand. The Blessed Virgin's hair was hidden in the yellowish cap which she wore; this was stretched rather tightly across her forehead and drawn together in folds on the back of her head. So he went still farther north, right across China, to where Russia is now, where he received a second summons which sent him hurrying to Ephesus. They were enclosed, and a path encircled the stones broad enough for one or two people to approach in order to read the inscriptions. At first they were just rough stones to mark the places, afterwards everything was made more elaborate. When he returned there he was murdered by the king's brother. The Blessed Virgin lived here alone, with a younger woman, her maidservant, who fetched what little food they needed. Afterwards she arranged the Stations better, and I saw her inscribing on the stones the meaning of each Station, the number of paces and so forth. He came with Timon the deacon from Spain, and after passing through Rome had met with Eremenzear and still another. One thing we can deduce from the biblical story of Mary and Jesus Christ is that if she gave birth to Jesus as a teenager and Jesus lived up to 33 years before he died and rose again, then Mary must . (SB), [192] The martyrdom of James the Great is the only death of an Apostle narrated in the New Testament ( Acts 12.. 1), and the persecutor is named: Herod, i.e. Perhaps the reason for this is that her age is not important, but the role she played. (SB), [184] The road from Jerusalem', one would suppose, would be the main road eastwards through Colossae, etc., but the suggestion that Mary's house was nearer the sea' than Ephesus (p. 160 ) indicates a road southward along the coast. I saw that she was weak; her face was quite white and as though transparent. The others indicate the Vale of Josaphat, usually identified with the Kedron Valley between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives. Consequently, scholars believe that our Lord ministered for three and a half years before His death on the cross, making Jesus 33 years old when He died. The two angel-choirs in the clouds met beneath her soul and separated it from her holy body, which in the moment of separation sank back on the couch with arms crossed on the breast. 19K views, 788 likes, 658 loves, 4.4K comments, 240 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from EWTN: Starting at 8 a.m. The Blessed Virgin could not see the altar from her bed, but during the Holy Sacrifice she sat upright on her couch in deep devotion. Four times did I see the Apostles relieve each other in watching and praying by the holy body. The ceiling of the Blessed Virgin's room disappeared, the lamp hung in the open air, and I saw through the sky into the heavenly Jerusalem. The matter is also confused by the historical problems of the date of the birth of Christ and the date of the Crucifixion and Ascension, and cannot be decided with any certainty. MARY.S MAIDSERVANT AND JOHN THE APOSTLE. The Bible does not provide specific dates for Jesus' birth and crucifixion, but we can use scriptural context clues to get a close estimate of Jesus' age when He died. The sides of this box were covered with carpets reaching down to the floor and were decorated with tassels and fringes. The holy man became a titular bishop in 1844 and died in 1849. ET on EWTN: Holy Mass and Rosary on Saturday, April 29, 2023 - Memorial of Saint. History. The Blessed Virgin lay back on her pillows pale and still. The fire on the hearth was covered, and all the household utensils put aside and covered up. The farthest corner or apse of this room was divided off by a curtain and formed Mary.s oratory. I saw him on his way at a great distance. Ordained priest in 1815, he became a canon of Bamberg in 1821. It had no particular ornamentation, and was more roughly carved than the crosses which come from the Holy Land nowadays. St. Philip now also received Holy Communion. [191] They had long staffs with crooks and knobs of different shapes in their hands which showed their rank. 295. Wikimedia Commons. It was told me that the pale stem of the cross was cypress, the brown arm cedar, and the other arm of yellow palm-wood, while the piece added at the top, with the title, was of smooth yellow olive-wood. A short time before the Blessed Virgin's death, as she felt the approach of her reunion with her God, her Son, and her Redeemer, she prayed that there might be fulfilled what Jesus had promised to her in the house of Lazarus at Bethany on the day before His Ascension. She was not from a noble family, but she was brought to prominence by the visit of the Angel Gabriel. Underneath they wore long white priests' robes of wool; these were open from top to bottom, closed by little knob-like buttons and slit straps of leather. After the wedding, the groom would continue to live and work in his fathers home with his new bride, while the brides family lost a valuable and profitable member of their household. Next day she again spoke of this singing. The Status Quo, a 250-year old understanding between religious communities, applies to the site. It might easily be supposed to be invented in view of John 20.. 24, but it might equally easily be supposed to be truly in character. The Apostles, disciples, and women knelt round it praying. I was given the comforting assurance that every year, on the day of the Blessed Virgin's death, many souls of those who have venerated her receive this reward. It was shining; her face was radiant; her eyes were closed, and her arms, crossed on her breast. ET on EWTN: Holy Mass and Rosary on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 Tell us where you're. Peter stood in priestly vestments before the altar, with the others behind him as if in choir. At each of these places she put up a stone, or, if there was already a tree there, she made a mark upon it. He touched her hands and feet with ointment, marking forehead and breast with the sign of the cross. Yesterday evening and this morning I saw the assembled Apostles holding a service in the front part of the house. Every day they take it in turns to go there, morning and evening, and I creep up quietly to join in behind them. He was soon met by Andrew, who had been summoned by the same vision; later they met with Thaddeus, to whom the same message had been given. (SB)[193] The late arrival of Thomas is included in the tradition preserved by St. John Damascene, but among the early legends only in that entitled of Joseph of Arimathea' (17). I saw him alone in a little boat with a very simpleminded servant crossing a wide expanse of water -- then journeying across country without, I think, touching at any town. Over it she wore a soft black veil which hung down to her waist. Her debut childrens book, What Is A Family? (SB)[191] The mission-fields of the various Apostles as mentioned by AC on these pages generally correspond to the traditional legends as preserved in the Lives of the Saints, the Breviary, the Acta Bollandiana, and local cult. [192] The man who denounced him was converted, was baptized by him, and beheaded with him. James the Greater, who had a narrow pale face and black hair, came from Spain to Jerusalem with several disciples, and stayed some time in Sarona near Joppa. I saw several women (five, I think) going into her room one after the other, and coming out again as though they were saying farewell to her. [August 10 ^th, 1821:] The time of the year when the Church celebrates the death of the Blessed Virgin is no doubt the correct one, only it does not fall every year on the same day. The identity of Eremenzear is unknown, but AC 169 states (p. 168 ) that he joined James and Timon later and had been a disciple of Our Lord. Narrow paths lead southwards to a hill near the top of which is an uneven plateau, some half-hour's journey in circumference, overgrown, like the hill itself, with wild trees and bushes. (SB), [187] St. John Damascene, a monk at Jerusalem, died c. A.D. 754, and is a Doctor of the Church. A round cushion served as pillow, and there was a covering of brownish material with a check pattern. She stayed with Elizabeth for three months. This is still a common practice in the middle east today. The front part of the house was divided from the room behind the fireplace by light movable wicker screens on each side of the hearth. This garment covered only the back of the brown undergarment, leaving the bodice and whole front of the latter visible. RELATIVES AND FRIENDS OF THE HOLY FAMILY WHO ALSO LIVE IN EPHESUS. If the Ascension took place in A.D. 30, the date of the Assumption would be A.D. 43 or 44, which will fit with the subsequent martyrdom of James the Great under Herod (42-44). They Lid bunches of myrrh in the arm-pits and bosom, and filled with it the spaces between the shoulders and round the neck, chin, and checks; the feet, too, were completely embedded in bunches of herbs. She could only say a few words to them. At Easter, the Son of God took on the worlds sin and defeated the devil, death, and grave. I think that they often traveled in a supernatural manner without knowing it, for I often saw them passing through crowds of men apparently without anyone seeing them. The holy body was dressed in a new robe, open in front, and reverently lifted, by means of cloths passed under it, onto a table where the grave-clothes and swaddling-bands had been arranged for convenient use. I also saw a cloth lying beside the cross, and had the impression that it was the one with which the Blessed Virgin had wiped the blood from all the wounds in Our Lord.s holy body after it was taken down from the cross. The fireplace was on the floor opposite the door; it was sunk into the ground beside a wall which rose in steps on each side of it up to the ceiling. When the Lord's summons to Ephesus came to the Apostles, Peter, and I think also Matthias, were in the region of Antioch. The Station of the Mount of Olives was in a little valley near a cave, in which several people could kneel at prayer. John carried a vessel with ointment, and Peter, dipping the finger of his right hand into it, anointed the breast, hands, and feet of the Blessed Virgin, praying as he did so. p. 167 on their tiredness) contrasts strikingly with that of the legends. After the Apostles, the disciples who were present approached the Blessed Virgin's couch and received the same blessing. Several, the Latin (3), the Greek (3), and Pseudo-Joseph of Arimathea (4), refer to her visit to the sepulcher. At its foot there lay a piece of parchment with something written on it; Christ.s words, I think. In it stood a cross about the length of a man.s arm in which were inserted two arms rising outwards and upwards, in the form of the letter Y, the shape in which I have always seen Christ.s Cross. But in ancient times, Jewish families traditionally arranged marriages for their sons and daughters while they were still in their youth. The Apostles then returned to the altar in the front part of the house in a solemn procession with the sacred vessels and continued the service. About Matthew I again saw today that he was the son of Alpheus by a former marriage, and was thus the stepson of Alpheus' second wife Mary, the daughter of Cleophas. The Blessed Virgin died after the ninth hour, at the same time as Our Lord. Some of them lived in caves in the rocks which had been arranged as dwellings by means of wickerwork screens. The Apostles stood in two rows reaching from the altar to her couch, and bowed low as Peter passed between them bearing the Blessed Sacrament. However, we can assume that Mary was at least eighteen when she gave birth to Jesus. [182] The chronology here is not quite plain. The windows were high up near the flat roof. The Blessed Virgin's mother wore one, too. She appeared on a pillar to Saint James in the year 36. He had just converted a king and his family. His sermon ( 2 de Dormitione Deiparae) relates her burial at Jerusalem. The Bible last mentions Mary, the mother of Jesus, when the Holy Spirit came upon her (and many others) on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-4).After that, we hear nothing else about Mary in the Bible. Today I saw a service being held in her sleeping-alcove; Mass was said there. (SB)[186] Her tomb at Gethsemani is mentioned in the Greek legend (48). His sermon ( 2 de Dormitione Deiparae) relates her burial at Jerusalem. A woman was kneeling beside Mary's couch and every now and then held her upright. In other words, while tradition has always . It was a kind of board with a low edge and a slightly arched lid. As she received the Blessed Sacrament I saw a radiance pass into Mary, who sank back as though in ecstasy, and spoke no more. The women wrapped and veiled themselves and, sitting on the ground in the room in front of the house, they began to lament for the dead, kneeling and sitting in turns. The women now laid a covering over the holy body, and the Apostles and disciples betook themselves to the front part of the house. Mary's house was built of rectangular stones, rounded or pointed at the back. The theory is made more credible by the fact that Jesus, while dying on the cross, commissioned the apostle John to care for Mary. The place is nearer the sea than Ephesus, which must be several hours' journey distant from the coast. Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you., Jesus answered, Why were you searching for me? He foretold that when the sea should reach this stone, another would come to that country preaching Jesus Christ. Maroni had by this Eliud a son whom Our Lord raised from the dead in Naim after his mother had become a widow for the second time. The development of the doctrine of Mary can be traced . The niece of Anna the prophetess was there, and also Elizabeth's niece, the widow Mara. 52 views, 1 likes, 0 loves, 0 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Saint Augustin Parish: Mass - 04/23/2023 Mary.s couch, which was placed against the wall, was a box one and a half feet high and of the breadth and length of a narrow plank. I always saw them like this, but forgot to say so. The Mishna distinguishes the girl of minor age (kftanna) and the girl of major age (g'dula). He put a sort of maniple on his arm and a stole round his neck. I saw that he was the only one of The Twelve who was missing. Why Is it Important for Us to Be Restored? I expect that the news of her death, burial-place, and assumption into heaven were permitted by God to be indefinite and only a matter of tradition in order that Christianity in its early days should not be in danger of heathen influences then so powerful. This man played a part in later events, but I forget what it was. 12. A fifth woman wrung out the sponges in a bowl and then dipped them into fresh water; three times I saw the basin emptied into a hollow outside the house and fresh water being brought. He shepherded hordes of lost and wandering followers. On the breast was laid a wreath of white, red, and sky-blue flowers as a token of virginity. We do know Mary would have been a young virgin when she had Jesus. In the center one was the Blessed Sacrament, and in the others chrism, oil, salt, other holy things, and some shreds of what was perhaps cotton. After one day of travel, Mary and Joseph realized Jesus was not with the group, so they returned to Jerusalem to find Him. The Mother of God was so sorrowful and so moved by compassion that she could hardly hold herself upright, and Peter and John had to support her as they led her away. As an adolescent, Mary said "yes" to a call from God with a purpose beyond what she ever could have . She paced out all the measurements, and John had the memorial stones set up for her. The Apostles already present, who were just going up to the altar, greeted him with grave solemnity, telling him in few words to go to the Blessed Virgin. Tell my little niece not to interrupt me but to wait patiently in the other room for a time.' Had the angel not also visited Joseph and assured him that Marys pregnancy was the act of the Holy Spirit, Joseph could have legally divorced Mary for infidelity or had her stoned to death for adultery (Leviticus 20:10). But here there are difficulties about other statements: from AC's remarks on p. 98 we can deduce that she was eighteen at the birth of Christ, though from p. 57 we gather she was fourteen when she left the Temple and was married. Her face was white as snow and as though transparent. He did not give her a chalice. (SB)[192] The martyrdom of James the Great is the only death of an Apostle narrated in the New Testament ( Acts 12.. 1), and the persecutor is named: Herod, i.e. These conspicuous absences in Scripture suggest that Joseph died before Jesus public ministry began. Mary.s meditation on the different kinds of wood forming the cross were communicated to me, but alas I have forgotten this beautiful lesson. He had performed the act of consecration, had received the Body of the Lord, and had given Communion to the Apostles and disciples. Part of this submission included His baptism, which mirrored the requirements of the Melchizedek priesthood (Matthew 3:13-15). The altar was a table covered with a red cloth with a white one over it. She was inexpressibly sorrowful, constantly sighing, O my Son, my Son'. These twelve stones were all alike, all engraved with Hebrew inscriptions, but their positions were different. Christianity.com is a member of the Salem Web Network of sites including: Copyright 2023, Christianity.com. From the boxes which John held he anointed her with holy oil on her face, hands, and feet, and on her side, where there was an opening in her dress so that she was in no way uncovered. Everywhere was light and radiance, as at Christ's Ascension. To the right of this oratory, against a niche in the wall, was the sleeping place or cell of the Blessed Virgin. 42-44. The Blessed Virgin received the Blessed Sacrament. She was completely enveloped in a white sleeping coverlet, even her arms being wrapped in it. He was very slim and active, his face was long, narrow, and delicate, and on his bare head his long fair hair was parted and brushed back behind his ears. I see this being done throughout the day, and I see the women giving the Blessed Virgin a spoonful of liquid from the bowl. We know many of the wonderful events that occurred in connection with Mary before the year 1000. After speaking a few solemn words, he gave the Sacrament to the Blessed Virgin. 4 Reasons Why We Have a Hard Time Talking about Loneliness. released through Familius Publishing in 2020. This has led some to claim that these children were the "brothers" of Jesus that are . He received her with His Divine Love, and placed in her hands a scepter with a gesture towards the earth as though indicating the power which He gave her.
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