Thank you and I pray all those who visit here will be abundantly blessed. PLEASE ADVISE ME OF ANY GLARING TYPOS etc - In June 2021 I lost 95% sight in my left eye and sometimes miss errors. This site adheres to the Catholic Church and all her teachings. Lazarus In the Gospels we hear the story of two different men named Lazarus. We do not use them, it is they who move usĪnd lead us, to where we had not expected to go.” This Site is placed under the Patronage of my many favourite Saints and especially, St Paul. In this story a poor beggar lived on the street outside a rich man’s house. The beggar Lazarus is a character in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. In popular culture, Saint Lazarus has become a metaphor for the restoration of life. This site, which is now using the Traditional Calendar, will mainly concentrate on Daily Prayers, Novenas and the Memorials and Feast Days of our friends in Heaven, the Saints who went before us and the great blessings the Church provides in our Catholic Monthly Devotions. Saint Lazarus of Bethany was raised from the dead by Jesus after he had been entombed for four days. Eleazar is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a priest, who was the nephew of Moses and the son of the prophet Aaron. Prayer is what the world needs combined with the example of our lives which testify to the Light of Christ. The name Lazarus is a Latin version of Lazaros, which in turn is a Greek form of Eleazar from the New Testament of the Bible. The first Council of Orleans (511) ordered that this observance should be general throughout France and it spread quickly to England and elsewhere.īeing a Catholic is a way of life - a love affair "Religion must be like the air we breathe."- St John Bosco Afterwards, it is believed that St Mamertus introduced these litanies into the Diocese of Vienne and changed the date to the three days before Ascension day. To invoke the protection of God at that distressful period, he ordered a three days’ fast with processions, litanies and visits to various Churches from the Monday to the Wednesday within the Octave of the Ascension. Lazarus is chiefly remembered in connextion with the Rogationtide litanies which, it is believed, he was the first to introduce. St Magnus Felix Ennodius (c 473-521), the Bishop of Pavia and Rhetorician and Poet (Feast day – 17 July), includes him in a list of twelve holy Bishops of Milan, of whom St Ambrose was the first and most eminent. The times were volatile and troublesome, for the Goths were ravaging Italy and were masters of Milan but although Lazarus had much to suffer at their hands, he ruled his flock prudently and faithfully. St Lazarus became Bishop of Milan in 438. It is believed that he resisted the Manichaeans, in the footsteps of St Pope Leo the Great. A late tradition, with little historical basis, associates Lazarus with the Milan’s family of the Beccardi. We have almost no information about the life and episcopate of St Lazarus, though his name means “he who is assisted by God.” He probably studied in Milan and is reported to have been of stern appearance.
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