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anniversaries october
October 8
Our Lady of Good Remedy, Trinitarian Order
In 1197, a Sorbonne doctor of theology and newly ordained priest, Jean
de Matha, saw while saying his first mass a vision of
an angel with a red
and blue cross on his chest and his hands on the heads of two captives.
The following year, St. Jean founded a religious order dedicated to the
redemption of Christians held as slaves by Muslims: the Hospitaler
Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of Captives, commonly called the
Trinitarians. On their habit Jean placed the cross he had seen on the
angel, and as patron he gave them Notre-Dame du Bon Remède, a popular
devotion in his Provençal homeland. Now devoted largely to education and
evangelization, for three centuries they raised funds and traveled from
Europe into Africa to buy thousands of captives' freedom
with Our Lady's help. A painting
(right) in the Trinitarian motherhouse of Cerfroid in northern France
shows Our Lady of Good Remedy giving a bag of money to St. John of Matha,
while a grateful freedman and St. Felix of Valois look on (source: Alrisha,
accel11.mettre-put-idata.over-blog.com). The Order
celebrates her feast day on October 8.Also commemorated this date:
 | Notre-Dame des Doms, Avignon, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,
France. Church consecrated, 1111. Feasts August 15 & December 8. |
| Magyarok Nagyasszonyának, Hungary (Magna Domina Hungarorum, Great Lady of
Hungary). National feast day. |
| Our Lady of Benada, Tourlestrane, Sligo, Ireland |
| Madonna della Manna, Cortona, Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. Sculpture crowned, 1741. |
| Marijos Krikšcionišku šeimu Karalienes, Žemaiciu Kalvarija, Telšiai,
Samogitia, Lithuania (Mary Queen of Christian Families). Tenderness icon of
1649 at Calvary shrine crowned with this title by papal authority, 2006.
Shrine pilgrimage first Sunday in July. |
| Nuestra Señora Bithen de los Remedios, Tanapag, Saipan, Northern Mariana
Islands (Our Lady Virgin of Remedies). Fiesta on nearest Sunday. |
| Vår Frue av det Gode Råd, Porsgrunn, Grenland, Telemark, Norway (Our
Lady of Good Counsel). Church inaugurated, 1899. |
| Our Lady of South Carolina, Our Lady of Joyful Hope, Kingstree, South
Carolina, USA. Shrine inaugurated, 2006. Anniversary observed on the Sunday
after the Feast of the Rosary, October 7. |
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