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he entered the Augustinian Order at the age of twenty. He died eight years later, on 17 December, 1479, barely eight months after his ordination as a priest. Cherubin was distinguished by the spirit of obedience, purity of life, and devotion to the passion of Christ. To this day Blessed Cherubin is still very alive in Avigliana and the surrounding area. His mortal remains are displayed for the veneration of the faithful in the parish of Saints John and Peter in Avigliana (Torino), Italy. Blessed Cherubin's feast is celebrated by the Augustinian Family on 16 December. Rotelle, John, Book of Augustinian Saints, Augustinian Press 2000
November 7 Blessed Gratia of Kotor Blessed Gratia of Kotor distinguished himself by his humility, work, spirit of penitence, and love of the Eucharist. The second half of the fourteenth century saw the emergence of a great spirit of reform in the Augustinian Order as well as in many other religious congregations. Friars committed to an enthusiastic observance of religious life in perfect fidelity to the Rule and Constitutions shunning every abuse and opportunity for compromise. They were authorized to live in specially designated "observant" communities under the immediate authority of the prior general and his appointed vicar. Eleven distinct congregations of observant monasteries were formed during this period. Gratia entered one of these congregations, centered at Monte Orotne, near Padua, in 1468 Gratia was born in 1438 in the town of Mulla near Kotor (Cattaro) on the Dalmation coast in former Yugoslavia. Fifteen years earlier Kotor had submitted to Venetian rule and became a busy and prosperous seaport. Gratia was a sailor whose work brought him to Venice where, on a certain occasion, he was so deeply moved by the preaching of the Augustinian friar, Simon of Camerino, a distinguished speaker and leader of the Augustinian Observant Movement, that he decided to join the Augustinian Order as a lay brother. He was thirty years old. In his forty years of religious life Gratia distinguished himself by his virtues and love of the Eucharist. After many years at Monte Ortone, where he devoted his time an energy to the service of his brethren, principally in the monastery garden, he was transferred to the monastery of San Cristoforo near Venice, where he died on 8 November 1508. Four centuries later he is still venerated by his countymen in Kotor, and especially in his hometown of Mulla, where his body has been kept in the parish church since 1810. In 1889 Pope Leo XIII beatified Gratia.
The Augustinian Family celebrates his memorial on 7 November. Rotelle, John, Book of Augustinian Saints, Augustinian Press 2000 To see another web page on Blessed Gratia click here
On October 1539, John was sent to be tried at Canterbury. The sentence was handed down on 6 December and within several weeks, probably two days after Christmas, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at a place called the Dungeon, now known as Dane John. Because he was a traitor to the king, his head and his quartered body were exhibited at the city gates. John Stone was beatified on 9 December 1886 by Leo XIII and was canonized, along with thirty-nine other English martyrs of the Reformation, by Paul VI on 25 December 1970. The Augustinian Family celebrates his memory on 25 October. Rotelle, John, Book of Augustinian Saints, Augustinian Press 2000 John Stone with Henery VIII and Pope Clement VII by Mario Ferrari, Rome, Italy
John was admired by his disciples as a humble, kind, and charitable man, filled with deep respect for bishops and the pope, as well as reverence for the office of the priesthood, even when it was occupied by those who abused their position. He cultivated great devotion to Mary, in whose honor he and his community built and dedicated a church. John always remained a layman and was apparently illiterate. He was gifted, however with a good memory and practical judgment, which became evident in his management of his community's affairs and his role as an arbiter between rival towns. About the year 1238, when he was seventy years old, John relinquished the government of his community to devote himself to an even more intense
contemplative life. Foreseeing that death, he and some disciples went to Mantua in early October 1249 where he occupied a hermitage known as Sant'Agnese in Porto. There he died on 16 October 1249 and was buried in the adjoining church. In 1251 his body was placed in a marble tomb. Five investigations by church authorities between that year and 1798 verified that his body remained incorrupt. On 17 June 1251, Innocent IV ordered that the process for his canonization be initiated. While this was done, the same pontiff's death three years later and other unknown factors caused an interruption of the cause until 1483 when he was beatified by Sixtus IV. Later appeals by the Augustinians and the Duke of Mantua for Blessed John's canonization met with no success. His feast is observed by the Augustinian Family on 23 October. Rotelle, John, Book of Augustinian Saints, Augustinian Press 2000 Blessed John the Good by Mario Ferrari, Rome, Italy.
Pius IX in 1876. Magdalene kept alive the memory of these friars, and with it grew her own desire for martyrdom. Now her counselors in the struggle were two other Augustinians, Fathers Melchior of Saint Augustine and Martin of Saint Nicholas, who continued to nourish her spirit on the ideals and practices of Augustinian spirituality. When these two friars were also put to death, she turned to Father Jordan of Saint Stephen, a Dominican who own profession was based on the Rule of St. Augustine. Magdalene's concern for her vocation and her wish to love completely the life of the evangelical counsels led to her decision to enter a novitiate with a community of Dominican sisters. But before she could make her profession, religious persecution broke out once again. It was no time for the fainthearted. A strong faith burned in her soul and the gospel allowed for no half measures. The brave spirit and conviction of this Augustinian tertiary moved her to go voluntarily to the jailers and declare herself a follower of Jesus Christ. There were threats, tortures, promises of exposure to public scorn, taunts, ridicule all the usual procedures in such cases. But Magdalene had a clear knowledge of her faith and of the obligation which she had freely taken on. Attired in her Augustinian habit, she reached the end of her martyrdom on 16 October 1634, after thirteen days of torture, suspended upside down in a pit of offal. After death her body was burned and her ashes scattered in the bay of Nagasaki. Three hundred and forty-seven years later, on 18 February 1981, in the city of Manila, Pope John Paul II honored Magdalene with the title of Blessed. Then on 18 October 1987, World Mission Day, she was solemnly canonized in Rome by the same Holy Father. Proclaimed with Saint Magdalene was a large number of martyrs from the Land of the Rising Sun, of various nationalities and states of life and of different religious orders. The life of Magdalene, martyr of Japan, honored for the firmness and courage of her faith, is a song in praise of heroism. To live the gospel as she did with fervent resolve, in a clear, complete, and radical way, without failing or yielding is the heritage of great souls. The memory of Saint Magdalene of Nagasaki is celebrated by the Augustinian family on 20 October. Rotelle, John, Book of Augustinian Saints, Augustinian Press 2000 Saint Magdalene of Nagasaki by Adriano Ambrosioni