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   Daughter, your faith has made you well   
      
      "So what did Messiah do? He did not let her go unnoticed but led   
   her into the center of attention and made her visible. He had many   
   reasons for doing this. Some might imagine that 'he did this merely   
   for love of glory - otherwise why would he not allow her to remain   
   concealed?' But what are they proposing who might say this? That he   
   should keep her silent, that he should ignore her need, and thereby   
   pass up miracles too numerous to mention, all because he is in love   
   with glory? What an unholy thought, inspired by the most unholy one of   
   all."   
      "What then is his intention in bringing her forward? First, Jesus   
   puts an end to her fear. He does not want her to remain trapped in   
   dread. He gives no cause for her conscience to be harmed, as if she   
   had stolen the gift. Second, he corrects her assumption that she has   
   no right to be seen. Third, he makes her faith an exhibit to all. He   
   encourages the others to emulate her faith. Fourth, his subduing the   
   fountains of her hemorrhage was another sign of his knowledge of all   
   things. And finally, do you remember the ruler of the synagogue? He   
   was at the point of despair, of utter ruin. Jesus is indirectly   
   admonishing him by what he says to the woman."   Mt 9:18-26   
    by John Chrysostom (excerpt from the  THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, HOMILY 31.2)   
      
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   July 15th - Bl. Ignatius Azevedo and His Companions, Martyrs   
    ( 40 Missionaries to Brazil died 1550   
      
   Ignatius Azevdo came from a family of wealth and rank on both his   
   father's and mother's side; he was born at Oporto in 1528, and joined   
   the Society of Jesus when he was 20.   
      
      He proved to be a model novice, except that his physical   
   mortifications made him so thin that the Portuguese provincial Father   
   Simon Rodriguez had to remonstrate with him.  When he was still only   
   25 he was made rector of the college of St Antony at Lisbon.  Here he   
   did not confine himself to the strict limits of his official duties,   
   but was active in every good work; it is recorded that on one occasion   
   he personally tended three men in such advanced stages of some   
   loathsome disease that the ordinary hospitallers would not touch them:   
    and by caring for their bodies he converted their souls. With a brief   
   interval as vice-provincial of Portugal, Father Azevedo persevered in   
   this office for ten years, and was then removed to a similar post at   
   the college in Braga founded by the famous Dominican archbishop   
   Bartholomew Fernandez (" a Martyribus ").   
      
      All this time he had been beset by a desire-kindled by a Japanese   
   student at Lisbon to preach the gospel to the heathen; and at length,   
   in 1566, he was appointed to go to Brazil as visitor, to inspect and   
   advise on the Jesuit missions there,  He was away on this commission   
   for two years; the first missionaries had landed in Brazil only 17   
   years previously, but the Jesuits had already established residences   
   among several of the cannibal tribes of that huge country. On his   
   return to Rome he recommended to St Francis Borgia that more   
   missionaries be sent out there, and the general ordered him to select   
   suitable subjects for the work from the Spanish and Portuguese   
   provinces and to go with them to Brazil as their superior.  The band   
   which Father Azevedo enlisted set out on June 5,1570.  The superior   
   and 39 (at first 42) others of the party were on a merchant vessel,   
   the Santiago, and the others on one of a squadron of men-o'-war going   
   out under the command of Dom Luis Vasconcelos, governor of Brazil.   
      
      They reached Madeira, and here Vasconcelos decided to stop for a   
   time in order to get the advantage of more favourable winds;  the   
   master of the Santiago, however, intended to continue the voyage to   
   the Canaries. This put Father Azevedo into a quandary.  There was no   
   room for the rest of the Jesuits on the other warships; but if he went   
   on he would not have them under his care and there was very grave   
   danger from pirates.  However, he decided to proceed with his ship,   
   but seems to have had a premonition of what would happen, for before   
   leaving Madeira he delivered a stirring address on the glory of   
   martyrdom, and warned his own party of their danger.   
      
     When within a few miles of her destination the Santiago was   
   overtaken by a French privateer, commanded by James Soury, an   
   implacable Huguenot, who directly he heard of the convoy of Jesuits   
   going to Brazil had set out in chase from La Rochelle.  The Santiago   
   put up a good fight, and the missionaries helped in every possible   
   way, short of actually bearing arms and shedding blood; after she was   
   boarded there was a fierce hand-to-hand struggle, but on the death of   
   her captain she was constrained to strike her flag.  Thereupon Soury   
   demonstrated his hatred of the Catholic religion by sparing the   
   remainder of the crew and passengers but ordering the death of the   
   missionaries.  Bl Ignatius and his 39 companions were then and there   
   brutally massacred in cold blood, meeting their death with heroism and   
   joy; their leader was thrown into the sea clasping a picture of our   
   Lady given to him by Pope St Pius V. Of these martyrs nine were   
   Spanisrds and the rest Portuguese.   
      
   Several contemporary revelations of this massacre were reported, of   
   which the chief were to Bl. Ignatius's brother, Don Jerome, in the   
   East Indies, and to St Teresa at Avila, whose kinsman, Bl. Francis   
   GoDoy, was among the martyrs. Their beatification took place in 1854.   
      
   A popular account may be found in the small volume, by Father Cordara   
   in Italian and by Father de Beauvais in French in 1854. See also   
   Astrain, Historia de la Compañia de Jesus en la Aristencia de Espñia,   
   vol. ii, p. 244; and J. Brodrick, The Progress of the Jesuits (1946)   
   pp. 220-230.   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   This day is holy to our Lord. Do not be saddened this day,   
    for the joy of the Lord is your strength.  (Nehemiah 8:10)   
      
      
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   This is the greatest wisdom:   
      
   This is the greatest wisdom--to seek the kingdom of heaven through   
   contempt of the world. It is vanity, therefore, to seek and trust in   
   riches that perish. It is vanity also to court honor and to be puffed   
   up with pride. It is vanity to follow the lusts of the body and to   
   desire things for which severe punishment later must come. It is   
   vanity to wish for long life and to care little about a well-spent   
   life. It is vanity to be concerned with  the present only and not to   
   make provision for things to come. It is vanity to love what passes   
      
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