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   May 17th - Saint Restituta (Santa Restituta di Teniza)   
      
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   Biography   
      
   She was said to be born at Hippo Diarrhytus (today known as Bizerte,   
   Tunisia)   
   and became a martyr under Diocletian. The exact place and time of her   
   martyrdom   
   lacks precise historical data. She is sometimes considered one of the   
   Martyrs of   
   Abitina, a group of North African martyrs that includes Dativus, Saturninus,   
   and   
   others.   
      
   Legend   
      
   A later medieval legend, recounted by Pietro Suddiacono in the 10th century   
   and   
   similar to legends associated with Saints Devota, Reparata, and Torpes of   
   Pisa,   
   states that after being horribly tortured, Restituta was placed in a blazing   
   boat loaded with oakum and resin. Restituta was unharmed by the fire, and   
   asked   
   for aid from God. God sent an angel to guide her boat to the island of   
   Aenaria   
   (present-day Ischia), and she landed at the present-day site of San Montano.   
   The   
   legend further states that a local Christian woman named Lucina had dreamt   
   of   
   the angel and the boat. When she walked to the beach, she found the   
   resplendent   
   and incorrupt body of Restituta, who was now dead. Lucina gathered the   
   population together and the saint was solemnly buried at the foot of Monte   
   Vico   
   in Lacco Ameno, where a paleochristian basilica was dedicated to her, and is   
   now   
   the site of a sanctuary dedicated to her.   
      
   Veneration   
      
   However, the spread of her cult from North Africa to Italy is historically   
   associated with the expulsion of Catholics from North Africa by Genseric,   
   king   
   of the Vandals, who followed the Arian sect. Her relics may have been   
   brought to   
   Naples in the fifth century by Gaudiosus of Naples when he was exiled from   
   North   
   Africa.   
      
   A church, Santa Restituta, was built in her honour in Naples in the sixth   
   century.   
      
   The church was then incorporated into the Cathedral of Naples built on the   
   same   
   site in the 13th century.   
      
   She is the patron saint of Lacco Ameno. She is especially venerated on the   
   island of Ischia and at Lacco Ameno, where she is celebrated in a three-day   
   celebration running from May 16 to May 18.   
      
   A crypt associated with Restituta can be found at Cagliari, in the   
   neighborhood   
   of Stampace.   
      
   Lamartine, inspired by the legend of the saint, composed in 1842 "Le lis du   
   golfe de Santa Restituta dans l'ìle d'Ischia."   
      
   From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   That We should act without delay in this matter is made imperative   
   especially by   
   the fact that the partisans of error are to be sought not only among the   
   Church's open enemies; but, what is to be most dreaded and deplored, in her   
   very   
   bosom, and are the more mischievous the less they keep in the open. We   
   allude,   
   Venerable Brethren, to many who belong to the Catholic laity, and, what is   
   much   
   more sad, to the ranks of the priesthood itself, who, animated by a false   
   zeal   
   for the Church, lacking the solid safeguards of philosophy and theology, nay   
   more, thoroughly imbued with the poisonous doctrines taught by the enemies   
   of   
   the Church, and lost to all sense of modesty, put themselves forward as   
   reformers of the Church; and, forming more boldly into line of attack,   
   assail   
   all that is most sacred in the work of Christ, not sparing even the Person   
   of   
   the Divine Redeemer, whom, with sacrilegious audacity, they degrade to the   
   condition of a simple and ordinary mall.   
   --Saint Pope Pius X   
      
   Bible quote:   
   The Father loves Me, because I lay down My life... No one takes it from Me,   
   but   
   I lay it down of Myself.  (John 10:17-18)   
      
      
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   An Act of Abandonment To Divine Providence   
      
   0 sovereign goodness of the sovereign Providence of my God!   
   I abandon myself forever to Thy arms.   
   Whether gentle or severe,   
   lead me henceforth whither Thou wilt;   
   I will not regard the way through which Thou wilt have me pass,   
   but keep my eyes fixed upon Thee,   
   my God, who guidest me.   
   My soul finds no rest without the arms   
   and the bosom of this heavenly Providence,   
   my true Mother, my strength and my rampart.   
      
   Therefore I resolve with Thy Divine assistance,   
   0 my Saviour,   
   to follow Thy desires and Thy ordinances,   
   without regarding or examining why Thou dost this rather than that;   
   but I will blindly follow Thee   
   according to Thy Divine will,   
   without seeking my own inclinations.   
      
   Hence I am determined to leave all to Thee,   
   taking no part therein save by keeping myself in peace in Thy arms,   
   desiring nothing except as Thou incitest me to desire,   
   to will, to wish.   
   I offer Thee this desire, 0 my God,   
   beseeching Thee to bless it;   
   I undertake all it includes,   
   relying on Thy goodness,   
   liberality, and mercy,   
   with entire confidence in Thee,   
   distrust of myself,   
   and knowledge of my infinite misery and infirmity.   
   Amen!   
   (By Saint Jane Frances De Chantal.)   
      
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