From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   August 4th - Blessed Father Frederick Janssoone   
   Franciscan Missionary to Four Continents and miracle worker   
      
   Born in 1838 in Ghyvelde, France, of a Flemish family, Father Frederick   
   Janssoone was the thirteenth and last child. From early youth he aspired to   
   consecrate his life to God, but his mother's widowhood and subsequent long   
   illness delayed his plans. He took employment in nearby Hazebrouck, selling   
   fabrics. When he was 25 years old, his pious mother died, and in the same   
   year her three youngest sons all decided, independently of one another, to   
   enter religion. Frederick decided upon the Seraphic Order, whose ideals   
   corresponded exactly with his own. Strict poverty, sustaining an apostolate   
   founded on penance and prayer, would always characterize his religious life.   
   He entered the Franciscan novitiate of Amiens in 1864, and was ordained a   
   priest in 1870. He served as military chaplain during the brief   
   Franco-Prussian war, facing undaunted the contagion of a triple epidemic.   
      
   In October 1871, with another priest and four Franciscan Brothers, Father   
   Frederick was named to found a convent of the Order in Bordeaux. He   
   collaborated with the founder of a magazine, writing articles for the Revue   
   Franciscaine. He became local Guardian in Bordeaux in 1873, when he was 35   
   years old. In 1874 he was relieved of the responsibility of Superior to   
   preach retreats; he also began to found fraternities of the Third Order. In   
   1876, having a strong desire to labor for his Lord in the Holy Land, and   
   when his request was granted, he left for Palestine in 1877 with a brother   
   Franciscan. During his first year in the Orient, he preached retreats for   
   religious communities in both Syria and Egypt, returning to Jerusalem in   
   1878, when he was elected to serve as Custodial Vicar. There he could remain   
   close to the very place where our Saviour's Redemption was effected-the   
   Basilica which conserves within it the site of Calvary and the Holy   
   Sepulcher itself. He accompanied pilgrimages to preside over the prayer and   
   act as guide, and he preached on many formal occasions. He reinstated the   
   Way of the Cross along the path Our Lord took to Calvary. He took charge of   
   building activities for the restoration of churches and preparation of   
   much-needed lodgings for pilgrims. Father Frederick's humility and   
   Franciscan charity brought about harmony among the various factions of the   
   Holy City.   
      
   Father Frederick came to Quebec City, Canada in 1881 to beg for financial   
   aid to the Custody, which had begun renovation of the antique Basilica of   
   Bethlehem. He brought with him relics of the Holy Land, and these, when   
   venerated or applied to afflicted members of infirm persons, miracles   
   occurred. The people called the ardent priest a miracle-worker, whereas he   
   ascribed the miracles to God's love, the efficacy of Our Saviour's   
   redemptive death on Calvary, and the faith of the people. When he was   
   recalled to the Holy Land after only eight months in the Province, all the   
   Canadians who knew him desired his return.   
      
   In the summer of that year he came to Trios Rivers, Quebec, as Monsignor   
   Louis Lafleche, its fervent bishop, had invited him there to establish the   
   proposed Canadian Holy Land Commissariat. The bishop welcomed him and gave   
   him land for the proposed edifice.   
      
   It was Father Frederick who preached at the dedication of the Shrine of Our   
   Lady of the Rosary at Cap-de-la-Madeleine on June 22, 1888, foretelling the   
   future fame of the site. That evening, Our Lady's statue, which had been   
   moved to the main altar, opened its eyes, in the presence of the parish   
   Vicar, Father Duguay, Father Frederick, and a parishioner who had come to   
   pray. Father Frederick never forgot the gaze of the Mother of God, engraved   
   in his soul. It would inspire all his preaching, when he was placed in   
   charge of the numerous pilgrimages which would come by boat and train, from   
   the cities and towns of Quebec and beyond, to the Cape.   
      
   During his twenty-eight years in Canada Father Frederick founded a great   
   many fraternities of the Third Order of Saint Francis. He was the activating   
   force behind several life-size Ways of the Cross erected in the Province,   
   one of which is still extant at the Sanctuary of Reparation in Montreal.   
      
   The Franciscan crossed the river one winter day on the ice, by horse and   
   sleigh belonging by a young man who had come to fetch him for a sick call.   
   The young driver, who intended to drive him back home across the ice, found   
   by evening that it had melted. Father Frederick told him not to worry, and   
   to go on home. No one ever knew how he made the return trip. Pictures often   
   depict him on an ice floe, praying on his knees; over his head the Mother of   
   Heaven, listening to him. For he said on his return to the rectory, when   
   Father Duguay did not understand why there was no driver or horse   
   accompanying him, that "the Mother of God had provided" for his transport.   
      
   Father Frederick, after many years of suffering from an illness, went to his   
   reward on August 4, 1916. Everywhere he labored, his memory remains in   
   veneration today. His ministry extended to five nations, France, Egypt,   
   Syria, the Holy Land and Canada. The mortal remains of this son of Saint   
   Francis have twice been found intact at Trois-Rivieres, in 1948 and 1988.   
   Favors continue to be recorded by the intercession of this ever-popular   
   Friar.   
      
   Sources: Le Père Frédéric de Ghyvelde, series of booklets on the different   
   phases of his life, by Rev. Mathieu-M. Daunais, O.F.M. (Montreal: 1920's);   
   An Apostle of Two Worlds, by Romain Legare, O.F.M. (Trois Rivières, Quebec,   
   1958).   
      
      
   Quote:   
   The first requirement of salvation is to keep the standard of the True   
   Faith.   
   -Pope St. Adrian II (867-872)   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   2. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was   
   hungry. 3. And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God,   
   command that these stones be made bread. 4. Who answered and said: It is   
   written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth   
   from the mouth of God.   
   (Matthew 4:2-4)   
      
      
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   Litany in Honor of St. John Vianney   
      
   Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us.   
   Christ, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us.   
   Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us.   
   Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.   
   God the Father of Heaven, Have mercy on us.   
   God the Son, Redeemer of the world, Have mercy on us.   
   God the Holy Ghost, Have mercy on us.   
   Holy Trinity, One God, Have mercy on us.   
   Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.   
   Saint John-Mary Vianney, pray for us.   
   St. John Vianney, endowed with grace from thine infancy, pray for us.   
   St. John Vianney, model of filial piety, pray for us.   
      
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