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   January 9th - Sts. Julian, Martyr and Basilissa   
   (d. 313)   
      
   Saint Julian and Saint Basilissa, though married, lived by mutual consent in   
   perpetual chastity. They sanctified themselves by the most perfect exercises   
   of an ascetic life, and employed their revenues in relieving the poor and   
   the sick. For this purpose they converted their house into a kind of   
   hospital, in which they sheltered up to a thousand poor people. Basilissa   
   attended the women in separate lodgings, and Julian, who for his charity is   
   known as the Hospitaler, cared for the men.   
      
   Egypt, where they lived, was in those days blessed with persons who, either   
   in the cities or in the deserts, devoted themselves to the most perfect   
   exercises of charity, penance, and mortification. Conversions were numerous,   
   and persecutions by furious pagans followed as the numbers of Christians   
   increased. Basilissa, after having survived seven of those, died in peace,   
   foretelling to her husband that he would die a martyr. Julian lived   
   afterwards for a number of years, but eventually received the crown of a   
   glorious martyrdom in 313. His interrogation and his tortures were   
   accompanied by astonishing prodigies and numerous conversions.   
      
   With him died thirty-one other persons, including a priest named Anthony, a   
   new Christian named Anastasius, Celsus, the seven-year-old son of the judge   
   who sentenced Julian, Marcianilla, the mother of Celsus, who when she came   
   to visit her son was won over to the faith, and many other Christians.   
   Spared by fire and wild beasts, Saint Julian finally was decapitated. His   
   tomb became illustrious by many great miracles, including the cure of ten   
   lepers on the same day.   
      
   Many churches and hospitals, in both the East and in the West, bear the name   
   of one or another of these martyrs. Four churches at Rome and three in Paris   
   are dedicated to Saint Julian.   
      
   Reflection. God often rewards men for works that are pleasing in His sight   
   by giving them grace and opportunity to do other works higher still. Such   
   was the case for Saint Julian, whose posthumous miracles attained prodigious   
   numbers.   
      
   Sources: Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, a compilation based on   
   Butler's Lives of the Saints and other sources by John Gilmary Shea   
   (Benziger Brothers: New York, 1894); Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des   
   Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin (Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 2.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   "Sometimes, my heart becomes heavy and the task appears insoluble if I   
   measure my own human imperfection and inadequacy against the greatness of   
   the obligation and the weight of the responsibility. If a generation must   
   pay the highest price, death, for its short life, we look for the answer in   
   ourselves in vain. We find it only in Him in whose hand we are safe in life   
   and in death. We never know what problems are waiting to test the power and   
   strength of our souls.... Man's ways lie in obscurity. But even darkness is   
   not without light. Hope and faith, which always hasten ahead of us, already   
   have a presentiment of the breaking of a new dawn. If we know that the best   
   thing in us, the soul, is immortal, then we also know that we shall meet   
   each other again".   
   -Blessed Nikolaus Gross   
      
   Bible Quote:   
    Unless you see signs and wonders, you do not believe. St. John 4:4   
      
      
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   Litany of the Sacred Face   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   Sacred Face of Jesus, object of the eternal complacency of the   
   Father,   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, bathed in tears in Your holy infancy,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, beautiful above all the children of men   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, adored by all the Angels and Saints in   
   Heaven,   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, delight of pure souls,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, mirror of the divine perfection,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, exposed for our sakes to the heat of the   
   sun and inclemency of seasons while on earth,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, sorrowful and weeping at the grave of   
   Lazarus,   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, saddened at the sight of Jerusalem, and   
   shedding tears over that guilty city,  I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, pressed to the earth in the garden of   
   Olives, and bearing the confusion due to our sins,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, covered with sweat and blood,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, suffering the traitor's kiss,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, whose majesty cast to the ground an   
   armed multitude,  I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, struck, blindfolded, and profaned by   
   impious bands,  I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, bruised and spit upon in Your Passion,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, whose look of tender reproach wounded   
   the heart of Peter with sorrow and love,  I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, humbled for us in the tribunals of   
   Jerusalem,  I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, falling in the mire under the weight of the   
   Cross,  I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, wiped by the veil of Veronica on the way   
   to Calvary,  I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, raised up on the shameful gibbet for our   
   redemption,  I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, wounded for our iniquities and bruised for   
   our sins,  I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, covered with the shade of death,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, beautiful in Your disfigurement and noble   
   in Your shame,  I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, covered with a shroud and laid in the   
   tomb,  I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, hidden in the Holy Eucharist,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, still outraged by the wicked,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, scorned and blasphemed by the impious,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, too often forgotten by those who call   
   themselves Your friends,  I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, in whose presence so many shameful   
   sins are omitted,  I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, which will be seen at the end of time in   
   great majesty and dazzling beauty,  I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, whose beauty will ravish the blessed for   
   endless ages,  I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, the sunshine of our exile here below,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, the countenance of God and the seal of   
      
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