From: trudie.Miller@cox.net   
      
   August 27th - Hugh or Little Hugh of Lincoln (AC)   
      
   Died (Friday) August 27, 1255. This Hugh of Lincoln is another of the several   
   boys who were said at various times and places to have been martyred by the   
   Jews, often during the Paschal season. "Little" Hugh's legend is enshrined in   
   Chaucer's Prioress's Tale. Hugh was said to have been lured into the home of a   
   Jew name Koppin (of Joppin), who scourged the little boy, crowned him with   
   thorns, crucified him, and then threw his body into a well. The story continues   
   that when Koppin and other Jews were arrested, Koppin confessed the crime,   
   denounced his co-religionist, and explained that it was the Jewish custom to   
   crucify a Christian child annually.   
      
   Some versions of the tale become outrageously gruesome. One reports that the   
   child's nose and upper lip were cut off, some of his upper teeth broken, and   
   after the crucifixion his side was pierced with a sword out of hatred for   
   Christ.   
      
   According to the evidence presented, it seems more likely that the   
   eight-year-old fell into a cesspit while chasing a ball and was discovered a   
   month later by Jews gathered for the wedding of the daughter of a chief rabbi.   
   Fearing that they would be unjustly charged, they tried to hide the body. It   
   was   
   found with the stomach ruptured (the gases of corruption may have caused the   
   stomach to burst) and 93 Jews were arrested.   
      
   King Henry III conducted the trial concerning Hugh's death, which led to the   
   execution of 19 Jews by hanging at Lincoln. (Another version says that they   
   were   
   dragged to death by horses.) The others were bailed out of prison by   
   Franciscans   
   who interceded for them and paid heavy fines. Miracles were reported when   
   Hugh's   
   body was recovered from the well. It should be noted that there is no evidence   
   of any ritual killing of the type described (Benedictines, Delaney, Husenbeth,   
   Shepperd)   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   A man who fails to love the Mass fails to love Christ. We must make an effort   
   to   
   "live" the Mass with calm and serenity, with devotion and affection. And this   
   is   
   why I have always suspected that those who want the Mass to be over with   
   quickly   
   show, with this insensitive attitude, that they have not yet realized what the   
   sacrifice of the altar means.   
   --St. Josemaría Escriva de Balaguer   
      
   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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   Canticle Ephesians 1   
      
   God the Saviour   
      
   Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,   
   who has blessed us, in Christ, with every spiritual blessing in heaven.   
      
   In love, he chose us before the creation of the world,   
   to be holy and spotless in his sight.   
      
   He predestined us to be his adopted children through Jesus Christ,   
   simply because it pleased him to do so.   
      
   This he did for the praise of the glory of his grace,   
   of his free gift of us to his Beloved,   
      
   in whose blood we have gained redemption,   
   and the forgiveness of our sins.   
      
   This he did according to the riches of his grace,   
   which he gave us in abundance,   
      
   with all wisdom and discernment,   
   revealing to us the mysteries of his will,   
   because it pleased him to do so.   
      
   In this action he has planned, in the fulfilment of time,   
   to bring all things together in Christ,   
   from the heavens and from the earth.   
      
   Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,   
    as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,   
    world without end.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)