From: trudie.Miller@cox.net   
      
   September 11th - Pedro de Corpa and Companions, Martyrs   
      
   The missionaries who established Catholic churches on the barrier islands of   
   coastal Georgia were dedicated to God and to country. Often intermediaries   
   between Spanish officials and tribal leaders, they learned the language of the   
   Guale and, in turn, taught them the tenets of Christianity. One tenet,   
   monogamous marriage, angered Juanillo, the son of a chief. When Father Pedro de   
   Corpa of Tolomato Mission, near Georgia's present- day Darien, denounced   
   Juanillo's practice of polygamy, trouble loomed. Also fueling Juanillo's anger   
   was intervention in tribal politics by Father de Corpa and another missioner,   
   Father Blas de Rodriguez of Tupique (near Eulonia). At the priests' urging, a   
   less quarrel- some man, Don Francisco, became mico or chief of the Guale   
   following the death of Juanillo's father. Martyrs for Faith   
      
   With a band of Guale warriors supporting him, the disinherited Juanillo   
   surprised Father de Corpa at prayer at Tolomato Mission, murdered him, and   
   impaled his head on a pike. The mission at Tupique became the warriors' next   
   target. There, Father Rodriguez suffered martyrdom after being allowed to   
   complete the saying of a final Mass. Propelled by rage and resentment, the   
   Guale   
   began an attack on other coastal missions. On Saint Catherine's Island, Father   
   Miguel de Anon and Brother Antonio de Badajoz were subsequent victims of the   
   Indians' wrath. Traveling further by canoe, the Guale ambushed Father Francisco   
   de Verascola-a giant of a man whom they feared because of his size-on his   
   return   
   from a trip to Saint Augustine to obtain provisions. Father Francisco de Avila   
   of Jekyll Island faced slavery instead of martyrdom when the Indians kidnapped   
   him. Spanish troops liberating him some months later found him in wretched   
   condition resulting from mistreatment which stopped just short of martyrdom.   
   Only the missionaries at San Pedro, thanks to a barking dog and the arrival of   
   a   
   Spanish ship, did not experience the bloody and nightmarish fates of their   
   fellow Franciscans. Interest in the five Georgia martyrs stirred in the 1970s   
   when memory of them rose wraith-like following an archaeological dig which   
   unearthed remains of Santa Catalina Mission on Saint Catherine's Island.   
   Directed by Dr. David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History,   
   the excavation yielded medals, rosaries, crosses and other artifacts. The   
   archaeologists discovered a large cemetery beneath the floor of the former   
   mission chapel.   
      
   Cause for Canonization In January 1973, Bishop Raymond W. Lessard of Savannah   
   appointed a commission, chaired by Father Francisco Morales of the Academy of   
   American Franciscan History in Washington, DC, to study the lives and martyrdom   
   of the missionaries. Georgia historians named to the commission included Dr.   
   Edward Cashin, head of the history department of Augusta State University, and   
   Dr. F. Lamar Pearson, Professor of History at Valdosta State University. On   
   February 22, 1984, Bishop Lessard officially opened the Cause for the   
   Franciscan   
   martyrs' canonization. The striking memorial, sculpted by Marjorie Lawrence and   
   installed at Saint William Catholic Church in 1991, is a forceful reminder of   
   the five Georgia martyrs.   
      
      
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   Padre Pio Quotations   
      
   These have been taken from his writing and his oral teachings. They are   
   instructions, admonitions, and advice. We, his spiritual children, will find a   
   flavor and harmony of things newly rediscovered.   
      
   They are echoes and heartbeats of faithfulness and love. They are shadows of   
   the   
   hopes and joys and sorrows Padre Pio laid down at the foot of the cross on his   
   own personal Golgotha.   
      
   "Do not disturb your soul at the sad spectacle of human injustice .... One day   
   you will see the inevitable triumph of Divine justice over it."   
      
   "The pivot of perfection is love; he who lives in love lives in God, because   
   God   
   is love, as the Apostle says."   
      
   "To fail in charity is like wounding God in the apple of His eye. What is more   
   delicate than the pupil of the eye? To fail in charity is like failing against   
   nature."   
      
   "Try always to advance more in charity; enlarge your heart with confidence for   
   the divine gifts which the Holy Spirit is anxious to pour into it."   
      
   "God can reject everything in a creature conceived in sin and of which it bears   
   the indelible impression inherited from Adam. But He can absolutely not reject   
   the sincere desire to love Him."   
      
   "Charity is the queen of virtues. As the pearls are held together by the   
   thread,   
   thus the virtues are held together by charity; as the pearls fall when the   
   thread breaks, thus virtues are lost if charity diminishes."   
      
   "Humility and charity go hand in hand. The one glorifies, the other   
   sanctifies."   
      
   "The time spent for the glory of God and the salvation of souls is never spent   
   badly."   
      
   "Where there is no obedience, there is no virtue; where there is no virtue,   
   there is no good. Where good is wanting, there is no love; where there is no   
   love, God is absent; where God is absent, there is no heaven."   
      
   "Obey promptly! Do not consider the age or merit of the person. And in order to   
   succeed, imagine you are obeying the Lord."   
      
      
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   Little Office of the Holy Angels   
      
   AT NONE   
      
   Antiphon:   
   God hath given His Angels charge of thee, that they keep thee in all thy ways.   
   Amen.   
      
   O God, incline unto my aid.   
   O Lord, make haste to help me.   
      
   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. Amen.   
   Alleluia.   
      
   HYMN   
      
   Angel of peace! come, Michael, to our aid,   
   Thou who didst once chase discord from the sky;   
   Come, calm those boisterous passions that have made   
   Such havoc here as they have made on high;   
   Drive strife and rancor to their kindred gloom,   
   To Hell, their fitting, their eternal tomb.   
      
   Antiphon:   
   O holy Angels, our Guardians, defend us in the combat, that we perish not in   
   the   
   dreadful judgment.   
   V. In sight of Thy Angels I will sing to Thee, my God.   
   R. I will adore at Thy holy temple, and confess to Thy name.   
      
   PRAYER   
      
   O God, Who, with unspeakable providence, hast vouchsafed to appoint Thy holy   
   Angels to be our Guardians   
   grant to Thy humble suppliants to be always defended by their protection, and   
   to   
   enjoy their everlasting society through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Our Lord, Who   
   liveth and reigneth, world without end. Amen.   
      
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