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   September 23rd - Saint Linus, Pope and martyr   
      
   (d. 67)   
      
   Saint Linus was converted in Rome in the days when Saint Peter was preaching   
   the Gospel there. This nobleman, originally from the city of Volterra in   
   Tuscany, left his father and renounced his heritage, to practice with   
   greater perfection the doctrine of Our Lord Jesus Christ. He soon gave   
   admirable proofs of his zeal, learning and prudence, and the first Vicar of   
   Christ employed him in preaching and the administration of the Sacraments.   
      
   He crossed into Gaul, and became the bishop of the city of Besançon. The   
   number of the faithful increased daily by the conversion of many idolaters.   
   The Saint one day attempted to turn some of those away from the celebration   
   of a festival in honor of their gods, telling them that these idols were but   
   statues without breath or sentiment, and represented only human beings whose   
   vices were public knowledge. He exhorted them to turn to the unique God,   
   Creator of the heavens and the earth, to whom alone man owes the homage of   
   sacrifice. A prodigy followed his words; a column of their temple crumbled   
   and caused the fall of an idol, which broke into a thousand pieces. The   
   worshipers, unmoved by this, drove the Saint out of the city of Besançon, as   
   the city's tradition still attests.   
      
   He returned to Rome and was there when the prince of the Apostles was   
   martyred. He wrote an account of the double martyrdom of Saints Peter and   
   Paul, and was himself judged worthy to replace the first Vicar of Christ.   
   The record of his reign records the creation of fifteen bishops and eighteen   
   priests. The Roman breviary says that the faith and sanctity of this blessed   
   Pope were so great that he drove the demons from many possessed persons. He   
   had governed the Church for scarcely a year before he, too, shed his blood   
   for his Saviour. His body was buried in the Vatican near that of Saint   
   Peter. It was only in the 17th century that his tomb reappeared, marked   
   Linus, when Pope Urban VIII had the work on the Confession of Saint Peter   
   completed in the Basilica bearing his name.   
      
   Source: Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin   
   (Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 11.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   O Lord of my soul, who can find words to tell what Thou givest to those who   
   trust in Thee, and how much, on the other hand those lose, who though they   
   may have attained to ecstasies and rapture, yet confide in themselves!   
   -St. Teresa   
      
   Bible Quote   
   8 He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the   
   cross. 9 For which cause God also hath exalted him, and hath given him a   
   name which is above all names: 10 That in the name of Jesus every knee   
   should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth:   
   (Philippians 2:8-10)   
      
      
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   Special Prayer to Our Blessed Mary-Queen of Angels   
      
   August Queen of heaven, sovereign Mistress of the Angels,   
   who did receive from the beginning the mission and power to   
   crush the serpent's head. We beseech thee to send thy holy   
   angels, that under thy command and by thy power they may   
   pursue the evil spirits, encounter them on every side, resist   
   their bold attacks, and drive them hence into the abyss of   
   woe.   
      
   · Most Holy Mother, send thy angels to defend us and   
   drive the cruel enemy form us. Amen.   
   · O good and tender Mother! Thou shall ever be our Love   
   and our Hope.   
   · Holy Angels and Archangels, keep and defend us.   
   Amen.   
   · Jesus, Mary, Joseph, - I love you - save souls!   
      
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