From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   How We should not be Over Anxious  [I]   
      
   "My Son, always commit thy cause to Me; I will dispose it aright in   
   due time.  Wait for My arrangement of it, and then thou shalt find it   
   for thy profit."   
      
   THE DISCIPLE:   
    O Lord, right freely I commit all things to Thee; for my planning can   
   profit but little.  Oh that I did not dwell so much on future events,   
   but could offer myself altogether to Thy pleasures without delay.   
   --Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ  Book 3 Ch 39   
      
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   November 14th – St Nicholas Tavelic & Companions, OFM   
   d. 1391   
      
   The personal stories of these Franciscan missionaries, are intertwined   
   in 1383, when, coming from different places in Europe, they flowed   
   into the Franciscan convent of Mount Zion in Palestine, where the   
   Order of St. Francis has been for centuries the Custodian of the Holy   
   Places of Christianity.   
      
   The Friars Minor, Nicholas Tavelic, Deodato of Aribert Ruticinio,   
   Stephen of Cuneo and Peter of Narbonne found themselves in that   
   Franciscan monastery, where they lived for eight years, according to   
   the Rule of St. Francis, performing their duties, for the care of   
   Places sanctity of life and death of Jesus, and trying to do   
   apostolate in the Muslim world, where Mount Zion was almost like an   
   island amid a sea of Muslims.   
      
   With Muslims, the apostolate was almost fruitless, since the deepening   
   of their faith, they were not open to inter-religious dialogue.   
   Nevertheless, the four Friars Minor, decided to bring the Gospel to   
   the Mohammedans (a name Muslims dislike, since it smacks of   
   over-reverence for a human, Mohammed, much like Christianity   
   intentionally imputes reverence for Christ), publicly exposing the   
   arguments of Christianity and Islam and comparing them with those   
   after consultation with two theologians, prepared a memorandum in   
   which, in a detailed way, and rich with historical references and   
   theological logic, they meticulously exposed the Christian doctrine by   
   refuting Islam.   
      
   On November 11, 1391, they went before the Cadi (judge) of Jerusalem   
   in the presence of many Muslims, they were exposed reading this, they   
   presented their arguments with great courage. While those present   
   listened carefully, it was not accepted, and in the end they went into   
   a rage and then the monks were asked to recall what they said; the   
   four monks refused and so were sentenced to death in three days were   
   put behind bars where they suffered abuse.   
      
   On November 14, they were brought back to the streets, again asked to   
   recant what was said against Islam, after rejecting this final   
   opportunity to save their lives by denying Christ,  they were beheaded   
   and cremated so that their remains could not be venerated as martyrs   
   by Christians.   
      
   Their martyrdom was described in detail in a report by the Guardian of   
   the Holy Land, Father Gerald Calvet, OFM, two months after their   
   death.   
      
   Their cult was recognized by the Franciscan Order, dating from the   
   15th century; Pope Leo XIII, in 1889, confirmed only the cult of   
   Nicholas Tavelic, the leader, who had great reverence in his native   
   Yugoslavia.   
      
   In 1966, Pope Paul VI confirmed the cult for the other three   
   Franciscan Martyrs, starting their feast at November 17, but in the   
   Franciscan Martyrology they were remembered on the date of their death   
   (dies natalis, which, literally, translates from the Latin as   
   “birthday”.  Saints are honored on the day of their death, their   
   “birthday” into eternal life.), November 14.   
      
   Pope Paul VI, on June 21, 1970, in Rome, elevated them to the honors   
   of the altar, proclaimed them saints, and their liturgical celebration   
   was extended to November 14 for all, and inserted into the Roman   
   Martyrology on the same date; they are the first martyrs and saints   
   charged with the Custody of the Holy Land.   
      
   Nicola Tavelic:   
   First saint of the Croatian nation, Nicola Tavelic, was born about   
   1340 in Šibenik, Dalmatia; as a teenager he walked among the Friars   
   Minor of St. Francis, became a priest, was a missionary in Bosnia,   
   along with his fellow priest, Deodato Ruticinio, where for nearly 12   
   years he preached against the Bogomil, a heretical sect that had its   
   stronghold in Bosnia (they contrasted the spirit world than that of   
   matter, considered an expression of force of evil, they denied the   
   Trinity, the human nature of Christ, the Old Testament, did not   
   recognize the rites and sacraments of baptism and marriage,   
   nor the church hierarchy).   
      
   Then in 1383, along with the French father, Aribert Ruticinio,   
   Deodato, was sent to the Mission of Palestine Mont Sion in Jerusalem,   
   where he met the other two future fellow martyrs, Father Stephen of   
   Cuneo and Father Peter of Narbonne, France.   
      
   Deodato Ruticinio (aka Diode Aribert):   
   Was from the Franciscan Province of Aquitaine. We do not know his date   
   of birth, which was probably around 1340. His country of birth, which   
   in Latin is called Ruticinio was identified by some with the modern   
   French city of Rodez, while some other shows the Roussillon, the   
   historical region of southern France, but at that time depended on   
   Catalonia. In 1372 he was sent as a missionary in Bosnia, where he met   
   Father Nicola Tavelic, to whom he was bound by sincere friendship, all   
   preaching against the Bogomil; in 1383 with his brother he was   
   assigned to the Franciscan convent of Mount Zion in Jerusalem, where   
   he also met the Fathers Stefano Cuneo and Peter of Narbonne.   
      
   Peter of Narbonne:   
   All that is known of this Franciscan Martyr from the Franciscan   
   Province of Provence in southern France, where at one point, he went   
   down into Italy, attracted by the Franciscan Observance Reform,   
   launched in Umbria in 1368, by Blessed Paul or Paoluccio Trinci of   
   Foligno (1309-1391). He was at the hermitage Umbrian Brogliano,   
   located between Foligno and Camerino, 15 years, living in prayer and   
   meditation on the spirituality of St. Francis. In 1381 he left as a   
   missionary to the Holy Land, received into the convent of Mount Zion   
   in Jerusalem where he met Nicola Tavelic in 1383, Deodato from   
   Ruticinio, his compatriot and Stephen of Cuneo, with whom he will   
   later be martyred so horribly, on November 14, 1391.   
      
   Stephen of Cuneo:   
   Very little is known about the Franciscan Saint Martyred in Jerusalem,   
   Stephen of Cuneo, made from precious ‘report’ made by the Father   
   Superior of the convent of Mount Sion, on the martyrdom of the four   
   priests belonging to the convent of the Custody of the Holy Land.   
      
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