From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   ...Let us visit Christ whenever we may:   
      
   "...Let us visit Christ whenever we may; let us care for him, feed   
   him, clothe him, welcome him, honor him, not only at a meal, as some   
   have done, or by anointing him, as Mary did, or only ye lending him a   
   tomb, like Joseph of Arimathaea, or by arranging for his burial, like   
   Nicodemus, who loved Christ half-heartedly, or by giving him gold,   
   frankincense and myrrh, like the Magi before all these others. The   
   Lord of all asks for mercy, not sacrifice, and mercy is greater than   
   myriads of fattened lambs. Let us then   
   show him mercy in the persons of the poor and those who today are   
   lying on the ground, so that when we come to leave this world they may   
   receive us into everlasting dwelling places, in Christ our Lord   
   himself, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen."   
   --St. Gregory of Nazianzen.   
      
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   3 December – Blessed Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim   
      
    (1777-1860)   
   Bishop of Trent from 1834 until his death, Professor, Apostle of   
   Charity, Reformer, Founder of numerous schools, seminaries and   
   churches, negotiator in peace settlements, Writer. He was born to   
   Austrians but was considered to be an Austro-Italian as he was born in   
   the Italian town of Bolzano. He was born on 15 April 1777 as Johann   
   Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim in Bolzano, diocese of Trent,   
   Italy and died on 3 December 1860 at Trent, Italy of natural causes.   
      
   Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim was born as the fifth of   
   seven males to Joseph Joachim von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim and Caterina   
   de Giovanelli. His parents emigrated from the Grisons close to the   
   Italian border in 1529 as the Emperor Ferdinand III had given the   
   Tschiderer family a patent making them nobles in 1620.  He was   
   baptised moments after his birth at the Assumption church.   
      
   He received his education from the Order of Friars Minor in 1786 after   
   completing his initial education and resided with his maternal   
   grandfather. He relocated to Innsbruck with his parents in Austria in   
   1792 and underwent theological and philosophical studies at the   
   Seminary there. He was elevated to the Diaconate on 24 June 1800 and   
   later received his Ordination to the Priesthood on 27 July 1800.   
   Tschiderer celebrated his first Mass at San Antonio di Padua church at   
   Collalbo.   
      
   From 1800 to 1802 he spent time as an assistant priest and then   
   travelled to Rome for further studies and a pilgrimage where he was   
   named as an Apostolic Nuncio. He met the new Pope Pius VII several   
   times during the course of 1802. He later returned and assumed   
   pastoral work once more in the German part of Trent and was made a   
   Professor of moral and pastoral theological studies there. In 1810 he   
   became the parish priest at Sarentino – where he opened a small school   
   – and then as the new parish priest at Merano.   
      
   On 26 October 1826 the Bishop Luschin appointed him as the Cathedral   
   Canon and then on 26 December 1827 pro-vicar at Trent. On 24 February   
   1832 the Bishop Galura from Brixen selected him as Titular Bishop of   
   Heliopolis – which received papal confirmation – and then as the   
   Vicar-General for Vorarlberg while also being named as an Auxiliary   
   Bishop of Brixen at the same time. He received his Episcopal   
   Consecration on 20 May 1832 in a Servite church.  In 1834 the Emperor   
   Francis I nominated him as the new Bishop of Trent, which the Holy   
   Father confirmed.   
      
   He spent his Episcopate writing and preaching as well as teaching   
   catechism. He devoted a considerable part of his revenues to the   
   building and restoration of over 60 churches and to the purchase of   
   books for the parsonages and chaplains’ houses. He used the third   
   centennial of the opening of the Council of Trent to promote religious   
   revival through popular pastoral initiatives.   
      
   His charitable outreach to the poor and the sick was carried so far   
   that he was often left without much himself. He left his residence to   
   the institution for the deaf and dumb at Trent and to the educational   
   institute for seminarians that he had founded and was later named   
   after him as the “Joanneum”. Tschiderer tended to the victims of   
   cholera epidemics in 1836 and in 1855 as well as to those affected in   
   a war in 1859.   
      
   He intervened to prevent the 20 March 1848 uprising becoming a   
   bloodbath and was hailed as a hero. He tried to appeal to the Austrian   
   forces to spare the lives of 21 members of the Franco-Italian forces   
   who were captured but was denied, so provided religious assistance and   
   a solemn burial for them after their executions. Tschiderer ordained   
   as a priest Saint Daniel Comboni in 1854. He promoted the   
   Redemptorists and Jesuits in the region.   
      
   Tschiderer planned a pilgrimage to Rome in 1854 to commemorate the   
   dogma of the Immaculate Conception but his ill health prevented him   
   from doing so. He died during the evening of 3 December 1860 after   
   suffering high fevers and being bedridden while also suffering from a   
   heart ailment since 1859. He received the Anointing of the Sick prior   
   to his death and received a papal blessing from Pope Pius IX.   
      
   St Pope John Paul II Beatified him in Trent on 30 April 1995 before   
   100, 000 people. The cause started in 1886 under Pope Leo XIII and St   
   Pope Paul VI titled him as Venerable in 1968. The Beatification   
   miracles include the healing of blindness of a 4-year-old in 1867 and   
   the 1871 cure of a young priest who was on his death-bed with   
   tuberculosis.   
      
   from Anastpaul 2019   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   If the Church is true, all in her is true; he who admits not the one,   
   believes not the other.   
   --Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders   
   and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and   
   worshipped God, Saying, Amen! Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and   
   thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for   
   ever and ever. Amen  (Revelation 7:11,12 )   
      
      
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   And here are some of the favors God blessed St Francis Xavier with…   
      
      1. Restored sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf.   
      2. Also restoration to the cripples.   
      3. When he preached, people of several different languages could   
   understand him, the true sense of speaking in tongues, by the way.   
      4. He even raised people from the dead, and in one case, the person   
   had to be dug up from his grave.   
      5. Accurate prophesies of events in distant places and times.   
      6. When he himself died, his body remained incorrupt with no decay.   
      
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