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Recollect Augustinian Saints

The document discusses the role of saints as exemplars of faith, emphasizing their importance in guiding believers towards God amidst the challenges of modern society, such as fake news and relativism. It highlights the lives and contributions of several saints, including St. Nicholas of Tolentine, St. Magdalene of Nagasaki, St. Ezekiel Moreno, St. Rita of Cascia, and St. Thomas of Villanova, detailing their virtues, miracles, and canonization. The narrative underscores the saints' commitment to charity, prayer, and the care of others, positioning them as models for the faithful in their spiritual journey.

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Recollect Augustinian Saints

The document discusses the role of saints as exemplars of faith, emphasizing their importance in guiding believers towards God amidst the challenges of modern society, such as fake news and relativism. It highlights the lives and contributions of several saints, including St. Nicholas of Tolentine, St. Magdalene of Nagasaki, St. Ezekiel Moreno, St. Rita of Cascia, and St. Thomas of Villanova, detailing their virtues, miracles, and canonization. The narrative underscores the saints' commitment to charity, prayer, and the care of others, positioning them as models for the faithful in their spiritual journey.

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PRELIMINARIES: Saints as exemplars of FAITH

In our study of theology, according to St.


Augustine: we are travelers -journeying in
search for the meaning of our lives.
We are in a search for truth and that is God.
However, in our search we are bombarded
with mass media full of fake news that lead us
to indifference which means –we lack interest
and concern to others hence relativism
becomes our world, where absolute truth no
longer exist but anyone can be true.
In Trolling you are paid to spread the fake news
believing lie to be true thus, as Homo Viator –a
traveler must try hard in going to the City of
God and be our main concern that as peoples
of faith that initium Fidei or that beginnings of
faith will lead us to the discovery of God, a God
that is not dead.

WHO ARE THE


“SAINT ” Greek: hagios, “consecrated to God,
holy, sacred, pious.
In Roman Catholic theology, the saints are in
heaven. In the Bible, the saints are on earth.
In Roman Catholic teaching, a person does not
become a saint unless he/she is “beatified” or
“canonized” by the Pope or prominent bishop.
In the Bible, everyone who has received Jesus
Christ by faith is a saint. In Roman Catholic practice,
the saints are revered and prayed to and in some
WHO ARE THE
instances –worship.
LIFE OF ST.
NICHOLAS OF
TOLENTINE
September 10
Nicholas of Tolentine (1245-1305) was a
simple priest and Augustinian Friar who
touched the lives of many
His spirit of
prayer,
penance,
austerity of life
and devotion to
the Holy Souls
were notable.
His preaching
brought many
to Christ.
Nicholas Gurutti
was born in 1245
in Sant'Angelo,
Pontano,
Macerata, Italy.
His family was
rather poor.
He joined the
Augustinian Order
while a young man,
after hearing the
inspired preaching of
Reginaldo da
Monterubbiano, Prior
(local superior) of the
Augustinian monastery
in Sant'Angelo.
As a priest and religious, he
was full of charity towards his
brother Augustinians as well as
towards the people to whom he
ministered.
He visited the sick and
cared for the needy. He was a
noted preacher of the Gospel.
He gave special attention to
those who had fallen away from
the Church. People considered
him a miracle worker.
He often fast and
performed other works of
penance. He spent long
hours in prayer.
The story is told that, one day,
having fasted for a long time,
Nicholas was physically weak.
While at prayer, Jesus told him
to eat some bread marked with a
cross and soaked in water in order
to regain his strength.
Thus arose the Augustinian
custom of blessing and
distributing Saint Nicholas Bread
in his memory-Panicillos.
Nicholas, while asleep in bed, heard
the voice of a deceased Friar he had
known.
This Friar told Nicholas that he
was in Purgatory, and urged him to
celebrate the Eucharist for him and
other souls there and be set free by
the power of Christ for seven days.
The Friar again spoke to Nicholas,
thanking him and assuring him that
a large number of souls were now
with God.
Because of this Nicholas
was proclaimed patron
of the souls in
Purgatory.
He is also considered the
patron saint against
epidemic diseases and
against fires.
During most of his adult life,
Nicholas lived in Tolentine, Italy. There
he died September 10, 1305.
Canonized in 1446 by Pope
Eugene IV, Nicholas is the first
Augustinian Friar to be canonized
after the Grand Union of the
Order of St. Augustine in 1256.
The remains of St. Nicholas are
preserved at the Shrine of Saint
Nicholas in the city of Tolentine.
Your IDOL
your STAR,
your BIRD,
your BREAD

OUR PATRON
SAINT.
ST. NICHOLAS
OF TOLENTINE!!!
• SAINT MAGDALENE OF
NAGASAKI ( October 20
• 1610/1612--- was born near Nagasaki,
Japan
• 1614-1624--- parents and siblings
perished as martyrs
• 1625---met Blessed Francisco de
Jesus. Became an Augustinian
Recollect Tertiary and worked with as
a catechist
• 1632---she continued her work as a
catechist under the auspices of the
Father Jordan de San Esteban,OP
• 1634---she presented herself to the
governor of Nagasaki to witness her
faith and encourage other believers to
be steadfast in their Christian belief.
• She was tortured and finally
condemned to the terrible
punishment of “ the gallows and the
pit”.
• 1634 of October ---died wearing the
habit of the Augustinian Recollect
tertiary. Her remains were burned and
her ashes hurled to the sea.
• February 18,1981---was
beatified by Pope John Paul II in
Manila
• October 18,1987--- was
canonized by Pope John Paul II
at Saint Peter’s Square in Rome.
• October 24--- the Augustinian
family remembers her and
venerates her as the patroness of
the Secular Augustinian
Recollect Fraternity.
ST. • April 9,1848--born in Alfaro,
EZEKIEL La Rioja,Spain
MORENO •
Sept.22,1865--monastic vows as
Augustinian Recollect in
Monteagudo, Navarra

• February 10,1870-----from
Marcilla, arrived in Manila and
went to finish his last year of
theological studies
• June 1870-----received his minor
orders at the Cathedral of Jaro in
Iloilo.
• June 2,1871----was ordained as
priest at the Manila Cathedral
June 6,1871---was given his
first pastoral assignment
in Calapan,Mindoro
• February 23,1872---was sent as
missionary and military chaplain
to Puerto Princesa in Palawan
• January 1873--malaria and
returned to Manila. -travelled to
Talisay in Negros Island undergo
hydrotherapeutic treatment under
his confrere Father Fernando
Cuenca
May 10,1873---was sent back to
Calapan as parish priest and later
vicar provincial of the whole
Mindoro Island
• June 1876----was named as parish
priest of Las Pinas
• October 1880--preacher of Saint
Nicholas convent in Intramuros,
Manila and made as parish priest
of Santa Cruz, Manila.
• 1882-- administrator of the
recollect Estate of Imus and prior
of its religious community
• 1885-- elected as prior of
Monteagudo, Navarra
• 1888---left for Columbia in order
to restore the Province of
Candelaria
• May 1,1894--- consecrated bishop
in Bogota as Apostolic Vicar of
Casanare

• June 10,1896-bishop-the Diocese


of Pasto, symptoms of cancer were
observed in his throat and palate.

• 1906--- operated twice in Madrid


• August 19,1906---was passed
away in Monteagudo Victim of
cancer of the nasopharynx
• November 1,1975---
beatified in Rome by Pope
Paul VI
• October 11,1992--- was
canonized by Blessed John
Paul II at Santo Domingo in
the Dominican Republic
during the fifth Centennial
of the Evangelization of
Latin America
•
ST. RITA • Margherita Lotti, an Italian
OF widow, Augustinian nun
CASCIA venerated as a saint in the
Roman Catholic Church.
• Born: 1381, Roccaporena, Italy
• After Rita's husband death
• Children: Giangiacomo Antonio
Mancini, Paulo Maria Mancini
• Parents: Amata Ferri, Antonio Lotti
• At her canonization
ceremony, Patroness for
impossible causes,
• Rita came to be known to be
the Patroness of heartbroken
women, specifically for
sterility, abuse victims,
loneliness, marriage
difficulties, parenthood,
widows
• and bodily ills.
ST. THOMAS • Born -Tomás García y
OF Martínez,1488Villanueva de los
VILLANOVA Infantes, Ciudad Real, Spain
• Died Sept.8, 1555,Valencia,
Spain- age of 67
• Beatified-October 7, 1618 by Pope
Paul V
• Canonized-November 1, 1658 by
Pope Alexander VII
• Feast-September 22
• Bishop distributing alms
• He became a professor,
teaching arts, logic, and
philosophy
• 1516, joined the Augustinian
friars in Salamanca and in
1518 was ordained a priest.
• eloquent and effective
preaching in the churches of
Salamanca
• Reformer, Archbishop of
Valencia
• Thomas was known as “father
of the poor.
• Posses intelligent notion of charity
• Provide structural solutions to the
problem of poverty
• "Charity is not just giving, rather
removing the need of those who
receive charity and liberating them
from it.

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