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Plenary Indulgence

A Plenary Indulgence may be acquired by members, with the conditions of confession, communion and prayers for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff, provided that they make or renew, at least privately, the promise of faithfully observing the statutes at the following times:

On:

  • 18 August: the feast of St. Helen,
  • 21 August: the feast of St. Pius X,
  • 14 September, the feast of The Triumph of the Holy Cross, , and
  • Sunday following 25th. October: The Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Palestine.

Other Order Feast Days:

  • 2 February. Blessed Andrea Cardinal Ferrari, Archbishop of Milan (1894 – 1921),
  • 7 February Blessed Pius 1X,
  • 10 February Blessed Aloysius Viktor Stepinac,
  • 4 April, Blessed Giuseppe  Dusmet,
  • 30 August Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster, Archbishop of Milan, 
  • 6 October. Blessed Bartolo Longo, Grand Officer.

Servant of God: Enrique Ernesto Shaw

Enrique Ernesto Shaw26 February, 1921 – 27 August, 1962

 

In December 1958 Enrique  was nominated as a Knight considering him “a person truly worthy and deserving of the high honour to which he aspires, reason for which I am grateful to encourage the favourable reception of this request”. His disploma of admission was issued by the Grand Master, H.E. Eugene Cardinal Tisserant on 17 July, 1962.

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Prayer

Oh, my God, Enrique is our example of Christian life through his daily work in family, work, business and society. Help me to follow in his footsteps with a deep life of union with you and the Christian apostolate. Dignify glorify him and grant me by his intercession the favor I ask you ... For Jesus Christ Our Lord. Love.
(Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory).

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Cannonised Members

Saint Pope Pius X

Grand Master, feast day 21 August.

The future Pope Pius X was born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto at Riese, near Venice, on 2 June 1835. He was the second of 10 children in a poor family, his father being the village postman. On 18 September 1858, Giuseppe Sarto was ordained priest and became curate at Tombolo. While there, the young priest deepened his knowledge of theology while carrying out most of the functions of his parish pastor, who was quite ill. In 1867, he was named Archpriest of Salzano. He became popular with his people when he worked to help the sick during a cholera plague that swept northern Italy in the early 1870s.  1884 he was made Bishop of Mantua.

In  1893 Pope Leo XIII made him a cardinal and he was named as  Patriarch of Venice. This caused difficulty, however, as the government of the reunified Italy claimed the right to nominate the Patriarch based on a privilege formerly exercised by the Emperor of Austria. Sarto was finally allowed to assume the position of Patriarch in 1894.

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Beatified Members

Blessed Aloysius Viktor Stepinac

Stepinac He was a Croatian Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 to 1960. In 1998 he was declared a martyr and beatified by Pope John Paul II.

Stepinac was ordained on October 26, 1930 and in 1931 he became a parish curate in Zagreb. He established the archdiocesan branch of Caritas in 1931, and was appointed coadjutor to the see of Zagreb in 1934. When Archbishop Anton Bauer died, Stepinac succeeded him as the Archbishop of Zagreb. During World War II, on 6 April 1941, Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany, who established the Ustaše-led Independent State of Croatia. Stepinac also objected against the persecution of Jews and Nazi laws, helped Jews and others to escape and criticized Ustaše atrocities in front of Zagreb Cathedral in 1943.

After the war he publicly condemned the new Yugoslav government and its actions during World War II, especially for murders of priests by Communist militants. Yugoslav authorities indicted the archbishop on multiple counts of war crimes and collaboration with the enemy during wartime. The trial was depicted in the West as a typical communist "show trial", biased against the archbishop; however, some claim the trial was "carried out with proper legal procedure". In a verdict that polarized public opinion both in Yugoslavia and beyond, the Yugoslav authorities found him guilty of collaboration with the fascist Ustaše movement and complicity in allowing the forced conversions of Orthodox Serbs to Catholicism.  

After foreign and domestic pressure, Stepinac was released from Lepoglava prison. In 1952 he was appointed cardinal by Pope Pius XII. Stepinac died while still under confinement in his parish, almost certainly as the result of poisoning by his Communist captors. In October 3, 1998, Pope John Paul II declared him a martyr and beatified him

Blessed Giuseppe Benedetto Dusmet

DUSMET
 Cardinal, archbishop of Catania; b. Aug. 15, 1818, Palermo, Sicily, Italy; d. April 4, 1894, Catania, Sicily.

Giuseppe, the son of the Marquis Luigi Dusmet and his noble wife Maria Dragonetti, was taught by the Benedictines of San Martino delle Scale at Badia from age five, then stayed to pronounce his vows (Aug. 10, 1840). He was ordained priest in 1842. After his election as prior in 1858, he reformed San Nicoló Abbey in Catania. He left the abbey in protest of government interference before it was closed like those of all religious orders.

Although he was consecrated archbishop of Catania (March 10, 1861) and received the cardinal's red hat (1888), he remained a humble Benedictine monk at heart. Thereafter he was even more devoted to the poor, the suffering, and his order. During a cholera epidemic, he provided for those in need, and he ministered to victims of earthquake and epidemic in the streets. He played a large role in reforming the Roman Benedictine College of Sant'Anselmo and the Confederation of Benedictine Congregations. The cardinal's remains rest in Catania's cathedral. He was declared venerable by Pope Paul VI (July 15, 1965) and beatified by John Paul II, Sept. 25, 1988. Dusmet is the patron of evangelical charity.

Blessed Andrea Cardinal Ferrari

Archbishop of Milan (1894 – 1921), feast day 2 February (Pope John Paul II described him as having a strong faith and a man of enlightened zeal), inspired by the ideal of Christ as the Good Shepherd. He went on to say that the basis of his sanctity rested on his interior life, founded on deep theological conviction, filled with a devout and filial devotion to the Virgin Mary, and concentrated on the image of Christ in the Eucharist and on the Cross. He was filled with a constant goodwill towards all men, a profound concern for the welfare of the poor and a heroic patience while suffering great pain. He died an excruciating death of throat cancer which suffocated him. In his suffering, amongst his last words were those written in his diary: “Let God`s will always be done in everything". He took as his middle name "Carlo" or Charles after St Charles Borromeo, (one of his predecessors in Milan) who inspired him greatly.

Blessed Pius IX

feast day 7 February. Through his whole life he was very devout to the Blessed Virgin. On 8 December 1854, in the presence of more than 200 bishops, he proclaimed the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin as a dogma of the Church. He also fostered the devotion to the Sacred Heart, and on 23 Sept., 1856, extended this feast to the whole world with the rite of a double major. At his instance the Catholic world was consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on 16 June, 1875. He also promoted the inner life of the Church by many important liturgical regulations, by various monastic reforms, and especially by an unprecedented number of beatifications and canonizations.

Blessed Bartolo Longo

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Grand Officer, feast day 6 October. Bartolo was born in Latiano (Brindisi) on February the 10th, 1841.  His parents were well-to-do, which would enable him to receive a fine education.  As they were devout Catholics, most especially his mother, he and his siblings grew up with a deep love for Mary.

During his studies, he joined a sect and was ordained as a priest of Satan.  He publicly ridiculed Christianity and did all in his power to subvert Catholic influence.  A good friend, Vincent Pede, eventually showed Bartolo the gentleness of Christ and arranged for him to meet a saintly Dominican priest, Alberto Radente. The Dominican had a deep, personal devotion to Mary and fostered the devotion of the rosary.

When Bartolo Longo was baptized, he chose the second name, Maria, to be his baptismal name.  He saw Mary as a 'Refuge of Sinners' and attributed his miraculous conversion to her.  One evening, as he walked near the ruined rat- and lizard-infested chapel at Pompeii, he had a profound mystical experience.  He wrote:

As I pondered over my condition, I experienced a deep sense of despair and almost committed suicide. Then I heard an echo in my ear of the voice of Friar Alberto repeating the words of the Blessed Virgin Mary: "If you seek salvation, promulgate the Rosary. This is Mary's own promise." These words illumined my soul. I went on my knees. "If it is true ... I will not leave this valley until I have propagated your Rosary."

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Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster

 

 

Grand Officer. Archbishop of Milan feast day 30 August. Born in Rome of Bavarian parents on 18 January 1880 and was baptized Alfredo Ludovico Luigi. , he entered the Benedictine monastery of St Paul-Outside-the-Walls when he was 11, taking the name of Ildefonso, and was ordained a priest in 1904. He served his own community in various offices until he was elected abbot in 1918. He taught at several pontifical institutes, served as consultor to the Sacred Congregation of Rites, and held other high offices. Pope Pius XI appointed him Archbishop of Milan in 1929, consecrated him and created him a Cardinal.

 

Bl. Afredo gave priority to catechesis and promoted the role of the laity in the parish and in Catholic Action. He denounced Fascism and its racist ideology. He championed the cause of the poor during World War II, founded the Institute of Ambrosian Chant and Sacred Music and the Ambrosianeum and Didascaleion cultural centres. Above all, he proposed holiness as a goal for all, and the only means to human A few days before he died, he withdrew to Venegono Seminary.  His last, moving words were to the seminarians:

“You want something to remember me by.  All I can leave you is an invitation to holiness...”.  He was beatified on 12 May 1996.

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