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Saints and their Memorial Days
Saints are known not only in the Christian context, but in many other religions too.
In Japan, we usually translate it as Shoonin (shonin)上人、superior human being.
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Link with Information about Christian Saints
Who's the patron of your state (political or spiritual)? Condition (physical or spiritual)? Vocation (monetary or spiritual)? Hobby? Maybe you can find out here.
This site has information on topics with patron saints, and profiles of those saints. Profiles have portraits, biographical information, areas of patronage, prayers, links to related sites, readings, etc. It's heavily cross-indexed, and there are several ways to access the information, none of which require frames, image maps, applets, or scripts.
http://www.catholicforum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm
Here is a link about Saints and Angles
Angels
Saints Index
http://www.catholic.org/saints/
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Saints with a separate entry in the Database
All Saints’ Day .. All Souls’ Day, Hallowe’en
Bonifacio Day Philippines
Brigid's Day (Ireland) St. Brigid
John the Apostle, Sei Johanne no hi 聖ヨハネの日
Patrick's Day (Ireland) St. Patrick's Day
Santa Claus St. Nikolaus, Santa san
St Stephen’s Day (26 December)
Xavier, Day of Saint Xavier / Sei Sabieru no hi 聖ザビエルの日
Valentine’s Day St. Valentine
SERBIA SAIJIKI
. Serbian saints, Holy Serbs
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sei Mikaeru sai 聖ミカエル祭 (せいみかえるさい)
Feast of Saint Michael
sei Mikaeru no shujujitsu 仲秋 聖ミカエルの祝日
（せいみかえるのしゅくじつ）
September 29
. Michaelmas - England .
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Saint Theresa's Day (Ávila) (Saint Teresa)
October 15 , Spain
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Saint Cyprian
(died September 14, 258)
(Latin: Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus)
was bishop of Carthage and an important Early Christian writer, many of whose Latin works are extant. He was born around the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa, perhaps at Carthage, where he received a classical education.
After converting to Christianity, he became a bishop in 249 and eventually died a martyr at Carthage.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
Sankt Cyprian –
above the wide ford
the red moon
- Shared by Ramona Linke -
Joys of Japan, 2012
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Saint's Days of the World
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Nichiren Shonin, a famous saint of Japan
EVEN THE CLOUDS OF SADNESS
THAT SPREAD OVER ME
WOULD BE BLOWN CLEAR AWAY
BY THE WINDS OF MT. EAGLE
FILLED WITH THE SOUNDS OF THE LOTUS SUTRA
-- by Nichiren Shonin
http://www.nichiren-shu.org/shonin.html
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. Kuuya Shoonin, Kuya Shonin, 空也上人 .
(903-72)
. Myoe Shonin 明恵上人 (1173-1232) .
. Shinran 親鸞 Saint Shinran Shonin
(May 21, 1173 - January 16, 1263)
Shinran ki 親鸞忌 （しんらんき） Memorial Day for Saint Shinran
hooonkoo 報恩講（ほうおんこう） Ho-onko, Hoonko, Hoon-Ko service for Shinran
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Bodhidaruma, the founder of the Zen sect
Daruma Memorial Day .. Daruma-ki, Japan
MORE
WKD : Memorial Days of Buddhist Saints of Japan
***** . Christian Celebrations and KIGO
including memorial days of saints
Feast of Saint Joseph
Feast of Saint John
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
Feast of Saint Xavier
Feast of Saint John
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The Feast of the Virgin, August 15
The dawn sunlight
bursts through massed forbidding clouds ..
Feast of the Virgin.
Hugh Bygott
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
And she being with child cried, travailling in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Revelation 12: 1,2
The sun seemed excessively bright this morning, the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The unseasonal turbulance of this late summer contrasted with the brilliance of the sun. It was as if a massed leaden sky devoid of the colours of dawn had been pierced by intense light.
Having spent a life in Physics I contrasted the nuclear reactions in the Sun throwing out immense energy and the gravitational forces in the Sun restraining it.
In the end, gravity must triumph,
the Sun must die as a star being subject to the laws of the Universe.
Coming to be and passing away continues remorselessly.
We too are subject to decay. Those who believe in the Resurrection look forward to the end of the time-bound universe when they too can share in the life of perfection. We expect our own death and revere the relics of the saints. From the earliest Christian tradition there were no relics of Mary.
In the Western Christian tradition she was assumed into heaven after her death. In the Eastern Christian tradition her grave was empty. In both traditions, she alone has mortal transfiguration; she has reached the eternal perfection we who believe in the resurrection of the body hope is our own finality.
No human being in history has so fired the artistic imagination as Mary; no human being in history is seen so clearly as the mediator and intercessor in relating to the power of God.
As a Philosopher I am drawn always to the mystery of the Trinity and the idea of Redemption. Mary cannot be separated from this Redemption.
It is not surprising then that many who believe in the creative power of a loving God are so drawn to Mary. There is nothing that we can ever do in our dedication and devotion to Mary that remotely approaches God who has placed her so highly.
Lets us rejoice today, the Feast of her Assumption.
Hugh Bygott Cambridge England
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