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items Happy All Saints Day! Once again, we are unfortunately running late completing our Saints-of-the-Month list. (Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.) Completing our new Advent collections took longer than anticipated. So, please bear with us as we a...
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Saints_Aplenty's November Saint COLLECTIONS
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Saints_Aplenty's November Saint COLLECTIONS
We begin this list with 2 items specifically featuring All Saints. We then move on to 2 lists featuring multiple saints: the Apostles and Evangelists, and Virgin Martyrs. As per usual, we follow up with several individual saints.. Finally, because Ad...
This splendid antique image from a 1911 book (entitled Red Letter Saints: Being a Series of Biographies of those Saints for which Proper Collects, Epistles and Gospels are appointed in the Book of Common Prayer, p. 72) is used to commemorate the Feas...
All Saints COLLECTION (RLS 19)
A charming, more inclusive representation.... (There are female and child saints represented here—albeit few and far between. The ratio nevertheless reflects the reality of the canonization lists.) + A Christmas ornament was the first item created wi...
"All the Saints Adore Thee" All Saints Day Coll.
This small but important COLLECTION features the Apostles and Evangelists not as individuals but as groups.
Apostles and Evangelists (RLS)
The lovely painting at the core of this COLLECTION features an enthroned Madonna and Child amid the most prominent Virgin Martyrs of the Early Church and Mary Magdalene. In Christian tradition, Virgin Martyr saints are women who maintained their virg...
Virgo inter Virgines COLLECTION (M 070)
St. Winifred is a 7th-century Welsh virgin martyr who literally lost her head to a disgruntled suitor. The interesting thing about her story is how her head was restored to her and how she lived for another fifteen years after she was beheaded! You c... St. Winifred is just one of a handful of female cephalophores, saints in art who carry their severed heads. We’ll have more to say when we treat iconography in a Saintdom list. + Feast: November 3
St. Winifred of Wales COLLECTION (P 002)
If bullied youngsters need a heavenly advocate, they need look no further than St. Stanislaus Kostka. St. Stanislaus (1550-1568) was a young Polish nobleman who was bullied at his Jesuit boarding school in Vienna by his own brother Paul who found his... Feast: November 13 + Splendid collection!
St. Stanislaus Kostka COLLECTION (SNV 25)
High-quality COLLECTION of items featuring St. Albert the Great (c. 1200-120)… St, Albert, also known as Albertus Magnus and the Doctor universalis or expertus, was a German Dominican friar and one of the greatest thinkers of his age. Today, he is re... + Feast:. November 15
St. Albert the Great COLLECTION (BK 013)
First of four COLLECTIONS devoted to the very popular virgin martyr St. Cecilia of Rome… Despite her private vow of virginity, St. Cecilia was forced into an arranged marriage--never consummated--with a pagan named Valerian. It is said that on her we... + Feast: November 22. + Simply beautiful!
St. Cecilia with Hymn Board (Nuremberg)
In this splendid COLLECTION, St. Cecilia (3rd century), patron saint of musicians, is seated at a pipe organ; an angel, serving as calcant, works its bellows. A scroll in Latin between the two figures reads: “+Cantate Domino et benedicite nomini ejus... Feast: November 22
St. Cecilia of Rome COLLECTION (SNV 36)
The third of our four Cecilian COLLECTIONS is built around a gorgeous NeoGothic Swiss devotional print. (At Saints_Aplenty, we love the NeoGothic style!), Here, St. Cecilia is depicted playing an upright pipe organ. Her long auburn hair hangs loose and tumbles over her shoulders and down her back. She wears a medieval-style, cream-colored gown lined in green over a dark red-orange kirtle. The entire sc...
NeoGothic St. Cecilia of Rome COLLECTION (BNG 02)
In our fourth and final St. Cecilia COLLECTION, the saint, dressed in richly colored jewel-tone robes, holds a palm of martyrdom and carries a hand-held or portative organ in a roundel. + Feast: November 22
St. Cecilia of Rome COLLECTION (BK 003)
A most unusual representation of St. Catherine of Alexandria (c. 287-c. 305), virgin martyr known for her eloquence and erudition, in Egyptian dress. She is the patron saint of girls and unmarried women, students and teachers, nurses, librarians, and...
St. Catherine of Alexandria in Egyptian Dress
Celebrate! November 30th is St. Andrew"s Day in most places! St. Andrew’s Day is an especially popular occasion among Scots, Barbadians, Cypriots, Greeks, Romanians, Russians, and Ukrainians among other ethnic groups and their descendents. (In the Uk...
St. Andrew's Day
According to tradition, the Advent prayer which begins “Hail and blessed be the hour…” is to be recited 15 times daily—though not necessarily all at once--from November 30 until Christmas Day. Because recitation begins on the feast of St. Andrew the ...
The St Andrew Christmas Novena Prayer COLLECTION
A naturalistic antique image of St. Andrew the Apostle…Here, St. Andrew supports the beams of a transverse, saltire, or x-shaped cross, the instrument of his martyrdom and most frequently represented attribute. + The image is one of twelve in the publisher’s Apostle Series (No. 12155). + Where present, the lush floral ornamentation derives from miniatures, that is, the small illustrations used to decorate ancient or medieval illuminated manuscripts, in the Vatican Library. + Feast: November 30
St. Andrew the Apostle COLLECTION (JMAS 02)
A more stylized image of St. Andrew standing in front of the X-shaped cross that was the instrument of his martyrdom. + Feast: November 30
St. Andrew the Apostle COLLECTION (RLS 01)
A subset of our Apron Saints: St. Andrew and St. Peter, Apostles, COLLECTION…. A fisherman by trade, St. Andrew (1st century) was the very first of The Twelve to be called by Jesus to the Apostolate. For this reason, he is known as the Protoclete. He... + Feast: November,30 + Genially humorous!
Gone Fishing! St. Andrew the Apostle as Fisherman
A subset of our Golfers and Golfing Saints COLLECTION featuring only St. Andrew… See the St. Andrew the Apostle section at https://benable.com/Saints_Aplenty/time-to-tee-up-golfers-golfing-saints to learn how St. Andrew became associated with golf.+ Feast: November 30
Just St. Andrew as Golfer
This year Advent starts right *ON* St. Andrew's Day. Visit our website for a slideshow of all three of our new Advent Collections in one convenient location. Or, visit the still collections here at:. https://benable.com/Saints_Aplenty/emmanuel, https://benable.com/Saints_Aplenty/28c156940a7e8e316dd1, and https://benable.com/Saints_Aplenty/gaudete.
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Movies & Historical Novels
As noted before, I grew up in the Biblical Epic and Sword and Sandal era of filmmaking. Historical films and novels still interest me after Lo! these many years. While they're no substitute for non-fiction for accuracy, such films and novels can imme... The online text is a modernized version of its very first English translation published by William Caxton in 1483. For those of you who still like to hold actual books in your hands, you’ll find links there.. + TO BE CONTINUED…
If you haven’t already seen this film, you simply must put it on your watchlist—not for now in Advent, perhaps, but surely for Lent. (I’ll explain my reasoning below.) + St. John in Exile is a filmed one-man one-setting two-act stage play starring De... + Also on YouTube at youtube.com/watch?v=oQwYP21Y1u0. + Currently streaming on Tubi TV
St. John in Exile
A sincere if unexciting film made primarily for churches and religious organizations... IMHO the St. John lacks charisma, and the Roman commander of the penal colony is an over-the-top, caricatural villain. Filmed in the 1980s on a budget, the specia... + Also available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhTeEZAt874 . + Currently streaming on Tubi TV. + P.S. Note the phrase “Maranatha” is used as the watchword of recognition among the. Christian prisoners on the island.
Patmos
After St. John in Exile, this made-for-TV 2002 movie starring Richard Harris in one of his final roles is the best of the rest of the three films cited here in relation to Revelation 4:10-11. Harris—himself a frail, dying old man—plays St. John with ... + Also available on You Tube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heu4BAihCCk&t=177s + Curremtly streaming on Tubi TV
The Apocalypse
A 35-minute or so short followed by about an hour of commentary provided by James Allen Moseley, The Bible History Guy, LLC. This film is part one of a two-part film, In The Sea of Grace, created by Actors' Theater of South Carolina and Bridgestone M... + On the ROKU Channel at https://therokuchannel.roku.com/watch/8c7b948695bed48d5d7671d18800b42c
John at Patmos, an Allegory (Short 2024) | Short, Drama
Lastly, we call to your attention REVELATION: The Final Vision of John. Billed as a “Full 4K Cinematic Bible Movie,” you won’t find this film listed in the IMDb. Except for the narration, perhaps, the entire production was, I believe, generated using...
REVELATION: The Final Vision of John | Full 4K Cinematic Bible Movie
Outside of Great Britain, St. Winifred of Wales (7th century) is a little-known early medieval saint. Learning about St. Winifred’s miraculous life can only enhance your understanding of the following works cited. Read the 13th-century account from V... + Useful!
Internet History Sourcebooks: Medieval Sourcebook
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 –1889) was an English poet, a convert to Roman Catholicism, and a Jesuit priest. He became familiar with St. Winifred’s story when he was a theology student St. Beuno's Jesuit Spirituality Centre, known locally as St. Beun...
St. Winefred's Well by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Ellis Peters, a pseudonym used by Edith Pargeter (1913-1995), was 64 in 1977 when she penned what she originally thought would be a standalone whodunit entitled A Morbid Taste for Bones. For this novel, she created a 12th-century character named Brot...here.) Throughout, Cadfael maintains an endearing relationship with St. Winifred, praying to her, talking to her, and nicknaming her “The Girl” or “My Girl.” + The transfer (or translation in religious parlance) of St. Winifred’s relics from her burial p... + Thoroughly enjoyable!
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Brother Cadfael)
Thirteen novels of The Cadfael Chronicles were adapted for a British TV series starring Derek Jacobi in the title role. The series ran from 1994 to 1998. The complete DVD set is available on Amazon. The episodes are currently available free for viewing on YouTube at youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlZm75oytJBzdATii5-cb4AvIzPaMV8Ms and on BritBox with a paid subscription at britbox.com/us/show/Cadfael_p04lpqh6. The ordering of the episodes differs from that of the books. The first novel, A Morbid Taste for Bones, for instance, does not appear until Season 2, Episode 3. Nevertheless, the episodes otherwise remain quite true to the books—allowing for the di... + If you like the books, you’ll like the TV series!
Cadfael: The Complete Collection
St. Winifred's Well (termed "þe Holy Hede") is mentioned in the 14th-century medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight at line 700 (see rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/sir-gawain-and-green-knight). The saint herself, however, never puts in an appearance. Her character, portrayed by Erin Kellyman, is unique to the 2021 film adaptation. In the movie, St. Winifred is depicted as a spirit who asks Gawain to retrieve her severed head. When he doe...youtube.com/watch?v=Rm-J6vjkHrs.
The Green Knight - DVD
St. Therese the Little Flower composed and produced eight short plays that were performed only in-house at the Lisieux Carmel. Her final play treated the acceptance of Stanislaus Kostka, a young Polish nobleman, as a novice into the Jesuit order. The...
The Plays of Saint Therese of Lisieux