Monday, July 9, 14th Week in Ordinary Time
ST. AUGUSTINE ZHAO RONG & COMPANIONS (d China 1815), Martyrs
Augustine was a Chinese soldier who was part of the escort bringing the French-
born bishop Gabriel Dufresse of Chengdu to Beijing where he was condemned
and executed in the early 19th-century persecutions under Emperor Kia-Kin.
Impressed by the martyred bishop's faith, Augustine became a Catholic
himself, entered a seminary, was subsequently arrested, tortured and put
to death in 1815. He was among 122 Chinese martyrs of the faith put to death
between 1638-1930 who were beatified at different times but canonized together
on October 1, 2000.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/bible/readings/070912.cfm
WITH THE POPE TODAY
No bulletins from the Vatican so far, but today, the Holy Father was to make a private visit to the motherhouse
of the Society for the Divine Word (SVD) in Nemi, near Castel Gandolfo, where in 1965, as a theological consultant
to Vatican-II, he was part of a work group of Council Fathers (bishops) that spent a few days at the SVD center
to work on the text for what eventually became the Vatican-II declaration on the Church's missionary work in
the modern world,
Ad Gentes.
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