Catholic-Nutcase

Saint Mark Ji Tianxiang

1834-1900

Feast Day: July 9

Patronage: Drug addicts

Saint Mark Ji Tianxiang, “the Trier" was a Chinese lay Catholic, doctor and drug addict. He became addicted to opium because of a stomach ailment and suffered for 30 years with the addiction. He went to confession regularly to confess his drug use, but because of the priest’s misunderstanding of addiction he would not give Ji absolution because he believed there was no firm purpose of amendment. Although being denied the Sacraments Ji continued going to Mass and stayed steadfast in his faith for 30 years praying to die a martyr. During the Boxer Rebellion (anti-foreign, Christian persecution) he and his family were martyred. He encouraged all in prison to keep the faith throughout their ordeal and sang the litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary as he was about to be beheaded.

Stores:

Belk

GameStop

Disney store

I'm cheating here, but movie theater

Still cheating, arcade with the movie theater

Some random makeup store

Some random clothing store

Pet supply store

Outdoor gear store

Barnes & Noble

Food court:

Chick-fil-A

Taco Bell

Wendy's

Dunkin' Donuts

Baskin Robbins

Kiosks:

Definitely the phone kiosk, a classic

Scented candles

Ecclesiastes (7:10)

Is there any affliction now endured by mankind that was not endured by our fathers before us? What sufferings of ours even bear comparison with what we know of their sufferings? And yet you hear people complaining about this present day and age because things were so much better in former times. I wonder what would happen if they were taken back to the days of their ancestors — would we not still hear them complaining? You may think past ages were good, but it is only because you are not living in them.

Saint Emily de Vialar

1797-1856

Feast Day: June 17

Patronage: single women

Saint Emily de Vialar was born in France, to the physician of Louis XVIII. She cared for the children and sick of the town, trying to repair the harm done by the French Revolution, while also caring for her widowed father. In 1835, St. Emily and 26 women took religious vows, calling themselves the sisters of St. Joseph “of the Apparition.” (referring to The angel Gabriels’ telling St. Joseph to flee to Egypt) By the time St. Emily died, 42 foundations were established all over the world. Four years after her death her body was found incorrupt.

Our Lady of Akita

First apparition:July 6

In 1973, Sister Agnes Katsuko, a nun of the Institute of the Handmaids of the Holy Eucharist in Akita, Japan, noticed that their statue of the Blessed Mother was weeping. The wooden statue in the convent at Akita was carved by a Buddhist woodcarver from an identical image of The Lady of All Nations. The statue wept human tears 101 times and bled type AB blood, along with other supernatural changes to the statue. Mary gave Sister Agnes messages of prayer, chastisement, and repentance. The phenomenon was witnessed by Bishop Ito and Father Teiji Yasuda. Bishop Ito gave his authorization for the veneration of the Holy Mother Mary in 1984.

Saint Olivia of Palermo

9th C.

Feast Day: June 10

Patronage: Music, Trivigliano, Italy

Saint Olivia (or Olive, for the olive branch, a symbol of peace, fruitfulness, dignity, and beauty) was a beautiful young girl kidnapped by the Muslims, brought to Tunisia, yet allowed to live in a cave as a hermit. When she was found to have cured and converted many Muslims, they tortured and imprisoned her. After converting her executioner she was burned and beheaded. It’s said her soul was seen flying to heaven as the form of a dove. St. Olivia is held in esteem by Christians and Muslims today.

"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till." - Pope Leo quoting TLOTR in “Magnifica Humanitas”