religious-texts

"In the city of Xilinxian, in the province of Guangxi in China, remembrance of St. Agnes Cao Kuiying, martyr, who, already married to a violent man, after his death devoted herself to teaching Christian doctrine on behalf of the bishop, and for this reason, after being thrown into prison and enduring terrible torments, always trusting in God, she then went to the eternal banquet. (1 March)"

"Memorial of SS. Sixtus II, pope, and companions. Martyrs. While Pope Sixtus was celebrating Mass and explaining divine law to his brothers, some soldiers arrived and immediately arrested and beheaded him, in accordance with the edict of Emperor Valerian, on the sixth day of August. Four deacons were also martyred with him and were buried with the pontiff in Rome, in the Cemetery of St. Callixtus on the Appian Way. On that day, Saints Agapitus and Felicissimus, his deacons, were also martyred in the Cemetery of Pretestato, where they were also buried. (7 August)"

"In Alexandria, Egypt, remembrance of St. Apollonia, who, after numerous and horrible tortures inflicted by her persecutors because she refused to utter sacrilegious words, preferred to be burned at the stake rather than renounce her Christian faith. (9 February)"

"In Fiobbio di Albino, near Bergamo, Italy, commemoration of Blessed Pierina Morosini, virgin and martyr, who at the age of twenty-six, while returning home from the factory where she worked, was killed by blows to the head with stones for defending her chastity, which she had consecrated to God, from a young attacker. (6 April)"

"In Oberkaufungen in Hesse, Germany, Saint Cunigonde: she brought many benefits to the Church together with her husband Saint Henry the Emperor, and after his death, she herself migrated to the Lord in the convent where she had retired as a nun, making Christ her inheritance. Her body was laid to rest with full honours next to the remains of Saint Henry in Bamberg. (3 March)"

"In Prague, Bohemia, we remember St. John of Nepomuk, priest and martyr, who, in order to defend the Church from King Wenceslaus IV, after enduring numerous insults and suffering all kinds of torture, was finally thrown into the Vltava River, thus completing his martyrdom for Christ. (20 March)"

"In the Dachau prison camp near Munich, Germany, we remember Marian Konopiński, priest and martyr, a Polish national who, patiently enduring the cruel torture inflicted by his tormentors, gave his life for Christ the Lord. (1 January)"

"In Rome, deposition of Saint Telesphorus, pope, who, according to the testimony of Saint Irenaeus, seventh bishop consecrated by the Apostles, received glorious martyrdom. (2 January)"

"Feast of St. Lawrence, deacon and martyr, who, desiring to be a companion of Pope Sixtus even in martyrdom, as St. Leo the Great recalls, having been ordered to hand over the treasures of the Church, he showed the foolish tyrant the poor whom he had fed and clothed with the alms he had collected; three days after Sixtus' martyrdom, he was burned on the gridiron for his faith in Christ, and in honour of his triumph, the instruments of his torture also migrated to heaven. His body was buried in Rome at Verano, in the cemetery that would take his name. (10 August)"

"Martirologio romano, translation into Italian by Istituto San Clemente I Papa e Martire (Stefano Calvi), vatican.va."

"In Antioch in Pisidia (Asia Minor), commemoration of St. Marina (or Margaret), who is said to have consecrated her body to Christ in virginity and martyrdom. (20 July)"

"In Seville, Spain, commemoration of the Saints Justa and Rufina, virgins, who, arrested by the governor Diogenian, had to endure various tortures before consummating their martyrdom by bearing witness to Christ: Giusta perished during her imprisonment, subjected to torture, while Rufina died by beheading. (17 July)"

"Memorial of St. Agnes, virgin and martyr, who, while still a girl in Rome, offered the supreme witness of faith and consecrated the virtue of chastity with martyrdom; in fact, she overcame both her young age and the tyranny of the tyrant and thus gained great admiration among the people, obtaining even greater glory with God. On this day, we celebrate the deposition of her mortal remains. (21 January)"

"In Mauthausen, Austria, we remember B. Marcello Callo, martyr, who, a young native of Rennes, comforted his fellow prisoners, exhausted by the gruelling labour of the work camps, with his great passion for Christ, and for this reason met his death in the extermination camp of Mauthausen. (19 March)"

"In Orgosolo, Sardinia, commemoration of Blessed Antonia Mesina, virgin and martyr, devoted to prayer and works of charity, who at the age of sixteen defended her chastity until death. (17 May)"

"In Rome, in the cemetery of Callisto on the Via Appia, memory of St. Cecilia, virgin and martyr, who, as tradition has it, achieved this double palm for the love of Christ, and to whose name the ancient church of Trastevere is dedicated. (22 November)"

"In Otranto in Puglia, remembrance of the approximately eight hundred BB. martyrs, who received the crown of martyrdom by being beheaded by the Ottoman Turks who had conquered the city: they ordered them to abandon the Christian faith, but the ‘Idruntini’, exhorted by Blessed Antonio Primaldo, an elderly weaver, to persevere in the faith of Christ, achieved the glorious palm. (14 August)"

"In Rome, memory of St. Domitilla, martyr, who, daughter of the sister of the consul Flavius Clemens, was accused of impiety during the persecution of Domitian because she had witnessed to Christ, and was therefore deported with other companions to the island of Ponza, where she had to endure a long martyrdom. (7 May)"

"In Lyon, France, we remember the holy martyrs Pothinus, bishop, and Blandina of Lyon, together with forty-six companions, whose numerous and arduous trials, endured during the time of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, are attested to in the letter addressed by the Church of Lyon to the churches of Asia and Phrygia. Of these, Bishop Potinus, aged ninety, perished shortly after being imprisoned; some died like him in prison, while others were led into the arena in front of thousands of spectators: those who were found to be Roman citizens were beheaded, while the others were fed to the wild beasts; Finally, Blandina, her throat cut after suffering endless and increasingly cruel tortures, was finally able to join in glory those companions whom she had previously exhorted to attain the palm of martyrdom. (2 June)"

"Memorial of the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, arrested with other young catechumens in Carthage under Emperor Septimius Severus; one of whom – Perpetua – was a woman of about twenty, wife of an influential man and mother of an infant; the other – Felicity – was a slave who, even in the terrible pains of premature labour (and according to the law could not be tortured while still pregnant), rejoiced at being thrown to the beasts. Both went from their prison cell to the amphitheatre with joy and serenity on their faces, as if they were already in paradise. (7 March)"

"In Gondar, Ethiopia, commemoration of the Blessed Agatangelo de Vindocino (Francis) Nourry and Cassiano da Nantes (Gundisalvo) Vaz Lopez-Netto, priests of the Capuchin Friars Minor and martyrs, who, in Syria, Egypt and Ethiopia, attempted to reconcile separated Christians with the Catholic Church; were stoned to death after being hanged with their own Franciscan cords. (7 August)"

"For centuries, the names contained in the Roman Martyrology have been the main, if not the only, source of Italian names."

"Memorial of St. Lucy, virgin and martyr, who, while she lived, kept the lamp lit for her coming Bridegroom, and once she was put to death for Christ, she deserved to be married to Him, thus possessing the Light that never goes out. (13 December)"

"Memorial of St. Agatha, virgin and martyr, who, while still young, in Catania, Sicily, during the raging persecution, preserved the purity of her body and the integrity of her faith in martyrdom, offering her testimony for Christ the Lord. (5 February)"

"Protect yourselves from ignorance with the help of the knowledge of the unity of our Lord..."

"Let no one of you fear anything but her sin, and let her place her hope on none but God."

"Protect divine knowledge from those who do not deserve it and do not withhold it from those who are deserving. He who withholds divine knowledge from those who are worthy of it, will indeed desecrate what he has been entrusted with and will commit sacrilege against his religion; and the conviction of him who divulges it to those who are not deserving will be diverted from following the truth. Scripture must therefore be protected from those who do not deserve it."

"Tell the truth and fear nothing but your sin, and worship none other than your God."

"Know that truthfulness is equivalent to belief (iman) and to the confession of the Unitarian doctrine (tawhid) in ail its perfection. Lying is polytheism, unbelief, and error."

"I enjoin you to safeguard your fellow men. In safeguarding them your faith reaches perfection."

"O you who are distracted, how can he who is devoid of his corporeal means obtain knowledge? O you who are heedless, how can he who abandoned his sensual faculty reach ignorance? And O you who are perplexed, how can the souls exist by themselves? And how can they settle in their origin, and yet have a life and procure their pleasures?"

"Believing in the non-existence negates existence as such. It is a way that leads to unbelief, atheism, and denial."

"...the originator of the perfect Aql. He virtually bound within it all the created beings, so that nothing might be outside of it."

"Happy is he who pursues wisdom to the exclusion of everything else, whose mind and heart the light of wisdom has filled to overflowing, who devotes himself with all his being to meditation in the company of God’s elect. Happy is he who has made wisdom his heart’s abode, to whom its pursuit is the most precious acquisition, who treasures it in himself as in a stronghold inaccessible to those who are not its disciples."

"If human minds would be given the knowledge of God without any familiarization and gradation, those human minds would swoon and fall down."

"They told me further, that some years after this book of Naneek Shah had been promulgated, another made its appearance, now held in almost as much esteem as the former. The name of the author has escaped my memory; but they favoured me with an extract from the book itself in praise of the Deity. The passage had struck my ear on my first entering the hall, when the students were all engaged in reading. From the familiarity of the language to the Hindoovee, and many Shanscrit words, I was able to understand a good deal of it, and I hope, at some future period, to have the honour of laying a translation of it before the Society."

"Their houses were plundered, wealth destroyed, their heads shaven, urinated upon, publicly paraded, jeered upon, beaten with shoes and finally sent to death."

"汝ら明かに知れ、繭は蚕に非ず、"

"光と光源とは一体なるが如く"

"人間の本体は生命なるが故に"

"神が一切のものを造りたまうや"

"​或る日天使生長の家に来たりて歌い給うー"

"感覚はこれ信念の影を視るに過ぎず。"

"我れは此の仮面を剥いで"

"惑障ことごとく消滅し、"

"物質は畢竟『無』にしてそれ自身の性質あることなし。"

"汝ら、よく人間の実相を悟るべし、"

"生命の實相を知る者は"

"​智慧はこれ本来神のひかり、"

"吾が心がみずから描きし夢によって"