YOU ARE BIDDING ON THE MID c1800s VERY RARE 800 & UNUSUAL ANTIQUE CAPPED ROSARY AND THE "BLESSED" RELIC MEDAL OS THE BELOVED"SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES" THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN SAINTED BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. THE PATRON SAINT OF POOR PEOPLE, PUBLIC EDUCATION, PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC SCHOOL, RACE RELATIONS, SOCIAL JUSTICE, STATE SCHOOLS, TELEVISION & MEXICO. THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY MY AUCTIONS TODAY AND BLESS YOU, BECCA
UNUSUAL ANTIQUE 1800s MARKED "800" SILVER DOUBLE RING CAPPED OVAL WOOD BEADED & RELIC RELIQUARY CLOTH MEDAL OF
Portrait of St. Martin de Porres, c.
17th century, Monastery of Rosa of Santa Maria in Lima. This portrait
was painted during his lifetime or very soon after his death, hence it
is probably the most true to his appearance.
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He was noted for work on behalf of the poor, establishing an orphanage and a children's hospital. He maintained an austere lifestyle, which included fasting and abstaining from meat. Among the many miracles attributed to him were those of levitation, bilocation, miraculous knowledge, instantaneous cures, and an ability to communicate with animals.
Juan Martin de Porres Velázquez was born in the city of Lima, in the Viceroyalty of Peru, on December 9, 1579. He was the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman, Don Juan de Porres, and Ana Velázquez, a freed slave from Panama, of African or possibly part Native American descent.[1][2] He had a sister named Juana, born two years later in 1581. After the birth of his sister, the father abandoned the family.[3] Ana Velázquez supported her children by taking in laundry.[4]
He grew up in poverty and, when his mother could not support him,
Martin was confided to a primary school for two years, and then placed
with a barber/surgeon to learn the medical arts.[2] He spent hours of the night in prayer, a practice which increased as he grew older.
By law in Peru, descendants of Africans and Indians were barred from
becoming full members of religious orders. The only route open to Martin
was to ask the Dominicans of Holy Rosary Priory in Lima to accept him
as a donado, a volunteer who performed menial tasks in the
monastery in return for the privilege of wearing the habit and living
with the religious community.[5]
At the age of 15 he asked for admission to the Dominican Convent of the
Rosary in Lima and was received first as a servant boy, and as his
duties grew he was promoted to almoner.
Martin continued to practice his old trades of barbering and healing
and performed many, many miraculous cures. He also took on kitchen work,
laundry, and cleaning.[4] After eight years at Holy Rosary, the prior Juan de Lorenzana, decided to turn a blind eye to the law and permit Martin to take his vows as a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. Holy Rosary was home to 300 men, not all of whom were as open-minded as De Lorenzana; one of the novices called Martin a “mulatto dog,” while one of the priests mocked him for being illegitimate and descended from slaves.[5]
When Martin was 24, he was allowed to profess religious vows
as a Dominican lay brother in 1603. He is said to have several times
refused this elevation in status, which may have come about due to his
father's intervention, and he never became a priest.[1] It is said that when his convent was in debt, he implored them: "I am only a poor mulatto, sell me." Martin was deeply attached to the Blessed Sacrament,
and he was praying in front of it one night when the step of the altar
he was kneeling on caught fire. Throughout all the confusion and chaos
that followed, he remained where he was, unaware of what was happening
around him.[6]
A mid-twentieth century stained glass representation of Martin de Porres in St Pancras Church, Ipswich with a broom, rosary, parrot and monkey
When Martin was 34, after he had been given the religious habit of a lay brother, he was assigned to the infirmary,
where he was placed in charge and would remain in service until his
death at the age of 59. He was known for his care of the sick.[2]
His superiors saw in him the virtues necessary to exercise unfailing
patience in this difficult role. It was not long before miracles were
attributed to him. Martin also cared for the sick outside his convent,
often bringing them healing with only a simple glass of water. He
ministered without distinction to Spanish nobles and to slaves recently
brought from Africa.[1]
One day an aged beggar, covered with ulcers and almost naked, stretched
out his hand, and Martin took him to his own bed. One of his brethren
reproved him. Martin replied: “Compassion, my dear Brother, is
preferable to cleanliness."
When an epidemic struck Lima, there were in this single Convent of
the Rosary 60 friars who were sick, many of them novices in a distant
and locked section of the convent, separated from the professed. Martin
is said to have passed through the locked doors to care for them, a
phenomenon which was reported in the residence more than once. The
professed, too, saw him suddenly beside them without the doors having
been opened. Martin continued to transport the sick to the convent until
the provincial superior,
alarmed by the contagion threatening the friars, forbade him to
continue to do so. His sister, who lived in the country, offered her
house to lodge those whom the residence of the religious could not hold.
One day he found on the street a poor Indian, bleeding to death from a
dagger wound, and took him to his own room until he could transport him
to his sister’s hospice. The prior, when he heard of this, reprimanded
him for disobedience. He was extremely edified, however, by his reply:
"Forgive my error, and please instruct me, for I did not know that the
precept of obedience took precedence over that of charity."[7] The prior gave him liberty thereafter to follow his inspirations in the exercise of mercy.
Martin did not eat meat. He begged for alms to procure necessities the convent could not provide.[7]
In normal times, Martin succeeded with his alms to feed 160 poor
persons every day, and distributed a remarkable sum of money every week
to the indigent.
Side by side with his daily work in the kitchen, laundry and infirmary,
Martin’s life is said to have reflected extraordinary gifts: ecstasies
that lifted him into the air, light filling the room where he prayed,
bilocation, miraculous knowledge, instantaneous cures and a remarkable
rapport with animals.[3] He founded a residence for orphans and abandoned children in the city of Lima.[3]
Death and commemoration
San Martin de Porres Catholic Church in Laredo, Texas
Martin was a friend of both St. Juan Macías, a fellow Dominican lay brother, and St. Rose of Lima,
a lay Dominican. By the time he died, on November 3, 1639, he had won
the affection and respect of many of his fellow Dominicans as well as a
host of people outside the priory.[5]
Word of his miracles had made him known as a saint throughout the
region. As his body was displayed to allow the people of the city to pay
their respects, each person snipped a tiny piece of his habit to keep
as a relic. It is said that three habits were taken from the body. His
body was then interred in the grounds of the monastery.
After De Porres died, the miracles and graces received when he was
invoked multiplied in such profusion that his body was exhumed after 25
years and said to be found intact, and exhaling a fine fragrance.
Letters to Rome pleaded for his beatification; the decree affirming the
heroism of his virtues was issued in 1763 by Pope Clement XIII.
Pope Gregory XVI beatified Martin de Porres on October 29, 1837, and
nearly 125 years later, Pope Saint John XXIII canonized him in Rome on
May 6, 1962. He is the patron saint of people of mixed race, and of innkeepers, barbers, public health workers and more, with a feast day on November 3.
Martin is also commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Church of England on November 3.
Martin de Porres is often depicted as a young mulatto friar wearing the old habit of the Dominican lay brother, a black scapular and capuce, along with a broom,
since he considered all work to be sacred no matter how menial. He is
sometimes shown with a dog, a cat and a mouse eating in peace from the
same dish.
Legacy
Martin's sometimes defiant attachment to the ideal of social justice
achieved deep resonance in a church attempting to carry forward that
ideal in today's modern world.[1]
Today, Martin is commemorated by, among other things, a school building that houses the medical, nursing, and rehabilitation science schools of the Dominican University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines. A programme of work is also named after him at the Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford.[8] He is also the titular saint of the parish of St. Martin de Porres in Poughkeepsie, NY,[9]
St. Martin de Porres Marianist elementary school in Uniondale, NY, and
St. Martin de Porres Catholic elementary school in Scarborough, ON,
Canada. A number of Catholic churches are named after him.
In popular culture
In the 1980 novel A Confederacy of Dunces,
Ignatius Reilly contemplates praying to Martin for aid in bringing
social justice to the black workers at the New Orleans factory where he
works. In music, the first track of jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams's album Black Christ of the Andes is titled "St. Martin De Porres."[10]
There are several Spanish and Mexican works regarding his life in
cinema and television, starring Cuban actor Rene Muñoz, the most of them
referring to his mulatto origin, his miracles and his life of humilty.
The most known movies are Fray Escoba (Friar Broom) (1963)[11] and Un mulato llamado Martin (A mulatto called Martin) (1975).[12]
In the Moone Boy
episode "Godfellas", the character Martin Moon is shown to be named by
his grandfather after San Martin De Porres. Humorously, his grandfather
is unable to actually remember any of San Martin's accomplishments, and
simply refers to him as "One of the black ones" when asked about him.
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Thoughts of Preparing yourself for Lent Season....
Easter
/ Lent is a very important personal Journey each year in my own
personal life. It is almost like my own personal "renewal" and or "
rebirth" of the imprint of my spirit. It does not mean I can swipe the
slate clean and go without repentance of my own sins prior. I once
thought about taking Holy Orders and is why I think I have attacked such
wonderful Religious Possessions to me. I am not saying I think there is
ONE WAY to pray. I also think there are endless definitions of even the
existence of God. How we get to our own inner spirit is as diverse are
there are stars in the sky. So as I place my own personal Rosaries up I
am not trying to promote my own personal agenda. But I have been asked
about how and even why pray the Rosary. As I end my ramblings now I
leave you with this something that I read this once and found it very
much how the path feels for me and written is words I could not find
myself and so I share. After that you will find the HOW TO PRAY THE
ROSARY.
As we pray and ponder the mystery of Jesus passion,
death and resurrection let us ask God to create a new heart in our lives
and societies, so that we may turn away from the ashes of destruction
and begin to embrace more fully the new life given us by Christ.
Jesus is our model because Jesus throughout manifests full, complete
and active adherence to the will of him who sent him. His passion
glorifies the Father because it forcefully reveals the power of his love
that saves the whole of human kind.
Every journey
begins with a single step. To take that step one must have the desire to
make the journey. Every journey is a voyage of discovery. Sometimes the
terrain traveled is familiar, sometimes the terrain is seen for the
first time; whatever the case, the Sacred journey is a journey intended
to enhance our relationship with God and meet the Risen Christ in a new
way.
Biblically, the first person to undertake a
personal journey of faith and discovery is Abraham and his wife Sarah.
"Now the Lord said to Abram (Abraham) 'Go from your country and your
kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.'"
(Genesis 12:1) Two things are implied in this invitation: A journey into
the unknown based on trust and faith and a personal journey of
discovery of this God who offers the invitation and promise of blessing.
In spirituality the desert or wilderness is symbolic of the struggle to
obey, heed, and listen to the voice of God who calls and issues the
invitation. It is often tortuous, twisting, challenging involving
purging, purifying, cleansing so that one's personal self can experience
transformation through the process of dying to the old self and rising
to new life, a life of total trust and intimacy with the One Who Calls.
A we touch upon key moments in the life of Jesus' journey we will try
to make applications to our own journey of faith.
HOW TO PRAY THE ROSARY
Prayers of the Rosary
Prayer Before The Rosary
Queen
of the Holy Rosary, you have designed to come to Fatima and Medjugorje,
to reveal to the three shepherd children and six visionaries, the
treasures of grace hidden in the Rosary. Inspire my heart with a sincere
love of this devotion, in order that by meditating on the Mysteries of
our Redemption which are recalled in it, I may obtain peace for the
world, the conversion of sinners, and the favor which I ask of you in
this Rosary (Mention your request). I ask it for the greater glory of
God, for your own honor, and for the good of souls, especially for my
own. Amen.
The Our Father:
Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it
is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our
trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not
into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
The Hail Mary:
Hail
Mary, full of grace! the Lord is with thee; blessed are thou among
women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of
God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Glory be to the Father:
Glory
be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in
the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Prayer to Jesus Requested By Our Lady
O
My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, take all
souls to Heaven, and help especially those most in need of Your mercy.
The Apostles' Creed:
I
believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth; and
in Jesus Christ His only Son, Our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy
Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was
crucified, died and was buried. He descended into Hell; the third day He
arose again from the dead; He ascended into Heaven, and is seated at
the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to
judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy
Catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the
resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.
Hail Holy Queen:
Hail!
Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To
you do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To you do we send up our
sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, O most
gracious advocate, your eyes of mercy towards us; and after this our
exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus. O clement! O
loving! O sweet Virgin Mary!
Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Prayer After The Rosary
O
God, whose only-begotten Son, by His life, death and resurrection, has
purchased for us the rewards of eternal life; grant, we beseech Thee,
that, meditating upon these mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary of the
Blessed Virgin Mary, we may imitate what they contain and obtain what
they promise, through the same Christ our Lord. Amen. Rosary Novenas
Religious
devotion, public or private, for the duration of nine days to gain
special graces, is called a Novena. Those who perform it with a lively
hope of having their request granted, and with perfect faith and
resignation if it be refused, may be assured that Christ will grant some
grace or blessing. This requires an understanding that in His infinite
wisdom and mercy, He may refuse the particular favor which is requested.
Novenas
originated in imitation of the Apostles who were gathered together in
prayer for nine days from the time of Our Lord's Ascension (to Heaven)
until Pentecost Sunday (the descent of the Holy Spirit).
This
practice of saying the Rosary nine times in the form of the Rosary
Novena in petition or thanksgiving, is another way of heeding Our Lady's
request to Pray the Rosary.
The 54 Day Novena Devotion which
originated in 1884 at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompei,
consists of the daily recitation of five decades of the Rosary (one
complete Mystery: Joyful, Sorrowful, or Glorious) for twenty-seven days
in petition and five decades for twenty-seven additional days in
thanksgiving. You will actually be making three Novenas in petition for a
particular favor and three Novenas in thanksgiving for a particular
favor.
1st day say the 5 Joyful Mysteries 2nd day say the 5 Luminous Mysteries 3rd day say the 5 Sorrowful Mysteries 4th day say the 5 Glorious Mysteries 5th day begin again the 5 Joyful Mysteries, etc.
The Family Rosary
The Family That Prays Together... Stays Together.
The
family Rosary is the Rosary recited aloud together, by as many of the
family and their friends as can be present. Any family (two or more
people) may say the Family Rosary in any suitable place and at any time.
A
leader says aloud the first part of each prayer; a second person or
group of persons answers aloud the second part of the prayer.
To begin the Family Rosary, all hold the Crucifix of their Rosary in the right hand and make the Sign of the Cross.
The
leader begins the Apostles' Creed and proceeds through the rest of the
Rosary as shown on Page 2. The leader announces the Mystery before each
decade. Five decades (one complete Mystery: Joyful, Sorrowful, or
Glorious) should be recited each day. The Five First Saturdays
Mary's Great Promise at Fatima -
The
Five First Saturdays are intended to honor and to make reparation to
the Immaculate Heart of Mary for all the blasphemes and ingratitude of
men.
This devotion and the wonderful promises connected with it
were revealed by the Blessed Virgin at Fatima, a small village in
Portugal. Our lady appeared to three children there in 1917, and one of
the little girls, Lucy, tells us that Our Lady said:
I promise to
help at the hour of death, with the graces needed for salvation,
whoever on the First Saturday of five consecutive months shall:
1. Confess and Receive Communion.
2. Recite five decades of the Rosary (Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, or Glorious Mysteries)
3.
Keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the fifteen
Mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me.
This Week and for the next few months I am going to put a few of my very special Rosaries from two Estates. One Estate is from an older Priest whom has passed away now about 15 years. These Rosaries from his Estate and are mostly from the 1940s. The other is a Nun's Estate whom has passed now 20 years ago. These Rosaries are from the 1940s and even before. I am not expert in Rosaries. But I have been told and the evidence shows many of these items are even turn of the century. The Value of these Rosaries have never been monetary. ALL these Rosaries are blessed in some way or another with uniqueness. Each has a story to tell in the devotion that was given them. And through each Rosary many prayers were said by these very devote and peaceful souls. The Rosaries are ALL precious to me and I must now part with them. Please know my only wish now is to find each and everyone of them a good and cherished home. Every one of the Rosaries are "Sold As Is". They are very old and need care. I have not cleaned them for my own personal reasons. I believe each and every living thing or otherwise in life has an energy. These Rosaries are no exception to such a feeling of peaceful energy. Thus I have let them remain "as they were" when I received them. I have done my best to detail them in my pictures. I will answer any questions I can about them. But know I am not a Religious expert nor do I know everything there is to know about Rosaries. I have just been a blessed one whom the Rosaries came to after the passing of their owners. Thank you so much for coming to my auctions today and know I am truly blessed and humbled you did come and take a look at these treasures. If you know anyone whom would LOVE a Rosary please either bid on these Rosaries I have up... or contact me and I will look through all my Rosaries for the type of Rosary you might be looking for. Have a wonderful and beautiful day and may you always have LOVE in your life as I have found.. in the peace from above..... becca
ABOUT ME...
People ask me often about why I see a few items on Ebay. So I thought I would give a better understanding about myself. I am a person whom has been blessed most of my life and been in the right place at the right time to meet the people I have been so fortunate to have come to meet paths with. In doing so, I have also been blessed with items now I would wish to find loving home for. Most of the my things I have either given away, donated of yes, lost because of circumstances. I have come to realize in my life I needed a new direction. So, my husband and myself are stripping our belonging down to a very bare minimum and saving the little we do get on Ebay to help our "later years". I would wish the items I put up on Ebay to find good homes. I still have this need to "rescue" religious items mainly and give them a home that people will cherish as much as I have over the years. I still have people coming to me and offering me these treasures knowing that I would seek out a good home for them. Crazy I know, but this is really what it is for me. Prices are pretty much FIXED though on Ebay. Either I am selling for someone else, or I feel that the price for the items I have up are low enough. I will be changing things up from time to time and selling a vast variety of items. I am not an expert at anything I am putting up. So all the items are "SOLD AS IS". I do my best to describe the item and all it's flaws. I also am getting better at taking pictures and will post as much detail with each item I can. I would be very grateful if you would leave me positive feedback when the transaction is done. I will do the same in return. As for the types of item I will be putting up... who knows? Truth is I live in the country in North Carolina now. And for fun my husband and I take long drives out to places most would never be able to get to. So I will pass these treasure I find too along to you as well. If you have any questions about me feel free to contact me. I would be blessed to share myself with you. As always find goodness in ALL that comes in your path. Life can and does often change on a dime. So please be gentle to yourself and those around you. May love find you always....
Sincerely grateful, becca
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Blueautumnrain
Hello Buyers! I am putting up over the next few weeks my entire collection of Rosaries and other religious items. Such as, Relics, Bibles, Books, Medals, Crosses, Holy Prayer Cards, Pins, Holy Water Bottles, Pocket Shrines and other Catholic items and Christian Books etc... I have had such joy collecting these items over the years, but now find the need to let them go to a Home that will cherish and love them as much as I have. Many of these have been blessed by previous Popes and were owned by either Priests and or Nuns. I have been honored to have held them in my possession all these years. But now find the need to let them go where they are destined to find homes where they can be cherished as much as I have them all. Please know I am a serious Seller, so be the same as a Buyer. I will answer all questions in a timely fashion. So please ask away! I am not an expert in Religious items. I have just been fortunate to have been come across these beautiful and spiritual items. Therefore ALL items are "SOLD AS IS". Have fun looking through all the items I am selling. Happy Buying!!
May the peace that passes all understandings be with you always.