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Saints for Today - Sts Philip and James

5/1/2014

 
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Philip was born in the town of Bethsaida, and was among the first of the twelve Apostles called by the Lord Christ.  Then Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him: We have found him of whom Moses in the Law, and the Prophets, did write.  And so he brought him to the Lord.  How familiarly he was in the company of Christ, is manifest from that which is written: There were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the Feast: the same came therefore to Philip, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.  When the Lord was in the wilderness, and was about to feed a great multitude, he said unto Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?  Philip, after that he had received the Holy Ghost, took Scythia, by lot, as the land wherein he was to preach the Gospel, and brought nearly all that people to believe in Christ.  At the last he came to Hierapolis in Phrygia, and there, for Christ's Name's sake, he was fastened to a cross and stoned to death.  The day was the first of May.  The Christians of Hierapolis buried his body at that place, but it was afterwards brought to Rome and laid in the Basilica of the Twelve Apostles, beside that of the blessed Apostle James.

James, surnamed the Just, the brother of our Lord Jesus Christ, was a Nazarite from the womb.  During his whole life he never drank wine or strong drink, never ate meat, never shaved, and never took a bath.  He was the only man who was allowed to go into the Holy of Holies.  His raiment was always linen.  So continually did he kneel in prayer, that the skin of his knees became horny, like a camel's knees.  After Christ was ascended, the Apostles made James Bishop of Jerusalem: and even the Prince of the Apostles gave special intelligence to him after that he was delivered from prison by an angel.  When in the Council of Jerusalem certain questions were mooted touching the law and circumcision, James, following the opinion of Peter, addressed a discourse to the brethren, wherein he proved the call of the Gentiles, and commanded letters to be sent to such brethren as were absent, that they might take heed not to lay upon the Gentiles the yoke of the Law of Moses.  It is of him that the Apostle Paul saith, writing to the Galatians: Other of the Apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.

So great was James' holiness of life that men strove one with another to touch the hem of his garment.  When he was ninety-six years old, and had most holily governed the Church of Jerusalem for thirty years, ever most constantly preaching Christ the Son of God, he laid down his life for the faith.  He was first stoned, and afterwards taken up on to a pinnacle of the Temple and cast down from thence.  His legs were broken by the fall, and he was well nigh dead, but he lifted up his hands towards heaven, and prayed to God for the salvation of his murderers, saying: Lord, forgive them, for they know not what they do.  As he said this, one that stood by smote him grievously upon the head with a fuller's club, and he resigned his spirit to God.  He testified in the seventh year of Nero, and was buried hard by the Temple, in the place where he had fallen.  He wrote one of the Seven Epistles which are called Catholic.

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William Peter Smith
5/3/2014 01:54:37 am

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, before many others should be considered, in the "saintly" sense of the word, a true saint and possibly a "martyr" for his Faith.


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