"Do you holidays weak and sick, because it is the Savior's birth. Rejoice, captives; your redeemer is born. Alborozaos, servants, for the Lord is born. Rejoice, free, because it is the birth of the Liberator. Let the Christians, because Christ is born "(St. Augustine, Sermon 184.2).

 

"The Good Shepherd who gave his life for the sheep, went in search of the lost sheep ... and, once found, took it on his shoulders, the same who carried the cross, and thus led to heavenly life" ( St. Gregory of Nyssa, Sermon 45)

 

"It was necessary that God became man and died so that we might have life. We have died with him, to be purified; we have raised with him, because we have died with him; We have been glorified with him because we have risen with him "(St. Gregory of Nyssa, Sermon 45)

After countless centuries since the creation of the world, when in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth and formed man in his image; Also after many centuries, since the Almighty put his bow in the clouds after the flood as a sign of alliance and peace; twenty centuries after the emigration of Abraham, our father in faith, in Ur of the Chaldeans; thirteen centuries after the departure of Israel from Egypt under the leadership of Moses; about a thousand years after David was anointed king at sixty-five a week according to the prophecy of Daniel; in one hundred ninety four Olympics, the year seven hundred fifty-two of the founding of the city, the forty-two year rule of Caesar Augustus; the whole world being at peace, Jesus Christ, eternal God and Son of the eternal Father, wishing to consecrate the world with his coming gracious, conceived of the Holy Spirit, nine months after his conception was born in Bethlehem of Judea, made ​​man of the Virgin Mary : the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh.

Roman martyrology. Christmas Praise breast

IN COMMUNION OF SAINTS APOSTOLATE WISHES ALL ITS RELIC DONORS, FRIENDS AND WELL WISHERS  A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS, JOYFUL ST.STEPHEN'S DAY AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR. MAY THE NEWBORN INFANT BE YOUR COMPANION AND GUIDE THROUGHOUT THE YEARS TO COME.

RELIC OF DL.DEVASAHAYM PILLAI IN CUSTODY OF THE APOSTOLATE

 VISUAL TREAT OF PLACES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEATH AND TOMB OF BLESSED DEVASAHAYAM PILLAI, MARTYR IN DEVASAHAYAM MOUNT AND KOTTAR CATHEDRAL

 ENTRANCE TO HIS HOLY MOUNT WHERE HE DIED ON 14TH OF JANUARY 1752

 THIS CHAPEL WELCOMES THE VISITORS AT THE ENTRANCE

 RIGHT SIDE OF THE CHAPEL IS THE PLACE WHERE THE MORTAL REMAINS OF DEVASAHAYAM WAS FOUND AFTER 5 DAYS OF HIS MARTYRDOM

 AS WE CLIMB UP THE STAIRS IN THE MOUNTAIN, WE COME ACROSS THE PLACE WHERE HE PRAYED JUST BEFORE HIS MARTYRDOM..

 IMPRINTS OF HIS KNEE AND ELBOW ON THE ROCK

 NEXT WE CLIMB THE SID ROCK WHERE WE CAME ACROSS THIS STONE CROSS MARKING THE SITE OF HIS HOLY MARTYRDOM.

THE HOLY HILL OF MARTYRDOM,NEAR THE CHAPEL IS THE PLACE WHERE HIS BODY WAS FOUND AND ABOVE IT IS THE PLACE OF HIS DEATH. THE BANYAN TREE IS THE TREE WHICH PROVIDED SHADE TO THE BODY OF BL.PILLAI FOR 5 DAYS

 TRADITION SAYS THAT THE BRANCH THAT GAVE SHADE TO THE HOLY BODY BECAME PALE IN COLOR AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE PICTURES

 

TORTURES SUFFERED BY Bl.DEVASAHAYAM PILLAI 

 STONE CARVING IN THE MOUNT OF MARTYRDOM

 

 

 

ROCK THAT ANNOUNCED HIS DEATH TO THE PEOPLE

 

EVEN NOW THIS ROCK PRODUCES METALLIC BELL SOUND WHEN HIT WITH A STONE. THIS ROCK DISPATCHED FROM THE MAIN ROCK AND GAVE A BELL LIKE SOUND ANNOUNCING THE HOLY DEATH OF DEVASAHAYAM PILLAI

 DOWN THE HOLY MOUNT IS THE SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF SORROWS AND BL.DEVASAHAYAM PILLAI THAT TAKES CARE OF THE MOUNT OF THIS BLESSED

STATURE AND BONE RELIC OF BLESSED DEVASAHAYAM IN THE SHRINE

CHURCH OF ST.FRANCIS XAVIER CATHEDRAL, KOTTAR  WHICH CONTAINS THE TOMB OF BL.DEVASAHAYAM PILLAI

 MAIN ALTAR OF ST.FRANCIS XAVIER

TOMB OF THE GREAT MARTYR IN THE CHURCH IN FRONT OF THE ALTAR

HIS BONE RELIC IN HIS TOMB

 STATUE USED IN HIS BEATIFICATION CAN BE SEEN NEAR HIS TOMB

CHAPEL BELIEVED TO BE ERECTED BY ST.FRANCIS XAVIER IN THE CATHEDRAL- THIS HOLDS THE TABERNACLE OF THE CATHEDRAL

 PHOTO FRAME IN THE CATHEDRAL SHOWING PARTS OF THE INCORRUPT BODY OF ST.FRANCIS XAVIER

FOR MORE ON BL.DEVASAHAYAM PILLAI : www.martyrdevasahayam.org/

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Relic of St.Stephen, Protomartyr- feast day = 26th of December