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Blessed Reginald of Orleans. "I have no fears for the struggle, nay, I rather look forward to it with impatience, for ever since the Mother of God anointed me with her virginal hands in Rome, I have …More
Blessed Reginald of Orleans.

"I have no fears for the struggle, nay, I rather look forward to it with impatience, for ever since the Mother of God anointed me with her virginal hands in Rome, I have never ceased to put my whole trust in her, and now joyfully await the hour of my deliverance that I may hasten to see her once more. However, that I may not seem to make little of the Church’s anointing, I profess myself willing to receive it, and I humbly ask for it at your hands." – the final words of Blessed Reginald, one of the early Dominicans, Canon lawyer of Paris, and Prior of Bologna. Blessed Reginald had received a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary who, through him, gave the Order the white scapular in exchange for the vesture of the canons regular. In this detail from a painting in La Laguna, Tenerife, Blessed Reginald is shown in a canon's rochet (signified by the lace cuffs), but he clings to the new scapular being bequeathed to the Order by Our Lady. 12 February is his feast day.

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