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. …More
"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. …More