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Belgian Memento Mori pendant depicting a monk, circa 1525 to 1550.

#folk catholicism #memento mori

#dorothy day #catholic worker movement #social justice #socialism #the poor

For all LGBTQIA2S people of faith who feel erased and ignored, have a nice day. I love you. ❤

#lgbtq community #lgbtqia2s+#lgbt people of faith #lgbtq

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#espiritismo #spiritual healing #spiritual development #spiritual evolution #spiritism #espiritismo criollo

French reliquary statue of Saint Christopher, circa 1375 to 1425. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

#folk catholicism #saints #saint christopher

Saint Anne is the patron of Indigenous Canadians and this began, arguably, with devotion to Saint Anne among the Mik'maq. Devotion to Saint Anne among the Mik'maq is widespread, She is absolutely beloved, She is known as the Grandmother of the Mik'maq.

In 1610 Grand Chief Membertou, along with twenty one members of his family, converted to Catholicism. While we can speculate on the conviction of his conversion, we do know that Grand Chief Membertou converted to solidify his relationships and trading with the French colonists. In 1628 Saint Anne was chosen as the patron saint of the Mik'maq.

Every year on the feast day of Saint Anne many Mik'maq will make a pilgrimage to Mniku (Chapel Island) off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Mniku traditionally has always had deep significance among the Mik'maq it being where the yearly gathering of the Mik'maq Grand Council, as it is still done, would take place on Mniku.

The Mik'maq will have a procession and gather at Saint Anne's Church. A Mass of Saint Anne is performed in the church and from there dancing, singing, community gathering and feasting are done outside the church.

A custom done by the Women's Council during the feast of Saint Anne is to wash Her statue with cloth which is then cut into strips that are given out to members of the community. Saint Anne's Ribbons are believed to provide protection, healing, and to uplift the receiver. The ribbons are word around the wrist or ankle.

Another custom performed during the feast day of Saint Anne is Her statue will be carried in procession to "the stone", a boulder on which it's said a French priest said the first Mass on Mniku. There the Santé Mawi'omi (Mik'maq Grand Council) members will offer words of wisdom as will the priest of Saint Anne's Church.

Photos:

1. Saint Anne's statue, draped in a traditional Mik'maq woman's cloak and rabbit fur, carried in procession. 2. Procession to Saint Anne's Church. 3. Dancing and singing in front of Saint Anne's Church. 4. Saint Anne's Ribbons on a picture of Mniku (Chapel Island).

#folk catholicism #first nations #mikmaq #miknu #chapel island #cape breton #mikmaki #saint anne

Saint Anne, pray for us.

Saint Anne, Mother of the Blessed Mother, pray for us.

Saint Anne, Ark of the Covenant, pray for us.

Saint Anne, Joy of Angels, pray for us.

Saint Anne, Oracle of Prophets, pray for us.

Saint Anne, Praise of All Saints, pray for us.

Saint Anne, Mirror of Compassion, pray for us.

Saint Anne, Deliverer of Captives, pray for us.

Saint Anne, Mother of the Sick, pray for us.

Saint Anne, Light of the Blind, pray for us.

Saint Anne, Comforter of the Afflicted, pray for us.

Saint Anne, Never Invoked Without Answer, pray for us.

Glorious Saint Anne, Good Saint Anne, pray for us.

🙏🏻🙌🏻🧡💛📖🌿💎👁🌼

#folk catholicism #saints #saint anne #patron saint

Gold, enamel and diamonds Memento Mori ring, 17th century. Victoria & Albert Museum.

#folk catholicism #memento mori

Saint George jeweled brooch.

#folk catholicism #saints #saint george #folk saints

“If you have been given spiritual knowledge, you have been given noetic light; should you dishonor that light, you will see darkness.”

- Saint Thalassios the Libyan

Pietà by Gustave Moreau, 1876.

#virgin mary #blessed mother #la pieta

The "Capuchin Crypt" under the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome.

#folk catholicism #holy dead #veneration of the dead #memento mori

Artist Sabinita Lopez Ortiz setting out her carvings of santos, a distinct devotional and artistic form of saint carving from the southern United States and Mexico. Photo by Larry Beckner, 1988.

#folk catholicism #saints #folk art #folk saints #santos

Ethiopian Orthodox painting of king David playing the lute, 15th century.

#ethiopian orthodox #icons #king david #psalms

#dorothy day #social justice #catholic worker movement #the poor #socialism

Today is the feast of Saint Cajetan.

Saint Cajetan is the patron of the unemployed, those seeking employment, and gamblers.

"Glorious Saint Cajetan, acclaimed by all people to be the Father of Providence because You provide miraculous aid to all who come to You in need, I stand here before You today humbly asking that You present to the Lord the requests that I confidently deposit in Your hands.

May these graces that I now request help me to always seek the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, knowing that God Who dresses with beauty the flowers of the field and abundantly feeds the birds of the sky will grant me all other things. Amen. Saint Cajetan, pray for us!"

Salve Saint Cajetan!

🙏🏻🙌🏻🖤📖💀

#folk catholicism

On this day, August 7th, 1993, Ada Deer was sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Clinton administration. She was the first Indigenous woman to ever hold the position.

Ada Deer is Mamaceqtaw (Menominee) born and raised on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin. Ada Deer went on to become a social worker, receiving her Master's in Social Work from the prestigious New York School of Social Work, now the Columbia University School of Social Work. After receiving her degree she returned and settled in Minneapolis in order to work with and for the Mamaceqtaw Nation.

During the Termination Era of the 1950s and 1960s the United States federal government enacted laws that dismantled tribal nations, the Menominee being one of them. After the dissolution of the Menominee Nation it was governed under a corporation, Menominee Enterprise Inc., with no Menominee tribal members holding shares in the corporation. Due to her work and activism the Termination Era was brought to a close when in 1973 president Nixon signed the Menominee Restoration Act, establishing the Menominee once again as a federally recognized sovereign nation.

Ada Deer was one of the many women during this time period, and afterwards, who rose up and became political figures and activists in order to safeguard tribal sovereignty and preserve Indigenous cultures as well as bring much needed aid to Indigenous peoples who had been marginalized and ignored by both federal and state governments.

Thank you Grandmother. 🙏🏻🦅

#indigenous #indigenous women #indigenous sovereignty #tribal sovereignty #indigenous activism

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