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June 28 Saint Irenaeus. breski1 Saint Irenaeus was born in the year 120; he was of the Greek tongue, and probably a native of Asia Minor. His parents, who were Christians, placed him while still young …More
June 28 Saint Irenaeus.
breski1 Saint Irenaeus was born in the year 120; he was of the Greek tongue, and probably a native of Asia Minor. His parents, who were Christians, placed him while still young under the care of the great Saint Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. It was in this holy school that he learned the sacred science which later made him a great ornament of the Church and the terror of her enemies. Saint Polycarp cultivated his rising genius and formed his mind to piety by his precepts and example, and the zealous young scholar was careful to reap all advantages offered him by the solicitude of such a master. Such was his veneration for his tutor's sanctity that he observed all the acts and virtues he saw in that holy man, the better to copy his example and learn his spirit. He listened to his instructions with an insatiable ardor, and so deeply did he engrave them in his heart that the impressions remained vivid even in his old age. In order to confound the heresies of his age, …More
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The memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Book of Lamentations 2:2.10-14.18-19.

The Lord has consumed without pity all the dwellings of Jacob; He has torn down in his anger the fortresses of daughter Judah; He has brought to the ground in dishonor her king and her princes.
On the ground in silence sit the old men of daughter Zion; They strew dust on their heads and gird themselves with sackcloth …More
The memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Book of Lamentations 2:2.10-14.18-19.

The Lord has consumed without pity all the dwellings of Jacob; He has torn down in his anger the fortresses of daughter Judah; He has brought to the ground in dishonor her king and her princes.
On the ground in silence sit the old men of daughter Zion; They strew dust on their heads and gird themselves with sackcloth; The maidens of Jerusalem bow their heads to the ground.
Worn out from weeping are my eyes, within me all is in ferment; My gall is poured out on the ground because of the downfall of the daughter of my people, As child and infant faint away in the open spaces of the town.
They ask their mothers, "Where is the grain?"--in vain, As they faint away like the wounded in the streets of the city, And breathe their last in their mothers' arms.
To what can I liken or compare you, O daughter Jerusalem? What example can I show you for your comfort, virgin daughter Zion? For great as the sea is your downfall; who can heal you?
Your prophets had for you false and specious visions; They did not lay bare your guilt, to avert your fate; They beheld for you in vision false and misleading portents.
Cry out to the Lord; moan, O daughter Zion! Let your tears flow like a torrent day and night; Let there be no respite for you, no repose for your eyes.
Rise up, shrill in the night, at the beginning of every watch; Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord; Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your little ones (Who faint from hunger at the corner of every street).

Psalms 74(73):1-2.3-5.6-7.20-21.
Why, O God, have you cast us off forever?
Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Remember your flock which you built up of old,
The tribe you redeemed as your inheritance,
Mount Zion, where you took up your abode.

Turn your steps toward the utter ruins;
Toward all the damage the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
Your foes roar triumphantly in your shrine;
They have set up their tokens of victory.

They are like men coming up with axes to a clump of trees.
With chisel and hammer they hack at all the paneling of the sanctuary.
They set your sanctuary on fire;
The place where your name abides they have razed and profaned.

Look to your covenant,
For the hiding places in the land and the plains are full of violence.
May the humble not retire in confusion;
May the afflicted and the poor praise your name.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 2:41-51.
Each year Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover,
and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom.
After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.
Thinking that he was in the caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances,
but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him.
After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,
and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers.
When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety."
And he said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"
But they did not understand what he said to them.
He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.

Commentary of the day : Benedict XVI
"His mother kept all these things in her heart"

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Hl. Irenäus von Lyon
eigentlich (griechisch): Eirenaios
Gedenktag katholisch: 28. Juni
Bischof von Lyon, Märtyrer (?), Kirchenvater

* um 135 in Smyrna, heute Ízmir (?) in der Türkei
† um 202
Irenäus war Grieche aus einer wohl schon christlichen Familie, ein gebildeter Mann und offenbar Schüler des Polykarp von Smyrna. Irenäus arbeitete als junger Mann in Lyon in Frankreich in einer Kolonie …More
Hl. Irenäus von Lyon
eigentlich (griechisch): Eirenaios
Gedenktag katholisch: 28. Juni
Bischof von Lyon, Märtyrer (?), Kirchenvater

* um 135 in Smyrna, heute Ízmir (?) in der Türkei
† um 202

Irenäus war Grieche aus einer wohl schon christlichen Familie, ein gebildeter Mann und offenbar Schüler des Polykarp von Smyrna. Irenäus arbeitete als junger Mann in Lyon in Frankreich in einer Kolonie kleinasiatischer Händler. Erstmals historisch in Erscheinung trat er als Presbyter der griechischsprachigen Gemeinde der Stadt, als in einer der Verfolgungen inhaftierte Christen aus Vienne und Lyon ihn mit einem Empfehlungsschreiben und einer vermittelnden Stellungnahme zur Frage des Montanismus nach Rom schickten; dies bewahrte ihn wohl vor dem Märtyrertod, den viele Christen in Lyon während seiner Abwesenheit erlitten. Nach der Rückkehr wählte der Rest der Gemeinde von Lyon ihn - wohl 177 oder 178 - zum Bischof.

Reste der Agora von Smyrna
In der Auseinandersetzung mit den Lehren des Gnostizismus und anderer Strömungen seiner Zeit verfasste Irenäus um 180 in fünf Büchern die klassisch gewordene Polemik Adversus haereses, gegen die Irrlehren, die erste zusammenfassende Übersicht über den christlichen Glauben als Entlarvung und Widerlegung der fälschlich so genannten Gnosis mit ausführlichen Beweisen aus der Heiligen Schrift. Erst 1904 wurde seine kleine Schrift Aufweis der apostolischen Verkündigung in armenischer Übersetzung entdeckt, die als Katechese mit christologischer Interpretation alttestamentlicherWir verwenden den Begriff Altes Testament, wissend um seine Problematik, weil er gebräuchlich ist. Die hebräische Bibel, der „Tanach” - Akronym für „Torah” (Gesetz, die fünf Bücher Mose), „Nevi'im” (Propheten) und „Kethuvim” (Schriften) - hat aber natürlich ihre unwiderrufbare Bedeutung und Würde. Texte die christliche Botschaft entfaltet.
Irenäus stellte die Kirche in ihrer Ursprünglichkeit, Universalität und Einigkeit gegen die Irrlehren, die von Abweichung und Zersplitterung geprägt seien. Er unterstreicht die Legitimität der Kirche durch die apostolische Sukzession der Bischöfe, beispielhaft dargestellt an den Bischöfen von Rom, und durch das Festhalten an den einzig maßgeblichen Schriften des Alten TestamentsWir verwenden den Begriff Altes Testament, wissend um seine Problematik, weil er gebräuchlich ist. Die hebräische Bibel, der „Tanach” - Akronym für „Torah” (Gesetz, die fünf Bücher Mose), „Nevi'im” (Propheten) und „Kethuvim” (Schriften) - hat aber natürlich ihre unwiderrufbare Bedeutung und Würde. und des Neuen Testamentes als Kanon der Wahrheit. Irenäus entwickelte Ansätze einer Methodenlehre der Exegese. Gegen gnostische Vorstellungen betont er den Glauben an den einzigen Gott und Schöpfer, die Bejahung des Lebens in der Welt, die Bedeutung der Ethik, die Erwartung der Wiederkunft Christi. Sein Geschichtsbild ist teleologisch: der von Gottes Händen - d. h. Sohn und Heiligem Geist - gebildete Mensch strebt nach Gottes Heilsplan der Vollendung zu; Adams Sünde ist durch die Menschwerdung Christi aufgehoben, unter Anleitung des Heiligen Geistes wird der Mensch an Gott gewöhnt und strebt zur Auferstehung mit Leib, Seele und Geist - verstanden als Anteil am lebendig machenden Geist Gottes.
Irenäus bezieht sich in seinen Schriften auf Autoritäten aus Kleinasien wie Polykarp von Smyrna und Papias von Hierapolis, auch Theophilos von Antiochien liegt ihm offenbar zugrunde. Er kannte Werke von Clemens I., Ignatius von Antiochia und Justinus. Irenäus ist einer der Begründer der christlichen Theologie, daher trägt er auch die Ehrennamen Vater der Dogmatik und Leuchte des Abendlandes, deshalb wird er zu den Kirchenvätern gezählt.
Hieronymus nannte Irenäus Märtyrer. Gregor von Tours erwähnte, dass Irenäus um 202 unter dem römischen Kaiser Lucius Septimius Severus den Märtyrertod gestorben sei. Der Märtyrertod hat aber keinen historischen Beleg.
Spärliche Ruinen der Stadtmauer von Smyrna aus dem 7. Jahrhundert liegen in einer Vorstadt des heutigen Ízmir; sie sind eingezäunt, eine Besichtigung ist derzeit nicht möglich.
Die Ruinen der Agora aus dem 2. Jahrhundert liegen im Zentrum, im Stadtteil Namazgah; der Eintritt für die Besichtigung beträgt 2 €. (2013)
Weitere Fotos und Reiseeindrücke aus Ízmir gibt es in unserem Reiseblog.
Catholic Encyclopedia
Werke von Irenäus auf Deutsch gibt es in der Bibliothek der Kirchenväter der Université Fribourg.
weitere Schriften von Irenäus gibt es online zu lesen in den Documenta Catholica Omnia.
www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienI/Irenaeus_von_Ly…
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Sant' Ireneo di Lione Vescovo e martire
28 giugno
“Irenoeo Martyri tuo atque Pontifici tribuisti, ut et veritate doctrinae expugnaret haereses, et pacem Ecclesiae feliciter confirmaret”. (Dalla preghiera della festa). Sant’Ireneo è un santo le cui origini, l’esistenza e l’azione, ci interessano particolarmente. Egli è nato a Smirne nel 130, è stato discepolo di San Policarpo, discepolo a sua …More
Sant' Ireneo di Lione Vescovo e martire
28 giugno
“Irenoeo Martyri tuo atque Pontifici tribuisti, ut et veritate doctrinae expugnaret haereses, et pacem Ecclesiae feliciter confirmaret”. (Dalla preghiera della festa). Sant’Ireneo è un santo le cui origini, l’esistenza e l’azione, ci interessano particolarmente. Egli è nato a Smirne nel 130, è stato discepolo di San Policarpo, discepolo a sua volta di San Giovanni. La fede di Ireneo e il suo credo fu, quindi, tra i più puri discendendo direttamente dal verbo proferito dagli apostoli. È stato Vescovo di Lione nelle Gallie, attuale Francia. Teologo e scrittore, è restato sempre molto unito al Papa san Vittore I ed ha terminato la sua vita col martirio. La Preghiera liturgica della sua festa lo presenta, a giusto titolo, come un campione della fede e distingue tre aspetti della sua grande figura che si proietta in una luce sfavillante al di sopra dell’Oriente, di Roma e delle Gallie : la verità della sua dottrina, la sua opera evangelizzatrice, il suo martirio. La Verità della sua Dottrina è fatta dalla sua fedeltà alla Tradizione della Chiesa primitiva, della sua scienza teologica e del suo zelo di difendere “contro gli Eretici”, la fede tale come l’ha insegnata Cristo, tale come l’hanno trasmessa gli Apostoli. Questo non è un aspetto secondario dell’esistenza d’Ireneo e della storia religiosa della Francia quello della formazione cristiana del futuro Vescovo di Lione sia stata assicurata da un Policarpo, vescovo di Smirne, lui stesso discepolo dell’Apostolo Amatissimo, San Giovanni. La lunga frequentazione di Maria presso San Giovanni a Gerusalemme, dopo il Calvario, lo scambio di vedute tra la Madre di Gesù ed il suo Apostolo prediletto, danno alla figliolanza spirituale di Ireneo un aspetto d’una tradizione mariana ed evangelica d’un prezzo incomparabile. La Chiesa di Lione, il suo irradiamento sulle prime chiese di Francia saranno state marcate da delle influenze d’un carattere eccezionale.
Opera pacificatrice nella Chiesa, ecco il secondo compito della dottrina d’Ireneo, dei suoi scritti, delle sue predicazioni, di tutto il suo apostolato. La propensione dell’uomo all’errore, le sue discussioni, intorno alla fede non mancano d’impressionare il pensatore sganciato da cattive passioni. In piena persecuzione, di fronte ad una Chiesa che si sta formando in mezzo alla lotta ed alla sofferenza, alcuni spiriti sono alla ricerca di novità, d’interpretazioni strane dai testi, di opposizioni a delle tradizioni vive della Chiesa di Dio, d’indocilità evidente di fronte ai capi religiosi. San Paolo se n’era già lamentato. Verso la fine del II secolo, Ireneo non solo rifiuta le eresie ma s’avvera già un campione dell’unità della fede, il campione del Papato, del Vescovo di Roma.
Il martirio venne a perfezionare, nel 202, ai primi inizi del III secolo, questa bella vita di vescovo e di apostolo, dando alla Chiesa di Lione e, da essa, alle chiese fondate dalle cure dei suoi vescovi, un esempio magnifico della forza e della fedeltà nella fede.
Signore, vi sono nella vita di fede, così costantemente reclamata da voi, da parte dei vostri discepoli, due elementi che ne fanno il profondo e soprannaturale valore : sono la forza e la purezza. Forza della fede in una certezza ed una convinzione che escludono il dubbio, l’esitazione, la minimizzazione delle nude verità. Purezza della fede nel rigetto delle teorie sballate dottrinalmente, dei sentimenti che alterano o corrompono il contenuto divino di queste stesse verità.
La Chiesa conta, tra i più antichi santi dei suoi primi secoli, autentici rappresentanti del suo vero spirito di fede. Sant’Ireneo è certamente uno di questi grandi avi spirituali della Francia, ch’egli ha segnato profondamente col suo sapere, con la sua fedeltà nella dottrina, con la sua santità di vita. Ireneo muore il 28 giugno del 202 durante le persecuzioni che i cristiani subirono sotto l’imperatore Settimio Severo. La Chiesa lo venera come martire in seguito alla testimonianza lasciateci da san Girolamo che per primo nel 410 gli conferì questo titolo.
Autore: Don Marcello Stanzione
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le 28 juin Saint Irénée
Saint Irénée naquit en Asie Mineure et y passa ses premières années. Il eut le bonheur insigne d'être, jeune encore, disciple de l'admirable évêque de Smyrne, Polycarpe. Irénée conçut une telle vénération pour son saint maître, que, non content de se pénétrer de sa doctrine et de son esprit, il modelait sur lui ses actions et jusqu'à son pas et sa démarche. Il fut …More
le 28 juin Saint Irénée
Saint Irénée naquit en Asie Mineure et y passa ses premières années. Il eut le bonheur insigne d'être, jeune encore, disciple de l'admirable évêque de Smyrne, Polycarpe. Irénée conçut une telle vénération pour son saint maître, que, non content de se pénétrer de sa doctrine et de son esprit, il modelait sur lui ses actions et jusqu'à son pas et sa démarche. Il fut bientôt fort instruit dans les Saintes Écritures et dans les traditions apostoliques, et déjà l'on pouvait prévoir en lui l'auteur futur de tant de saints ouvrages et surtout de ce travail si remarquable contre les Hérésies, où devaient puiser, comme à une source riche et sûre, tous les savants de l'avenir.
Irénée était l'enfant chéri de Polycarpe; mais il était aussi l'espoir et la joie de toute la chrétienté. Jamais diacre ne s'acquitta de toutes ses fonctions avec tant de zèle. L'ardeur du jeune apôtre s'enflammait de plus en plus à la vue des missionnaires que Polycarpe envoyait dans les Gaules; aussi bientôt il reçut de son maître l'ordre impatiemment désiré d'aller au secours du vieil évêque de Lyon, saint Pothin.
Polycarpe fit, au jour de la séparation, un grand sacrifice; mais il fit aussi une oeuvre féconde. Le bonheur du vénérable évêque des Gaules dépassa toutes ses espérances, quand il reconnut tout le mérite de son jeune auxiliaire. Avec Irénée, l'avenir de l'Église occidentale était sauvé.
Une terrible persécution fit disparaître saint Pothin et un grand nombre de fidèles; les païens avaient cru noyer l'Église lyonnaise dans le sang de ses enfants; mais Irénée restait encore, et, par l'ordre du Pape Éleuthère, il montait bientôt sur le siège épiscopal de Lyon. Ses prières, ses prédications, ses exhortations, ses réprimandes, eurent bientôt reconstitué cette Église dévastée. La paix toutefois n'était que précaire, et la persécution fit couler de nouveau le sang des martyrs. Le temps d'Irénée n'était pas encore venu, son oeuvre n'était que commencée, et Dieu voulait lui donner le temps de l'accomplir.
Quand, en 202, les horreurs de la persécution éclatèrent encore, l'Église de Lyon, toujours en vue, était prête à subir le choc. Irénée, plus que jamais, ranimait la foi de ses enfants et leur montrait le Ciel. Il fut au nombre des premières victimes; c'était la juste récompense due à ses longs travaux. Parmi tous les éloges que lui ont donnés les Saints, citons les titres glorieux de Zélateur du Nouveau Testament, Flambeau de la foi, homme versé dans toutes le sciences.
Abbé L. Jaud, Vie des Saints pour tous les jours de l'année, Tours, Mame, 1950
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June 28 Saint Irenaeus
Saint Irenaeus was born in the year 120; he was of the Greek tongue, and probably a native of Asia Minor. His parents, who were Christians, placed him while still young under the care of the great Saint Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. It was in this holy school that he learned the sacred science which later made him a great ornament of the Church and the terror of her enemies. …More
June 28 Saint Irenaeus
Saint Irenaeus was born in the year 120; he was of the Greek tongue, and probably a native of Asia Minor. His parents, who were Christians, placed him while still young under the care of the great Saint Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. It was in this holy school that he learned the sacred science which later made him a great ornament of the Church and the terror of her enemies. Saint Polycarp cultivated his rising genius and formed his mind to piety by his precepts and example, and the zealous young scholar was careful to reap all advantages offered him by the solicitude of such a master. Such was his veneration for his tutor's sanctity that he observed all the acts and virtues he saw in that holy man, the better to copy his example and learn his spirit. He listened to his instructions with an insatiable ardor, and so deeply did he engrave them in his heart that the impressions remained vivid even in his old age. In order to confound the heresies of his age, this Doctor of the Church acquainted himself with the conceits of the pagan philosophers, and thereby became qualified to trace every error to its sources and set it in its full light. By his writings he was already known to Tertullian, Theodoret and Saint Epiphanus, who speak of him as a luminous torch of truth in the darkness of those times.
After Irenaeus had spent a number of years in combat against the eastern gnostics and philosophers of error, Saint Polycarp determined to send him to Gaul, where many of the heretics of Asia Minor had already migrated to pursue the Catholic religion, which was beginning to find roots there. With a company of about forty Christians, the valiant soldier of Christ ascended the Rhone to Lyons to rejoin and aid Saint Pothinus, its bishop. Saint Pothinus was already advanced in age, and his church's neophytes could not always distinguish truth from the gnostic aberrations. Saint Pothinus received the apostles with joy and soon ordained Saint Irenaeus.
A hundred times he exposed himself to martyrdom by his zeal, acting as the right arm of the aging bishop, but God was reserving that crown for him twenty-five years later. When Saint Pothinus had glorified God by his splendid martyr's death in the year 177, Ireneus was chosen to be the second bishop of Lyons. The persecutors imagined that Christianity had been stifled in Lyons, and they ceased their pursuits for a time.
This great Doctor of the Church wrote many important works, of which the most famous is his Adversus Haereses, Against the Heresies, in explanation of the Faith. By his preaching, Saint Irenaeus in a short time converted almost the whole country to the Faith; the Christians of Lyons became models by their candor, their estrangement from all ambition, their poverty, chastity and temperance, and in this way confounded many adversaries of their religion. Saint Irenaeus continued to imitate what he had seen done by his beloved master, Saint Polycarp, himself the disciple and imitator of Saint John the Apostle. One can readily imagine the excellence of the administration and the breadth of charity reigning in the Church of Lyons.
Finally he suffered martyrdom there, with many others, in the year 202, under the Emperor Septimus Severus, after eighty years spent in the service of the Lord. The imperial decrees renewing the persecutions arrived at Lyons at the time of the celebration of Severus' tenth year of reign; the pagans found amid the celebrations an opportunity to take vengeance on the Christians, who refused to participate in the debaucheries which accompanied these feastings. Assassins armed with daggers, stones and knives filled the city with blood, and thousands of Christians won, with their bishop, the crown they had always admired as the greatest glory God could grant His servants.
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, a compilation based on Butler's Lives of the Saints, and other sources by John Gilmary Shea (Benziger Brothers: New York, 1894); Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin (Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 7