Ludovico Carracci (1555–1619), La
Vierge Marie et l'Enfant Jésus apparaissant à saint Hyacinthe, 1594, 375 x 223, Louvre Museum
Saint Hyacinthe
Frère prêcheur en
Pologne (+ 1257)
Originaire de Silésie, il devient prêtre en Pologne à Cracovie et entre dans l'Ordre des Dominicains, après avoir rencontré saint Dominique à Rome.
Il est à l'origine de nombreux couvents en Pologne, en Prusse, en Lituanie et
en Russie.
Canonisé en 1594.
À Cracovie en Pologne, l'an 1257, saint Hyacinthe, prêtre de l'Ordre des
Prêcheurs, que saint Dominique désigna pour propager l'Ordre dans ce pays, et
qui, avec le bienheureux Ceslas et
Henri le Germanique, ses compagnons, prêcha l'Évangile en Bohême et en Silésie.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/1682/Saint-Hyacinthe.html
Saint Hyacinthe
Missionnaire Dominicain
(† 1257)
Saint Hyacinthe, apôtre du Nord et Thaumaturge de son siècle, était de famille illustre. Ce fut saint Dominique lui-même qui reçut ses voeux et l'envoya évangéliser la Pologne, qu'il remua tout entière et où il opéra des conversions sans nombre. Sa vie n'était qu'un perpétuel exercice de charité envers toutes les misères, et de sainte cruauté contre lui-même. A l'imitation de son père saint Dominique, il n'avait point d'autre chambre que l'église et d'autre lit que la terre; il se déchirait toutes les nuits les épaules avec des chaînes de fer et jeûnait fréquemment au pain et à l'eau.
Parmi les prodiges qu'il opéra, on cite des résurrections de morts, la délivrance de possédés du démon, la guérison de nombreux malades. On le vit traverser le fleuve rapide de la Vistule avec plusieurs de ses frères, sur son manteau étendu. Obligé de fuir devant les Tartares, il emporte du moins avec lui le Saint-Sacrement, pour en empêcher la profanation. Comme il va quitter l'église, une voix sort de la statue de Marie, qui lui demande de l'emporter aussi. Elle pèse huit ou neuf cents livres; Hyacinthe, plein de foi, la prend d'une main et la trouve légère comme un roseau. A défaut de bateau, il traverse avec son fardeau le grand fleuve du Borysthène comme une terre ferme, pendant que son manteau sert de barque à ses frères, qui le suivent.
Consolé par plusieurs visites de la Sainte Vierge, il eut révélation de sa mort, qui arriva le 15 août 1257.
Abbé L. Jaud, Vie des Saints pour tous les jours de l'année, Tours, Mame, 1950
SOURCE : http://magnificat.ca/cal/fr/saints/saint_hyacinthe.html
Federico Zuccari, Vestizione di san Giacinto
Odrovaz, 1599 - 1600,
affresco, Roma, Basilica di Santa Sabina
all'Aventino
Saint Hyacinthe de Pologne († 1257)
La maigreur des données historiques sur saint Hyacinthe, d’ailleurs regrettée au cours des siècles, a favorisé la création de belles légendes autour de son personnage. En voici une, particulièrement émouvante, qui nous a été transmise par la tradition: un jour, pendant sa mission en Russie, Hyacinthe célébrait la messe dans une église à Kiev. Dès qu’il finissait, on lui annonça que les Tatars envahissaient la ville en la pillant et tuant ses habitants. Sans trop réfléchir, il prit la boîte avec le saint sacrement et chercha à s’enfuir. Alors il entendit une voix: „Hyacinthe, tu as pris mon fils, et moi, tu veux me laisser?” Il prit dans sa main la figure en marbre de la Vierge, et, sans sentir son poids, il sortit en sécurité de la ville, passa le Dniepr à pied sec, traversa Halicz, et, en passant par Lvov, atteignit enfin Cracovie. Saint Hyacinthe est le patron de l’archidiocèse de Cracovie.
La vie de saint Hyacinthe
Hyacinthe naquit à Kamień Śląski sur les terres d’Opole, peu avant 1200. Il était issu de la noblesse, de la famille des Odrowąż, à laquelle appartenait aussi l’évêque de Cracovie, Iwo Odrowąż. C’était un homme ouvert d’esprit, dont la forte personnalité et la position importante dans l’église de l’époque influencèrent Hyacinthe dans sa voie spirituelle. L’évêque Iwo le fit chanoine de la cathédrale, l’envoya ensuite à l’étranger, à Paris et à Bologne, pour suivre des études de théologie et de droit canonique. Après ses études Hyacinthe se distinguait par son savoir et son mode vie sévère.
En partant pour Rome, l’évêque emmena avec lui Hyacinthe, un membre de sa famille, Czesław, ainsi que Herman Niemiec et Gerard de Wrocław. Ils rencontrèrent à Rome Dominique, le fondateur de la communauté appelée, de son nom, dominicaine. L’évêque s’adressa à lui pour lui demander d’envoyer ses religieux en Pologne. Dominique répondit que les frères manquaient, mais qu’il était prêt à accueillir des Polonais dans sa communauté un temps avant de les renvoyer dans leur pays. Alors Hyacinthe, Czesław, Herman et Gerard, qui accompagnaient Iwo, se présentèrent chez Dominique et, après avoir terminé leur noviciat, furent admis dans l’ordre. Hyacinthe avait à cette époque moins de vingt ans.
En automne 1222 les frères dominicains arrivèrent à Cracovie et s’installèrent dans l’église de la Sainte Trinité. Ils avaient deux objectifs: l’organisation des couvents sur les terres polonaises et les missions d’évangélisation parmi les peuples voisins. La participation de Hyacinthe dans la réalisation de ces deux buts est indéniable. Il prit la tête d’un groupe, qui, dans les années 1225-1226, partit de Cracovie vers le Nord. Accueilli favorablement par le prince Świętopełk et l’évêque Michał, il fonda un couvent à Gdansk (Dantzig). Le succès de cette entreprise contribua à l’affermissement de la province polonaise dont les droits furent reconnus égaux à ceux des autres provinces à Paris, le jour de la Pentecôte, en 1228. Hyacinthe faisait partie de la délégation à ce chapitre extraordinaire ainsi que le provincial Gerard de Wrocław et Marcin de Sandomierz. Ce choix témoigne de l’autorité dont il jouissait dans le couvent de Cracovie, ce qui est confirmé par des documents de l’évêque Iwo, dont on apprend que le 29 septembre 1228 Hyacinthe et le provincial Gerard participèrent au chapitre provincial de Cracovie. On peut supposer qu’ils ont rendu compte du succès de la jeune province polonaise à Paris. Les années suivantes ont été consacrées aux missions évangéliques en Russie et en Prusse. L’expédition à Kiev a eu lieu dans les années 1228-1233 et celle en Prusse en 1236-1238. Dans les années 1240 et 1250 l’activité de saint Hyacinthe a été constamment liée au couvent de Cracovie.
Cependant, Hyacinthe ne
fut jamais provincial ni prieur du couvent. Il se concentra sur les tâches qui
s’imposaient aux dominicains polonais: les missions intérieures et extérieures.
En Pologne, ce n’étaient pas les hérésies qui furent le souci principal des
dominicains, mais l’approfondissement d’un christianisme encore superficiel.
Hyacinthe mourut le jour
de l’Assomption, le 15 août 1257. Il fut enseveli dans l’église des dominicains
à Cracovie.
Le culte de saint
Hyacinthe commença immédiatement après sa mort. Les demandes de sa canonisation
durèrent des centaines d’années et se renouvelèrent encore à la fin du XV
siècle. Le roi Sigismond le Vieux s’adressa plusieurs fois à Rome pour demander
cette canonisation. Ce ne sont que les démarches intensives du roi Batory et
Sigismond III dans les années 1580 et 1590 du XVI siècle qui aboutirent. Le 17
avril 1594 le pape Clément VIII canonisa Hyacinthe, ce qui contribua à la
diffusion de son culte, particulièrement vif à Cracovie, ville où il est
enterré, et dans sa Silésie natale.
Le culte de saint Hyacinthe se répand non seulement en Pologne mais encore dans toute l’Europe, les deux Amériques et en Asie. Hyacinthe Odrowąż est le premier des saints polonais dont le culte est si diffusé après sa canonisation. Actuellement, sa fête est fixé pour le 17 août.
SOURCE : http://www.dominicains.ca/Histoire/Figures/hyacinthe.htm
Federico Zuccari, Canonizzazione di
san Giacinto Odrovaz, 1599-1600,
affresco, Roma, Basilica di Santa Sabina
all'Aventino
Saint Jacek (Hyacinthe) Odrowąż
Prêtre o.p. missionnaire en Pologne
Commémoration :
Martyrologium Romanum le 15 août (dies natalis).
Ordo Fratrum Praedicatorum le 17 août.
Hyacinthe naît vers
le 1183 à Groß-Stein (aujourd’hui Kamień Śląski près d’Opole en
Pologne). De famille noble, frère ou cousin du Bx Ceslas Odrowąż, il étudia à
Cracovie, Prague et Bologne, puis devint prêtre (et sans doute chanoine) à
Cracovie.
En 1218 son oncle Yves
Konski, évêque de Cracovie, emmène ses deux neveux à Rome, et demande à st
Dominique des missionnaires pour son diocèse. St Dominique lui dit qu’il n’en a
pas de disponibles mais qu’il peut en former sur place : Hyacinthe, Ceslas, et
deux personnes de la suite de l’évêque, Hermann le Teutonique et Henri le
Morave. St Dominique leur donne l’habit à Sainte-Sabine en mars 1218, ils font
leurs vœux au bout de six mois de noviciat. St Dominique établit Hyacinthe
supérieur de la mission, et pour respecter leur nouvelle règle, ils reviennent
en Pologne à pied et sans provisions (donc pas avec l’évêque Yves). Passant en
Haute-Carinthie, ils restent six mois et fondent à Friesach un couvent avec
Hermann comme supérieur. Ils passent en Styrie, Autriche, Moravie, Silésie,
puis arrivent à Cracovie où Hyacinthe fonde un couvent avec l’aide de son
oncle. Beaucoup de gens entrent dans ce couvent, et Hyacinthe évangélise la
population avec succès.
Zèle et ascèse. La Sainte
Vierge lui apparaît souvent. Il envoie Ceslas et Henri à Prague où ils fondent
le couvent Saint Clément, et part lui-même évangéliser le Nord. Il fonde des
couvents à Sandomir sur la Vistule ; à Ploko en Moravie ; dans une petite île
déserte où plus tard sera construite la ville de Dantzig ; à Culm en Prusse
(ennuis avec les Chevaliers Teutoniques); à Cammin, à Premislau, à l’île de
Rugen, à Elbing, à Montréal en Poméranie. Il va aussi en Danemark, Suède,
Gothie, Norvège, Écosse, Livonie, Petite-Russie, Constantinople, Chio,
Grande-Russie (ou Moscovie), il construit un couvent à Kiev (1229-1233) mais
doit fuir car les Tartares détruisent la ville (il emporte le Saint Sacrement),
il revient à Cracovie (1241-1243), fait divers miracles, évangélise la Cumanie,
la Tartarie, le Tibet, le nord de la Chine, la Volhynie, la Podolie, la
Lithuanie, la Finlande. Le tout sans armes, sans monture, sans argent, sans
interprète, sans fourrures, parfois sans guide, mais Dieu l’a protégé puisqu’il
est revenu en bonne santé à Cracovie, âgé de plus de 72 ans.
Il meurt, le 15 août 1257
à Cracovie, en disant le psaume « Entre tes mains Seigneur je remets mon
esprit ». Quand il fut question de le canoniser, les témoignages
attestèrent, rien que pour Cracovie, 50 résurrections, 72 agonisants rétablis
en santé, et une infinité de malades guéris. Il a fondé la Province de Pologne
mais ne voulut jamais être provincial ni évêque, il voulait être libre. Il
traversa à pied sec les grands fleuves, et la Vierge Marie venait converser
avec lui. Des témoins oculaires rapportent à son propos plusieurs prodiges
comme la traversée miraculeuse de la Vistule sur sa chape, alors qu'il
transportait l'Eucharistie et la statue de la Vierge. Ne cessant jamais de
mener la vie austère et priante des premiers dominicains. Ne se déplaçant qu’à
pied et vivant d’aumônes. « Il était humble, charitable, compatissant et
avait des entrailles de père pour tous les hommes ».
Hyacinthe a été canonisé
le 17 avril 1594 par Clément VIII (Ippolito Aldodrandini, 1592-1605).
Patron de la Pologne, Poméranie, Prusse, Lituanie, Russie, Cracovie, Kiev,
Wroclaw; on l’invoque pour le danger de noyade, contre la stérilité et pour
avoir un accouchement facile. Anne d’Autriche, mère de Louis XIV, obtient du
roi Ladislas de Pologne une partie des reliques de Hyacinthe qu’elle offre aux
dominicains de la rue Saint-Honoré.
SOURCE : https://levangileauquotidien.org/FR/display-saint/272ef7ed-4405-4af1-8182-01a987412956
Pietro
de Raxis, Apparizione di Maria
Vergine a san Giacinto di Cracovia, 1626, olio su tela;
Granada, Museo de Belles Artes
Also
known as
Apostle of the North
Apostle to Poland
Hyacinth of Cracow
Jacek
Jacek Odrowaz
Jacinto
Jacynthe
formerly 16 August
15 August on
some calendars
Profile
Relative, possibly the
brother of Blessed Ceslas
Odrowaz. Educated in
Krakow, Prague, Paris and Bologna.
Doctor of Law and of Sacred Studies. Priest.
Worked to reform convents in
his native Poland.
While in Rome working
with his uncle, Bishop Ivo
Konski of Krakow,
he witnessed a miracle performed
by Saint Dominic
de Guzman. He became of friend of Saint Dominic,
and became one of the first Dominicans.
The first Polish Dominican, he
brought the Order to Poland,
then evangelized throughout Poland,
Pomerania, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Scotland, Russia,
Turkey, and Greece.
During an attack on a monastery,
Hyacinth managed to save a crucifix and
statue of Mary,
though the statue weighed far more than he could normally have lifted;
the saint is
usually shown holding these two items. Hyacinth never served as provincial nor
even a prior,
but toiled as a simple friar, focusing on the internal and external missions
facing the Polish Dominicans: to
deepen their own faith, and to spread it through Poland.
Born
1185 at
Lanka Castle, Kamien Slaski, Opole, Upper Silesia (in
modern Poland)
15 August 1257 at Krakow, Poland of
natural causes
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“Saint
Hyacinth“. CatholicSaints.Info. 7 March 2024. Web. 17 August 2024.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-hyacinth/>
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St. Hyacinth
August 17th
St. Hyacinth was one of
the first members of the Dominicans (the Order of Preachers) and the
"apostle of the North", and is also called the "Apostle of
Poland."
Hyacinth was born into
nobility in 1185 at the castle of Lanka, at Kamin, in Silesia, Poland, and
received an impressive education, becoming a Doctor of Law and Divinity before
traveling to Rome with his uncle, Ivo Konski, the Bishop of Krakow.
In Rome he met St.
Dominic and decided to join the Order of Preachers immediately, receiving his
habit from Dominic himself in 1220.
After his novitiate he
made his religious profession, and was made superior of the little band of
missionaries sent to Poland to preach. In Poland the new preachers were well received
and their sermons produced a deep conversion in the people.
Hyacinth also founded
communities in Sandomir, Kracow, and at Plocko on the Vistula in Moravia. He
extended his missionary work through Prussia, Pomerania, and Lithuania. Then,
crossing the Baltic Sea, he preached in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Russia,
reaching the shores of the Black Sea.
On his return to Krakow
he died, on August 15, 1257.
Some of his relics can be
found at the Dominican church in Paris.
St. Hyacinth is a patron
of Poland.
SOURCE : https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-hyacinth-566
Book of Saints –
Hyacinth of Poland
(Saint) (August
16) (13th century) Of an illustrious family of Silesia, he was born in 1185
near Breslau and, having completed his course of studies, became a Canon of
Cracow. Repairing to Rome with the Bishop, his uncle, he met the great Saint
Dominic, whose Order he joined. After six months of Novitiate he made his
profession and returned to his own country, converting many sinners on the way.
Both at Cracow and elsewhere throughout Poland, he induced a great number of
indifferent Christians to reform their lives, and founded monasteries in
several places. He next journeyed through Pomerania, Denmark, Sweden and
Norway; afterwards to the South of Russia, where he penetrated as far as the
Black Sea. In a third journey he founded a monastery even in the distant and
unlikely city of Kieff. After two years’ rest at Cracow, he undertook (A.D.
1231) the longest of his Apostolic expeditions, penetrating into Asia, where he
reached the frontiers of Thibet, and even made his way into China. He was an
old man when he returned to Cracow, where he died shortly afterwards (A.D.
1257). Saint Hyacinth was canonised A.D. 1594, and his Feast was ordered to be
kept throughout the Western Church.
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“Hyacinth”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
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St. Hyacinth
Dominican, called the
Apostle of the North, son of Eustachius Konski of the noble family of Odrowaz;
born 1185 at the castle of Lanka, at Kamin, in Silesia, Poland (now Prussia); died 15
August, 1257, at Cracow. Feast, 16 Aug. A near relative of Saint Ceslaus, he made
his studies at Cracow, Prague, and Bologna, and
at the latter place merited the title of Doctor of Law and Divinity. On his
return to Poland he
was given a prebend at Sandomir. He
subsequently accompanied his uncle Ivo Konski, the Bishop of Cracow, to Rome, where he met St. Dominic, and was one
of the first to receive at his hands (at Santa Sabina, 1220) the habit of the
newly established Order
of Friars Preachers. After his novitiate he made
his religious
profession, and was made superior of the little band of missionaries sent
to Poland to
preach. On the way he was able to establish a convent of his
order at Friesach in Carinthia. In Poland the new
preachers were favourably received and their sermons were productive of much
good. Hyacinth founded communities at Sandomir, Cracow, and at Plocko on
the Vistula in Moravia.
He extended his missionary work through Prussia, Pomerania, and
Lithuania; then crossing the Baltic Sea he preached in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. He came into
Lower or Red Russia,
establishing a community at Lemberg and at
Haletz on the Mester; proceeded into Muscovy, and founded a convent at Dieff,
and came as far as the shores of the Black Sea. He then returned to Cracow, which he had
made the centre of his operations. On the morning of 15 August he
attended Matins and
Mass, received the last sacraments, and died a
saintly death. God glorified
His servant by numberless miracles, the record of
which fills many folio pages of the Acta SS., August, III, 309. He was canonized by Pope Clement VIII in
1594. A portion of his relics is at
the Dominican church
in Paris.
Sources
BUTLER, Lives of the
Saints; KNOPFLER in Kirchenlex.; HEIMBUCHER, Die Orden u. Kongreg., II
(Paderborn, 1907), 110, 154; BERTOLOTTI, Vita di San Giacinto (Monza, 1903);
Lebensbeschr. der Heil. und Sel. des Dominikanerordens (Dulmen, 1903);
FLAVIGNY, H. et ses compagnons (Paris, 1899).
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Francis. "St. Hyacinth." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton
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Transcription. This
article was transcribed for New Advent by Herman F. Holbrook. In memoriam
David Supple, O.S.B.Obl. Requiem aeternam.
Ecclesiastical
approbation. Nihil Obstat. June 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2023 by Kevin Knight.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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Church
of Holy Trinity, chapel of St. Hyacinth of Poland, 12 Stolarska street, Old
Town, Kraków, Poland
Kościół
Świętej Trójcy, kaplica św. Jacka, ul. Stolarska 12, Stare Miasto, Kraków
La
chapelle Saint-Hyacinthe de la basilique de la
Sainte-Trinité de Cracovie où repose son corps.
August 16
St. Hyacinth, Confessor
From the bull of his canonization by
Clement VIII. published by Fontanini, in 1729, in Codice Canonization; his life
by Alberti, and the Polish historians. See Touron, de Vic S. Domin. l. 6, et
Cuper the Bollandist, t. 3, Aug. p. 309.
A.D. 1257.
ST. HYACINTH, whom the
church historians call the apostle of the North, and the Thaumaturgus of his
age, was of the ancient house of the counts of Oldrovans, one of the most
illustrious of Silesia, a province at that time united to Poland, now to Bohemia,
or Germany. His grandfather, the great general against the Tartars, left two
sons. Yvo, the younger, was chancellor of Poland and bishop of Cracow.
Eustachias, the elder, was count of Konski, the first fruit of whose virtuous
marriage was St. Hyacinth, born in 1185, in the castle of Saxony, in the
diocess of Breslaw in Silesia. His parents diligently cultivated his happy
natural dispositions for virtue, and he preserved an unspotted innocence of
manners through the slippery paths of youth during his studies at Cracow,
Prague, and Bologna; in which last university he took the degree of doctor of
the laws and divinity. Returning to the bishop of Cracow, predecessor to Yvo of
Konski, that pious prelate gave him a prebend in his cathedral, and employed
him as his assistant and counsellor in the administration of his diocess.
Hyacinth showed great prudence, capacity, and zeal in the multiplicity of his
exterior occupations; but never suffered them to be any impedient to his spirit
of prayer and recollection. He practised uncommon mortifications, and was
assiduous in assisting at all the parts of the divine office, and in visiting
and serving the sick in the hospitals; all his ecclesiastical revenues he
bestowed in alms. Vincent, his bishop, abdicating his dignity with the view of
preparing himself for death in holy solitude, Yvo of Konski, chancellor of
Poland, was placed in that see, and went to Rome, whether to obtain the
confirmation of his election, or for other affairs, is not mentioned. He took
with him his two nephews, Hyacinth and Ceslas. St. Dominic was then at Rome;
this happening in the year 1218. Yvo and the bishop of Prague, charmed with the
sanctity of his life, the unction of his discourses, and the fruit of his
sermons, and being eye-witnesses to some of his miracles, begged some of his
preachers for their diocesses. The holy founder was obliged to excuse himself,
having sent away so many, that he was not able to supply them; but four of the
domestic attendants of the bishop of Cracow desired to embrace his austere
institute, namely, the bishop’s two nephews, Hyacinth and Ceslas, and two
German gentlemen, Herman and Henry. They received the habit at the hands of St.
Dominic, in his convent of St. Sabina, in March, 1218. The perfect
disengagement from all things in this world, the contempt of themselves, the
universal mortification of their senses, the denial of their own will, the love
of continual prayer, and an ardent zeal to glorify God in all their actions and
sufferings, were the solid foundation which they laid of the spiritual edifice
of their own perfection, by which they laboured in the first place to sanctify
their own souls. They made their solemn vows by a dispensation, after a
novitiate of about six months only; and Hyacinth, then thirty-three years old,
was appointed superior of their mission. Yvo of Konski set out for Poland with
a suitable equipage. The missionaries took another road, that they might travel
on foot, and without provisions, according to the spirit of their institute.
Having passed through the Venetian territories they entered Upper Carinthia,
where they staid six months, and St. Hyacinth gave the habit to several of the
clergymen and others, founded a convent, and left Herman to govern it. The
Archbishop of Saltzburg received them with all possible respect, and the
apostolic men passed through Stiria, Austria, Moravia, and Silesia, announcing
every where the word of God.
In Poland they were received by all
ranks with extraordinary marks of joy and honour. At Cracow the first sermons
of St. Hyacinth were attended with incredible success, and in a short time the
infamous public vices which reigned in that capital were banished; the spirit
of prayer and charity, the holy and frequent use of the sacraments, watching,
and mortification were revived as they had been practised in the primitive
ages. Reconciliations of persons at variance, and restitutions for injustices,
which seemed to be despaired of, were effected. The great ones, by their
conversions, set the people an example of the most edifying docility. How great
soever the power of the words of this apostle and of the example of his holy
life were, they would have been less efficacious, had they not been supported
by an extraordinary spirit of prayer, and also by miracles, though the saint
strove to conceal them under the veil of humility. He founded a numerous
convent of his Order, called of the Holy Trinity, in Cracow; another at
Sendomir, and a third at Plocsko upon the Vistula, in Moravia. The bull of the
canonization of our saint, mentions a miracle in that country, attested by
above four hundred witnesses, and an ancient history of it is kept in the
treasury of the church of Cracow. 1 St.
Hyacinth came with three companions to the banks of the Vistula, going to
preach at Wisgrade; but the flood was so high, that none of the boats durst
venture over. The disciple of Christ, having made the sign of the cross, walked
upon the waters of that deep and rapid river as if it had been upon firm land,
in the sight of a great multitude of people waiting for him on the opposite
bank towards the town. We may easily imagine with what docility and respect he
was heard by those, several of whom had been spectators of this prodigy.
Having preached through the principal
cities of Poland, he undertook to carry the gospel into the vast and savage
countries of the North. His zeal was too active for him to allow himself any
rest whilst he saw souls perishing eternally in the ignorance of the true God;
and the length of the journeys over rocks, precipices, and vast deserts were
not able to discourage his heroic soul, which delighted in labours and dangers,
and could think nothing difficult which was undertaken for so great an end. He
banished, in many places, superstition, vice, and idolatry, and built convents
of his institute in Prussia, Pomerania, and other countries lying near the
Baltic, as at Camyn upon the Oder, at Premislau or Ferzemysla, Culm, Elbin,
Konisberg, in the isle of Rugen, and the peninsula of Gedan. In this last
place, then a wilderness, he foretold a great city would be built; and in the
same age, in 1295, Primislas, king of Poland, laid there the foundation of the
famous city of Dantzic, capital of Regal Prussia; and though the Lutheran
heresy in the sixteenth age destroyed or profaned all the other churches, that
founded by St. Hyacinth still remains in the hands of the Catholics, is their
parish church, and is served by Dominican friars. The saint left Prussia and
Pomerania to preach in Denmark, Swedeland, Gothia, and Norway; in all which
countries there still remained many idolaters. Lest the devil should shortly
destroy the fruits of his labours, he every where founded monasteries, and left
disciples to preserve and extend them. Notwithstanding his fatigues and
hardships amidst barbarous nations, in excessive cold climates, far from
allowing himself any dispensation in the perpetual abstinence and other severities
of his rule, he continually added to them new austerities. His fasts were
almost perpetual and on all Fridays and vigils on bread and water; the bare
ground was his bed, and sometimes in the open fields; neither hunger, thirst,
weariness, rains, extreme cold, or dangers could ever abate his ardour to gain
a soul to Christ. He abhorred even the shadow of sin; was humble, charitable,
and compassionate, bearing the bowels of a father towards all; every man’s
distress drew tears in abundance from his eyes; and he comforted and encouraged
all who groaned under the burden of any affliction.
After the above-said missions he went
into Lesser Russia, or Red Russia, where he made a long stay, and induced the
prince, and great multitudes of people, to abjure the Greek schism, and unite
themselves to the Catholic church. He there built the flourishing convents of
Leopol or Lemburg, and of Halitz upon the Niester; from thence he penetrated as
far as the Black-Sea, and into the isles of the Archipelago. Thence returning
towards the north, he entered the great dukedom of Muscovy, called also Great
Russia, or Black Russia, where he attacked a hundred-headed hydra of idolaters,
Mahometans, and Greek schismatics. The few Catholics remaining there had not so
much as one church to assemble in. He found the Duke Voldimir inflexible in his
errors; however, he obtained of him permission to preach to the Catholics. He
no sooner began to announce the gospel, confirming his doctrine by miracles,
but Mahometans, heathens, and schismatics flocked to hear him, and in great
multitudes became docile to the truth. St. Hyacinth founded a great convent at
Kiow, then the capital of both Russias. Seeing one day an assembly of idolaters
on their knees before a great tree in an island in the river Boristhenes,
commonly called the Nieper, he walked over the water to them, and easily
prevailed with them, after the sight of such a miracle, to destroy their idols,
fell the great oak, and embrace the faith. All these conversions gave no small
uneasiness to the duke, who hereupon began by threats and by overt acts to
persecute the Catholics; by which he drew down the vengeance of heaven; for the
Tartars, so formidable to all Europe in the thirteenth age, after a most bloody
and obstinate siege, took Kiow by assault, sacked it, and setting it on fire
reduced it to a heap of ashes. St. Hyacinth, in the midst of this desolation,
whilst the streets ran in streams of blood, and many parts of the city were on
fire, carrying the holy ciborium in one hand, and an image of our Lady in the
other, passed through the flames and over the river Nieper. 2
The saint returned to Cracow, upon
this accident, in 1231, being then fifty-six years old; and enjoyed some repose
in his house of the Holy Trinity the two following years, still continuing to
preach and instruct both in the city and the country. After two years he made
the painful visitation of his convents and communities among the Danes, Swedes,
Prussians, Muscovites, and other nations; and penetrated among the Tartars. To
preach in Cumania, a country inhabited by the Jazyges, on the Danube, had been
the object of the zealous desires of St. Dominic, this being regarded as the
most barbarous and obstinate of all infidel nations. Some Dominican preachers
had entered this province in the year 1228. St. Hyacinth came into their
ungrateful vineyard, and, in consequence of his preaching, in a short time
several thousands of these barbarians received the sacrament of baptism, and
among them a prince of the Tartars, who went with several lords of his nation
to the first general council of Lateran in 1245. We read in the life of St.
Lewis, that when he landed in Cyprus in 1248, he met an embassy sent him from a
powerful Christian prince of these Tartars. Though Great Tartary be a vast wild
tract of land, St. Hyacinth travelled quite through it, announcing Christ every
where, penetrating into Thibet, near the East-Indies, and into Catay, which is
the most northern province of China. The missionaries who in the last age
visited these parts, found in them many remains of Christianity once planted
there.
St. Hyacinth returning into Poland,
entered again Red Russia, and there converted many from the schism,
particularly prince Caloman and his wife Salome, who both embraced a state of
continency and perfection. Also the inhabitants of Podolia, Volhinia, and
Lithuania were exceedingly animated by his zealous sermons to the practice of
penance, and to a change of manners. The great convent he founded at Vilna, the
capital of Lithuania, is the mother-house of a large province of this religious
Order. After having travelled above four thousand leagues, he arrived at Cracow
in the year 1257, which was the seventy-second and last of his life. Boleslas
V. surnamed the Chaste, and his pious wife Cunegunda, were directed by his
advice to square their lives by the maxims of Christian perfection. Primislava,
a noble lady, having sent her son to invite the saint to come and preach to her
vassals, the young nobleman was drowned on his return in crossing a great
river. The afflicted mother caused the corpse to be laid at the feet of the
servant of God, who, after a fervent prayer, took him by the hand, and restored
him to her alive and sound. This is the last miracle recorded in his life. In
his last sickness he was forewarned by God on the 14th of August, that he
should leave this world on the next day, the feast of the Assumption of our
Lady, his great patroness. He made a pathetic exhortation to his religious
brethren, recommending to them especially meekness and humility of heart, and
to have great care always to preserve mutual love and charity, and to esteem
poverty as men who have renounced all things of the earth. “For this,” said he,
“is the testament or authentic instrument by which we claim eternal life.” The
next morning he assisted at matins and mass; after which he received the
viaticum and extreme unction at the steps of the altar; and expired a few hours
after in fervent prayer on the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin,
being seventy-two years old. His glory was manifested by a revelation to
Pandrotta, the bishop of Cracow, and attested by innumerable miracles, with the
history of which the Bollandists have filled thirty-five pages in folio. He was
canonized by Clement VIII. in 1594. His relics are preserved in a rich chapel
built in his honour at Cracow. Anne of Austria, queen of France, mother of
Lewis XIV. obtained of Ladislas, king of Poland, a portion of them, which she
deposited in the great church of the Dominicans in Paris.
All Christians are not called to the
apostolic functions of the ministry; but every one is bound to preach to his
neighbour by the modesty of his deportment; by a sincere spirit of meekness,
humility, patience, charity, and religion; by an exact fidelity in all duties;
by fervour and zeal in the divine service; by temperance and the mortification
of all passions and ill humours. These, if not suppressed, easily scandalize
and injure those who are witnesses of them. Nothing is more contagious than
self-love. He that is nice, fretful, hard to please, full of himself, or a
slave to sensuality, easily communicates his malady even to those who see and
condemn it in him; but no sermon is usually more powerful than the edifying
example of a man of prayer, and of a mortified Christian spirit. This
qualification every one owes to God and his neighbour; zeal for the divine
honour, and charity for our neighbour, lay us under this obligation.
Note 1. Apud. Bolland. t. 3, Aug. [back]
Note
2. See Bolland, t. 3, Aug. p. 318. [back]
Rev. Alban Butler
(1711–73). Volume VIII: August. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/lives-of-the-saints/volume-viii-august/st-hyacinth-confessor
Saint Hyacinth
Since not much is known
about St. Hyacinth, the story of his life is interwoven with many
beautiful legends. Here is one particularly moving story brought to us by the
tradition: One day, during his mission in Ruthenia, Hyacinth was celebrating
the Holy Mass in a church in Kiev. When he finished, someone told him that the
Tartars had invaded the town, plundering homes and murdering the inhabitants.
Without thinking, Hyacinth took the ciborium with the Blessed Sacrament from
the altar and intended to runaway. Suddenly he heard a voice: 'Hyacinth, you
have taken my Son but you are leaving me?' After this he took the statute of
the Blessed Mother, which felt weightless under his arm, and safely left the
city. He crossed the Dniepr River traveling to Halicz and returned to Krakow
via Lvov.
Representative of the
first Polish Dominicans, Saint Hyacinth was an excellent preacher and
missionary. He sought to demonstrate to the people of Poland the true values of
authentic Christianity. He was a true shepherd of souls, sensitive to the
peoples' needs and tribulations. He studied, preached, heard confessions and
visited the sick, serving his fellow men in word and deed and giving them an
example to follow.
The life of Saint
Hyacinth
Hyacinth was born in
Kamien Slaski, in Opole (Oppeln) region, shortly before 1200. He descended from
the noble family of Odrowaz, relatives of Ivo Odrowaz, bishop of Krakow. Bishop
Ivo was a broad-minded man whose strong personality and powerful position in
the church, greatly influenced the spiritual path which Hyacinth decided to follow.
He appointed Hyacinth a canon of the cathedral and sent him to Paris and
Bologna to study theology and canon law. After his return, Hyacinth became
known for his broad knowledge and aesethic lifestyle.
Once Bishop Ivo journeyed
to Rome accompanied by Hyacinth, together with his relative Ceslaus, as well as
Herman and Gerard of Wroclaw. In Rome, they met Dominic, founder of the order
which would later be named after him. Bishop Ivo asked Dominic to send some
friars to Poland. As there were no brethren, Dominic invited the Poles to join
the order in Rome and promised to send them back to Poland. Thus, the
companions of bishop Ivo: Hyacinth, Ceslaus, Herman and Gerard, completed the
novitiate and were accepted to the Order by Dominic. At that time, Hyacinth was
a little over twenty years old.
In autumn 1222, the
Dominican friars came to Krakow and settled down at Holy Trinity Church. They
had a twofold challenge: the establishment of priories in Poland and starting
missionary activity among the neighboring peoples. Hyacinth played an
invaluable role in both tasks. Around 1226, he led a group north. They were
welcomed in Gdansk by Prince Swietopelk and bishop Michael, and established fa
priory there. The success of this mission was a decisive point in the strengthening
of the Polish Dominican province. In 1228, at Pentecost, during an
extraordinary chapter held in Paris, the Polish Dominicans were declared to
have equal rights with the other provinces. Hyacinth was a member of the
delegation to Paris, together with provincial Gerard of Wroclaw and Martin of
Sandomierz. This selection testifies to the important position held by Hyacinth
in the Krakow priory.
This is further confirmed
in a document issued by bishop Ivo, which states that on 29 September 1228,
Hyacinth and provincial Gerard attended the chapter of Krakow Province. Quite
likely, they used that occasion to report to the young Polish Province the
success achieved in Paris. The following years, Hyacinth devoted himself to
missionary activity in Ruthenia and Prussia. The mission to Kiev was undertaken
in 1228-1233 while the one in Prussia dates back to 1236-1238. Between
1240-1257 Hyacinth lived in the Krakow priory.
Hyacinth was never
provincial nor even a prior. He focused on the challenges facing the Polish
Dominicans: the internal and external mission. Paramount was the necessity to
deepen the Christian faith, still very superficial in many parts of Polish
society.
Hyacinth died on 15
August 1257, the day of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother. He was buried in
the Dominican church in Krakow.
People began to venerate
Hyacinth immediately after his death in 1257. The canonization process lasted
several centuries, beginning in the 13th C, intensifying in the late 15th C,
and was completed at the end of the 16th C. with the support of the Polish
Kings. King Sigismund I the Old (1506-1548), petitioned Rome many times
concerning the canonization of Hyacinth. However, it was only after the efforts
of King Stephen Bathory (1576-1586) and King Sigismund III (1587-1632) that the
petition succeeded. On 17 April 1594, pope Clement VIII canonized Hyacinth.
This fact contributed to the growth of the veneration of Saint Hyacinth, which
is most vivid at his tomb in Krakow and in Silesia, his place of birth.
Saint Hyacinth is
venerated not only in Poland but also in the rest of Europe, the Americas and
Asia. The feast day of Saint Hyacinth is 17 August. Saint Hyacinth is the
patron saint of the Archdiocese of Krakow.
SOURCE : https://web.archive.org/web/20190217104037/http://www.krakow2004.dominikanie.pl/hyacinthmain.php
Weninger’s
Lives of the Saints – Saint Hyacinth, Confessor
Saint Hyacinth, a great
ornament of the celebrated Order of Preachers, was born in Poland. He was the
son of illustrious parents, who educated him according to the dictates of
Christianity. During the years devoted to his studies, he was an example of innocence,
piety and industry. His uncle, the bishop of Cracow, appointed him canon in his
cathedral, so that he might employ him in the administration of his See. When
he left for Rome, on account of troubles at home, he took Hyacinth with him.
Saint Dominic, so celebrated for his apostolic zeal, and for the miracles he
wrought, was there at the time. Hyacinth, observing the wonderful zeal and
piety of this holy man and of his companions, felt a growing desire to join
them. He and three of his fellow-travellers, who had the same inclination, went
to Saint Dominic and begged him to receive them into his newly-founded Order.
The Saint received them willingly, and instructed them how to lead a religious
life, to preach in a Christian spirit, and to labor successfully for the
spiritual welfare of men. After a few months, the holy founder had so
thoroughly imbued them with his spirit, that he did not hesitate, after they
had taken their vows, to send them into their native country, to preach the
word of God and promote the salvation of souls.
At Cracow, where Saint
Hyacinth had formerly preached by his edifying life, he now began to preach
with words, and God gave them such power, that he reformed the most hardened
sinners, induced others to become more zealous in the service of the Almighty,
and animated all to be more solicitous for the salvation of their souls. That
all this might have a more solid foundation, he gathered a number of spiritual
co-operators about him, and having instructed them according to the maxims of
Saint Dominic, he established a Dominican monastery at Cracow. Hyacinth, who
had been chosen superior by the new members, was an example to all. Besides the
prescribed fast-days of his Order, he fasted all Fridays and vigils on bread
and water. The greater part of the night he passed in fervent prayer, before
the Blessed Sacrament. He allowed himself only a very short rest on the bare
floor, and scourged himself severely every night. The whole day was occupied
with hearing confessions, preaching, visiting the sick, and similar pious
exercises. He had particular devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and to the
Blessed Virgin, and never undertook anything before offering his. work to God
and begging the assistance of His Blessed Mother. She appeared to him once, on
the eve of the feast of her Assumption, saying to him: “Be assured, my son,
that you shalt receive everything you ask from my Son.” The comfort these words
afforded the holy man maybe easily imagined. He, however, asked only for what
was necessary for the salvation of souls. His own and his companion’s pious
labors were all directed to the same end. When he thought that he had firmly
established religious principles and practices among the inhabitants of Cracow
and the whole diocese, he sent his preachers to different places to labor in
the same manner. He himself also left Cracow, and it is astonishing how many
countries he journeyed through, how many convents he established everywhere for
apostolic laborers, how many souls he converted to the true faith or to a more
virtuous life. To aid his pious endeavors* God gave him power to work miracles,
and so great was their number, that he might well be called the Thaumaturgus,
or wonder-worker of his age. A miraculous event occurred in Russia, when the Tartars
stormed Kiow, where the Saint had founded a church and convent. He was standing
at the altar when they entered the city, spreading destruction and desolation
around them. After finishing the Holy Sacrifice, the Saint still in his
priestly robes, took the Ciborium containing the Blessed Sacrament, and telling
his priests to follow him without fear, he went towards the church door. When
passing a large alabaster statue of the Blessed Virgin, before which he had
often said his prayers, he distinctly heard a voice saying: “My son Hyacinth,
wilt you leave me here to be at the mercy of my enemies?” The Saint’s eyes
filled with tears. “How can I carry thee?” said he; “the burden is too heavy.”
“Only try,” was the response; “my son will assist you to carry me without
difficulty.” The holy man with streaming eyes, took the statue and found it so
light, that he could carry it with one hand. Thus, carrying the Ciborium in one
hand and the statue in the other, he and his companions passed through the
enemy unassailed, to the gates of the city. Not finding any soldiers there,
they passed on and reached Cracow in safety. Whether Almighty God made His
servants invisible to the Tartars on this occasion, or in some other manner
prevented them from harming them, is not known; but it is a fact that they left
the city unmolested. When they reached the river over which there was no
bridge, nor a boat to convey them across, the Saint, trusting in the power of
Him whom he carried in his right hand, and in the intercession of her whom he
held in his left, fearlessly stepped upon the water, and crossed it with dry
feet. A similar, and perhaps still greater miracle happened at another time. He
was going to Vicegrad to preach, but, on reaching the river, found no vessel
which he could use to reach the opposite bank. Spreading his cloak on the
water, he sat upon it, and was floated safely across and brought his companions
over in the same manner. By this and many other miracles, God glorified His
servant even on earth. For forty years this holy man had labored for the
salvation of souls, when, in 1257, it was revealed to him that he should
assist, in Heaven, at the triumph of the Blessed Virgin, on the feast of her
glorious Assumption. On the feast of Saint Mary ad Nives, he was taken sick. On
the eve of the Assumption he gave his last instruction to the priests of his
Order; after which he prepared for the festival, and, having recited the office
of the day, he fixed his eyes on heaven, and said the psalm, “In thee, O Lord,
have I hoped,” to the words, “Into thy hands I commend my spirit,” when he
calmly expired, at the age of 74. The innocence and chastity which he possessed
at the time of his baptism, remained unspotted until the end. After his death,
the miracles which the Almighty continued to work through this Saint, were the
means of proclaiming to all the world, the sanctity and merits of His blessed
servant.
Practical Considerations
• Saint Hyacinth,
carrying the I Saviour of the world in one hand, and in the other, the statue
of the Blessed Virgin, walked past his enemies through the city. Happy are they
who carry Jesus and Mary, Hot only on their lips, but also in their hands! They
will ever walk safely amid dangers, unharmed by the enemies of their salvation.
Some carry Mary alone on their lips, not Jesus; they make some show of being
devout to the Blessed Virgin, by saying certain prayers; but they offend Jesus,
the Divine Son of Mary, most grievously, flattering themselves that, by their
devotion to the Blessed Virgin, they are secure against the fire of hell. This
is a terrible deceit of Satan. Such devotion is no devotion to the Divine
Mother; as, to be devout to her, it is required, above all things, to do
nothing which is displeasing to her, but to do all that is agreeable in her
sight. As, then, neglect of her Divine Son, whom she loves above all, must be
displeasing to her, how can any one hope for salvation when his whole devotion
consists in a few prayers or pious acts? One who does this, divides Jesus from
Mary. You must carry Jesus and Mary at the same time, and not only in your
mouth, but also in your hands. You must show, by your works, that you love both
with your whole heart. If you love Jesus, see that you do not offend Him; if
you love Mary, arouse not the wrath of Him whom she loves above all things.
Such devotion will shield you against all dangers to your salvation, and lead
you to everlasting peace and rest.
• For forty years Saint
Hyacinth was devoted solely to the glory of God and the salvation of souls. He
has now enjoyed, for more than five hundred years, the heavenly joys in
recompense for his labors, and he will enjoy them for all eternity, Oh, how
richly God rewards the services of His elect! “If, for one hundred years of
service, He bestowed one hour of Heavenly bliss, the reward would be great,”
says Saint Chrysostom. How grateful should we be, when, as the true faith
teaches us, He promises us an eternal reward in Heaven for such short service!
Who would not serve, with pleasure, so bountiful a Master? How blind and
foolish are those who prefer to serve Satan! Does Satan reward his servants
more liberally than God? Ask the reprobate; they will tell you. Listen to what
the Almighty said, in times long past, of the difference that will, one day, be
between His servants and those of Satan, and then resolve which you will serve;
“Behold!” says He, “my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry; behold, my
servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty. Behold, my servants shall
rejoice, and you shall be confounded; behold, my servants shall praise for
joyfulness of heart, and you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for
grief of spirit.” (Isaias, 65) What else does this mean but: “My servants shall
be eternally happy in Heaven, but you shall be eternally unhappy in hell.”
MLA
Citation
Father Francis Xavier
Weninger, DD, SJ. “Saint Hyacinth, Confessor”. Lives
of the Saints, 1876. CatholicSaints.Info.
9 April 2018. Web. 17 August 2024.
<https://catholicsaints.info/weningers-lives-of-the-saints-saint-hyacinth-confessor/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/weningers-lives-of-the-saints-saint-hyacinth-confessor/
Statue
de la Vierge Marie que saint Hyacinthe a
miraculeusement transportée de Kiev assiégée à Halytch en Galicie.
Miniature
Lives of the Saints – Saint Hyacinth
Hyacinth, the glorious
apostle of Poland and Russia, was born of noble parents in Poland, about the
year 1185. In 1218, being already canon of Cracow, he accompanied his uncle,
the bishop of that place, to Rome. There he met Saint Dominic, and received the
habit of the Friar Preachers from the patriarch himself, of whom he became a
living copy. So wonderful was his progress in virtue that within a year Dominic
sent him to preach and plant the Order in Poland, where he founded two houses.
His apostolic journeys extended over numerous regions. Austria, Bohemia,
Livonia, the shores of the Black Sea, Tartary and Northern China on the east,
and Sweden and Norway to the west, were evangelized by him, and he is said to
have visited Scotland. Everywhere multitudes were converted; churches and
convents were built; one hundred and twenty thousand pagans and infidels were
baptised by his hands. He worked numerous miracles, and at Cracow raised a dead
youth to life. He had inherited from Saint Dominic a most filial confidence in
the Mother of God; to her he ascribed his success, and to her aid he looked for
his salvation. On the eve of the Assumption he was warned of his coming death.
In spite ofa wasting fever he celebrated Mass on the feast, and communicated as
a dying man. He was anointed at the foot of the altar, and died the same day,
a.d. 1257.
Saint Hyacinth teaches us
to employ every effort in the service of God, and to rely for success not on
our own industry, but on the prayer of His Immaculate Mother.
What can Jesus Christ
refuse His Mother, who so tenderly embraced, fed, and served Him? Of a surety
He will grant all she asks from His mercy. – Blessed Henry Suso
When Saint Hyacinth was
at Kiev, the Tartars sacked the town, but it was only as he finished Mass that
the Saint heard of the danger. Without waiting to unvest, he took the ciborium
in his hands, and was leaving the church. As he passed by an image of Mary, a
voice said: ‘Hyacinth, my son, why do you leave me behind? Take me with you,
and leave me not to my enemies.’ The statue was of heavy alabaster, but when
Hyacinth took it in his arms it was light as a reed. With the Blessed Sacrament
and the image he came to the river Dnieper, and walked dryshod over the surface
of the waters.
He that shall find Me
shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord. – Proverbs 8:35
MLA
Citation
Henry Sebastian Bowden.
“Saint Hyacinth”. Miniature Lives of the Saints
for Every Day of the Year, 1877. CatholicSaints.Info.
12 April 2015. Web. 17 August 2024.
<https://catholicsaints.info/miniature-lives-of-the-saints-saint-hyacinth/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/miniature-lives-of-the-saints-saint-hyacinth/
New Catholic
Dictionary – Saint Hyacinth
Greek: purple
Confessor,
apostle of the North, born castle of Lanka, Kamin, Silesia, Poland, 1185; died Krakow,
Poland, 1257. He was a relative of Saint Ceslaus. He studied at Krakow, Prague,
and Bologna and received the title of Doctor of Law and Divinity. Accompanying
his uncle, Bishop Ivo Konski of Krakow, to Rome, he there met Saint Dominic and
was among the first to be enrolled in the new Order of Friars Minor. After his
profession he was appointed head of a band of missionary preachers sent
into Poland.
There he established numerous communities and preached in Prussia, Pomerania,
Lithuania, Denmark, Sweden, Norway,
and Lower Russia. Many miracles are
credited to him. Canonized,
1594. Relics at Paris, France. Feast, 17
August.
MLA
Citation
“Saint Hyacinth”. People of the Faith. CatholicSaints.Info. 19
December 2010.
Web. 17 August 2024.
<http://catholicsaints.info/new-catholic-dictionary-saint-hyacinth/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/new-catholic-dictionary-saint-hyacinth/
Pictorial
Lives of the Saints – Saint Hyacinth
Hyacinth,
the glorious apostle of Poland and Russia, was born of noble parents in Poland,
about the year 1185.
In 1218,
being already Canon of Cracow, he accompanied his uncle, the Bishop of that
place, to Rome. There he met Saint Dominic, and received the habit of the Friar
Preachers from the patriarch himself, of whom he became a living copy. So
wonderful was his progress in virtue that within a year Dominic sent him to
preach and plant the Order in Poland, where he founded two houses. His
apostolic journeys extended over numerous regions. Austria, Bohemia, Livonia,
the shores of the Black Sea, Tartary, and Northern China on the east, and
Sweden and Norway to the west, were evangelized by him, and he is said to have
visited Scotland. Everywhere multitudes were converted, churches and convents
were built; one hundred and twenty thousand pagans and infidels were baptized
by his hands. He worked numerous miracles, and at Cracow raised a dead youth to
life. He had inherited from Saint Dominic a most filial confidence in the
Mother of God; to her he ascribed his success, and to her aid he looked for his
salvation. When Saint Hyacinth was at Kiev, the Tartars sacked the town, but it
was only as he finished Mass that the Saint heard of the danger. Without waiting
to unvest, he took the ciborium in his hands, and was leaving the church. As he
passed by an image of Mary a voice said, “Hyacinth, my son, why dost thou leave
me behind? Take me with thee, and leave me not to mine enemies.” The statue was
of heavy alabaster; but when Hyacinth took it in his arms, it was light as a
reed. With the Blessed Sacrament and the image he came to the river Dnieper,
and walked dryshod over the surface of the waters. On the eve of the
Assumption, he was warned of his coming death. In spite of a wasting fever, he
celebrated Mass on the feast, and communicated as a dying man. He was anointed
at the foot of the altar, and died the same day in 1257.
Reflection – Saint
Hyacinth teaches us to employ every effort in the service of God, and to rely
for success not on our own industry, but on the prayer of His Immaculate
Mother.
– from Pictorial Lives of the Saints, by John
Dawson Gilmary
https://catholicsaints.info/pictorial-lives-of-the-saints-saint-hyacinth/Shea, 1889
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/pictorial-lives-of-the-saints-saint-hyacinth/
Saints and
Saintly Dominicans – 16 August
Providence
led Hyacinth, as if by chance, to Rome, where he met and loved Saint Dominic.
What an incomparable grace to encounter a saint! On receiving the habit from
the holy Patriarch, Hyacinth received his spirit, and in six months became one
of the firmest supports of the rising Order. Who could recount his work, his
journeys, his miracles and the conversions he worked among the infidels? His
steps might be traced by counting the convents and churches he left where he
passed; the first he erected was dedicated to the Most Holy Trinity. Cracow,
Prague, Moravia, Prussia, Pomerania, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Gothland,
Scotland. Livonia, Russia, Constantinople, Thibet, Northern China, received
each in turn the benefits of his apostolate. How wonderful it was to see him
cross great rivers dry-shod, now to overthrow idols, at another time to save
the Blessed Sacrament with one hand, and the statue of Mary with another! How
dear he must have been to the Queen of Heaven, since she said to him: “Rejoice,
Hyacinth, my son, for all that thou askest my Son through my intercession will
be granted thee.” Since his entrance into glory his prayers have raised forty
dead persons to life. (1251)
Prayer
Saint Hyacinth, protect
Poland and all persecuted countries.
Practice
In difficult acts of
obedience never hesitate. God will give you strength; the less successful you
are the more He will bless you.
– taken from the
book Saints
and Saintly Dominicans, by Blessed Hyacinthe-Marie
Cormier, O.P.
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saints-and-saintly-dominicans-16-august/
Wednesday, August 17,
2016
August
17: St. Hyacinth, C., O.P., III Class
Today, in the 1962
Dominican Rite Calendar, we celebrate the feast of St. Hyacinth. The
feast is III Class so the Ordinary office is prayed according to the rubrics.
Like many III Class feasts of Dominican saints on the calendar, the
office for St. Hyacinth contains a full set of propers, as if the office were
II Class. So there are antiphons and responsories at all of the hours,
and the Sunday Psalms are prayed at Lauds, rather than the Psalms of the ferial
office.
The feast was announced yesterday, at the reading of the Martyrology:
At Cracow in Poland, St.
Hyacinth, confessor, of the Order of Preachers. Having received the religious
habit from the hands of our Father St. Dominic, he excelled in learning and in
a life of admirable innocence. He was celebrated for the glory of his miracles,
especially for walking dryshod across wide rivers. Thought deserving of sweet
converse with the holy Mother of God, distinguished for his spotless life, and
filled with the gifts of the Holy Ghost, he died at an advanced age. He was
called to his eternal reward on the very feastday of the Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin Mary. He was canonized by Pope Clement VIII.
From the Office of Matins
(Lesson iii):
Hyacinth was born of
noble and Christian parents at the castle of Camin in the diocese of Warsaw in
Poland. Being appointed one of the canons of Cracow, he surpassed the
others in piety and learning. At Rome he was received into the Order of
Preachers by the founder himself. To the end of his life he religiously
adhered to the perfect way of life that he had learned from Saint Dominic and
also maintained perpetual virginity. On being sent back to his own
country, he established six houses of the Order. It is almost incredible
what progress he made with all by preaching the word of God, and by the
innocence of his life. He was renowned for many miracles.
Particularly striking was the miracle of his crossing the Vistula, without a
boat, when the river was in flood near Visograde, taking his companions also
with him on his cloak which he had spread upon the waters. Having
continued his remarkable way of life for almost forty years after his profession,
he returned his sould to God on the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin in the year 1257. He was canonized by Clement VIII.
Prayer
O God, you made the
blessed Hyacinth, you confessor, glorious among the peoples of different
nations by the holiness of his life and the splendor of his miracles; grant
that by his example we may amend our lives, and by his help be defended in
adversity. Through our Lord…
SOURCE : https://breviariumsop.blogspot.com/2016/08/august-17-st-hyacinth-c-op-iii-class.html
Ventura Salimbeni (1568–1613),
Miracle saint Hyacinthe, 1690 circa, fresco, Santo
Spirito, Siena
San Giacinto Odrovaz Sacerdote
domenicano
Festa: 15 agosto
Cracovia, Polonia, 1183
c. - 15 agosto 1257
Nato in Slesia nel 1183,
è parente stretto di Iwon Odrowaz, vescovo di Cracovia. Studiò diritto e
teologia a Cracovia, Praga e Bologna e fu ordinato sacerdote e poi canonico
della cattedrale di Cracovia; successivamente giunse a Roma e fu quasi
sicuramente in Italia che, nel 1221, incontrò san Domenico di Guzman, che nel
maggio di quell'anno celebrò il secondo capitolo generale del suo Ordine.
Decise di diventare domenicano e dopo il noviziato ripartì per l'Europa
orientale, dove aveva ricevuto l'incarico di diffondere l'Ordine: fondò i
conventi di Friesach, Cracovia, Danzica e Kiev; per conto di papa Gregorio IX,
lavorò per l'unione delle Chiese d'oriente e occidente. Nell'iconografia
Giacinto appare vestito dell'abito domenicano e porta in una mano l'ostensorio
e nell'altra una statua della Madonna. Secondo un racconto del XVI secolo
infatti, mentre fuggiva con l'ostensorio durante l'attacco dei Tartari a Kiev,
fu richiamato da Maria perché prendesse con sé anche la sua statua. Muore il 15
agosto 1257. É canonizzato da papa Clemente VIII nel 1594. (Avvenire)
Patronato: Gestanti
Etimologia: Giacinto
= dal nome del fiore
Martirologio
Romano: A Cracovia in Polonia, san Giacinto, sacerdote dell’Ordine dei
Predicatori, che fu designato da san Domenico a propagare l’Ordine in quella
nazione e insieme ai compagni il beato Ceslao ed Enrico il Germanico predicò il
Vangelo in Boemia e in Slesia.
Giacinto, in polacco moderno Jacek, si chiamava in realtà Jacio, diminutivo di Giacomo (Jacopus). Nel secondo capitolo del suo De vita et miraculis S. Jacchonis, fra Stanislao di Cracovia cambiò questo nome in Jacinthus, paragonando poi il suo eroe all'omonima pietra preziosa (hyacinthus). I biografi posteriori non si accorsero di questo gioco di parole, e cosí egli passò alla storia col nome di Giacinto (Hyacinthus).
Il paese dov'egli vide la luce sulla fine del XII sec. fu quasi certamente Kamien, nelle vicinanze di Opole in Slesia. La sua famiglia apparteneva probabilmente alla piccola nobiltà, ma non è sicuro fosse quella degli Odrowaz. E' inoltre, priva di fondamento l'affermazione dei biografi barocchi, secondo cui il santo sarebbe stato fratello dei bb. Ceslao e Bronislava. Di lui conosciamo solo un fratello uterino, che si chiamava pure Giacomo. Se vogliamo credere al ricordato Stanislao, Giacinto era, prima del suo ingresso nell'Ordine Domenicano, canonico di Cracovia. E' certo comunque che fu in Italia, dove entrò nel nuovo Ordine dei Predicatori. Dopo un breve noviziato, compiuto probabilmente a Bologna, e dopo il secondo capitolo generale ivi celebrato nel maggio 1221, fu da s. Domenico inviato in patria, col compagno fra Enrico di Moravia. Il lavoro che egli avrebbe dovuto svolgere in Polonia gli era stato certamente fissato con chiarezza dallo stesso fondatore: prima propagare e irrobustire l'Ordine con l'ammissione di nuovi elementi, e poi dedicarsi all'evangelizzazione dei pagani di Prussia, cosa che stava molto a cuore a s. Domenico. I due predicatori dovettero, durante il loro viaggio, sistemare e rafforzare la fondazione domenicana di Friesach in Carinzia, in difficoltà per l'inettitudine del priore locale. Essendo occorso un tempo abbastanza lungo per quest'opera, poterono arrivare a Cracovia solo poco prima della festa del 1° novembre 1222, accolti con grande gioia e con onori dal vescovo Ivo. Questi assegnò loro una chiesetta di legno, dedicata alla S.ma Trinità. Durante i restauri della chiesa e la costruzione del convento il vescovo li ospitò nel suo palazzo. La chiesa fu poi consacrata il 12 marzo 1223 dal legato apostolico, card. Gregorio Crescenzio. L'afflusso di nuovi religiosi permise al capitolo provinciale del 1225 di decidere la fondazione di cinque nuovi conventi in Polonia ed in Boemia. A Giacinto toccò in sorte il compito di dar vita ad una comunità a Gdansk (Danzica), ai confini della Prussia, col compito preciso di lavorare alla conversione di quelle popolazioni, come è detto nell'atto di fondazione del duca Svjatopolk di Pomerania. Nel 1227 tutti i conventi della provincia manifestarono la loro fiducia in Giacinto eleggendolo a loro rappresentante per il capitulum generalissimum, che doveva aver luogo a Parigi nel 1228. Tornato da Parigi a Cracovia, egli compare il 29 settembre 1228 come teste in un documento emesso dal suo amico, il vescovo Ivo. In seguito continuò il suo viaggio verso Gdansk, dove però non si trattenne certamente a Iungo. Non è escluso che a Parigi gli fosse stato affidato un nuovo e difficile incarico, cioè la fondazione di un caposaldo cattolico avanzato a Kiev.
Nella Russia di allora si trovavano molti cattolici di rito latino, piú che altro per ragioni di lavoro; ma l'assistenza spirituale che essi ricevevano lasciava molto a desiderare, e ciò era certo noto a Roma. In quello stesso periodo, poi, Gregorio IX sperava nell'unione di qualche principe ortodosso con la Chiesa romana. I Domenicani avrebbero dovuto contribuire alla soluzione di questi due problemi. Giacinto prese con sé tre suoi compagni e si stabilì a Kiev, presso la chiesa di Maria S.ma officiata, già dall'XI sec., dai monaci benedettini irlandesi della "Abbazia degli Scozzesi" di Vienna, ma che in questo periodo era rimasta praticamente senza sacerdoti. In breve tempo i Predicatori ottennero a Kiev risultati cosí notevoli, che la curia romana s'interessò vivamente alla Russia, al punto da nominare un vescovo per quella nazione. Ma questa intensa attività sembrò al principe di Kiev, Vladimir Rurikovic, nociva agli interessi della Chiesa ortodossa. Perciò la troncò bruscamente nel 1233 con l'allontanamento dei religiosi.
Ma quando ciò avvenne, Giacinto non si trovava piú a Kiev. Da parecchio tempo ormai egli era il centro propulsore di tutto il ministero missionario in Polonia, e in quel momento (intorno al 1232 erano necessarie la sua energia e la sua molteplice esperienza per un'azione di vasta portata nei cor, fronti della Prussia pagana. Dal 1230 era infatti in corso contro di essa una guerra religiosa e i Domenicani furono incaricati da Gregorio IX di assistere spiritualmente i cavalieri crociati, di completare e rafforzare le loro file mediante la predicazione della crociata e di curare infine il pacifico lavoro missionario presso i vinti. Ormai anziano e fisicamente stremato, egli ritornò al suo primitivo convento di Cracovia, dove operò ancora per qual che tempo nella città e nei dintorni. Morí nella festa dell'Assunzione di Maria, il 15 agosto 1257.
Giacinto è il classico tipo del domenicano della prima generazione. Portò costantemente nel cuore il desiderio ardente della salvezza delle anime, scegliendosi sempre il compito piú difficile: evangelizzare i Prussiani pagani, particolarmente bellicosi e selvaggi. In questo campo egli lavorò indefessamente in prima linea, sempre pronto al sacrificio e animato da spirito soprannaturale. Già durante la sua vita fu riconosciuto e onorato come taumaturgo. Tra i miracoli fece la piú grande impressione sui suoi compagni di viaggio un caso di levitazione, consistito nel traversare la Vistola in piena, sulla sua cappa distesa; portando con sé tre compagni.
Il culto di Giacinto cominciò già dal giorno della sua sepoltura. La sua tomba nella chiesa dei Domenicani di Cracovia divenne meta di pellegrinaggi da parte di malati e bisognosi di aiuto, che vi accorrevano per invocarlo. Questo spinse i Domenicani a costituire, undici anni dopo la sua morte, una commissione per interrogare miracolati e testimoni, e riportare per iscritto con rigorosa esattezza gli avvenimenti piú straordinari. Questa commissione lavorò con particolare impegno dal 1268 al 1290, il che lascia supporre che ci si adoperasse per la canonizzazione. Apparve cosí un catalogo ufficiale di quarantotto miracoli che, dopo il 1352, il lettore Stanislao registrò nella sua opera. Gli sforzi ripresero solo alla fine del XV sec. e il processo ebbe inizio nel 1521. La commissione nominata dal papa lavorò a Cracovia nel periodo 1523-24, e nel 1527 Clemente VII permise ai Domenicani polacchi di commemorare nel Breviario e nella Messa il giorno della morte di Giacinto, nel 1530 tale concessione fu estesa a tutte le chiese di Polonia. Poiché gli Atti erano andati smarriti durante il sacco di Roma (1527), si poté riprendere il processo solo dopo il ritrovamento nel 1580. Dopo che il re di Polonia Sigismondo III si fu energicamente impegnato a Roma per la canonizzazione, Clemente VIII la proclamò in forma solenne il 17 aprile 1594.
Già l'inizio del processo diede un primo avvio alla redazione di inni e Uffici in onore di Giacinto, intesi a raccontare e illustrare la sua vita. Essi diventarono ancor piú numerosi col ritrovamento delle sue reliquie (1543) e la costruzione di una cappella. Il culto però si sviluppò solo dopo la canonizzazione, favorito dalle monarchie cattoliche, che desideravano mantenere buoni rapporti con il re di Polonia, e da molti conventi che pretendevano di avere Giacinto come loro fondatore. Dal 1612 anche una provincia dell'Ordine, formata dai conventi della parte orientale della Polonia, portò il nome di Provincia S. Hvacintti in Russia.
La sua festa ricorre il 15 agosto anche se, in passato, era dapprima celebrata il 16 agosto, ma poi Pio X la spostò al 17, data in cui è ancora ricordato dall'Ordine Domenicano.
Autore: Vladimiro Koudelka
SOURCE : https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/66250
Giacinto Odrovaz
(ca. 1183-1257)
CANONIZZAZIONE:
- 17 aprile 1594
- Papa Clemente
VIII
- Basilica Vaticana
RICORRENZA:
- 15 agosto
Sacerdote dell’Ordine dei
Predicatori, che fu designato da san Domenico a propagare l’Ordine in quella
nazione e insieme ai compagni il beato Ceslao ed Enrico il Germanico predicò il
Vangelo in Boemia e in Slesia
Jacek Odrowąż nasce
in Slesia nel 1183, nipote del vescovo di Cracovia.
Studiò diritto e teologia
a Cracovia, Praga e Bologna e fu ordinato sacerdote e poi canonico della
cattedrale di Cracovia.
A Roma conosce San
Domenico ed entra nell’Ordine dei predicatori con l’incarico di evangelizzare
la Polonia e tutto l’Est. Si adopera per l’unione delle Chiese di Oriente e
Occidente arrivando fino a Kiev.
Muore il 15 agosto 1257.
É canonizzato da papa Clemente VIII nel 1594.
Nell'iconografia Giacinto
appare vestito dell'abito domenicano e porta in una mano l'ostensorio e
nell'altra una statua della Madonna. Secondo un racconto del XVI secolo
infatti, mentre fuggiva con l'ostensorio durante l'attacco dei Tartari a Kiev,
fu richiamato da Maria perché prendesse con sé anche la sua statua.
SOURCE : https://www.causesanti.va/it/santi-e-beati/giacinto-odrovaz.html
.JPG)
Kościelec (województwo
małopolskie) - figurka św. Jacka z 1844 roku.
Den hellige Hyacint av
Polen (1185-1257)
Minnedag: 17.
august
Skytshelgen for Polen,
Litauen, Russland, Pommern, Preussen, Kraków, Wroclaw, Kiev; for dominikanerne;
for de druknende; mot ufruktbarhet; for en lett fødsel
Den hellige Hyacint
Odrowaz (lat: Hyacinthus) het i virkeligheten Jacek (Iazech eller Jacko),
som er en polsk diminutivform for Jakob. Det var en av hans biografer som
endret hans navn til Jacinthus, «Hyacint», og dette navnet er han senere
blitt kjent under. Han ble født i 1185 på slottet Grosstein (nå Kamien Slaski)
i det polske hertugdømmet Oppeln (Opole) i Schlesien i Polen. Han var sønn av
Eustachius Konski i greveslekten Odrowaz. Han studerte i Kraków, Praha og
Bologna, hvor han tok doktorgrader i jus og teologi og ble presteviet. Da han
kom tilbake til Kraków, var hans onkel Ivo Odrowaz [Konski] valgt til byens
biskop, og han utnevnte nevøen til kannik ved domkirken der.
Rundt 1218 reiste Hyacint
til Roma i et kirkelig ærend sammen med biskop Ivo og to ledsagere. Den ene,
den salige Ceslas (pl:
Czeslaw) var muligens hans bror, og den andre var en annen ung adelsmann,
Hermann den Tyske. I Roma møtte han den hellige Dominikus og ble
dramatisk omvendt av ham og mottok undervisning. Sammen med Ceslas fikk han
ordensdrakten av ordensgrunnleggeren i Santa Sabina i Roma og ble
dominikaner (Ordo Fratrum Praedicatorum – OP). Det skjedde i 1220 og
de to brødrene var blant de første som mottok ordensdrakten av Dominikus. Etter
novisiatet avla de ordensløftene.
I 1221 sendte Dominikus
dem nordover sammen med en liten gruppe ledsagere som misjonærer for ordenen,
og Hyacint ble utnevnt til gruppens superior. På veien nordover kunne han
grunnlegge et kloster i Friesach i Kärnten i Østerrike, det første
dominikanerklosteret i det tyske språkområdet, hvor Hermann den Tyske ble
prior. Deretter dro Hyacint høsten 1222 til Kraków. Biskop Ivo ga samme år nevøens
orden Treenighetskirken og et stort kloster i Kraków, og det ble det første
dominikanerklosteret i Polen. Siden skulle Hyacint grunnlegge ytterligere fire
klostre i landet, blant annet i Sandomierz og Plock ved Vistula i Morava.
Ceslas dro til Praha og forkynte i Bøhmen, Schlesien og Pommern.
Mange unge menn sluttet
seg til Hyacint, og han ble leder for den polske ordensprovinsen, som omfattet
Polen, Russland, Bøhmen, Morava (Mähren), Brandenburg, Schlesien, Preussen og
Pommern. Fra sine klostre misjonerte Hyacint i nesten førti år i hele
Øst-Europa og foretok mange misjonsreiser til Russland, Preussen og Litauen og
virket med stor iver for Kirken. Han grunnla klostre i Riga, Lvov (i dag Lviv i
Ukraina; tysk: Lemberg) og Kiev (i dag Kyjiv) i 1223, men det varte ikke lenge,
og i Danzig (Gdansk) i 1226. Fra 1229 til 1233 levde han i Kiev.
I de dager var Kraków en
by med mye umoral, men Hyacint var like veltalende som Dominikus selv, og hans
forkynnelse endret hjertene og livene til mange. Selv adelsfolk ble ydmyke, og
langvarige krangler ble gjort opp. Hyacint ønsket heller å omvende menn og
kvinner ved ordets kraft enn av tegn og mirakler. Hans apostoliske og
undervisende arbeid var betydelig, men hans biografer gjør mest ut av at han
fikk ry som undergjører, og med Guds hjelp skal han ha leget syke, vekket opp
døde og spådd om fremtiden. Tradisjonen sier også at han gjorde sitt beste for
å holde miraklene skjult.
Et av de best kjente av
de mange miraklene som tilskrives ham, forteller at mot slutten av hans liv
sendte en adelskvinne sin sønn for å be Hyacint komme for å omvende hennes
tjenere og forpaktere. Men den unge mannen druknet da han krysset en elv på
veien. Liket ble brakt til Hyacint, som tok hans hånd, ba og oppvakte deretter
mannen fra de døde. Dette skal ha skjedd i 1257. En annen legende forteller at
han skal ha reddet Kiev fra tatarenes ødeleggelse med en monstrans og en
Maria-statue.
Hyacint ble på
1500-tallet tilskrevet utstrakte misjonsreiser, som det ikke finnes noen solide
bevis for. De skal ha ført ham til Pommern, Preussen, Danmark, Sverige, Norge,
Russland; til Svartehavet, Tibet og grensen mot Kina, men nærmere enkeltheter
er ukjent. Han kan dermed ha vært den første dominikaner som satte sin fot på
nordisk jord, men de sagalignende beretningene inngir ikke all verdens tillit.
Alle forsøk på kristent apostolat i Øst-Europa ble hindret av mongolinvasjoner
i 1238 og senere.
Utbrent av det harde
arbeidet døde Hyacint i Kraków den 15. august 1257, på festen for Marias
opptakelse i himmelen, etter å ha deltatt ved matutin og messen og mottatt de
siste sakramentene. Han ble gravlagt i dominikanerkirken i Kraków. Den
viktigste kilden for hans liv er den biografien som den hellige Stanislas av
Kraków skrev en gang etter 1352.
Han ble helligkåret den
17. april 1594 av pave Klemens VIII (1592-1605) – den første helligkåringen som
er registrert i Helligkåringskongregasjonens Index ac status causarum etter
at den daværende Rituskongregasjonen ble opprettet den 22. januar 1588. Dette
var på en tid da den polske katolisismens konsolidering og kampanjen mot
protestantismen hadde nådd et høydepunkt. Hans minnedag var først 16. august,
men har siden 1913 har den vært 17. august. Etter kalenderrevisjonen i 1969 har
han vært henvist til lokale og spesielle kalendere. Hans navn står i
Martyrologium Romanum. Han æres som Polens apostel og kalles også Nordens
apostel.
Han fremstilles som
dominikanermunk med monstrans, ciborium, Maria-statue, kalk og bok. I
dominikanerkirken Santa Sabina i Roma, som i 1219 ble gitt til Dominikus av
pave Honorius III (1216-27), finnes det et veggmaleri av Taddeo Zuccaro
(1529-66) som viser Dominikus gi ordensdrakten til to unge menn. De to er
Hyacint og hans bror Ceslas. Den eldste, men lite troverdige biografien ble
skrevet rundt et århundre etter hans død av en Stanislas i Kraków. En del av
hans relikvier befinner seg i dominikanerkirken i Paris.
Kilder: Attwater
(dk), Attwater/John, Attwater/Cumming, Farmer, Bentley, Butler (VIII),
Benedictines, Delaney, Bunson, Schauber/Schindler, Melchers, Dammer/Adam,
Index99, CE, CSO, Patron Saints SQPN, Infocatho, Bautz, Heiligenlexikon,
krakow2004.dominikanie.pl - Kompilasjon og oversettelse: p. Per Einar Odden
Opprettet: 2000-05-07
22:58 - Sist oppdatert: 2005-08-25 15:30
SOURCE : http://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/hyacint
Voir aussi : https://www.christianiconography.info/hyacinth.html
