lundi 7 septembre 2015

Sainte REINE (REGINA) d'AUTUN, vierge et martyre

Statue der heiligen Regina aus der Pfarrkirche St. Regina Drensteinfurt / Statue of the Holy Saint Regina from the church with the same name.


Sainte Reine

Martyre à Alésia, en Côte d'Or (+ 252)

Ses 'Actes' sont sans valeur car ils sont l'œuvre d'un faussaire qui se contenta de plagier les 'Actes' de sainte Marguerite

Son culte est attesté à Alésia (Alise Sainte Reine -21150- dans la Côte d'Or) dès le Ve siècle, par une basilique érigée au-dessus de son sarcophage ce qui donne à croire que sainte Reine subit le martyre là même où Vercingétorix se rendit à César. 

A Voisines -89260- on trouve une chapelle Sainte-Reine: "bâtie en 1827 par deux habitants à la suite d’un vœu fait lors d’un pèlerinage à Alise-Sainte-Reine. Ce fut longtemps un pèlerinage fréquenté. L’hiver, une messe y est dite les premiers vendredis du mois car la chapelle est plus facile à chauffer que l’église." (Les chapelles du Sénonais et du Jovinien - diocèse de Sens-Auxerre)

D'après la légende qui évolue avec le temps, Reine était une jeune fille, orpheline de mère, instruite dans la foi chrétienne par sa nourrice.

À Alésia chez les Éduens, sainte Reine, martyre.

Martyrologe romain

SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/1807/Sainte-Reine.html

Sainte Reine d’Autun

Vierge et martyre

Fête le 7 septembre

Église de France

† en Bourgogne v. 286 (?)

Autre graphie : Reine ou Régine

Les Actes de cette martyre n’ont aucune valeur historique, on suppose que cette humble bergère se refusant à un païen, fut torturée et décapitée à Autun par le préfet Olybrius parce qu’elle avait refusé de l’épouser. Sa légende est une simple reprise de la vie de sainte Marina.

A Alise en Côte-d’Or (sur le plateau du mont Auxois, site d’Alésia), le culte de sainte Reine est antérieur à 626.

En 1923, on a déblayé à Alésia (Alise-Sainte-Reine) une église mérovingienne, probablement dédiée à notre martyre, peut-être exécutée sur cet emplacement en 252. Ses reliques sont à Flavigny-sur-Ozerain (Côte-d’Or).

Sainte Reine est la patronne des charpentiers.



Vitrail de la Basilique d'Ars -sur-Formans: Sainte Reine 


Saint Regina

Also known as

Regnia

Reine

Memorial

7 September

Profile

Daughter of a pagan aristocrat named Clement. A convert to Christianity, she was driven from her family’s home because of her faith, and lived as a poorprayerful shepherdessImprisonedtortured and martyred when she refused an arranged marriage to the Roman proconsul Olybrius.

Died

throat cut c.286 at Autun, (in modern France)

Canonized

Pre-Congregation

venerated at AutunFrance from soon after her death

Patronage

poor people

shepherdesses

torture victims

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate

Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler

Lives of the Saints, by Father Francis Xavier Weninger

Saints of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein

books

Lives of the Saints, by Omer Englebert

Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

other sites in english

Ana St Paul

Catholic Fire

Catholic Online

Catholic Online

Regina Magazine

Wikipedia

sitios en español

Martirologio Romano2001 edición

sites en français

Fête des prénoms

fonti in italiano

Martirologio Romano2005 edition

Santi e Beati

Santo del Giorno

MLA Citation

“Saint Regina“. CatholicSaints.Info. 7 September 2020. Web. 7 September 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/saint-regina/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-regina/


Hamm, Rhynern, Katholische Kirche St, Regina, Ansicht von der Seite in Richtung Turm


Regina (Regnia, Reine) of Autun VM (RM)

Born in Alise (Alesia), Burgundy, France; died c. 251 or 286. Regina has been venerated at Autun from an early date and was probably martyred under the persecution of Decius or Maximian Herecleus; however, we have no particulars of her life, so her clients developed a suitable one for her. 

Thus, it is related that Regina's father, Clement, was a prominent pagan citizen; her mother died in giving her life. The baby was entrusted to the care of a Christian nurse who had her baptized, which, to put it mildly, didn't please her father. He repudiated his daughter, refusing to ever see her again. The nurse was poor, so she sent Regina to tend her little flock of sheep. The young saint found this to be a pleasing occupation because it provided her with the time and solitude to pray and read the lives of the saints.

Too soon the little girl grew to womanhood and attracted the attention of the prefect of the province, Olybrius, who decided that she would be his bride. Regina, having dedicated her life to God, rejected his advances. Her father was willing to accept her as his daughter when he knew that she had a distinguished suitor, but she rejected his entreaties as well. As Olybrius was setting out on a journey, he had Regina imprisoned--the chief jailer was her own father, who carefully guarded his daughter in order to ensure his own advancement. He encased her in an iron belt joined by two chains to opposite walls.

When Olybrius returned, he again tried to sway Regina to become his wife. Again she rejected him. In his anger he had her scourged over a wooden horse, her nails torn from their beds, and her skin rent by iron hooks. Regina recovered from her injuries immediately after being returned to her cell. That night in prison, she had a vision of the cross, and a voice told her that her release would be soon. The next day Olybrius began the process again, this time using torches on her side, crucifixion, and finally decapitation. Many witnesses are said to have been converted by the appearance of a dove hovering over her head.

The story is entirely a Burgundian adaptation of the legend of Saint Marina or Margaret of Antioch. Her relics are enshrined in Flavigni abbey, to which they were translated in 864, and where they have been rendered famous by miracles and pilgrimages. There is a miraculous spring with powers to heal ringworm, mange, scurvy, and other illnesses, with a hospital nearby dedicated to Saint Regina founded by Saint Vincent de Paul (Benedictines, Delaney, Encyclopedia, Husenbeth, White).

In art, Saint Regina is portrayed as a maiden bound to a cross with torches applied to her sides. She might also be shown (1) in prison with a dove appearing on a shining cross; (2) with a lamb or sheep near her (not to be confused with Saint Agnes); (3) scourged with rods (Roeder); or (4) in a boiling cauldron (White). She is venerated at Autun, France, and in southern Germany (Roeder). 


Statue de Sainte-Reine. Intérieur de l'église Saint-Baudèle à Plombières-lès-Dijon (21). 



September 7

St. Regina, or Reine, Virgin and Martyr

AFTER undergoing many cruel torments, she was beheaded for the faith at Aliza, formerly a large town called Alexia, famous for the siege which Cæsar laid to it, now a small village in the diocess of Autun in Burgundy. Her martyrdom happened in the persecution of Decius, in 251, or under Maximian Herculeus in 286, as some Martyrologies mention. She is honoured in many ancient Martyrologies. Her relics are kept with great devotion in the neighbouring abbey of Flavigni, a league distant, whither they were translated in 864, and where they have been rendered famous by miracles and pilgrimages, of which a history is published by two monks of that abbey. See Lubin, Not. in Martyr. Rom. p. 41. Suassaye, Martyr. Gallic. Suysken, the Bollandist, t. 3. Sept. p. 24 ad 43.

Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73).  Volume IX: September. The Lives of the Saints.  1866.




Weninger’s Lives of the Saints – Saint Regina, Virgin and Martyr

Article

Saint Regina was born in the year 238, of heathen parents. Having lost her mother soon after her birth, she was entrusted by her father to a nurse who happily was a Christian, although this fact was unknown to him. He left the entire care and education of his beloved child to this pious woman, whose only object was to make a devout Christian of her little charge. Hence, as soon as the light of reason began to dawn in the child’s mind, she taught her to respect the Christian faith, and as God had gifted Regina with great intelligence, it was not long before she recognized the nothingness of the idols, and the truth of our holy religion. This knowledge was followed by the resolution to become a Christian and to be secretly baptized. As the solicitous nurse knew that Regina s father would raise a furious storm when he became aware of what had happened, she endeavored to prepare the newly-baptized Regina for the martyrdom in store for her. She related to her the torments so many tender youths and maidens had endured for the Christian faith; how heroically they had suffered, and how miraculously they had been strengthened by the Almighty; she told her of the great happiness of suffering for Christ’s sake, and how great a recompense was in store for those who gave their lives for the confession of their faith. She also explained to her the inexpressible value of virginal purity so eloquently, that Regina hesitated not to consecrate her virginity to the Almighty. The desire to gain the crown of martyrdom was also awakened in the heart of the tender maiden by the words of the pious nurse, and she prayed daily to God to grant her the grace to die for Christ’s sake. As she was actuated in all she did by the thought of pleasing the Almighty, her conduct was such that every one admired and esteemed her.

Her father, ignorant of the fact that she was a Christian, loved her most devotedly, and was anxious to secure her happiness by a suitable marriage. When he informed her of this, she said to him: “Dear father, I know that you love me, and that you only seek my happiness by wishing to give my hand to the young man of whom you speak. But if I knew some one who would make me still happier, would you oppose my being united to him?” “So far from it,” answered the father, “that I should be rejoiced at it. But where will you find him?” “I have already found him,” said Regina. “It is Jesus Christ, my Saviour. Him have I chosen; to Him I have pledged my constancy and my faith.” Stunned at this confession, the father, at first, knew not what to reply. Having controlled himself somewhat, he exclaimed: “Can it be possible, my daughter, that you are a Christian? Have you allowed yourself to be so bewitched, as to embrace so despicable a faith? Never will I give my consent to it. Consider quickly whether you will see in me your executioner or your father.” Regina answered fearlessly: “I am not bewitched. The Christian faith is not despicable; it conduces to one’s greatest honor to be counted among the faithful. I need no time for consideration; I am a Christian and as such will I live and die.” Too much enraged to hear or say more, her father left her, and Regina hastened to her nurse to inform her of what had taken place. The latter embraced her joyfully and congratulated her on so courageous a beginning, but also admonished her to pray earnestly for strength from above, to enable her to conquer in the approaching combat. Regina obeyed and, as predicted by the nurse, her struggle soon commenced: for, her father endeavored to draw her from Christ by alternate kind and earnest words, by caresses and by menaces. All, however, proved unavailing; Regina remained firm in her resolution to live and die a virgin and a Christian.

At that time, Olibrius, who was governor of Gaul, came from Marseilles to Alise, where Regina resided. Having heard of Regina, he immediately sent for her, and informed her that he desired to make her his consort, and hoped not to be refused, as she could not expect a marriage that could either give her greater happiness or raise her to a higher dignity. Regina, although treating him with the utmost politeness, told him frankly, that she had already attained higher felicity, as she had become a Christian and had chosen Christ as her spouse. Olibrius, provoked beyond measure at this reply, and perceiving that neither flatteries nor threats could alter her resolution, ordered her to be cast into a dungeon, and to be chained in such a manner, that she could neither sit nor lie down. For one month she endured this torture, during which time she was persecuted by her father and other relatives to deny Christ; but all was useless. Their words made no impression on Regina, who regarding herself most blessed to suffer for Christ’s sake, prayed only to God to give her grace to die for the true faith. Olibrius had her stretched upon the rack and so cruelly scourged, that all who witnessed it were filled with pity, and began loudly to murmur against the barbarous sentence. Fearing that the people might revolt, the governor remanded her to prison.

The Christian heroine, who passed the night in prayer, had, at the close of it, a most consoling vision. She saw a large cross which reached from the earth up into heaven. A bright dove was upon it and she distinctly heard the words: “Rejoice, thou beloved spouse of Christ 1 Thy virginity and patience have prepared a crown for thee, which you wilt soon receive. Thy cross and suffering will become a ladder upon which you wilt ascend to heaven.” Oh 1 how the virgin’s heart was comforted by this vision! In accordance with an order of Olibrius, she was again stretched on the rack, on the following day, and after her bruised and wounded body had been most barbarously tortured with burning torches, they placed her in a bath of cold water. During this martyrdom she no longer felt pain, but addressing those around her, she exhorted them to be converted to the only true God whom she worshipped. During this speech, she saw the same doev which had appeared to her in the prison, carrying a precious crown in its beak; and as it came towards the holy martyr, she heard a voice saying: “Come, Regina, and reign with your spouse in heaven.” More than 800 pagans were, on this occasion, converted to the Christian faith. Olibrius, however, remained obdurate, and at length ordered Regina to be beheaded. Thus this Christian heroine ended her life gloriously, in her sixteenth year.


Drensteinfurt Pfarrkirche St Regina

Practical Considerations

• Saint Regina had, next to God, to thank her nurse for her conversion to the true faith, as also her desire for martyrdom and her constancy during the same; hence she owed her salvation to her nurse’s pious care. How much good is some- times done by persons of apparently little consequence! What good might not domestics of both sexes do to each other and still more to the children in their charge, by giving them wholesome exhortations, keeping them from evil, and leading them in the path of rectitude! And how much evil can they cause by holding unchaste discourses in the presence of children, or perhaps by even tempting them to do wrong! Parents may well be careful in selecting those to whom they trust their children; for it is nothing unusual, at the present day, that they are the seducers of children, who were chosen to keep guard over them. Out of the house with such servants! Children ought immediately to inform their parents if any one tempts them to do wrong. Servants and teachers of both sexes ought to remember the terrible account they will have to render on the Judgment-day, if they have kept their young charges from the way of virtue and led them in the road to destruction. They should on the contrary, endeavor to walk before them with a good example. “But he that shall scandalize one of those little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea,” says Christ our Lord. (Matthew 18)

• The preservation of her virginity and her patience have secured, in heaven, a crown for Saint Regina. I do not doubt that you have to bear a cross, that you have to suffer, and if you have not now, it will come to you in due time. But will your cross prove to you a ladder by which to ascend to heaven? The manner in which you bear your misfortunes will decide it. If you bear them, like Saint Regina, from love to God, with patience, without murmuring, they will prove a ladder leading you upward to the glories of heaven; but if you bear them not according to the spirit of Christianity, they will be a ladder by which you will descend into the darkness of hell. Which do you prefer? You must suffer; the cross must be borne. Suffer patiently and you will enter heaven; while by murmuring against Providence, you commit sin, and may go to eternal destruction. Patience and the preservation of her chastity have prepared in heaven a crown for Saint Regina; impatience and unchastity prepare a place in hell for numberless souls. Regina would rather have suffered the most unheard-of torments, than have lost her virginal purity. What do you say of this, if you are one of those, who, for some trifling temporal good, or a short sensuality, have lost forevermore this inestimable treasure, and besides this, do not even deplore so great a loss? Ah! weep tears of blood as long as you live, for this blindness, this folly; and surely you have sufficient cause. Pray humbly to the Almighty to forgive you, and to bestow upon you the grace to obtain, by true repentance, the crown which you can no longer gain by virginal chastity. “Let us weep over sin only,” says Saint Chrysostom. “Blessed are those who weep not for the dead, nor for temporal losses, but over their iniquities.” But if you still possess the priceless treasure of virginity, give humble thanks to God, and resolve rather to lose all your temporal possessions, yes, even your life, than to be deprived of it by sin. “Your virginal chastity is your greatest wealth, your most priceless, your irreparable treasure,” writes Saint Jerome. It is a treasure which will obtain for youan especial glory in Heaven!

MLA Citation

Father Francis Xavier Weninger, DD, SJ. “Saint Regina, Virgin and Martyr”. Lives of the Saints1876. CatholicSaints.Info. 30 April 2018. Web. 7 September 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/weningers-lives-of-the-saints-saint-regina-virgin-and-martyr/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/weningers-lives-of-the-saints-saint-regina-virgin-and-martyr/


Church Santa Regina, in Santa Regina, hamlet of Siena, the Tuscany region, Italy.


Saint Regina, Martyr

by

September 7

Today is the feast day of Saint Regina.  Ora pro nobis.

Legend has it that Saint Regina was the daughter of a pagan aristocrat named Clement, in Alise, Burgundy. Her mother died in childbirth.  Regina’s father placed her upbringing in the care of a Christian nurse attached to the family, who recognizing her sanctity.  The nurse secretly baptized her.  Regina was driven from her family’s home because of her faith, and lived as a poor, prayerful shepherdess.

Regina lived with her nurse, worked in the fields by day, tending sheep, to help support the household. In the fields, Regina grew closer to the Lord, meditating and contemplating His love and mercy, and praying to better emulate the lives of the holy saints and martyrs.

At the age of fifteen, Regina caught the eye of the prefect of Gaul, Olybrius, a man of great importance. He became obsessed with the young woman, and was determined to take her as his bride. He delighted in her noble upbringing, but was deeply disturbed to find that she was practicing the Christian faith. At that time, Christians were being violently persecuted and killed, under the direction of the Emperor Decius. Olybrius attempted to persuade her to deny her faith, so as to not only save her from persecution, but to secure her as a wife. She declined, refusing to recant her faith, and professing it all the louder. In retaliation, Olybrius had her imprisoned.

Regina was chained to the walls of a dark prison cell by means of an iron belt that was bolted to the wall. There she was left while Olybrius participated in several military campaigns against invading barbarians, returning to his daily activities. After an absence of some time, he returned, hoping she may have changed her mind. On the contrary, her imprisonment had served to strengthen her resolve to live like the saints and martyrs, and maintain her chastity for the Lord. She refused to sacrifice to idols, and he angrily ordered her tortured. Regina courageously withstood whippings and scourging over the back of a wooden horse, raking with iron combs, burning with hot pincers and torches, and crucifixion. None of these could cause her to doubt the Lord or recant her faith, and as she continued to praise God. Lastly, she was beheaded, ending her life and her conversion of many witnesses present who observed a solitary dove hovering atop her head during her torture.

The relics of Saint Regina are enshrined in Flavigni abbey, having been translated there in 864. Since that time, numerous miracles have been attributed to their presence, and frequent pilgrimages are made by the faithful to venerate them.

Saint Regina is considered the patron saint against poverty, and patroness of shepherdesses and torture victims. Given the accounts of her martyrdom, in art, Saint Regina is portrayed as a maiden bound to a cross with torches applied to her sides, imprisoned with a dove appearing on a shining cross, scourged with rods, or in a boiling cauldron. She is venerated at Autun, France, and in southern Germany.

Research by REGINA Staff

http://catholicsaints.info/saint-regina/

http://365rosaries.blogspot.com/2011/09/september-7-saint-regina.html

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StRegina.JPG

http://traditionalcatholic.net/Tradition/Calendar/09-07.html

SOURCE : https://www.reginamag.com/saint-regina-martyr/

Hellmonsödt ( Oberösterreich ). Pfarrkirche hl. Alexius - Hochaltar ( 18.Jhdt. ): Heilige Regina

Hellmonsödt ( Upper Austria ). Saint Alexius parish church: High altar ( 18th century ) - Saint Regina.


Santa Regina di Alise Vergine e martire

7 settembre

Alise (Gallia), III secolo

Etimologia: Regina = sovrana, signora, significato intuitivo

Emblema: Giglio, Palma

Martirologio Romano: Ad Alise in Francia, santa Regina, martire.

Di s. Regina (in francese Reine) si hanno solo pochissime notizie, ci pervengono da un testimone che si dichiara oculare; nacque e visse ad Alise (Gallia), presso Autun, nel III secolo e la madre morì durante il parto, cresciuta abbracciò la fede cristiana; si sa che il padre Olibrio pagano, dopo aver tentato vanamente di convincerla a recedere, la fece imprigionare e poi decapitare, evidentemente era un capo nella Gallia del III secolo.

Il martirio avvenne ad Alise, il luogo dove il condottiero dei Galli Vercingetorige, venne fatto prigioniero dal condottiero romano Giulio Cesare; Regina accettò sebbene giovanissima i tormenti del martirio, compiendo una scelta ben precisa, scelse di chiudere la sua vita terrena, per aprirne sicuramente una migliore, che le avrebbe offerto un regno assai più fulgido e duraturo.

In contrasto con le scarne notizie sulla sua vita, il culto per s. Regina ebbe una diffusione enorme, specie in Francia, in Borgogna, Alise (Alesia), Flavigny e in Germania ad Osnabrück; queste ultime due città furono protagoniste nel secolo XVII di una controversia, perché ognuna affermava di avere le reliquie della martire, nel 1693 il vescovo di Autun mise fine alla controversia, autorizzando le due città ad esporre ognuna le sue reliquie.

Ciò che è certo che prima del 628, Regina era venerata ad Alesia e verso il 750 sorgeva in quel luogo una basilica in cui si credeva fossero le sue reliquie, annesso vi era anche un monastero; nell’854 le reliquie furono trasportate a Flavigny, dove sono conservate anche le catene della sua prigionia.

Chiese intitolate al suo nome sorsero un po’ dovunque, il culto arrivò nel secolo XVII anche a Parigi, una Confraternita fondata nel 1604 presso la chiesa di s. Eustachio, porta il suo nome, Ste-Reine.

Nell’arte è raffigurata con la tradizionale palma del martirio, con l’ascia con la quale fu decapitata e con le catene che la tennero imprigionata.

La sua antichissima festa religiosa è al 7 settembre, data che è riportata ancora oggi in tutti i calendari.

Autore: Antonio Borrelli

SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/69500

Voir aussi : https://www.mairie-alise-sainte-reine.fr/sainte-reine