Seculorum amenĪudiens autem* Ihesus dixit illi infirmitas hec non est ad mortem sed pro gloria dei ut glorificetur filius dei per eum. Miserunt ergo* sorores eius ad eum dicentes domine ecce quem amas infirmatur. Maria erat* que unxit dominum unguento et excersit pedes eius capillis suis cuius frater lazarus infirmabatur. Et per divinitatis po(205v)tenciam reduxit eum ad lucis regnum.Įrat quidam languens* lazarus a bethania de castello marie et marthe sororis eius. Per euide(m).Īdoremus* Christum qui per assumptam humanitatem elevit lazarum. ut mereamur adipisci consortium electorum tuorum. O quam venerandus* es egregie dilecte dei lazare in terris quondam languidus nunc arcepoli inclitus roga pro nobis dominum qui te dilexit plurimum ut qui te iam fetidum suscitavit a tumulo nos purget delictorum a scalore nimio protegat nos benignus ab inferti fetidiis quibus te revocavit Christus dei filius.ĭeus qui per unigenitum filium tuum dominum nostrum ihm xpi beatum lazarum quatriduanu(m) mortuum resuscitasti a monumento. 205r De sancto lazaro episcopo et martyre. Office translations by Jonathan Bading and Anne Heathį. This signals how important Lazarus was to the liturgical life at La Trinité.īibliothèque municipale de Vendôme, MS 270 Antiphonarium, 16th CĬhants transcribed and sung by Jonathan Bading A twelfth-century antiphonary from Marseille (BnF ms. The liturgy at Vendôme was particularly rich, as the sixteenth-century antiphonary, from which the office below is derived, contains over forty chants and responses. In a breviary manuscript (BMV 17), the feast day is marked in cappis to designate the special vestments the monks wore to commemorate this special feast day. In Vendôme, however, the calendar's from the abbey, Lazarus's feast day is listed on September 19. The Lazarus story from John, chapter 11, was read on the Saturday before Passion Sunday (fifth Sunday of Lent). In the Roman calendar, the feast day of Lazarus is celebrated on December 17. His cult following grew around Gaul, and his relics were venerated in Autun, Vézelay, and Vendôme. According to medieval tradition, Lazarus and his sister Mary Magdalene were put to sea and miraculously landed at Sainte-Maries, near the city of Marseille, where Lazarus became the city's first bishop and was later martyred in the second half of the first century. The Abbey of La Trinité in Vendôme, France and the Cult of the Holy Tear : An Exploration of a Multi-Sensory Devotional Experience Main Menu Welcome Page About the Project Start Guide Anne Heath 09732d720ba4faf961eef7443cd7fb56ebae6841 Celebrating Lazarus in the Liturgy 1 media/Lazarus background page.jpg T07:44:06-07:00 Anne Heath 09732d720ba4faf961eef7443cd7fb56ebae6841 19096 188 Office of Lazarus plain T04:26:50-08:00 Anne Heath 09732d720ba4faf961eef7443cd7fb56ebae6841 Lazarus of Bethany, the friend and follower of Christ, was the recipient of the last miracle Christ performed before the passion. Please enable Javascript and reload the page. From here her relics were transferred to Constantinople and then to Western Europe.This site requires Javascript to be turned on. A competing theory alleges that Mary Magdalene was buried in Ephesus close to the house of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She gave herself to a life of prayer and spent thirty years as a hermit in a cave above the present-day village of Plan-d’Aups-Sainte-Baume. Mary Magdalene, however, chose a different path. As a result of this miracle the people in this town converted to Christianity. Miraculously with only a cross and some holy water Martha was able to calm the beast. The local people of this city were terrorized by a ferocious beast therefore, to test the power of Martha’s Christian religion they challenged her to a duel with the beast. Martha is said to have eventually made it to the city of Tarascon. Later during the persecution of Domitian he was beheaded. A legend holds that St Lazarus was able to convert a number of people in Marseille and then became its first bishop. The group then began spreading the faith in the area. Miraculously this group, which included Mary Magdalene, Lazarus, and Martha, reached the southern shores of France. A tradition, which developed in the 13th century, holds that after the martyrdom of St James the Greater in Jerusalem many Christians were evicted from the city and placed upon a boat without a sail or a rudder.
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