Saint Jonas' Festival (aka: Rasos, aka: St. Jonas Day) is a folk art festival celebrated on June 23 in the northwestern province of Lithuania called Samogitia (Lithuanian: Žemaitija, literally lowlands). Jump to: navigation, search June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining. ... Note: this article is about the ethnographic region of Lithuania. ...
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"Nature in Lithuania" - http://www.vilniushotels.lt/Nature.htm Retrieved November 1, 2005
"Biržai" - http://www.birzai.lt/index.php?id=43&pg=.000001082&kid=1&tev=1082 Retrieved November 2, 2005
Saint Francis, moreover, strenuously recommends to the brethren and sisters, to avoid all words tending to swearing or imprecation, the theatre, dancing, and all profane meetings; to undertake no law-suits, and to live in fraternal union; to take great care of the sick of the Order, to bury the dead, and to pray for them.
Saint Chrysostom and Saint Bernard, also, say that it is the firmest defence which can be opposed to the temptations of the devil, and to the allurements of sin, which are powerful motives for having recourse to frequent Communion.
Saint Theresa, speaking of her situation at prayer, in which she often found herself, as it were, intoxicated with the love of God, and quite beside herself, said: "I know a person who, without being a poet, sometimes made very good extempore verses in spiritual canticles, which expressed beautifully her sufferings.
Jonas calls it the court of Sigisbert, King of Austrasia and Burgundy, but this is manifestly a blunder, for Sigisbert had been slain in 575.
At Bobbio the saint repaired the half-ruined church of St. Peter, and erected his celebrated abbey, which for centuries was stronghold of orthodoxy in Northern Italy.
The sacristy at Bobbio possesses a portion of the skull of the saint, his knife, wooden cup, bell, and an ancient water vessel, formerly containing sacred relics and said to have been given him by St.
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