A Saint a day: May 4
St. Florian
The St. Florian commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on May 4th, was an officer of the Roman army, who occupied a high administrative post in Noricum, now part of Austria, and who suffered death for the Faith in the days of Diocletian. His legendary “Acts” state that he gave himself up at Lorch to the soldiers of Aquilinus, the governor, when they were rounding up the Christians, and after making a bold confession, he was twice scourged, half-flayed alive, set on fire, and finally thrown into the river Enns with a stone around his neck. His body, recovered and buried by a pious woman, was eventually removed to the Augustinian Abbey of St. Florian, near Linz. It is said to have been at a later date translated to Rome, and Pope Lucius III, in 1138, gave some of the saint’s relics to King Casimir of Poland and to the Bishop of Cracow. Since that time, St. Florian has been regarded as a patron of Poland as well as of Linz, Upper Austria and of firemen. There has been popular devotion to St. Florian in many parts of central Europe, and the tradition as to his martyrdom, not far from the spot where the Enns flows into the Danube, is ancient and reliable. Many miracles of healing are attributed to his intercession and he is invoked as a powerful protector in danger from fire or water.
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Święty Florian Płaskorzeźba na Baszcie Kuśnierzy w Krakowie.
Święty Florian
Płaskorzeźba na Baszcie Kuśnierzy w Krakowie.
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Мы связаны, Агнешка, давно одной судьбою
в прощанье и в прощенье, и в смехе и в слезах:
когда трубач над Краковом возносится с трубою,
хватаюсь я за саблю с надеждою в глазах.
Потёртые костюмы сидят на нас прилично,
и плачут наши сёстры, как Ярослфины, вслед,
когда под крик гармоник уходим мы привычно
сражаться за свободу в свои семнадцать лет.
Прошу у вас прощенья за раннее прощанье,
за долгое молчанье, за поздние слова…
Нам время подарило пустые обещанья,
от них у нас, Агнешка, кружится голова.
Над Краковом убитый трубач трубит бессменно,
любовь его безмерна, сигнал тревоги чист.
Мы - школьники, Агнешка. И скоро - перемена,
и чья-то радиола наигрывает твист.
* * *
We are linked, Agnieszka, long one of the fate
In parting, and in forgiveness, and in laughter and in tears:
When the trumpeter over Krakow is commemorated with trumpet -
I grabbed the sword with hope in his eyes.
Текст и перевод песни Булат Окуджава - Прощание с Польшей на Tekst-pesni-tut.ru
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