The Transfiguration
Feast 6 August
This Feast celebrates this event recorded in the Gospels. The Nuns in Our Lady of Solace told me that Jesus allowed his three top men, Peter, James and John, to see him in his glorified state, IE as he looks in heaven. There he spoke to Moses and Elijah, representing the Law (Moses) and the Prophets (Elijah), confirming that Jesus was the fulfillment of the Old Covenant, and the beginning of the New and Everlasting Covenant,. In other words Jesus was on the same team as them, in fact he was the captain of that team.
It was not until the year 1456 when Pope Callixtus III made the transfiguration a universal feast in the west to be celebrated on this date.
As it goes, the city of Belgrade was under siege by the Ottoman Turks during the Crusades and in July of 1456, the siege was lifted militarily by the Hungarian nobleman Janos Hunyadi assisted by the Transylvanian nobleman Vlad (popularly known as “Count Dracula”), the siege was broken, their troops reinforced the Christians at Belgrade, the Muslim Turks were routed, and Islam was stopped from advancing further into Europe.
This Feast celebrates this event recorded in the Gospels. The Nuns in Our Lady of Solace told me that Jesus allowed his three top men, Peter, James and John, to see him in his glorified state, IE as he looks in heaven. There he spoke to Moses and Elijah, representing the Law (Moses) and the Prophets (Elijah), confirming that Jesus was the fulfillment of the Old Covenant, and the beginning of the New and Everlasting Covenant,. In other words Jesus was on the same team as them, in fact he was the captain of that team.
It was not until the year 1456 when Pope Callixtus III made the transfiguration a universal feast in the west to be celebrated on this date.
As it goes, the city of Belgrade was under siege by the Ottoman Turks during the Crusades and in July of 1456, the siege was lifted militarily by the Hungarian nobleman Janos Hunyadi assisted by the Transylvanian nobleman Vlad (popularly known as “Count Dracula”), the siege was broken, their troops reinforced the Christians at Belgrade, the Muslim Turks were routed, and Islam was stopped from advancing further into Europe.
Dracula was able to guard the passes into Romania, cutting off the Turks. Interestingly, some Orthodox Christians venerate Dracula (as Vlad) as a saint for confronting the Islamic threat to Christian Europe. News of this victory made it back to Rome and the Pope on the August 6th. To commemorate this victory, the Pope made August 6th, the Feast of the Transfiguration, a universal feast for the Western Church as well
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