இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் மே 22

 St. Peter Pareuzi

Born Rome, Italy

Died 1199

Orvieto, Italy

Venerated in Roman Catholic Church

Feast 22 May

Papal legate and martyr. Peter was from Rome and entered the service of the papacy. Trusted as a papal representative, he was dispatched as a legate to Orvieto in 1199 with the task of suppressing the Cathars who were at the time troubling the local Church. Against these heretics, Peter instituted harsh measures, and the outraged Cathars assassinated him.

St. Michael Ho-Dinh-Hy

Born c. 1808

Vietnam

Died May 22, 1857

Venerated in Roman Catholic Church

Beatified July 5, 1900, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Pope Leo XIII

Canonized June 19, 1988, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II

Feast May 22

Attributes Việt phục

Phốc Đầu

Martyr's palm

Dadao

Patronage Vietnam

Martyr of Vietnam. A native of Vietnam, he was born to Christian parents and was by profession a wealthy silk trader and superintendent of the royal silk mills. He did not practice the faith until late in life, becoming then protector of the Christian community. He was arrested for his Christian activities, suffering beheading. Pope John Paul II canonized him in 1988

Saint Rita of Cascia

கேஸியா நகர புனிதர் ரீட்டா 

தாய், விதவை, அருள் வடுவுற்றவர், அர்ப்பணிக்கப்பட்ட மறைப் பணியாளர்:

பிறப்பு: கி.பி. 1381

ரொக்கபொரேனா, பெருஜியா, உம்ப்ரியா, இத்தாலி

இறப்பு: மே 22, 1457

கேஸியா, பெருஜியா, உம்பிரியா, இத்தாலி

ஏற்கும் சமயம்: 

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

அக்லிபாயன் திருச்சபை (1902ல் ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபையிலிருந்து பிரிந்தது)

அருளாளர் பட்டம்: கி.பி. 1626

திருத்தந்தை எட்டாம் அர்பன் 

புனிதர் பட்டம்: மே 24, 1900

திருத்தந்தை பதின்மூன்றாம் லியோ

முக்கிய திருத்தலங்கள்: 

கேஸியா, இத்தாலி

நினைவுத் திருநாள்: மே 22

சித்தரிக்கப்படும் வகை: 

நெற்றியில் காயம், ரோஜா, தேனீக்கள், 

திராட்சைக் கொடி

பாதுகாவல்: 

தொலைந்த மற்றும் இயலாத காரணங்கள், நோய்கள், காயங்கள், திருமணம் சார்ந்த பிரச்சினைகள், அதிகாரம் மற்றும் உரிமை, முதலியவற்றைத் தவறாகப் பயன்படுத்துதல், தாய்மார்கள்

புனிதர் ரீட்டா, இத்தாலிய நாட்டின் விதவைப் பெண்ணும், அகஸ்தீனிய சபையின் (Augustinian nun) பெண் துறவியும், ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபையின் புனிதரும் ஆவார். திருமணமான இவர், இவரது 18 ஆண்டுகால திருமண வாழ்க்கையில், தமது கணவனை தவறான பாதையிலிருந்து மீட்க முயற்சி செய்ததிலேயே முடிவடைந்தது. 

வாழ்க்கைக் குறிப்பு:

“மார்கரிட்டா லோட்டி” (Margherita Lotti) எனும் இயற்பெயர் கொண்ட ரீட்டா, இத்தாலி நாட்டிலுள்ள கேஸியா (Cascia) நகருக்கு அருகிலுள்ள ரொக்கபொரேனா (Roccaporena) கிராமத்தில் கி.பி. 1381ம் ஆண்டு, பிறந்தார். அவரது பெற்றோர் "ஆண்டனியோ", (Antonio) மற்றும் "அமடா ஃபெர்ரி லோட்டி" (Amata Ferri Lotti) ஆவர்.

இவர், கால்நடைகளை வைத்து வாழ்க்கை நடத்தியவர்களின் ஒரே மகள். இவர்கள் மத்திய இத்தாலி நாட்டில், ஊம்ப்ரியா (Umbria) என்ற பிராந்தியத்தில் வாழ்ந்து வந்தார்கள். பல காலமாக இவரின் பெற்றோர்கள் குழந்தைபேறு இல்லாமல் வாழ்ந்தார்கள். 

ரீட்டாவின் பிறப்பிற்கு பின் இவ்வேதனை இவர்களைவிட்டு நீங்கியது. ரீட்டா தன் தாயின் வளர்ப்பால், இறை இயேசுவை முழுமையாக அன்பு செய்வதில் ஊறிக் கிடந்தார். ஏழை எளியவர்களின்மேல் அன்பு கொண்டு, வாரி வழங்கினார். ரீட்டா துறவு வாழ்வை தேர்ந்து கொள்ள விரும்பினார். ஆனால் இவரின் பெற்றோர் தங்களின் வயதான காலத்தில், தங்களை பராமரித்து கவனிக்க வேண்டுமென்று விரும்பி, மகளை துறவறத்திற்கு அனுப்பாமல் திருமணத்திற்கு சம்மதம் தர மீண்டும் மீண்டும் வற்புறுத்தினர். இதற்கு சம்மதம் தெரிவித்து தன் பெற்றோரின் ஆசையை நிறைவேற்றினார் ரீட்டா.

தன் பெற்றோரின் விருப்பப்படி "பவோலோ மன்சினி" (Paolo Mancini) என்பவரை தமது 12 வயதிலேயே மணந்தார். செல்வம் படைத்த இவரது கணவர் எளிதில் சினமடையக் கூடிய, ஒழுக்கக்கேடான மனிதராக இருந்தார். இவருக்கு கேஸியா பிராந்தியத்தில் அநேக விரோதிகள் இருந்தனர்.

கணவர் மிக கோபம் கொண்டவர். கொடூர குணங்களை தன் மனைவியிடம் காட்டிவந்தார். ரீட்டா தளரா நெஞ்சத்துடன் அனைத்து துன்பங்களையும் ஏற்றுக் கொண்டார். கணவர் மனம் மாற தன் துன்பங்களை ஒப்புக்கொடுத்தார். பல ஆண்டுகளாக ரீட்டா சொல்லொனா அவமானங்களையும், உடல் ரீதியான வன்கொடுமைகளையும் மற்றும் துரோகங்களையும் சகித்தபடியே வாழ்ந்தார்.

பன்னிரண்டு வயதில் தமது முதல் குழந்தையை ஈன்றார். இவருக்கு ஜான், பவுல் என்ற 2 மகன்கள் பிறந்தனர். இவர்களும் தந்தையைப்போலவே மூர்க்கர்களாக நடந்தனர். ரீட்டா எதையும் தாங்கும் இதயம் கொண்டு வாழ்ந்தார். இதன் மத்தியில் நோயுற்றோரையும், ஏழைகளையும் சிறப்பாக வழிதவறி சென்றோரையும் சந்தித்து, அவர்கள் அருட்சாதனங்களை பெற வழிகாட்டியாக வந்தார். 

இறைவன் ரீட்டாவின் மன்றாட்டுக்கு நல்ல பலன் அளித்தார். பவுலோ முற்றிலும் மனம் மாறினார். இதனால் பவுலோவின் நண்பர்கள் அவர்மேல் கோபம் கொண்டு அவரின் பகைவர்கள் ஆனார்கள். பிறகு அவரை குத்திக் கொன்றார்கள். இதனால் ரீட்டாவின் மகன்கள் கோபம் கொண்டு, தந்தையைக் கொன்றவர்களை பழிவாங்க சபதம் செய்தனர். இதனால் ரீட்டா தன் மகன்களின் மனமாற்றத்திற்காக கடுமையாக ஜெபித்துவந்தார். இவர்கள் மனம் மாறவில்லை என்றால் இறைவன் அவர்களை அழைத்துக் கொள்ள மன்றாடினார். ஓராண்டிற்குள் இறைவன் அவரின் மன்றாட்டை கேட்டு இருவரையும் அவரிடம் அழைத்துக்கொண்டார்.

ரீட்டா இவர்களின் இறப்பிற்குப் பின் தனிமையில் விடப்பட்டார். இந்நிலையில் ஜெப, தவ, அற முயற்சிகளில் ஈடுபட்டு, துறவறத்தை நாடினார். எனவே, புனித அகுஸ்தினாரின் சபையைத் தேர்ந்துகொண்டார். அதிகமாக புனித அருளப்பர், புனித அகஸ்டீன், புனித நிக்கோலாஸ் இவர்களின் பரிந்துரையை நாடி ஜெபித்து வந்தார்.

ஒருநாள் இரவு தூங்கும்போது யாரோ தனது பெயர் சொல்லி அழைப்பது அவரின் காதில் விழுந்தது. அதைக்கேட்ட ரீட்டா உடனே எழுந்தார். அப்போது இம்மூன்று புனிதர்களும் ரீட்டாவை, மடத்தின் கதவு பூடப்பட்டிருந்த நிலையில், மடத்திற்குள் இருந்த சிற்றாலயத்திற்குள் கொண்டுபோய் விட்டனர். அங்கு ரீட்டா மறுநாள் காலைவரை மெய்மறந்து தியானத்தில் மூழ்கி, ஜெபித்துக்கொண்டிருந்ததை கன்னியர்கள் கண்டார்கள். அப்போது எப்படி ஆலயத்திற்குள் வந்தாய் என்று ரீட்டாவிடம் கேட்டதற்கு, மூன்று புனிதர்களும் தன்னை இங்கு அழைத்து வந்ததாகக் கூறினார். இவர் கூறுவது உண்மை என்றுணர்ந்த கன்னியர்கள், அவரை தங்களின் துறவு மடத்தில் ஓர் உறுப்பினராக ஏற்றுக்கொண்டார்கள். 

அவர் அவ்வப்போது சிலுவையில் அறையுண்ட இயேசுவை காட்சி தியானத்தில் கண்டார். அக்காட்சியை அவர் இங்கும் கண்டு, அதிலேயே தன் நேரத்தை செலவிட்டார். ரீட்டா அவரின் தலையில் முள்முடி வைத்து கொண்டு ஜெபித்தார். இதனால் ஏற்பட்ட காயம் ஆறாமல் வலித்துக்கொண்டே இருந்தது. அக்காயத்தில் சகிக்க முடியாத துர்நாற்றம் வீசியது. அப்புண்ணில் புழுக்கள் நெளிந்து கொண்டிருந்தது. இச்சிலுவையின் நிமித்தம் அவர் தம் அறையைவிட்டு வெளியேறாமல் இருந்தார். 

ஆனால் இவரிடமிருந்து அருள் பொழியப்படுவதைப் பார்வையாளர் யாவரும் உணரமுடிந்தது. பல அருஞ்செயல்கள் இவரது இறப்பிற்குப் பின் நிகழ்ந்த வண்ணமாய் இருந்தது. 76ம் வயதில் தனது தூய ஆன்மாவை எல்லாம் வல்லவரிடம் ஒப்படைத்த இவர் வாழும் போதும், இறந்துவிட்ட பிறகும் நன்மைகளை இவ்வுலக மக்களுக்கு செய்து கொண்டே இருந்தார். இயலாதவைகளை பெற்றுத்தரும் ஆற்றல் வாய்ந்தவராக இப்புனிதர் திகழ்ந்தார்.

ரீட்டா பிறந்த சமயத்தில் ஒரு விநோத நிகழ்ச்சி நடந்தேறியது. பெரிய பெரிய தேனீக்களின் கூட்டம் ஒருவித சத்தத்துடன் ரீட்டா பிறந்த வீட்டிற்குள் புகுந்தது. அவரிடமிருந்த அறைக்குள்ளும் புகுந்தது. ஆனால் யாரையும் ஒரு தேனீயும் கொட்டியதில்லை. இந்நிகழ்ச்சி இன்றுவரை ஆண்டுதோறும் புனித வாரம் முழுவதும், ரீட்டாவின் திருநாளன்று நடைபெறுகிறது. இது உண்மைதானா என்று சோதித்துப் பார்க்கப்பட்டு, உண்மைதான் என்று கண்டறியப்பட்டது. 

இந்நிகழ்வானது, இவருக்கு புனிதர் பட்டம் கொடுப்பதற்கான தயாரிப்புத் தணிக்கையில் இடம் பெற்றுள்ளது.

இப்புனிதர், கி.பி. 1457ம் ஆண்டு, மே மாதம், 22ம் நாள், மரித்தார்.

Also known as

• Margarita of Cascia

• Rita La Abogada de Imposibles

• Saint of the Impossible

 

Profile

Daughter of Antonio and Amata Lotti, a couple known as the Peacemakers of Jesus; they had Rita late in life. From her early youth, Rita visited the Augustinian nuns at Cascia, Italy, and showed interest in a religious life. However, when she was twelve, her parents betrothed her to Paolo Mancini, an ill-tempered, abusive individual who worked as town watchman, and who was dragged into the political disputes of the Guelphs and Ghibellines. Disappointed but obedient, Rita married him when she was 18, and was the mother of twin sons. She put up with Paolo's abuses for eighteen years before he was ambushed and stabbed to death. Her sons swore vengeance on the killers of their father, but through the prayers and interventions of Rita, they forgave the offenders.

Upon the deaths of her sons, Rita again felt the call to religious life. However, some of the sisters at the Augustinian monastery were relatives of her husband's murderers, and she was denied entry for fear of causing dissension. Asking for the intervention of Saint John the Baptist, Saint Augustine of Hippo, and Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, she managed to bring the warring factions together, not completely, but sufficiently that there was peace, and she was admitted to the monastery of Saint Mary Magdalen at age 36.

Rita lived 40 years in the convent, spending her time in prayer and charity, and working for peace in the region. She was devoted to the Passion, and in response to a prayer to suffer as Christ, she received a chronic head wound that appeared to have been caused by a crown of thorns, and which bled for 15 years.

Confined to her bed the last four years of her life, eating little more than the Eucharist, teaching and directing the younger sisters. Near the end she had a visitor from her home town who asked if she'd like anything; Rita's only request was a rose from her family's estate. The visitor went to the home, but it being January, knew there was no hope of finding a flower; there, sprouted on an otherwise bare bush, was a single rose blossom.

Among the other areas, Rita is well-known as a patron of desperate, seemingly impossible causes and situations. This is because she has been involved in so many stages of life - wife, mother, widow, and nun, she buried her family, helped bring peace to her city, saw her dreams denied and fulfilled - and never lost her faith in God, or her desire to be with Him.

Born

1386 at Roccaparena, Umbria, Italy

Died

22 May 1457 at the Augustinian convent at Cascia, Italy of tuberculosis

Canonized

24 May 1900 by Pope Leo XIII

Patronage

• abuse victims; spouse abuse victims

• against infertility or sterility; infertile people

• against loneliness

• against sickness or bodily ills; sick people

• against wounds; wounded people

• desperate, forgotten, lost or impossible causes

• difficult marriages

• parenthood

• widows

• Cascia, Italy

• Dalayap, Philippines

• Igbaras, Iloilo, Philippines

Representation

• nun holding a crown of thorns

• nun holding roses

• nun holding roses and figs

• nun with a wound on her forehead

Blessed John Forest

Also known as

John Forrest

Additional Memorial

1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University

Profile

Joined the Friars Minor of the Regular Observance at Greenwich, England while in his late teens. Studied theology at the Franciscan College at Oxford, England; he was known thereafter as "Doctor", though records of his degree have not survived. Priest and royal chaplain. Provincial of the Franciscans by 1525 when he threatened excommunication to those brothers who opposed Cardinal Thomas Wosley's legatine powers. Confessor to Queen Catherine of Aragon, wife of King Henry VIII.

Father John thought he had convinced King Henry in 1529 not to suppress his Order in response to their opposition to his divorce, but when Henry did not get his way, he suppressed the Order and arrested John. Records show him preaching in November 1532 against the state pulling down churches, and of the authorities keeping a close watch on him. Arrested in 1534, he established a correspondence from Newgate prison to Queen Catherine and Blessed Thomas Abel. Wrote a treatise against King Henry's usurpation of power over things spiritual.

Sentenced to death on 8 April 1538 for refusing the oath acknowledging Henry's primacy in spiritual matters. Martyr.

Born

1471 at Oxford, England

Died

• hanged and burned to death on 22 May 1538 at Smithfield, England

• a wooden statue of Saint Derfel, taken from a local church, was used in the fire, supposedly fulfilling a local prophecy that the statue's burning would destroy a forest

• John's relics may still be in hiding in Smithfield

Beatified

29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII

Saint Julia of Corsica

Also known as

Julia of Carthage

Profile

Born to the Carthaginian Christian nobility. Captured by invading Vandals in 616, and sold into slavery to a pagan Syrian merchant named Eusebius. When the slave ship landed at Cape Corso, Corsica, a pagan festival was in progress, and Julia was ordered to join in; some versions indicate that participation would have won her freedom. When she refused, her hair was torn out of her head, and she was martyred.

Born

6th to 7th century Carthaginian

Died

• beaten and crucified c.616-620 at Cape Corso, Corsica

• relics at the Benedictine abbey at Brescia, Italy in 763, which became a middle ages pilgrimage site

• some relics later taken to Leghorn (modern Livorno, Italy

Patronage

• torture victims

• Corsica, France

• Brescia, Italy

• Leghorn, Italy

• Livorno, Italy

Saint Humility

Also known as

Rosanna, Humilitas, Umiltà

Profile

Born to a wealthy family. Married at age 15 to a nobleman named Ugoletto. Mother of two, both of whom died in infancy. In 1250 Ugoletto was nearly killed, an event made both of them examine their lives and enter the double monastery of Saint Perpetua near Faenza, Italy, Ugoletto as a lay-brother, Rosanna as a nun, taking the name Sister Humility. Spiritual student of Saint Crispin. Lived as a hermitess in a cell for twelve years near the church of Saint Apollinaris. Founded the convent of Santa Maria Novella on Malta, the first Vallombrosan convent for nuns, and served as its abbess. Founded a second convent at Florence, Italy, and lived her remaining years there.

Born

1226 at Faenza, Italy as Rosanna

Died

22 May 1310 at Florence, Italy of natural causes

Canonized

27 January 1720 by Pope Clement XI

Saint Basiliscus of Pontus

Also known as

• Basiliscus of Comana

• Basilicus, Basilisco

Profile

Bishop of Comana in Pontus, Asia Minor (in modern Turkey). One of a large group of Christians who were tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Emperor Galerius for refusing to sacrifice to idols. Legend says that when Basiliscus announced his refusal, lightning struck the temple and toppled the statues. His spirit is reported to have met Saint John Chrysostom at his death bed to escort him to the afterlife in 407.

Died

• beheaded c.310 in Comana, Pontus (in modern Turkey)

• body thrown into the river Iris

• body covertly recovered by local Christians and given proper burial in a freshly plowed field

• a chapel was later built over his grave

Saint Fulgencio of Otricoli

Profile

Mid-6th-century bishop of Otricoli, Italy. Pope Saint Gregory the Great wrote about him in Dialogues.

When his city was being approached by the Ostrogoth army of King Totila, Fulgencio went out to meet him, first to plead for his city, then to bribe him into passing by. The Ostrogoths seized him and while Totila considered his next move, they drew a circle in the dirt, put the bishop in it and told the guards to kill him if he left it. Fulgencio began to suffer from being left in the sun, and prayed for relief; the sky clouded up and it rained heavily – except in the circle where Fulgencio was imprisoned.

Died

6th century in Otricoli, Terni, Italy of natural causes

Blessed Maria Rita Lópes Pontes de Souza Brito

Also known as

Sister Dulce

Profile

Nun in the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.

Born

26 May 1914 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Died

13 March 1992 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil of natural causes

Beatified

22 May 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI

Canonized

on 13 May 2019 Pope Francis promulgated a decree of a miracle received through the intercession of Blessed Josephine

Saint Bobo of Provence

Also known as

• Bobo of Voghera

• Beuvon, Bovo

Profile

Soldier who fought invading Saracens. Tired of a life of violence, he retired to live as a penitent hermit.

Born

Provence, France

Died

• 22 May 986 near Voghera, Pavia, Italy of a fever while on a pilgrimage to Rome, Italy

• buried in Voghera, his grave became a site of miracles

• relics enshrined in Voghera in 1469

Patronage

Voghera, Italy

Blessed John Baptist Machado de Tavora

Also known as

João Baptista Machado de Távora

Additional Memorial

10 September as one of the 205 Martyrs of Japan

Profile

Jesuit at Coimbra, Portugal. Missionary to Japan in 1609. One of the Franciscan Martyrs of Japan.

Born

1580 at Terceira, Portuguese Azores

Died

beheaded on 22 May 1617 at Nagasaki, Japan

Beatified

7 May 1867 by Pope Blessed Pius IX

Patronage

diocese of Creek, Portugal

Saint Aigulf of Bourges

Also known as

Aigulphus, Ayoul, Aieul, Aout, Hou

Profile

Well educated, Aigulf became a hermit upon the death of his parents, and soon developed a reputation for great personal sanctity. Reluctant bishop of Bourges, France in 811. Attended the Council of Toulouse in 829. Sat in judgement of Archbishop Ebbo of Rheims who had joined a revolt against King Louis the Debonair.

Born

at Bourges, France

Died

836 of natural causes

Blessed Fulk of Castrofurli

Also known as

Folco

Profile

Pilgrim to Rome, Italy with Saint Arduin of Gallinaro. Died working with plague victims in the Castrofuli and Santopadre in Italy.

Died

c.600 in the area of Castrofuli, Italy of plague

Beatified

1572 (cultus confirmation)

Patronage

• Castrofuli, Italy

• Santopadre, Italy

Saint Emilius the Martyr  

Also known as

Aemilius, Emilio

Profile

Tortured in the persecutions of Decius, he renounced his Christianity. He later repented, returned to the Church, and when arrested a second time he stood by his faith. Martyr.

Died

burned to death c.250 in North Africa

Saint Romanus of Subiaco

Profile

Monk and then abbot near Subiaco, Italy. Friend of Saint Benedict of Nursia, and supported him during his time as a cave hermit. Built a monastery in the vicinity of modern Auxerre, France.

Died

c.560 of natural causes

Saint Atto of Pistoia

Also known as

Atho, Attho, Attone

Profile

Monk. Abbot of Vallombrosa. Bishop of Pistoia, Italy for 20 years. Wrote a work on the relics of and miracles that occurred at Saint James of Compostella.

Died

1153 of natural causes

Saint Boethian of Pierrepont

Profile

Seventh century spiritual student of Saint Fursey of Perrone. Built the Pierrepont Monastery near Laon, France. Murdered by some locals for preaching against their vices. Martyr.

Born

Ireland

Died

near Laon, France

Patronage

sick children

Saint Aureliano of Pavia

Profile

Martyr. Since there were no surviving records about him, writers in later centuries invented lurid tales detailing his death and the divine vengeance that fell on his tormentors.

Died

• early 3rd century Rome, Italy

• relics transferred to Pavia, Italy

Blessed Dionisio Senmartin

Profile

Mercedarian friar known for devotion to praying for souls in Purgatory. Ransomed 216 Christians from slavery in Muslim Tunis, Tunisia in 1279, and preacher the faith throughout the region as they travelled.

Died

c.1350 of natural causes

Blessed Pedro of the Assumption

Profile

Franciscan Friars Minor (Alcantarines) priest. Martyr.

Born

c.1570 in Cuevas, Toledo, Spain

Died

22 May 1617 in Kori, Omura, Nagasaki, Japan

Beatified

7 May 1867 by Pope Blessed Pius IX

Saint Margaret of Hulme

Also known as

• Margaret of Hoveton

• Margarita, Margherita, Marguerite

Profile

Martyr.

Born

12th century England

Died

• 1170

• buried in the abbey church at Hoveton Saint John, Norfolk, England

Blessed Giusto Samper

Profile

Mercedarian friar known for devotion to praying for souls in Purgatory. Ransomed 216 Christians from slavery in Muslim Tunis, Tunisia in 1279, and preacher the faith throughout the region as they travelled.

Died

c.1350 of natural causes

Saint Castus the Martyr

Profile

Tortured in the persecutions of Decius, he renounced his Christianity. He later repented, returned to the Church, and when arrested a second time he stood by his Christianity. Martyr.

Died

burned to death c.250 in North Africa

Saint Helen of Auxerre

Also known as

Helena

Profile

Maiden described in the Acts of Saint Amator of Auxerre as being with him, and of being a holy woman. No details about her were given, and

Died

c.415 at Auxerre, France

Saint Lupicinus of Verona

Also known as

Lupicino

Profile

Bishop of Verona, Italy in the early 5th century.

Died

relics enshrined in the crypt of the basilica of San Zeno Maggiore, Verona, Italy

Saint Quiteria

Also known as

Kitheriammal, Quiteira, Quitterie

Profile

Nun. Martyr. Greatly venerated in the Navarre region on the border of France and Spain.

Quiteria (Spanish: Quiteria; Catalan: Quitèria; Occitan: Quiteira; French: Quitterie; Portuguese: Quitéria) was a second-century virgin martyr and saint about whom nothing is certain except her name and her cult. She appears in the Roman Martyrology, but not in any other ancient calendars (such as the Martyrologium Hieronymianum).

Name

Quiteria may be derived from Kythere (or Kyteria, Kuteria), a title applied to the Phoenician goddess Astarte which meant "the red one",[2] or from (the possibly related name) Cytherea, an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite because she was born on the island of Kythira.

Legend

She is said to have been born in Bracara (now Braga, Portugal) to Lucius Catilius Serves, Roman governor of Gallaecia and Lusitania, and Calcia, his wife. Her father wanted her to marry and renounce Christianity. Quiteria fled and her father's men found her at Aire-sur-l'Adour, in Gascony. She was beheaded on the spot. Her sister, Liberata, also suffered the same fate in the forest of Montus and lies in a 14th-century sarcophagus in the fortified church of Saint Jean Baptiste in Mazéres 32 km from her sister Quiteria in Aire-sur-l'Adour.

Allegory of the martyrdom of Saint Quiteria, in Vida e Martyrio da Gloriosa Santa Quiteria, 1651, by Pedro Henriques de Abreu

Portuguese religious traditions state that Quiteria was the leader of the "Nonuplet Sisters," who were named Eumelia (Euphemia); Liberata (Virgeforte); Gema (Marina of Aguas Santas, Margarida); Genebra; Germana; Basilissa; Marica; and Vitoria (Victoria). These were born in Minho to an important Roman military official. Their mother, disgusted at the fact that she had given birth to nine daughters all at once as if she were a common peasant (or an animal), ordered a maid to take them to a river to drown them. Their father was unaware of their birth.

(Alternately, Calcia, their mother, frightened that her husband would interpret this multiple birth as a sign of infidelity, ordered her servant Sila to drown the girls in the Miñor River.)

Disobeying her mistress, however, the maid gave the girls over to some local women who brought them up as Christians. As adult women, they opposed the worship of Roman gods and were brought before their father, who recognized them as his daughters. Their father wanted them to marry Roman officers or other suitors. The nonuplets refused and were imprisoned in a tower. However, they escaped and liberated all of their other prisoners. They subsequently waged a guerrilla war in the mountains against the Roman Empire.

Quiteria was caught and beheaded. Her sister Eumelia, unable to escape from the soldiers who pursued her, threw herself from a cliff situated today in the Peneda-Gerês National Park (it is called today Penedo da Santa, Cliff of the Saint). A rock opened up and swallowed her and on the spot there sprang up a hot spring.

Popular devotion traditionally places the date of death Liberata on January 18, 139. Liberata's feast day is celebrated on July 20, which is the date for the translation of her relics from the city of Sigüenza to Baiona[citation needed] in 1515. Liberata (in Portuguese Livrada) is the patron saint of Sigüenza. The chapel dedicated to her in the transept of the city's cathedral, with a splendid reredos and the relics of the saint, was constructed at the expense of Bishop Fadrique de Portugal.[3]

In Kuthenkuly

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Kuthenkuly, a coastal village in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu is the home to a shrine which is dedicated to Saint Quiteria. The shrine attracts thousands of pilgrims from different places. The shrine is known for its Thursday devotion. Quiteria is the patron saint of this village. The hagiography of Saint Quiteria (Kitheriammal Ammanai), a Tamil language manuscript is preserved in this village. Based on the manuscript, an eight-day play is staged in Kuthenkuly.

Miracles

Saint Quiteria's statue was first brought to the village Kuthenkuly by Thommai Poobalarayar, a native of Kuthenkuly, who made an intension to her for an heir, also built a chapel. His wife gave birth to a boy child and in honour of her, he named his son Kitherian. Many miracles were reported at Kuthenkuly. A Hindu man offered a crown to the statue. While the crown was taken to the chapel, an eagle took the crown and flew away. Saint Quiteria came in the dream of Santhacruz, a guard who was appointed to protect the crown and asked him to go and get the missing crown. Immediately, he went to the chapel and found a broken piece of the crown but the other piece was not present there. He searched on the top of a palm tree, there he found the another piece. Finally, the crown was fixed and offered to the saint's statue. (Ref: Books printed in Kuthenkuly Parish) Kindly recheck Saint Quiteria's statue was first brought to the village by whom?

Alternate legend

Other Portuguese traditions make her a native of Bracara (Braga, Portugal) who was decapitated and thrown into the sea. This legend states that she emerged from the water with her head in her hands, and is thus sometimes represented as such. However, she is not considered one of the Cephalophores because there is no written record to support this. Her patronage against rabies stems from the fact that her legend states that she held two rabid dogs at bay with the power of her saintly voice. A festival in her honor was first held at Tui, Galicia in 2018 after a proclamation was made by its bishop.

Saint John of Parma

Profile

Priest. Made six pilgimages to Jerusalem. Abbot of Saint John's Abbey in Parma, Italy from 973 until his death.

Born

in Parma, Italy

Died

c.982 in Parma, Italy of natural causes

Saint Baoithin of Ennisboyne

Also known as

Baithin mac Findech

Profile

No information available.

Born

Irish

Patronage

Ennisboyne, Ireland

Saint Conall of Inniscoel

Also known as

Coel, Conald

Profile

Monk. Seventh-century abbot of Inniscoel Abbey in Donegal, Ireland where there is a holy well dedicated to him.

Blessed Diego de Baja

Profile

Mercedarian friar known for his dedication to Bible study. Ransomed 289 Christians enslaved by Muslims in Algiers, and preached Christianity while travelling through.

Blessed Giacomo Soler

Profile

Mercedarian friar known for his dedication to Bible study. Ransomed 289 Christians enslaved by Muslims in Algiers, and preached Christianity while travelling through.

Saint Faustinus the Martyr

Profile

Martyred in the persecutions of Julian the Apostate.

Died

c.362 in Rome, Italy

Saint Ausonius of Angoulême

Profile

Third century spiritual student of Saint Martial of Limoges. First Bishop of Angoulême, France.

Saint Lupo of Limoges

Profile

Priest. Bishop of Limoges, France. Helped found the monastery of Solesme.

Died

637 of natural causes

Saint Venustus the Martyr

Profile

Martyred in the persecutions of Julian the Apostate.

Died

c.362 in Rome, Italy

Saint Marcian of Ravenna

Also known as

Mariano

Profile

Bishop of Ravenna, Italy in 112.

Died

c.127

Saint Timothy the Martyr

Profile

Martyred in the persecutions of Julian the Apostate.

Died

c.362 in Rome, Italy

Martyred in the Spanish Civil War

Thousands of people were murdered in the anti-Catholic persecutions of the Spanish Civil War from 1934 to 1939. I have pages on each of them, but in most cases I have only found very minimal information. They are available on the CatholicSaints.Info site through these links:

• Blessed Francisco Salinas Sánchez/a>

• Blessed José Quintas Durán

Also celebrated but no entry yet

• Franciscan Martyrs of Japan

• Dominico Ngon

• Helen of Carnarvon

• Maria Domenica Brun Barbantini

• Matthias of Arima

• Michael Ho-Dinh-Hy

• Pedro of Cordova

• Viano

• Zota