St. Verus
Feastday: October 23
Death: 4th century
Bishop of Salerno, Italy. He maintained orthodoxy in the region and kept the traditions of his martyred predecessors.
St. Verus
Feastday: October 23
Death: 4th century
Bishop of Salerno, Italy. He maintained orthodoxy in the region and kept the traditions of his martyred predecessors.
St. Maroveus
Feastday: October 23
Death: 650
Maroveus (d.c. 650) + Abbot and founder of the Benedictine Monastery of Precipiano, near Tortona, Italy. Feast day: October 23.
St. Leothade
Feastday: October 23
Death: 718
Benedictine bishop of Auch, France. He was abbot of Moissac and was a Frankish noble.
St. John of Syracuse
Feastday: October 23
Death: 609
Benedictine bishop of Syracuse, in Sicily, from 595 until his death.
St. Elfleda
Feastday: October 23
Death: 936
Anglo-Saxon princess, Benedictine nun at Glastonbury, England. She lived as a recluse and was admired by St. Dunstan.
St. Clether
Feastday: October 23
Death: 520
Welsh saint also called Cleer, Clydog, Scledog, Citanus, or Cleodius. He was a descendant of a local king in Wales. Clether left Wales and went to Cornwall, England. Churches including St. Clear near Liskeard were built in his honor. He is reported to have been martyred. A second Clether is commemorated on November 3.
St. Benedict of Sebaste
Feastday: October 23
Death: 654
Bishop and hermit. Traditionally a bishop in the city of Sebaste, Turkey. During the persecutions of the era, he fled to Gaul. He built a hermitage near Poitiers, later transformed into the abbey St. Benedict of Quincay
St. Amo
Feastday: October 23
Death: 4th century
Bishop of Toul, France.The successor of St. Mansuetus.
St. Allucio
Feastday: October 23
Birth: 1070
Death: 1134
Allas giver, founder, and miracle worker. He was a shepherd in Pescia, Tuscany, in Italy, when he became the director of the almshouse in Valdi Nievole. Allucio also built shelters in mountain passes and at rivers. The group with which he worked became the Brothers of St. Allucio. A miracle worker known throughout the region, Allucio ended the war between the city states of Ravenna and Faenza.
St. Verecundus
Feastday: October 22
Death: 522
Bishop of Verona, Italy. The details of his labors are lost but the Goths ruled Verona at the time. St. Valens succeeded him.
St. Philip of Heraclea
Feastday: October 22
Death: 304
Bishop of Heraclea and martyr. During the persecution of the Church under Emperor Diocletian, Philip was arrested along with his deacon Severus and two other clergy, Hermes and Eusebius. Taken before the magistrate, Blassus, they were ordered to hand over the Sacred Scripture, but refused. Moved to Adrianople, they were burned at the stake. All four share the same feast day.
St. Philip
Feastday: October 22
Death: 270
Martyr. He was bishop of Fermo, Italy. He suffered martyrdom in the reign of Emperor Aurelian. Little is known of him save that his relics are preserved in the local cathedral of Fermo.
St. Nunctus
Feastday: October 22
Abbot and martyr, also called Noint. The abbot of a monastery near Merida, Spain, he was murdered by a group of robbers. He was venerated as a martyr.