Saint Narses of Subagord
Also known as
Narses the Martyr
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Bishop of Subagord, Persia (modern Iran). Martyred with a spiritual student named Joseph in the persecutions of Shapur II.
Died
c.399 in Persia
Saint Narses of Subagord
Also known as
Narses the Martyr
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Bishop of Subagord, Persia (modern Iran). Martyred with a spiritual student named Joseph in the persecutions of Shapur II.
Died
c.399 in Persia
Saint Orestes of Cappadocia
Also known as
Orestes of Tyana
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Christian physician martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.
Died
tortured to death in 304 at Tyana, Cappadocia (in modern Turkey)
Saint John of Ratzenburg
Also known as
John of Saxony
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Missionary to Germany. Bishop of Ratzenburg, Germany. Evangelized the Baltic Coast. Martyred by local pagans.
Born
Scotland
Died
hands, feet and then head cut off in 1066
Saint Tryphosa of Iconium
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Convert. Knew and were mentioned by Saint Paul the Apostle in the Letter to the Romans. Tradition associates her with Saint Thecla of Iconium.
Died
1st century at Iconium, Lycaonia (in modern Turkey)
Saint Tryphaena of Iconium
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Convert. Knew and were mentioned by Saint Paul the Apostle in the Letter to the Romans. Tradition associates her with Saint Thecla of Iconium.
Died
1st century at Iconium, Lycaonia (in modern Turkey)
Readings
Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. - Romans 16:12a
Blessed Joaquín Piña Piazuelo
Also known as
Sister Acisclo
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Member of the Hospitallers of Saint John of God. Martyred in the Spanish Civil War.
Born
26 July 1878 in Caspe, Zaragoza, Spain
Died
10 November 1936 in Barcelona, Spain
Beatified
25 October 1992 by Pope John Paul II
Saint Elaeth the King
Also known as
• Elaeth Frenluuin
• Eleth
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Sixth century king in northern Britain. Driven into Wales by the Picts, he surrended authority and became a monk. Spiritual student of Saint Seiriol and Saint Meirion at Anglesey, Wales. Poet, some of whose works have survived to today.
Born
British
Died
of natural causes
Patronage
Llaneleth, Anglesea, Wales
Saint Theoctiste of Lesbos
Also known as
Theoctiste of Paros
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Orphaned as a child, Theoctiste was raised in a convent. Kidnapped by Arab raiders and forced into slavery on Paros island. She escaped and lived for for over 30 years as a hermitess in an old church. She was discovered one day by a hunter named Simon; she begged him to bring her Communion when he could. He returned a year later, she made her first Communion in decades, and died soon after.
Born
Lesbos, Greece
Died
10th century of natural causes
Saint Aedh mac Bricc
Also known as
• Aedh mac Breece
• Aed, Aod, Aedsind
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Son of Breece (Bricc) of the Hy Neill, the boy grew up working on his father's farm. When his father died, Aedh's brother refused to give him his rightful inheritance. Aedh planned to kidnap a girl from his brother's household to force the issue, but Illathan, bishop of Rathlihen, Offay, talked him out of it. Aedh stayed with the bishop to study and start a new life. He founded a monastery at Cill-áir in Westmreath. Bishop. Founded churches throughout Meath. Reputed to have miraculously cured Saint Brigid of Ireland of a headache which to a tradition of his intervention for that problem.
Born
Meath, Ireland
Died
589 of natural causes
Patronage
against headaches
Saint Justus of Canterbury
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Benedictine monk. Priest. Missionary to the Anglo-Saxons in 601, sent by Pope Saint Gregory the Great. Worked with Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Saint Paulinus of York, and Saint Lawrence of Canterbury. First bishop of Rochester, England in 604. In 616, the death of King Saint Ethelbert of Kent led to a resurgence of paganism; Justus and Saint Mellitus of Canterbury retreated to Gaul, but in 617 returned and resumed their work. Archbishop of Canterbury in 624.
Born
Rome, Italy
Died
• 627 of natural causes
• buried in Saint Augustine's abbey, Canterbury, England
Patronage
Volterra, Italy
Representation
archbishop carrying a Primatial cross
Saint Baudolino
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Born to the nobility. Gave away all his wealth to the poor, and lived as a hermit in a hut on the banks of the River Tanaro. Miracle worker with the gifts of clairvoyance and prophesy; wild animals were reported to come to his hut to hear him speak about God. Tradition says that in 1174 he appeared on the walls of the city of Alessandria, putting a beseiging army to flight. Legends grew up around him, many of which turned him into a bishop or archbishop instead of the simple hermit he was.
Born
c.700
Died
• c.740 of natural causes
• interred at Villa del Foro, Italy
• relics moved to a Humiliati church in Alessandria, Italy when Villa del Foro and Alessandria merged in 1168
• relics moved to the church of Saint Alessandro in 1803
• relics moved to the Saint Baudolino chapel in the Alessandria cathedral in 1810
Patronage
• Alessandria, Italy, city of (proclaimed in 1786)
• Alessandria, Italy, diocese of (proclaimed in 1786)
Representation
surrounded by peaceful wild animals
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 José Marín López de Arroyave
• Blessed Justo Juanes Santos
• Blessed María de la Salud Baldoví Trull
• Blessed Valentín Gil Arribas