Saint Eugene of Florence November 17

 Saint Eugene of Florence

Profile

Spiritual student of Saint Ambrose of Milan. Deacon in Florence, Italy, working with Saint Zenobius of Florence.

Died

422

Saint Hugh of Novara November 17

 Saint Hugh of Novara

Also known as

• Hugo of Nucaria

• Hugo of Noaria

• Ugo, Hugh

Additional Memorial

16 August in Novara, Sicily

Profile

Cistercian Benedictine monk. Spiritual student of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Served as first abbot at the abbey in Novara, Sicily.

Born

French

Died

c.1170 of natural causes

Patronage

Bovara, Sicily

Saint Thomas Hioji Nishi Rokuzaemon Novmeber 17

 Saint Thomas Hioji Nishi Rokuzaemon

Also known as

Father Thomas of Saint Hyacinth

Profile

Dominican missionary priest, first Formosa and then Japan. Tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Tokugawa Yemitsu.

Born

1590 in Hirado, Nagasaki, Japan

Died

17 November 1634 in Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan

Canonized

18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II

Saint Lazarus Zographos November 17

 Saint Lazarus Zographos

Also known as

Lazarus the Painter

Profile

Monk at Constantinople. Skilled painter of icons. Opposed the Iconoclasts under emperor Theophilus. He defended sacred images, and restored those that were defaced by Iconoclasts. For his work he was arrested and tortured. When the Iconoclasts fell from power, Lazarus was released and given a prominent place in the new regime, eventually becoming ambassador to Rome.

Died

867 of natural causes

Name Meaning

the painter = zographos

Saint Victoria of Cordoba November 17

 Saint Victoria of Cordoba

Profile

Sister of Saint Acisclus. Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian. After their deaths, their home was turned into a church. They have an office in the Mozabic Liturgy, and devotion to them is widespread throughout Spain and France.

Born

at Cordoba, Spain

Died

shot with arrows in 304

Representation

• crowned with roses

• in the company of Saint Acisclus

Patronage

Cordoba, Spain

Saint Acisclus November 17

 Saint Acisclus

Also known as

Aciscle, Acisclo, Ascylus, Iscle, Ocysellus

Profile

Brother of Saint Victoria of Cordoba. Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian. After their deaths, their home was turned into a church. They have an office in the Mozabic Liturgy, and devotion to them is widespread throughout Spain and France.

Born

at Cordoba, Spain

Died

beheaded in 304

Patronage

Cordoba, Spain

Representation

• with Saint Victoria

• wearing a crown of roses

Blessed Sébastien-Loup Hunot November 17

 Blessed Sébastien-Loup Hunot

Profile

Priest in the Archdiocese of Sens, France. Imprisoned on a ship in the harbor of Rochefort, France and left to die during the anti-Catholic persecutions of the French Revolution. One of the Martyrs of the Hulks of Rochefort.

Born

7 August 1745 in Brienon-l'Archevêque, Yonne, France

Died

17 November 1794 aboard the prison ship Washington, in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France

Beatified

1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II

Saint Giacinto Ansalone November 17

 Saint Giacinto Ansalone

Also known as

• Giordano Ansaloni

• Giordano of Saint Stephen

• Hyacinth Jordan Ansalone

Profile

Dominican priest. Studying in Palermo, Italy and Salamanca, Spain. Missionary to Mexico, the Philippines and Japan. As he travelled, he wrote a book on the lives of Dominican saints. Martyr.

Born

1 November 1598 in San Stefano Quisquina, Agrigento, Italy

Died

17 November 1634 in Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan

Canonized

18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II

Patronage

Santo Stefano Quisquina, Italy

Saint Juan del Castillo Rodríguez November 17

 Saint Juan del Castillo Rodríguez

Profile

Jesuit priest. One of the Jesuit Martyrs of Paraguay.

Born

14 September 1595 in Belmonte, Cuenca, Spain

Died

stoned to death on 17 November 1628 in Ijuí, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraguay (in modern Brazil)

Canonized

16 May 1988 by Pope John Paul II

Patronage

native traditions

Saint Gregory of Tours November 17

 Saint Gregory of Tours

Also known as

George Florentius

Profile

Born to the Gallic nobility; great-nephew of Saint Eustadius. Friend of Saint Magnericus and Saint Senoch. While on pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Martin of Tours, his obvious piety led to his being chosen bishop of Tours, France in 573, taking the name Gregory on his ordination. An excellent bishop for 20 years; Pope Saint Gregory the Great thought highly of him. Historian and writer; his works are our best historical source for the Merovingian period.

Born

540 at Auvergne, France as George Florentius

Died

594 of natural causes

Blessed Yosafat Kotsylovskyi November 17

 Blessed Yosafat Kotsylovskyi

Also known as

• Josaphat Kocylovskyj

• Josaphat Kotsylovsky

Additional Memorial

27 June as one of the Martyrs Killed Under Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe

Profile

Greek Catholic. Studied theology in Rome, graduating in 1907. Ordained on 9 October 1907. Vice-rector and professor of theology at the Stanislaviv, Ukraine seminary. Entered the Basilian novitiate on 2 October 1911. Bishop of Premeshyl, Poland on 23 September 1917. Imprisoned for his faith by Polish authorities in September 1945. Died in prison. One of the Martyrs Killed Under Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe.

Born

3 March 1876 at Pakoshivka, Lemkiv District, Ukraine

Died

martyred on 17 November 1947 in prison in Kiev, Ukraine

Beatified

27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II in Ukraine

Saint Aignan of Orléans November 17

 Saint Aignan of Orléans

Also known as

Agnan, Anian, Anianus

Profile

Born to the nobility, his parents were Hungarians who had fled to the Dauphine area of modern France to escape Arian persecutions. Lived as a hermit in a cave. Spiritual student of Saint Evurtius of Orléans. Priest. Monk. Abbot of the Saint Laurence Abbey in Orléans, France. Bishop of Orléans. Organized the defense of Orléans during the invasion of Attila the Hun, met with Attila and prevented him attacking the city in 451.

Born

358 at Vienne, France

Died

• 453 of natural causes

• in the 10th-century King Robert built a church in Orléans, France in Aignan's honour, and his relics were enshrined in it

• relics destroyed by Calvinists in the 16th century

Patronage

Diocese of Orléans, France

Representation

praying on the walls of Orléans, France with an army in the field near the city

Saint Hilda of Whitby November 17

 Saint Hilda of Whitby

Also known as

Hild of Whitby

Profile

Daughter of Hereric and Breguswith. Sister of Saint Hereswitha. Grand-niece of King Saint Edwin of Northumbria. Baptized in 627 at age thirteen by Saint Paulinus of York. Lived as a single lay woman until age 33 when she became a Benedictine nun at the monastery of Chelles in France. Abbess at Hartepool, Northumberland, England. Abbess of the double monastery of Whitby, Streaneshalch. Abbess to Saint Wilfrid of York, Saint John of Beverley, and three other bishops. Patroness and supporter of learning and culture, including the work of the poet Caedmon.

Hilda and her houses followed the Celtic liturgy and rule, but many houses had adopted the continental Benedictine rule, and the Roman liturgy. Hilda convened a conference in 664 to help settle one a single rule. When the conference settled on the Roman and Benedictine, they were adopted throughout England, and Hilda insured the observance of her houses.

Born

614 at Northumbria, England

Died

680 of natural causes

Representation

• being carried to heaven by the angels

• holding Whitby abbey in her hands with a crown on her head or at her feet

• stopping wild birds from stealing a corn crop

• turning serpents into stone

Saint Florinus of Remüs November 17

 Saint Florinus of Remüs

Also known as

• Florinus of Chur

• Florinus of Finsgowe

• Florinus of Matsch

• Florinus of Mazia

• Florinus of Ramosch

• Florinus of Val Venosta

• Florinus of Vinschgau

• Florinus of Vnuost

• Florin, Florian

Additional Memorials

• 7 August (translation of relics to Chur, Switzerland)

• 18 December (translation of relics to the Trier, Germany)

Profile

Legend says that his father was a Saxon, his mother a Jew who converted to Christianity; the two met while they were both on pilgrimage to Rome, Italy, they married, and then settled in the Val Venosta in the Italian Tyrol region. Educated by Father Alexander at the parish of Saint Peter in Remüs (modern Ramosch), Switzerland; previous minister's there include Saint Othmar of Saint Gall. Ordained in Unterengadin, Switzerland, he served as the parish priest at Saint Peter's in Remüs, living like a hermit and caring for the poor. Miracle worker who turned water to wine which he then gave away to the poor.

Born

late 8th century Val Venosta, Italy

Died

• c.856 at Remüs (modern Ramosch), Switzerland of natural causes

• buried in the graveyard of the parish of Saint Peter in Remüs

• some relics enshrined in Koblenz, Germany in 950

• some relics enshrined in Regensburg, Germany

Representation

• book

• chunk of limestone

• wine jug, pitcher, bottle or pot (referring to the miracle of turning water to wine)

Patronage

• Chur, Switzerland, diocese of

• Vaduz, Liechtenstein, diocese of

• Lower Engadine, Switzerland

• Val Venosta, Italy

Saint Hugh of Lincoln November 17

Saint Hugh of Lincoln

Also known as

• Hugh of Avalon

• Hugh of Burgundy

Profile

Born to the nobility, the son of William, Lord of Avalon. His mother Anna died when he was eight, and he was raised and educated at a convent at Villard-Benoit in France. Monk at 15. Deacon at 19. Prior of a monastery at Saint-Maxim. Joined the Carthusians in 1160. Ordained in 1165. In 1175 he became abbot of the first English Carthusian monastery, which was built by King Henry II as part of his penance for the murder of Thomas Becket.

His reputation for holiness spread through England, and attracted many to the monastery. He admonished Henry for keeping dioceses vacant in order to keep their income for the throne. He resisted the appointment, but was made bishop of Lincoln on 21 September 1181. Restored clerical discipline in his see. Rebuilt the Lincoln cathedral, destroyed by earthquake in 1185.

Hugh denounced the mass persecution of Jews in England in 1190-91, repeatedly facing down armed mobs, making them release their victims. Diplomat to France for King John in 1199, a trip that ruined his health. While attending a national council in London a few months later, he was stricken with an unnamed ailment, and died two months later.

Born

1135 at Avalon Castle, Burgundy, France

Died

• 16 November 1200 at London, England of natural causes

• buried in the Lincoln Cathedral

Canonized

• 18 February 1220 by Pope Honorius III

• first canonized Carthusian

Patronage

• sick children

• sick people

• swans