Blessed Guilminus November 18

 Blessed Guilminus

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Benedictine monk at Thouace in Anjou, France. Friend and co-worker with Saint Burginus.

Died

c.1065 of natural causes

Saint Oriculus November 18

 Saint Oriculus

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One of a group of martyrs killed by Arian Vandals; the names of his fellow martyrs have not come down to us.

Died

c.430 near Carthage, North Africa

Saint Amandus of Lérins November 18

 Saint Amandus of Lérins

Also known as

• Amand, Amantius, Amatius

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Abbot of Lérins Abbey in 676.

Died

708 of natural causes

Saint Mummolus of Lagny November 18

 Saint Mummolus of Lagny

Also known as

Momble, Momleolus, Mumbolus

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Monk. Friend of Saint Fursey of Peronne. Abbot of Lagny in Meaux, France.

Born

Ireland

Died

c.690 of natural causes

Saint Barulas November 18

 Saint Barulas

Also known as

Barula

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A boy of seven who learned Christianity from Saint Romanus the Abbot. When he publicly announced his Christianity, he was tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.

Died

beheaded in 303

Blessed Cosmas Takeya Sozaburo November18

 Blessed Cosmas Takeya Sozaburo

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Layman member of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary in the archdiocese of Nagasaki, Japan. Married to Blessed Agnes Takeya; father of Franciscus Takeya. Martyr.

Born

in Korea

Died

burned alive on 18 November 1619 before a crowd of 20,000 at Nishizaka, Nagaski, Japan

Beatified

7 May 1867 by Pope Pius IX

Blessed Ioannes Yoshida Shoun November 18

 Blessed Ioannes Yoshida Shoun

Also known as

• John Shoun

• John Xoun

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Convert, baptized by Jesuits in the archdiocese of Nagasaki, Japan. Layman member of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary. Martyr.

Born

at Miyako, Japan

Died

burned alive on 18 November 1619 at Nishizaka, Nagaski, Japan

Beatified

7 May 1867 by Pope Pius IX

Blessed Domingos Jorge November 18

 Blessed Domingos Jorge

Also known as

Dominic Jorjes

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Soldier. Immigrant to Japan. Layman. Member of the Confraternity of the Rosary. Arrested for hiding the Christian missionary Blessed John Spinola during a persecution of the faith. Martyr.

Born

San Román, Aguiar de Sousa, Porto, Portugal

Died

burned alive on 18 November 1619 in Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan

Beatified

7 May 1867 by Pope Pius IX

Blessed Ferdinando Santamaria November 18

 Blessed Ferdinando Santamaria

Also known as

Grimoaldo of the Purification

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Passionist cleric.

Born

4 May 1883 at Pontecorvo, Frosinone, Italy as Ferdinando Santamaria

Died

18 November 1902 at Ceccano, Italy of natural causes

Beatified

29 January 1995 by Pope John Paul II

Blessed Andreas Murayama Tokuan November 18

 Blessed Andreas Murayama Tokuan

Also known as

Andrew Toukan

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Layman member of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary in the archdiocese of Nagasaki, Japan. Arrested for sheltering missionaries. He was offered his freedom if he would deny Christianity; he declined. Martyr.

Born

Nagasaki, Japan

Died

burned alive on 18 November 1619 before a crowd of 20,000 at Nishizaka, Nagaski, Japan

Beatified

7 May 1867 by Pope Pius IX

Noah the Patriarch November 18

 Noah the Patriarch

Also known as

Noe, Nuh

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Son of Lamech, and ninth patriarch of the Sethite line, who, with his family, was saved in the Ark from the Deluge, dying 350 years later at the age of 950. Father of Sem, Cham and Japhet. Many non-Catholics maintain that the Bible narrative is derived from a Babylonian epic, but numerous and important discrepancies render this untenable. The scriptural story is a parallel independent form of a common tradition.

Name Meaning

rest - Hebrew

Saint Mawes November 18

Saint Mawes

Also known as

Mandé, Maodez, Maudet, Maudetus, Maudez, Maudé, Maw, Mawe, Modez

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Hermit in an area of Cornwall, England; the area now has a village named Saint Mawes (Lannvowsedh in Cornish) in his honour. He emigrated to Brittany where he founded a monastery on an island now known as Maudez; he had to drive out the snakes and vermin in order to build. Worked with Saint Budoc of Brittany and Saint Tudwal to found the house. A nearby village is known as Lanmodez in his honour, and there are more than 60 churches in the region dedicated to him.

Born

Wales

Died

• 6th century of natural causes

• relics transferred to Bourges, France and Paris, France in the 9th century to escape invading Normans

• relics later returned to Brittany and spread around nine churches

Patronage

• against insects

• against snakes

• against worms

Representation

• bishop

• schoolmaster

Blessed Karoliny Kózkówny November 18

 Blessed Karoliny Kózkówny

Also known as

• Caroline Kózkówny

• Karolina Kózka

• Karolina Kozkowna

• Karolina Kózkówny

• the Maria Goretti of Poland

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Fourth of eleven children born to the farm family of Jan and Maria Borzechka Kózka. Catechist. A teenaged virgin, she refused the advances of a Russian soldier. He kidnapped her, dragged her into the forest, and murdered her during an attempted rape. Martyr of purity.

Born

2 August 1898 at Wal-Ruda, Poland

Died

• murdered during a rape attempt by a Russian soldier on 18 November 1914 in the forests around Wal-Ruda, Poland

• her body was found on 4 December 1914

• buried at Zabawa, Poland

Beatified

10 June 1987 at Tarnów, Poland by Pope John Paul II

Blessed Leonardus Kimura November 18

 Blessed Leonardus Kimura

Also known as

Leonard Chimurra

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His grandfather was the first Japanese person baptized by Saint Francis Xavier, and Leonard was raised Christian; he was related to Blessed Anthony Kimura. Attended the Jesuit school in Nagasaki, Japan. Served as lay catechist. Travelled with Jesuit priests on missionary trips. Jesuit Co-adjutor Brother, serving as cook and tailor. When the Jesuits were expelled from Japan in 1614, Leonard stayed behind and worked alone for years, living as a fugitive for his faith.

In 1619 he was captured with a small group of Christians. He was dressed as a Japanese gentleman, and the priest hunters had no idea they'd nabbed a Jesuit. At his trial the judge offered him the usual 200 pieces of silver if he would reveal the whereabouts of a Jesuit priest. Kimura said, "I know one Jesuit; he is a Co-adjutor Brother and not a priest, and I am that Brother." This admission sent him to prison. There he continued his mission as catechist, converted jailers and prisoners, and turned the prison into a Christian community with fixed times for prayer and meditation; this worked sent him to martyrdom.

Born

c.1575 at Nagasaki, Japan

Died

burned alive on 18 November 1619 before a crowd of 20,000 at Nishizaka, Nagaski, Japan

Beatified

7 May 1867 by Pope Pius IX

St. Romanus and Barula November 18

 St. Romanus and Barula

Feastday: November 18

Death: 304

Martyrs of Syria. Romanus was born in Palestine and served as a deacon in Caesarea and Antioch. He was supposedly arrested and put to death after giving encouragement to Christian prisoners in resisting the demands of the Romans to sacrifice to the gods. Romanus died with a companion, named Barula, a seven year old boy. Nothing is known of Barula with any certainty. It is considered likely by scholars that he was actually a Syrian martyr possibly called Bralaha or Barlaam, who became associated with Romanus. Romanus was burned, strangled, and then beheaded.

Saint Romanus of Caesarea (also known as Romanus of Antioch) is venerated as a martyr. In 303 or 304, at the beginning of the Diocletian persecution, a deacon called Romanus of Caesarea in Palestine suffered martyrdom at Antioch. He was taken prisoner, was condemned to death by fire, and was bound to the stake; however, as Emperor Galerius was then in Antioch, Romanus was brought before him. At the emperor's command Romanus' tongue was cut out. Tortured in various ways in prison he was finally strangled.

Eusebius speaks of his martyrdom in De martyribus Palaestinae. Prudentius[1] relates other details and gives Romanus a companion in martyrdom, a Christian by name Barulas. On this account several historians, among them Baronius, consider that there were two martyrs named Romanus at Antioch, though more likely there was but the one whom Eusebius mentions. Prudentius has introduced legendary features into his account, and his connection of the martyrdom of Barulas with that of Romanus is probably arbitrary.

The feast day of St. Romanus is observed on 18 November.[2] Barulas, like St. Quiricus, is venerated as a child-martyr. The church of San Román in Seville is dedicated to Romanus. Prudentius wrote a 1140 line hymn to Romanus, the Romane Christi fortis, the tenth hymn in his Peristephanon.[3]