இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் ஜீன் 03

 Saint Kevin of Glendalough

Also known as

• Kevin of Glen da locha

• Caoimhghin, Coemgen, Coemgenus, Comegen, Keivin

Profile

Son of Coemlog and Coemell, Leinster nobility. Baptized by Saint Cronan of Roscrea, and educated by Saint Petroc of Cornwall from age seven. Lived with monks from age 12. Studied for the priesthood in Cell na Manach (Killnamanagh). Student of Saint Eonagh. Priest, ordained by bishop Lugidus. Monk. Acquaintance of Saint Comgall, Saint Columba, Saint Cannich, and Saint Kieran of Clonmacnois.

Following his ordination, he lived as a hermit for seven years into a cave at Glendalough, a Bronze Age tomb now known as Saint Kevin's Bed, to which he was reportedly led by an angel. He wore skins, ate the nettles and herbs that came to hand, and spent his time in prayer. Word of his holiness spread, and he attracted followers, including Saint Moling. Founded the monastery at Glendalough, which included relics brought back during a pilgrimage to Rome, Italy. This house, in turn, founded several others, and around it grew a town which became a see city, though now subsumed into the archdiocese of Dublin. Served as abbot for several years. When he saw that the monastery was well-established, he withdrew to live as a hermit. Four years later, however, he returned to Glendalough at the entreaty of his monk, and served as abbot until his death at age 120. King Colman of Ui Faelain entrusted Kevin with raising his son.

Noted as a man who did not always like the company of men - but was at home with the animals, as some of the legends surrounding him show.

During a drought, Kevin fed his monks with salmon, a symbol of wisdom, brought to him by an otter. When one of the monks considered making gloves out of the otter's pelt, it left and never returned.

Once during Lent, while he held his arms outstretched in prayer, a blackbird laid an egg in the Kevin's hand. He remained in that position until the baby bird hatched.

A cow which habitually licked Kevin's clothes while the saint was in prayer gave as much milk as 50 other cows.

Lacking milk to feed the son of King Colman, Kevin prayed for help. A doe arrived to provide for the baby. When the doe was later killed by a wolf, Kevin chastised the killer; the wolf then provided the milk herself.

A young man with severe epilepsy received a vision that he would be cured by eating an apple. There were, however, no apple trees about. Kevin, seeing the lad's need, ordered a willow to produce apples; twenty yellow apples appeared on the tree.

In his old age, King O'Tool of Glendalough made a pet of a goose. As time passed, the goose also became aged and weak, and finally unable to fly. Hearing of Kevin's sanctity and power, the pagan king sent for him, and asked that he make the beloved goose young. Kevin asked for a payment of whatever land the goose would fly over. As the goose could no longer take flight, O'Toole agreed. When Kevin touched the bird, it grew young, and flew over the entire valley that was used to found the monastery of Glendalough.

A boar was being chased by a group of hunters with their dogs. It ran to where Kevin sat praying under a tree, and cowered beside him for protection. When the dogs saw the saint in prayer, they laid on their stomachs, and would not approach the boar. When the hunters decided they would ignore the man and kill the boar, a flock of birds settled in the tree above the praying saint. The hunters took this as a sign, and left man and beast alone.

Born

c.498 at the Fort of the White Fountain, Leinster, Ireland

Died

3 June 618 of natural causes

Canonized

1903 (cultus confirmed)

Patronage

• blackbirds

• Ireland

• archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland

• Glendalough, Ireland

Martyrs of Uganda

புனித சார்லஸ் லுவாங்கா 

( St. Charles Lwanga )

மறைசாட்சி/ ஆப்ரிக்க இளைஞர்களின் பாதுகாவலர் :

பிறப்பு :1860 அல்லது 1865

உகாண்டா, ஆப்ரிக்கா

இறப்பு : ஜூன் 3, 1886

ஆப்ரிக்கா

முத்திபேறு பட்டம்: 1920

திருத்தந்தை பதினைந்தாம் பெனடிக்ட்

புனிதர் பட்டம்: 18 அக்டோபர் 1964

திருத்தந்தை ஆறாம் பவுல்

நினைவுத் திருநாள் : ஜுன் 3

"வெள்ளைக் குருக்கள்" என்றழைக்கப்படும் துறவற சபையினர் ஆப்ரிக்காவில் நைல் நதி மேற்குப்பகுதியில் வாழ்ந்து வந்து மக்களிடையே 1878ல் மறைபரப்புப்பணியில் இறங்கினர். 1879ம் ஆண்டு பெரிய சனிக்கிழமையன்று முதன்முதலாக சிலர் திருமுழுக்கு பெற்றனர். இவர்களில் சிலர் இஸ்லாம் மறையிலிருந்து புரோட்டஸ்டாண்டு சபைக்கு மாறி, அதிலிருந்து கத்தோலிக்கரானவர்கள்.

கத்தோலிக்க மெய்மறை மிக விரைவாக பரவுகிறதென்பதை உணர்ந்த இஸ்லாமியரின் தூண்டுதலால் 1886ல் முவாஷ்கா (Muwashka) என்ற அரசன் கத்தோலிக்கர்களைத் துன்புறுத்த ஏவிவிட்டான்.

சார்லஸ் லுவாங்காவும் அவரின் தோழர்களும் அரச அவையில் பணிபுரிந்து வந்தனர். இவர்கள் எல்லாரும் 13-30 வயதுக்குட்பட்ட இளைஞர்கள். முவாஷ்கா ஓரின சேர்க்கைக்கு அடிமைப்பட்டவனாக இருந்தான். அவன் அரச அலுவல் புரிந்தவர்களைக் கெடுக்க சூழ்ச்சி செய்தபோது, சார்லஸ் தம் தோழர்களிடம், "இது தீமையானது, கொடுமையானது" என்று அறிவுரை கூறி ஓரின சேர்க்கையில் ஈடுபடாமல் காப்பாற்றி வந்தார். சார்லஸ் தான் புதிதாக பெற்றுக்கொண்ட விசுவாசத்திற்காக நமுகொஸ்கோ (Namukosco) என்ற இடத்தில் நெருப்பிலிடப்பட்டு கொல்லப்பட்டார்.

சார்லஸின் அறிவுரைப்படி மற்ற இளைஞர்கள் தங்கள் புனிதத்தில் நிலைத்து நின்றனர். 13 வயதான சிறு பெண் தனது கற்புக்காக மற்றவர்களைப்போல உயிரைத் தியாகம் செய்தார். இந்த வேதகலாபனை முடிந்த மறு ஆண்டிலேயே ஆப்பிரிக்காவின் இந்தப் பகுதியில் மறைபரப்பு பணி மிக விரைவாக பரவியது. ஆப்பிரிக்காவில் இந்த மறைசாட்சிகளின் இரத்தம் சிந்தப்பட்டதன் பயனாக ஒரு புதுயுகம் தோன்றிவிட்டது. முழுமையான சுதந்திரம் பெற்று மகிழும் ஆப்பிரிக்காவாக பொலிவுடன் வளர்ந்து கொண்டிருக்கிறது. இவர்களின் வேதனையில் புதிய யுகத்தை சார்ந்த ஆப்பிரிக்கா மக்களின் ஆன்மீக மேம்பாட்டுக்கான பாடங்கள் பல மிளிர்கின்றன.

மறைசாட்சிகள் தூண்களில் கட்டப்பட்டனர். சிறையில் அடைக்கப்பட்டனர். சாட்டையடி பட்டனர். ஈட்டிகளால் குத்தப்பட்டனர், சுட்டெரிக்கப்பட்டனர். தலை வெட்டப்பட்டனர். இப்படி இருந்தும் ஆப்பிரிக்காவில் கிறிஸ்தவர்கள் பலுகிப் பெருகினர்.

A group of courtiers and servants who died with St. Charles Lwanga in the court of King Mwanga of Uganda. Some martyrs were young boys. They were slain with horrible cruelty. All were converts of the White Fathers founded by Charles Cardinal Lavigerie in 1868. A shrine, now a basilica, was erected in their honor. They were canonized in 1964.

For the university, see Uganda Martyrs University.

The Uganda Martyrs are a group of 23 Anglican and 22 Catholic converts to Christianity in the historical kingdom of Buganda, now part of Uganda, who were executed between 31 January 1885 and 27 January 1887.[2][3]

They were killed on orders of Mwanga II, the Kabaka (King) of Buganda. The deaths took place at a time when there was a three-way religious struggle for political influence at the Buganda royal court. The episode also occurred against the backdrop of the "Scramble for Africa" – the invasion, occupation, division, colonization and annexation of African territory by European powers.[4] A few years after, the English Church Missionary Society used the deaths to enlist wider public support for the British acquisition of Uganda for the Empire.[5] The Catholic Church beatified the 22 Catholic martyrs of its faith in 1920 and canonized them in 1964.

List of the Catholic martyrs

Achilleus Kiwanuka (d. 3 June 1886)

Adolphus Ludigo-Mukasa (d. 3 June 1886)

Ambrosius Kibuuka (d. 3 June 1886)

Anatoli Kiriggwajjo (d. 3 June 1886)

Andrew Kaggwa (d. 26 May 1886)

Antanansio Bazzekuketta (d. 27 May 1886)

Bruno Sserunkuuma (d. 3 June 1886)

Charles Lwanga (d. 3 June 1886)

Denis Ssebuggwawo Wasswa (d. 25 May 1886)

Gonzaga Gonza (d. 27 May 1886)

Gyavira Musoke (d. 3 June 1886)

James Buuzaabalyaawo (d. 3 June 1886)

John Maria Muzeeyi (d. 27 January 1887)

Joseph Mukasa (d. 15 November 1885)

Kizito (d. 3 June 1886)

Lukka Baanabakintu (d. 3 June 1886)

Matiya Mulumba (d. 30 May 1886)

Mbaga Tuzinde (d. 3 June 1886)

Mugagga Lubowa (d. 3 June 1886)

Mukasa Kiriwawanvu (d. 3 June 1886)

Nowa Mawaggali (d. 31 May 1886)

Ponsiano Ngondwe (d. 26 May 1886)

Two martyrs of Paimol

There were also two Ugandan martyrs of a later period, who died at Paimol in 1918 and were beatified in 2002.[42] These have not yet been canonized.

The martyrs Daudi Okelo and Jildo Irwa were two young catechists from Uganda. They belonged to the Acholi tribe, a subdivision of the large Luo group. They lived and were martyred in the years immediately following the founding of the mission of Kitgum by the Comboni Missionaries in 1915.

Anglicanism

The Martyrs of Uganda are remembered in the Church of England with a commemoration on 3 June,[44] when commemorating the martyrs of Uganda, the Church of England includes Archbishop Janani Luwum, who was murdered in 1977 by Idi Amin's henchmen; they also commemorate Luwum separately on 16 February.

List of the Anglican Protestant martyrs

Makko Kakumba

Yusuf Lugalama

Nuwa Sserwanga

Mukasa Musa

Eriya Mbwa

Muddu Aguma

Daudi Muwanga

Muwanga

Kayizzi Kibuuka

Mayanja Kitogo

Noah Walukaga

Alexander Kdoko

Fredrick Kizza

Robert Munyangabyanjo

Daniel Nakabandwa

Kiwanuka Gyaza

Mukasa Lwakisiga

Lwanga

Mubi

Wasswa

Kwabafu

Kifamunnyanja

Muwanga Njigiya

Canonized

18 October 1964 by Pope Paul VI at Rome, Italy

Patronage

archdiocese of Accra, Ghana

Saint John Grande

Also known as

• John the Great Sinner

• Juan Grande Pecador

• Juan Grande Román

• Juan Grande

• Juan Pecador

Profile

Raised in a solidly Christian family, John was a choir boy from age 7 to 12. He was apprenticed in the linen business in Seville, Spain from age 15, and then returned to Carmona, Spain to start his own shop. At age 19 he left business behind, gave away his possessions, and became a hermit at Marcena. Referred to himself not just as Juan Grande, his given name, but Juan Grande Pecador (John the Great Sinner).

Worked in prisons and hospitals in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. With the aid of a wealthy couple in the area, he founded and managed the Hospital de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (Our Lady of Candlemas) at Jerez. He affiliated the place with the Order of Hospitallers, handing it over to Saint John of God, and joining the Order himself at Granada, Spain in 1574. During an outbreak of the plague in 1574, he organized a group to help tend to victims; they were very successful. At the request of the Archbishop of Seville, Spain he completely reformed the Church's health care system in the diocese, improving efficiency and services.

John was blessed with mystical gifts, and predicted the fall of the Spanish Armada. He ran afoul of many in authority, chastising officials and those who ran charities when they lived well, and those they were supposed to serve continued to suffer. Arranged anonymous dowries for poor girls so they could marry and avoid lives on the street. He fed and clothed prisoners and refugees, and died tending to plague victims.

Born

6 March 1546 at Carmona, Andalusia, Spain

Died

• 3 June 1600 at Jerez, Spain of plague

• relics at the diocesan Shrine of Saint John Grande, Saint John Grande Hospital, Jerez

Canonized

2 June 1996 by Pope John Paul II

Patronage

diocese of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain

Blessed Adam of Guglionesi

Also known as

• Adam the Abbot

• Adamo, Adão

Additional Memorial

2nd Sunday in October (return of stolen relics)

Profile

Benedictine monk. Abbot of the monastery of Santa Maria to the Italian Tremiti Islands. Attended the council of Melfi on 21 August 1059. Worked to unify the people of southern Italy as a way reduce into-city warring. Retired in 1071 to spend his remaining months as a prayerful hermit at the monastery of Saint Paul in Petacciato, Italy.

Born

c.990 in Petazio (modern Petacciato), Italy

Died

• 1072 in the Saint Paul monastery in Petacciato, Italy of natural causes

• Archpriest Benedict of Guglionesi, Italy had a dream of an angel who told him to bring Abbot Adam’s relics to Guglionesi

• relics taken to Gulionesi on 2 June 1102; legend says that the oxen pulling the transport cart became thirsty, pawed the road with one hoof, and springs erupted from the ground

• relics enshrined on 3 June 1102 in Guglionesi

• relics re-enshrined in a gilded bronze bust reliquary in 1153

• reliquary stolen by French supporters of King Charles VIII on the night of the feast of Corpus Christi in 1496 and taken to Campobasso, Italy where they planned to melt it for the prescious metal; the presence of relics made them hesitate, and the city was beseiged by storms until they returned the reliquary to Guglionesi

• reliquary was one of several stolen on the night of 2 June 1885

• relics returned in 1886 re-enshrined in a silver bust

• relics enshrined in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Guglionesi

Patronage

Guglionesi, Italy

Saint Clotilde

Also known as

Chlodechildis, Chrodechildis, Clothilde, Clotichilda, Clotild, Clotilda, Croctild, Crotildes, Hlodihildi, Hlotild, HroÞihildi, Rotilde

Profile

Born a princess, the daughter of King Chilperic of Burgundy. Married young to King Clovis of the Salian Franks while he was still a pagan; she brought him to the faith. Queen. Mother of three sons. Led her husband to Christianity in 496. Widow. Following Clovis's death in 511, her sons fought for years over the kingdom. To escape the constant murder and intrigue, she retired to Tours, France where she spent her remaining 34 years caring for the poor and sick.

Born

475 at Lyons, France

Died

• 545 at Tours, France of natural causes

• buried in the church of Saint Genevieve, Paris, France

Patronage

• against death of children

• adopted children

• brides

• disappointing children

• exiles, people in exile

• parenthood

• parents of large families

• queens

• widows

Blessed Diego Oddi

Also known as

• Giuseppi Oddi

• José Oddi

Profile

Son of Vicenzo Oddi and Bernardina Pasquali; raised in a poor but pious farm family. He had little education, but learned as much about the faith as he could. About age 20 he felt a call to the religious life, but his family strongly objected. He met Blessed Mariano da Roccacasale while making a pilgrimage to Rome, and was inspired by his example to become a Franciscan lay brother. He spent the rest of his life in the same monastery, known for his life of simple service, his sunny temperament, and his obvious deep faith.

Born

6 June 1839 in Vallinfreda, Italy as Giuseppi Oddi

Died

3 June 1919 in Bellegra, Italy of natural causes

Beatified

3 October 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy

Saint Genesius, Bishop of Clermont

Also known as

Genesio

Profile

Descendant of a senatorial family of Auvergne, France. Following a liberal education, he renounced the world for the Church. Archdeacon of Clermont, France under Bishop Proculus. Bishop of Clermont in 656. Founded a hospital at Clermont, the Abbey of Manlieu, the church of Saint Symphorian, and the convent at Chantoin. Fearing for his own soul, he made a secret pilgrimage to Rome, Italy in 661. His bereaved flock sent a deputation to the Vatican; they located Genesius and convinced him to return.

Died

• 662 of natural causes

• buried in Saint Symphorian's church at Clermont, France

• it is now known as Saint Genesius's church

Saint Liphardus of Orleans

Also known as

Lifard, Lifardo, Lifardus, Lifart, Lifhard, Lifhart, Liphard, Liphart, Lyphard

Profile

A prominent lawyer in Orleans, France. He gave it all up to devote himself to prayer as a cave-dwelling hermit. At the age of fifty he and Saint Urbicius founded and entered a monastery of Meung-sur-Loire, France, and served as its abbot.

Died

c.550

Saint Auditus of Braga

Also known as

Audito, Ouvido, Ovid, Ovidio, Ovidius

Profile

Imperial Roman citizen. Auditus was chosen 3rd bishop of Braga, Portugal by Pope Clement I in 95. Baptized Saint Marina. Martyr.

Born

Sicily

Died

• 135 in Braga, Portugal

• interred in the cathedral of Braga

• at the base of his sepulchre are two small holes where, traditionally, people put their fingers before putting them in their ears when asking for the intercession of Auditus for the petitioner’s auditory problems

Patronage

• against auditory diseases

• deaf people

Saint Phaolô Vu Van Ðuong

Also known as

Peter Ðong

Additional Memorial

24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam

Profile

Married layman and father in the apostolic vicariate of Central Tonkin (modern Vietnam). During the persecutions of emperor Tu-Duc, he was ordered to step on a crucifix to show his contempt for Christianity; he refused. Imprisoned, tortured and executed. Martyr.

Born

c.1792 in Vuc Ðuong, Hung Yên, Vietnam

Died

beheaded on 3 June 1862 in Nam Ðinh, Vietnam

Canonized

19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II

Blessed Francis Ingleby

Also known as

Francesco

Additional Memorial

• 29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai

• 22 November as one of the Martyrs of England, Scotland, and Wales

Profile

Studied at Rheims, France. Ordained on 21 March 1581, he returned to England in April 1581 to minister to covert Catholics during a period of official persecution. Imprisoned and executed for the crime of being a priest. Martyr.

Born

c.1550 in the Ripley, Yorkshire, England

Died

hanged, drawn and quartered on 3 June 1586 in York, North Yorkshire, England

Beatified

22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II

Blessed Charles-René Collas du Bignon

Profile

Priest in the Society of Saint Sulpice. Superior of the minor seminary of Bourges, France. Martyred in the anti-Christian persecutions of the French Revolution.

Born

25 August 1743 in Mayenne, France

Died

3 June 1794 aboard the prison ship Deux-Associés docked off-shore of Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France as a consequence of abuse, neglect and infected open sores

Beatified

1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II

Saint Conus of Lucania

Also known as

Cono

Profile

Benedictine monk in at Santa Maria dei Codossa monastery near Lucania, Italy.

Born

late 12th century in Diano, Italy

Died

• early 13th century at Cadossa, Italy of natural causes

• relics enshrined in Lucania, Italy

• when the Cadonna monastery was closed in 1261, the relics were transferred to Diano, Italy

Canonized

27 April 1871 by Pope Pius IX

Patronage

• Diano, Italy

• Teggiano, Italy

Saint Davinus of Lucca

Also known as

• Davinus of Armenia

• Davino...

Profile

Layman who sold all that he owned, gave the money to the poor, and set out as a mendicant pilgrim to Rome, Italy and Compostella, Spain. He depended on the hospitality of strangers who uniformly recognized his personal piety and strong prayer life.

Born

in Armenia

Died

3 June 1051 in Lucca, Italy of natural causes

Canonized

by Pope Alexander III

Saint Morand of Cluny

Also known as

Morando, Morandus

Profile

Monk of Cluny. Founded the monastery of Saint Christopher at Altkirch, France. Lived the whole of each Lent on a single bunch of grapes, leading to his patronage of people in the grape and wine trade.

Patronage

vintners, wine growers, wine makers

Saint Isaac of Cordoba

Profile

Though Christian, his knowledge of Arabic allowed him to acquire the position of notary in the Moorish government of the day. He resigned to become a monk at Tabanos. Pulled into public religious debate at Cordoba, Spain, he denounced Mohammed, and was martyred.

Born

c.825 at Cordoba, Spain

Died

beheaded in 852 in Cordoba, Spain

Saint Paula of Nicomedia

Profile

Consecrated virgin. Cared for Saint Lucillian of Byzantium, Saint Claudius of Byzantium, Saint Dionysius of Byzantium, Saint Hypatius of Byzantium, and Saint Paul of Byzantium while they were in prison. Arrested, tortured and martyred for helping Christians.

Born

Nicomedia

Died

beheaded in 273 in Constantinople

Saint Caecilius of Carthage

Also known as

Caecilian, Cecilio, Ceciliano

Profile

Third century priest in Carthage, North Africa. He converted Saint Cyprian of Carthage to Christianity. Cyprian so revered Caecilius that he took his name, and looked after his family after the priest's death.

Blessed Beatrice Bicchieri

Profile

Married to Gioachino de Ivachi. Widow. Joined the Dominicans in 1270. Founded a Domincan convent in Vercelli, Italy, and served as its first abbess. Known for her deep prayer life and her dedication to penance.

Died

1320 in Vercelli, Italy

Saint Athanasius of Traiannos

Profile

Wandering monk. Settling in Traiannos, Greece c.908, he worked as a calligrapher and copied manuscripts of the Bible and Church Fathers.

Born

Asia Minor

Died

933 of natural causes

Saint Glunshallaich

Also known as

Glunshalaich

Profile

Seventh century convert, led to the faith by Saint Kevin of Glendalough; noted for a life of penance.

Born

Irish

Died

buried with Saint Kevin at Glendalough, Ireland

Saint Hilary of Carcassone

Also known as

Ilario

Profile

Fourth century bishop of Carcassonne, France. Worked to keep his flock adhering to orthodox Christianity in the face of the Arianism being spread by the Goths.

Saint Albert of Como

Also known as

Aribert, Adalbert, Adelbert

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Hermit at Rho, Italy. Benedictine monk at San Carpofero monastery in Como, Italy. Abbot of his house. Bishop of Como.

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c.1092 of natural causes

Saint Urbicius

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With Saint Liphardus of Orleans, he founded and entered a monastery of Meung-sur-Loire, France. Served as its second abbot.

Died

late 6th century

Saint Laurentinus of Arezzo

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Brother of Saint Pergentinus of Arezzo. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.

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251 in Arezzo, Italy

Saint Pergentinus of Arezzo

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Brother of Saint Laurentinus of Arezzo. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.

Died

251 in Arezzo, Italy

Blessed Gausmarus of Savigny

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Benedictine monk. Abbot at Saint Martin of Savigny from 954 to 984.

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984

Saint Cronan the Tanner

Also known as

Cronanus

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Spiritual student of Saint Kevin of Glendalough.

Died

617

Saint Oliva of Anagni

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Nun at Anagni, Italy.

Saint Moses of Arabia

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Arab missionary bishop to the nomadic tribes in the Syro-Arabian desert.

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372

Martyrs of Africa

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156 Christians martyred together in Africa, date unknown; the only other information to survive are some of their names -

• Abidianus

• Demetria

• Donatus

• Gagus

• Januaria

• Juliana

• Nepor

• Papocinicus

• Quirinus

• Quirus

Martyrs of Byzantium

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A group of Christians, possibly related by marriage, who were martyred together. They were -

• Claudius

• Dionysius

• Hypatius

• Lucillian

• Paul

Martyrs of Rome

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A group of Christians martyred together. We know nothing else about them but the names –

• Amasius

• Emerita

• Erasmus

• Lucianus

• Orasus

• Satuaucnus

• Septiminus

• Servulus

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Rome, Italy, date unknown

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Martyrs of Rome

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85+ Christians martyred together in Rome, Italy, date unknown. The only details that have survived are some of their names –

• Apinus • Apronus • Aurelius • Avidus • Cassianus • Criscens • Cyprus • Domitius • Donata • Donatus • Emeritus • Extricatus • Exuperia • Faustina • Felicitas • Felix • Flavia • Florus • Fortunata • Fortunatus • Fructus • Gagia • Gagus • Gallicia • Gorgonia • Honorata • Januaria • Januarius • Justa • Justus • Libosus • Luca • Lucia • Matrona • Matura • Mesomus • Metuana • Nabor • Neptunalis • Obercus • Paula • Peter • Pompanus • Possemus • Prisca • Procula • Publius • Quintus • Rogatian • Romanus • Rufina • Saturnin • Saturnus • Secundus • Severa • Severus • Sextus • Silvana • Silvanus • Sinereus • Tertula • Titonia • Toga • Urban • Valeria • Veneria • Veranus • Victor • Victoria • Victorinus • Victuria • Victurina • Virianus • Weneria • Zetula •

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Rome, Italy, date unknown

இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் ஜீன் 02

 Saint Erasmus

 ஃபோர்மியா நகர் புனிதர் எராஸ்மஸ் 

(St. Erasmus of Formia)

மறைசாட்சி, ஃபோர்மியா ஆயர்:

(Martyr, Bishop of Formiae)

பிறப்பு: 3ம் நூற்றாண்டு

இறப்பு: கி.பி 303

இல்லரிகம் (நவீனகால குரோஷியா)

(Illyricum (modern-day Croatia))

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

(Roman Catholic Church)

கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை

(Eastern Orthodox Church)

நினைவுத் திருநாள்: ஜூன் 2

பாதுகாவல்:

குடல் அழற்சிக்கு எதிராக, பிறப்பு வலிக்கு எதிராக, வயிற்று வலி மற்றும் நோய்களுக்கு எதிராக, குடல் வாயு அல்லது குடலில் அடைப்பு ஏற்படுவதால் அடிவயிற்றில் கடுமையான, பெரும்பாலும் ஏற்ற இறக்கமான வலிக்கு எதிராக, கடலில் ஏற்படும் ஆபத்துக்கு எதிராக, கடல் நோய்களுக்கு எதிராக, புயல்களுக்கு எதிராக, வெடிமருந்துகள், வெடிபொருட்கள் மற்றும் துப்பாக்கித் தொழிலாளர்கள், படகோட்டிகள், கடற்படையினர், மாலுமிகள், பிரசவம் மற்றும் பிரசவத்தில் உள்ள பெண்கள், வழிகாட்டிகள், கேட்டா (Gaeta), இத்தாலி (Italy), ஃபார்மியா (Formia), கால்நடை பூச்சி (Cattle pest), செயின்ட் எல்மோ கோட்டை (Fort St. Elmo), மால்டா (Malta).

புனிதர் "எல்மோ" (Saint Elmo) என்றும் அழைக்கப்படும் ஃபார்மியா நகர் புனிதர் எராஸ்மஸ் (Erasmus of Formia), கி.பி. 303ம் ஆண்டு மரித்த, ஒரு கிறிஸ்தவ துறவியும், மற்றும் மறைசாட்சியும் ஆவார். எராஸ்மஸ் அல்லது எல்மோ, பதினான்கு தூய உதவியாளர்கள் (Fourteen Holy Helpers) என்றழைக்கப்படும் புனிதர்களுள் ஒருவர் ஆவார். கிறிஸ்தவ பாரம்பரியத்தின்படி, இப்புனிதர்கள், பிறரின் செப பரிந்துரையாளர்களாக வணங்கப்படுகிறார்கள்.

வாழ்க்கையின் ஆவணம்:

புனிதர் எராஸ்மஸின் நடவடிக்கைகள், ஓரளவு புராணக்கதைகளிலிருந்து தொகுக்கப்பட்டவை ஆகும். அவை அந்தியோக்கியாவின் சிரிய ஆயர் (Syrian bishop), அந்தியோக்கியாவின் எராஸ்மஸுடன் (Erasmus of Antioch) குழப்பமடைகின்றன. பொற்கால புராணங்களின்படி, ஜேக்கபஸ் டி வோராகின் (Jacobus de Voragine) அவரை அனைத்து இத்தாலிய காம்பானியா (Italian Campania) மீதும், ஃபார்மியாவின் ஆயராககவும் (Bishop at Formia), லெபனான் மலையில் (Mount Lebanon) ஒரு துறவியாகவும் (Hermit), கிழக்கு ரோமானிய பேரரசர் (Eastern Roman Emperor) டயோக்லேஷியனின் (Diocletian) ஆட்சியின்கீழ் நடந்த கிறிஸ்தவ துன்புறுத்தல்களின் ஒரு மறைசாட்சியாகவும் புகழ்ந்தார். அவரது ஆர்வத்திற்கு வரலாற்று அடிப்படை எதுவும் இல்லை என்று தெரிகிறது.

வாழ்க்கை மற்றும் மறைசாட்சியம்:

எராஸ்மஸ், இத்தாலி (Italy) நாட்டின் ஃபோர்மியா நகர் (Bishop of Formia) ஆயராக இருந்தார். பேரரசர்களான டயோக்லேஷியன் (Diocletian) (கி.பி. 284-305) மற்றும் மாக்சிமியன் ஹெர்குலஸ் (Maximian Hercules) (கி.பி. 284-305) ஆகியோரின் ஆட்சி காலத்தில் நடந்த கிறிஸ்தவர்களுக்கு எதிரான துன்புறுத்தலின்போது, அவர் தனது மறைமாவட்டத்தை விட்டு வெளியேறி லெபனான் மலைக்குச் (Mount Lebanon) சென்றார். அங்கு அவர் ஏழு ஆண்டுகள் ஒளிந்து வாழ்ந்தார். இருப்பினும், ஒரு தேவதூதர் அவருக்குத் தோன்றி, அவரை அவரது நகரத்திற்குத் திரும்பும்படி அறிவுரை வழங்கியதாக கூறப்படுகிறது.

தமது ஊர் திரும்பும் வழியில் குறுக்கிட்ட சில வீரர்கள், அவரிடம் கேள்விகள் எழுப்பி அவரை விசாரித்தனர். எராஸ்மஸ், தாம் ஒரு கிறிஸ்தவர் என்று ஒப்புக் கொண்டார். மேலும் அவர்கள் அவரை அந்தியோகியாவில் (Antioch) பேரரசர் டயோக்லேஷியன் (Diocletian) முன் விசாரணைக்கு கொண்டு வந்து நிறுத்தினார்கள். அவரை பயங்கரமான சித்திரவதைகளுக்கு உள்ளாக்கிய அவர்கள், பிறகு அவரை சங்கிலிகளால் பிணைத்து, சிறையில் தள்ளினார்கள். ஆனால் ஒரு தேவதை தோன்றி அவர் அங்கிருந்து தப்பிக்க உதவியது.

கரியா (Caria) மற்றும் பம்பிலியா (Pamphylia) இடையே தென்மேற்கு ஆசியா மைனரின் (Southwestern Asia Minor) கடற்கரையில் ஒரு பண்டைய பகுதியான லைசியா (Lycia) வழியாக எராஸ்மஸ் பயணித்தார். அங்கு அவர், சிறப்புமிக்க குடிமகன் ஒருவரின் மகனை வளர்த்தார். இதன் விளைவாக, அநேக குடிமக்களுக்கு அவர் திருமுழுக்கு அளித்தார். இது மேற்கு ரோமானிய பேரரசர் (Western Roman Emperor) மாக்சிமியன் (Maximian) கவனத்தை ஈர்த்தது. வரலாற்றாசிரியர் வோராகின் (Voragine) என்பவரது கூற்றுப்படி, "பேரரசர் மாக்சிமியன், பேரரசர் டயோக்லேஷியனை விட மோசமானவர்" ஆவார். மாக்சிமியன் அவரை கைது செய்ய உத்தரவிட்டார். எராஸ்மஸ் தனது கிறிஸ்தவ விசுவாசத்தை தொடர்ந்து அறிக்கையிடார். அவர்கள் அவரை விக்கிரகங்களின் கோவிலுக்குச் செல்லும்படி கட்டாயப்படுத்தினர். ஆனால் எராஸ்மஸ் சென்ற பாதையில் அனைத்து சிலைகளும் விழுந்து அழிந்துபோயின. கோயிலில் இருந்த பல பாகன்கள் மீது தீ பற்றிக்கொண்டது.

இது சக்கரவர்த்திக்கு மிகவும் கோபத்தை ஏற்படுத்தியது. அவர் எராஸ்மஸை கூர்மையான ஈட்டிகள் நீட்டிக்கொண்டிருந்த ஒரு பீப்பாயில் அடைத்து வைத்தார். பீப்பாய் ஒரு மலையிலிருந்து உருட்டப்பட்டது. ஆனால் ஒரு தேவதை அவரை மீட்டு, குணமாக்கியது. மேலும் சித்திரவதைகள் தொடர்ந்தன. 

அவர் மீண்டும் பிடிபட்டபோது, அவரை சக்கரவர்த்தியின் முன் அழைத்து வந்து நிறுத்தினார்கள். கசையால் அடித்து துன்புறுத்தினார்கள். ஆனால், அவர் இன்னும் உயிர் பிழைத்திருந்தார். அவரை பட்டினியால் இறக்க அனுமதிக்க வேண்டும் என்ற நோக்கத்துடன் அவரை சிறையில் தள்ளி, பட்டினி போட்டார்கள். இருப்பினும் எராஸ்மஸ் அதிலிருந்து தப்பிக்க முடிந்தது.

இறுதியாக, இல்லரிகம் (Illyricum) எனும் ரோமானிய மாகாணத்தில் (Roman province) அவர் மீண்டும் பிடிக்கப்பட்டு, சித்திரவதை செய்யப்பட்டார். ஆனால், அவர் மீண்டு மீண்டும் தைரியமாக பிரசங்கித்தார். பல பாகன்களை கிறிஸ்தவ மதத்திற்கு மாற்றிய பின்னர். இறுதியாக, அவரது மரணத்தின் இந்த பதிப்பின் படி, அவரது வயிறு கிழிக்கப்பட்டு, அவரது குடல்கள் வெளியே எடுக்கப்பட்டு, அவர் கொல்லப்பட்டார்.

வணக்கம் மற்றும் பாதுகாவல்:

அவருக்கு அருகில் ஒரு இடி தாக்கிய பிறகும், அவர் தொடர்ந்து பிரசங்கித்ததாகக் கூறப்படுகிறது. இது, திடீர் புயல் மற்றும் மின்னல் ஆகியவற்றால் ஆபத்தில் இருந்த மாலுமிகளை அவரது பிரார்த்தனைகளை கோர தூண்டியது. இதன் காரணமாகவே, எராஸ்மாஸ் மாலுமிகளின் பாதுகாவலர் ஆனார். கப்பல்களின் முகப்பில் உள்ள மின் வெளியேற்றங்கள் அவரது பாதுகாப்பின் அடையாளமாக வாசிக்கப்பட்டு "செயிண்ட் எல்மோ'ஸ் ஃபயர்" (Saint Elmo's Fire") என்று அழைக்கப்பட்டன.

Also known as

Elmo, Eramo, Erarmo, Ermo, Herasmus, Rasimus, Rasmus, Telmo

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Bishop of Formiae, Campagna, Italy. He fled to Mount Lebanon in the persecutions of emperor Diocletian where he was fed by a raven so he could stay in hiding. Discovered by the authorities, he was imprisoned, but an angel rescued him. Recaptured, he was martyred. One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Namesake for the static electric discharge called Saint Elmo's Fire.

Died

disemboweled c.303 at Formiae, Italy

Patronage

• against appendicitis

• against birth pains

• against abdominal or stomach pains and diseases

• against colic

• against danger at sea

• against seasickness

• against storms

• ammunition, explosives and ordnance workers

• boatmen, mariners, sailors, watermen

• childbirth and women in labour

• navigators

• Gaeta, Italy

Saint Nicephorus of Constantinople

Also known as

Nikephoros

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Son of the secretary to Emperor Constantine Copronymus, a man tortured and exiled for refusing to accept iconclasm. Nicephorus was known as a scholar and eloquent speaker, and served as an imperial commissioner. Built a monastery near the Black Sea. A layman, he was chosen patriarch of Constantinople in 806. When he gave absolution to the priest who had illicitly married Emperor Constantine VI and Theodota while Constantine's wife Mary was still alive, Nicephorus fell into conflict with Saint Theodore Studites, but the two later reconciled. Nicephorus worked for a return to monastic discipline, reform of the administration of the diocese, and evangelization of the lay people. Brought Saint Methodius of Constantinople from his monastery on Chios to help. Opposed Emperor Leo the Armenian's attempt to return to iconoclasm, and was deposed by a synod of iconoclastic bishops. Several attempts were made his life, and he was exiled to the monastery he had built on the Black Sea. He spent his final 15 years there, praying and writing history and treatises against iconoclasm.

Born

758 in Constantinople

Died

2 June 828 of natural causes

Works

• Breviarum

• Chronographia

Blessed Sadoc of Sandomierz

Also known as

Sadoch, Zadoc, Zadok

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Studied at the University of Bologna, Italy. Dominican friar, receiving the habit from Saint Dominic de Guzman himself. At the General Chapter the Dominicans in Bologna in 1221, Sadoc was chosen to assist Master Paul of Hungary to establish a province in Hungary. Sadoc later moved on to Poland where he served as preacher for nearly forty years. In 1260 he and 48 Dominicans from Sandomierz were martyred by the Tartars as they were singing the Salve Regina at Compline; the custom of singing the Salve Regina at the deathbed of Dominicans stems from this incident.

Died

1260 at Sandomierz, Poland

Beatified

18 October 1807 by Pope Pius VII (cultus confirmation)

Prayers

Lord Jesus, in the midst of fierce attacks of the foe Blessed Sadoc and his companions greeted the Virgin Mary in song and received the longed-for palm of martyrdom. After this exile may your merciful and loving Mother show us to you, who live and reign in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. - Dominicans

Saint Peter the Exorcist

Also known as

• Peter Exorcista

• Peter the Deacon

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Exorcist in Rome, Italy. Helped convert Saint Artemius of Rome, Saint Candida of Rome, and Saint Paulina of Rome. Known for his piety and dedication to his work. Worked with and was martyred with Saint Marcellinus in the persecutions of Diocletian. His name is mentioned in the first Eucharistic prayer.

Born

imperial Roman citizen

Died

• 304 in the Silva Nigra just outside Rome, Italy

• buried in the Saints Marcellinus and Peter cemetery on the Lavican Road by Lucilla and Firmina

• Constantine built a basilica over their tomb

• relics later taken to Selgenstadt abbey by Einhard, Charlemagne's secretary

• skull enshrined in a reliquary in the Abbey of Saint Denis in 1665; reliquary melted and relics destroyed in 1794

புனித மார்சலினஸ்,புனித பீட்டர் (St.Marcelinas, St.Peter)

மார்சலினஸ் குருவாக திருநிலைப்படுத்தப்பட்டு, குருத்துவ நிலையை அடைந்தார். பீட்டர் திருச்சபை வழங்கும் "பேய்களை ஓட்டும்" அதிகாரம் பெற்றவராக தொண்டு புரிந்து வந்தார். இருவரும் தங்களின் வேத விசுவாசத்திற்காக சிறையில் தள்ளப்பட்டனர். அங்கு ஏற்கெனவே விசுவாசத்திற்கு எதிராக செயல்பட்டவர்கள் சிலர் கிறிஸ்தவர்களை விசுவாசத்தின்பேரில் கொடுமைப்படுத்தி வந்தனர். அவர்களை இவர்கள் இருவரும் மனந்திருப்பினர். அவர்களை கிறிஸ்துவின் விசுவாசிகளாக மாற்றினர். சிலரை புதிதாகவும் மனந்திருப்பினர். சிறைக் காவலன் ஆர்த்தியுஸ், அவர் மனைவி, மகள் ஆகியோர் கூட கிறிஸ்துவின் ஒளியை இவர்கள் மூலம் பெற்றுக்கொண்டனர். 

இவர்களின் வீரச்சாவு நாளன்று, நாயக்ரா என்றழைக்கப்படும் ஒரு காட்டிற்குள் கொண்டு போகப்பட்டனர். அங்கே இவர்கள் தலைகள் துண்டிக்கப்பட்டன. இவர்கள் வெட்டப்படும்முன் இவர்களை புதைக்க ஒரு குழித்தோண்டப்பட்டிருந்தது. உடனே இவர்கள் புதைக்கப்பட்டனர். இந்த இரகசியத்தை கொலைஞனே வெளிக்கொணர்ந்துவிட்டார். இவரும் இறுதியில் திருமுழுக்கு பெற்றுக்கொண்டார். லூசில்லா, ஃபிர்மினா என்ற பக்தியுள்ள பெண்கள் இவர்களின் புனித உடல்களை எடுத்து "திபூர்சியஸ் புதைக்குழி"யில் அடக்கம் செய்தனர். மன்னன் கான்ஸ்டாண்டின் கிறிஸ்துவின் ஒளியை பெற்றுக்கொண்டவர். இவர் கல்லறைமேல் பேராலயம் எழுப்பியதுடன், புனித எலேனா என்ற பெயர் கொண்ட தம் தாயையும் இங்கேயே அடக்கம் செய்தார். இவர்களின் வீரச்சாவு தொடக்கத் திருச்சபையில் எவ்வளவு போற்றப்பட்டதெனில் ரோமன் கேனன்(Roman Canon) என்று சொல்லப்படும். திருப்பலி வேளையில் பயன்படுத்தப்படும் "மாறாத ஜெபங்கள்" என்ற பகுதியில் இவர்களின் பெயர்கள் சேர்க்கப்பட்டு காலங்காலமாக நினைவு கூரப்பட்டனர்.

"நாம் வெறும் மனிதர்களோடு போராடுவதில்லை. வான் வெளியில் திரியும் தீய ஆவிகளோடு போராடுகிறோம், எனவே பொல்லாத நாள் வரும்போது, எதிர்த்து நின்று அனைத்தின்மீது வெற்றி அடைந்து, நிலை நிற்க வலிமை பெறும்படி கடவுள் தரும் படைக்கலங்களை எடுத்துக்கொள்ளுங்கள்" (எபே 6:12) என்ற இறைவாக்கை வாழ்வாக வாழ்ந்தனர்.

Saint Marcellinus

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Priest in Rome, Italy. Noted for his piety. Martyred with Saint Peter the Exorcist in the persecutions of Diocletian. His name is mentioned in the first Eucharistic prayer.

Born

Roman citizen

Died

• 304 in the Silva Nigra just outside Rome, Italy

• buried in the Saints Marcellinus and Peter cemetery on the Lavican Road by Lucilla and Firmina

• Constantine built a basilica over their tomb

• relics later taken to Selgenstadt abbey by Einhard, Charlemagne's secretary

Blessed Guido of Acqui

Also known as

Guisto, Guy, Vido, Wido

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Born to the nobility; his father was the Count of Acquesana. Educated in Bologna, Italy. Bishop of Acqui, Monteferrato, Piedmont, Italy in March 1034 till his death 36 years later. Noted reformer, and remembered for his charity; he used much of his own wealth to support the local economy and end corruption. Promoted the education of women. Founded the convent of Santa Maria de Campis.

Born

c.1004

Died

• 2 June 1070 of natural causes

• interred in the cathedral of Saint Guisto, Susa, Italy

Beatified

1853 Pope Blessed Pius IX (cultus confirmed)

Saint Nicholas Peregrinus

Also known as

• Nicholas the Pilgrim

• Nicola Pellegrino di Trani

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Moved from Greece to Apulia, Italy as a teenager where he wandered the streets carrying a cross and crying "Kyrie Eleison" ("Lord, have mercy"). Groups of children would follow him, also crying "Kyrie Eleison". Noted for his piety and personal holiness, but considered a lunatic by the locals. Many miracles reported at his tomb.

Born

1075 in Greece

Died

1094 in Trani, Italy of natural causes

Canonized

1098 by Pope Blessed Urban II

Patronage

Trani, Italy

Saint Blandina the Slave

Also known as

Blandina of Lyon

Profile

Slave. With several others, she was set upon by a pagan mob, arrested, tried and convicted of the crime of Christianity, along with a number of nonsense charges like cannibalism, during the persecutions of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. One of the Martyrs of Lyon and Vienne.

Died

• enmeshed in a net and given to a wild bull in 177 at Lyon (in modern France)

• body burned and the ashes thrown in the river

• what could be recovered is in the church of Saint-Leu, Amiens, France

Patronage

• falsely accused people

• girls

• torture victims

• Lyon, France

Saint Daminh Ninh

Also known as

• Domenic Ninh

• Dominic Ninh

Additional Memorial

24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam

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Christian peasant farmer in the apostolic vicariate of Central Tonkin (modern Vietnam). During the persecutions of emperor Tu-Duc, he was ordered to step on a crucifix to show his contempt for Christianity; he refused. Imprisoned, tortured and executed. Martyr.

Born

c.1835 in Trung Linh, Nam Dinh, Vietnam

Died

beheaded on 2 June 1862 in An Triêm, Nam Dinh, Vietnam

Canonization

19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II

Pope Saint Eugene I

Also known as

Eugenius

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Son of Rufinianus. Priest as a young man. Known as a gentle and pious man, very generous to the poor. Vicar for Pope Saint Martin I during his exile. Elected 75th pope in 654. He opposed the heretical Monothelite Byzantine emperor; in return, the emperor threatened to roast the pope alive. Consecrated 21 bishops during his papacy.

Born

at Rome, Italy

Papal Ascension

• elected 10 August 654

• ascended in 655

Died

• June 657 of natural causes

• buried in Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy

Saint Photinus of Lyons

Also known as

Pothin, Pothinus

Profile

Bishop of Lyons, France. At age 90 he was one of a group of 48 Christians from the areas of Vienne and Lyon in France, who were attacked by a pagan mob, arrested and tried for their faith, and murdered in the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius. A letter describing their fate, possibly written by Saint Irenaeus of Lyons, was sent to the churches in the Middle East.

Died

of general abuse and neglect while in prison in 177 in Lugdunum, Gaul (modern France)

Blessed Demetrios of Philadelphia

Also known as

Demetrius, Dimitrios, Dimitri

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Son of an Orthodox priest, at age 13 Demetrios converted from Christianity to Islam. However, by age 25 he realized his error and returned to Christianity. Kidnapped as he approached a church, he was beaten, tortured, mutilated and finally murdered by Turkish Muslims who insisted that he renounce Christianity. Martyr.

Died

feet cut off then thrown alive into a fire in 1567 in Philadelphia, Lydia (modern Alasehir, Turkey)

Saint Stephen of Sweden

Also known as

• Stephen of Corbie

• Stephen of Corvey

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Monk at New Corbie monastery, Saxony. Priest. Missionary bishop to Sweden. Achieved many conversions, and was the first to bring Christianity to the area between Denmark and Sweden. Murdered by worshippers of the pagan god Woden. Martyr.

Born

11th century

Died

1075 near Nora, Uppsala region of Sweden

Blessed Joseph Tien

Also known as

Thao Tien

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Priest in the apostolic vicariate of Thanh Hoá (in modern Laos). Martyr.

Born

5 December 1918 in Ban Ten, Muang Xôi, Houaphan, Laos

Died

2 June 1954 in Ban Talang, Houaphan, Laos

Beatified

• 11 December 2016 by Pope Francis

• beatification recognition celebrated in Vientiane, Laos, presided by Cardinal Angelo Amato

Saint Adalgis of Thiérarche

Also known as

• Adalgis of Novara

• Adelgis, Algis, Algise

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Monk. Spiritual student of Saint Fursey of Peronne. Missionary in the area of Arras and Laon, France. Founded a monastery in the forest around Thiérarche, Picardy; the village of Saint Algis grew up around it.

Born

7th century Ireland

Died

686 of natural causes

Saint Dorotheus of Rome

Also known as

Doroteo

Profile

Executioner who killed Saint Marcellinus and Saint Peter the Exorcist; he saw their souls leave the bodies and ascend to heaven. He converted to Christianity and did penance for his previous life and the murder of the saints.

Born

late 2nd century in Rome, Italy

Died

c.350

Blessed Giovanni de Barthulono

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Born to an illustrious Italian family. Mercedarian. Ransomed 49 Christians who had been enslaved in Africa. Noted for his personal piety and virtue.

Died

1500 in Trapani, Italy of natural causes

Saint Juan de Ortega

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Priest in the diocese of Burgos, Spain. Pilgrim to Palestine, Rome, Italy, and Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Lived as a hermit near Burgos. Helped Saint Dominic de la Calzada build roads, bridges, hospices, etc. to improve the region and bring services to those in rural areas.

Died

c.1150 of natural causes

Saint Biblis of Lyons

Also known as

Biblides

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Tortured to admit to the crime of cannibalism, a slur often ascribed to early Christians. Martyred with 45 other Christians in the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius. One of the Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne.

Died

177 at Lyons, France

Saint Alexander of Vienne

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Physician in Vienne, Gaul. Adult convert to Christianity. Friend of Saint Pothinus. Arrested for his faith during the persecutions of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, he was tortured and executed. One of the Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne.

Died

177

Saint Dictinus of Astorga

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A supporter of the Priscillianist heresy, he was brought back to orthodox Christianity by Saint Ambrose, renouncing his errors at the Council of Toledo in 400. Bishop of Astorga, Spain.

Died

420

Saint Bodfan of Wales

Also known as

Bobouan, Boduan

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Seventh century monk at Beaumaris, Wales.

Patronage

• Abergwyngregyn, Wales

• Abern, Wales

Saint Armin of Egypt

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Venerated in Egypt and Ethiopia, but no details of him have survived.

Died

c.304

Saint Ada of Ethiopia

Profile

Martyr.

Died

Ethiopia

Saint Barbarinus

Also known as

Barbarunus

Profile

Priest. Martyr.

Saint Honorata

Also known as

Honoratus

Profile

Martyr.

Saint Evasius

Profile

Martyr.

Saint Humatus

Profile

Martyr.

Saint Rogate

Profile

Martyr.

Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne

Profile

A group of 48 Christians from the areas of Vienne and Lyon, France, who were attacked by a pagan mob, arrested and tried for their faith, and murdered in the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius. A letter describing their fate, possibly written by Saint Irenaeus of Lyons, was sent to the churches in the Middle East. Only a few names and details of their lives have surived; some of them have separate entries on this date -

• Alexander of Vienne

• Attalus of Pergamos

• Biblis of Lyons

• Blandina the Slave

• Cominus of Lugdunum

• Epagathus of Lugdunum

• Maturus the Novice

• Photinus of Lyons

• Ponticus of Lugdunum

• Sanctius of Vienne

• Vettius of Lugdunum

Died

assorted dates and methods during 177

Martyrs of Sandomierz

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A group of 49 Dominicans, some of whom received the habit from Saint Dominic de Guzman himself. They worked separately and together to bring the faith and establish the Dominican Order in Poland, basing their operations in and around Sandomierz. In 1260 they were all martyred by the Tartars as they were singing the Salve Regina at Compline; the custom of singing the Salve Regina at the deathbed of Dominicans stems from this incident.

We know a few details about a few of the martyrs, but most survive only as names -

• Zadok

• Andrea, chaplain

• James, novice master

• Malachi, convent preacher

• Paul, vicar

• Peter, guardian of the garden

• Simone, penitentiary

friars

• Abel, Barnabas, Bartholomew, Clemente, Elia, John, Luke, Matthew, Philip

deacons

• Giuseppe, Joachim, Stefano

sub-deacons

• Abraham, Basil, Moses, Taddeo

clerics

• Aaron, Benedict, David, Dominico, Mattia, Mauro, Michele, Onofrio, Timothy

professed students

• Christopher, Donato, Feliciano, Gervasio, Gordian, John, Mark, Medardo, Valentino

novices

• Daniele, Isaiah, Macario, Raffaele, Tobia

lay brothers

• Cyril, tailor

• Jeremiah, shoemaker

• Thomas, organist

Died

1260 at Sandomierz, Poland

Beatified

18 October 1807 by Pope Pius VII (cultus confirmation)

இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் ஜீன் 01

 Saint Justin Martyr

புனித ஜஸ்டின் (St.Justin)

மறைசாட்சி(Martyr), தத்துவமேதை

பிறப்பு 

100 ஆம் ஆண்டு

சிரியா

    

இறப்பு 

165

புனிதர்பட்டம்: 1035, திருத்தந்தை 9ஆம் பெனடிக்ட்

இவர் கிரேக்கமொழி பேசும் பெற்றோருக்கு மகனாக பிறந்தார். சிறு வயதிலிருந்தே தத்துவ கலையை ஆழமாகக் கற்றுத்தேர்ந்தார். இவரது காலத்தில் இருந்த ப்ளேட்டோ(Plato) போன்ற தத்துவமேதைகளுடன் நெருங்கிய தொடர்புகொண்டிருந்தார். எல்லாம் வல்ல இறைவனைப்பற்றி இந்த தத்துவ ஞானம் தனக்கு முழுமையான விளக்கம் அளிக்க இயலவில்லை என்றுணர்ந்தார். ஒருநாள் அலெக்சாண்டிரியா நகருக்கு அருகில் கடற்கரையில் நடந்து போய்கொண்டிருந்தார். தற்செயலாக ஒரு வயது முதிர்ந்த கிறிஸ்தவரை சந்தித்தார்.. அவருடன் நெடுநேரம் உரையாடினார். அதன்பயனாக விவிலியத்தில், இறைவாக்கினர்கள் எழுதிய இறைவாக்குகளைப்படித்தார். நாளடைவில் மீட்பரின் முன்னறிவிப்பு இறைவாக்கை சரியாக புரிந்துகொண்டார். 

கிறிஸ்தவர்கள் எத்தனை மனவலிமையுடன் கிறிஸ்துவிற்காக வேதனைகளை தாங்கிக்கொண்டார்கள். என்பதை உணர்ந்து வேதனைப்பட்டார். இறைவாக்கினர்களை நினைத்து வியப்படைந்தார். சாவைத் தழுவினாலும், இந்த மறைசாட்சிகளிடம் காணப்பட்ட முகமலர்ச்சியும், ஆர்வமும் அவரை மிக ஆழமாகத் தொட்டது. இவர்களின் வீரச்சாவும் இவர் திருநூலைப் படித்ததன் பயனுமாக கிறிஸ்துவை ஏற்றுக்கொண்டார். கிறிஸ்துவுக்காக வாழ முடிவெடுத்தார். பின்னர் தமது தத்துவமேதைக்குரிய உடையிலேயே பல பயணங்களை மேற்கொண்டு, இறுதியாக உரோம் நகரை அடைந்தார். 4 நற்செய்தியாளர்களும் எழுதிய இறைவாக்குகளைப் பற்றி தெளிவாகப்படித்தார். முடிவில் அவர்கள் எழுதியவைகள் அனைத்தும் உண்மை என்பதை உணர்ந்து ஏற்றுக்கொண்டார். இதன் பயனாக, இவரது நாட்களில் ஞாயிறு திருவழிபாடு எவ்வாறு நடைபெற்று வந்தது என்பதைப்பற்றி விரிவாக எழுதிவைத்தார். அனைத்திற்கும் மேலாக, திவ்விய நற்கருணையில் இறைப்பிரசன்னத்தை பற்றியும் அதில் நாம் கொண்டிருக்கவேண்டிய விசுவாசப் பற்றுறுதி பற்றியும் மிகவும் ஆழமாக விவரித்து எழுதியுள்ளார். 

147 ஆம் ஆண்டிலிருந்து இதுவரை கிறிஸ்தவர்கள் துன்புறுத்தப்பட்டது போல, இனியும் துன்புறுத்தப்படக்கூடாது. என்று மன்னன் ஆன்றோனினுஸ் பயஸ்(Androninus Pius) ஆணை பிறப்பித்தான். ஜஸ்டின் எழுதிய பல நூல்களில் ஒன்றில் "உலகில் எப்பகுதியிலும், எக்காலத்திலும் உண்மையை சுட்டிக்காட்டிய ஞானிகள் அனைவரும் கிறிஸ்துவ சமுதாயத்தை சார்ந்தவர்கள் என்று மிக அழுத்தம், திருத்தமாக குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளார். 166 ல் ஜஸ்டின் எழுதிய மற்றொரு நூலில், நாம் பெற்றுக்கொண்ட விசுவாச பேருண்மைப்பற்றி தெளிவாக விளக்கியுள்ளார். இதனால் இந்நூல் அப்போதைய அரசன் மார்க்ஸ் அவுரேலியுசுக்கு(Marks Aureliyas) எரிச்சல் மூட்டியது. இதனால் கோபம்கொண்ட அரசன், கிறிஸ்துவ விசுவாசத்தையும், ஜஸ்டினையும் அழிக்க எண்ணி, அவரை சிறைப்பிடித்து சென்றான். அங்கு பல கொடுமைகளை அனுபவித்த ஜஸ்டின் தனது 67 ஆம் வயதில் தலைவெட்டப்பட்டு இறந்தான். அவர்தான் இறக்கும்வரை, எந்த ஒரு தத்துவக்கலையும், இறுதியில் கிறிஸ்துவிடம் மட்டுமே கொண்டு சேர்க்கமுடியும் என்பதை இடையூறாது போதித்தார்.

Also known as

Justin the Philosopher

Profile

Pagan philosopher who converted to Christianity at age 30 by reading the Scriptures and witnessing the heroism and faith of martyrs. He used his philosophical and oratorical skills to publicly dispute with pagans and explain his new faith, and he became one of the first great Christian apologists. He later opened a school of public debate in Rome, Italy. All this high profile Christianity naturally brought him to the attention of the authorities, and he died a martyr.

Born

c.100 at Nablus, Palestine

Died

• beheaded in 165 at Rome, Italy

• relics in the Capuchin church, Rome

Patronage

• apologists

• lecturers, orators, speakers

• philosophers

Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini

Also known as

• John Baptist Scalabrini

• Apostle of the Catechism

Profile

Third of eight children in a deeply religious family. Studied philosophy and theology at the seminary at Como, Italy. Ordained on 30 May 1863. Professor and rector of Saint Abundius Seminary. Pastor of Saint Bartholomew's Church in 1870. Bishop of Piacenza, Italy on 30 January 1876 at age 36.

Conducted diocesan visitation five times, visiting all 365 parishes, half of which could only be reached by foot or mule. Celebrated three Synods, one of which was dedicated to the Eucharist. Encouraged frequent Communion and perpetual adoration. Reorganized seminaries and reformed their curricula, anticipating the Thomistic reform of Pope Leo XIII. Preacher, teaching always to love the Pope and the Church.

Worked with cholera victims, visited the sick and prisoners, helped the poor and bankrupt nobility. Saved thousands of farmers and workers from famine, selling his horse, chalice, and the pectoral cross that Blessed Pope Pius IX had given him in order to buy food. Founded an institute to help hearing and speech-impaired women. Organized assistance for young single women employed in rice fields. Established mutual aid societies, workers' associations, rural banks, cooperatives, and Catholic Action groups. Ordered that catechism be taught in all parishes. Planned and presided over the first National Catechetical Congress in 1889.

He was convinced that devotion to religion and one's country could be reconciled in the hearts of Italians. Promoted reconciliation between Church and State, and helped solve a painful moral dilemma for Italian Catholics. He aimed at preparing this religious reconciliation on a practical level, combining religious belief and patriotic love in his work with migrants. Worked with millions of Italians forced to emigrate, often in dire conditions, always in danger of losing their faith and their attachment to religious practice.

With the approval of Pope Leo XIII, on 28 November 1887 he founded the Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles (Scalabrinians) for religious, moral, social and legal care of migrants. Convinced Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, the Mother of Migrants, to leave for America in 1889 to care for children, orphans and sick Italian migrants. In 1895 founded the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles for migrants. Even the sister Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus were encouraged to care for migrants. His spirituality and his love for migrants inspired the Scalabrinian Lay Missionary Women.

John was devoted to the Eucharist and spent hours in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, to Our Lady, preaching many Marian homilies, and making Marian pilgrimages. His last conscious words were, "Lord, I am ready, Let us go".

Born

8 July 1839 at Fino Mornasco, Como, Italy

Died

dawn 1 June 1905, feast of the Ascension of the Lord

Beatified

9 November 1997 by Pope John Paul II

Saint Hannibal Mary di Francia

Also known as

• Annibale Maria di Francia

• Hannibal di Francia

Profile

Third of four children of Francis the Marquises of Saint Catherine of Jonio, a Papal Vice-Consul, a knight, and Honorary Captain of the Navy; his mother was Anna Toscano, an Italian aristocrat. His father died when Hannibal was fifteen months old. The boy developed a devotion to the Eucharist and the Virgin Mary. At age 17, while in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, he received a call to religious life. Ordained 16 March 1878. Immediately after he moved into the Avignone ghetto, one the most impoverished areas he could find, and began a life's work with the poor. In 1882 he founded the Anthonian Orphanages, so-called because they were under the patronage of Saint Anthony of Padua; they were noted for their operation as an extended family. In order to expand this work to a much larger sphere of physically and spiritually poor he founded The Daughters of Divine Zeal in 1887, and The Rogationists in 1897; they were canonically approved on 6 August 1926. He believed in the need for a strong priesthood; he started the Holy Alliance and Pious Union of the Evangelical Rogation, worldwide movements of prayer for vocations, and published the periodical God and Neighbor with information about these movements and their work. He worked to be a model for the seminarians who came to work in his schools, and cared for the physical and spiritual needs of his brothers and sisters in the religious life. He was considered a saint during his life, and received a vision of the Virgin Mary just before his death. The groups he founded continue to day, working all over the world in prayer, publishing, orphanages, schools, training for the deaf and mute, care for the aged, home for single mothers, and schools of all types.

Born

5 July 1851 at Messina, Italy

Died

1 June 1927 at Messina, Italy of natural causes

Canonized

16 May 2004 by Pope John Paul II

Blessed Theobald Roggeri

Also known as

• Theobald of Vico

• Theobald of Alba

• Theobald Roggeris

Additional Memorial

1 February (part of the miracle of the bells at the discovery of his relics)

Profile

Born to a wealthy, noble Piedmont family, his reading of the Gospel caused him to abandon position for a simple life. Cobbler in Alba, Italy. Theobald proved himself a skillful craftsman, and his master hoped that the young apprentice would marry his daughter and carry on the business. Theobald, however, had made a private vow of chastity, and abandoned the trade. Following a pilgrimage to Compostela, Spain, he worked as a porter, spending his day carrying sacks of grain. He gave away as much of his wages as he could to people even more poor than himself, and there are ballads about him in which he gave away the grain and flour he was supposed to deliver. Venerated in Liguria and the Piedmont regions.

Born

late 11th century in Vico, Liguria, Piedmont, Italy

Died

• 1150 of natural causes

• at his request, Theobald was buried in a patch of ground between the church of San Lorenzo and the church of San Silvestro

• his grave became a place of pilgrimage and healing miracles, but afater many decades faded into obscurity and its location was lost

• relics re-discovered late in the evening of 31 January 1429 by the bishop of Alba, Italy; legend says the church bells of all the area churches rang on their own at sun-up the following day in celebration

• relics enshrined in a chapel in the cathedral of Alba

Beatified

1841 by Pope Gregory XVI (cultus confirmation)

Patronage

• against fever

• against sterility

• church cleaners

• cobblers, shoemakers

• porters

Blessed John Storey

Additional Memorial

1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University

Profile

Educated at Oxford. Doctor of law. President of Broadgate Hall (modern Pembroke College) form 1537 to 1539. First Regius Professor of civil law. Married in 1547.

Member of the English Parliament in 1547. Opposed anti-Catholic laws enacted by King Edward VI. Imprisoned from 1548 to 1550 for opposed the Bill of Uniformity.

On his release, he and his family moved to Leuven, Belgium, but returned to England in August 1553 when Catholic Queen Mary ascended to the throne. Chancellor to Bishop Edmund Bonner. Member of Parliament again from 1553 to 1560. In 1560 he opposed the Bill of Supremacy, and incurred the ire of Queen Elizabeth. Imprisoned in Fleet Prison on 20 May 1560, he escaped, was captured at Marshalsea, and re-imprisoned.

Escaping again, he fled the country to Antwerp, Belgium. There he renounced his English citizenship, and became a subject of the Catholic Spanish crown. Customs official in Flanders.

Kidnapped at Bergen-op-Zoon by agents of Queen Elizabeth in August 1570. Returned to England, he was locked in the Tower of London and repeatedly tortured. Indicted on 26 May 1571 for conspiring against the Queen's life. Throughout his misery, John claimed his innocence, and the court's lack of jurisdiction over him, a Spanish subject. Condemned on 27 May 1571. Martyr.

Born

1504 in northern England

Died

hanged, drawn, and quartered on 1 June 1571 at Tyburn, England

Beatified

29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmed)

Saint Crescentinus

Also known as

Crescentian of Saldo, Crescentino, Crescenziano, Crescentianus

Profile

Imperial Roman soldier. Convert to Christianity. During the persecutions of Diocletian, Crescentinus fled to Thifernum Tiberinum (modern Città di Castello). There he is reported to have slain a dragon that had terrorized the region; this convinced the locals of the power of God and led to many conversions, and to the depictions of Crescentinus fighting a dragon. It is also possible that Crescentinus evangelized the region, made many converts, and the image of him slaying the dragon is represents him defeating the devil or paganism. Eventually, however, the anti-Catholic forces of Diocletian came to the area, and Crescentinus fell as a martyr.

Died

• beheaded on 1 June 303 at Saldo, Italy

• relics translated to Urbino, Italy in 1068 by Blessed Mainard of Urbino

Patronage

• against headache (a ceremony in Urbino cures headaches by tapping the sufferer's head with the relics of Crescentinus)

• Città di Castello, Italy

• Urbino, Italy

Blessed John Pelingotto

Also known as

• John Pelino Goto

• Giovanni Pelino Goto

Profile

Son of a wealthy merchant, John cared nothing for business, wealth or worldly success and preferred to live as a hermit. He eventually felt a call to help the poor and sick in the world, and gave away food, clothes and wealth, going hungry, living in rags, wearing a rope around his neck to indicate that he was a sinner in need of punishment, and falling into lengthy ecstasy. His family worried about his health, both physical and mental, and they had to bring him in from the street. He became a Franciscan tertiary, and with the support and discipline they provided, he was able to properly devote his life to prayer and charity.

Born

1240 at Urbino, Italy

Died

• 1 June 1304 in Urbino, Italy

• buried in the cloister cemetery at the San Francesco monastery, Urbino

• many miracles reported at his grave

• re-interred in the church at the cloister

Beatified

13 November 1918 by Pope Benedict XV (cultus confirmed)

Saint Simeon of Syracuse

Also known as

• Simeon of Trier

• Symeon...

Profile

His father was Greek, his mother Calabrian. Educated in Constantinople. Pilgrim to the Holy Lands where he supported himself by serving as tour guide to other pilgrims. Spoke Greek, Latin, Coptic, Syriac and Arabic. Monk in Bethlehem. Deacon. Hermit beside the River Jordan. Monk in Bethlehem. Hermit on Mount Sinai. Sent to seek alms from the Duke of Normandy for the support of other hermits on the mountain. Hermit near Trier, Germany under the direction of the abbot of the nearby Benedictine monastery of Saint Martin. One of the last great figures linking the Orthodox West with the Orthodox East.

Born

in Syracuse, Sicily

Died

• in 1035 in Trier, Germany of natural causes

• buried in his hermitage

• a collegiate church was built in the nearby city wall’s gate, known as the Porta Nigra, and his relics were enshrined there in 1037

• church destroyed and relics lost during a construction project in 1804

Canonized

1042 by Pope Benedict IX

Blessed Alfonso Navarrete-Benito

Also known as

• Alfonsus Navarrete

• Alphonso Navarrete

• Alphonsus de Mena

Additional Memorials

• 10 September (as one of the 205 Martyrs of Japan)

• 6 November (Dominicans as one of their Martyrs of the Far East)

Profile

Dominican priest. Missionary to the Philippines in 1578. In 1610 he returned to Europe to recruit missionaries, and in 1611 returned to the Orient as missionary and Dominican provincial vicar in Japan. His evangelism work brought many hundreds to Christianity. Martyr.

Born

21 September 1571 in Logroño, Spain

Died

beheaded on 1 June 1617 in Koguchi, Omura, Nagasaki, Japan

Beatified

7 May 1867 by Blessed Pope Pius IX

Saint Gaudentius of Ossero

Also known as

Gaudentius Auxerensis

Profile

Bishop of Ossero, Istria (in modern Croatia) in 1030. Falsely accused by some of the nobility who objected to his spiritual reforms, Guadentius travelled to Rome, Italy in 1032 to defend his name. On the way home, he fell ill in Ancona, and stayed there to recover. He then resigned his see, and became a Benedictine monk under Saint Peter Damian.

Born

in Trzic, Istria (in modern Croatia)

Died

• 31 May 1044 in Ancona, Italy of natural causes

• legend says that on 31 May 1144, a century to the day after his death, the relics of Gaudentius, stored in an iron-bound chest, floated ashore in Osor, Croatia as all the church bells rang by themselves

• relics in the Church of Saint Guadentius, Osor, Croatia

Patronage

• Osor, Croatia

• Cres, Croatia

Saint Wystan of Evesham

Also known as

• Wystan of Mercia

• Vistano, Wigstan, Wigstow, Winston, Wistan, Wistanstow, Wistow

Profile

Prince of Mercia, the son of Wigmund of Mercia and Aelfflaed, daughter of King Ceolwulf I of Mercia. Killed in his youth by his regent Bertulph, king of Mercia, for opposing the marriage of Bertulph to Wistan's mother. Some writers have considered him a martyrs.

Died

• murdered on 1 June 849 at Wistanstow, England

• buried in Repton Abbey, Derbyshire, England

• miracles reported at his tomb

• relics translated to the Evesham Abbey, and then the Evesham cathedral

Patronage

Repton, England

Saint Pamphilus of Alexandria

Profile

Studied in Berytus, Phoenicia and in Alexandria, Egypt. Careful student of the works of Origen. Priest, ordained at Caesarea. Head of a catechetical school in Caesarea. Noted Bible scholar. In a day when books were hand-copied, Pamphilus was known for the size of his library which survived until destroyed by Arabs in the 7th century. Teacher of the noted historian Eusebius of Caesarea, helped him write an Apology of Origen, and was the subject of a biography by Eusebius. Arrested in 308 by governor Urban for the crime of being a Christian. One of a group of martyrs who were tortured and murdered together.

Born

Berytus, Phoenicia

Died

beheaded in 309 in Alexandria, Egypt

Blessed Jean-Baptiste-Ignace-Pierre Vernoy de Montjournal

Profile

Priest in the diocese of Moulins, France. Canon of Moulins. During the French Revolution he was arrested and sentenced to forced labour for the crime of being a priest. Imprisoned on a ship anchored off shore, he was tortured repeatedly, starved and left to die. One of the Martyrs of the Hulks of Rochefort.

Born

17 November 1736 in Molins, Allier, France

Died

1 June 1794 aboard the prison galley Deux-Associés in port at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France of general abuse and neglect

Beatified

1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II

Saint Iñigo of Oña

Also known as

Eñeco, Eñecone

Profile

Hermit. Monk at San Juan de Peña, Aragon (part of modern Spain), and later served as prior. Hermit in the Aragon mountains. Reforming abbot at the monastery at Oña, Spain in 1029 at the request of King Sancho the Great. Known as a peacemaker and miracle worker.

Born

11th century at Bilbao, Spain

Died

• 1 June 1057 at the monastery at Oña, Spain of natural causes

• his holiness was so obvious to all that he was mourned by the Jews and Muslims of the city as well as the Christians

Canonized

1259 by Pope Alexander IV

Saint Reverianus of Autun

Also known as

Reverentianus, Reveriano, Reverie, Rivianus

Profile

Evangelizing bishop. Missionary to Gaul with Saint Paulus of Autun and ten companions whose names have not come down to us. Bishop of Autun, France, which formed the base of operations for the group. They were all martyred by order of Emperor Aurelian who was at war with the locals at the time.

Born

3rd century Italy

Died

• beheaded c.273 in Autun, France

• buried in Autun

• a monastery and church grew up around the group's grave site

• oil reported to flow from his relics and grave

• head in the church in Nuits, France; no other relics have survived

Saint Giuse Túc

Also known as

Joseph Tuc

Additional Memorial

24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam

Profile

Christian peasant farmer in the apostolic vicariate of Central Tonkin (modern Vietnam). During the persecutions of emperor Tu-Duc, he was ordered to step on a crucifix to show his contempt for Christianity; he refused. Imprisoned, tortured and executed. Martyr.

Born

c.1843 in Hoàng Xá, Bac Ninh, Vietnam

Died

beheaded on 1 June 1862 in Hoàng Xá, Bac Ninh, Vietnam

Canonization

19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II

Blessed Ferdinand Ayala

Also known as

• Ferdinand of Saint Joseph Ayala

• Fernando Ayala

• Fernando of Saint Joseph

• Hernando Ayala

• Hernando of Saint Joseph

Profile

Augustinian priest in 1603. Missionary to Mexico. Missionary to Japan. Augustinian vicar provincial in 1605. Worked with Blessed Alphonsus Navarette. Martyr.

Born

1575 in Ballesteros de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Spain

Died

beheaded on 1 June 1617 in Koguchi, Omura, Nagasaki, Japan

Beatified

7 May 1867 by Pope Blessed Pius IX

Saint Candida of Whitchurch

Also known as

Gwen, Hwitn, White, Whyte, Wite, Witt, Witta

Profile

Martyred by pagan Danes. There is a holy well devoted to her at nearby Morcombe Lake.

Died

• in Dorset, England

• relics still exist in their shrine at Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset; believed to be the only relics in a parish church that survived the Protestant Reformation

Saint Paulus of Autun

Also known as

Paul, Paolo

Profile

Evangelizing priest. Missionary to Gaul with Saint Reverianus of Autun and ten companions whose names have not come down to us. Worked from Autun, France. They were all martyred by order of Emperor Aurelian who was at war with the locals at the time.

Born

3rd century Italy

Died

• beheaded c.273 in Autun, France

• buried in Autun

• a monastery and church grew up around the group's grave site

Saint Ronan of Cornwall

Also known as

• Ronan of Locronan

• Ronan of Quimper

• Ronanus, Ruadan, Rumon, Ruadhan, Ruan

Profile

An early missionary bishop, ordained by Saint Patrick, who preached in Cornwall, England, and in Brittany, France.

Born

in Cornwall, England

Died

• 6th century in Brittany (in modern France) of natural causes

• buried in Locronan, Brittany

Blessed Arnald Arench

Profile

Mercedarian friar. Professor in a medical school in Montpellier, France. Preacher and writer who made expeditions to ransom Christians who had been enslaved by Muslims. During one of these trips he was imprisoned and beaten daily by Muslims for adhering to Christianity. Martyr.

Born

14th century France

Died

beaten to death in 1394 in Granada, Spain

Saint Conrad of Trier

Also known as

• Conrad of Treves

• Cuno...

Profile

Born to a noble Swabian family. Nephew of Saint Anno. Bishop of Trier, Germany, which involved him in the political fight over who had the right to choose the bishop of that diocese. On his way to Trier he was captured by opponents and murdered. Considered a martyr.

Born

Swabia, Germany

Died

thrown from a castle tower in 1066 at Uerzig, Germany

Saint Ischyrion

Also known as

Ischirione

Profile

Steward and servant of an Alexandrian magistrate in Roman imperial Egypt. During the persecutions of Decius, Ischyrion's employer demanded that he renounce Christianity and sacrifice to pagan gods. When Ischyrion refused, the magistrate ordered him beaten and martyred.

Born

Egyptian

Died

impaled c.250 at Alexandria, Egypt

Saint Caprasius of Lérins

Also known as

Caprais, Caprasio

Profile

Hermit in Provence and Lerins, France, and in Greece. Friend of Saint Honoratus of Arles and Saint Venantius. With Saint Honoratus, he founded a monastery at Lerins, and eventually served as its abbot.

Died

430 of natural causes

Blessed Leo Tanaka

Also known as

• Leo Tanaca

• Leone...

Additional Memorial

10 September as one of the 205 Martyrs of Japan

Profile

Layman catechist in the Archdiocese of Nagasaki, Japan. Martyr.

Born

c.1590 in Omi, Japan

Died

beheaded on 1 June 1617 on a rock near Omura, Nagasaki, Japan

Beatified

7 May 1867 by Pope Blessed Pius IX

Saint Fortunatus of Spoleto

Also known as

• Fortunatus of Territet

• Fortunato...

Profile

Fifth-century parish priest in the village of Territet near Spoleto, Italy. Famed for his love for the poor, his gentleness as a pastor, and as a miracle worker.

Saint Damian of Scotland

Also known as

Damianus

Profile

Two versions of his story exist:

1) He was a priest in Patras, Greece. With Saint Regulus of Scotland, he came to the west with the relics of Saint Andrew the Apostle.

2) He was a priest in Scotland who received Saint Regulus of Scotland and helped him enshrined the relics of Saint Andrew the Apostle.

Saint Seleucus of Alexandria

Profile

Student of Saint Pamphilus of Alexandria; fellow student with Saint Porphyrius of Alexandria. Seleucus applauded how strong and calm Saint Porphyrius remained under torture; this exposed him as a Christian, and he was martyred.

Born

Cappadocia

Died

beheaded in 309 in Alexandria, Egypt

Blessed Conrad of Hesse

Also known as

• Conrad of Herlesheim

• Conrad of Haina

• Konrad of...

Profile

Cistercian monk at the monastery in Haina, Germany where he served as cellar-master for 16 years.

Born

in Herlesheim, Upper Hesse, Germany

Died

c.1270 of natural causes

Blessed Gaius Xeymon

Also known as

Caius

Profile

Born to Christian parents. Dominican tertiary. Helped the friars with their missionary work, and was martyred for it.

Born

Japanese

Died

17 August 1627 at Nagasaki, Japan

Beatified

7 May 1867 by Pope Blessed Pius IX

Saint Proculus the Soldier

Also known as

Procolo

Profile

An officer in the Imperial Roman army. Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.

Died

crucified c.304 in Bologna, Italy

Saint Felinus of Perugia

Also known as

Felino of Perugia

Profile

Imperial Roman soldier. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.

Died

• c.250 at Perugia, Italy

• relics translated to Arona, Italy in 979

Patronage

Arona, Italy

Saint Gratian of Perugia

Also known as

Gratianus

Profile

Imperial Roman soldier. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.

Died

• c.250 at Perugia, Italy

• relics translated to Arona, Italy in 979

Saint Clarus of Aquitaine

Also known as

Clair

Profile

Evangelizing bishop in the Aquitaine region of modern France. Martyr.

Saint Agapetus of Ruthenia

Also known as

Agapitus

Profile

Monk in Ruthenia (in modern Ukraine). Physician who did not charge for his services.

Died

c.1100 of natural causes

Saint Claudius of Vienne

Also known as

Claudio

Profile

15th bishop of Vienne, France, serving from c.440 to c.449. Part of the Council of Orange in 441. Part of the Synod of Vaison in 442.

Saint Porphyrius of Alexandria

Profile

Student of Saint Pamphilus of Alexandria with whom he was tortured and martyred.

Died

beheaded in 309 in Alexandria, Egypt

Saint Thespesius of Cappadocia

Profile

Martyred in the persecutions of Emperor Alexander Severus.

Died

230 in Cappadocia (in modern Turkey)

Saint Atto of Oca

Profile

Benedictine monk at Ona, Old Castile, Spain. Spiritual student of Saint Enneco. Bishop of Oca-Valpuesta, Spain.

Died

1044 of natural causes

Saint Peter of Pisa

Profile

Founded the Order of the Hermits of Saint Jerome in Italy.

Born

c.1355

Died

1435 of natural causes

Saint Juventius

Profile

Martyr.

Died

• Rome, Italy, date unknown

• relics translated to the Benedictine monastery at Chaise-Dieu, Evreux, France

Saint Secundus of Amelia

Profile

Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.

Died

drowned in 304 in the River Tiber at Amelia, Italy

Saint Telga of Denbighshire

Also known as

Tegla, Thecla

Profile

The patron of a church and a healing well in Ciwyd, Wales.

Saint Proculus of Bologna

Profile

Bishop of Bologna, Italy from 540 until his death. Martyred by Goths led by Goterne.

Died

542

Blessed Arnold of Geertruidenberg

Also known as

Arnoldus

Profile

Carthusian monk in Capella, Belgium.

Saint Dionysius of Ruthenia

Profile

Monk in Ruthenia (in modern Ukraine).

Died

c.1100 of natural causes

Saint Donatus of Lucania

Profile

Martyred by Saracens.

Died

Lucania region of southern Italy, date unknown

Saint Cronan of Lismore

Profile

Monk. Abbot of Lismore Abbey.

Died

717 of natural causes

Saint Firmus

Profile

Scourged and executed in the persecutions of Emperor Maximian Herculeus. Martyr.

Died

beheaded c.290

Saint Zosimus of Antioch

Profile

Martyr.

Saint Thecla of Antioch

Profile

Martyr.

Saint Melosa

Profile

Martyr.

Died

Thessalonica

Martyrs of Alexandria

Profile

A group five of imperial Roman soldiers assigned to guard a group of Egyptian Christians who were imprisoned for their faith in the persecutions of Decius. During their trial, they encouraged the prisoners not to apostatize. This exposed them as Christians, were promptly arrested and executed. Martyrs. Their names are - Ammon, Ingen, Ptolomy, Theophilis and Zeno.

Died

beheaded in 249 at Alexandria, Egypt

Martyrs of Caesarea

Profile

Three Christians martyred together in the persecutions of Galerius. We know little more about them than the name - Paul, Valens and Valerius.

Died

309 at Caesarea, Palestine

Martyrs of Lycopolis

Profile

Five foot soldiers and their commander who were martyred for their faith by order of the imperial Roman prefect Arriano during the persecutions of Decius.

Died

Lycopolis, Egypt

Martyrs of Rome

Profile

A group of spiritual students of Saint Justin Martyr who died with him and about whom we know nothing else but their names - Carito, Caritone, Evelpisto, Ierace, Liberiano and Peone.

Died

Rome, Italy

Martyrs of Saddi

Profile

A group of Christians martyred in the persecutions of Decius. We are not sure if they were murdered as a group, but their relics were all gathered and enshrined together because of their martyrdom. We know nothing else about them except the names - Benedict, Esuperantius, Eutropius, Faustinus, Fortunatus, Grivicianus, Justin, Orphitus, and Virianus.

Died

• at Pieve de' Saddi, Pietralunga, Italy

• relics enshrined in Pieve de' Saddi

• some relics transferred to the Santa Maria delle Grazie church in the mid-20th-century

Martyrs of Thessalonica

Profile

A group of 136 Christians who were martyred together. We know little more than their names –

• Agapa • Appia • Arabus • Aucias • Baricus • Bublasa • Bullodus • Carra • Cassus • Casta • Castula • Castus • Catulinus • Cecilia • Coteusa • Donata • Donatian • Donatus • Epagatus • Faustina • Felicia • Felix • Flavius • Fledus • Foedosa • Fortunata • Fortunatus • Gagus • Gaianus • Gemellina • Gemina • Germanus • Germanus • Getulla • Gosia • Hilarus • Honoratus • Hortensus • Januaria • Januarius • John • Lauta • Lucia • Lupus • Major • Majorus • Majosa • Malchus • Marcellianus • Marcellinus • Marcianus • Maria • Mark • Martial • Martian • Martinus • Matrona • Maxima • Melosa • Metunus • Mitunus • Nina • Novella • Optata • Paul • Paulina • Petruvius • Potinus • Prima • Primus • Priscus • Procula • Proculus • Publasus • Publius • Quintí • Quintus • Rogate • Rogatian • Rogatiana • Rogatus • Romana • Rufina • Rutilia • Rutilus • Sailis • Saturnin • Saturnina • Secunda • Sepacus • Sillesia • Sillica • Silvana • Silvanus • Surdida • Tertius • Tertula • Tertulus • Timothy • Urbana • Ururi • Vericus • Victoria • Victorina • Victuria • Vincent •

Died

in Thessalonica, Greece, date unknown