St. Acepsimas
Feastday: November 3
Death: 5th Century
A hermit for most of his life, this saint always longed to be a priest. He lived in a cave near Cyrohas, praying and doing penance as a dedicated layman. After almost sixty years, Acepsimas was allowed to study for the priesthood. He underwent the training and was ordained, dying in a state of happiness just shortly after entering the priesthood.
St. Cristiolus
Feastday: November 3
Death: 7th century
Welsh confessor, the brother of St. Sulian. Cristiolus founded Christian churches, including the parish in Anglesey.
St Cristiolus's Church, Llangristiolus is a medieval church near the village of Llangristiolus, in Anglesey, north Wales. The village, about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the building, takes its name from the church. Reputedly founded by St Cristiolus in 610, the present building dates from the 12th and 13th centuries. Alterations were made in the 16th century, when the large east window in Perpendicular style was added to the chancel – a window which has been described by one guide to the buildings of north Wales as "almost too big to fit" in the wall.[3] Some restoration work took place in the mid-19th century, when further windows were added and the chancel largely rebuilt.
The church is still in use for weekly Sunday services (in Welsh and English), as part of the Church in Wales, and is one of four churches in a combined parish. It is a Grade II* listed building, a national designation given to "particularly important buildings of more than special interest",[4] in particular because of its age and the east window. The church contains a decorated font from the 12th century, as well as memorials from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Richard Owen, a 19th-century Calvinistic Methodist minister from Llangristiolus, is buried in the graveyard.
St. Domnus of Vienne
Feastday: November 3
Death: 657
Bishop of Vienne, France, successor of St. Desiderius, who was martyred. Domnus was known for ransoming captives taken in local wars.
St. Elerius
Feastday: November 3
Death: 6th century
Welsh saint who was a companion of St. Winefred. He was an abbot in a monastery in the north of Wales.
St. Englatius
Feastday: November 3
Death: 966
A Scottish bishop, also called Englat and Tanglen. He lived at Tarves, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
St. Florus
Feastday: November 3
Death: 389
First bishop of Lodeve, in Languedoc, France. He is venerated in the town where his relics were enshrined and is sometimes listed as Florus of Lodeve.
St. Germanus
Feastday: November 3
Death: 250
Martyr with Theophilus, Caesarius, and Vitalis. They died at Caesarea, in Cappadocia.
St. Guenhael
Feastday: November 3
Death: 550
Abbot of Brittany, France, whose name means "White Angel." Also called Gwenhael. He was trained by St. Winelae at Landevnee, where he served as abbot.
St. Hermengaudis
Feastday: November 3
Death: 1035
Bishop of Urgell, in the Spanish Pyrenees. Sometimes listed as Armengol and Ermengol, he built the cathedral there and aided local monastics.
St. Hubert
Feastday: November 3
Patron: of hunters, mathematicians, opticians and metalworkers
Death: 727
Bishop of Maastricht, Netherlands, and disciple of St. Lambert. Hubert was a married courtier serving Pepin of Heristal, France. He reportedly had a vision of a crucifix between the horns of a stag while hunting. Widowed, he is believed to have entered Stavelot Monastery, Belgium, and was ordained by St. Lambert at Maastricht. He succeeded St. Lambert about 705 as bishop. Hubert erected a shrine for St. Lambert's relics at Liege, France. He was noted for his miracles and for converting hundreds. Hubert died at Tervueren, near Brussels, Belgium, on May 30. He is a patron saint of hunters.
St. Papulus
Feastday: November 3
Death: 300
Martyr and priest who labored under St. Saturninus to evangelize southern Gaul. It is generally accepted that he was put to death during the persecutions launched by Emperor Diocletian in the early fourth century.
Saint Papulus (French: Papoul) was, according to Christian tradition, a priest who worked with Saturninus of Toulouse to evangelize southern Gaul. Papulus is considered an evangelist of the Lauragais.[1]
Legends associated with Saturninus state that after Saint Peter consecrated him a bishop, "he was given for his companion Papulus, later to become Saint Papulus the Martyr."[2]
He was martyred, like Saturninus, during the persecutions of Diocletian. Papulus' unreliable legend states that upon reaching Carcassonne, he and Saturninus were imprisoned in a tower by the magistrate Rufinus, but they were miraculously released and went to Toulouse. Saturninus went into Spain, leaving Papulus in charge of the Christian converts at Toulouse. His legend states that he performed countless miracles and converted many pagans. He was ultimately beheaded after being tortured.[3]
St. Peter Francis Neron
Feastday: November 3
Birth: 1818
Death: 1869
Properly PierreFrancois Neron, a martyr in Vietnam. Born in Bornay, in the Jura region of France, in 1818, he joined the Foreign Mission of Paris and was ordained a priest in 1848. Sent first to Hong Kong, he went to Vietnam and served as the director of the main seminary in the kingdom until he was arrested and beheaded by authorities.
The Vietnamese Martyrs (Vietnamese: Các Thánh Tử đạo Việt Nam), also known as the Martyrs of Annam, Martyrs of Tonkin and Cochinchina, Martyrs of Indochina, or Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions (Anrê Dũng-Lạc và các bạn tử đạo), are saints on the General Roman Calendar who were canonized by Pope John Paul II. On June 19, 1988, thousands of overseas Vietnamese worldwide gathered at the Vatican for the Celebration of the Canonization of 117 Vietnamese Martyrs, an event chaired by Monsignor Tran Van Hoai. Their memorial is on November 24 (although several of these saints have another memorial, as they were beatified and on the calendar prior to the canonization of the group).
St. Pirmin
Feastday: November 3
Birth: 700
Death: 753
Benedictine bishop. Born in Aragon, Spain, he was of Visigothic descent and was forced to flee Spain when the Arabs invaded in the eighth century. He journeyed to the Rhineland where he founded abbeys at Reichenau, Amorbach, and Murbach, and rebuilt or restored other churches and monastic communities including Dissentia Abbey, which he brought under the Benedictine Rule. He was honored by the pope with the rank of chorepiscopus, or regional prelate, adding to his reputation as one of the foremost Benedictines in Germany. Pirmin wrote Dicta Pirinini, a popular catechism.
Relic in Speyer Cathedral.
Saint Pirmin (latinized Pirminius, born before 700 (c. 670 according to many sources[1]), died November 3, 753 in Hornbach),[2] was a Merovingian-era monk and missionary. He founded or restored numerous monasteries in Alemannia (Swabia), especially in the Alsace, along the Upper Rhine and in the Lake Constance region.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Missionary and other activities
3 References
4 External links
5 See also
Biography
Pirmin was probably from the area of Narbonne, possibly of Visigothic origin.[2][3] Many Visigoths fled to Francia after the Arab conquest of Spain at the beginning of the 8th century.[4]
From 718 onwards, he was abbot of the monastery Quortolodora in Antwerp (Austrasia)[5] and, together with its pupils, the minister of the church inside the broch, Het Steen. (In the 12th century, this church was dedicated to Saint Walpurga.) After a while Pirmin was invited by count Rohingus to stay at his villa in Thommen, near Sankt Vith in the Ardennes.
Pirmin gained the favour of Charles Martel, mayor of the palace of Francia. He was sent to help rebuild Disentis Abbey in what is today Switzerland. In 724, he was appointed abbot of Mittelzell Abbey on Reichenau Island, which had earlier founded.[2] Later, for political reasons, he was banished to Alsace. In 753, he died in the abbey at Hornbach, where his body is entombed.
Missionary and other activities
Pirmin's missionary work mainly took place in the Alsace and the upper area of the Rhine and the Danube. Besides actively preaching and converting, he also founded or reformed many monasteries, such as those at Amorbach, Gengenbach, Murbach, Wissembourg, Marmoutier, Neuweiler, and Reichenau. Pirmin secured endowments from area nobility: Odilo of Bavaria financed the foundation of Niederaltaich Abbey,[4] Werner I of what became the Salian dynasty endowed the new abbey at Hornbach.
The most important of Pirmin's books is Dicta Abbatis Pirminii, de Singulis Libris Canonicis Scarapsus ("Words of Abbot Pirminius, extracts from the Single Canonical Books").[6] The book collects quotations from Church Fathers and scriptures, presumably for use by missionaries,[2] or reading during monastic meals. Written between 710-724, it contains the earliest appearance of the present text of the Apostles' Creed.[7]
St. Quaratus
Feastday: November 3
Death: 1st century
An early Christian who may have been mentioned in the New Testament. He was perhaps the Quartus named by St. Paul in his Letter to the Romans 16:23 with Erastus as sending greetings to the Romans. Tradition also lists him among the seventy two disciples of the Gospel of St. Luke, chapter 10.
St. Valentine & Hilary
Feastday: November 3
Death: 304
Martyrs beheaded at Viterbo, Italy, during the persecutions under Emperor Diocletian (r. 284-305). Valentine was a priest and Hilary his deacon.
St. Vulganius
Feastday: November 3
Death: 704
Irish or Welsh missionary and hermit. After working to evangelize the tribes of the Atrebati in France, he became a hermit at Arras.
St. Winifred
Feastday: November 3
Patron: of Holywell; against unwanted advances
According to legend, she was the daughter of a wealthy resident of Tegeingl, Flintshire, Wales, and the sister of St. Beuno. She was most impressed by Beuno, was supposedly beheaded on June 22 by one Caradog when she refused to submit to him, had her head restored by Beuno, and sometime later, became a nun of the convent of a double monastery at Gwytherin in Denbigshire. She succeeded an Abbess Tenoy, as Abbess and died there fifteen years after her miraculous restoration to life. A spring supposedly springing up where Winifred's head fell, is called Holy Well or St. Winifred's Well and became a great pilgrimage center where many cures have been reported over the centuries. She is also known as Gwenfrewi. Her feast day is November 3.
Saint Winifred (or Winefride, Welsh: Gwenffrewi; Latin: Wenefreda) was a Welsh virgin martyr of the 7th century. Her cult was celebrated as early as the 8th century, but became popular in England in the 12th, when her biography (vita) was first written down.
A healing spring at the traditional site of her decapitation and restoration is now a shrine and pilgrimage site called St Winefride's Well in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales and known as "the Lourdes of Wales".
