Bl. Nicolas Barre
Feastday: October 21
Birth: 1621
Death: 1686
Beatified: Pope John Paul II
Nicolas Barré (October 21, 1621 - May 31, 1686) was a priest and founder of the Community of the Sisters of the Child Jesus, was beatified in 1999.
Nicolas was born October 21, 1621 in Amiens, his parents were wealthy merchants, who had five children he was the eldest. Nicolas was baptized at Saint-Germain December 17, 1621.
He was educated by the Jesuits, but at 19, he joined the Minims, founded by St. Francis of Paola. He took his vows in 1641 and was ordained priest in 1645.
From 1645 to 1655, he assumed the office of professor of theology and librarian at the convent in the Place Royale in Paris (now Place des Vosges).
But in 1655, his health deteriorating, Nicolas Barré was sent to Amiens, where he recovered, before leaving for Rouen.
There, from 1659 to 1675, he worked for the education of poor children, with a few girls who are organizing to be fully available to their educational mission. In 1662 opened a school in Sotteville-lčs-Rouen, and the Father Barre establishes a first community gathering women who had helped him in his efforts. These are the first Sisters of Providence of Rouen.
In 1675, he returned to Paris where he continued his foundation for popular schools and communities, such as Charitable Mistresses of the Holy Child Jesus, also known as the Ladies of Saint-Maur. He was the adviser of St. John Baptist de La Salle, to whom he enjoined to give up his property and live with poor school teachers to be successful as the first master charitable successful with girls. "
He died May 31, 1686 in Paris.
St. Maichus
Feastday: October 21
A Syrian hermit, captured by the Saracens and sold as a slave. Malchus told St. Jerome that he was born in Nisibia. He was one of the recluses at Khalkis, near Antioch. and set out with a caravan to return home. The caravan was captured by marauding Bedouins, and he was taken prisoner. While a captive, Malchus was forcibly married to a young woman who was already married. They lived as brother and sister until fleeing into the region of caves. While hunting them, their master was killed by a lioness. Malchus went back to Khalkis, and the woman, unable to find her true husband, became a hermitess. Malchus later went to Maronia where he was honored by St. Jerome.
Bl. Josephine Leroux
Feastday: October 21
Birth: 1747
Death: 1794
Ursuline martyr of the French Revolution. She was born Ann-Joseph Leroux at Cambral, France. After becoming an Ursuline at Valenciennes, she was driven from the convent but returned in 1793. Josephine was guillotined with her Ursuline companions. She was beatified in 1920.
St. John of Bridlington
Feastday: October 21
Patron: women in difficult labour; fishermen
Birth: 1319
Death: 1379
Augustinian prior and patron of women who face difficult labors. He was born John Thwing in Bridlington, Yorkshire, England, in 1319, and became a student at Oxford. Joining the Augustinians at Bridlington, he served as prior for seventeen years until his death. He was canonized in 1401.
John Twenge (Saint John of Bridlington, John Thwing, John of Thwing, John Thwing of Bridlington) (1320–1379) is an English saint of the 14th century. In his lifetime he enjoyed a reputation for great holiness and for miraculous powers. St John of Bridlington was commended for the integrity of his life, his scholarship, and his quiet generosity. He was the last English saint to be canonised before the English Reformation.
Life
Born in 1320 in the village of Thwing on the Yorkshire Wolds, about nine miles west of Bridlington,[1] he was of the Yorkshire family Twenge, which during the English Reformation would supply two Roman Catholic priest-martyrs, and was also instrumental in establishing the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Bar Convent, York.
John was educated at a school in the village from the age of five, completing his studies at Oxford University. He then entered the Augustinian Canons Regular community of Bridlington Priory. He carried out his duties with humility and diligence, and was in turn novice master, almsgiver, preacher and sub-prior. He became Canon of the Priory in 1346 and was eventually elected Prior in 1356. John initially declined out of humility, but after being re-elected, probably in 1361, he took on the duties of Prior in January 1362.[1] He served as Prior for 17 years before his death on 10 October 1379.
Miracles attributed to him
In his lifetime he enjoyed a reputation for great holiness and for miraculous powers. Reputedly on one occasion he changed water into wine. On another, five seamen from Hartlepool in danger of shipwreck called upon God in the name of His servant, John of Bridlington, whereupon the prior himself appeared to them in his canonical habit and brought them safely to shore. The men left their vessel at the harbour and walked to the Monastery where they thanked John in person for saving their lives.[1]
The Vision of William Staunton (British Library Manuscripts, Royal 17.B.xliii and Additional 34,193) recounts William's visit to St Patrick's Purgatory where he sees both purgatory and the earthly paradise and is conducted through the otherworld by St John of Bridlington and St Ive (of Quitike).[2]
Death and canonisation
After his death from natural causes, the fame of the supposed miracles brought by his intercession spread rapidly through the land. Alexander Neville, Archbishop of York, charged his suffragans and others to take evidence with a view to his canonisation, 26 July 1386. Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York 1398–1405, assisted by the bishops of Durham and Carlisle, officiated at a solemn translation of his body, 11 March 1404, de mandato Domini Papae.[3] This pope, Boniface IX, shortly afterwards canonised him. The canonisation had been doubted and disputed; but the original Bull was unearthed in the Vatican archives by T. A. Twemlow, who was engaged in research work there for the British government.
At the English Reformation, Henry VIII was asked to spare the magnificent shrine of the saint, but it was destroyed in 1537. The nave of the church, restored in 1857, is all that now remains of Bridlington Priory. The saint's feast is observed by the canons regular on 9 October.[3]
Veneration
Window at All Saints, Thwing (1950s)
St John of Bridlington was commended for the integrity of his life, his scholarship, and his quiet generosity. He was the last English saint to be canonised before the English Reformation. King Henry V attributed his victory at Agincourt to the intercession in heaven of this Saint John and of Saint John of Beverley. Women in difficult labour may pray to St John of Bridlington as their patron saint[4] and he is also associated with the local fishing industry.
At All Saints Church, Thwing, there is a window showing St John of Bridlington and St Cecilia. There is a St John Street in Bridlington named after him, an old thoroughfare linking the "Old Town" that grew up around Bridlington Priory with the quayside community of fishermen and traders. At St Andrew's Church, Hempstead, Norfolk, a wooden panel showing John of Bridlington depicts him holding a fish and in episcopal robes, though he never served as bishop
St. Gaspar
Feastday: October 21
Birth: 1786
Death: 1837
Gaspar, who was born in Rome, the son of a chef, in 1786, received his education as a Collegio Romano and was ordained priest in 1808. Shortly after this, Rome was taken by Napoleon's army, and he, with most of the clergy, was exiled for refusing to deny his allegiance to the Holy See. He returned after the fall of Napoleon to find a wide scope for work, as Rome had for nearly five years, been almost entirely without priests and sacraments. In 1815, Gaspar founded the Congregation of the most Precious Blood with the approval of Pope Pius VII. His wish was to have a house in every diocese, and he chose the most neglected and wicked town or district. The kingdom of Naples was in those days a nest of crime of every kind; no one's life or property was safe, and in 1821 the pope asked Gaspar to found six houses there. He was very happy to do this, but he had many difficulties to overcome before it was accomplished. In 1824, the houses of the congregation were opened to young clergy who wished to be trained specially as missionaries. In his lifetime, their work covered the whole of Italy. Journeying from town to town, enduring endless hardships, threatened often even with death, Gaspar always taking the hardest work himself, they preached their message. One of his principles was that everybody should be made to work. He therefore founded works of charity in Rome for young and old, rich and poor of both sexes. He opened the night oratory, where our Lord is worshipped all night by men, many coming to Him, like Nicodemus, by night who would not have the courage to go to confession by day. His last mission was preached in Rome during the cholera outbreak of 1836. Feeling his strength failing, he returned at once to Albano, and made every preparation for death. After the feast of St. Francis Xavier he went to Rome to die. He received the last sacraments on December 28, and he died the same day. Various miracles had been worked by St. Gaspar during his lifetime, and after his death many graces were obtained by his intercession. He was canonized in 1954.
Gaspar Melchior Balthazar del Bufalo (January 6, 1786 – December 28, 1837), also known as Gaspare del Bufalo, was a Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. Canonised in 1954 he is liturgically commemorated the 21 October.
Life
Gaspar del Bufalo was born in Rome on the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 1786.[2] He was baptized that same day and given the name Gaspar Melchior Balthazar, the traditional names of the magi who visited the child Jesus. The son of Annunziata and Antonio del Bufalo, he grew up in the city of Rome, in the servants' quarters of a noble family, where his father worked as chef.[3]
His father was a failed entrepreneur who had dabbled in the theater and in professional soccer[4] before taking a position as a cook in the household of the Altieri family, whose palace was across from the Church of the Gesù in Rome.
Because of his delicate health, his pious mother had him confirmed at the age of one and a half years. As he was suffering from an incurable malady of the eyes, which threatened to leave him blind, prayers were offered to St. Francis Xavier for his recovery. Through the influence of his mother he became greatly devoted to St. Francis Xavier, whose relic is prominently displayed on an altar of the Gesù. In 1787, he was recovered and cherished in later life a special devotion to the Apostle of India, and selected him as the special patron of the congregation which he later founded.[5]
St. Gaspar was also active in several ministries. He visited the sick and the poor often and founded a young persons’ religious organization whose members prayed and did charitable work together.[4] He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in the diocese of Rome in 1808.[3] Soon after Gaspar formed an evening society for the laborers and farm workers who came into Rome from the countryside to sell their wares. He provided catechism for orphans and children of the poor and set up a night shelter for the homeless.
Along with other clergy who refused to take the oath of allegiance to Napoleon Bonaparte in 1809 after the deportation of Pope Pius VII, he was sent into exile to northern Italy and imprisoned for four years. Upon his return to Rome in 1814, he considered joining the Jesuits, who had recently been reestablished. However, in view of the needs of the time and at the request of Pius VII, he engaged in the ministry of preaching missions to the people in order to reestablish some order in the midst of the chaos of the time.[3]
Missionaries of the Precious Blood
Despite facing considerable difficulties, in 1815 he founded a society of priests, the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, at the abbey of San Felice in Giano, Umbria.[6] With the help of local people, Gaspar worked to repair the abandoned 10th century monastery.[4]
The year 1821 was a time of great lawlessness in the Papal States and many towns were out of the control of the civil authorities. Bandits controlled many of the towns in the coastal provinces. Cardinal Cristaldi, papal treasurer and advisor to Pope Pius VII, suggested that Gaspar and his new band of missionaries go into the towns and provinces where the bandits lived and establish mission houses. There they were to preach the Word, establish churches and chapels, and see to the continued instruction of the people. Between 1821 and 1823 six new mission houses were opened. Gaspar and his companions went out and preached the merits of the Precious Blood. They called the people to repentance and to return to faithfulness. They would preach on the street corners at night. They instructed the children. Armed with only the crucifix, they went into the hills,[7] where Gaspar negotiated a peace with the banditi.[4]
Although Gaspar was very popular in his native city, he was not without enemies. His activity in converting the "briganti", who came in crowds and laid their guns at his feet after he had preached to them in their mountain hiding-places, excited the ire of the officials who profited from brigandage through bribes and in other ways. These enemies almost induced Leo XII to suspend del Bufalo.[5]
He also faced ecclesiastical opposition. One major objection to the new society was that its name, The Society of the Precious Blood, was considered unecclesiastical. Gaspar was accused of disregarding canon law and the mission cross and chain that the members wore was completely untraditional. This opposition began under the reign of Pope Pius VII (around 1820) who had been a strong support of the society at its founding in 1815.[6] This opposition became so strong that the successor to Pius VII, Leo XII, was positively adverse to the community. It is noted that this was at a time when Gaspar was being more and more open in his criticism of abuses in the Church and the government of the Papal States. St. Gaspar felt that this opposition was more of a personal attack on himself and so he offered to step down as moderator of the community so that things could be smoothed over. Fortunately, this was not needed as the situation with Leo XII was resolved after a meeting between the two of them.[7]
His missionary efforts were extremely dramatic. One contemporary, the Passionist priest and bishop St. Vincent Strambi, described his preaching as being "like a spiritual earthquake." He was also a friend of St. Vincent Pallotti, founder of the Pallotines, who assisted at Gaspar's deathbed. He is particularly known for his devotion to the Precious Blood of Christ and for spreading this devotion during his lifetime.
Until his death on December 28, 1837, he worked tirelessly to re-evangelize central Italy, especially the Papal States. He was well known for his eloquence in preaching, his devotion to the poor (especially the Santa Galla Hospice in Rome), and his work with the brigands of southern Lazio.
In 1836, his strength began to fail. He had given his last mission in Rome at the Chiesa Nuova in 1837. Although fatally ill, he hastened to Rome, where the cholera was raging, to administer to the spiritual wants of the plague-stricken. He returned to Albano but went again to Rome at the suggestion of Cardinal Franzoni, the cardinal protector of the Congregation, in December 1837. It proved too much for him, and he succumbed in the midst of his labours on December 28, 1837.[5]
His funeral was held in Rome at the church of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria, near the Teatro di Marcello, and he was buried in Albano. Later, his body was transferred to the house of the Missionaries on the Via dei Crociferi in Rome (Santa Maria in Trivio), where it remains today.
The titles accorded to him by his contemporaries:"II Santo", "Apostle of Rome", "Il martello dei Carbonari" (Hammer of Italian Freemasonry).[5]
Veneration
Saint Gaspar del Bufalo was beatified by Pope Pius X in 1904,[6] and canonized by Pope Pius XII on June 12, 1954. His feast day, as indicated in the Roman Martyrology, is on the day of his death, December 28, but has not been included in the General Roman Calendar. Currently Saint Gaspar del Bufalo's feast day is celebrated on October 21.[clarification needed]
Legacy
He had a significant influence on St. Maria De Mattias, foundress of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ (A.S.C.),[8] although it was Venerable Giovanni Merlini C.PP.S. who was most directly associated with St. Maria in establishing her congregation.
St. Dasius
Feastday: October 21
Death: 303
Martyr with Gaius, Zoticus, and companions at Nicomedia.There were fifteen soldiers in this group
Saint Ursula
மறைசாட்சி ஊர்சுலா
St.Ursula
நினைவுத்திருநாள் : அக்டோபர் 21
பிறப்பு : இங்கிலாந்து (?)
இறப்பு : 3 அல்லது 4 ஆம் நூற்றாண்டு, கொலோன்
பாதுகாவல்: கொலோன் மறைமாவட்டம், இளைஞர்கள், ஆசிரியர்கள், அமைதியான மரணம்
ஊர்சுலா ஆங்கிலேயர் அரசர் குடும்பத்தில் பிறந்தவர். சிறுபிள்ளையாக இருக்கும்போதே, துறவிகளுக்குரிய வார்த்தைப்பாடுகளை எடுத்தார். ஆனால் இவரின் தந்தை, செல்வந்தர் ஒருவருக்கு திருமணம் செய்து வைக்க நிச்சயம் செய்தார். ஆனால் ஊர்சுலாவின் இதயம் இறைவனையே நாடியது.
இவர் ஒருமுறை கடலில் பயணம் செய்யும்போது, பலத்த காற்று ஏற்பட்டது. அப்போது தான் சென்ற கப்பலை, கொலோன் நகரை நோக்கி செல்ல ஊர்சுலா கூறவே கப்பலானது கொலோன் நகரை வந்தடைந்தது. அப்போது அழகு வாய்ந்த ஊர்சுலா ஹீனன்கொனிஷ் (Hunnenkönig) என்பவரால் கவரப்பட்டார்.
ஆனால் அவ்வரசனின் விருப்பத்திற்கிணங்க ஊர்சுலா மறுத்தார். இதனால் அவனால் கொலை செய்யப்பட்டதாக வரலாறு கூறுகின்றது. 1106 ஆம் ஆண்டில் இவரின் புனிதப்பொருட்கள் கண்டுபிடிக்கப்பட்டு, இவரின் பெயரில் உள்ள ஆலயத்தில் வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளதாகவும் கூறப்படுகின்றது.
செபம்:
நல்ல ஆயனாம் இறைவா! ஊர்சுலா என்ற பெயரை தாங்கியுள்ள அனைவரையும் ஆசீர்வதியும். நல்ல உடல் உள்ள நலன்களை கொடுத்து, வாழ்வை ஆசீர்வதித்து இப்புனிதரின் வழியாக உம் ஆசீர்வாதங்களை நீர் பொழிந்து வழிநடத்த வேண்டுமென்று இறைவா உம்மை மன்றாடுகின்றோம்
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Legendary princess, the daughter of a Christian British king and Saint Daria. She travelled Europe in company of either 11 or 11,000 fellow maidens; the 11,000 number probably resulted from a misreading of the term "11M" which indicated 11 Martyrs, but which a copyist took for a Roman numeral. Ursula and her company were tortured to death to get them to renounce their faith, and old paintings of them show many of the women being killed in various painful ways. Namesake for the Ursuline Order, founded for the education of young Catholic girls and women.
There are other saints closely associated with Ursula and her story –
travelling companions who were martyred with her
• Agnes of Cologne
• Antonia of Cologne
• Calamanda of Calaf
• Cesarius of Cologne
• Cordula
• Cunigunde of Rapperswil
• Cyriacus of Cologne
• Fiolanus of Lucca
• Ignatius of Cologne
• James of Antioch
• Mauritius of Cologne
• Martha of Cologne
• Odilia
• Pontius of Cologne
• Sulpitius of Ravenna
• Vincent of Cologne
travelling companion, but escaped the massacre
• Cunera
led by a dove to the lost tomb of Ursula
• Cunibert of Cologne
her mother
• Daria
Died
21 October 238 in Cologne, Germany
Patronage
• British Virgin Islands
• Catholic education (especially of girls)
• Cologne, Germany
• holy death
• students, school children
• teachers, educators
• University of Paris
Blessed Charles of Austria
Also known as
• Charles of Habsburg
• Carlo d'Austria
• Karl I von Österreich
• Karl IV von Österreich
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Son of Archduke Otto and Princess Maria Josephine of Saxony; great-nephew of Emperor Francis Joseph I. A stigmatic nun prophesied that he would be the victim of attacks and great suffering. A group of people were specifically assigned to pray for him at all times; after his death this group formed the League of Prayer of the Emperor Charles for the Peace of the Peoples (Gebetsliga Kaiser Karl für den Völkerfrieden), which became an ecclesiastically recognized prayer group in 1963. He received a strong Catholic education, and developed a strong devotion to the Holy Eucharist and the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Married Princess Zita of Bourbon and Parma on 21 October 1911. They had eight children over the next ten years.
With the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand on 28 June 1914, the trigger for World War I, Charles became heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. On the death of Emperor Francis Joseph on 21 November 1916, Charles became Emperor of Austria; crowned apostolic king of Hungary on 30 December 1916. He saw his crown as a way to implement Christian charity and social reform. He worked for peace, for an end to the war, and was the only leader to support Pope Benedict XV's peace effort. After the war, Charles was exiled to Switzerland in March 1919. Trying to prevent the rise of Communism in Central Europe, he tried twice in 1921 to return to power, but since he refused to be the cause of civil war, he finally gave up. Since he considered his office a mandate from God, he never abdicated his throne or title, but he was exiled to the island of Madeira, Portugal and spent his remaining days in prayerful poverty. His widow, princess Zita, dressed in black and lived in mourning her remaining 67 years.
Born
17 August 1887 in Persenbeug Castle, Melk, Lower Austria
Died
1 April 1922 at Funchal, Madeira, Portugal of pneumonia
Beatified
• 3 October 2004 by Pope John Paul II
• his beatification miracle involved the cure of metastatic breast cancer in a Baptist women from Kissimmee, Florida
Blessed Giuseppe Puglisi
Also known as
Pino Puglisi
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Son of Carmelo and Giuseppa Fana Puglisi, a cobbler and a seamstress. Ordained on 2 July 1960 as a priest in the archdiocese of Palermo, Italy. Parish priest in the areas of Settacannoli, Romagnolo, Vadessi, Godrano and Brancaccio in Italy. Confessor of the Basilian sisters Figlie di Santa Macrina. Taught at a number of schools from 1962 to 1993. Worked with youth in the poorest areas of his assignments, and helped teach anyone who would listen about the reforms of Vatican II that were designed to revilatize the involvement of the laity. Worked in Godrano to end bloody vendettas, and reconciled families broken by violence. Member of the Presenza del Vangelo. Vice-rector of the seminary in Palermo on 9 August 1978; director of diocesan vocations on 24 November 1979 and of the region on 5 February 1986. The work he did in schools, with vocations and in the neighborhoods proved a model for later teachers who work from the Christian point of view. Worked with groups of nuns, priests and lay people to improve living conditions and to denouce crime and the collusion of elected officials with organized crime. He received a series of threats, and was murdered at home by the mafia for his work. Martyr.
Born
15 September 1937 in Brancaccio, Palermo, Italy
Died
• 15 September 1993 at piazzale Anita Garibaldi 3, Palermo, Italy
• buried in the chapel
Beatified
• 25 May 2013 by Pope Francis
• beatification recognition celebrated at the Stadio Renzo Barbera, Palermo, Italy by Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi
Saint Wendelin
புனித_வென்டலின் (554-617)
அக்டோபர் 21
இவர் ஸ்காட்லாந்து நாட்டின் இளவரசர். இவரது தந்தை ஸ்காட்லாந்தை ஆண்டு வந்த ஃபோர்சதோ, தாய் அயர்லினா என்பவர் ஆவர்.
தனக்கு மறைக்கல்வி கற்றுக்கொடுத்த ஆயர் வழியாக இறைவன்மீது மிகுந்த பற்றுக்கொண்டு வாழ்ந்த இவர், ஒருநாள் எல்லாவற்றையும் துறந்துவிட்டு, கால்நடையாகவே புனித நாடுகளுக்குச் சென்றார்.
574 ஆம் ஆண்டு உரோமைக்கு வந்த இவர், அங்கிருந்த திருத்தந்தை முதலாம் பெனடிக்டைச் சந்தித்து அவரிடம் ஆலோசனை கேட்டார். அவர் சொன்ன ஆலோசனை பேரில் இவர் ஒரு துறவியாக வாழத் தொடங்கினார்.
இதற்குப் பிறகு இவர் மக்கள் கொடுத்த உணவை உண்டு, அவர்கள் நடுவில் போதித்தும், இறைவேண்டல் செய்தும் வந்தார். இப்படிப்பட்ட நேரத்தில் ஒருவர் இவரிடம், "கையும் காலும் நன்றாகத்தானே இருக்கின்றன, பிறகு எதற்கு அடுத்தவரிடம் இரந்து உண்கிறாய்?" என்று கேட்டார். இதனால் இவர் ஒரு பெரிய பணக்காரரின் தோட்டத்தில் தோட்ட வேலைகளைச் செய்து, அதிலிருந்து கிடைத்த ஊதியத்தில் உண்டு வந்தார்.
நாள்கள் மெல்ல நகர்கையில் தோட்ட வேலையிலேயே முழு நாளும் கழிந்ததால், இவரால் இறைவனிடம் வேண்டுவதற்கு நேரம் ஒதுக்க முடியாமல் போனது. இதனால் இவர் தோட்ட வேலையை விட்டுவிட்டு, ஒருவருடைய ஆடுகளை மேய்க்கத் தொடங்கினார். இப்பொழுது இவருக்கு இறைவனிடம் வேண்டுவதற்கு மிகுதியான நேரம் கிடைத்தது.
இவ்வாறு இவர் தான் செய்த இறைவேண்டலின் மூலம் இறைவனோடு ஒன்றித்திருக்க முடிந்ததால், இறைவார்த்தையை மக்களுக்கு நல்ல முறையில் எடுத்துரைக்க முடிந்தது. பலரும் இவருடைய போதனையைக் கேட்க ஆவலோடு வந்தார்.
இப்படி இறைவேண்டலுக்கும் இறைவார்த்தையை எடுத்துரைப்பதற்கும் சிறந்ததோர் எடுத்துக்காட்டாக விளங்கிய இவர் 617 ஆம் ஆண்டு இறையடி சேர்ந்தார்.
Also known as
Wendel, Wendolinus, Wendelinus
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Prince of Scotland, the son of King Forchado and Queen Irelina. Educated by the local bishop, Wendelin decided to abandon life in the royal family, and devote himself to God. Dressed as a pilgrim, Wendelin left his castle home in the middle of the night, and left the worldly life behind.
Pilgrim to many holy sites, reaching Rome, Italy in 574. During an audience with Pope Benedict I, the pope told him to follow his desire for a life with God. Lived for a while in Einsidel, Germany. Hermit in the forest wilderness of Westerich.
During a trip to the shrines in Trier, Germany, he reportedly met a wealthy highwayman. The thief admonished Wendelin for begging when he was so obviously capable of earning his living. He then worked for the thief as a swineherd until he found there was no time for his prayers. He transferred to work tending cattle, Wendelin again had time for prayer. However, the herd he tended grew so fast that he soon found himself again over-worked. This time he was transferred to tending sheep, traditionally a job for children or older men as it was less physically demanding. Even when his flock grew large, he still had time for prayer. Legend says that God transferred Wendelin and his flocks back to the old hermitage many times, and then brought them back in the evening.
Hermit near Trier in 590. Abbot in Tholey, Germany in 597.
Born
554 in Scotland
Died
617 at Tholey, Germany of natural causes
Saint Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena
✠ புனிதர் லாரா ✠
(St. Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena)
மறைப்பணியாளர்/ நிறுவனர்:
(Religious and Founder)
பிறப்பு: மே 26, 1874
ஜெரிகோ, அன்டியோகுயியா, ஐக்கிய கொலம்பியாவின் மாகாணங்கள்
(Jericó, Antioquía, United States of Colombia)
இறப்பு: அக்டோபர் 21, 1949 (வயது 75)
பெலென்சிடோ, மெடெல்லின், அன்டியோகுயியா, கொலம்பியா
(Belencito, Medellín, Antioquía, Colombia)
ஏற்கும் சமயம்:
ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை
(Roman Catholic Church)
முக்திபேறு பட்டம்: ஏப்ரல் 25, 2004
திருத்தந்தை ஜான் பவுல்
(Pope John Paul II)
புனிதர் பட்டம்: மே 12, 2013
திருத்தந்தை ஃபிரான்சிஸ்
(Pope Francis)
நினைவுத் திருநாள்: அக்டோபர் 21
பாதுகாவல்:
இன பாகுபாடு காரணமாக பாதிக்கப்பட்டவர்கள்
அனாதைகள்
மரியாவின் மாசற்ற இருதயம் சபை (Congregation of Missionary Sisters of Immaculate Mary)
புனித சியன்னா நகர கேதரீனாவின் மறைபணியாளர் சகோதரிகள் சபை (Congregation of Saint Catherine of Siena)
புனிதர் சியன்னா நகர கத்ரீனாவின் லாரா, ஒரு கத்தோலிக்க அருட்சகோதரி ஆவார். 1914ம் ஆண்டு, இவர் மரியாவின் மாசற்ற இதயம் (Congregation of Missionary Sisters of Immaculate Mary), மற்றும் புனித சியன்னா நகர கேதரீனாவின் மறைபணியாளர் சகோதரிகள் (Congregation of Saint Catherine of Siena) என்னும் துறவற சபைகளை நிறுவினார். இவர் பழங்குடி இனத்தவர்களின் உரிமைக்காக பாடுபட்டார். தென் அமெரிக்க பெண்களுக்கு இவர் ஒரு சிறந்த எடுத்துக்காட்டாக கருதப்படுகின்றார்.
“மரிய லாரா டி ஜீசஸ் மொன்டோயா யி உபெகுயி” (María Laura de Jesús Montoya Upegui) எனும் இயற்பெயர் கொண்ட இவர், கொலொம்பியாவின் (Colombia) “ஜெரிகோ” (Jericó) நகரில் பிறந்தார். இவரது தந்தையாரின் பெயர், "ஜுவான் டி லா க்ரூஸ் மோன்டோயா" (Juan de la Cruz Montoya) ஆகும். தாயாரின் பெயர், "டோலோரெஸ் ஊபேகுய்" (Dolores Upegui) ஆகும். இவரது பெற்றோருக்குப் பிறந்த மூன்று குழந்தைகளில் இவர் இரண்டாம் குழந்தை ஆவார்.
கி.பி. 1876ம் ஆண்டு நடந்த கொலம்பிய உள்நாட்டுப் (Colombian Civil War) போரின்போது, அவரது தந்தை கொல்லப்பட்டார். அதன் விளைவாக குடும்பத்தினர் ஏழ்மை நிலைக்குத் தள்ளப்பட்டனர். இதன் காரணமாக அவர் தாய்வழி தாத்தா பாட்டியுடன் வாழ அனுப்பப்பட்டார். கி.பி. 1881ம் ஆண்டு, நிலையற்ற பொருளாதார நிலை காரணமாக, அருட்சகோதரியான அவருடைய சித்தி "மரியா டி ஜீஸஸ் உபேகுய்" (María de Jesús Upegui) நிர்வகித்து வந்த அனாதை இல்லத்திற்கு அனுப்பப்பட்டார்.
கி.பி. 1890ம் ஆண்டு, தமது பதினாறு வயதில், ஆசிரியர் பயிற்சி பள்ளியில் சேர்த்து விடப்பட்டார். "அமால்ஃபி" (Amalfi) மற்றும் "மெடேல்லின்" (Medellín) ஆகிய நகரங்களில் கல்வி கற்றார். கி.பி. 1886ம் ஆண்டு, நோயுற்ற அத்தை ஒருவரைப் பராமரிப்பதற்காக அவரது பண்ணையொன்றில் வந்து வசிக்க ஆரம்பித்தார். அங்கேதான், தாம் ஒரு மறைப்பணியாளராக வேண்டிய விருப்பம் இவருக்கு தோன்ற ஆரம்பித்தது. கி.பி. 1893ம் ஆண்டு, மொண்டோயோ, ஆசிரியர் பயிற்சி பட்டம் பெற்றார்.
கி.பி. 1908ம் ஆண்டு, அவர் “உராபா” (Uraba) மற்றும் “சரார்” (Sarare) பிராந்தியங்களில் உள்ள மக்களுடன் இணைந்து பணியாற்றினார், அங்கே, "இந்தியர்களின் படைப்புகள்" (Works of the Indians) எனும் அமைப்பு நிறுவப்பட்டது. மொண்டோயோ, கார்மேல் சபை கன்னியாஸ்திரியாக ஆக விரும்பினார். ஆனால், கிறிஸ்துவின் அன்பை இதுவரை சந்தித்திராத மக்களுக்கு கிறிஸ்துவின் நற்செய்தியை அறிவிக்கும் ஆசையும் ஆர்வமும் அவருள் எழுந்ததை உணர்ந்தார். மொண்டோயோ, தற்போதுள்ள இனப் பாகுபாடுகளை நீக்கி, கிறிஸ்துவின் அன்பையும் போதனைகளையும் அவர்களிடம் கொண்டு வர தம்மையே அர்ப்பணிக்க விரும்பினார்.
கி.பி. 1917ம் ஆண்டு, மே மாதம், 14ம் நாளன்று, “மரியாளின் மாசற்ற இருதயம் சபை” (Congregation of Missionary Sisters of Immaculate Mary) மற்றும் “புனித சியன்னா நகர கேதரீனாவின் மறைபணியாளர் சகோதரிகள் சபை” (Congregation of Saint Catherine of Siena) ஆகிய இரண்டு சபைகளை நிறுவினார். நான்கு சக பெண்களுடன் “மெடல்லின்” (Medellín) நகரை விட்டு கிளம்பி, “டபெய்பா” (Dabeiba) நகரில் ஆதிவாசி இந்தியர்களுடன் வாழ சென்றார்.
இவர்களது புதிய சபைகளுக்கு “சாண்டா ஃபே டி அன்டோனியா” (Bishop of Santa Fe de Antioquia) மறைமாவட்ட ஆயரின் ஆதரவு இருந்தபோதிலும் பிற கிறிஸ்தவ குழுக்களின் விமர்சனங்களுக்கு உள்ளானது.
நீண்டகாலம் நோயால் பாதிக்கப்பட்டிருந்த மோண்டோயா, 1949ம் ஆண்டு, அக்டோபர் மாதம், 21ம் தேதியன்று, கொலம்பியாவில் உள்ள “மெடல்லின்” (Medellín) நகரில் இறந்தார். நோய் காரணமாக, இவரது வாழ்க்கையின் கடைசி பத்து வருடங்கள், சக்கர நாற்காலியிலேயே கழிந்தது. தற்போது அவரது சபைகள், மொத்தம் பத்தொன்பது அமெரிக்கா, ஆப்பிரிக்கா, ஐரோப்பிய நாடுகளில் செயல்படுகிறது.
திருத்தந்தை இரண்டாம் ஜான் பவுல் 2004ம் ஆண்டு, இவருக்கு அருளாளர் பட்டம் அளித்தார். 2013ம் ஆண்டு, மே மாதம், 12ம் நாளன்று, திருத்தந்தை ஃபிரான்சிஸ் இவருக்கு புனிதர் பட்டம் அளித்தார்.
Also known as
• Laura Montoya y Upegui
• María Laura de Jesus Montoya Upegui
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Educated at the Holy Spirit School in Amalfi, Colombia, and in Medellín, Colombia. Teacher. Beginning in 1908, she worked as missionary to the natives in the Uraba and Sarare regions. Founded the Works of the Indians and the Congregation of Missionary Sisters of Immaculate Mary and of Saint Catherine of Siena who minister to the poor throughout South America. Known for her defense of Indian rights, and as a strong role model for South American girls.
Born
26 May 1874 in Jerico, Antioquía, Colombia as Laura Montoya y Upegui
Died
21 October 1949 in Medellín, Colombia of natural causes
Beatified
• 25 April 2004 by Pope John Paul II
• the beatification miracle involved the 1994 cure of an 86 year old woman with uterine cancer
Canonized
Sunday 12 May 2013 by Pope Francis
Saint Malchus of Syria
Also known as
• Malchus of Chalcis
• Malchus of Maronia
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Only child of a farming family. Worked as a shepherd, spending his time in the field in prayer. His family hoped he would marry, but Malchus felt a call to the religious life and slipped away from home and became a monk; he lived as a vegetarian, eating only dates, cheese and milk. When Malchus' father died, he left the monastery against his abbot's orders to return home and help his family. On the road he and a group of pilgrims were kidnapped by Saracen raiders and sold into slavery. He was forced to marry another slave, but converted her to Christianity, and the two lived as brother and sister. They eventually escaped, returning to Malchus' old monastery where they lived the religious life; Malchus was often called on to tell his story as a lesson about disobeying your abbot. Legend says that while they were on the road to the monastery, the escaped slaves were protected by a lion.
Born
near 4th century Antioch, Syria
Died
c.390
Saint Finian Munnu
Also known as
• Finian of Taghmon
• Finian Mundus
• Finian of Tech Munnu
• Fintan, Finton, Munnin
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Member of the noble Ui Neill clan. Monk and spiritual student of Saint Columba and Saint Seenell at Cluain Inis, Ireland for 18 years. He moved to Iona Abbey in Scotland, but found Saint Columba had left a prophecy that Finian was to be turned away as he was destined to found another house. Founded Taghmon (Tech Munnu) monastery, County Wexford, Ireland, and served as its first abbot. Attended the Magh Lene Synod in 630 where he defended Celtic liturgical practices against the Latin. In his later years he was afflicted with a terrible skin disease, possibly a form of leprosy, and was known for the patient, uncomplaining way he bore it. There are several churches in Scotland that have his name, possibly because of the evangelization work by the monks his house who thought so highly of him.
Born
Ireland
Died
c.635 of natural causes
Blessed Peter of Città di Castello
Also known as
• Peter Capucci
• Preacher of Death
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Joined the reformed Dominican priory of Cortona, Italy at age 15. Ordained in Cortona. Known for his deep life of prayer, penance and contemplation. Noted preacher, often on the theme of contemplating your own death, preaching with a skull in his hand.
Born
1390 at Città di Castello, Italy
Died
21 October 1445 of natural causes
Beatified
by Pope Pius VII (cultus confirmed)
Saint Hilarion of Gaza
✠ புனிதர் ஹிலாரியன் ✠
(St. Hilarion)
மடாதிபதி/ துறவி:
(Abbot/ Anchorite)
பிறப்பு: கி.பி. 291
தபத்தா, சிரியாவின் தென் காஸா, பாலஸ்தீனம்
(Thabatha, South of Gaza in Syria, Palaestina)
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சைப்ரஸ்
(Cyprus)
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கீழ் ஆர்த்தோடாக்ஸ் திருச்சபைகள்
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காப்டிக் திருச்சபை
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புனித ஹிலாரியன், தமது வாழ்வின் பெரும்பகுதியை பாலைவனங்களில் கழித்த துறவி ஆவார். இவர், புனித வனத்து அந்தோனியாரை (St. Anthony the Great) முன்னுதாரணமாகக் கொண்டு அவரை பின்பற்றியவர் ஆவார்.
இவரைப் பற்றின தகவல்களின் மூல ஆதாரம் “புனித ஜெரோம்” (St. Jerome) அவர்களின் எழுத்துக்களே ஆகும். சுமார் 390ல், பெத்தலகேமில் ஜெரோம் அவர்களால் ஹிலாரியனின் சரிதம் எழுதப்பட்டது. அதன் பொருளானது, ஹிலாரியன் எங்ஙனம் தமது துறவு வாழ்வினை அர்ப்பணித்தார் என்பதேயாகும்.
ஹிலாரியன், “சிரிய பாலஸ்தீனத்திலுள்ள” (Syria Palaestina) “காஸாவின்” தென் பகுதியிலுள்ள (South of Gaza) “தபத்தா” (Thabatha) எனுமிடத்தில் “பேகன்” (Pagan) இன பெற்றோருக்குப் பிறந்தவர் ஆவார்.
சிறுவன் ஹிலாரியனின் பெற்றோர், தங்களின் மகனைக் கல்வியில் சிறந்தவனாக்க விரும்பி, அக்காலத்தில் கல்விக்குச் சிறந்து விளங்கிய எகிப்து நாட்டின் அலெக்சாந்திரியாவிலுள்ள (Alexandria) இலக்கணகர்த்தா ஒருவரிடம் அணியிலக்கணம் கற்க அனுப்பினர். அங்குச் சென்ற ஹிலாரியனுக்கு அந்நகரின் திரையரங்குகளும், கேளிக்கை விளையாட்டுகளும், ஆடம்பரமான நண்பர்களும் கவர்ச்சியளிக்கவில்லை. ஆனால் அந்நகரின் கிறிஸ்தவர்களின் வாழ்க்கைமுறை அச்சிறுவனை ஈர்த்தது. இவர், அலெக்சான்றியாவிலுள்ள ஒரு இலக்கணவாதியிடம் "அணியிலக்கணம் மற்றும் வாக்கு வன்மை" சம்பந்தமான பாடங்களை வெற்றிகரமாக கற்றுத் தேர்ந்தார். இவர், அலெக்சான்றியாவில் மனம் மாறி, கிறிஸ்தவ மதத்தினை தழுவியதாக தெரிகிறது. பின்னர் ஆலயங்களுக்கு தொடர்ந்து செல்ல ஆரம்பித்தார். புனித ஜெரோம் அவர்களின்படி, இவர் மிகவும் ஒல்லியான, ஆரோக்கியமற்ற உடல்வாகினை கொண்டிருந்தார்.
துறவு வாழ்வின் தொடக்கம்:
புனித ஜெரோம் அவர்கள் எழுதிய சரித்திரத்தின்படி, புனித வனத்து அந்தோனியார், "அவர்களுடைய பெயர் எகிப்தின் எல்லா இன மக்களின் நாவில் இருக்கும்" என்று சொன்னதைக் கேட்டறிந்த ஹிலாரியன், தமது பதினைந்தாம் வயதில் எகிப்தியப் பாலைநிலத்தில் கடும் தவ வாழ்க்கை வாழ்ந்த தூய வனத்து அந்தோணியார் பற்றி எல்லாரும் வியந்து பேசுவதைக் கேட்டார். எனவே புனித வனத்து அந்தோனியாருடன் சேர்ந்து இரண்டு மாதங்கள் வாழ முடிவெடுத்து பாலைநிலம் சென்றார் ஹிலாரியன். ஆனால், புனித வனத்து அந்தோனியாரின் ஆசிரமமானது, நோய்கள் தீர வேண்டியும், பேய் பசாசுகளை ஓட்ட வேண்டியும் வரும் மக்களால் பரபரப்பாகவே இயங்கியது. இதனால், ஹிலாரியன் சில துறவியர்களுடன் தமது ஊரான "தபத்தா" திரும்பினார். அதே சமயம், அவரது பெற்றோர் மரித்துப் போகவே, அவர் தமக்கு சேர வேண்டிய சொத்துக்களை தமது சகோதரர்களுக்கும் ஏழைகளுக்கும் பகிர்ந்தளித்துவிட்டு துறவு வாழ்வினைத் தொடர வேண்டி பாலைவனம் திரும்பினார்.
"மஜோமா"வின் (Majoma) தென்மேற்குப் பகுதியிலுள்ள “காஸா” நகரின் துறைமுக (Gaza) பகுதிக்கு சென்றார். ஒரு பக்கம் கடலும், மறுபக்கம் சதுப்பு நிலத்தையும் கொண்ட அவ்விடம் வழிப்பறிக் கொள்ளையர்கள் நிறைந்தது. இது குறித்து அவரது நண்பர்கள் அவரை எச்சரித்தனர். ஆயினும் அங்கு குச்சிகளால் ஒரு சிறு குடிசை அமைத்து புனித வனத்து அந்தோணியார் போல் கடும் தவ வாழ்வு வாழத் தொடங்கினார் ஹிலாரியன். அடிக்கடி இடத்தை மாற்றினார். இவரிடம் ஒரேயொரு மயிராடையும், புனித வனத்து அந்தோணியார் கொடுத்த தோலாலான ஒரு மேலங்கியுமே இருந்தன.
தினமும் கதிரவன் மறைந்த பின்னர் 15 காய்ந்த அத்திப்பழங்களை மட்டுமே சாப்பிட்டார். சாத்தானின் பிடியிலிருந்து பலரை விடுவித்தார். மேலும் பல புதுமைகளையும் செய்தார். மக்களும் கூட்டம் கூட்டமாய் அவரிடம் வரத் தொடங்கினர். இதனால் தனிமையை நாடி கி.பி. 360ல் மீண்டும் எகிப்து சென்றார். அங்கு புனித வனத்து அந்தோணியார் வாழ்ந்த இடங்களைத் தரிசித்தார். பின்னர் அலெக்சாந்திரியாவுக்கு அருகிலுள்ள “ப்ரூச்சியம்” (Bruchium) சென்றார். ஆனால் ஜூலியன் என்பவர், கிறிஸ்தவத்துக்கு எதிராகக் கிளம்பி இவரைக் கைது செய்ய முயற்சித்தான். இதனால் லிபியப் பாலைநிலம் சென்றார். பின்னர் சிசிலி சென்று, “பச்சினம்” (Pachinum) என்ற இடத்திற்கு அருகில் நீண்ட காலம் கடும் தவ வாழ்வு வாழ்ந்தார். இதற்கிடையே, இவரின் முந்தைய சீடரான “ஹெஸிச்சியஸ்” (Hesychius) இவரைத் தேடி அங்கு வந்தார்.
துறவி ஹிலாரியன் அவர்களைத் தேடி மீண்டும் மக்கள் வரத் தொடங்கினர். இதனால் தனிமையை நாடி குரோவேஷியா நாட்டின் “டல்மாஷியா” (Dalmatia) எனுமிடத்திலுள்ள “எபிடாரஸ்” (Epidaurus) சென்றார். இறுதியில் “சைப்ரஸ்” (Cyprus) சென்று தனிமையான குகை ஒன்றில் வாழ்ந்து கி.பி. 371ம் ஆண்டில் இறந்தார் ஹிலாரியன். இத்தூயவரின் நினைவுத் திருவிழா அக்டோபர் மாதம், 21ம் தேதி ஆகும்.
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Raised in a pagan family. Converted to Christianity while studying at Alexandria, Egypt as a teenager. Studied with Saint Anthony the Great in the Egyptian desert in 306. He then gave away his wealth, and introduced the eremitical life in the Gaza region of Palestine. Supported himself by weaving baskets. Founded several monasteries in Palestine. Noted for his ascetic life; for years he ate but 15 figs a day. Miracle worker whose fame attracted unwanted crowds; to escape the people, including his most dedicated student Saint Hesychius, the notoriety, and the persecutions of Julian the Apsotate, he lived on Mount Sinai, in Egypt, in Sicily, in Dalmatia, on Paphos, and Cyprus.
Born
c.291 at Gaza, Palestine
Died
• 371 at Cyprus of natural causes
• relics at Majuma, Palestine
Saint Celina of Meaux
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Born to the nobility, she was drawn to religious life; this desire was intensified when she met Saint Genevieve. Her fiance opposed the choice. Celina fled to the local cathedral with Saint Genevieve; its doors opened to admit them, closed behind them, and could not be opened again until the fiance and Celina's family agreed to her choice. She spent the rest of her life as a prayerful nun devoted to works of charity.
Died
• c.480 of natural causes
• buried in Meaux, France
• relics hidden during the anti-Christian persecutions of the French Revolution
• relics re-enshrined in the cathedral of Meaux
Saint Petrus Yu Tae-Ch'ol
Also known as
• Peteuro Yu Dae-Jeol
• Peter Yu Tae-Ch'ol
Additional Memorial
20 September as one of the Martyrs of Korea
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Imprisoned, tortured and martyred at the age of 13 for his faith.
Born
1826 in Ipjeong, South Korea
Died
strangled on 21 October 1839 in Seoul, South Korea
Canonized
6 May 1984 by Pope John Paul II
Blessed Hilarion of Moglena
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Monk. Bishop of the Moglena region of western Macedonia. Fought the heresies Manichaeism and Messalianism.
Died
• 21 October 1164 of natural causes
• re-interred in Trnovo, Bulgaria c.1205
• relics enshrined at the Church of the Forty Martyrs in 1230
• the church was later converted to a mosque, and the location of the relics is unknown
Blessed Sancho of Aragon
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Born a prince, the fourth son of Blessed James I, King of Aragon. Turning from worldly ways, he joined the Mercedarians, receiving the habit from Saint Peter Nolasco. Archbishop of Toledo, Spain. Saracens cut off his hand with the ring of his office, and then martyred him for not losing his faith.
Born
1238
Died
stabbed through the neck in 1275
Saint Viator of Lyons
Additional Memorial
2 September (translation of relics)
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Lector and catechist at the cathedral of Lyons, France. Spiritual student of and assistant to Saint Justus of Lyons. Hermit in the deserts near Alexandria, Egypt from 381 until his death.
Born
4th century France
Died
• c.390 at Skete, Egypt
• relics enshrined in the church of the Machabees in Lyons, France
Patronage
Viatorians
Saint Berthold of Parma
Also known as
Bertoldo
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Born to Anglo-Saxon parents who had fled England at the Norman Conquest of 1066. Saintly lay brother at the monastery of Saint Alexander.
Born
Parma, Italy
Died
^• c.1101
• relics at the Saint Alexander monastery
Blessed Iulianus Nakaura
Also known as
Giuliano, Julian
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Jesuit priest. Martyr.
Born
c.1567 in Nakaura, Nagasaki, Japan
Died
21 October 1633 in Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan
Beatified
24 November 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI
Saint Asterius
Also known as
Astericus
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Priest under Pope Callistus, whom he secretly buried, and for which act he was killed by order of Emperor Alexander Severus. Martyr.
Died
• drowned in the Tiber River at Ostia, Italy
• body recovered and buried in Ostia
• relics enshrined in the cathedral in Ostia
Saint Zoticus of Nicomedia
Also known as
Zotico
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One of a group of 15 Christian soldiers who were tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.
Died
thrown from a boat to drown at sea c.303 at the imperial residence at Nicomedia on the Black Sea
Saint Dasius of Nicomedia
Also known as
Dasio
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One of a group of 15 Christian soldiers who were tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.
Died
thrown from a boat to drown at sea c.303 at the imperial residence at Nicomedia on the Black Sea
Saint Caius of Nicomedia
Also known as
Gaius
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One of a group of 15 Christian soldiers who were tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.
Died
thrown from a boat to drown at sea c.303 at the imperial residence at Nicomedia on the Black Sea
Saint Condedus
Also known as
Condé, Condède
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Hermit at Fontaine-de-Saint-Valéry, France. Monk at Fontenelle Abbey. Evangelist who worked from an island in the Seine near Caudebec.
Born
in England
Died
c.690
Saint Gebizo
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Benedictine monk at Monte Cassino in 1076. Spiritual student of Saint Desiderius who was later Pope Victor III. Sent to Croatia by Pope Saint Gregory VII to crown King Zwoinimir.
Born
at Cologne, Germany
Died
c.1087 of natural causes
Blessed Gundisalvus of Lagos
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Augustinian monk. Renowned preacher.
Born
at Lagos, Portugal
Died
1422 of natural causes
Beatified
1778 by Pope Clement XIV (cultus confirmed)
Blessed Imana of Loss
Also known as
Himmanna, Imaina, Imaine
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Cistercian Benedictine nun. Abbess at Salzinnes, Namur, France. Abbess at Flines, diocese of Cambrai, France.
Died
1270 of natural causes
Saint Agatho the Hermit
Also known as
• Agatho of Egypt
• Agathon...
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Fourth-century hermit, monk and abbot in the Egyptian desert. He was one of the leaders in the early monastic movement.
Saint Letizia
Also known as
Laetitia, Leticia, Letycie
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No details have survived.
Died
relics enshrined in Ayerbe, Spain
Saint Cilinia
Also known as
Celina, Céline
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Blind. Mother of Saint Principius of Soissons and Saint Remigius of Rheims.
Died
c.458 in Laon, France of natural causes
Saint Hugh of Ambronay
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Benedictine monk. Abbot of Ambronay Abbey, diocese of Belley, France.
Born
9th century
Died
10th century
Saint Maurontus of Marseilles
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Abbot of Saint Victor Abbey at Marseilles, France. Bishop of Marseilles c.767.
Died
c.804
Saint Severinus of Bordeaux
Also known as
Seurin, Severino
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Bishop of Bordeaux, France c.405.
Died
c.420
Saint Tuda of Lindisfarne
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Monk in Ireland. Bishop of Lindisfarne, England.
Died
664 of plague
Saint Zaira
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Martyred by Moors.
Died
10th century Spain
