இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் ஜீன் 13

 St. Gyavire

Feastday: June 13

Death: 1886

Martyr of Uganda, slain by King Mwanga. Gyavire was known as "the good runner of messages" before being martyred for the faith.

Saint Anthony of Padua

 பதுவை புனிதர் அந்தோனியார் 

(St. Anthony of Padua)

மறைப்பணிகளின் மறைவல்லுநர், அவிசுவாசிகளின் சம்மட்டி, கோடி அற்புதர்:

(Evangelical Doctor, Hammer of Heretics, Professor of Miracles)

பிறப்பு: ஆகஸ்ட் 15, 1195

லிஸ்பன், போர்ச்சுக்கல்

(Lisbon, Portugal)

இறப்பு: ஜூன் 13, 1231 (வயது 35)

பதுவை நகர், இத்தாலி

(Padua, Italy)

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

(Roman Catholic Church)

முக்திபேறு மற்றும் புனிதர் பட்டம்: மே 30, 1232 

திருத்தந்தை ஒன்பதாம் கிரகோரி

(Pope Gregory IX)

முக்கிய திருத்தலங்கள்:

புனிதர் அந்தோனியார் திருத்தலம், பதுவை, இத்தாலி

(Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua, Italy)

நினைவுத் திருவிழா: ஜூன் 13

பாதுகாவல்:

அமெரிக்க பழங்குடியினர் (American Indians); பிரேசில் (Brazil); முதியோர்; நற்கருணை பக்தி (Faith in the Blessed Sacrament); மீனவர்; அறுவடை; குதிரைகள்; தொலைந்துபோன பொருட்கள்; தொலைந்துபோன மக்கள்; தொலைந்துபோன ஆன்மாக்கள்; தபால்; மாலுமிகள்; ஒடுக்கப்பட்டோர்; வறியவர்; போர்ச்சுகல் (Portugal); கர்ப்பிணிகள்; பசியுறுவோர்; பயணம் செய்வோர்; பரிசல்காரர்; லிஸ்பன் (Lisbon); ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன் சபையினர் கையகப்படுத்தியுள்ள புனித பூமி (Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land); கப்பல் பணியாளர்கள் (Mariners); டிகுவா இந்தியர்கள் (Tigua Indians); சுற்றுலா பணிப்பெண்கள் (Travel hostesses); பயணிகள் (Travellers); டுபுரன் (Tuburan); செபு (Cebu); எதிர்-புரட்சியாளர்கள் ( Counter-Revolutionaries); சேன் அன்டோனியோ டி பதுவா பங்கு (San Antonio De Padua Parish); டைடை (Taytay) (Rizal).

“ஃபெர்னாண்டோ மார்ட்டின்ஸ் டி புல்ஹோஸ்” (Fernando Martins de Bulhões) எனும் இயற்பெயர் கொண்ட, பதுவை புனிதர் அந்தோனியார், போர்ச்சுகீசிய கத்தோலிக்க குருவும், “ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன்” (Franciscan Order) சபை துறவியும் ஆவார். இவர் “லிஸ்பன்” (Lisbon) நகரில் பிறந்தாலும் 'பதுவைப்பதியர்' என்றே அழைக்கப்பட்டார். இதற்குக் காரணம், இத்தாலி நாட்டிலுள்ள “பதுவை” (Padua) நகரில்தான் இவர் தமது கடைசி நாட்களைக் கழித்துள்ளார். அவர் மரித்ததும், அடக்கம் செய்யப்பட்டதும் அங்குதான். ஆகவேதான் “பதுவைப் பதியர்” என அழைக்கப்படுகின்றார். இவரது புனித வாழ்வும், கூரிய நுண்ணறிவும், விவிலிய ஆர்வமும் இவர் மரித்த மறு வருடமே இவருக்கு புனிதர் பட்டம் பெற்றுத் தந்தது.

வாழ்க்கைக் குறிப்பு:

இளமை: 

ஐரோப்பாவிலுள்ள போர்ச்சுக்கல் (Portugal) நாட்டின் தலைநகரான லிஸ்பன் (Lisbon) மாநகரிலே கி.பி. 1195ம் ஆண்டு, ஆகஸ்ட் திங்கள், 15ம் நாள் பிறந்தார். அவரது பெற்றோர்கள் “வின்சென்ட் மார்டின்ஸ்” (Vicente Martins), மற்றும் “தெரெசா பைஸ் டவேய்ரா” (Teresa Pais Taveira) ஆவர். இவர்களுக்கு முன்றாவதாகப் பிறந்த குழந்தையான இவர் கூரிய நுண்ணறிவு படைத்தவர் ஆவார்.

புனித அகுஸ்தீன் சபையில்:

(Augustinian Abbey of Saint Vincent)

ஆன்மீக குருவைக் கலந்தாலோசித்து புனித அகுஸ்தின் துறவற சபையில் சேர்ந்தார். ஊர் உறவினரை விட்டு விலகியிருப்பதே நலம் என்று உணர்ந்த ஃபெர்னாண்டோ தனது விருப்பத்திற்கிணங்க அதிபரின் அனுமதியின்படி, அப்போதைய போர்ச்சுகலின் தலைநகரான “கொயிம்ப்ரா” (Coimbra) என்னும் நகருக்குச் சென்று குருத்துவக் கல்வி பயின்றார். 1219ம் ஆண்டில் 24ம் வயதில் குருத்துவ அருட்பொழிவு பெற்றார்.

மொராக்கோவில் (Morocco) வேத சாட்சிகளாக மரித்த ஐந்து ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன் சபையோரின் திருப்பண்டம், 1220ம் ஆண்டு, ஃபெப்ரவரி மாதத்தில் கொண்டு வரப்பட்டது. இதைப் பற்றி சிந்தித்த ஃபெர்னாண்டோ, தாமும் அவ்வாறே கிறிஸ்துவுக்காக வேத சாட்சியாக வேண்டும் என்று தணியாதத் தாகம் கொண்டார். எனவே கி.பி. 1221ம் ஆண்டு புனித அகுஸ்தீன் சபையை விட்டு விலகி, ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன் சபையில் சேர்ந்தார்.

ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன் சபையில்:

ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன் சபையில் சேர்ந்தபோதுதான் ஃபெர்னாண்டோ என்ற பெயரை மாற்றி அந்தோனியார் மடத்தின் பெயரால் அந்தோனி என்ற புதிய பெயர் பெற்றுக்கொண்டார். சிறிது காலம் ஆப்பிரிக்காவிலுள்ள இஸ்லாமியருக்குப் போதிக்கச் சென்றார். உடல்நிலை சரியில்லாததால் மீண்டும் இத்தாலிக்கே திரும்பினார். போர்லி என்னுமிடத்தில் அதிபரின் வேண்டுகோளுக்கிணங்கி அங்குள்ள பேராலயத்தில் மறையுரையாற்றினார். அன்றுமுதல் அந்தோனியார் புகழ் பெற்ற பிரசங்கியானார். அதன்பின் பதுவை நகரில் திருமறை சார்ந்த பணிசெய்து மறையுரையாற்றினார். அவரின் மறையுரையை கேட்க ஆலயங்களில் இடம் கொள்ளவில்லை. கிறிஸ்தவ கோட்பாடுகளை விளக்கியும், அந்த நாட்களில் நிலவிய தப்பறைக் கொள்கைகளை எதிர்த்தும் ஆணித்தரமாகப் போதித்தார்.

தாம் வாழ்ந்த காலத்திலும், இறப்பிற்குப் பின்னும் கடவுள் அளித்த கொடையினால் அனேக புதுமைகள் செய்தார். இதனால் "கோடி அற்புதர்" என்ற சிறப்புப் பெயரைப் பெற்றார்.

அந்தோனியாரின் அதிசயப் பண்புகள் மற்றும் அவர் புரிந்த புதுமைகள் பற்றி பல நிகழ்வுகள் உள்ளன. ஒருமுறை, இவர் ரீமினி என்னும் கடற்கரை நகரில் போதித்ததைக் கேட்க சிலர் மறுத்தபோது, மீன்கள் நீரின் மேல் வந்து இவர் கூறியதைக் கேட்டுக் கொண்டிருந்தனவாம். இன்னொரு முறை யூதர் ஒருவர் இயேசு நற்கருணையில் இருப்பதை மறுத்தாராம். ஆனால் பட்டினி போடப்பட்ட அவரது கழுதை, அதற்குமுன் போடப்பட்ட புல்லைத் தின்னாமல் அந்தோனியாரின் கட்டளைக்குக் கீழ்ப்படிந்து நற்கருணையின் முன் மண்டியிட்டு ஆராதித்ததாம்.

மற்றுமொறு புதுமை: 

இவர் வாழ்ந்த காலத்தில் கடவுளுடைய கிருபையால் இவர் செய்த புதுமைகளால் ஈர்க்கப்பெற்று இவரை நாடிவருவோர் எண்ணிக்கை அதிகமானதால் துறவியர்கள் மடத்தில் அமைதிக்குக் குந்தகம் ஏற்பட்டதாம். இதன் பொருட்டு மடத்தின் தலைமை குரு இவர் எண்ணிலடங்கா புதுமைகள் செய்ய தடைவிதித்தார். நாள் ஒன்றுக்கு 13 புதுமைகளுக்கு அதிகமாக புதுமைகள் செய்ய தடை விதித்து கட்டளையிட்டார். ஒருநாள், இவர் அன்றைய தினம் செய்யகூடிய 13 புதுமைகளையும் செய்து முடித்தபின்னர், மாலையில் வெளியே உலாவச் சென்றார். அப்பொழுது உயரமான கட்டடத்திலிருந்து ஒருவர் தவறி விழுந்த வேளையில் "அந்தோனியாரே என்னை காப்பாற்றும்" என்று உதவிக்குரல் எழுப்ப, இவர் அவரை வானத்திலேயே அந்தரத்தில் தொங்க வைத்ததாகவும், அருகில் இருந்த மடத்திற்கு சென்று தலைமை குருவிடம் 14வது புதுமை செய்ய அனுமதி பெற்று அவரை தரையில் பத்திரமாக இறக்கினாராம். மற்றொரு புதுமையில், ஒரே நேரத்தில் அந்தோனியார் இரு இடங்களில் போதித்ததாகவும், புதுமைகள் செய்ததாகவும் செய்தி உண்டு.

புனைவுகளை நீக்கிவிட்டு, வரலாற்று நிகழ்வுகளை மட்டுமே பார்த்தாலும் புனித அந்தோனியார் எண்ணற்ற புதுமைகள் செய்தார் என்பது உண்மையே என்று அவரது அதிகாரப்பூர்வமான வரலாறு கூறுகின்றது. 

இறப்பு:

கி.பி. 1231ம் ஆண்டு, பல ஊர்களில் மறையுரை ஆற்றியதாலும், கடும் தவ முயற்சிகளாலும், நோய்வாய்ப்பட்டார். அதே ஆண்டில் ஜீன் மாதம் 13ம் நாள் இறுதி திருவருட்சாதனங்களைப் பெற்றபின் இறந்தார். அப்போது அவருக்கு வயது 35. அதன் பின் 336 ஆண்டுகளுக்குப் பின் அவருடைய கல்லறையானது தோண்டப்பட்டபோது, அவருடைய நாக்கு மட்டும் அழியாமல் இருப்பது கண்டுபிடிக்கப்பட்டது. அந்த நாக்கு இன்றும் பதுவை நகர் கோவிலில் பாதுகாக்கப்பட்டு வருகிறது. 

அந்தோனியார் இறந்து ஓராண்டு நிறைவதற்கு முன்னரே அவர் புனிதர் என்று திருச்சபையால் அறிவிக்கப்பட்டார்.

1946ம் ஆண்டு, வணக்கத்துக்குரிய திருத்தந்தை 12ம் பயஸ் (Venerable Pope Pius XII), புனிதர் அந்தோனியாரை திருச்சபையின் மறைவல்லுநர்களில் ஒருவராக அறிவித்தார்.

Also known as

• Antonio da Padova

• Evangelical Doctor

Profile

Anthony's wealthy family wanted him to be a great nobleman, but for the sake of Christ he became a poor Franciscan. Priest.

When the remains of Saint Berard and his companions, the first Franciscan martyrs, were brought to be buried in his church, Anthony was moved to leave his order, enter the Friars Minor, and go to Morocco to evangelize. Shipwrecked at Sicily, he joined some other brothers who were going to the church in Portiuncula. Lived in a cave at San Paolo leaving only to attend Mass and sweep the nearby monastery. One day when a scheduled speaker failed to appear, the brothers pressed him into speaking. He impressed them so that he was thereafter constantly travelling, evangelizing, preaching, and teaching theology through Italy and France.

A gifted speaker, he attracted crowds everywhere he went, speaking in multiple tongues; legend says that even the fish loved to listen. Miracle worker. One of the most beloved of saints, his images and statues are found everywhere - though none of them portray him as a heavy-set man, which some reports claim he was. Proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on 16 January 1946.

One source of the well-known patronage for the recovery of lost objects comes from a legend that, long after Anthony's death, his old prayer book was kept as a treasured relic, and one day it disappeared. People prayed for help in finding the lost item, a novice found it and returned it; he later admitted that he had "borrowed" the book and returned it after receiving a vision of an angry Anthony.

Born

1195 at Lisbon, Portugal

Died

• 13 June 1231 of natural causes

• buried on the Tuesday following his death in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Padua, Italy

• legend says that all the sick who visited his new grave were healed

Canonized

30 May 1232 by Pope Gregory IX at Spoleto, Italy

Patronage

• against barrenness or sterility

• against shipwreck

• against starvation; starving people

• American Indians

• amputees

• animals, both wild and domestic

• asses

• boatmen, mariners, sailors, watermen

• elderly people

• expectant mothers, pregnant women

• for faith in the Blessed Sacrament

• fishermen

• for harvests

• horses

• lost articles, seekers of lost articles

• mail

• oppressed people

• paupers, poor people

• swineherds

• travel hostesses

• travellers

• Brazil

• Portugal

• Tigua Indians

• 4 dioceses, 17 cities

Blessed Marianna Biernacka

Also known as

Marianna Czokala

Additional Memorial

12 June as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II

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Lifelong lay woman in the diocese of Lomza, Poland. She had little education; she may have been able to read a little, but she could not write. Raised in the Orthodox church, she converted to Catholicism at age 17. Married to Ludwik Biernacki, a farmer, at age 20. Mother of six, only two of whom survived infancy, her daughter Leokadia, and her son Stanislaw. Widowed, she moved in with Stanislaw and helped raise her grandchildren, in part by setting an example of personal piety.

When the Nazis and Soviets divided Poland between them in World War II, Marianne's town came under German control. When local resistance groups did anything to fight back against occupying forces, the Nazis would have reprisal executions, rounding up random citizens and killing them as a warning to the resistence. On 1 June 1943 the Nazis arrested Marianna's son Stanislaw and his wife Anna, who was pregnant, and put them in the group to be murdered. Marianna pleaded to take the girl's place, and Anna was freed; Marianna asked to take one thing with her - a rosary. The mother and son were briefly imprisoned and then executed. Martyr.

Born

1888 in Lipsk, Podlaskie, Poland as Marianna Czokala

Died

shot by firing squad on 13 June 1943 in Naumovichi (a.k.a. Naumowicze), Hrodzyenskaya voblasts', Belarus

Beatified

13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II

Saint Tryphillius of Leucosia

Also known as

Triphyllius, Trifilio, Trifillo

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Educated in Constantinople. Worked as a lawyer. Convert to Christianity. Spritiual student of Saint Spyridon of Cyprus. Bishop of Leucosia (modern Nicosia), Cyprus. Supported Saint Athanasius of Alexandria in his opposition to Arianism; Saint Athanasius praised Tryphillius for his adherence to orthodox Christianity, so the Arians turned their attacks against him. He lived with no pomp or splendor, and preached every day. Saint Jerome considered him one of the most eloquent Church figures of his day, and he was particularly noted for his commentary on the Song of Songs.

Born

Rome, Italy

Died

370 of natural causes

Saint Victorinus of Assisi

Also known as

Vittorino

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Chosen bishop of Assisi, Italy by Pope Fabian in the mid-3rd-century. Martyred with several companions outside of Assisi during the persecutions of emperor Gordian III.

Born

Assyria

Died

• beheaded in the 3rd century beside a bridge over the River Tescio outside Assisi, Italy; the bridge is now known as the Ponte San Vittorino in his honour

• the Monastero di San Vittorino was built over the site of the execution, and his relics were enshrined in it

• relics later enshrined under the high altar in the Abbazia di San Pietro

• relics, consisting of bones and blood-soaked linen, enshrined in a side altar in 1642

• relics enshrined behind a grating at the high altar in 1954

Saint Aventino of Arbusto

Also known as

• Aventino of Larboust

• Aventine of...

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Hermit in the Arbusto Valley of the Pyrenees region of France. He spent most of his time in prayer, but would sometimes come down to the villages to preach. Martyred by Moors for preaching Christianity.

Died

• early 9th century in the Arbusto Valley of the Pyrenees region of France

• body hidden by his killers

• relics miraculously discovered in the 12th century and in enshrined in a local church

Patronage

against birth complications (his own birth involved great difficulties)

Saint Augustinô Phan Viet Huy

Also known as

• Augustine Huy Viet Phan

• Augustine of Huy

Additional Memorial

24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam

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Lifelong layman in the apostolic vicariate of East Tonkin. Soldier. Worked to help the foreign missionaries. Worked, tortured and died with Saint Nicolas The. Martyr.

Born

c.1795 in Ha Linh, Nam Ðinh, Vietnam

Died

sawn in half on 12 June 1839 in Thua Thiên, Vietnam

Canonized

19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II

Blessed Anthony of Ilbenstadt

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Anthony heard Saint Norbert of Xanten preach in Nivelles, Belgium c.1120, and was so impressed that he gave away everything to become Saint Norbert‘s 3rd spiritual student. Studied with Blessed Hugh of Fosse and Blessed Evermod of Ratzeburg. One of the first Premonstratensian monks. Canon of the motherhouse in Premontres, Laon, France. Prior of the Ilbenstadt monastery in Wetterau, diocese of Mainz, Germany.

Born

c.1100 in Nivelles, Brabant (in modern Belgium)

Died

15 January c.1149 of natural causes

Saint Eulogius of Alexandria

 புனிதர் யூலோஜியஸ் 

ஆயர், ஒப்புரவாளர்:

(Bishop and Confessor)

பிறப்பு: தெரியவில்லை

சிரியா (Syria)

இறப்பு: செப்டம்பர் 13, 608

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

(Roman Catholic Church)

கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை

(Eastern Orthodox Church)

புனிதர் யூலோஜியஸ், கி.பி. 580ம் ஆண்டு முதல் 608ம் ஆண்டுவரை கிரேக்க தந்தையராக (Greek Patriarch) இருந்தவர் ஆவார். ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபையும், கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபையும் இவரை புனிதராக ஏற்கின்றன. 

அவர் பல கட்டங்களில் ஒரு வெற்றிகரமான மோனோபிஸிடிச (Monophysitism) கொள்கைகளுக்கு ஆதரவான போராளியாக இருந்தார். இவர், திருத்தந்தை பெரிய கிரகோரியின் (Pope Gregory the Great) நெருங்கிய நண்பராவார். திருத்தந்தையுடனான தொடர்பிலுமிருந்தார். அதன் காரணமாக, திருத்தந்தையின் மரியாதை மற்றும் பாராட்டின் பல கவர்ச்சிகரமான வெளிப்பாடுகளையும் பெற்றார்.

யூலோஜியஸ், ஆதி கிறிஸ்தவ கொள்கையான “நோவாஷியன்” (Novatians) கொள்கைகளை மறுத்தார். அவருடைய மறைமாவட்டத்தில் இன்றளவும் இருக்கும் பண்டைய மதத்தைச் சேர்ந்த சில சமுதாயங்கள், நெஸ்டோரியஸ் (Nestorius), மற்றும் யூடிசஸ் (Eutyches) இருவருக்கும் எதிராக, கிறிஸ்துவின் இரண்டு இயல்புகளின் ஹைப்போஸ்டேடிக் (hypostatic) ஒற்றுமையை நிரூபித்தன. திருத்தந்தை பெரிய கிரகோரி, யூலோஜியஸ் சத்தியத்தின் குரல் என்றும், அவர் வாழ்வது அவசியம் என்றும் அவரை அங்கீகரித்தார் என்றும் கர்தினால் பாரோனியஸ் (Cardinal Baronius) கூறுகிறார்.

அலெக்ஸாண்டிரியா திருச்சபையில், வாழ்வு மற்றும் இளமை வீரியத்தை சுருக்கமாகக் கூறுவதற்கான சந்தர்ப்பத்தை அவர் மறுபடியும் உருவாக்கினார்.

"செவேரியன்ஸ்" (Severians), "தியோடோசியன்ஸ்" (Theodosians), "கைனைட்ஸ்" (Cainites) மற்றும் "அசெபாலி" (Acephali) உள்ளிட்ட பல்வேறு மோனோபிஸிடிச (Monophysites) கொள்கைகளின் வர்ணனைகள் மற்றும் மேற்கண்ட பணிகளைத் தவிர்த்து, திருத்தந்தை முதலாம் லியோவைப் (Pope Leo I) பாதுகாப்பதற்காக பதினொரு உரையாடல்களையும், நான்காம் போது ஆலோசனை சபையையும் (Council of Chalcedon), கிறிஸ்துவின் ஜீவ சத்தியத்தை மறுதலித்த “அக்நோடே” (Agnoetae) கொள்கைகளுக்கெதிராக அவர் எழுதி திருத்தந்தை பெரிய கிரகோரியிடம் கையளித்திருந்த கையேடுகளையும் அவர் விட்டுவிட்டார். ஒரு மறையுரை பிரசங்கம் மற்றும் ஒரு சில துண்டுகள் தவிர்த்து, யூலோஜியஸ் எழுதிய அனைத்து எழுத்துக்களும் அழிந்துவிட்டன.

Also known as

Eulogio

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Monk as a young man. Well educated in the literature and science of his day, was a Biblical scholar, and studied the writings of the great pastors. Opposed the Eutychian and Monophysite heresies. Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt in 579, serving for 28 years. His correspondence with Saint Gregory the Great has survived.

Eulogius was first igumen of the monastery of the Mother of God in Antioch. He was a successful combatant of various phases of Monophysitism. He was a warm friend of Pope Gregory the Great, who corresponded with him, and received from that pope many flattering expressions of esteem and admiration.

Eulogius refuted the Novatians, some communities of which ancient sect still existed in his diocese, and vindicated the hypostatic union of the two natures in Christ, against both Nestorius and Eutyches. Cardinal Baronius says that Gregory wished Eulogius to survive him, recognizing in him the voice of truth.

It has been said that he restored for a brief period to the Church of Alexandria life and youthful vigour.

Besides the above works and a commentary against various sects of Monophysites (Severans, Theodosians, Cainites and Acephali) he left eleven discourses in defence of Pope Leo I and the Council of Chalcedon, also a work against the Agnoetae, submitted by him before publication to Pope Gregory I, who after some observations authorized it unchanged. With exception of one sermon and a few fragments, all the writings of Eulogius have perished.

Born

Syrian

Died

c.607 of natural causes

Saint Nicolas Bùi Ðuc The

Additional Memorial

24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam

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Lifelong layman in the apostolic vicariate of East Tonkin (in modern Vietnam). During the persecutions of emperor Minh Mang, Nicolas was ordered to stomp on a cross to show his contempt for Christianity; he refused. Martyr.

Born

c.1792 in Kiên Trung, Nam Ðinh, Vietnam

Died

12 June 1839 in Thua Thiên, Vietnam

Canonized

19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II

Blessed Alfonso Gomez de Encinas

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Joined the Mercedarians in Valladolis, Spain. Studied at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Priest. Vicar of the Mercedarian College in Salamanca in 1600. Travelled to Mexico in 1609 to serve as a preacher, missionary and secretary to Venerable Antonio de Mendoza. Missionary on the isle of Puma, Ecuador. Captured and murdered by heretic Dutch pirates. Martyr.

Born

1565 in Cuellar, Segovia, Spain

Died

gutted 13 June 1624 on Puma Island, Ecuador

Blessed Servatius Scharff

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Joined the Premonstratensians at age 20. Canon of the Premonstratensian Steingadan monastery in Weilheim-Schongau, Bavaria, Germany. Priest. Had a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. When Protestant Swedes invaded Bavaria during the Thirty Years War, Servatius took to the road, preaching in town after town, celebrating the Sacraments, and exhorting people not to abandon Catholicism.

Born

13 June 1603 in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany

Died

13 June 1670 of natural causes

Blessed Gerard of Clairvaux

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Brother of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Soldier. When wounded in combat at the siege of Grancy, Gerard resolved to become a monk. Benedictine Cistercian monk at Citeaux. Worked with Saint Bernard at Clairvaux, and became his closest confidant. Cellarer.

Died

1138 of natural causes

Saint Aquilina of Syria

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Arrested at age 12 for her faith during the persecutions of Diocletian. When she clung to her faith, the magistrate Volusian ordered the child beaten and beheaded. Martyr. Saint Joseph the Hymnographer composed an Office in her honour.

Born

3rd century Biblus, Phoenicia

Died

beheaded

Blessed Achilleo of Alexandria

Also known as

Achilla

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Priest, ordained in the late 3rd century. Director of the famous school in Alexandria, Egypt. Bishop of Alexandria in 311. Though he only led his see for a few months, he was known for preaching and writing against Arianism.

Died

13 June 312 of natural causes

Saint Peregrinus of Amiterno

Also known as

Ceteo, Ceteus, Cetheus, Cetteo, Cetteus, Pellegrino, Pelligrinus

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Bishop of Amiterno (modern San Vittorino, Italy). Murdered by Arian Lombards for asking for mercy for a condemned prisoner. Martyr.

Died

drowned in the River Aterno in the Abruzzo region of Italy c.597

Saint Felicula of Rome

Also known as

Felicola

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A sanctified virgin who was imprisoned and martyred in the persecution of Domitian.

Died

• left for a fortnight in prison without food or drink, then thrown into a ditch to die, late 1st century in Rome, Italy

• her body was recovered for burial by Saint Nicomedes

Saint Fandilas of Penamelaria

Also known as

• Fandilas of Cordova

• Fandila...

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Monk at Cordova, Spain. Priest. Abbot of the monastery of Peñamelaria near Cordova. Martyred by order of the Moorish emir.

Born

in Andalusia, Spain

Died

beheaded in 853 at Cordova, Spain

Saint Wilicarius of Vienne

Also known as

Wilicaire

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Bishop of Vienne, France. Went into exile to Rome, Italy, c.752 due to Frankish persecution. Retired from his see to spend his remaining years as a prayerful monk in the monastery of Saint Mauritius.

Died

765 of natural causes

Saint Rambert

Also known as

Ragnebert, Ragneberto, Ragnebertus, Ragnobert, Ramberto, Rembert, Regnobert

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Member of the royal court in Austrasia. Murdered by the tyrant Ebroin; he has always been honoured as a martyr.

Died

ambushed c.680 in the Jura Mountains (along the border of modern France and Switzerland

Saint Maximus of Cravagliana

Also known as

Massimo

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Martyr.

Died

• interred in the catacombs of Ciriaca

• relics enshrined in the sacristy of the parish church of Cravagliana, Italy in 1825

Saint Mac Nissi of Clonmacnoise

Also known as

Mac Nesi, Mac Nessi, Macnessius

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Monk. Abbot of Clonmacnoise monastery, County Offaly, Ireland c.574 to c.590.

Died

590 of natural causes

Saint Diodorus of Emesa

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Martyr.

Born

Emesa, Phoenicia (modern Homs, Syria)

Died

crucified in Emesa, Phoenicia (modern Homs, Syria), date unknown

Saint Salmodio

Also known as

Psalmodio, Psalmet, Salmodius, Saumon, Saumay

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Spiritual student of Saint Brendan. Hermit at Limoges, Aquintaine (in modern France).

Born

Irish

Saint Fortunatus of North Africa

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Martyr.

Died

North Africa, date unknown

Saint Lucian of North Africa

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Martyr.

Died

North Africa, date unknown

Saint Damhnade

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Virgin venerated in Ireland.

Saint Thecla

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Martyr.

இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் ஜீன் 12

 St. Marinus, Vimius, & Zimius

Feastday: June 12

The "Three Holy Exiles' They were Benedictines at the Scottish St. James Abbey in Regensburg, Germany. They became hermits at Griestatten.

St. John of Sahagun

Feastday: June 12

Birth: 1419

Death: 1479

John Gonzales de Castrillo was born at Sahagun, Leon Spain. He was educated by the Benedictine monks of Fagondez monastery there and when twenty, received a canonry from the bishop of Burgos, though he already had several benefices. He was ordained in 1445; concerned about the evil of pluralism, he resigned all his benefices except that of St. Agatha in Burgos. He spent the next four years studying at the University of Salamanca and then began to preach. In the next decade he achieved a great reputation as a preacher and spiritual director, but after recovering after a serious operation, became an Augustinian friar in 1463 and was professed the following year. He served as master of novices, definitor, prior at Salamanca, experienced visions, was famous for his miracles, and had the gift of reading men's souls. He denounced evil in high places and several attempts were made on his life. He died at Sahagun on June 11, reportedly poisoned by the mistress of a man he had convinced to leave her. He was canonized in 1690 as St. John of Sahagun. His feast day is June 12th.

John of Sahagún, O.E.S.A. (Spanish: Juan de Sahagún), (c. 1430 – 11 June 1479) was a Spanish Augustinian friar and priest. He was a leading preacher of his day, and was known as a peacemaker and reconciler of enemies among the nobles and factions of Salamanca.[2] He was declared a saint by the Catholic Church in 1690 by Pope Alexander VIII.

Life

John was born in the year 1419, at Sahagún (or San Facondo) in the Province of Leon. He was the oldest of the seven children of Juan González del Castrillo and Sancha Martínez, [3] a wealthy family of the city.

González received his early education from the monks of the Royal Monastery of St. Benedict in his native city, a leading religious and educational center in the region known as the Cluny of Spain. He received the tonsure while still a youth, according to the custom of the times, after which his father procured for him the benefice of the neighboring parish of Tornillo. He was later introduced to Alfonso de Cartagena, the Bishop of Burgos (1435–1456), who was impressed by the bright, high-spirited boy. Cartagena had him educated at his own residence, gave him several prebends, ordained him a priest in the year 1445, and made him a canon at the Cathedral of Burgos.[3]

Possessing all of these offices simultaneously caused González many qualms of conscience, as it was contrary to Church law. He soon resigned all, retaining only that of the Chapel of St. Agatha in a poor neighborhood of the city, where he said Mass, and preached the faith to the poor. He then began to lead a life of strict poverty and mortification.[4]

Preacher

When his bishop died in 1456, John resigned as chaplain to pursue further studies at the University of Salamanca, where for four years he applied himself to the study of theology and canon law, earning degrees in both.[5] During this time he exercised the ministry at the chapel of the College of St. Bartholomew (in the Parish of St Sebastian), and held that position for nine years. As preacher, he drew large crowds; the Duke of Alba complained when John denounced not only the sins of common people, but also those of the nobility.[1] He devoted himself to pastoral care. Owing to illness, he was obliged to undergo an operation for the removal of kidney stones. He vowed that if his life were spared, he would become a Religious.[3]

Friar

Upon his recovery in the year 1463, González applied for admission to the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine, at the Monastery of St. Peter, from that point on, being known simply as Brother (or Friar) John. In the following year, on August 28, 1464, John made his profession of solemn vows as a member of the Order. By the command of his superiors, John gave himself wholeheartedly to preaching.[4] In his sermons, John did not hesitate to publicly criticize the abuses of the powerful and the frequent public scandals of the upper classes.[2] He soon made many enemies. Some women of Salamanca, embittered by the saint's strong sermon against extravagance in dress, openly insulted him in the streets and pelted him with stones until stopped by a patrol of guards.

John was appointed master of novices, and later in the year 1471, prior of the community.[1] He conducted the Religious under his rule more by example than by his words. He also served as delegate to various provincial chapters.

John had a particular devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. He was gifted with the ability to read the secrets of conscience, so that it was not easy to deceive him. Because of his reputation, he was often approached to reconcile rival groups and restore peace to the city. He was also respected as a defender of the rights of workers and the common folk.[5]

By mid-1479 John's health began to fail and it was rumored in the city that he had been poisoned by a woman in retaliation for his condemnation of the immoral lifestyle of a public figure. True or not, John died at the monastery on 11 June 1479.[5] His remains were buried in the Old Cathedral, Salamanca.

Veneration

Soon after John's death, his cult spread throughout Spain. The process of beatification began in 1525 under Pope Clement VII, and in 1601 he was declared "Blessed" by Pope Clement VIII in 1601.[2]

New miracles were said to have been wrought through his intercession, and on 16 October 1690 Pope Alexander VIII canonized him. In 1729 Pope Benedict XIII inscribed his liturgical feast day in the Roman Calendar for 12 June, since 11 June, the anniversary of his death was occupied by the feast of Saint Barnabas. In the 1969 revision of the Roman liturgical celebration was left to local calendars because of the limited importance attributed to him on a universal level.[6] In the Roman Martyrology, the official list of saints of the Catholic Church, his feast day is 11 June.[7]

John's life written by John of Seville towards the end of the fifteenth century with additions in 1605 and 1619, is the one used by the Bollandists in "Acta SS.", June, III, 112.

In art, John is represented holding a chalice and host surrounded by rays of light

 St. Ampliatus

Feastday: June 12

Death: 1st century

Bishop and martyr, mentioned by St. Paul with Sts. Narcissus and Urban. Ampliatus is reported to have had the rank of bishop, joining St. Andrew in missionary labors in the Balkans. Ampliatus was martyred there with Sts. Narcissus and Urban.

Stachys, Amplias, Urban (Menologion of Basil II)

Ampliatus (Amplias in the King James Version), was a Roman Christian mentioned by Paul in one of his letters, where he says, "Greet Ampliatus, whom I love in the Lord." (Romans 16:8) He is considered one of the Seventy Disciples by the Eastern Orthodox Church. Tradition has it that he and his companions subsequently attached themselves to the Apostle Saint Andrew, and ultimately died martyrs. [1]

He may have served as bishop of Odessos (Varna), in Bulgaria.[2] He is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on Oct. 31

Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist

Also known as

• Maria Barba

• Maria Candida dell'Eucharistia

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Daughter of Pietro Barba, an appelate court judge. Raised in Palermo, Sicily. She made her first Communion at age 10, and had an intense devotion to the Eucharist from a very early age. At fifteen she felt a call to religious life, but her family, though pious, opposed her vocation. She was 35 when she was able to follow the call, and she entered the Discalced Teresian Carmel at Ragusa, Italy on 25 September 1919, taking the name Maria Candida of the Eucharist. Eucharistic devotion dominated her spiritual life, and she would spend hours before the Host. Prioress of her house from 1924 to 1947. Greatly expanded the Carmel in Sicily, and promoted devotion to Saint Teresa of Jesus and her Rule within her Order. Wrote a small book titled The Eucharist, a description of her experiences and theological meditations on them.

Born

16 January 1884 in Catazaro, Italy as Maria Barba

Died

12 June 1949 of natural causes

Beatified

21 March 2004 by Pope John Paul II

Saint Gaspare Bertoni

புனிதர் கேஸ்பர் பெர்டோனி 

குரு/ சபை நிறுவனர்: 

பிறப்பு: அக்டோபர் 9, 1777

வெரோனா, வெனிஸ் குடியரசு 

இறப்பு: ஜூன் 12, 1853 (வயது 75)

வெரோனா, லொம்பார்டி-வெனிஷியா அரசு 

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை 

முக்திபேறு பட்டம்: நவம்பர் 1, 1975

திருத்தந்தை ஆறாம் பவுல் 

புனிதர் பட்டம்: நவம்பர் 1, 1989

திருத்தந்தை இரண்டாம் ஜான் பவுல் 

நினைவுத் திருநாள்: ஜூன் 12 

பாதுகாவல்:

“ஸ்டிக்மேடைன்ஸ்” 

புனிதர் கேஸ்பர் பெர்டோனி, ஒரு இத்தாலிய ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க குருவும், “தூய ஸ்டிக்மாட்டா" சபையின் நிறுவனரும் ஆவார். 

கி.பி. 1777ம் ஆண்டு, அக்டோபர் மாதம், 9ம் தேதி, வெனிஸ் குடியரசின் “வெரோனா”  நகரில் பிறந்த இப்புனிதரின் தந்தை ஒரு சட்ட வல்லுநர் ஆவார். அவரது பெயர், “ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கோ பெர்டோனி“ ஆகும். இவரது தாயாரின் பெயர் “ப்ரூநோரா ரவெல்லி” ஆகும். இவரது குழந்தைப் பருவத்திலேயே இவரது ஒரே சகோதரி மரித்துப்போனார். 

ஆரம்பக் கல்வியை தமது பெற்றோரிடமே கற்ற பெர்டோனி, அதன் பின்னர், தமது சொந்த ஊரான வெரோனாவிலுள்ள “புனித செபாஸ்டியன்” பள்ளியின் “இயேசு சபை” மற்றும் “மரியான் சபை”  துறவியரிடம் கற்றார். 

இவர் “புது நன்மை”  பெறும்போது ஒரு திருக்காட்சி காணக் கிடைத்தது. அதன் அறிவுறுத்தலின்படி, கி.பி. 1796ம் ஆண்டு, குருத்துவ கல்வி கற்க ஆரம்பித்தார். கி.பி. 1796ம் ஆண்டு, ஜூன் மாதம், முதல் தேதியன்று, ஃபிரான்ஸ் நாட்டின் “ஃபிரெஞ்ச் புரட்சிப் படைகள்”  இத்தாலி நாட்டின் வடக்குப் பிராந்திய நகரங்களை இருபதாண்டு கால ஆக்கிரமிப்பு செய்யத் தொடங்கியிருந்தன. 

பெர்டோனி, மருத்துவமனைகளுக்கான “நற்செய்தி சகோதரத்துவ குழுவில்” இணைந்து, புரட்சிப்படைகளின் நடவடிக்கைகளால் காயமுற்ற, நோயுற்ற மற்றும் பாதிக்கப்பட்டவர்களுக்கு உதவும் பணியாற்ற தொடங்கினார். அவர் 1800ம் ஆண்டு, செப்டம்பர் மாதம், 20ம் தேதி, குருத்துவ அருட்பொழிவு பெற்றார். 

பெர்டோனி, “புனிதர் மகதலின் கனோஸ்ஸா பள்ளியின் அருட்சகோதரியரின்  ஆலய குருவாக பணியாற்றிய அதே வேளையில், அருட்சகோதரியினரதும் குருத்துவ கல்லூரியினதும் ஆன்மீக இயக்குனராகவும்  பணியாற்றினார். ஃபிரெஞ்ச் பேரரசர் நெப்போலியனால்  சிறை பிடிக்கப்பட்டிருந்த திருத்தந்தை ஏழாம் பயசு’க்காக  ஆதரவளிப்போர் மற்றும் செபிக்கும் தலைவர்களில் ஒருவராகவும் இருந்தார். 

மரியான் செபக்கூடங்களை நிறுவுதல், இயேசுவின் ஐந்து காய பக்தியைப் பரப்புதல் மற்றும் எழைகளுக்கான பள்ளிகளை நிறுவுதல் ஆகியன புனிதர் கேஸ்பர் பெர்டோனி அவர்களின் முக்கிய மறைபணிகளாக இருந்தன. 1816ம் ஆண்டு, நவம்பர் மாதம், 4ம் தேதி, “இயேசு கிறிஸ்துவின் தூய ஐந்து காய தழும்புகளின் சபை”  எனும் சபையை தோற்றுவித்தார். 2012ம் வருட அறிக்கையின்படி, இச்சபையில் 94 இல்லங்களும் 331 குருக்கள் உள்ளிட்ட 422 உறுப்பினர்களும் இருப்பதாக கூறப்படுகின்றது. 

புனிதர் கேஸ்பர் பெர்டோனி தமது இறுதி நாட்களில் காய்ச்சல் போன்ற நோய்களால் மோசமாகப் பாதிக்கப்பட்டார். தமது வாழ்க்கையின் கடைசி இருபது ஆண்டுகளை தமது வலது காலில் ஏற்பட்ட நோய்த் தொற்றுடனேயே கழித்தார். அவருடைய காலின் நோய்த்தொற்றை நீக்கும் முயற்சியாக, கடந்த இருபது ஆண்டுகளில், அவரது வலது காலில் முன்னூறுக்கும் மேற்பட்ட அறுவை சிகிச்சைகள் மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்டிருந்தன. அப்படியும், மருத்துவமனை படுக்கையில் இருந்தபடியே பலருக்கு ஆன்மீக வழிகாட்டியாகவும் ஆலோசகராகவும் 1853ம் ஆண்டு தாம் மரிக்கும்வரை தமது சேவையைத் தொடர்ந்தார்.

Also known as

• Caspar Bertoni

• Gaspar Bertoni

• The Apostolic Missionary

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Son of Francis, a wealthy lawyer and notary, and Brunora Ravelli Bertoni, he was raised in a pious family. His beloved sister died when Gaspare was quite young. He was educated at home, then by Jesuits and the Marian Congregation at Saint Sebastian's School in Verona, Italy.

At his first Communion Gaspare received a vision and message that he was to become a priest, and he entered the seminary in 1796. On 1 June 1796, troops from Revolutionary France began a 20 year occupation of northern Italy. Gaspar joined the Gospel Fraternity for Hospitals, and worked to help those wounded, ill, displaced, or otherwise harmed by the occupation. Ordained on 20 September 1800.

Chaplain to the sisters of Saint Magdalen Canossa convent. Spiritual director to many including Blessed Leopoldina Naudet, Venerable Teodora Campestrini, and an entire seminary. Well known preacher. One of the leaders in a Europe-wide movement to offer prayers and support for Pope Pius VII when he was imprisoned by Napolean Bonaparte. Established the Marian Oratories. Organized free schools for the poor. Spread devotion to the Five Wounds of Christ.

Founded the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Stigmatines) on 4 November 1816. Their mission was to serve as "Apostolic Missionaries for the assistance of bishops", and they were under the patronage of Mary and Joseph.

Beset by fevers and a continuing infection in his right leg during the last two decades of his life. Over 300 operations were performed on his leg in an effort to stem the infection. Continued to serve as counselor and spiritual director from his hospital bed.

Born

9 October 1777 in Verona, Italy

Died

Sunday 12 June 1853 in Verona, Italy of natural causes

Canonized

1 November 1989 by Pope John Paul II

Blessed Lorenzo Salvi

Also known as

Lorenzo Maria of Saint Francis Xavier

Profile

Studied at the Collegio Romano in Rome, Italy; his classmates included Saint Gaspare del Bufalo and the future Pope Gregory XVI. Influenced by the work and preaching of Saint Vincent Mary Strambi. Became a Passionist novice at Monte Argentario in 1801, and made his profession on 20 November 1802. Ordained on 29 December 1805. For seven years the house and all the religious in it were suppressed by order of Napoleon. When Lorenzo was able to return to his vocation, he devoted himself to preaching missions and promoting devotion to the Passion. Showed a great personal devotion to the Child Jesus. Rector of the Passionist Generalate in Rome (his vice-rector was Blessed Dominic Barberi), but spent nearly every day on the road preaching missions.

Born

30 October 1782 in Rome, Italy

Died

• 12 June 1856 in Capranica, Viterbo, Italy of natural causes

• buried in the Passionist Church of Saint Angelo, Vetralla, Viterbo

Beatified

1 October 1989 by Pope John Paul II

Pope Saint Leo III

Also known as

Charlemagne's Pope

Profile

The son of Atyuppius and Elizabeth. Priest. Cardinal. Papal treasurer. Elected pope the day after his predecessor's burial, probably so there would not be any outside interference with the decision of the cardinals.

Upon his election, he sent Charlemagne the keys of Saint Peter and the standard of the city of Rome, Italy indicating his choice of Charlemagne as protector of the city and the see. Charlemagne, with his letters of congratulations, sent a fortune which Leo used to build churches and found charitable institutions.

On 25 April 799, members of Pope Adrian I's family hired thugs to attack Leo in a procession. They scarred his face and tried to tear out his toungue and eyes to render him unfit for the papacy. He survived the attack, scarred but tongue and eyes miraculously healed. He fled to Charlemagne's protection at Paderborn, Germany where his enemies tried to turn the king against him. When Leo recovered, Charlemagne escorted him back to Rome. In 800 he conducted a trial of Leo and of his accusers. There was no evidence of Leo's guilt, but there was of his accusers, and they were imprisoned. On Christmas day in 800, Leo crowned Charlemagne emperor, marking the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire.

Born

at Rome, Italy

Papal Ascension

26 December 795

Died

• 12 June 816

• relics at Saint Peter's, Rome, Italy

Canonized

1673 by Pope Clement X

Saint Onuphrius

Also known as

• Onuphrius of Egypt

• Onuphrius the Great

• Humphrey, Onofre, Onofrio, Onophry, Onouphrius

Profile

Hermit for 70 years in the desert near Thebais, Upper Egypt. He sought to imitate the solitude and privations of Saint John the Baptist, and lived on the the fruits of a date tree and a palm-tree that grew near his cell. Popular in the Middle Ages, initially with monks and then in general, he became associated with weavers because he was depicted "dressed only in his own abundant hair, and a loin-cloth of leaves".

Died

• c.400

• buried by Saint Paphnutius who had come to him to learn if the hermit's life was for him

• Paphnutius buried Onuphrius in a hole in the mountainside; the hole immediately disappeared

Patronage

• weavers

• Centrache, Catanzaro, Italy

Blessed Antonia Maria Verna

Profile

Antonia early felt a call to religious life, and as a teenager began caring for and catechising children in her village. Attended the Institute in San Giorgio Canavese, simultaneously a student and a teacher. In 1806, she and several companions formed a group that would become the Institute of the Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception of Ivrea, dedicated to teaching and catechising children, and home care for the sick; in 1819 they opened their first home, on 7 March 1828 King Charles Felix gave secular approval, and on 10 June 1828 her bishop gave his approval. Antonio spent the rest of her life, and ruined her health, in leading, promoting and expanding the Institute.

Born

12 June 1773 in Pasquaro di Rivarolo Canavese, Turin, Italy

Died

• 25 December 1838 in Pasquaro di Rivarolo Canavese, Turin, Italy of natural causes

• interred in the basement of her parish church

Beatified

2 October 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI

Saint Cunera

Profile

Her legend says that she was a princess in the region of York, England. One of the holy virgins who travelled with Saint Ursula, she was saved from the massacre by the Frisian king Radboud who took her to his castle in Rhenen (in modern Netherlands) where she eventually ran the household. Queen Aldegonde became jealous, and had Cunera strangled and buried in a cattle shed. A miracle led to the discovery of the crime, which led to the conversion of Radboud to Christianity.

There are a number of problems with this story, and nothing reliable about her has survived.

Born

British Isles

Died

strangled to death on 28 October 340 in Rhenen, Netherlands

Patronage

• cattle

• throats

• Rhenen, Netherlands

Blessed Guy Vignotelli

Also known as

Guy of Cortona

Profile

Wealthy layman known for his charity to the poor. After hearing a sermon by Saint Francis of Assisi, he gave away the rest of his riches and became a Franciscan tertiary, received into the order by Saint Francis himself in 1211. Priest. Hermit near Cortona, Italy living in a cell on a bridge. Miracle worker.

Born

c.1185 at Cortona, Italy

Died

• 1245 at the Franciscan convent at Cortona, Italy of natural causes

• on his death-bed he had a vision of Saint Francis coming to lead him to the next life

Beatified

1583 by Pope Gregory XIII (cultus confirmation)

Saint Odulph of Utrecht

Also known as

Odulfo, Odulphus

Profile

French nobility. Pious and studious youth. Augustinian priest. Curate of Oresscoth in Brabant. Worked with Saint Frederick of Utrecht to evangelize the Frisons. Canon of the cathedral at Utrecht, Netherlands where he worked to set a good example of prayer and fasting to laymen. Founded the Augustinian monastery at Stavoren.

Born

Brabant (in modern Belgium)

Died

• c.855 of natural causes

• relics stolen in 1034

• relics turned up in London, England, and were interred at Evesham Abbey

Blessed Mercedes Molina Ayala

Also known as

Mercedes of Jesus

Profile

Nun in 1873. Founded the Institute of the Sisters of Saint Mariana of Jesus (Marianitas Sisters) to care for and educate orphans and poor girls, and to help prostitutes escape the life.

Born

1828 in Baba, Los Ríos, Ecuador as Mercedes Molina

Died

12 June 1883 in Riobamba, Chimborazo, Ecuador of natural causes

Beatified

1 February 1985 by Pope John Paul II in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Blessed Conrad of Maleville

Also known as

Corrado

Profile

Born to the French nobility. Mercedarian knight. In 1300 he ransomed 228 Christians enslaved in Tunis, Tunisia by Muslim raiders. Returning to France, he was sent to Algiers, Algeria where he ransomed 218 more.

Born

France

Died

1310 in the Mercedarian convent of Sainta Maria in Avignon, France of natural causes

Saint Amphion of Nicomedia

Profile

Priest during the reign of Valerius Maximianus Galerius. Earliest known bishop of Epiphania, Cilicia (in modern Turkey) in 325. Attended the Council of Nicaea. Bishop of Nicomedia; opposed the Arians who were just starting to spread in the area. Writer whose works were recommended by Saint Athanasius of Alexandria for their defense of the faith. Suffered in the persecutions of Diocletian.

Died

early 4th century of natural causes

Saint Peter of Mount Athos

Profile

First hermit on Mount Athos in 8th century Greece.

Legend says that he was a soldier captured by Muslims, but freed through the intercession of Saint Simeon. He made a pilgrimage to Rome, Italy and was given a monastic habit by the (unnamed) pope. Moved by a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary, he became a hermit for 50 years on Mount Athos, fighting off assaults of the devil and starting a tradition for other hermits to follow.

Saint Eskil

Also known as

Aeschilus, Aeschylus, Eskill, Eskillo, Eschillo

Profile

Missionary, working in Sweden with Saint Ansgar. Bishop. He converted so many pagan Swedes to Christianity that he was condemned to death by King Swerker the Bloody. Martyr.

Born

in England

Died

stoned to death on Good Friday 1131

Saint Arsenius of Konev

Profile

Monk on Mount Athos in Greece for three years. Monk at the Valaam monastery in northern Russia. Founded a monastery in the island of Konev, putting it under the Rule he had learned on Mount Athos.

Born

Novgorod, Russia

Died

1447 of natural causes

Saint Chrodobald of Marchiennes

Also known as

Chlodobald, Chrodobalde, Ludbald, Rodebald

Profile

Spiritual student of Saint Amandus of Belgium. Benedictine monk at the monastery of Elnone (modern Saint-Amand-les-Eaux) in Tournai, Flanders (in modern Belgium). Provost of the abbey of Marchiennes near Douai, France.

Born

Gaul (modern France)

Died

7th century

Saint Lochinia of Ireland

Also known as

Lochin, Lochein

Profile

Born a princess, the daughter of Briga and King Conall Derg of Oriel in northern Ireland. Sister of Saint Fanchea of Rossory, Saint Carecha of Clonburren, Saint Darenia of Cashel and Saint Enda of Arran. No details of her life have survived.

Born

5th century Oriel, Ireland

Died

c.500

Saint Placid of Ocre

Profile

Born to a working class family. Became a Cistercian monk at Saint Nicholas, Corno, Italy. Lived as a hermit at Ocre in the Abruzzi region of Italy. Founder and abbot of Santo Spirito monastery near Val d'Ocre. As a self-imposed penance, he slept standing the last 37 years of his life.

Born

at Rodi, Italy

Died

1248 of natural causes

Blessed Stefan Kielman

Profile

Premonstratensian monk in 1641. Canon of the Strahov monastery outside Prague, Bohemia (modern Czech Republic). Ordained in 1647. Prior of his monastery. Spiritual director and confessor to the sisters in the Doksany convent.

Born

1622 in the area that is modern Czech Republic

Died

1678 of natural causes

Blessed Pelagia Leonti of Milazzo

Profile

Daughter of Domenico Leonti and Bernarda Maiolino; sister of Blessed Angelica of Milazzo. Franciscan Minim tertiary lay woman. Her guardian angel was sometimes visible to other people.

Born

16th century in Milazzo, Italy

Died

1591 of natural causes

Blessed Antonio de Pietra

Profile

Mercedarian friar. Ransomed 80 Christians from Muslim slavery in North Africa.

Died

1490 at San Martino convent, Oran, Algeria of natural causes

Saint Ternan of Culross

Also known as

Torannan

Profile

Fifth-century missionary bishop to the Picts in Scotland, consecrated by Saint Palladius of Ireland. He used Abernethy, Scotland as his base of operations. Founded the monastery of Culross in Fifeshire, Scotland.

Saint Cyrinus of Antwerp

Also known as

Cirino

Profile

Martyr.

Died

• Rome, Italy, date unknown

• buried in the Callistus catacombs in Rome

• relics transferred to the Jesuit college in Antwerp, Belgium in 1606

Saint Christian O'Morgair of Clogher

Also known as

Christianus, Croistan O'Morgair

Profile

Brother of Saint Malachy of Armagh. Influential bishop of Clogher, Ireland in 1126.

Died

1138

Saint Valerius of Armenia

Profile

Martyred in the persecutions of emperor Hadrian.

Born

Armenian

Died

• crucified in the early 2nd century

• relics enshrined in Gueldre, Limburg, the Netherlands

Saint Olympus of Aenos

Profile

Bishop of Aenos, Rumelia (modern Enez, Turkey). Contemporary of Saint Athansius. Strongly opposed Arianism, and was driven from his diocese by the Arian emperor Constantus.

Died

343 of natural causes

Saint Galen of Armenia

Profile

Martyred in the persecutions of emperor Hadrian.

Born

Armenian

Died

• crucified in the early 2nd century

• relics enshrined in Gueldre, Limburg, the Netherlands

Saint Gerebald of Chalons

Profile

Bishop of Chalons-sur-Seine, France in 864; he served the last 21 years of his life.

Died

885 of natural causes

Saint Cuniald

Profile

Seventh century confessor of the faith. No details about him have survived.

Saint Cominus

Profile

Fifth-century monk and abbot.

Patronage

Ardcavan, Ireland

Saint Geslar

Profile

Seventh century confessor of the faith. No details about him have survived.

Martyrs of Bologna

Profile

Three Christians who were martyred at different times and places, but whose relics have been collected and enshrined together - Celsus, Dionysius, and Marcellinus

Died

relics enshrined in churches in Bologna and Rome in Italy

Martyrs of Rome

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Four members of the Imperial Roman nobility. They were all soldiers, one or more may have been officers, and all were martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian - Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius.

Died

• 304 outside Rome, Italy

• buried along the Aurelian Way

Three Holy Exiles

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Three Christian men who became Benedictine monks at the Saint James Abbey in Regensburg, Germany, then hermits at Griestatten, and whose lives and piety are celebrated together. - Marinus, Vimius and Zimius.

108 Martyrs of World War II

Also known as

• Polish Martyrs

• 108 Polish Martyrs of the Nazis

• 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs

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Among the millions murdered by Nazis in World War II, many were Poles killed for being Poles, and many were Catholics killed for being Catholic. As emblematic of this group, 108 Polish Catholics who were murdered for their faith, and whose faithfulness was attested by by witnesses, were beatified as a group of by Pope John Paul II. They each have a separate memorial day on the calendar, and a separate profile in this system, and will appear on the appropriate pages as the calendar rolls around, but they are celebrated as a group today.

• Adalbert Nierychlewski • Adam Bargielski • Aleksy Sobaszek • Alfons Maria Mazurek • Alicja Maria Jadwiga Kotowska • Alojzy Liguda • Anastazy Jakub Pankiewicz • Anicet Koplinski • Antoni Beszta-Borowski • Antoni Julian Nowowiejski • Antoni Leszczewicz • Antoni Rewera • Antoni Swiadek • Antoni Zawistowski • Bogumila Noiszewska • Boleslas Strzelecki • Boniface Zukowski • Bronislao Kostkowski • Bronislaw Komorowski • Bruno Zembol • Czeslaw Jozwiak • Dominik Jedrzejewski • Edward Detkens • Edward Grzymala • Edward Kazmierski • Edward Klinik • Emil Szramek • Fidelis Jerome Chojnacki • Franciszek Dachtera • Franciszek Drzewiecki • Franciszek Kesy • Franciszek Rogaczewski • Franciszek Roslaniec • Franciszek Stryjas • Grzegorz Boleslaw Frackowiak • Henryk Hlebowicz • Henryk Kaczorowski • Henryk Krzysztofik • Hilary Pawel Januszewski • Jan Eugeniusz Bajewski • Jan Franciszek Czartoryski • Jan Nepomucen Chrzan • Jan Oprzadek • Jarogniew Wojciechowski • Jerzy Kaszyra • Józef Achilles Puchala • Józef Cebula • Józef Czempiel • Józef Jankowski • Jozef Kowalski • Józef Kurzawa • Józef Kut • Józef Pawlowski • Józef Stanek • Józef Stepniak • Józef Straszewski • Józef Wojciech Guz • Józef Zaplata • Julia Rodzinska • Karol Herman Stepien • Katarzyna Faron • Kazimiera Wolowska • Kazimierz Gostynski • Kazimierz Grelewski • Kazimierz Tomasz Sykulski • Leon Nowakowski • Leon Wetmanski • Ludwik Mzyk • Ludwik Roch Gietyngier • Maksymilian Binkiewicz • Marcin Oprzadek • Maria Antonina Kratochwil • Maria Klemensa Staszewska • Marian Gorecki • Marian Konopinski • Marian Skrzypczak • Marianna Biernacka • Michal Ozieblowski • Michal Piaszczynski • Michal Wozniak • Mieczyslaw Bohatkiewicz • Mieczyslawa Kowalska • Narcyz Putz • Narcyz Turchan • Natalia Tulasiewicz • Piotr Edward Dankowski • Roman Archutowski • Roman Sitko • Stanislaw Antoni Trojanowski • Stanislaw Kostka Starowieyski • Stanislaw Kubista • Stanislaw Kubski • Stanislaw Mysakowski • Stanislaw Pyrtek • Stanislaw Starowieyski • Stefan Grelewski • Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski • Symforian Ducki • Tadeusz Dulny • Wincenty Matuszewski • Wladyslaw Bladzinski • Wladyslaw Demski • Wladyslaw Goral • Wladyslaw Maczkowski • Wladyslaw Miegon • Wlodzimierz Laskowski • Wojciech Gondek • Zygmunt Pisarski • Zygmunt Sajna •

Died

between 5 October 1939 and April 1945 in Germany and Nazi-occupied Poland

Beatified

13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland

அருளாளர் யோலந்தா (Blessed Yolanda)

பிறப்பு : கி.பி. 1235

எஸ்டர்காம், போலந்து

(Esztergom)

இறப்பு : கி.பி. 1298

க்நீஸ்னோ

(Gniezno)

அருளாளர் பட்டம் : கி.பி. 1827

திருத்தந்தை 12ம் லியோ

(Pope Leo XII)

நினைவுத் திருநாள் : ஜூன் 12

அருளாளர் யோலந்தா, ஹங்கேரியின் அரசர் "நான்காம் பேலா" மற்றும் "மரிய லஸ்கரினா" (King B�la IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina) ஆகியோரின் மகளாவார். இவர், "புனிதர் ஹங்கேரியின் மார்கரெட்" (Saint Margaret of Hungary) மற்றும் "புனிதர் "கிங்கா" (Saint Kinga (Cunegunda) ஆகியோரின் சகோதரியுமாவார். புகழ்பெற்ற ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன் "புனிதர் ஹங்கேரியின் எலிசபெத்" (Elizabeth of Hungary) இவரது தந்தை வழி அத்தை ஆவார்.

போலந்து நாட்டின் பிரபுவைத் திருமணம் செய்திருந்த யோலந்தாவின் தமக்கை கிங்காவின் மேற்பார்வையில் கல்வி கற்பதற்காக யோலந்தா போலந்து அனுப்பப்பட்டார். அங்கே, அவர் "போலஸ்லா" (Bolesław the Pious) என்பவரைத் திருமணம் செய்ய அறிவுறுத்தப்பட்டார். 1257ம் ஆண்டு, அவர்களது திருமணம் நடந்தது. அவர்களுக்கு பின்வரும் மூன்று பெண்குழந்தைகள் பிறந்தன:

1. 1263ம் ஆண்டு, பிறந்த எலிசபெத் (Elisabeth of Kalisz) (இவர் பின்னாளில் "லெக்னிகா�வின்" பிரபு "ஹென்றி" (Henry V, Duke of Legnica) என்பவரை திருமணம் செய்துகொண்டார்.)

2. 1266ம் ஆண்டு, பிறந்த ஹெட்விக் (Hedwig of Kalisz) (இவர் பின்னாளில் போலந்தின் மன்னன் "முதலாம் விளாடிஸ்லாவ்" (Władysław I the Elbow-high, King of Poland) என்பவரை திருமணம் செய்துகொண்டார்.)

3. 1278ம் ஆண்டு, பிறந்த அன்னா (Anna of Kalisz) (இவர் பின்னாளில் "க்நீஸ்னோ" நகரில் அருட்சகோதரியாக (Nun in Gniezno) துறவறம் பெற்றார்.)

யோலந்தா, தமது திருமணத்தின்போதே எதிர்காலத்தில் ஏழைகளுக்கும் வீடற்றவர்களுக்கும் உதவும் எண்ணம் கொண்டார். இதற்கு அவரது கணவரான "போல்ஸ்லா"வும் துணை நின்றார். அதன் காரணமாகவே அவருக்கு "நல்லோர்" (The Pious) எனும் பட்டப்பெயரும் கிடைத்தது.

"சண்டேஸ்" (Sandez) என்னுமிடத்தில் யோலந்தாவின் தமக்கை கிங்கா, ஏழைகளுக்கான (Poor Clare monastery) துறவு மடம் ஒன்றினை நிறுவினார்.

1279ம் ஆண்டு, யோலந்தாவின் கணவர் "போல்ஸ்லா" மரணமடைந்தார். விதவையான யோலந்தா, தமது பெண்களில் ஒருவரான அன்னாவுடன் (Anna) இணைந்து தமக்கையின் "ஏழை கிளாரா" (Poor Clare monastery) என்ற துறவு மடத்தினை நிர்வகிக்க ஆரம்பித்தார். ஆனால், அங்கே நடந்த ஆயுதப் போரின் காரணமாக துறவு மடத்தை அங்கிருந்து அகற்ற வற்புறுத்தப்பட்டார்கள்.

யோலந்தா "க்நீஸ்னோ" (Gniezno) என்னுமிடத்தில் புதிய துறவு மடம் ஒன்றினை நிறுவினார். 63 வயதான யோலந்தா, 1298ம் ஆண்டு, மரணமடைந்தார்.

Jolenta was the daughter of Bela IV, King of Hungary. Her sister, St. Kunigunde, was married to the Duke of Poland. Jolenta was sent to Poland where her sister was to supervise her education. Eventually married to Boleslaus, the Duke of Greater Poland, Jolenta was able to use her material means to assist the poor, the sick, widows, and orphans. Her husband joined her in building hospitals, convents, and churches so that he was surnamed “the Pious.”

Upon the death of her husband and the marriage of two of her daughters, Jolenta and her third daughter entered the convent of the Poor Clares. War forced Jolenta to move to another convent where despite her reluctance, she was made abbess.

So well did Jolenta serve her Franciscan sisters by word and example, that her fame and good works continued to spread beyond the walls of the cloister. Her favorite devotion was the Passion of Christ. Indeed, Jesus appeared to her, telling her of her coming death. Many miracles, down to our own day, are said to have occurred at her grave.