St. Lelia
Feastday: August 11
The diocese of Limerick today keeps the feast of St. Lelia, who as well as a commemoration in all other Irish dioceses. Canon O'Hanlon, in his lives of the Irish saints, says of this maiden that "her era and her locality have not been distinctly revealed to us; but there is good reason for supposing that she lived at a remote period, and most probably she let a life of strict observance, if she did not preside over some religious institution in the province of Munster". Lelia is now generally identified with the Dalcassian saint Liadhain, great-grand-daughter of the prince Cairthenn whom St. Patrick baptized at Singland. There are no particulars or traditions about her (in the 17th century she was said to be the sister of St. Munchin), but she gives her name to Killeely (Cill Liadaini) just within the borough boundary of Limerick. Her feast day is August 11th.
Bl. Lawrence Nerucci
Feastday: August 11
Death: 1420
Servite martyr in Bohemia with Augustine Cennini, Bartholomew Donati, and John Baptist Petrucci. These Servites were sent to Bohemia, Czech Republic, by Pope Martin V. They were burned alive in a church With sixty other Servites by Hussite heretics. They were beatified in 1918.
St. Francis of St. Mary
Feastday: August 11
Death: 1627
Martyr of Japan with Bartholomew Laurel, another Franciscan; a doctor, Gasparvaz; and two Japanese. Taken prisoner, Francis, a Spanish-born Franciscan, was accompanied in martyrdom by others of the faith. They were burned alive in Nagasaki, Japan, on August 17. This group was beatified in 1867.
Saint Clare of Assisi
அசிசியின் புனிதர் கிளாரா
(St. Clare of AssisiSt. Clare of Assisi)
கன்னியர்/ எளிய பெண்களின் ஆன்மீக துறவற சபை நிறுவனர்:
(Virgin/ Foundress of the Order of Poor Ladies)
பிறப்பு: ஜூலை 16, 1194
அசிசி, இத்தாலி
(Assise, Italy)
இறப்பு: ஆகஸ்ட் 11, 1253 (வயது 59)
அசிசி, இத்தாலி
(Assise, Italy)
ஏற்கும் சமயம்:
ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை
(Roman Catholic Church)
ஆங்கிலிகன் சமூகம்
(Anglican Communion)
லூதரனியம்
(Lutheranism)
புனிதர் பட்டம்: செப்டம்பர் 26, 1255
திருத்தந்தை நான்காம் அலெக்சாண்டர்
(Pope Alexander IV)
முக்கிய திருத்தலங்கள்:
புனித கிளாரா பேராலயம், அசிசி
(Basilica of Saint Clare, Assisi)
நினைவுத் திருவிழா: ஆகஸ்ட் 11
சித்தரிக்கப்படும் வகை:
கதிர்ப்பாத்திரம் (Monstrance), பெட்டி (Pyx), எண்ணெய் விளக்கு (Lamp), கன்னியர் சீருடை (Habit of the Poor Clares)
பாதுகாவல்:
கண் நோய் (Eye disease), பொற்கொல்லர் (Goldsmiths), சலவையகம் (Laundry), தொலைக்காட்சி (Television), பின்னல் பணியாளர் (Embroiderers), நல்ல வானிலை, அலங்கார தையல் பணியாளர் (Needleworkers), சாண்டா கிளாரா ப்யூப்லோ (Santa Clara Pueblo), ஒபாண்டோ (Obando)
அசிசியின் புனிதர் கிளாரா, ஒரு இத்தாலிய கிறிஸ்தவ புனிதரும் (Italian Saint), “அசிசியின் புனிதர் ஃபிரான்சிஸ்” (Saint Francis of Assisi) அவர்களின் ஆரம்பகால சீடர்களுள் ஒருவருமாவார். இவர், ஆண்களுக்கான ஃபிரான்சிஸ்கன் சபை ஒழுங்குகளைத் தழுவி, “எளிய பெண்களின் ஆன்மீக துறவற சபையை” (Order of Poor Ladies) நிறுவினார். இவரால் எழுதப்பட்ட இவரது சபையின் சட்ட திட்டங்கள், முதன்முதலாக, ஒரு பெண்ணால் எழுதப்பட்ட சட்ட திட்டங்களாகும். “எளிய பெண்களின் சபை” (Order of Poor Ladies) எனும் பெயர் கொண்ட இவரது சபை, இவரது மரணத்தின் பின்னர், இவரை கௌரவிக்கும் விதமாக, “புனிதர் கிளாராவின் சபை” (Order of Saint Clare) என பெயர் மாற்றம் செய்யப்பட்டது. பொதுவாக, இச்சபையினர் “எளிய கிளாராக்கள்” (Poor Clares) என அறியப்படுகின்றனர்.
தொடக்க காலம்:
“சியாரா ஆஃரெடுஸியோ” (Chiara Offreduccio ) எனும் இயற்பெயர் கொண்ட புனிதர் கிளாரா, இத்தாலியின் அசிசி (Assisi) நகரில் பிரபுக்கள் குடும்பமொன்றில் கி.பி. 1194ம் ஆண்டு, ஜூலை மாதம், 16ம் தேதி, பிறந்தார். அசிசியின் “சஸ்ஸோ-ரொஸ்ஸோ” (Sasso-Rosso) பிராந்தியத்தின் பிரபுவான “ஃபேவரினோ ஸ்கிஃப்ஃபி” (Favorino Sciffi) இவரது தந்தை ஆவார். இவரது தாயாரின் பெயர், “ஒர்டோலனா” (Ortolana) ஆகும்.
இவரது தாயாரும் சகோதரியரும்:
கிளாராவின் தாயார் “ஒர்டோலனா” (Ortolana), பிற்காலத்தில் தமது சொந்த மகள் கிளாரா நிறுவிய “எளிய பெண்களின் சபையில்” இணைந்து துறவியானார். பின்னர், தமது கணவரின் மரணத்தின் பின்னர் “புனிதர் தமியான் துறவு மடத்தில்” (Monastery of San Damiano) இணைந்தார். இவர், “அருளாளர் அசிசியின் ஒர்டோலனா” (Blessed Ortolana of Assisi) என்று அறியப்படுகிறார். கிளாராவின் சகோதரியரான “பீட்ரிக்ஸ்” மற்றும் “கத்தரீனா” (Beatrix and Catarina) ஆகியோரும் கிளாராவின் சபையின் இணைந்தனர். இவர்களில் “கத்தரீனா”, புனிதர் “அசிசியின் அக்னேஸ்” (St. Agnes of Assisi) ஆவார்.
துறவற வாழ்வு:
ஆரம்பம் முதலே மிகவும் பக்தியுள்ள பெண்ணாக இவர் வளர்க்கப்பட்டார். இவருக்கு 18 வயது நடந்தபோது, அசிசியிலுள்ள புனித “ஜோர்ஜியோ” தேவாலயத்தில், அசிசியின் புனிதர் ஃபிரான்சிஸ் ஆற்றிய தவக்கால மறையுரையால் ஈர்க்கப்பட்டார். இறைவனின் நற்செய்திகளின்படி வாழ தமக்கு உதவுமாறு ஃபிரான்சிசை வேண்டினார். கி.பி. 1212ம் ஆண்டு, மார்ச் மாதம், 20ம் நாள், குருத்து ஞாயிறு அன்று, தனது அத்தையான “பியான்கா” (Bianca) மற்றும் ஒரு பெண் ஆகிய இரண்டு பேரின் துணையுடன் வீட்டை விட்டு வெளியேறி, ஃபிரான்சிசை சந்திப்பதற்காக “போர்ஸியுன்குலா” சிற்றாலயம் (Chapel of the Porziuncula) சென்றார். அங்கே, தமது அழகிய கூந்தலை மழித்தார். தமது அழகிய விலையுயர்ந்த ஆடைகளை களைந்து, வெற்று மேலங்கி மற்றும் முக்காடு ஆகியவற்றை பெற்றுக்கொண்டார்.
ஃபிரான்சிஸ், அவரை “பஸ்டியா” (Bastia) எனும் இடத்தின் அருகேயுள்ள “புனித பாலோவின் பெனடிக்டின் கன்னியாஸ்திரிகளின் பள்ளியில்” (Convent of the Benedictine nuns of San Paulo) தங்க வைத்தார். அங்கே வந்த கிளாராவின் தந்தை, அவரை வலுக்கட்டாயமாக வீட்டுக்கு அழைத்துச் செல்ல முயற்சித்தார். ஆனால், ஆலயத்தின் திருப்பலி பீடத்தினுள்ளே ஓடிப்போன கிளாரா, முக்காடை விலக்கி, தமது கூந்தலற்ற தலையை காட்டினார்.
ஃபிரான்சிஸ் அவரை மற்றுமொரு பெனடிக்டைன் கன்னியாஸ்திரிகள் மடாலயத்துக்கு (Monastery of the Benedictine Nuns) அனுப்பினார். விரைவில் அவரது தங்கை “கத்தரினாவும்” (Catarina) “அக்னேஸ்: (Agnes) என்ற பெயருடன் அவர்களுடன் இணைந்தார். “புனித தமியானோ தேவாலயத்தின்” (Church of San Damiano) அருகே, ஃபிரான்சிஸ் அவர்களுக்காக கட்டித்தந்த சிறிய குடியிருப்பில் தங்கினார்கள்.
அவர்களுடன் இன்னும் பிற பெண்களும் இணைந்தனர். அவர்கள், “புனித தமியானோவின் ஏழைப்பெண்கள்” (Poor Ladies of San Damiano) என்று அறியப்பட்டனர். கிளாரா, 40 ஆண்டுகள் கடுமையான துறவற தவ வாழ்வை மேற்கொண்டார். மிகுந்த எளிமை, தாழ்ச்சி, தொடர்ச்சியான உண்ணா நோன்பு, மாமிச உணவு உண்ணாமை, தொடர்ந்த மவுனம், காலணிகள் அணியாமை போன்ற கடுமையான தவ முயற்சிகளை மேற்கொண்டார். ஏழைகளின் புதல்வியர் சபை என்று பெயர் கொண்டிருந்த கிளாராவின் துறவற சபை, ஏழைப் பெண்களின் முன்னேற்றத்தையே முக்கிய நோக்கமாக கொண்டிருந்தது.
விசுவாசத் துறவி:
கி.பி. 1224ம் ஆண்டு, அரசன் “இரண்டாம் ஃபிரடெரிக்கின்” (Frederick II) இராணுவத்தினர் அசிசியை கொள்ளையிட வந்தனர். அப்போது, அர்ச்சிஷ்ட நற்கருணை ஆண்டவரை கையிலேந்தியபடி கிளாரா வெளியே வந்தார். நற்கருணை நாதரின் வல்லமையாலும், திடீரென நிகழ்ந்த அற்புதத்தாலும், அரச இராணுவத்தினர் எவருக்கும் யாதொரு துன்பமும் ஏற்படுத்தாமல் திரும்பிப் போனார்கள்.
கிளாரா, நற்கருணை நாதராம் கிறிஸ்து இயேசுவிடம் மிகுந்த அன்பு கொண்டிருந்தார். இவர் இயேசுவின் வல்லமையையும் அன்பையும் தனது வாழ்வில் எப்போதும் உணர்ந்து வாழ்ந்தார். நற்கருணையின் மதிப்பீடுகளான அன்பு, தியாகம் ஆகியவற்றை தனது வாழ்வில் கடைபிடித்து வாழ்ந்து வந்தார்.
"இறைவா, உம் விருப்பம் போல் என்னை நடத்தும்; என் மனம் என்னுடையதல்ல உமக்குரியது" என்று கிளாரா அடிக்கடி செபித்து வந்தார். தன்னோடு துறவற வாழ்வு மேற்கொண்டிருந்த பெண்கள் இறைவனின் அன்பில் வளர இவர் சிறந்த முன்மாதிரியாக விளங்கினார். ஏழை, எளியப் பெண்களின் வாழ்க்கை மேன்மை அடைய மிகவும் ஆர்வமாகவும் கடுமையாகவும் உழைத்தார்.
கி.பி. 1253ம் ஆண்டு, ஆகஸ்ட் மாதம், 11ம் தேதி மரித்த கிளாரா, இறைவனின் அமைதியில் உயிர்த்தார்.
Additional Memorials
• 23 September, feast of the finding of her body
• 3 October, feast of her first translation, celebrated within the Poor Clares
Profile
Clare's father was a count, her mother the countess Blessed Orsolana. Her father died when the girl was very young. After hearing Saint Francis of Assisi preach in the streets, Clare confided to him her desire to live for God, and the two became close friends. On Palm Sunday in 1212, her bishop presented Clare with a palm, which she apparently took as a sign. With her cousin Pacifica, Clare ran away from her mother's palace during the night to enter religious life. She eventually took the veil from Saint Francis at the Church of Our Lady of the Angels in Assisi, Italy.
Clare founded the Order of Poor Ladies (Poor Clares) at San Damiano, and led it for 40 years. Everywhere the Franciscans established themselves throughout Europe, there also went the Poor Clares, depending solely on alms, forced to have complete faith on God to provide through people; this lack of land-based revenues was a new idea at the time. Clare's mother and sisters later joined the order, and there are still thousands of members living lives of silence and prayer.
Clare loved music and well-composed sermons. She was humble, merciful, charming, optimistic, chivalrous, and every day she meditated on the Passion of Jesus. She would get up late at night to tuck in her sisters who'd kicked off their blankets. When she learned of the Franciscan martyrs in Morrocco in 1221, she tried to go there to give her own life for God, but was restrained. Once when her convent was about to be attacked, she displayed the Sacrament in a monstrace at the convent gates, and prayed before it; the attackers left, the house was saved, and the image of her holding a monstrance became one of her emblems. Her patronage of eyes and against their problems may have developed from her name which has overtones from clearness, brightness, brilliance - like healthy eyes.
Toward the end of her life, when she was too ill to attend Mass, an image of the service would display on the wall of her cell; thus her patronage of television. She was ever the close friend and spiritual student of Francis, who apparently led her soul into the light at her death.
Born
16 July 1194 at Assisi, Italy
Died
11 August 1253 of natural causes
Canonized
26 September 1255 by Pope Alexander IV
Patronage
• embroiderers, needle workers
• eyes, against eye disease
• for good weather
• gilders, gold workers, goldsmiths
• laundry workers
• telegraphs
• telephones
• television (proclaimed on 14 February 1958 by Pope Pius XII)
• television writers
• Poor Clares
• Assisi, Italy
• Santa Clara Indian Pueblo
Representation
• host
• monstrance
• woman with a monstrance in her hand(s)
Saint Philomena
புனித பிலோமினா
Saint Philomena
புனித பிலோமினம்மாள்
பிறப்பு : 10 Jan 291
இறப்பு : 10 Aug 304
புனிதர் பட்டம் : 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI
பாதுகாவலி : Children, Youth, Babies, Priests, Lost causes, Infants, Sterility Children of Mary, The Universal Living Rosary Association
திருவிழா : 11 Aug புனித பிலோமினம்மாள் 13 வயதில் வேதசாட்சி மரணம் அடைந்தார்.இவரைப் பற்றிய முழு தகவல்கள் கிடைக்கப்பெறவில்லை.
இவர் ஒரு கிரேக்க இளவரசி . தன் சிறுவயதிலே அவள் கற்பு என்னும் புண்ணியத்தை ஆடையாக தரிப்பதாக ஆண்டவருக்கு தன்னை ஒப்புக் கொடுத்தாள் . அவளுடைய 13ம் வயதில் அவளை திருமணம் செய்து கொள்ள ஒரு ரோமை அரசன் விருப்பம் தெரிவித்தான். ஆனால் அவள் அதை ஏற்க மறுத்தாள். அவன் அவளை தன் விருப்பத்துக்கு சம்மதிக்க அவளை மிரட்டினான். ஆனால் அவள் எதற்கும் அஞ்சவில்லை. காரணம் அவள் தன்னை முழுதும் ஆண்டவருக்கு அர்ப்பணித்து இருந்தாள்.
பல முறை முயற்சி செய்தும் அந்த அரசனால் அவளை தன் ஆசைக்கு இணங்க வைக்க முடியவில்லை.இதனால் கோபம் கொண்ட அரசன் அவளை சாவுக்கு தீர்ப்பளித்தான். அர்ச். பிலோமினம்மாள் 13 வயதில் வேதசாட்சி மரணம் அடைந்தார்.
அவளுடைய அழியா உடல் 1802ம் ஆண்டு கண்டுப்பிடிக்கப்பட்டது. அவள் கல்லறையில் மூன்று பெரிய கற்கள் இருந்தன. அந்த கற்களில் நான்கு அடையாளங்கள் பொறிக்கப்பட்டு இருந்தன.
அவை: 2 நங்கூரம் 3 அம்பு 1 தென்னை ஓலை 1 லில்லிப் பூ
சிறப்பு
ஒரு புனிதருடைய முழு விவரங்கள் தெரியாமல் அவருடைய புதுமைகளைக் கொண்டு புனிதர் பட்டம் வழங்கப்பட்ட ஒரே புனிதர் அர்ச். பிலோமினம்மாள்
Also known as
• Filomena, Filumena, Philumena, Philomene
• Thaumaturga of the Nineteenth Century
• Wonder Worker of the Nineteenth Century
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Little is known of her life, and the information was have was received by private revelation from her. Martyred at about age 14 in the early days of the Church.
In 1802 the remains of a young woman were found in the catacomb of Saint Priscilla on the Via Salaria, Rome, Italy. It was covered by stones, the symbols on which indicated that the body was a martyr named Saint Philomena. The bones were exhumed, cataloged, and effectively forgotten since there was so little known about the person.
In 1805 Canon Francis de Lucia of Mugnano, Italy was in the Treasury of the Rare Collection of Christian Antiquity (Treasury of Relics) in the Vatican. When he reached the relics of Saint Philomena he was suddenly struck with a spiritual joy, and requested that he be allowed to enshrine them in a chapel in Mugnano. After some disagreements, settled by the cure of Canon Francis following prayers to Philomena, he was allowed to translate the relics to Mugnano. Miracles began to be reported at the shrine including cures of cancer, healing of wounds, and the Miracle of Mugnano in which Venerable Pauline Jaricot was cured a severe heart ailment overnight. Philomena became the only person recognized as a Saint solely on the basis of miraculous intercession as nothing historical was known of her except her name and the evidence of her martyrdom.
• Pope Leo XII granted permission for the erection of altars and churches in her honour
• Pope Gregory XVI authorized her public veneration, and named her patroness of the Living Rosary
• The cure of Pope Blessed Pius IX, while archbishop of Imola, was attributed to Philomena; in 1849, Pius named her patroness of the Children of Mary
• Pope Leo XIII approved the Confraternity of Saint Philomena, and raised it to an Archconfraternity
• Pope Pius X raised the Archconfraternity to a Universal Archconfraternity, and named Saint John Vianney its patron
• Saint John Vianney himself called Philomena the New Light of the Church Militant, and had a strong and well-known devotion to her
Others with known devotion to her include • Saint Anthony Mary Claret
• Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
• Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini
• Saint John Nepomucene Neumann
• Saint Madeline Sophie Barat
• Saint Peter Chanel
• Saint Peter Julian Eymard
• Blessed Anna Maria Taigi
• Blessed Pauline Jaricot
Died
• relics discovered on 24 May 1802
• relics translated to Mugnano, Italy on 10 August 1805
Canonized
by Pope Gregory XVI
Patronage
• against barrenness, infertility, sterility
• against bodily ills
• against mental illness
• against sickness, sick people
• babies, infants, newborns, toddlers
• children, young people, youth
• Children of Mary
• desperate, forgotten, lost or impossible causes
• Living Rosary
• orphans
• poor people
• priests
• prisoners
• students, school children
• test takers
Representation
• anchor (an image of one was inscribed on her tomb)
• arrows
• crown
• lily
Blessed Maurice Tornay
Also known as
Mauritius, Mauricio
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Seventh of eight children born to Jean-Joseph Tornay and Faustina Dossier, and likely named for Saint Maurice of the Theban Legion who had been martyred in the area. He was baptised at 13 days old, made his First Communion at age 7, and during his youth he walked a hour each way each week through the mountain passes to get to church. Raised on a farm, he helped his family work it in his time after school. In his teens, he studied for six years at the school at the Abbey of Saint Maurice where he was an exceptional student with a love of French literature, and where he served as president of his class. Pilgrim to Lourdes, France. Maurice had a special devotion to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, and would read to class mates from works by Saint Thérèse and Saint Francis de Sales.
Member of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine, Hospitallers of Saint Nicholas and Grand-St-Bernard of Mont Joux, beginning his novitiate on 25 August 1931 and making his first vows on 8 September 1932. His studies and plans to be a missionary were interrupted for surgery and recovery in 1934 due to a stomach ulcer, but he made his solemn vows in 1935, and in 1936 was sent to the mission in Weixi, Yunnan in southwest China on the border of Tibet. There he spent his initial time studying theology, medicine, dentistry, the local language, and praying about his vocation. Ordained a priest in Hanoi (in modern Vietnam) on 24 April 1938. In the summer of 1938 he was tasked with founding and supervising the Houa-Lo-Pa seminary for local students; he also taught and worked on spiritual formation. He claimed that the largest hurdle to overcome in all this work was his own laziness. When the Japanese invaded the region in 1939, some of the work had to be scaled back, and Father Maurice was forced to beg for food for his seminarians.
In 1945 he was named pastor of the Yerkalo mission in Tibet where Dalai Lama Gun-Akhio ruled. The Lama hated Christian missionaries, helped instigate anti-Christian persecutions, and Maurice withdrew to China in hopes of convincing the Buddhists to reduce the pressure on Tibetan Christians. In addition to ministering to converts and the sick, and praying for a way to resume his mission, Maurice asked the Apostolic Nuncio and Chinese government to intervene with Gun-Akhio, but diplomacy failed. In July 1949 he planned to travel to Lhasa to plead with the Dalai Lama for religious freedom for Christians, but some Tibetan guards ambushed and shot him; the guards later received a cash reward for this work. Martyr.
Born
31 August 1910 in Rosière, Valais, Switzerland
Died
• shot by Tibetan guards on 11 August 1949 in To-Thong, Tibet
• buried in the garden of the Atuntze mission
• re-interrred at the graveyard of the Yerkalo mission in Tibet in 1985
Beatified
16 May 1993 by Pope John Paul II at Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy
Saint Alexander the Charcoal Burner
Also known as
• Alexander of Comana
• Alexander of Cuma
• Alexander the Carbonaio
• Alessandro....
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Well-born, educated, and erudiate 3rd century Greek with philosophical training. Convert to Christianity. To escape his pagan roots and live for God, he left his native area and became a charcoal burner at Comana, Pontus, Asia Minor (in modern Turkey). Noted for being exceptionally ragged and filthy.
When Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus oversaw a council of laymen and religious to pick a bishop for Comana, he told them to ignore outward appearance, and choose the most spiritual person among them. Alexander, dressed in his work rags, and covered in soot and dirt, was dragged forward, apparently as a joke. He tried to play dumb, but when Gregory ordered him to be honest, he admitted his education, his study of the Scriptures, and his life of living as a "fool for Christ." Scrubbed and robed, the council questioned him, recognized his spiritual wisdom, and chose him as their bishop.
Well-loved by his people, Alexander died a martyr in the persecutions of Diocletian.
Born
Greek
Died
burned alive c.275 at Comana (in modern Turkey)
Patronage
charcoal burners
Blessed Carlos Díaz Gandía
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Lifelong layman in the archdiocese of Valencia, Spain, baptized at the age of one day. Member of Youth Catholic Action at age 14; he eventually served as president of the local chapters. An excellent catechist, he established several “catechist centers” where he would teach each Sunday, travelling by foot or bicycle to one after the other throughout the day; he was roundly heckled and abused by people on his way as there was growing anti–Christian sentiment in the area. One night he had to resort to violence to protect his parish priest and spiritual director from a mob; this led to organizing faithful members of Catholic Action to patrol churches and convents, and Carlos himself was only just in time to rescue consecrated hosts from a church that was being looted. He was devoted to daily Mass, a daily morning Rosary, and developed a minstry to the poor. Married to Louisa Tomo Perseguar on 3 November 1934 at the parish church of Santa Maria Ontinyet; they had one daughter. Arrested at dawn on 4 August 1936 in the persecutions of the Spanish Civil War for the crime of being an active Christian. Martyr.
Born
25 December 1907 in Ontinyent, Valencia, Spain
Died
shot on 11 August 1936 in Agullent, Valencia, Spain
Beatified
11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II
Blessed Benjamín Fernández de Legaria Goñi
Also known as
• Father Teofilo
• Teofilo Fernández de Legaria Goñi
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The son of Tomas, a farmer, and Fermina, a school teacher for over 50 years. He began studying at a junior seminary when he was ten years old, and throughout his school years was known as an excellent student. In 1915 he became a novice in the Picpus Fathers at the San Miguel del Monte convent near Miranda, Spain. He was immediately recognized as an gifted teacher.
Ordained a priest on 22 September 1925, and he earned a doctorate in theology. He worked to continue education in Madrid in the face of rising anti–Catholicism in the years leading up to the Spanish Civil War. When the war began, he converted his seminary to a hospital. However, when some Communist militia men arrived with wounded men, they recognized Teofilo as a priest, took him away at gun point, and murdered him soon after. Martyr.
Born
5 July 1898 in Torralba de Río, Navarra, Spain
Died
• shot on 11 August 1936 in El Escorial, Madrid, Spain
• buried at the chapel of Saint Damien of Molokai, parish of the Sacred Hearts, Madrid
Beatified
13 October 2013 by Pope Francis
Saint Gaugericus of Cambrai
Also known as
Djèri, Gau, Gery, Gagericus, Gaugerico, Gorik
Additional Memorials
• 18 November for the exhumation of his relics
• 24 September for the translation of his relics
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Son of Gaudentius and Austadiola. Pious youth. Ordained as a deacon when he showed he knew all the Psalms by heart. Priest, ordained by Saint Magnericus of Trier. Bishop of the dioceses of Cambrai and of Arras, Gaul for 39 years beginning c.586. He convinced his people to destroy their old pagan idols; when there were only a few left in private hands, he bought them and destroyed them himself. Tirelessly travelled his territory, and spent largely to ransom prisoners. Attended the Council of Paris in 614.
Born
at Trier, Germany
Died
• c.625 of natural causes
• interred in the church of Saint Medard, Cambrai, France
• some relics in assorted churches in Belgium
Representation
mitred bishop without his crosier, right hand lifted in a gesture of benediction and left folded upon his breast
Patronage
• Braine-le-Comte, Belgium
• Brussels, Belgium
• Cambrai, France, archdiocese of
• Cambrai, France, city of
Saint Attracta of Killaraght
புனித அட்ராக்டா ( ஆறாம் நூற்றாண்டு)
(ஆகஸ்ட் 11)
இவர் அயர்லாந்து நாட்டைச் சார்ந்தவர். இவரது குடும்பம் மிகவும் செல்வச் செழிப்பான குடும்பம்.
சிறுவயதிலேயே கடவுள்மீது மிகுந்த பற்று கொண்ட இவர், வளர்ந்து பெரியவரான போது, துறவியாகப் போக முடிவு செய்தார். இதற்கு இவரது பெற்றோர் மறுப்பு தெரிவித்தனர். ஆனாலும் இவர் தன் பெற்றோரின் எதிர்ப்பையும் மீறித் துறவியானார்.
இவர் 'அயர்லாந்து நாட்டின் திருத்தூதர்' என அழைக்கப்படும் புனித பேட்ரிக், பெண்களுக்ககெ ஒரு துறவற சபையை நிறுவிய போது, இவரைத் தான் தலைவியாக நியமித்தார்.
இவர் வழிப்போக்கர்கள் தஙகி ஓய்வெடுத்துச் செல்ல விடுதி ஒன்றைக் கட்டி, அதன் மூலம் வழிப்போக்கர்களுக்குப் பேருதவியாக இருக்கும்.
தன்னை நாடி வந்தோருக்கு இவர் தாராளமாக உதவி செய்தார். இவ்வாறு அறச்செயல்கள் செய்வதற்கு மிகச்சிறந்த எடுத்துக்காட்டாக இவர் விளங்கினார்.
கடவுள் இவருக்கு அருமடையாளங்கள் செய்வதற்கான ஆற்றலைத் தந்திருந்தார். இதன் மூலம் இவர் பலரையும் நோய்நொடிகளிலிருந்து விடுவிடுத்து நல்வாழ்வு தந்தார். இவர் பல கோயில்களையும் துறவுமடங்களையும் கட்டியெழுப்பினார் என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது
Also known as
Abaght, Adhracht, Araght, Athracta, Taraghta, Tarahata
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Daughter of an Irish noble. Drawn from an early age to a religious vocation, which was opposed by her family. Made her religious vows to Saint Patrick at Coolavin, Ireland. Worked with Patrick for the conversion of Ireland. Anchoress at Drumconnell, County Roscommon. At Killaraght (Cill Attracta) on Lough Gara she founded a hospice that still existed as late as 1539. Founded several churches and convents in County Galway and County Sligo. The convents were known for their care of the sick, and were traditionally built at crossroads so they would available to more travellers. Miracle worker, and noted healer. A healing well with her name survives at Clogher, Monasteraden; it has a reputation for especial powers against warts and rickets. Incredibly popular in her own day and in the Middle Ages when popular (i.e., fantastic) biographies of her circulated.
Born
5th century in County Sligo, Ireland
Died
6th century in Ireland of natural causes
Patronage
• Achonry, Ireland, city of
• Achonry, Ireland, diocese of
• Men of Lugna
Blessed Rafael Alonso Gutiérrez
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A lifelong layman, Rafael was married to Maria Adelaid Ruiz Glens in 1916; the couple were parents to four daughters. He worked as postmaster in Ontinyent, Valencia, Spain, and served as catechist and youth teacher by night at his parish. Member of the Catholic Legion, Catholic Action, School of Christ, Association of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and was a Franciscan Tertiary.
Arrested for his faith by Communist militia during the Spanish Civil War, he was imprisoned and abused in hopes of getting him to renounce Catholicism; it didn’t work. He was shot on a roadside with Blessed Carlos Diaz and abandoned, but Rafael survived. Friends hid him at a local Capuchin convent, and later died of his wounds. He forgave his killers and insisted that there be no retribution, revenge or feud between his family and theirs. Martyr.
Born
14 June 1890 in Ontinyent, Valencia, Spain
Died
shot 11 August 1936 in Agullent, Valencia, Spain
Beatified
11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II
Saint Susanna of Rome
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Roman noble, the beautiful daughter of Saint Gabinus, and niece of Pope Caius, living in the early part of Diocletian's reign when the last large-scale persecutions were building steam. Having made a private vow of virginity, and not wanting to be part of a family that murdered her family in faith, she refused to marry Maximian, Diocletian's son-in-law. Her piety was such that she converted Claudius and Maximus, relatives and the messengers sent to bring her to Maximian. In revenge, she was exposed as a Christian, beaten, and martyred.
No reliable Acta of her life have survived, but her story has, and she is commemorated in many ancient Martyrologies. A Roman parish and church has borne her name since the fifth century. In 1969 she was dropped from the universal calender of saints, but her memorial is still celebrated in Saint Susanna's basilica in Rome.
Died
• beheaded in 295 in her father's house at Rome, Italy
• buried by Diocletian's wife, a closet Christian
• the house became the original church with her name
Blessed Stephen Rowsham
Also known as
Stephen Rouse
Additional Memorials
• 29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai
• 22 November as one of the Martyrs of England, Scotland and Wales
• 1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University
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Studied at Oriel College, Oxford University. Anglican vicar of Saint Mary the Virgin, Oxford, England. Convert to Catholicism. Studied at the Douai College in Rheims, France. Ordained a priest in 1582 at Soissons, France. He then returned to England to minister to covert Catholics during a period of persecution. He was soon arrested for the crime of priesthood, and exiled. When he returned to England he was arrested again, convicted again, and executed. Martyr.
Born
c.1555 in Oxfordshire, England
Died
hanged, drawn and quartered on 3 April 1587 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Beatified
22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II
Saint Equitius of Valeria
Also known as
Equizio
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Spiritual student of Saint Benedict of Nursia. Benedictine monk. Worked to spread monasticism throughout Italy, bringing many scholars and future saints to the religious life and the Benedictine Order. Abbot of a house in Valeria, Italy. Noted preacher Pope Saint Gregory the Great refers to Equitius in his Dialogues.
Born
between 480 and 490 in the area of Valeria Suburbicaria (present-day L'Aquila-Rieti-Tivoli), Abruzzi, Italy
Died
• c.570 at the monastery of San Lorenzo di Pizzoli of natural causes
• relics translated to Aquila, Italy
Patronage
Aquila, Italy
Saint Rusticola of Arles
Also known as
Marcia
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Born to the nobility and raised in a Christian family. Nun at an early age at an abbey founded by Saint Caesarius of Arles. Abbess in Arles, Provence (in modern France) for almost 60 years. Known for her deep and meditative prayer life, asceticism, and her endless fight to defend the abbey from political pressure. At one point, because of her defiance of civil authorities, she was imprisoned; King Clotaire II recognized her innocence and ordered her released.
Born
551 in Vaison (in modern Séguret, France)
Died
• 11 August 632
• buried at her abbey in Arles, France
Blessed Jean-Georges Rehm
Also known as
Father Thomas
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Dominican priest. Imprisoned on a ship in the harbor of Rochefort, France and left to die during the anti-Catholic persecutions of the French Revolution. One of the Martyrs of the Hulks of Rochefort.
Born
21 April 1752 in Katzenthal, Haut-Rhin, France
Died
11 August 1794 aboard the prison ship Deux-Associés, in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France
Beatified
1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II
Blessed John Sandys
Additional Memorial
• 29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai
• 22 November as one of the Martyrs of England, Scotland, and Wales
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Priest in the apostolic vicariate of England. Martyred in the persecutions of Queen Elizabeth I.
Born
c.1552 in Lancashire, England
Died
11 August 1586 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Beatified
22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II
Blessed William Lampley
Additional Memorial
22 November as one of the Martyrs of England, Scotland, and Wales
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Layman in the apostolic vicariate of England during a period of persecutions of Catholics. Martyr.
Born
in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Died
December 1588 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Beatified
22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II
Saint Tiburtius of Rome
Also known as
Tiburcio, Tiburzio
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Son of Saint Chromatius the Prefect. Martyr. Pope Saint Damasus wrote about him.
Died
• beheaded c.286 in Rome, Italy
• entombed in the Ad duas lauros cemetery at the three mile marker on the Via Lavicana of Rome
Saint Taurinus of Evreux
Also known as
Taurino
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Evangelist in Milan, Italy. First bishop of Evreux, Normandy (in modern France) c.385. Fought against the pagan customs of the region. Miracle worker.
Born
c.350
Died
c.412
Patronage
Evreux, France
Saint Rufinus of Assisi
Also known as
Rufino
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First century bishop of Assisi, Umbria, Italy. Martyr.
Died
1st century
Patronage
• diocese of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy
• Assisi, Italy
• Umbria, Italy
Blessed Theobald of England
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Mercedarian friar. He and several brother Mercedarians were sent to Africa to ransom Christians held in slavery by Muslims. They were captured by pirates, imprisoned, and eventually martyred.
Died
burned at the stake in 1499
Saint Digna of Todi
Also known as
Degna
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Young woman in 4th-century Todi, Italy who made a private vow of consecration to God. During the persecutions of Diocletian she retreated to the nearby mountains to live as an anchoress.
Saint Cassian of Benevento
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Bishop of Benevento, Italy.
Died
• c.340
• relics in the church of Saint Mary in Benevento, Italy
Saint Chromatius the Prefect
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Third-century imperial Roman prefect. Brought to the faith by Saint Tranquillinus. Father of Saint Tiburtius of Rome.
Saint Rufinus of Marsi
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Early bishop. Martyred with several Christian companions whose names have not come down to us.
Died
in Italy
Martyred in the Spanish Civil War
Thousands of people were murdered in the anti-Catholic persecutions of the Spanish Civil War from 1934 to 1939. I have pages on each of them, but in most cases I have only found very minimal information. They are available on the CatholicSaints.Info site through these links:
• Blessed Antoni Casany Villarrasa
• Blessed Armando Óscar Valdés
• Blessed Miquel Domingo Cendra
• Blessed Ramon Rosell Laboria
Also celebrated but no entry yet
• Elian of Philadelpha
• Robaldo Rambaudi
