Saint Margaret of Castello
அருளாளர்_மார்கரெட் (1287-1320)
ஏப்ரல் 13
இவர் (#BlMargaretOfCastello) இத்தாலியில் பிறந்தவர்.
பிறவியிலேயே பார்வையற்றவராகவும், உடல் ஊனமுற்றவராகவும் கூன் விழுந்தவராகவும் பிறந்த இவரை, இவரது பெற்றோர் ஒவ்வொரு நாளும் திருப்பலி காணும் வகையில், தாங்கள் இருந்த இடத்தின் அருகிலிருந்த கோயிலுக்குப் பின்னால் வைத்து வளர்த்து வந்தனர்.
14 ஆண்டுகள் கழித்து, இவர் நலம்பெறுவதற்காக இவரது பெற்றோர் இவரை ஒரு திருத்தலத்திற்குக் கொண்டு சென்றார்கள். அங்கு இவரது பெற்றோர் இவர் நலம் பெற வேண்டும் என்று தொடர்ந்து மன்றாடினார்கள். இவர் நலம் பெறாததால் அவர்கள் இவரை அங்கேயே விட்டு விட்டுச் சென்றனர். இதனால் இவர் திருத்தலத்திலேயே இருந்து, இறைவேண்டலில் நிலைத்திருந்தார்.
இவர் பொதுநிலையினருக்கான தோமினிக்கன் துறவு அவையில் சேர்ந்து தன்னால் இயன்ற நன்மைகளை ஏழை எளிய மக்களுக்குச் செய்தார்.
இப்படியே இவரது வாழ்க்கை சென்று கொண்டிருக்க இவர் 1320 ஆம் ஆண்டு இறையடி சேர்ந்தார். இவர் இறந்த பிறகு இவரது உடலைக் கோயிலுக்குள் உள்ள கல்லறையில் அடக்கம் செய்யக்கூடாது என்று கோயில் நிர்வாகிகள் ஒருசிலர் தடுத்தனர். அப்பொழுது உடல் ஊனமுற்ற ஒருவர் இவரிடம் வேண்டியதால் நலம் அடைந்ததும், இவரைக் கோயிலுக்குள் இருந்த கல்லறையில் அடக்கம் செய்தார்கள்.
இவருக்கு 1609 ஆம் ஆண்டு திருத்தந்தை ஐந்தாம் பவுலால் அருளாளர் பட்டம் கொடுக்கப்பட்டது.
Also known as
• Margaret of Citta-di-Castello
• Margaret of Metola
Profile
Born a blind, lame, deformed, hunchback midget. When she was six years old, her noble parents walled her up beside a chapel; she could not get out, but could attend Mass and receive the Sacraments. After 14 years of imprisonment, her parents took her to a shrine to pray for a cure. When none occurred, they abandoned her. She became a lay Dominican, and spent her life in prayer and charity. When she died, the townspeople thronged her funeral, and demanded she be buried in a tomb inside the church. The priest protested, but a crippled girl was miraculously cured at the funeral, and he consented.
Born
1287 at Mercatello sul Metauro, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy
Died
• 13 April 1320 in Città di Castello, Perugia, Italy of natural causes
• body incorrupt
Beatified
19 October 1609 by Pope Paul V (concession of indult for Mass and Office)
Canonized
24 April 2021 by Pope Francis (equipollent canonization)
Patronage
• against impoverishment
• against poverty
• disabled people
• handicapped people
• people rejected by religious orders
• physically challenged people
• Right To Life groups
Saint Hermengild
Also known as
Ermengild, Ermengildo, Hermenegild
Profile
Son of the Spanish Visigoth Arian king Levigild, and raised in Arianism. In 579 he married the Catholic princess Indgund, who, with Saint Leander, bishop of Seville, Spain, converted him back to orthodox Christianity. Immediately disinherited by his father.
Publicly renounced and fought against Arianism; he expected support from outside anti-Arian groups, but it never materialized, and he was defeated by his father's forces. King of Seville. At one point he reconciled with his father, but his step-mother, Goswintha, caused friction between them because of her staunch Arian views. Arrested, tortured, and martyred on orders of his father for refusing to denounce Catholicism and refusing to accept communion from a heretic bishop.
Died
• tortured and axed to death 13 April 585
• relics at Seville, Spain
Canonized
1585
Patronage
• against drought
• against flood
• against thunderstorms
• converts
• Spanish monarchy
• Seville, Spain
Representation
• young prince in armor being borne to heaven while contemplating the crucifix while around him angels carry an axe, chains, royal regalia, a palm, and a rose wreath and heretical bishops and king stand below him
• prince with an axe
• ax
Saint Caradoc of Wales
Also known as
Caradog, Caractacus, Caradocus, Caradoco
Profile
Born to a wealthy family, Caradoc spent part of his youth as a harp player in the court of King Rhys ap Twedwr of South Wales. He fell out of royal favour when he lost one of the king's greyhounds. Deciding to start a new life, Caradoc broke the tip of his spear to turn it into a walking stick, and left the court to become a monk at Saint Teilo church. Longing for a quieter life, he became a hermit in the ruins of Saint Kyned church in Gower where he was known to befriend wild animals. Ordained in Menevia, Wales. With several companions he set up a hermitage on Barry Island off the coast of Wales. After surviving Viking raiders, the hermits were driven from the island by King Henry I of England. Caradoc spent the rest of his days as a prayerful hermit in a cell in modern Haroldston, Pembrokeshire. Church Lawrenny in Pembrokeshire is dedicated to him.
Born
11th century Brycheiniog, Wales
Died
• 13 April 1124 at Saint Isells, Wales of natural causes
• interred at the cathedral of Saint David
• re-interred several years later, and body found incorrupt
• the historian William of Malmesbury tried to cut off a finger to take as a relic; Caradoc's hand jerked away
Representation
• man dressed in chain mail holding a church and a spear
• harp
Saint Sabas Reyes Salazar
Also known as
Sabas Reyes
Additional Memorial
21 May as one of the Martyrs of the Mexican Revolution
Profile
Seminarian at Guadalajara, Mexico. Ordained in the diocese of Taumalipus, Mexico in 1911. Worked in several parishes in Guadalupe. Sent to Tototlan, Mexico to escape the government's persection of the Church and its priests.
In January 1927 government troops commandeered his church; they smashed images, burned statues, and used the building as a stable. Father Sabas's parishioners told him to escape, but he said God had placed him there for a reason, and that they should pray for divine help against the soldiers.
On 11 April 1927, just as he finished a baptism in a private home, federal troops broke in to arrest him. Over the next two days he was severely beaten, burned, and tortured as the troops tried to learn the hiding places of other priests; he told his captors nothing. Martyr.
Born
5 December 1883 in Cocula, Jalisco, Mexico
Died
shot at 9pm on 13 April 1927 in a cemetery outside Tototlan, Jalisco, Mexico
Canonized
21 May 2000 by Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee of Mexico
Pope Saint Martin I
Profile
Chosen 74th pope in 649 without imperial approval. Conducted the Lateran Council which condemned the patriach of Constantinople for Monothelitism, which claimed that Christ had no human will. This put him in opposition to the emperor who had him arrested and tortured. Paul, Patriarch of Constantinople, repented of his stance which saved Martin from execution, but the pope died soon after from damage done during his imprisonment, and is considered a martyr, the last martyred pope.
Born
at Todi, Tuscany, Italy
Papal Ascension
649
Died
655 at Cherson, Crimea (in modern Ukraine) from starvation
Representation
• Pope holding money
• Pope with geese around him (possible confusion by artist with Martin of Tours)
• Pope in a prison cell
Blessed Rolando Rivi
Profile
Born to a farm family. Seminarian in the diocese of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy with a plan to become a missionary priest. Abducted, abused and tortured for three days, and then murdered by Communist partisans for being a Christian. Martyr.
Born
7 January 1931 in San Valentino di Castellarano, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Died
• shot on 13 April 1945 in a wooded area near Piani di Monchio, Modena, Italy
• buried in Piani di Monchio
• re-interred in the graveyard of his parish church of Saint Valentine on 29 May 1945
• re-interred in the church of Saint Valentine on 26 June 1997
Beatified
• 5 October 2013 by Pope Francis
• beatification recognition celebrated in Modena, Italy by Cardinal Angelo Amato
Blessed Scubilion Rousseau
Also known as
• Brother Scubilionis
• Jean Bernard Rousseau
Profile
A pious young man who served as a catechist. Entered the Christian Brothers' noviate in Paris, France on 24 December 1822, taking the name Scubilion Elementary school teacher for ten years in various locations in France. In 1833 he was assigned to teach and work with slaves on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean; he spent 34 years there. He modified the lessons to suit the natives, started classes for them at night, worked with local priests, and brought many to the faith by his example of Christian life.
Born
21 March 1797 in Annay la-Côte, Burgundy, France as Jean Bernard Rousseau
Died
13 April 1867 on Reunion Island of natural causes
Beatified
2 May 1989 by Pope John Paul II
Blessed Albertinus of Fonte Avellana
Also known as
• Albertinus of Montone
• Albertino
Profile
Benedictine monk at Fonte Avellana monastery in Serra Sant'Abbondio, Italy. When his congregation merged with the Camaldolese in 1270, Albertinus was chosen prior-general. Peacemeaker between Gubbio and his flock. Refused to accept election as bishop of Osimo, Italy.
Born
mid 13th-century in Montone, Italy
Died
• 13 April 1294 of natural causes
• his grave became a site of miracles
Beatified
Pope Pius VI (cultus confirmed)
Saint Ursus of Ravenna
Also known as
Orso, Ours
Profile
Born to the Sicilian nobility. Convert to Christianity. His father violently opposed the conversion, and Ursus fled to Ravenna, Italy. There he so impressed the locals with his holiness that he became bishop of Ravenna for 20 years, reviving the celebration of the feasts of the saints, a custom that had fallen away.
Died
396 of natural causes
Patronage
• against faintness
• against kidney disease
Blessed James of Certaldo
Also known as
Jacopo Guidi
Profile
Son of a knight of Volterra (in modern Italy). Camaldolese Benedictine monk for over sixty years at the abbey of Saint Clement and Saint Justus at Volterra, forty of which he served as parish priest at the abbey church. His father and brother became lay-brothers of the same abbey. Twice refused the abbacy, he finally took the position - then resigned to return to pastoral work.
Born
at Certaldo, Italy as Jacopo Guidi
Died
1292 of natural causes
Saint Ida of Boulogne
Also known as
Ida of Lorraine
Profile
Daughter of Duke Godfrey IV of Lorraine. Descendent of Blessed Charlemagne. Married Count Eustace II of Boulogne at age 17. Mother of Godfrey and Baldwin de Bouillon. Widow. Endowed several monasteries in Picardy (part of modern France). Benedictine oblate.
Born
1040 in Ardennes, France
Died
13 April 1113 of natural causes
Patronage
widows
Blessed John Lockwood
Also known as
John Lascellas
Additional Memorial
29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai
Profile
Studied for the priesthood in Rome, Italy during the persecution of Catholics in England. Ordained in 1597. Worked covertly in England until his arrest in 1642. Martyr.
Born
1561 at Sowerby, Yorkshire, England
Died
hanged, drawn, and quartered on 13 April 1642 at York, England
Beatified
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Blessed Edward Catherick
Additional Memorial
29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai
Profile
Studied at Douai, France. Priest. Returned to England in 1635 to minister to covert Catholics during a period of persecution by King Charles I. Martyr.
Born
Carlton, Country Durham, England
Died
hanged, drawn, and quartered on 13 April 1642 at York, England
Beatified
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Blessed Francis Dickenson
Also known as
Francis Dicconson
Profile
Studied at the English Seminary in Rheims, France. Priest, returning to England to minister to covert Catholics during a period of persecution by Queen Elizabeth I. Martyr.
Born
Otley, West Yorkshire, England
Died
13 April 1590 in Rochester, Kent, England
Beatified
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Blessed Miles Gerard
Profile
Studied at the English Seminary in Rheims, France. Priest, returning to England to minister to covert Catholics during a period of persecution by Queen Elizabeth I. Martyr.
Born
Ince, Lancashire, England
Died
13 April 1590 in Rochester, Kent, England
Beatified
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Blessed Isabel Calduch Rovira
Profile
Franciscan Capuchin Poor Clare nun. Martyred in the Spanish Civil War.
Born
9 May 1882 in Alcalá de Chivert, Castellón, Spain
Died
13 April 1937 in Cuevas de Vinromá, Castellón, Spain
Beatified
11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II
Saint Agathonica of Pergamus
Also known as
Agatonica
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Sister of Saint Papylus of Pergamus. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.
Died
c.250 at Pergamus, Asia Minor
Saint Papylus of Pergamus
Also known as
Papilo
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Brother of Saint Agathonica of Pergamus. Deacon. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.
Died
c.250 at Pergamus, Asia Minor
Saint Carpus of Pergamus
Also known as
Carpo
Profile
Bishop of Thyatira. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.
Died
c.250 at Pergamus, Asia Minor
Saint Martius of Auvergne
Also known as
Marzio
Profile
Mountainside hermit. His reputation for holiness spread, and he attracted so many would-be students that he built a monastery for them.
Born
Auvergne, France
Died
c.530
Saint Agathodorus of Pergamus
Profile
Servant of Saint Papylus of Pergamus and Saint Agathonica of Pergamus. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.
Died
c.250 at Pergamus, Asia Minor
Blessed Ida of Louvain
Profile
Cistercian Benedictine nun at Rossendael near Malines. Visionary.
Born
at Louvain, France
Died
c.1300
Saint Proculus of Terni
Profile
Bishop of Terni, Italy. Martyred in the persecutions of Maxentius.
Died
310
Saint Guinoc
Also known as
Guinoch, Guinochus, Winnoc, Guinoco
Profile
Bishop in Scotland. Commemorated in the Aberdeen Breviary.
Died
c.838
Martyrs of Dorostorum
Profile
A lector and two students martyred together in the persecutions of Diocletian - Dadas, Maximus and Quinctillianus.
Died
beheaded c.303 in Dorostorum, Lower Mysia (modern Sillistria, Bulgaria
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