St. Englatius November 3

 St. Englatius

Feastday: November 3

Death: 966

A Scottish bishop, also called Englat and Tanglen. He lived at Tarves, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

St. Florus November 3

 St. Florus

Feastday: November 3

Death: 389

First bishop of Lodeve, in Languedoc, France. He is venerated in the town where his relics were enshrined and is sometimes listed as Florus of Lodeve.

St. Germanus November 3

 St. Germanus

Feastday: November 3

Death: 250

Martyr with Theophilus, Caesarius, and Vitalis. They died at Caesarea, in Cappadocia.

St. Guenhael November 3

 St. Guenhael

Feastday: November 3

Death: 550

Abbot of Brittany, France, whose name means "White Angel." Also called Gwenhael. He was trained by St. Winelae at Landevnee, where he served as abbot.

St. Hermengaudis November 3

 St. Hermengaudis

Feastday: November 3

Death: 1035

 

Bishop of Urgell, in the Spanish Pyrenees. Sometimes listed as Armengol and Ermengol, he built the cathedral there and aided local monastics.

St. Hubert November 3

St. Hubert

Feastday: November 3

Patron: of hunters, mathematicians, opticians and metalworkers

Death: 727

Bishop of Maastricht, Netherlands, and disciple of St. Lambert. Hubert was a married court­ier serving Pepin of Heristal, France. He reportedly had a vision of a crucifix between the horns of a stag while hunting. Widowed, he is believed to have entered Stavelot Monastery, Belgium, and was ordained by St. Lambert at Maastricht. He succeeded St. Lambert about 705 as bishop. Hubert erected a shrine for St. Lambert's relics at Liege, France. He was noted for his miracles and for converting hundreds. Hubert died at Tervueren, near Brussels, Belgium, on May 30. He is a patron saint of hunters.

St. Papulus November 3

St. Papulus

Feastday: November 3

Death: 300

Martyr and priest who labored under St. Saturninus to evangelize southern Gaul. It is generally accepted that he was put to death during the persecutions launched by Emperor Diocletian in the early fourth century.

Saint Papulus (French: Papoul) was, according to Christian tradition, a priest who worked with Saturninus of Toulouse to evangelize southern Gaul. Papulus is considered an evangelist of the Lauragais.[1]

Legends associated with Saturninus state that after Saint Peter consecrated him a bishop, "he was given for his companion Papulus, later to become Saint Papulus the Martyr."[2]

He was martyred, like Saturninus, during the persecutions of Diocletian. Papulus' unreliable legend states that upon reaching Carcassonne, he and Saturninus were imprisoned in a tower by the magistrate Rufinus, but they were miraculously released and went to Toulouse. Saturninus went into Spain, leaving Papulus in charge of the Christian converts at Toulouse. His legend states that he performed countless miracles and converted many pagans. He was ultimately beheaded after being tortured.[3]

St. Peter Francis Neron November 3

 St. Peter Francis Neron

Feastday: November 3

Birth: 1818

Death: 1869

Properly Pierre­Francois Neron, a martyr in Vietnam. Born in Bornay, in the Jura region of France, in 1818, he joined the Foreign Mission of Paris and was ordained a priest in 1848. Sent first to Hong Kong, he went to Vietnam and served as the director of the main seminary in the kingdom until he was arrested and beheaded by authorities.

The Vietnamese Martyrs (Vietnamese: Các Thánh Tử đạo Việt Nam), also known as the Martyrs of Annam, Martyrs of Tonkin and Cochinchina, Martyrs of Indochina, or Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions (Anrê Dũng-Lạc và các bạn tử đạo), are saints on the General Roman Calendar who were canonized by Pope John Paul II. On June 19, 1988, thousands of overseas Vietnamese worldwide gathered at the Vatican for the Celebration of the Canonization of 117 Vietnamese Martyrs, an event chaired by Monsignor Tran Van Hoai. Their memorial is on November 24 (although several of these saints have another memorial, as they were beatified and on the calendar prior to the canonization of the group).

St. Pirmin November 3

 St. Pirmin

Feastday: November 3

Birth: 700

Death: 753

Benedictine bishop. Born in Aragon, Spain, he was of Visigothic descent and was forced to flee Spain when the Arabs invaded in the eighth century. He journeyed to the Rhineland where he founded abbeys at Reichenau, Amorbach, and Murbach, and rebuilt or restored other churches and monastic communities including Dissentia Abbey, which he brought under the Benedictine Rule. He was honored by the pope with the rank of chorepiscopus, or regional prelate, adding to his reputation as one of the foremost Benedictines in Germany. Pirmin wrote Dicta Pirinini, a popular catechism. 

Relic in Speyer Cathedral.

Saint Pirmin (latinized Pirminius, born before 700 (c. 670 according to many sources[1]), died November 3, 753 in Hornbach),[2] was a Merovingian-era monk and missionary. He founded or restored numerous monasteries in Alemannia (Swabia), especially in the Alsace, along the Upper Rhine and in the Lake Constance region.

Contents

1 Biography

2 Missionary and other activities

3 References

4 External links

5 See also

Biography

Pirmin was probably from the area of Narbonne, possibly of Visigothic origin.[2][3] Many Visigoths fled to Francia after the Arab conquest of Spain at the beginning of the 8th century.[4]

From 718 onwards, he was abbot of the monastery Quortolodora in Antwerp (Austrasia)[5] and, together with its pupils, the minister of the church inside the broch, Het Steen. (In the 12th century, this church was dedicated to Saint Walpurga.) After a while Pirmin was invited by count Rohingus to stay at his villa in Thommen, near Sankt Vith in the Ardennes.

Pirmin gained the favour of Charles Martel, mayor of the palace of Francia. He was sent to help rebuild Disentis Abbey in what is today Switzerland. In 724, he was appointed abbot of Mittelzell Abbey on Reichenau Island, which had earlier founded.[2] Later, for political reasons, he was banished to Alsace. In 753, he died in the abbey at Hornbach, where his body is entombed.

Missionary and other activities

Pirmin's missionary work mainly took place in the Alsace and the upper area of the Rhine and the Danube. Besides actively preaching and converting, he also founded or reformed many monasteries, such as those at Amorbach, Gengenbach, Murbach, Wissembourg, Marmoutier, Neuweiler, and Reichenau. Pirmin secured endowments from area nobility: Odilo of Bavaria financed the foundation of Niederaltaich Abbey,[4] Werner I of what became the Salian dynasty endowed the new abbey at Hornbach.

The most important of Pirmin's books is Dicta Abbatis Pirminii, de Singulis Libris Canonicis Scarapsus ("Words of Abbot Pirminius, extracts from the Single Canonical Books").[6] The book collects quotations from Church Fathers and scriptures, presumably for use by missionaries,[2] or reading during monastic meals. Written between 710-724, it contains the earliest appearance of the present text of the Apostles' Creed.[7]

St. Quaratus November 3

 St. Quaratus

Feastday: November 3

Death: 1st century

An early Christian who may have been mentioned in the New Testament. He was perhaps the Quartus named by St. Paul in his Letter to the Romans 16:23 with Erastus as sending greetings to the Romans. Tradition also lists him among the seventy two disciples of the Gospel of St. Luke, chapter 10.

St. Valentine & Hilary November 3

 St. Valentine & Hilary

Feastday: November 3

Death: 304

Martyrs beheaded at Viterbo, Italy, during the persecutions under Emperor Diocletian (r. 284-305). Valentine was a priest and Hilary his deacon.

St. Valentinian November 3

 St. Valentinian

Feastday: November 3

Death: 500

Bishop of Salerno, Italy.

St. Vulganius November 3

 St. Vulganius

Feastday: November 3

Death: 704

Irish or Welsh missionary and hermit. After working to evangelize the tribes of the Atrebati in France, he became a hermit at Arras.

St. Winifred November 3

 St. Winifred

Feastday: November 3

Patron: of Holywell; against unwanted advances

According to legend, she was the daughter of a wealthy resident of Tegeingl, Flintshire, Wales, and the sister of St. Beuno. She was most impressed by Beuno, was supposedly beheaded on June 22 by one Caradog when she refused to submit to him, had her head restored by Beuno, and sometime later, became a nun of the convent of a double monastery at Gwytherin in Denbigshire. She succeeded an Abbess Tenoy, as Abbess and died there fifteen years after her miraculous restoration to life. A spring supposedly springing up where Winifred's head fell, is called Holy Well or St. Winifred's Well and became a great pilgrimage center where many cures have been reported over the centuries. She is also known as Gwenfrewi. Her feast day is November 3.

Saint Winifred (or Winefride, Welsh: Gwenffrewi; Latin: Wenefreda) was a Welsh virgin martyr of the 7th century. Her cult was celebrated as early as the 8th century, but became popular in England in the 12th, when her biography (vita) was first written down.

A healing spring at the traditional site of her decapitation and restoration is now a shrine and pilgrimage site called St Winefride's Well in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales and known as "the Lourdes of Wales".

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புனித_சில்வியா (515-592)

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இவர் (#St_Silvia) சிசிலியைச் சார்ந்தவர்.

இவர் உரோமையைச் சார்ந்த கோர்தியன்  என்பவருக்கு மணமுடித்துக் கொடுக்கப்பட்டார்.

இருவரது இல்லற வாழ்வும் மிகவும் மகிழ்ச்சியாகச் சென்றது. இறைவன் இவர்களுக்கு இரண்டு குழந்தைகளைக் கொடுத்து அருள்பாலித்தார். அவர்களில் ஒருவர்தான் பெரிய கிரகோரியார் என அழைக்கப்படும் திருத்தந்தை  புனித கிரகோரி. 

573 ஆம் ஆண்டு கோர்தியன் திடீரென இறந்து போனார். இதனால் இவர் வீட்டிற்குப் பின்னால் இருந்த தோட்டத்தில் ஒரு குடிசை அமைத்து, அங்கு இறைவேண்டலிலும் நோன்பிலும் செலவழித்தார். இவர் தன் மகனை இறைநம்பிக்கையிலும் இறையன்பிலும் நல்ல முறையில் வளர்த்தெடுத்தார் என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.

இவர் 592 ஆம் ஆண்டு இறையடி சேர்ந்தார். இவர் கர்ப்பிணிப் பெண்களுக்குப் பாதுகாவலராக இருக்கிறார்.

Saint Silvia (Sylvia) (c. 515 – c. 592) was the mother of Saint Gregory the Great. She is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church, which names her a patroness of pregnant women.

Life

Little biographical information about her exists. Her native place is sometimes given as Sicily, sometimes as Rome. Apparently she was of as distinguished family as her husband, the Roman regionarius, Gordianus. She had, besides Gregory, a second son, whose name did not survive through the ages.[1]

Silvia was noted for her great piety, and she gave her sons an excellent education. After the death of her husband, around 573, she devoted herself entirely to religion in the "new cell by the gate of blessed Paul" (cella nova juxta portam beati Pauli). Gregory the Great had a mosaic portrait of his parents executed at the monastery of Saint Andrew; it is minutely described by Johannes Diaconus (P.L., LXXV, 229-30).[2] Silvia was portrayed sitting with the face, in which the wrinkles of age could not hide the beauty; the eyes were large and blue, and the expression was gracious and animated.[1]