இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் மே 5

 Bl. Edmund Ignatius Rice

Feastday: May 5

Birth: 1762

Death: 1844

Beatified: Pope John Paul II

The founder of the Congregation of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, often called the Irish Christian Brothers. Edmund was born in Wescourt, Ireland, in June, 1762, the fourth of seven sons in a fanning family At seventeen he began working at his uncle's import-export business in Waterford. He later inherited the business. Married at twenty-five, Edmund lost his wife two years later and was left with a sickly infant daughter. A devout man, Edmund dedicated himself to charitable works. Though he saw how the economic and political storms of the day were impacting Ireland, he desired a religious vocation in the contemplative life. However, the Bishop of Waterford drew Edmund's attention to the bands of ragged youth in the streets, asking Edmund if he, too, planned to abandon them. Encouraged by Pope Pius VII and Bishop Hussey, Edmund sold his business, arranged for his daughter's care, and opened his first school in 1802. He had three other schools in operation by 1806, and took the name Ignatius as a religious with companions in 1808 in a pontifical institute. Edmund established the Catholic Model School and saw the founding of eleven communities in Ireland, eleven in England, and one in Australia, with requests coming from the United States and Canada. He resigned as Superior General in 1838 and died at Mt. Sion, site of his first school, on August 29, 1844. Pope John Paul II beatified him on October 6, 1996.

Conversion of Saint Augustine of Hippo

Also known as

• Aurelius Augustinus

• Doctor of Grace

Additional Memorial

28 August (feast)

Profile

Son of a pagan father who converted on his death bed, and of Saint Monica, a devout Christian. Raised a Christian, he lost his faith in youth and led a wild life. Lived with a Carthaginian woman from the age of 15 through 30. Fathered a son whom he named Adeotadus, which means the gift of God. Taught rhetoric at Carthage and Milan, Italy. After investigating and experimenting with several philosophies, he became a Manichaean for several years; it taught of a great struggle between good and evil, and featured a lax moral code. A summation of his thinking at the time comes from his Confessions: "God, give me chastity and continence - but not just now."

Augustine finally broke with the Manichaeans and was converted by the prayers of his mother and the help of Saint Ambrose of Milan, who baptized him. On the death of his mother he returned to Africa, sold his property, gave the proceeds to the poor, and founded a monastery. Monk. Priest. Preacher. Bishop of Hippo in 396. Founded religious communities. Fought Manichaeism, Donatism, Pelagianism and other heresies. Oversaw his church and his see during the fall of the Roman Empire to the Vandals. Doctor of the Church. His later thinking can also be summed up in a line from his writings: Our hearts were made for You, O Lord, and they are restless until they rest in you.

Born

13 November 354 at Tagaste, Numidia, North Africa (Souk-Ahras, Algeria) as Aurelius Augustinus

Died

28 August 430 at Hippo, North Africa

Patronage

• against sore eyes

• against vermin

• brewers

• printers

• theologians

• 7 dioceses

• 7 cities

Representation

• child

• dove

• eagle

• pen

• shell

• flaming heart, an allusion to a passage in his Confessions

Blessed Caterina Cittadini

Also known as

Katarina Cittadini

Profile

Daughter of Giovanni Battista and Magherita Lanzani. Her mother died when Caterina was seven, and her father abandoned the girl and her younger sister Giuditta. They were accepted and grew up at the orphanage of the Conventino of Bergamo. There she developed a strong faith, a big sister's sense of responsibility, and a devotion to Our Lady and Saint Jerome Emiliani.

The sisters left the orphanage in 1823 to live with their cousins Giovanni and Antonio Cittadini, both parish priests at Calolzio, Italy. Caterina became a teacher at a girl's public school in Somasca in 1824. The sisters felt a call to the religious life; their spiritual director recommended that they should stay in Somasca, and become the basis of a new congregation.

In 1826 the sisters rented a house in Somasca, bought and furnished a building, and in October opened a boarding school for girls. Caterina taught religion, managed the school, and instituted the oratory style of education for her girls. Word of her success spread, attracting more students. The sisters established another "Cittadini" private school in 1832, and another in 1836.

Giuditta directed these new school until her sudden death in 1840. Caterini's cousin, Father Antonio Cittadini, died in 1841, followed quickly by her spiritual director from the orphanage. The rapid succession of tragedy ruined Caterina's health, and she fell gravely ill, but was cured through the intercession of Saint Jerome Emilani.

Caterina quit her public teaching position in 1845 to manage the schools, care for the orphans, and guide the three companions who help her. To help organize the work and lives of her companions, she wrote the beginnings of a new rule similar to that of religious orders. In 1850 she obtained permission to build a private oratory to keep the Blessed Sacrament at her boarding school. In 1851 she applied for approval of her new religious family.

In 1854 her bishop encouraged her work, and told her to write the rules of the new order; her first attempt, based on the Constitution of the Ursulines of Milano was rejected. A second attempt was accepted on 17 September 1854 under the title Orsoline Gerolimiane (Ursuline Sisters of Somasca). On 14 December 1857, six months after her death, the bishop of Bergamo gave his approval; the order achieved papal recognition on 8 July 1927. The order's mandate is to teach, and to care for the abandoned; today they work in Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Brazil, Bolivia, India, and the Philippines.

Born

28 September 1801 in Bergamo, Italy

Died

5 May 1857 in Somasca, Bergamo, Italy of natural causes

Beatified

29 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II at Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City

Blessed Nuntius Sulprizio

புனிதர் நன்ஸியோ சல்ப்ரிஸியோ 

பொதுநிலையாளர்:

பிறப்பு: ஏப்ரல் 13, 1817

பெஸ்கோஸ்சென்ஸோனெஸ்கோ, பெஸ்கரா, இரண்டு சிசிலிய இராச்சியம்

இறப்பு: மே 5, 1836 (வயது 19)

நேபிள்ஸ், இரண்டு சிசிலிய இராச்சியம்

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

முக்திப்பேறு பட்டம்: டிசம்பர் 1, 1963

திருத்தந்தை நான்காம் பவுல்

புனிதர் பட்டம்: அக்டோபர் 14, 2018

திருத்தந்தை பிரான்சிஸ்

நினவுத் திருநாள்: மே 5

பாதுகாவல் : ஊனமுற்றோர், கொல்லர்கள், தொழிலாளர்கள், "பெஸ்கோஸ்சென்ஸோனெஸ்கோ நகரம்" (Pescosansonesco)

புனிதர் நன்ஸியோ சல்ப்ரிஸியோ, இத்தாலி நாட்டின் ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபையைச் சேர்ந்த ஒரு பொதுநிலையாளர் ஆவார். கொல்லர் பனியின் பயிற்சியாளராக இருந்த இவர், தமது சுருக்கமான வாழ்க்கையில்  மோசமாக உடல்நிலை பாதிக்கப்பட்டிருந்தார். அவரை அறிந்தவர்களுக்கு, அவர் ஒரு மென்மையான மற்றும் பக்தியான நபராக கருத்தில் கொள்ளப்பட்டிருந்தார்.

இவரது மரணத்தின் பின்னர், தீராத நோயால் பாதிக்கப்பட்டிருந்த இருவர், நலம் வேண்டி இவரை வேண்டிக்கொண்டதால், இவரது பரிந்துரையால் அவர்கள் அதிசயமாக குணமானதாக நிரூபணமான காரணத்தால், இவருக்கு கி.பி. 1963ம் ஆண்டின் இறுதியில் அருளாளராக முக்திப்பேறு பட்டமளிக்கப்பட்டார். இரண்டாவது அதிசயத்தை உறுதிப்படுத்திய பின்னர், 2018ம் ஆண்டு, ஜூன் மாதம், 14ம் தேதி, திருத்தந்தை ஃபிரான்சிஸ், புனிதர் படத்துக்கான தனது ஒப்புதலை உறுதிப்படுத்தினார். அதே ஆண்டு, அக்டோபர் மாதம், 14ம் தேதியன்று, இவருக்கு புனிதர் பட்டமளித்தார்.

கி.பி. 1817ம் ஆண்டு, ஏப்ரல் மாதம், 13ம் தேதி, உயிர்த்த ஞாயிறு பெருநாளின் சில நாட்களின் பின்னர் பிறந்த இவரது தந்தையின் பெயர், "டொமெனிக்கோ சல்ப்ரிஸியோ" (Domenico Sulprizio) ஆகும். இவரது தாயார், "ரோசா லூசியானி" (Rosa Luciani) ஆவார். இவர் பிறந்த காலத்தில் கடுமையான பஞ்சம் தலை விரித்தாடியது. பிறந்த அன்றே திருமுழுக்கு பெற்ற இவர், 1820ம் ஆண்டு, மே மாதம், 16ம் நாள், உறுதிப்பூசுதல் அருட்சாதனம் பெற்றார்.

1820ம் ஆண்டின் ஜூலை மாதம், இவருக்கு மூன்று வயதாகையில், இவரது தந்தை மரித்துப் போனார். அதன் பிறகு, நான்கு மாதங்களின் பின்னர், இவரது சின்னஞ்சிறு தங்கை "டோமேனிக்கா" (Domenica) மரித்துப்போனார். இவரது தாயார் வாழ்க்கையை ஓட்டுவதற்காக, 1822ம் ஆண்டு வயதான ஒருவரை மறுமணம் செய்துகொண்டார். வளர்ப்புத் தந்தை இவருடன் எப்போதும் கடுமையாகவே நடந்துகொண்டதால், இவர் தமது தாயாருடனும் பாட்டியுடனும் ஒண்டிக்கொண்டார். இதற்கிடையே கத்தோலிக்க குருவானவர் "டி ஃபேபிஸ்" (De Fabiis) என்பவர் நடத்திவந்த பள்ளியில் சேர்ந்து கல்வி கற்றார். அவரது குழந்தை பருவத்தில் அவர் திருப்பலிகளில் கலந்துகொள்ளவும், இயேசு கிறிஸ்துவை அறிந்து கொள்ளவும் நேரம் எடுத்துக்கொண்டார். ஆனால் அவரது முன்மாதிரியையும் புனிதர்களையும் பின்பற்றினார்.

கி.பி. 1823ம் ஆண்டு, மார்ச் மாதம், 5ம் தேதி, அவரது தாயார் மரித்துப்போகவே, இவர் தமது தாய்வழி பாட்டியான "அன்னா ரொசாரியா லூசியானி டெல் ரோஸ்சி" (Anna Rosaria Luciani del Rossi) என்பவருடன் வசிக்க சென்றார். கல்வியறிவற்ற அவரது பாட்டி, கிறிஸ்தவ விசுவாசத்தில் தீவிரமானவர். அடிக்கடி கால்நடையாகவே நடந்து  போகும் வழக்கமுள்ள இருவரும், தவறாது உள்ளூர் ஆலயத்தில் திருப்பலிகளில் பங்குகொண்டனர். அருட்தந்தை பேண்டாக்ஸி என்பவர் நிர்வகித்த ஏழை மாணவர்க்கான பள்ளியில் சேர்ந்து கல்வி கற்க தொடங்கினார். அவருடைய பாட்டி பின்னர் 1826ம் ஆண்டு, ஏப்ரல் மாதம், 4ம் தேதியன்று இறந்தார். அதன்பின்னர், அவரது தாய்மாமன் அவரை கொல்லர் பணி கற்க சேர்த்துவிட்டார். அவரது மாமன் அவரை மிகவும் கடுமையாக நடத்தினார். ஒழுக்கமாக வாழுவதற்கு பட்டினி கிடக்க வேண்டும் என்று நினைத்த அவர், சல்ப்ரிஸியோவுக்கு சரியான உணவளிக்காமல் பட்டினி போட்டார். அவர் செய்யும் சின்னஞ்சிறு தவறுகளுக்காக அவரை அடித்து உதைத்து துன்புறுத்தினார். அவரது வயதுக்கு மீறிய வேலைகளை செய்த அவருக்கு 1837ம் ஆண்டு, ஒரு நோய்த்தொற்று ஏற்பட்டது. ஒரு குளிர்கால காலை வேளையில், அவரது மாமா அவரை "ரொக்கா டாக்லியாட்டாவின்" (Rocca Tagliata) சரிவுகளுக்கு பொருட்களை விநியோகம் செய்ய  அனுப்பியபோது அவருக்கு நோய்த்தொற்று  ஏற்பட்டது. அன்று மாலை, உழைப்பின் களைப்பால் அவர் சோர்வாகிப்போனார். ஒரு கால்  வீங்கிப் போனது. மற்றும் எரியும் காய்ச்சல் அவரை படுக்கையில் கட்டாயப்படுத்தி தள்ளியது. இதனை அவர் தமது ராமனிடம் தெரிவிக்கவில்லை. இருப்பினும் அவரால் காலையில் படுக்கையிலிருந்து எழுந்திருக்க இயலவில்லை. அவரது மாமாவுக்கு அவரது துன்பம் அலட்சியமாக இருந்தது. அவரது நிலை பின்னர் ஒரு கால் (Gangrene) செயலற்றுப்போனது.  முதலில், தென் இத்தாலியின் "லாஅகுய்லா" (L'Aquila) நகரிலுள்ள மறுத்தவமனையிலும், பின்னர், "நேப்பிள்ஸ்" (Naples) நகரிலுள்ள மறுத்தவமனையிலும் சிகிச்சை பெற்றார். ஆனால் அவரது வேதனைகள் கூடியதேயொழிய, குறையவில்லை. இருப்பினும் வேதனைகளை தாங்கிக்கொண்ட அவர், அவற்றை ஆண்டவரிடம் ஒப்புக்கொடுத்தார்.

தமது நோயின்போது, வீட்டிலிருக்கையில், அவருடைய புண் சீல் வைத்ததால், அவற்றை நிலையான அடிப்படையில் சுத்தம் செய்ய வேண்டியிருந்தது. அவர் தனது காயத்தை சுத்தப்படுத்த வீட்டிற்கு அருகே ஒரு ஓடைக்கு சென்றார். ஆனால் துணி துவைக்க வந்த ஒரு பெண், அவர் தண்ணீரை மாசுபடுத்துவதாக கூறி, அவரைத் துரத்திவிட்டார். அதற்கு பதிலாக அவர் மற்றொரு ஓடையில் தமது புண்ணை சுத்தம் செய்ய அனுமதிக்க பலமுறை ஜெபமாலை ஜெபித்துவந்தார்.

1835ம் ஆண்டு, டாக்டர்கள் அவரது ஒரு காலை தங்கள் ஒரே விருப்பமாக வெட்ட முடிவெடுத்தனர். ஆனால் அவரது வலி தொடர்ந்து இருந்தது. 1836ம் ஆண்டு, மார்ச் மாதம், அவருடைய நிலைமை மோசமடைந்தது. அவருக்கு காய்ச்சல் அதிகரித்தபோதெல்லாம் அவருடைய அவரது துன்பங்களும் அதிகரித்தன. கடவுள்மீது அவர் வைத்திருந்த நம்பிக்கையை அவர் தொடர்ந்தார். தமது முடிவு நெருங்கிவிட்டது என்ற உண்மையை நன்கு அறிந்திருந்தார். இரண்டு மாதங்கள் கழித்து, அவர் மரித்த நாளன்று, அவர் சிலுவையாண்டவரின் திருச்சொரூபத்தை வரவழைத்தார். மற்றும் கடைசி நேரத்தில் தமது ஒப்புரவாளரை அழைத்து, அவரிடம் இறுதி அருட்சாதனங்களைப் பெற்றுக்கொண்டார். 1836ம் ஆண்டு, அவர் தமக்கு ஏற்பட்ட நோயின்காரணமாக மரித்தார். அவரது எஞ்சியுள்ள மிச்சங்கள் இப்போது நேபிள்ஸில் (Naples) நகரிலுள்ள "சான் டோமினிகோ சொரியானோ" (Church of San Domenico Soriano) தேவாலயத்தில் அடக்கம் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளன. அவரது மரணத்தின் பல தசாப்தங்களுக்கு பிறகு திருத்தந்தை "பதின்மூன்றாம் லியோ" அவரை தொழிலாளர்களின் முன்மாதிரியாக முன்மொழிந்தார்.

Also known as

• Nunzio Sulperio

• Nunzio Sulprizio

Profile

Son of Domenico Sulprizio and Rosa Luciani, Nunzio was named after his grandfather and baptized when only a few hours old. Nunzio’s father died on 16 May 1820 when the boy was only three years old, his little sister died in 1822, and his new step-father treated the boy as a contemptible burden. Young Nunzio received his basic education at a school run by a priest, and became a pious child, attending Mass as often as possible, and using the saints as a guide to life. When he was old enough, his uncle Domenico Luciani took Nunzio as an apprentice blacksmith, and then neglected him, abused him, overworked him, beat him, and after bringing home supplies on a winter morning in 1831, the boy collapsed with a fever and found he could no longer stand; an untreated injury to his leg had become gangrenous. He was hospitalized in L’Aquila and Naples in Italy; when he was at home, and could find a place where people would not run him off due to his open sores, he would sit in a stream to let the flowing water clean his wound, and pray his rosary. Through his paternal uncle, Francesco Sulprizio, a career soldier, Nunzio became friends with Colonel Felice Wochinger in 1832; the colonel became a surrogate father and paid for Nunzio’s medical care. The boy met and impressed Saint Gaetano Errico, who said he would be welcome in the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary when he was old enough. Nunzio went through several periods of improvement and several of setbacks before his injuries finally ended his life. He was known as a gentle, chaste, patient, and pious youth in a place and time when such a man was rare.

Born

13 April 1817 at Pescosansonesco, Pescara, Abruzzi, Italy

Died

• 5 May 1836 in Naples, Italy

• interred at the church of San Domenico Soriano in Naples

Canonized

• 14 October 2018 by Pope Francis at Saint Peter's Square, Rome, Italy

• the canonization miracle involved the healing of a young man who had been injured in a motorcycle accident and went into a coma which was expected to leave him in a vegetative state; a relic of Blessed Nuntius was placed in the patient’s room, and after a week of prayers by family, he woke from the coma

Patronage

workers (proposed by Pope Leo XIII)

Saint Irene of Lecce

Also known as

Erina, Eiréne

Profile

The daughter of a wealthy, pagan named Licinius, her father considered Irene so beautiful and such a desirable marriage that he kept her locked in a tower with 13 guards. She received instruction in Christianity directly from God, was baptized by Saint Timothy, and when her father brought idols to the tower for her to worship, Irene would smash them. To punish her refusal of paganism, Licinius tied Irene behind a horse so it would drag her to death; she was miraculously unharmed, and the horse bit Licinius, giving him an injury that festered and killed him. However, Irene prayed for her father who was then brought back to life. Licinius converted, the father and daughter teamed up as evangelists and converted thousands of pagans. This angered the anti–Christian governor Ampelio who captured, imprisoned and tortured Irene, and ordered her to renounce her faith; she refused. Martyr.

Details of time and place are absent in the earliest version of her story, but later retellings add them, change them, move her from place to place, increase the number of pagans converted, link her to many, many miracle stories, and eventually place her martyrdom in Persia just as Contantine the Great is born.

Died

beheaded

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

• there have been churches dedicated to her in Constantinople since the 5th century

Patronage

Altamura, Italy

Saint Angelus of Jerusalem

Also known as

• Angelus of Sicily

• Angelus the Carmelite

• Angelo of...

Profile

Angelus' parents were 12th century Jewish converts. At age 18, Angelus and his twin brother joined a group of hermits who formed the first Carmelite house. He was sent to evangelize in Sicily, met with great success in converting some Sicilian Jews, and great hatred from others, especially around Palermo and Leocata. Murdered by thugs in the employ of Count Berengarius, a man whose incestuous relationship Angelus had denounced.

Born

1145 at Jerusalem

Died

• stabbed to death in 1220 at Licata, Sicily, Italy

• relics transferred in to the Carmelite church at Licata

Patronage

Licata, Italy

Representation

• Carmelite with a knife in his head

• Carmelite with a sword in his breast, holding a book, palm, and three crowns

• Carmelite with an angel bringing him three crowns

• Carmelite with lilies and roses falling from his mouth, indicative of his eloquence

• lily

Saint Godehard of Hildesheim

புனிதர் கொத்தார்ட் 

ஹில்டஷீம் ஆயர்:

பிறப்பு: கி.பி. 960

ரைச்சர்டோர்ஃப், பவேரியா

இறப்பு: மே 5, 1038

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை

புனிதர் பட்டம்: கி.பி. 1131

திருத்தந்தை இரண்டாம் இன்னொசென்ட்

நினைவுத் திருநாள்: மே 05

பாதுகாவல்: 

பயணம் செய்யும் வியாபாரிகள், காய்ச்சல், வீக்கம், குழந்தைப் பருவ நோய்கள், பெருங்கல் மழை, பிரசவ வேதனை, கீல்வாதம், கடல் ஆபத்துகள்.

புனிதர் கொத்தார்ட், ஓர் "ஆங்கிலோ-ஜெர்மன் ஆயர்" (Anglo-German Bishop) ஆவார்.

இவரது தந்தை "ராட்மன்ட்" (Ratmund) ஒரு ஏழை பண்ணைத் தொழிலாளி ஆவார். இவர் மனிதநேயம் மற்றும் இறையியல் கற்றார்.

"சல்ஸ்பர்க்" (Salzburg) உயர்மறை மாவட்ட இல்லத்திலேயே தங்கிய கொத்தார்ட், திருச்சபை நிர்வாகியாக பணியாற்றினார். இத்தாலி உள்ளிட்ட பல்வேறு நாடுகளுக்கு பயணித்த பின்னர், "பஸ்ஸாவு" (Passau) எனும் இடத்திலுள்ள பேராலய பள்ளியில் தமது மேல்படிப்பை நிறைவு செய்தார்.

மத கூட்டங்கள் மற்றும் சந்திப்புகளுக்காக உபயோகப்படுத்தப்பட்ட கட்டிடங்களை பவரியா அரசன் இரண்டாம் ஹென்றி (Henry II of Bavaria) பெனடிக்டைன் மடமாக (Benedictine monastery) மாற்றியபோது, கொத்தார்ட் அங்கே புகுநிலை துறவியாக இருந்தார். கி.பி. 993ம் ஆண்டு, குருத்துவ அருட்பொழிவு செய்விக்கப்பட்டார். கி.பி. 996ம் ஆண்டு, மடாதிபதியாக தேர்வு செய்யப்பட்ட கொத்தார்ட், "குளுனியா சீர்திருத்தம்" (Cluniac reform) எனும் சீர்திருத்தத்தை தமது மடத்தில் அறிமுகப்படுத்தினார்.

 

1022ம் ஆண்டு, டிசம்பர் மாதம், இரண்டாம் நாளன்று, "ஹில்டஷீம்" மறைமாவட்ட ஆயராக (Bishop of Hildesheim) "மெய்ன்ஸ்" (Mainz) உயர்மறைமாவட்ட பேராயர் (Archbishop) "அரிபோவால்" (Aribo) திருநிலைபடுத்தப்பட்டார். ஆயராக தமது பதினைந்து வருட கால ஆட்சியில், முப்பதுக்கும் மேற்பட்ட ஆலயங்களை கட்டினார். தீவிர நோய்களால் பாதிக்கப்பட்ட இவர் தமது 78 வயதில், 1038ம் ஆண்டு, மே மாதம், நான்காம் நாளன்று, மரித்தார்.

Also known as

• Godehard the Bishop

• Godard, Gothard, Gottardo, Gotthard, Godehardus

Additional Memorial

2nd Sunday in May (Bene Vagienna, Italy)

Profile

Raised around Churchman, Godehard's father worked for the canons of Niederaltaich. Godehard joined the canons, and became their provost. Helped reintroduce the Benedictine Rule at Niederaltaich, which then sent abbots to Tegernsee, Hersfeld and Kremsmunster to revive the Benedictine Rule. Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany in 1022.

Born

c.960 in Bavaria (in modern Germany)

Died

• 4 May 1038 of natural causes

• relics translated in 1132

Canonized

1131 by Pope Innocent II

Patronage

• against birth pains

• against childhood sicknesses

• against danger at sea

• against dropsy

• against fever

• against gout

• against hailstorms

• travelling merchants

• Bene Vagienna, Italy

• diocese of Hildesheim, Germany

Representation

• dragon

• holding a church

Saint Hilary of Arles

புனிதர் ஹிலாரி 

ஆர்ல்ஸ் ஆயர்:

பிறப்பு: கி.பி. 403

இறப்பு: கி.பி. 449

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை

நினைவுத் திருநாள்: மே 5

புனிதர் ஹிலாரி, தென் ஃபிரான்ஸ் (Southern France) நாட்டின் ஆர்ல்ஸ் (Arles) மறைமாவட்ட ஆயரும், ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்கம் மற்றும் கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபைகளால் புனிதராக அங்கீகரிக்கப்பட்டவருமாவார். இவரது நினைவுத் திருநாள் மே மாதம் ஐந்தாம் நாளன்று நினைவுகூறப்படுகின்றது.

ஹிலாரி, தமது பதினேழு வயதில், “செயின்ட் ஹோனரட்” (Island of Saint-Honorat) தீவிலுள்ள “சிஸ்டேர்சியன்” துறவறமான (Cistercian monastery) “லெரின்ஸ்” (Lérins Abbey) மடத்தில் சேர்ந்தார். அக்காலத்தில், அவரது உறவினரான “புனிதர் ஹோனரடஸ்” (Saint Honoratus of Arles) “லெரின்ஸ்” மடத்தின் மடாதிபதியாக இருந்தார். அவரே ஆர்ல்ஸ் மறைமாவட்டத்தின் ஆதிகால ஆயராகவும் இருந்தார். ஹிலாரி இதற்கு முன்னதாக “டிஜோனில்” (Dijon) வாழ்ந்து கொண்டிருக்கிறார். மற்ற அதிகாரிகள், அவர் “பெல்கிக்கா” (Belgica) அல்லது “ப்ரோவென்ஸ்” (Provence) நகரிலிருந்து வந்ததாக நம்புகின்றனர்.

இவர், மேற்கத்திய ரோமப் பேரரசின் அரசியல்வாதியான “ஹிலாரியஸ்” (Hilarius) என்பவரது மகன் அல்லது உறவினர் என்று நம்பப்படுகின்றார். ஹிலாரியஸ், கி.பி. 396ம் ஆண்டில் “கௌல்” (Gaul) நகரிலும், கி.பி. 408ம் ஆண்டில் ரோம் நகரிலும் தலைமை அதிகாரியாக (Prefect) இருந்துள்ளார்.

ஹிலாரி, தமது உறவினரான ஆர்ல்ஸ் ஆயர், “புனிதர் ஹோனரடஸ்” என்பவருக்குப் பின்னர் 429ம் ஆண்டு, ஆர்ல்ஸ் ஆயராக பதவியேற்றார். இவர், புனிதர் அகுஸ்தினாரை (St Augustine) முன்னுதாரணமாக ஏற்று, அவரது சபைக் குருமார்களை ஒரு "சபைக்குள்" ஏற்பாடு செய்ததாக கூறப்படுகிறது; அவர்கள் கடுமையான சுய ஒழுக்கம் மற்றும் சமூகப் பயிற்சிகளுக்கு தங்கள் நேரத்தை அர்ப்பணித்தனர். ஹிலாரி, தமது உழைப்பு முழுவதையும் ஏழை மக்களுக்கே பகிர்ந்தளித்தார்.

கைதிகளை மீட்கும் பொருட்டு, இவர் ஆலயங்களின் பரிசுத்த பாத்திரங்களை (Sacred vessels) விற்றார். அவர் ஒரு அற்புதமான பேச்சாளர் (Orator) ஆனார். அவர் பயணம் செய்த எல்லா இடங்களுக்கும் நடை பயணமாகவே பயணித்தார். எப்போதும் எளிய ஆடை அணிவதையே வழக்கமாகக் கொண்டிருந்தார்.

அது பிரகாசமான பக்கமாகும். ஹிலாரி பிற பிஷப்புகளுடன் தனது உறவுகளில் சிக்கலை எதிர்கொண்டார். அவரிடம் சில அதிகார வரம்பு இருந்தது. அவர், பாரபட்சம் பாராது, ஒரு ஆயரை பதவியை விட்டு விலக்கினார். நோய்வாய்ப்பட்டிருந்த ஆயர் ஒருவருக்குப் பதிலாக, வேறு ஒருவரை ஆயராக தேர்வு செய்தார். ஆனால், விடயம் சிக்கலானது. நோய்வாய்ப்பட்ட ஆயர் மரிக்கவில்லை. திருத்தந்தை புனிதர் பெரிய லியோ (Pope Saint Leo the Great), ஹிலாரியை ஒரு ஆயராகவே வைத்திருந்தார். ஆனால் அவருடைய சில அதிகாரங்களைக் கைப்பற்றினார்.

ஹிலாரி, கி.பி. 449ம் ஆண்டு மரித்தார். மிகவும் சரியான நேரத்தில், ஒரு ஆயர் எப்படி இருக்கவேண்டும் என்பதை கற்றுக்கொண்ட திறமைசாலியாகவும் பக்திமானாகவும் ஹிலாரி இருந்தார்.

Also known as

• Hilarius

• Ilario

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Born and raised a pagan; relative of Saint Honoratus of Arles. Highly placed civil authority. Honoratus invited Hilary to the recently completed abbey of Lerins, and brought him to the faith; Hilary was baptised at Lerins, and joined the community as a monk. When Honoratus became bishop of Arles (in modern France) Hilary served as his secretary. Bishop of Arles. Hilary was an exuberant bishop, working so hard to spread the faith that he caused problems with the people and the civil authorities, and twice had to be reproved by the Vatican - his zealousness was causing more trouble than converts. But though some questioned his methods, none questions his sanctity or his true belief.

Born

c.400 at Lorraine, France

Died

449 of natural causes

Blessed Benvenuto Mareni

Also known as

• Benventuto of Recanati

• Benevenutus, Benvenutus

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13th-century Franciscan Conventual lay brother in Recanati, Italy. Worked at his monastery as a cook, and spent his free time in prayer. During prayer and Mass he would lapse into ecstacies and receive visions; during one vision he was allowed to hold the Infant Christ. Legend says that once when a trance lasted so long that he was late to his work in the kitchen, he found an angel there already cooking.

Born

Recanati, Italy

Died

• 5 May 1269 in Recanati, Italy of natural causes

• interred at the church of San Franceso in Recanati

Beatified

17 September 1796 by Pope Pius VI (cultus confirmation)

Saint Judith of Prussia

Also known as

• Judith of Kulmsee

• Judith of Sangerhausen

• Judith of Thuringia

• Jutta, Giuditta

Profile

Born to the nobility. Lay woman. Married with children. Widowed when her husband died on a Crusade to the Holy Land. Judith then made financial provision for her children, sold off her property, and spent her remaining years as a hermitess in the territory of the Teutonic Knights, whose grand-master was a relative.

Born

at Sangerhausen, Thuringia (in modern Germany)

Died

12 May 1260 at Kulmsee, Prussia (in modern Germany) of natural causes

Patronage

Prussia

Saint Avertinus of Tours

Also known as

• Avertinus the Deacon

• Avertin, Avertino

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Deacon who travelled into exile in France with Saint Thomas Becket. Participated in the synod of Tours, France in 1163. After the death of Saint Thomas, Avertinus dedicated himself to the service of the poor and strangers at Vinzai, Touraine, France, and spent his final years as a hermit.

Died

• 1189 at Vençay, France of natural causes

• buried at the church in Vençay which became a site of miracles and pilgrimage

Blessed Lucio of Savoy

Profile

Born to the Savoian nobility in the area of the modern border of France and Italy, Lucio joined the Mercedarians at the convent in Carcassone, France. Assigned to redeem Christians enslaved by Muslims in north Africa, he was captured at sea by Moorish pirates. Lucio spent the next 16 years imprisoned in Tunis and in Egypt, repeatedly tortured and being ordered to renouce his faith; he refused. Martyred by order of Sultan Bajazet II.

Died

beheaded on 5 May 1470 in Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey)

Saint Britto of Trier

Also known as

Brito, Britonius, Brittone

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Bishop of Trier, Belgic Gaul (modern Germany) in 374, and a leader of the Church in Gaul. Attended the 382 synod of bishops called by Pope Saint Damasus I. Friend of co-worker with Saint Ambrose of Milan and Saint Martin of Tours. When a group of pagans sought sanctuary with the Church; Britto tried to convert them, failed, but still refused to surrender them since he believed that the State has no authority over Church affairs.

Born

4th century

Died

c.385 in Trier, Germany

Blessed Grzegorz Boleslaw Frackowiak

Also known as

• Boleslaw Frackowiak

• Gregory Frackowiak

• Gregorio Frackowiak

Additional Memorial

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

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Friar in the Society of the Divine Word. Martyred by Nazis.

Born

18 July 1911 in Lowecice, Wielkopolskie, Poland

Died

guillotined on 5 May 1943 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Beatified

13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II

Saint Tosca of Verona

Also known as

Tusca

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Sister of Bishop Procolo. Hermitess in Verona, Italy who was known for her piety, and was often visited by area lay people in search of spiritual wisdom. When Saint Teuteria fled England, Tosca took her in.

Born

Verona, Italy

Died

relics enshrined on 14 September 1161 in the basilica of Verona, Italy by bishop Ognibene

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

• a church dedicated to is known to have existed in Verona in 750

Saint Maurontius of Douai

Also known as

Maurand, Mauront, Maurontus, Mauronto

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Eldest son of Saint Adalbald of Ostrevant and Saint Rictrudis of Marchiennes; brother of Saint Clotsindis of Marchiennes, Saint Eusebia of Hamage, and Saint Adalsindis. Monk at Marchiennes, France. Founded a monastery at Breuil-sur-lys near Douai, France.

Born

634

Died

702 in Marchiennes, France of natural causes

Patronage

Douai, France

Saint Teuteria of Verona

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Adult convert to Christianty. To escape the attentions of pagan king Oswald, she fled to Italy where she hid with Saint Tosca, and became her spiritual student. Hermitess.

Born

7th–8th century England

Died

relics enshrined on 14 September 1161 in the basilica of Verona, Italy by bishop Ognibene

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

• a church dedicated to is known to have existed in Verona in 750

Saint Maximus of Jerusalem

Profile

For publicly declaring his Christianity, Maximus was branded on the foot, blinded in one eye, and sentenced to forced labour in the mines during the persecutions of Maximian Galerius. He was crippled, but survived and was released during the reign of Constantine. Bishop of Jerusalem.

Died

c.350 in Jerusalem of natural causes

Saint Eulogius of Edessa

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Priest in Edessa, Syria. When a Arian bishop was imposed on the area by Emperor Valens, Eulogius refused to renouce orthodox Christianity and was exiled to Thebaid, Egypt where he worked for the conversion of local pagans. When Valens died in 375 Eulogius returned to Edessa to serve as their bishop. Attended the Council of Constantinople in 381.

Saint Geruntius of Milan

Also known as

Gerontius

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Bishop of Milan, Italy c.465 to c.470.

Died

• c.470

• relics enshrined in the church of Saint Symphorian in Milan, Italy by Saint Charles Borromeo

Blessed John Haile

Also known as

John Hale

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Priest. Fellow of King's Hall, Cambridge. Vicar of Isleworth, Middlesex, England. Martyred with Saint John Houghton and three others.

Died

hanged on 4 May 1535 at Tyburn, London, England

Beatified

29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmation)

Saint Sacerdos of Limoges

Also known as

• Sacerdos of Calviac

• Sardot, Sadroc, Sardou, Serdon, Serdot, Sacerdote

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Monk. Founded Calabre Abbey and served as its first abbot. Bishop of Limoges, France.

Born

670 in Sarlat, Périgord, France

Died

c.720

Saint Leo of Africo

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Twelfth century hermit in Calabria, Italy who divided his time between contemplation of God and good works for the poor. Founded a monastery in Africo, Reggio, Italy, and lived out his later years there.

Died

Africo, Italy

Patronage

Africo Nuovo, Italy

Saint Jovinian of Auxerre

Also known as

Gioviniano, Giovine

Profile

Missionary. Lector of the church at Auxerre, France. Worked with Saint Peregrinus of Auxerre. Martyr.

Died

martyred c.300

Saint Peregrinus of Thessalonica

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Martyred in the persecution of Diocletian

Died

burned at the stake c.303 at Thessalonica

Saint Sacerdos of Saguntum

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Bishop of Saguntum (now Murviedro), Spain.

Died

c.560 of natural causes

Patronage

Saguntum, Spain

Saint Irenaeus of Thessalonica

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Martyred in the persecution of Diocletian.

Died

burned at the stake c.303 at Thessalonica

Saint Irenes of Thessalonica

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Martyred in the persecution of Diocletian.

Died

burned at the stake c.303 at Thessalonica

Saint Euthymius of Alexandria

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Deacon in Alexandria, Egypt. Imprisoned for his faith, he eventually died of mistreatment. Martyr.

Saint Echa of Crayke

Also known as

Etha of Crayke

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Priest. Lived as a hermit in Crayke, Yorkshire, England.

Died

767

Saint Nicetus of Vienne

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Bishop of Vienne, France. Supported the expansion of monastic life in his diocese.

Died

c.449

Saint Waldrada of Metz

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First Abbess of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnais Abbey in Metz, France.

Died

c.620

Saint Silvanus of Rome

Also known as

Sylvanus

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Martyr.

Died

in Rome, Italy

Saint Theodore of Bologna

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Bishop of Bologna, Italy for 20 years.

Died

c.550

Saint Hydroc

Also known as

Hydoc

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Lived in the 5th century.

Patronage

Lanhydroc, Cornwall, England

Saint Crescentiana

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Martyr.

Died

5th century Rome, Italy

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• Our Lady of Adoration

• Our Lady of Europe

• Faelan Finn of Kilcolumb

• Lanno of Vasanello

• Martino of Finojosa

• Prisca of San Sperate

இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் மே 04

St. Conleth

Feastday: May 4

Patron: of Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin

Death: 519

Irish metalworker and hermit, also called Conlaed. He lived as a recluse at Old Connell on the Liffey, and was a close friend of St. Brigid. In time he served as spiritual director of St. Brigid's convent at Kildare. A copyist and skilled illuminator of manuscripts, he is noted for the crozier that he fashioned for St. Finbar of Termon Barry.

Saint Conleth (/ˈkɒnləθ/; Old Irish: Conláed [ˈkonlaið]; Modern Irish: Naomh Connlaodh; also Conlaeth; Conlaid; Conlaith; Conlath; Conlian, Hugh the Wise)[1] was an Irish hermit and metalworker, also said to have been a copyist and skilled illuminator of manuscripts. He is believed to have come from the Wicklow area.

Life

While living in seclusion at Old Connell on the River Liffey in what is now Newbridge Conleth was persuaded by Saint Brigid to make sacred vessels for her convent. Conleth, Tassach of Elphin (Saint Patrick's craftsman), and Daigh (craftsman of Kieran of Saigher) were acclaimed the "three chief artisans of Ireland" during their period. Conleth was head of the Kildare school of metal-work and penmanship. According to Brigid's biographer, Cogitosus, a community of monks grew up which, under his guidance, excelled in the making of beautiful chalices and other metal objects needed in the church, and in the writing and ornamentation of missals, gospels, and psalters. A product of Saint Conleth's metalwork for which he is noted is the crozier that he fashioned for Saint Finbarr of Termonbarry.[2]

The Diocese of Kildare appears to have been founded around 490, by Conleth who, with the assistance of St. Bridget, then presiding over the monastery, erected the cathedral and became first bishop.[3] Cogitosus, in his Life of Brigid, calls him "bishop and abbot of the monks of Kildare".[citation needed]

Conleth died when he was attacked by wolves in the forests of Leinster on pilgrimage to Rome on 4 May 519 and was buried nearby. In 799 his relics were transported and laid beside Brigid's in the great cathedral in Kildare. His relics were finally laid to rest in Connell in 835 to protect the inhabitants from invading Danes.[2]

Veneration

Conleth is the patron saint of the Roman Catholic St Conleth's Parish, which includes Newbridge and the surrounding areas. Old Connell – the site of Conleth's original cell, which is now a graveyard – is within the parish limits.

Conleth's feast day is 4 May. Every year on the Sunday after St Conleth's Day a pilgrimage takes place from the parish church in Newbridge to Old Connell, about two miles outside the town

Bl. Ceferino Jimenez Malla

Feastday: May 4

Patron: of Romani people

Birth: 1861

Death: 1936

Beatified: Pope John Paul II

Ceferino Giménez Malla (also known as El Pelé, "the Strong One", or "the Brave One"; August 26, 1861 -- August 8, 1936) was a Spanish Gypsy, a Roman Catholic catechist and activist for Spanish Romani causes, considered the patron saint of Romani people in Roman Catholicism. A victim of the Spanish Republican militias during the Civil War, Ceferino Giménez Malla was beatified on May 4, 1997; May 4 is also his feast day.

 

Ceferino Giménez Malla (also known as El Pelé, "the Strong One", or "the Brave One"; August 26, 1861 – August 9, 1936) was a Spanish Romani, a Roman Catholic catechist and activist for Spanish Romani causes, considered the patron saint of Romani people in Roman Catholicism. A victim of the Spanish Republican militias during the Civil War, Ceferino Giménez Malla was beatified on May 4, 1997; May 4 is also his feast day.

Biography

Giménez Malla was born to Juan Jiménez and Josefa Malla, a Catholic Romani family, in either Benavent de Segriá, Lleida or in Alcolea de Cinca, Spain. Sources differ as to whether the year was 1861 or 1865.[1] He was baptized in Fraga, Huesca Province.[2] His father was a cattle-trader. The family usually waited out the winter on farms in places farmers set aside for them, or else they rented a cottage for a few months. Ceferino often went hungry. Accompanying his father, he became conversant in Catalan as well as Romany. Around 1880 his father abandoned the family and they went to Barbastro, where his uncle taught Ceferino to weave wicker baskets. About the age of twenty, he wed Teresa Jiménez Castro according to a traditional Roma ceremony. They were happily married for forty years.[3] They had no children, but looked after his younger brothers and sisters. Around 1909 they adopted Teresa's orphaned niece, Pepita. In 1912, Giménez Malla and his wife Teresa solemnized their marriage in a Catholic ceremony, and bought a house in the Huescan town of Barbastro. Teresa died in 1922.

Known for his honesty, Ceferino became something of a leader in the Roma community of Barbastro and the surrounding area. People would seek him out for advice, and to mediate family quarrels. He also resolved disputes between Romani and Spanish people.[4]

One day a local landowner, suffering from tuberculosis, passed out on the street. Heedless of the danger of contagion, Malla hoisted the man on his shoulders and carried him home. The grateful family rewarded him with a sum sufficient to start a business buying and selling surplus mules which the French army no longer needed after World War I.[3] Tools with which he cleaned horseshoes and iron shoes for mules and donkeys were donated by the son of Ceferino's friend, Ferruchón, to the Museum of Martyrs in Barbastro. Ceferino was as generous to the poor and needy as he was successful. It is said that he often lent money to poor Roma, and also allowed them to remove from the stables the animals they liked most. They could pay their debts when they sold them or at the end of their seasonal work when they could afford to do so. According to Romani tradition, he also used to feed poor children.

Giménez Malla is a described as a pleasant, good-natured, tall, thin man carefully dressed and distinguished looking. Although illiterate, after his wife died, Giménez Malla began a career as a catechist under the guidance of a priest-teacher, Don Nicholas Santos de Otto, teaching both Romani and Spanish children.[5] He had a gift for catechizing children by telling them stories. He became a member of the Franciscan Third order,[5] the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and, participated in Thursday night Eucharistic Adoration.[2]

In July 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, Giménez Malla tried to defend a Catholic priest from Republican militiamen. They both were arrested and imprisoned in a former Capuchin monastery, converted into a wartime prison.[6] An acquaintance advised him that he would probably be released if he gave up his rosary, but he refused. A Romani legend has it that the soldiers asked him if he had weapons, and that he answered: "Yes, and here it is", while displaying his rosary. On August 9, Giménez Malla and others were taken by truck to a cemetery and shot. He reportedly died holding the rosary in his hands, and shouting: "Long live Christ the King!".[5] He was buried in a mass grave; his body has never been found.

Veneration

On May 4, 1997, Ceferino Giménez Malla was beatified by Pope John Paul II who said that Malla "knew how to sow harmony and solidarity among his own, also mediating conflicts that sometimes blur the relationship between non-Roma and Roma, showing Christ's love knows no boundaries of race or culture."[2]

Approximately 3,000 Roma attended the beatification ceremony in Rome, some travelling from as far away as Slovakia and Brazil

Saint John Houghton

Additional Memorials

• 4 May as one of the Carthusian Martyrs

• 25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

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Graduated from Cambridge with degrees in civil and canon law. Ordained in 1501 and served as a parish priest for four years. Carthusian monk, doing his noviate in the London Charterhouse, and making his final vows in 1516. Prior of the Beauvale Carthusian Charterhouse in Northampton, England. Prior of the London Charterhouse.

In 1534 he was the first person to oppose King Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy. Imprisoned with Blessed Humphrey Middlemore. When the oath was modified to include the phrase "in so far as the law of God permits", John felt he could be loyal to Church and Crown; he and several of his monks signed the oath, though with misgivings. Father John was released, and a few days later, troops arrived at the chapter house and forced the remaining monks to sign the modified oath.

On 1 February 1535, Parliment required that the original, unmodified oath be signed by all. Following three days of prayer, Father John, with Saint Robert Lawrence and Saint Augustine Webster, contacted Thomas Cromwell to seek an exemption for themselves and their monks. The group was immediately arrested and thrown in the Tower of London. True to his Carthusian vow of silence, John would not defend himself in court, but refused to co-operate or sign anything. The jury could find no malice to the king, but when threatened with prosecution themselves, they found John and his co-defendants guilty of treason.

He became the first person martyred under the Tudor persections, dying with Blessed John Haile and three others. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

Born

1487 at Essex, England

Died

• hanged, drawn, and quartered on 4 May 1535 at Tyburn, London, England

• body was chopped to pieces and put on display around London as an example to others

Canonized

25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI

Representation

• Carthusian monk carrying a noose

• Carthusian with a rope around his neck and holding his heart in his hand

Saint Florian of Lorch

தூய ப்ளோரியன் (மே 04)

ப்ளோரியன், 250 ஆம் ஆண்டு, ஆஸ்திரியாவில் உள்ள செட்டியு என்னும் இடத்தில் பிறந்தார். இவருடைய குழந்தைப் பருவத்தைக் குறித்த செய்திகள் நமக்குக் கிடைக்கவில்லை.

ப்ளோரியன், உரோமை அரசன் டயோக்ளசியனின் படைப்பிரிப்பில் படைத்தளபதியாகப் பணிசெய்து வந்தார். அக்காலத்தில் கிறிஸ்தவர்கள் உரோமைக் கடவுள்களை அவமதிக்கின்றார்கள் என்றும் நிக்கோமீதியாவிலிருந்த அரண்மனையின் அழிவுக்கு அவர்களே காரணம் என்ற தவறான செய்தி பரவி வந்தது. இதைக் கேள்விப்பட்ட அரசன் டயோக்ளசியன் சினம்கொண்டான். அவன் தன்னுடைய ஆளுநன் அக்குலினுசை அழைத்து கிறிஸ்தவர்களைக் கொன்றுபோடச் சொன்னான்.

அரசன் விடுத்த ஆணையை அக்குலினுஸ் தனக்குக் கீழ் இருந்த படைத்தளபதிகள் வழியாக செயல்படுத்த நினைத்தான். எனவே அவன் படைத்தளபதிகள் யாவரையும் அழைத்து, அவர்களிடம் கிறிஸ்தவர்களைக் கொன்றுபோடுங்கள் என்று கேட்டுக்கொண்டான். அவனுடைய உத்தரவுக்கு எல்லாரும் கீழ்படிந்து நடந்தார்கள். ப்ளோரியனைத் தவிர. ப்ளோரியனோ, “என்னால் கிறிஸ்தவர்களை எல்லாம் கொன்றுபோட முடியாது. ஏனெனில் நான் ஓர் உண்மைக் கிறிஸ்தவன்” என்றார். இதைக் கேட்டு வெகுண்டெழுந்த அக்குலினுஸ் செய்தியை அரசன் டயோக்ளசியனிடம் சொல்ல, அவன் ப்ளோரியனைக் கொன்றுபோட உத்தரவிட்டான்.

அக்குலினுசோ ப்ளோரியனுக்கு ஒரு வாய்ப்புக் கொடுத்தான், “ப்ளோரியனே! நீ கிறிஸ்துவை மறுதலித்துவிட்டு, உரோமைக் கடவுளை வணங்கு. அப்படிச் செய்தால் நான் உன்னை உயிரோடு விட்டுவிடுகிறேன். இல்லையென்றால் நான் உன்னை உயிரோடு எரித்துவிடுவேன்” என்றான். அக்குலினுஸ் சொன்ன வார்த்தைக்கெல்லாம் ப்ளோரியன் மயங்கிவிடாமல், “நீங்கள் என்னை தீயில் போட்டு எரித்தாலும் என்னுடைய ஆன்மா தீயின் வடிவில் விண்ணகத்திற்குச் செல்லும்” என்றார். இதைக் கேட்டு இன்னும் சினங்கொண்ட அக்குலினுஸ் ப்ளோரியனின் தோலை உரித்து கட்டிவைத்து அடித்தான். அப்போதும் அவர் தன்னுடைய விசுவாசத்திலிருந்து சிறிதளவுகூட மாறவில்லை. எனவே அவன் ப்ளோரியனின் உடலை ஒரு கயிற்றில் வைத்து நன்றாகக் கட்டி ஏன்ஸ் கடலில் போட்டு ஆழ்த்தினான்.

இது நடந்து நான்கு நாட்களுக்குப் பிறகு ப்ளோரியனின் இறந்த உடல் கரையொதுங்கியது. அவருடைய உடலை எடுத்த வலேரியா என்ற பெண்மணி அவருடைய உடலை நல்லடக்கம் செய்தார்.

Profile

Third century officer in Roman army stationed in modern Austria. Military administrator of the town of Noricum, and a closet Christian. Said to have stopped a town from burning by praying and throwing a single bucket of water on the blaze, and thus his association with firefighters and those who protect us from fire, including chimney sweeps. When ordered to execute a group of Christians during the persecutions of Diocletian, he refused, and professed his own faith. Martyr.

Died

• scourged, flayed alive, a stone tied to his neck, and dumped into a river c.304

• body later retrieved by Christians and buried at an Augustinian monastery near Lorch

• relics translated to Rome in 1138

• part of the relics given to King Casimir of Poland and the bishop of Cracow by Pope Lucius III, which led to Florian's patronage of Poland and Upper Austria

Patronage

• against battle

• against drowning, drowning victims

• against fire

• against flood

• barrel-makers, coopers

• brewers

• chimney sweeps

• fire prevention

• firefighters

• harvests

• soap-boilers

• Austria

• Poland

• diocese of Chur, Switzerland

• Linz, Austria

Representation

• bearded warrior with a lance and tub

• boy with a millstone

• classical warrior leaning on a millstone, pouring water on a fire

• dead man on a millstone guarded by an eagle

• dead man whose body is being protected by an eagle

• man being beaten

• man on a journey with a hat and staff

• man thrown into a river with a millstone around his neck

• man with a palm in his hand and a burning torch under his feet

• man with a sword

• young man, sometimes in armor, sometimes unarmed, pouring water from a tub on a burning church

Blessed Jean-Martin Moÿe

Profile

Sixth of thirteen children born to John Moÿe and Catharine Demange. Studied at the College of Pont-à-Mousson, the Jesuit College at Strasburg, and the Seminary of Saint-Simon at Metz, France. Ordained on 9 March 1754 in the diocese of Metz. Helped found schools for poor country children. Founded the Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Providence in 1762. Superior of the seminary of Saint Dié. Joined the Paris Foreign Mission Society in 1769. Missionary to China in 1773. Repeatedly harassed and imprisoned for spreading the faith. In 1782 he founded the Christian Virgins, a group of religious women who followed the rules of the Congregation of Providence, but were not a formal Congregation; they cared for the sick, and taught Christianity to women and children in their own homes. His health broken, Father Moÿe returned to France in 1784 where he resumed direction of the Sisters of Divine Providence. Preached missions in Lorraine and Alsace in France. Exiled from France in 1791 as part of the French Revolution; he and the Sisters moved to Trier. When French troops captured the city, typhoid fever broke out; he and the Sisters devoted themselves to hospital work where he died of the disease himself.

Born

27 January 1730 in Cutting, Meurthe, France

Died

• 8 February 1793 in Trier, Rhineland Palatinate (modern Germany) of typhoid fever

• the site of his burial is now a public square

Beatified

21 November 1954 by Pope Pius XII

Blessed Ladislas of Gielniów

Also known as

• Apostle of Lithuania

• Lithuanian Apostle

• Wladyslaw of Gielniów

Profile

Educated at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Joined the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor Observant. Doorkeeper in his monastery. Elected provincial of his Order in 1487 and again in 1496. He sent Franciscan missionaries to Lithuania; their work brought many schismatics back to the Church. A noted preacher, he travelled across Poland, evangelizing from one end to the other. In 1498 he led a prayer campaign to protect Poland from invading Tatars and Turks; a raging winter storm stopped the invaders, the Polish army routed them. and the victory was attributed to the prayer warriors. Abbot of the Warsaw monastery. On Good Friday 1505, while in prayer, Ladislas levitated, hanging in the air as if crucified; when he came down he collapsed completely, and was bed-ridden until his death a few weeks later.

Born

c.1440 in Gniezno, Poland

Died

4 May 1505 of natural causes soon after

Beatified

• 1586 by Pope Sixtus V

• 11 February 1750 by Pope Benedict XIV (cultus confirmation)

Patronage

• Lithuania (chosen in August 1753)

• Poland (chosen in August 1753)

• Galicia (eastern Europe)

• Warsaw, Poland (chosen in August 1753)

Blessed Michal Giedroyc

Also known as

• Michael Giedroyc

• Mykolas Giedraitis

Profile

Born the nobility, related to the princes of Lithuania, Michal suffered from a number of birth defects including being a dwarf and having the use of only one foot. Though his formal education was frequently interrupted and limited, he was an exceptional metal worker. Joined the Augustinian Canons Regular of the Penance of the Blessed Martyrs, an Order now extinct, in Kraków, Poland where he lived as a hermit in a cell next to an Augustinian monastery, and finished his education at the University of Kraków. Known for creating sacred vessels for Mass. Received a vision of Christ who told him, “Be patient until death, and you will receive the crown of life.” Known for the gifts of prophesy and miracles.

Born

c.1425 in Giedraiciai (Giedrojcie), Moletu rajonas, Lithuania

Died

• 4 May 1485 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland of natural causes

• buried at the church of Saint Mark in Kraków

Beatified

• relics elevated and enshrined in 1624

• modern beatification process started in 2001

Saint Richard Reynolds

Additional Memorial

25 October of one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

Profile

Educated at Christ's College and Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge; made a Fellow of Corpus Christi in 1510. Entered the Bridgittine Order in 1513 at Syon Abbey, Isleworth, England. Noted for his scholarship and personal holiness. Arrested on 28 April 1535 with Carthusian priors for the treason of refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church. Martyr.

Born

1492 in Devon, England

Died

hanged, drawn and quartered on 4 May 1535 at Tyburn, London, England

Beatified

• 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmed)

• 4 May 1970 by Pope Paul VI (decree of martyrdom)

Canonized

25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI

Blessed Victor Emilio Moscoso-Cárdenas

Profile

Baptized at the age of six days. Studied law in college, but was drawn to religious life and joined the Jesuits at age 18. Studied at the San Luis Seminary College. Priest. Teacher at the San Felipe Neri school. Martyr.

Born

21 April 1846 in Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador

Died

• shot twice on 4 May 1897 in Riobamba, Chimborazo, Ecuador

• the killers tried to stage the scene so it looked like Father Victor had been armed and was shot in combat

Beatified

• 16 November 2019 by Pope Francis

• the beatification recognition was celebrated at the Estadio Olímpico, Riobamba, Ecuador with Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu the chief celebrant

Saint Augustine Webster

Additional Memorials

• 4 May as one of the Carthusian Martyrs

• 25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

Profile

Educated at Cambridge. Priest. Carthusian monk and prior of Our Lady of Melwood, a Carthusian house at Epworth, on the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire, England in 1531. Imprisoned, tortured and martyred on the orders of Thomas Cromwell when he refused to take the Oath of Supremacy recognizing English royalty as head of the Church. Martyr.

Died

dragged through the street, beaten, hanged, drawn, and quartered on 4 May 1535 at Tyburn, London, England

Canonized

25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI

Saint Arbeo of Freising

Also known as

Aribo of Freising

Profile

Student under Saint Corbinian. Benedictine monk. First abbot at the Scharnitz Monastery at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany in 763. Bishop of Freising, Germany in 765. He increased the reputation of the diocese for prosperity and religious devotion, founded several convents, and make the Freising cathedral school and library famous for its scholarship. Author of the first Latin-German dictionary. Wrote a biography of Saint Corbinian, and transferred his relics from Mais to Freising in 767.

Born

c.723 in Mais (modern Meran), South Tyrol, Italy

Died

4 May 783 of natural causes

Saint Robert Lawrence

Also known as

Robert Laurence

Additional Memorials

• 4 May as one of the Carthusian Martyrs

• 25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

Profile

Carthusian priest. Prior of the Carthusian charterhouse of Beauvale in Nottingham, England. Martyred with several brother Carthusians.

Born

English

Died

hanged, drawn and quartered on 4 May 1535 at Tyburn, London, England

Canonized

25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI

Blessed Paolino Bigazzini

Profile

Born to the nobility. Monk at the monastery of Saints Marco e Lucia del Sambuco in Perugia, Italy. Spiritual student of Saint Sylvester Gozzolini. Miracle worker. Hermit at Montefano, Italy.

Died

• of natural causes on the date he prophesied

• buried in the monastery church of Saints Marco e Lucia del Sambuco in Perugia, Italy

• re-interred at the church of Santa Maria Nuova in Perugia

Beatified

cultus known to have been in place in Perugia, Italy by the 14th century

Saint Judas Cyriacus

Also known as

• Cyriacus of Ancona

• Judas Quiriacus

• Quiriace

• Quiriacus

Profile

Bishop of Ancona, Italy, possibly the first. Martyred, possibly while on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. His name has led to much speculation about his origin, about which we know nothing for sure, and many legends, some blatantly anti-Jewish, have been attached to his story.

Patronage

Ancona, Italy

Saint Antonius of Rocher

Profile

Sixth century Bendictine monk, and a disciple of Saint Benedictine himself. Sent to France by Saint Benedict to establish the Order there. Founded the Monastery of Saint-Julien in Tours, France, and served as its first abbot. Feeling a need for greater solitude, Antonius retired to spend his later years as a prayerful hermit at Le Rocher on the banks of the River Loire; the place is now known as Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher.

Saint Ethelred of Bardney

Also known as

Ailred of Bardney

Profile

Born a prince, the son of King Penda of Mercia in England. Ethelred became king of Mercia himself in 674. Abdicated in 704 to become a monk at Bardney Abbey where he later became abbot.

Died

716 at the at Bardney, England of natural causes

Representation

abbot with royal regalia (crown, sceptre, etc.) at his feet

Saint Enéour

Also known as

Enegwor, Enemour, Ener, Enevor

Profile

Brother of Saint Thumette, the two of them sailed on a stone from Wales to Bigouden in Brittany in northern France. 6th century hermit. No details of his life have survived, but many local oddities in the area have been linked to him with miraculous stories.

Born

Welsh

Blessed Margareta Kratz

Also known as

• Margaret Kratz

• Margaretha Kratz

Profile

Premonstratensian nun in the monastery of Engelport, Germany, entering the Order in 1450, and living her faith for the next 82 years, even working with the poor during a famine in 1530 - at the age of 100.

Born

c.1430 in Scharfenstein, Germany

Died

1532 of natural causes

Saint Cyriacus of Ancona

Also known as

Quiriacus

Profile

Bishop of Ancona, Italy. Martyred in the persecutions of Julian the Apostate while on a pilgrimage to the Holy Lands.

Died

relics enshrined in the cathedral of Saint Stephen in Ancona, Italy

Patronage

archdiocese of Ancona-Osimo, Italy

Bishop of Ancona, Italy, or bishop of Jerusalem, Israel, also called Quiriacus. He is believed to have been the bishop of Ancona. While making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Cyriacus was caught up in the persecution of the times. Yet another tradition states that he was the bishop of Jerusalem, martyred under Emperor Hadrian.

Saint Silvanus of Gaza

Also known as

Sylvain

Profile

Bishop of Gaza. Branded and sentenced to forced labour with 39 of his clergy by command of Caesar Galerius Maximian during the persecutions of Diocletian. Martyred with 39 fellow Christians.

Died

beheaded at the mines of Phennes in Palestine

Saint Antonina of Nicaea

Profile

Tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian and governor Priscillian.

Died

scourged, racked, torn with iron hooks and then beheaded in 290 at Nicaea, Bithynia

Blessed Angela Bartolomea dei Ranzi

Also known as

Bartolomea

Profile

15th century Augustinian nun at the convent of Blessed Michela in Vercelli, Italy.

Died

1515 of natural causes following a lengthy and crippling illness

Saint Antonia of Nicomedia

Profile

Imprisoned for two years, repeatedly tortured and eventually executed for her faith during the persecutions of governor Priscillian.

Died

burned to death in Nicomedia (in modern Turkey)

Saint Antonia of Constantinople

Profile

Christian maiden who was tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian and Galerius.

Died

burned at the stake in the late 3rd century in Constantinople

Blessed Angela Isabella dei Ranzi

Also known as

Isabella

Profile

15th century Augustinian nun at the convent of Blessed Michela in Vercelli, Italy.

Died

1492 of natural causes

Saint Porphyrius of Camerelle Rino

Profile

Priest who evangelized in the area of Umbria, Italy, working from Camerelle Rino. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.

Died

beheaded in 250

Saint Curcodomus of Auxerre

Profile

Third century deacon in Rome, Italy. Missionary to Auxerre, Gaul (modern France), sent by Pope Sixtus II to assist the area's first bishop, Saint Peregrinus of Auxerre.

Blessed Hilsindis

Profile

Daughter of the Duke of Lorraine. Married lay woman. Widow. Founded a convent at Thorn (now in the Netherlands), and joined it as a Benedictine nun. Abbess at Thorn.

Died

1028 of natural causes

Blessed Luca da Toro

Profile

Born to the 14th-century Castilian nobility. Member of the Mercedarians. Redeemed and freed 118 Christians from slavery in Muslim Morocco in 1403, and while there preached to the Moors.

Saint Nepotian of Altino

Profile

Nephew of Saint Helidorus. Soldier. Officer in the imperial body guard, a post he resigned to become a priest.

Died

395

Saint Paulinus of Senigallia

Profile

Bishop of Senigallia, Italy.

Died

826

Patronage

Senigallia, Italy

Saint Pelagia of Tarsus

Profile

Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.

Died

burned to death in a bronze ox at Tarsus

Saint Cunegund of Regensburg

Profile

Nun at Niedermunster convent in Ratisbon, Germany.

Died

c.1052

Saint Albian of Albee

Profile

Bishop of Albee. Martyred with a group of his disciples.

Died

304 near Ephesus

Saint Paulinus of Cologne

Profile

Martyr.

Died

relics enshrined in Cologne, Germany

Carthusian Martyrs

Profile

A group of Carthusian monks who were hanged, drawn and quartered between 19 June 1535 and 20 September 1537 for refusing to acknowledge the English royalty as head of the Church:

• Blessed Humphrey Middlemore

• Blessed James Walworth

• Blessed John Davy

• Blessed John Rochester

• Blessed Richard Bere

• Blessed Robert Salt

• Blessed Sebastian Newdigate

• Blessed Thomas Green

• Blessed Thomas Johnson

• Blessed Thomas Redyng

• Blessed Thomas Scryven

• Blessed Walter Pierson

• Blessed William Exmew

• Blessed William Greenwood

• Blessed William Horne

• Saint Augustine Webster

• Saint John Houghton

• Saint Robert Lawrence

Martyrs of Cirta

Also known as

• Martyrs of Cirtha

• Martyrs of Tzirta

Profile

A group of clergy and laity martyred together in Cirta, Numidia (in modern Tunisia) in the persecutions of Valerian. They were - Agapius, Antonia, Emilian, Secundinus and Tertula, along with a woman and her twin children whose names have not come down to us.

Martyrs of Novellara

Profile

A bishop and several his flock who were martyred together in the persecutions of Diocletian, and whose relics were kept and enshrined together. We know nothing else about them but the names - Apollo, Bono, Cassiano, Castoro, Damiano, Dionisio, Leonida, Lucilla, Poliano, Tecla, Teodora and Vespasiano.

Died

• 26 March 303

• relics enshrined in the parish of Saint Stephen in Novellara, Italy in 1603

Martyrs of England, Scotland, and Wales

Profile

85 English, Scottish and Welsh Catholics who were martyred during the persecutions by Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. They are commemorated together on 22 November.

• Blessed Alexander Blake • Blessed Alexander Crow • Blessed Antony Page • Blessed Arthur Bell • Blessed Charles Meehan • Blessed Christopher Robinson • Blessed Christopher Wharton • Blessed Edmund Duke • Blessed Edmund Sykes • Blessed Edward Bamber • Blessed Edward Burden • Blessed Edward Osbaldeston • Blessed Edward Thwing • Blessed Francis Ingleby • Blessed George Beesley • Blessed George Douglas • Blessed George Errington • Blessed George Haydock • Blessed George Nichols • Blessed Henry Heath • Blessed Henry Webley • Blessed Hugh Taylor • Blessed Humphrey Pritchard • Blessed John Adams • Blessed John Bretton • Blessed John Fingley • Blessed John Hambley • Blessed John Hogg • Blessed John Lowe • Blessed John Norton • Blessed John Sandys • Blessed John Sugar • Blessed John Talbot • Blessed John Thules • Blessed John Woodcock • Blessed Joseph Lambton • Blessed Marmaduke Bowes • Blessed Matthew Flathers • Blessed Montfort Scott • Blessed Nicholas Garlick • Blessed Nicholas Horner • Blessed Nicholas Postgate • Blessed Nicholas Woodfen • Blessed Peter Snow • Blessed Ralph Grimston • Blessed Richard Flower • Blessed Richard Hill • Blessed Richard Holiday • Blessed Richard Sergeant • Blessed Richard Simpson • Blessed Richard Yaxley • Blessed Robert Bickerdike • Blessed Robert Dibdale • Blessed Robert Drury • Blessed Robert Grissold • Blessed Robert Hardesty • Blessed Robert Ludlam • Blessed Robert Middleton • Blessed Robert Nutter • Blessed Robert Sutton • Blessed Robert Sutton • Blessed Robert Thorpe • Blessed Roger Cadwallador • Blessed Roger Filcock • Blessed Roger Wrenno • Blessed Stephen Rowsham • Blessed Thomas Atkinson • Blessed Thomas Belson • Blessed Thomas Bullaker • Blessed Thomas Hunt • Blessed Thomas Palaser • Blessed Thomas Pilcher • Blessed Thomas Pormort • Blessed Thomas Sprott • Blessed Thomas Watkinson • Blessed Thomas Whitaker • Blessed Thurstan Hunt • Blessed William Carter • Blessed William Davies • Blessed William Gibson • Blessed William Knight • Blessed William Lampley • Blessed William Pike • Blessed William Southerne • Blessed William Spenser • Blessed William Thomson •

Beatified

22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II

Also celebrated but no entry yet

• Marco Ongaro of Conegliano

• Mochua of Sliabh Eibhlinne

• Shroud of Turin

இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் மே 3

 Saint James the Lesser

புனிதர் யாக்கோபு (அல்பேயுவின் மகன்) 

திருத்தூதர்:

பிறப்பு: கி.மு. முதல் நூற்றாண்டு

கலிலேயா, யூதேயா, ரோம பேரரசு

இறப்பு: கி.பி. 62

எருசலேம், யூதேயா, ரோம பேரரசு அல்லது எகிப்து

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

ஆங்கிலிக்கன் ஒன்றியம்

கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை

திருவிழா:

மே 3 (கத்தோலிக்கம்)

1 மே (ஆங்கிலிக்க ஒன்றியம்)

9 அக்டோபர் (கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை)

பாதுகாவல்:

மருந்தகப் பணியாளர்; இறக்கும் நிலையில் இருப்போர்; இத்தாலி, கம்பளி நெய்பவர்; தொப்பி செய்பவர்கள்; உருகுவை

அல்பேயுவின் மகனான புனித யாக்கோபு என்பவர் இயேசு கிறிஸ்துவின் பன்னிரு திருத்தூதர்களுள் ஒருவர். இவர் அல்பேயுவின் மகன் யாக்கோபு என்றே அனைத்து ஒத்தமை நற்செய்தி நூல்களிலும் உள்ள திருத்தூதர்களின் பட்டியலில் அழைக்கப்படுகின்றார்.

விவிலியத்தில்:

இவரைப்பற்றி விவிலியத்தில் அதிகம் இடம் பெறவில்லை. இவர் புதிய ஏற்பாட்டில் நான்கு முறை மட்டுமே குறிக்கப்படுகின்றார். செபதேயுவின் மகன் யாக்கோபுவிடமிருந்து பிரித்துக்காட்ட இவர் சிரிய யாக்கோபு அல்லது சின்ன யாக்கோபு என்று அழைக்கப்படுகின்றார். (மாற்கு 15:40) இப்பெயரே இவருக்கு பாரம்பரிய சுவடிகளிலும் உள்ளது.

மாற்கு நற்செய்தியில்:

அல்பேயுவின் மகன் யாக்கோபின் அழைப்பு :

மாற்கு நற்செய்தியாளரே முதன் முதலில் இவரை அல்பேயுவின் மகன் என திருத்தூதர்களைப் பட்டியல் இடும் போது அழைக்கின்றார். அவரும் ஒரே முறை தான் அழைக்கின்றார்.

மாற்கு நற்செய்தியில் இவர் அல்பேயுவின் மகன் லேவியின் அழைப்பு இடம் பெறுகின்றது. ஆயினும், லேவி திருத்தூதர்களின் பட்டியலில் இடம் பெறவில்லை. அவருக்கு பதில் அல்பேயுவின் மகன் யாக்கோபு இடம் பெறுகின்றார்.

மாற்கு நற்செய்தியில் பிற யாக்கோபு:

மாற்கு நற்செய்தியாளர் மூன்று யாக்கோபுகளை விகுதியுடன் குறிப்பிடுகின்றார். அவர்கள், அல்பேயுவின் மகன் யாக்கோபு, செபதேயுவின் மகன் யாக்கோபு, இயேசுவின் சகோதரரான யாக்கோபு. பிற மூன்று இடங்களில் விகுதியற்று குறிக்கின்றார். அவர்கள் உறுமாற்றத்தின் போது ஒலிவ மலையில் உள்ள யாக்கோபு, கெத்சமணி தோட்டத்தில் இயேசுவோடு இருக்கும் யாக்கோபு, தொலையில் நின்று இயேசுவின் சிலுவையை உற்று நோக்கிக்கொண்டிருந்தவர்களுல் ஒருவரான மரியாவைக்குறிக்க சின்ன யாக்கோபு, யோசே ஆகியோரின் தாயாகிய மரியா என்னும் போதும்.

மத்தேயு நற்செய்தியில்:

அல்பேயுவின் மகன் யாக்கோபின் அழைப்பு :

பேதுரு, அந்திரேயா, செபதேயுவின் மகன் யாக்கோபு மற்றும் அவரின் சகோதரர் யோவான் ஆகியோர் இயேசு கிறிஸ்துவின் சீடராக அழைக்கப் பெற்றனர். இதன் பின்னர் மாற்கு நற்செய்தியில் உள்ள அல்பேயுவின் மகன் லேவியின் அழைப்பைப் போன்றே மத்தேயு இயேசுவின் அழைப்பை பெறுகின்றார். ஆனாலும் மத்தேயு அல்பேயுவின் மகன் என குறிக்கப்படவில்லை எனினும் மத்தேயுவும் லேவியைப்போல வரி தண்டினவராக குறிக்கப்படுகின்றார். மத்தேயு நற்செய்தியில் வரி தண்டினவரான மத்தோயுவும், அல்பேயுவின் மகன் யாக்கோபுவும் திருத்தூதர்கள் பட்டியலில் இடம் பெறுகின்றனர்.

மத்தேயு நற்செய்தியில் பிற யாக்கோபு:

மத்தேயு தனது நற்செய்தியில் யாக்கோபுவைக்குறிக்கும் போது, அவரின் உறவுவினர்களை வைத்தே பிரித்துக் காட்டுகின்றார். மத்தேயு மூன்று யாக்கோபுகளை தன் நற்செய்தியில் குறிப்பிடுகின்றார். அவர்கள் 

♫ யாக்கோபு, யோசேப்பு, சீமோன், யூதா ஆகியோர் இவருடைய சகோதரராக

♫ செபதேயுவின் மகனாகவும், யோவான் சகோதரராகவும்

♫ அல்பேயுவின் மகனாகவும்.

உறுமாற்றத்தின் போது இருந்த யாக்கோபு யோவான் சகோதரர் என குறிப்பிடப்படுகின்றார். கெத்சமணி தோட்டத்தில் இருந்தவர் அல்பேயுவின் மகனாக குறிப்பிடப்படுகின்றார். மேலும் தொலையில் நின்று இயேசுவின் சிலுவையை உற்று நோக்கிக்கொண்டிருந்தவர்களுல் ஒருவரான மரியாளைக்குறிக்க யாக்கோபு, யோசே ஆகியோரின் தாயாகிய மரியாள் என்னும் போதும் யாக்கோபுவுக்கு இவர் மாற்கை போல "சின்ன" என்னும் அடை மொழி இல்லாமல் குறிக்கின்றார்.

பாரம்பரியம்:

புனித யாக்கோபு என்னும் பெயருடன் ஒருவர் சில கிறிஸ்தவர்களோடு சேர்த்து கைது செய்யப்பட்டு, பின்னர் ஏரோது மன்னனால் தலை துண்டிக்கப்பட்டு கொலை செய்யப்பட்டார் என திருத்தூதர் பணிகள் நூல் குறிக்கின்றது. ஆனால் அது இவர் அல்ல எனவும், அது செபதேயுவின் மகன் யாக்கோபுவே எனவும் அறிஞர்கள் கொள்கின்றனர்.

இவர் பாரம்பரியப்படி எகிப்தில் மறைப்பணி ஆற்றும்போது சிலுவையில் அறையுண்டு கொல்லப்பட்டார் என்பது மரபு.

Also known as

• Jacobus Minor

• James the Just

• James the Less

• James the Younger

• James, son of Alphaeus

• James, the brother of the Lord

Additional Memorials

• 1 May (under the title James, son of Alpheus; Anglican)

• 9 October (Orthodox as James, son of Alpheus)

• 23 October (Luther Church in America as James the Just; Orthodox as James the Righeous)

• 26 December (Eastern Orthodox)

Profile

Cousin of Jesus. Brother of Saint Jude Thaddeus. Raised is a Jewish home of the time with all the training in Scripture and Law that was part of that life. Convert. One of the Twelve Apostles. One of the first to have visions of the risen Christ. First Bishop of Jerusalem. Met with Saint Paul the Apostle to work out Paul's plans for evangelization. Supported the position that Gentile converts did not have to obey all Jewish religious law, though he continued to observe it himself as part of his heritage, may have been a vegetarian. A just and apostolic man known for his prayer life and devotion to the poor. Martyr.

Having been beaten to death, a club almost immediately became his symbol. This led to his patronage of fullers and pharmacists, both of whom use clubs in their professions. He is reported to have spent so much time in prayer that his knees thickened, and looked like a camel's. Soon after the Crucifixion, James said he would fast until Christ returned; the resurrected Jesus appeared to him, and fixed a meal for James Himself.

Died

c.62 at Jerusalem by being thrown from a pinnacle of the Temple, then stoned and beaten with clubs, including fuller's mallets, while praying for his attackers

Patronage

• dying people

• apothecaries, druggists, pharmacists

• fullers

• hatmakers, hatters, milliners

• Uruguay

• 8 cities in Italy

Representation

• fuller's club

• man holding a book

• square rule

Saint Philip the Apostle

புனிதர் பிலிப் 

திருத்தூதர் மற்றும் மறைசாட்சி:

பிறப்பு: 

பெத்சாயிதா, கலிலேயா, ரோம பேரரசு

இறப்பு: கி.பி. 80

ஹிராபோலிஸ், அனடோலியா, ரோம பேரரசு

ஏற்கும் சமயம்: எல்லா கிறிஸ்தவ பிரிவுகளும்

நினைவுத் திருவிழா: 

3 மே - கத்தோலிக்கம், 

14 நவம்பர் - கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை

பாதுகாவல்: உருகுவை.

திருத்தூதரான புனிதர் பிலிப், இயேசுவின் பன்னிரு திருத்தூதர்களுள் ஒருவர். கிறிஸ்தவப் பாரம்பரியப்படி, இவரே கிரேக்கம், சிரியா முதலிய நாடுகளுக்கு கிறிஸ்தவத்தைக் கொண்டு சென்றவர்.

பிலிப் எழுதிய நற்செய்தி என்னும் நாக் அமாடி நூலகத்தில் உள்ள நூல் இவரால் எழுதப்பட்டது போல் தோன்றினாலும், அது அவ்வாறு அழைக்கப்படுவது திருத்தூதர்களுள் இவரின் பெயர் மட்டுமே அதில் குறிப்பிடப்பட்டிருப்பதாலேயே ஆகும்.

இவரின் விழாநாள் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபையில் நீதிமானான புனித யாக்கோபுவோடு (திருத்தூதர் யாக்கோபு அல்ல) சேர்ந்து மே 3ல் கொண்டாடப்படுகின்றது.

புதிய ஏற்பாட்டில்:

ஒத்தமை நற்செய்தி நூல்கள் இவரை இயேசுவின் சீடர் என்கிறது. இவரும் அந்திரேயா மற்றும் பேதுருவைப்போல பெத்சாயிதாவைச் சேர்ந்தவர்.

நத்தானியேல் என அழைக்கப்பட்ட திருத்தூதரான பர்த்தலமேயுவை இயேசுவிடம் அறிமுகப்படுத்தியவர் இவரே. ஐயாயிரம் மக்களுக்கு அப்பம் பலுகச்செய்து உணவளித்த புதுமைக்கு முன்பு, இயேசு இவரைச் சோதித்தார்.

இவருக்கு கிரேக்கம் தெரிந்திருந்ததால் கிரேக்கர்கள் சிலர் இயேசுவைக்காண வந்தபோது இவர் அவர்களை இயேசுவிடம் கூட்டிவந்தார். இயேசுவின் இறுதி இரா உணவின் போது, "தந்தையை எங்களுக்கு காட்டும்" என்று பிலிப்பு கேட்க, இயேசு தந்தைக்கும் மகனுக்கும் உள்ள உறவு பற்றி விளக்கினார்.

புனித பிலிப்புவின் பெயர் எல்லாத் திருத்தூதர்களின் பட்டியல்களிலும் ஐந்தாவதாக பட்டியலிடப்பட்டுள்ளது.

புனித பிலிப்பு, யோவான் நற்செய்தியாளரால் மீண்டும் மீண்டும் குறிப்பிடப்படுகின்றார். இறைமகன் இயேசு, பேதுருவையும், அந்திரேயாவையும் தேர்ந்து கொண்டபிறகு, என்னைப் பின்பற்றி வா என்று கூறி பிலிப்பைத் தேர்ந்துகொண்டார். பிலிப்பும் இயேசுவின் அழைத்தலை ஏற்று உடனே அவரைப் பின் தொடர்ந்தார். இதிலிருந்து பிலிப்பு எந்த அளவிற்கு இயேசுவுக்கு பணிந்திருந்தார் என்பதை தெரிந்து கொள்ளலாம். பின்பு பிலிப்பு உடனே தன் நண்பர் நத்தனியேலிடம் சென்று, நடந்ததை எல்லாம் விளக்கினார். 

நாசரேத்திலிருந்து நல்லது எதுவும் வரக்கூடுமோ என்ற நத்தனியேலிடம் வந்து பாரும் என்று கூறி பதிலளித்தார் பிலிப்பு. இதிலிருந்து பிலிப்பு எவ்வளவு திறந்த மனதுடன் இருந்திருக்கிறார் என்பதை அறிந்து கொள்ளலாம். 200 தெனாரியத்திற்கு அப்பம் வாங்கினாலும் கூட போதாதே என்று யேசுவிடம் பதிலளித்தார் பிலிப்பு (யோவான் 6:7)

தூய ஆவியாரின் வருகைக்கு பிறகு பிலிப்பு ஆசியா சென்று மறைபரப்புப் பணியில் நாட்களை செலவிட்டார் என்று தியோடற், யுசிபியுஸ் என்ற பழங்காலத்து வரலாற்று ஆசிரியர்கள் குறிப்பிடுகின்றார்கள்.

Additional Memorials

• 3 May (Roman calendar; Evangelical Church in Germany)

• 1 May (Anglican; Evangelical Lutheran; Lutheran Church Missouri Synod; pre-1955 Roman calendar)

• 11 October (Lutheran; Episcopal Church USA)

• 14 November (Greek calendar; Orthodox; Russia)

• 17 November (Armenian Church)

• 18 November (Coptic Church)

• 31 July (translation of relics of Cyprus)

Profile

Disciple of Saint John the Baptist. Convert. One of the Twelve Apostle. Brought Saint Nathanael to Christ. Confidant of Jesus. Little is known about him, but scriptural episodes give the impression of a shy, naive, but practical individual. Preached in Greece and Asia Minor. Martyr.

Born

at Bethsaida, Palestine

Died

stoned to death while tied to a cross c.80 at Hierapolis, Phrygia (near modern Pamukkale, Turkey)

Patronage

• hat makers, hatters, milliners

• pastry chefs

• Luxembourg

• Uruguay

• 37 cities

Representation

• elderly bearded man holding a basket of loaves and a cross which is often t-shaped

• elderly man casting a devil from the idol of Mars

• elderly man crucified on a tall cross

• elderly man holding loaves and fishes

• elderly man with a dragon nearby

• elderly man with a loaf and book

• elderly man with a snake nearby

• loaves of bread

• man baptizing the Ethiopian eunuch

• man holding a book or scroll reading descendit ad inferna

• tall cross

• with Saint Andrew the Apostle

Saint Ansfrid of Utrecht

Also known as

Ansfridus, Ansfried, Ansfrido

Profile

Count of Brabant. Married to Hilsondis; father of one daughter; after the girl's birth, Ansfrid and Hilsondis, lived as brother and sister. Courtier and knight in the service of Holy Roman Emperor Otto III and Saint Henry II. After many years of this life he realized a call to religious life, and in 974 he gave up his life as a soldier. In 992 he founded a convent at Thorn, Netherlands, which his wife and daughter entered; his daughter eventually became abbess. He founded a Benedictine monastery at Heiligenberg, Germany, and planned to enter it as a monk, but in 994, in the face of local opposition, he was named bishop of Utrecht, Netherlands by Otto. Late in life his eyesight began to fail, and by 1006 he was blind; though he kept the title of bishop, he was finally able to retire to the Heiligenberg abbey where he spent his remaining days as a prayerful monk. There is a single church dedicated to Saint Ansfrid; it is located in Amersfoort, Netherlands.

Born

c.940 in the Brabant region

Died

3 May 1010 in Amersfoort, Netherlands of natural causes

Blessed Emilia Bicchieri

Profile

Four of seven daughters born to the wealthy Ghibelline patrician family of Pietro Bicchieri. Emilia was well educated, and early on showed a she was drawn to religious life, withdrawing to her room for hours of prayer. Her mother died when Emilia was still a girl, and her father became even more protective, and initially objected to Emilia becoming a nun. He eventually realized her true calling, and funded the construction of the Dominican monastery of Santa Margherita in Vercelli, Italy. Emilia entered the abbey as a Dominican nun at age 18. She was repeatedly chosen to serve as prioress of the house, but repeatedly refused and concentrated on menial domestic service to her sisters. She finally became prioress in 1273. She always had, and always promoted, devotion to the Eurcharist, the Passion, and Blessed Virgin Mary.

Born

1238 in Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy

Died

• 3 May 1314 in Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy

• interred at the Santa Marghertia abbey in Vercelli

• relics enshrined in the cathedral of Vercelli

Beatified

19 July 1769 by Pope Clement XIV (cultus confirmation)

Saint Stanislas Kazimierczyk

Also known as

• Louis Scholtis

• Louis Soltys

• Stanislas Kazimierz

• Stanislaw Kazimierczyk

Profile

Raised in a pious family, the son of Maciej and Jadwiga Soltys, he received a good education in the faith. Received doctorates in theology and philosophy from Jagiello University, Kraków, Poland. Entered the Canons Regular of the Lateran in 1456, devoting his life to the Eucharist and to the care of the sick and the poor, and taking the name Stanislas Kazimierczyk. Priest, noted as a great preacher and popular confessor. Prior and novice master at his monastery. Professor of philosophy and theology. Friend of Saint John of Kanty. Like many holy people, the people who knew him considered him a living saint while Father Stanislas saw his own life as a constant struggle for holiness.

Born

27 September 1433 in Kazimierz, Lubelskie, Poland as Louis Soltys

Died

• 3 May 1489 in Kazimierz, Lubelskie, Poland of natural causes

• interred in the church of Corpus Domini, Kazimierz

Canonized

17 October 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI

Blessed Tommaso Acerbis

Also known as

• Tommaso of Olera

• Thomas of...

Profile

Born to a poor family, the boy worked as a shepherd in his youth and received no schooling at all. Joined the Capuchin Friars Minor on 12 September 1580 at Verona, Italy where at age 17 he finally learned to read and write. Tommaso made his final profession on 5 July 1584 and served as a clerk in convents in Verona, Vicenza, and Rovereto until 1617. Outside the convent he visited the sick, helped the poor, and encouraged a love of the faith to anyone who would listen. When Lutheranism began to make inroads in the area, Tommaso spoke and wrote in defense of the Church; he didn't confront, he didn't preach blood and thunder, he simply spoke on his love 'the impassioned Christ' and the Church he founded - and it was persuasive.

Born

1563 in Olera, Bergamo, Italy

Died

• 3 May 1631 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria of natural causes

• buried in the crypt of the chapel of Our Lady at the local Capuchin church in Innsbruck

Beatified

21 September 2013 by Pope Francis

Saint Gabriel Gowdel

Additional Memorial

22 September (translation of relics)

Profile

Son of Peter and Anastasia Gowdel who were pious Orthodox Christians. Gabriel was noted for his piety and prayer from a very early age. He was a murder victim, and was considered a martyr. His attacker buried the body in a wooded area near the village where stray dogs guarded it until it was discovered by the villagers nine days after the crime; the body was incorrupt.

During an epidemic in 1720, children were buried near him, their families considering the ground around a martyr to be especially hallowed. His body was accidentally exhumed, and found to be incorrupt. There were many miraculous cures after the incident, and the end of the epidemic followed soon after.

Born

22 March 1684 at Zwierki, Poland

Died

• murdered on 11 April 1690

• body transferred to the church at Zwierki, Poland

• the church burned in 1746 - Gabriel's hand was burned, but healed

• relics translated to Saint Nicola's Cathedral, Bialystok in 1922

Patronage

children

Saint Conleth of Kildare

Also known as

Concletus, Conlaed, Conlaeth, Conlaid, Conlaith, Conlath, Conleat, Conleath, Conlethus, Conlian, Conleto

Profile

Skilled worker in gold and silver, and manuscript illuminator. Hermit in a cell in Old Connell, Ireland near the Liffey river. His reputation for holiness attracted would-be disciples. Friend of and co-worker with Saint Brigid; they ran first double monastery together. First bishop of Kildare, Ireland c.490. Baptised Saint Tigernach of Clogher. Died while on pilgrimage to Rome, Italy.

Born

c.450 in Ireland

Died

• attacked by wolves on 3 May 519 in the forests of Leinster, Ireland

• buried nearby

• relics translated to the Kildare cathedral in 799

• relics taken to Connell in 835 to protect them from Danish invaders

Patronage

Kildare, Ireland, diocese of

Pope Saint Alexander I

Also known as

Alessandro I

Profile

Roman citizen. Pope in the reign of Emperor Trajan. Baptized Saint Balbina of Rome. He inserted in the Canon of the Mass the words commemorative of the institution of the Eucharist beginning "Qui pridie". Introduced the use of blessing water mixed with salt for the purification of Christian homes from evil influences. Martyr. While in prison awaiting execution, he converted the criminals who became the Martyrs of Ostia.

Born

probably Rome, Italy

Papal Ascension

between 106 and 109 (sources vary)

Died

• burned and beheaded 3 May between 113 and 119 (sources vary on the year) on the Via Nomentana in Rome, Italy

• relics transferred to Freising in Bavaria in 834

Representation

• man with his chest pierced with nails or spikes

Blessed Arnaldo de Rossinol

Profile

Orphaned young, Arnaldo was raised by his uncle, the archbishop of Tarragona, Spain. As a young man, Arnaldo served briefly in the court of King Peter III but felt a call to religious life, and became a lay knight in the Mercedarians. His dedication and personal piety were so obvious to his superiors that they sent him to rescue Christians enslaved by Muslims in Andalusia, Spain, and then in Tunis, North Africa where he served as a captive in exchange for some slaves. Commander of the Mercedarian convent in Lérida, Spain. Chosen Master General of the Mercedarians on 12 November 1308, a position in which he served the rest of his life.

Born

latter 13th century Spain

Died

3 May 1317 at the convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli in El Puig, Valencia, Spain of natural causes

Blessed Guglielmo of Florence

Also known as

• Guglielmo da Firenze

• Guglielmo Novelli

• Guglielmo Fiorentino

• William...

Profile

Born to the nobility, the family of the counts of Gueda. Mercedarian friar. Served as the Master General of the Mercedarians. He helped broker peace between forces loyal to the Guelphs and Ghibellines, and was so successful that Pope Alexander IV granted privileges to the Order in gratitude. Guglielmo was the friar who found Blessed Peter Armengol hanged in a tree and being saved by the Blessed Virgin Mary. Assigned to redeem Christians enslaved by Muslims in north Africa, he was imprisoned and, when he refused to renounce his faith, murdered. Martyr.

Born

Florence, Italy

Died

crucified in 1330 in Algiers, Algeria

Blessed Marie Leonie Paradis

Also known as

Alodie-Virginie Paradis

Profile

Born to a poor but pious family. Educated by the Sisters of Notre Dame. Joined the Marianite Sisters of the Congregation of the Holy Cross on 21 February 1854, taking her final vows in 1857. Taught in Montreal, in New York, and in Indiana. With 14 of her sisters, she founded the Poor Sisters of the Holy Family, devoted to assisting priests and seminarians, at Memramcook, New Brunswick in 1877.

Born

12 May 1840 in L'Acadie, Quebec, Canada as Alodie-Virginie Paradis

Died

3 May 1912 in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Beatified

11 September 1984 by Pope John Paul II at Montreal, Canada

Patronage

archdiocese of Sherbrooke, Canada

Saint Juvenal of Narni

Also known as

Giovenale, Juvenalis

Profile

Ordained by Pope Saint Damasus I. First bishop of Narni, Italy in 368. Legend says that he saved Narni from invasion by Ligurians and Sarmatians praying for a great thunderstorm so great that the invaders fled in fear. Another story says that there was an attempt on his life by trying to strike him in the head with a sword; Juvenal caught the blade in his teeth and the would-be killer gave up.

Died

• c.373

• may have been a martyr, but records are unclear

Patronage

• city of Narni, Italy

• diocese of Terni-Narni-Amelia, Italy

Representation

• bishop holding a chalice

• bishop with a sword in his mouth

Saint Maura of Antinoe

Also known as

Moura

Profile

Lay woman. Married to Saint Timothy of Antinoe. About twenty days into the marriage, and in the middle of the persecution of Diocletian, Timothy was arrested. As he was being tortured to learn the location of sacred texts, Maura was dragged to the prison; the authorities thought that if they threatened to torture her, Timothy would break. Timothy refused to talk, and Maura made a profession of her faith. Enraged at their defiance, Arrianos, governor of Thebias, ordered her tortured. Witnesses begged that the tormentors release the innocent woman, but she told them that God was all the protection she needed. Martyred with Saint Timothy.

Died

• c.286

• nailed to a wall in mock crucifixion, it took her nine days to die of shock, blood loss, and dehydration

Saint Timothy of Antinoe

Profile

Layman son of a priest named Pikolpossos. Lector and copyist, he was responsible for the security of the liturgical texts used in services. Married to Saint Maura of Antinoe. About twenty days into the marriage, and in the middle of the persecution of Diocletian, Timothy was arrested. Dragged before Arrianos, governor of Thebias, he was ordered to surrender any Scripture writings he had hidden; he refused. Horribly tortured, including being burned, hung upside down, and having his eyelids cut off; he still refused. Martyred with Maura.

Born

Perapa (Egyptian Thebaid)

Died

nailed to a wall in mock crucifixion c.286 in Thebais, Egypt; it took him nine days to die of shock, blood loss, and dehydration

Blessed Ramon Oromí Sullà

Profile

Priest. Member of the Sons of the Holy Family; worked as secretary for his Institute. Publisher of their magazine. Wrote the first biography of Saint Josep Manyanet-y-Vives. Catechist and spiritual director for young people, working closely with those with a call to religious life. Promoted devotion to the Holy Family as a way for families to stay together. Arrested on 19 April 1937 by anti-Church forces. One of the Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War.

Born

16 September 1875 in Salàs de Pallars, Lleida, Spain

Died

• 3 May 1937 in Montcada, Barcelona, Spain

• body thrown into a common grave

Beatified

13 October 2013 by Pope Francis

Blessed Edoardo Giuseppe Rosaz

Also known as 

• Edward Joseph Rosaz

• Edvard Josef Rosaz

Profile

Ordained in 1854 at Nice, France. Worked in prison ministry. Wrote a catechism. Founded a home for abused and abandoned children in 1856. Founded the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis of Susa. Bishop of Susa, Italy on 24 February 1878.

Born

15 February 1830 in Susa, Piedmont, Italy

Died

3 May 1903 in Susa, Piedmont, Italy

Beatified

14 July 1991 by Pope John Paul II in Susa, Piedmont, Italy

Saint Ahmed the Calligrapher

Profile

Raised as a Muslim in 17th-century Constantinople. Calligrapher and copyist in the royal chancery. He lived as an unmarried layman, but had a concubine, a Christian slave woman from Russia. Little by little, she brought him to a desire for the faith, and he began his catechumenate. However, before he could be baptized he was betrayed by another calligrapher who spotted him with Christian. Ahmed was arrested, imprisoned without food for a week, and then murdered for his desire to convert. Martyr.

Died

beheaded in 1682

Saint Aldwine of Peartney

Also known as

• Aldwyn of Peartney

• Ealdwine of Peartney

• AElwinus of Peartney

Profile

Raised in a pious family; his brother Ethelwine was the second bishop of Lindsey, England, and his sister Ethelhild was abbess in Lincolnshire, England. Founded the monastery Athelney in Somerset, England. Monk. Abbot of Peartney in Lincolnshire, England.

Born

7th century England

Died

early 8th-century at Peartney Abbey, Lincolnshire, England of natural causes

Blessed Adam of Cantalupo in Sabina

Also known as

Adamo

Profile

11th century monk and hermit who rebuilt churches in Cantalupo in Sabina, Italy that had been destroyed by invading Saracens. Miracle worker.

Beatified

1634 by Pope Urban VIII

Blessed Zechariah

Also known as

Zaccaria

Profile

Franciscan, accepted into the Order in Rome, Italy by Saint Francis of Assisi. Sent to Spain by Saint Francis to preach Christianity to the Moors. Used miracles to prove the Real Presence.

Died

• c.1249

• buried in the floor of the main chapel of the monastery of Saint Catherine of Alemquer, Portugal

• relics enshrined in a grated wall creche of the chapel c.1562

Saint Alexander of Constantinople

Profile

Soldier in the imperial Roman army. In the persecutions of Maximian, he changed clothes and places with Saint Antonina of Constantinople after she had been condemned to live as a prostitute. They were discovered, tortured, their hands cut off, and killed. Martyr.

Died

burned alive in 313 in Constantinople

Saint Antonina of Constantinople

Profile

Consecrated virgin. In the persecutions of Maximian, she changed clothes and places with Saint Alexander of Constantinople after she had been condemned to live as a prostitute. They were discovered, tortured, their hands cut off, and killed. Martyr.

Died

burned alive in 313 in Constantinople

Saint Ethelwin of Lindsey

Profile

Eighth century monk at Ripon Abbey. Hermit on Farne Island for 12 years. Friend of Saint Egbert. Bishop of Lindsey, England. Late in life he retired to religious life in Ireland.

Died

• 8th century Ireland of natural causes

• buried at Lindisfarne, England

Saint Alexander of Rome

Profile

Priest in Rome, Italy. Imprisoned, tortured and martyred with Saint Theodulus of Rome and Saint Eventius of Rome.

Died

• burned and beheaded c.113 on the Via Nomentana in Rome, Italy

• relics interred in the Dominican church of Santa Sabina, Rome

Saint Theodulus of Rome

Profile

Priest in Rome, Italy. Imprisoned, tortured and martyred with Saint Alexander of Rome and Saint Eventius of Rome.

Died

• burned and beheaded c.113 on the Via Nomentana in Rome, Italy

• relics interred in the Dominican church of Santa Sabina, Rome

Saint Eventius of Rome

Profile

Priest in Rome, Italy. Imprisoned, tortured and martyred with Saint Theodulus of Rome and Saint Alexander of Rome.

Died

• burned and beheaded c.113 on the Via Nomentana in Rome, Italy

• relics interred in the Dominican church of Santa Sabina, Rome

Saint Philip of Zell

Profile

Anglo-Saxon pilgrim. Hermit near Worms, Germany. Friend of and advisor to King Pepin the Short. Founded the monastery of Zell, Germany around which grew the town of the same name.

Died

c.770 of natural causes

Patronage

babies

Blessed Alexander of Foigny

Profile

Born to a royal Scottish family; brother of Blessed Mechthild. Cistercian monk at Foigny monastery, diocese of Laon, France.

Born

c.1180 in Scotland

Died

4 May 1229 of natural causes

Saint Adalsindis of Bèze

Also known as

Adalsainde, Adalseinde, Adalsind

Profile

Sister of Saint Waldalenus. Abbess of a convent near Bèze under the supervision of her brother.

Died

c.680 of natural causes

Blessed Giovanni Avogadro of Vercelli

Profile

15th-century Augustinian canon noted for his piety and humility.

Born

mid-15th century Italy

Died

1497 of natural causes

Blessed Alexander Vincioli

Profile

Franciscan priest. Confessor to Pope John XXII. Bishop of Nocera, Umbria, Italy.

Born

in Perugia, Italy

Died

1363 at Sassoferrato, Italy

Saint Eusebius of Auxerre

Also known as

Eusebio

Profile

Priest. No other information has survived.

Died

relics enshrined in Auxerre, France

Saint Viola of Verona

Also known as

Iole, Violetta

Profile

Early martyr. No other information has survived.

Died

relics enshrined in Verona, Italy

Saint Avitus of Auxerre

Also known as

Avito

Profile

Deacon. No other information has survived.

Died

relics enshrined in Auxerre, France

Saint Scannal of Cell-Coleraine

Profile

Spiritual student in Ireland of Saint Columba of Iona. Zealous missionary.

Died

c.563

Saint Rhodopianus the Deacon

Profile

Deacon. Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.

Died

in Aphrodisia, Caria, Asia Minor

Saint Fumac

Also known as

Fumach

Profile

First Christian missionary in Banffshire, Scotland. A healing well there is named for him.

Patronage

Drummuir, Scotland

Saint Diodorus the Deacon

Profile

Deacon. Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.

Died

in Aphrodisia, Caria, Asia Minor

Saint Roincenn Conlaedh

Profile

Son of Ugaine Mor. Bishop in the area of Cill-dara, Ireland.

Born

Ireland

Died

519

Saint Peter of Argos

Profile

Bishop in Argos, Greece; known for his ministery to the poor and slaves, and as a peacemaker.

Died

c.922

Blessed Sostenaeus

Profile

I have no information on this saint's life.

Died

Mount Senario near Florence, Italy while at prayer

Blessed Uguccio

Profile

I have no information on this saint.

Died

Mount Senario near Florence, Italy while at prayer

Saint Daircheall of Gleann-da-locha

Profile

Early Irish bishop.

Saint Cairpre of Maghbile

Profile

Early Irish bishop.

Saint Nem of Drum Dallain

Profile

Early Irish bishop.

Saint Sarnat

Profile

Daughter of Maelan. Nun. Abbess.

Born

Irish

Saint Clothach

Profile

Early Irish bishop.

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