இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் செப்டம்பர் 29

 St. Garcia

Feastday: September 29

Death: 1073

Benedictine abbot who was the companion of King Ferdinand I of Castile, Spain, in battles. A native of Qiuntanilla, Garcia was made abbot of Artanza Abbey in 1039. He became a counselor to the king and an advisor on military campaigns.

Gabriel the Archangel

 புனிதர் கபிரியேல் 

அதிதூதர்:

(Archangel)

ஏற்கும் சமயம்: 

கிறிஸ்தவம்

(Christianity)

யூதம்

(Judaism)

இஸ்லாம்

(Islam)

கபிரியேல், ஆபிரகாமிய மதங்களின் நம்பிக்கையின்படி, கடவுளின் செய்தியை மனிதர்களுக்கு கொண்டு செல்லும் தேவதூதர் ஆவார்.

கடவுளின் முக்கிய அதிதூதர்கள் ஏழு பேரில் இவரும் ஒருவர். மரியன்னைக்கு மங்களவார்த்தையின் வழியாக இறைமகன் இயேசுவின் பிறப்பை முன்னறிவித்தவர். திருமுழுக்கு யோவானின் பிறப்பை, சக்கரியாசுக்கு முன்னறிவித்தவரும் இவர்தான்.

கிறிஸ்தவ நம்பிக்கைகள்:

இவரைப்பற்றிய குறிப்பு முதன் முதலில் காணக்கிடைப்பது தானியேல் நூலில் ஆகும். லூக்கா நற்செய்தியில் இவர் திருமுழுக்கு யோவான் மற்றும் இயேசு கிறிஸ்துவின் பெற்றோர்களுக்கு அவர்களின் பிறப்பை முன் அறிவிப்பதாய் அமைகின்றது. கத்தோலிக்க கிறிஸ்தவர்கள் இவரை அதிதூதர் என அழைக்கின்றனர்.

தனித்தீர்வையின்போது, இறைவனின் முன்னிலையில் நிற்பவர் இவர். இறைவனால் தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்படும் மக்களின் நெற்றியில் ஆசீர் அளிப்பவரும் இவர். இயேசுவின் பிறப்பை, பெத்லேகேமில் இடையர்களுக்கு அறிவித்தவர்.

இவர் தாழ்ச்சியையும், ஆறுதலையும் இறைவனிடமிருந்து பெற்று மக்களுக்கு தருகின்றார். இவர், பெர்சியா என்ற நாட்டிற்கு நிகழவிருந்த வீழ்ச்சியையும், வெற்றியையும் முன்னறிவித்தார். இவர் மரியன்னையிடம் கூறிய வாழ்த்துச் செய்தி, இன்று திருச்சபையில் மூவேளை செபமாக செபிக்கப்படுகின்றது.

இஸ்லாமிய நம்பிக்கைகள்:

இஸ்லாமிய சமயத்தில் இவர் ஜிப்ரீல் என்று அரபு மொழியில் அழைக்கப்படுகிறார். இறைவனின் செய்தியை அவரின் தூதுவர்களான நபிமார்களுக்கு கொண்டு செல்பவர் என புனித குரான் குறிப்பிடுகின்றது.

இவர், இயேசுவின் தாய் மரியாளுக்கு இயேசு பிறக்கும் நற்செய்தியை இறைவனிடம் இருந்து மரியாளிடம் கொண்டு சேர்த்ததாக குரான் குறிப்பிடுகிறது. 

இஸ்லாமிய நம்பிக்கையில், இவர்தான் அனைத்து இறைத்தூதர்களுக்கும் இறை செய்தியை கொண்டு சேர்த்ததாக நம்பப்படுகிறது.

மேலும், புனித குரான் இவர் மூலமாகவே முகமது நபியவர்களுக்கு அருளப்பட்டது என்பது இஸ்லாமிய நம்பிக்கை.

பிற நம்பிக்கைகள் :

சிலசமயங்களில், குறிப்பாக புது யுக இயக்கத்தினரால் பெண்பாலிலும் இவர் குறிப்பிடப்படுகிறார்.

Also known as

Fortitudo Dei; Gabr-el, Gabrielus, Gavri'el, Gavriel, Jibrail, Jibril

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Archangel and messenger of God. One of the three angels mentioned by name in the Catholic Bible.

Appeared to the prophet Daniel to explain the prophet's visions relating to the Messiah. (Daniel 8:16-26; 9:21-27)

Appeared to Zachary in the temple to announce the coming of Zachary's son, John the Baptist, and to strike Zachary mute for his disbelief. (Luke 1:11-20)

Appeared to Mary to let her know she'd been selected to bear the Saviour. (Luke 1:26-38)

Born

wasn't

Died

hasn't

Name Meaning

• God is mighty

• God is my strength

• man of God

• my master is God

• strong man of God

• the strength of God

Patronage

• broadcasters

• clergy

• communications workers

• diplomats

• messengers

• philatelists; stamp collectors

• post offices, postal services and employees

• radio and radio workers

• telegraphs

• telephones

• television and television workers

• Portugal

• Seattle, Washington, archdiocese of

• Auchi, Nigeria, diocese of

Representation

• lily

• shield

• spear

• trumpet

• olive branch as he was the one who announced the Prince of Peace

Michael the Archangel

 புனிதர் மிக்கேல் 

அதிதூதர்:

(Archangel)

ஏற்கும் சமயம்:

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

(Roman Catholic Church)

ஆங்கிலிக்கன் சமூகம்

(Angilikkan Communion)

கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை

(Eastern Orthodox Church)

எதியோப்பிய டெஹவெடோ திருச்சபை

(Ethiopian Tehawedo Church)

லூதரனியம்

(Luthernism)

இஸ்லாம்

(Islam)

யூதம்

(Judaism)

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பாதுகாவல்:

கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபையின் பாதுகாவலர்; கீவ், யூதர்களைப் பாதுகாப்பவர், காவலர், இராணுவ வீரர், காவலர், வியாபாரி, கடற்படையினர், வானிலிருந்து குதிக்கும் வீரர்

மிக்கேல் எனப்படுபவர் யூதம், கிறிஸ்தவம், இஸ்லாம் ஆகிய சமயங்களின் நம்பிக்கையின்படி ஓர் தேவதூதர் ஆவார். கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை, கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை, ஆங்கிலிக்கம், லூதரனியம் ஆகிய சபைகள் இவரை புனிதராகவும், அதிதூதராகவும் கொள்கின்றன. இவரை தலைமை தூதர் என விவிலியம் குறிக்கின்றது. எபிரேயத்தில் மிக்கேல் என்னும் பெயருக்கு கடவுளுக்கு நிகர் யார்? என்று பொருள் உண்டு.

பழைய ஏற்பாட்டில் மிக்கேல்:

பழைய ஏற்படான எபிரேய விவிலியத்தில், தானியேல் நூலில் மிக்கேல் பற்றி தானியேல் (தானியேல் 10:13-21) குறிப்பிடுகின்றார். அவர் உண்ணா நோன்புடன் ஓர் காட்சி காண்கிறார். அதில் ஒரு தூதர் மிக்கேல் இசுரயேலின் பாதுக்காப்பாளர் என மிக்கேல் அழைக்கப்படுகின்றார். தானியேல் மிக்கேலை "தலைமைக் காவலர்" என்று அழைக்கிறார். பின்னர் அதே காட்சியில் (தானியேல் 12:1) ""கடைசி காலத்தில்" பின்வரும் நிகழ்ச்சிகள் மிக்கேலின் பங்கு பற்றி தானியேலுக்கு அறிவுறுத்தபடுகிறது:

அக்காலத்தில் உன் இனத்தார்க்குத் தலைமைக் காவலரான மிக்கேல் எழும்புவார். மக்களினம் தோன்றியது முதல் அக்காலம் வரை இருந்திராத துன்ப காலம் வரும். அக்காலத்தில் உன் இனத்தார் விடுவிக்கப்படுவர். நூலில் யார் யார் பெயர் எழுதப்பட்டுள்ளதோ, அவர்கள் அனைவரும் மீட்கப்படுவார்கள்.

புதிய ஏற்பாட்டில் மிக்கேல்:

வெளிப்படுத்துதல் நூலில் விண்ணகத்தில் நடந்த போர் பற்றி குறிப்பிடப்படுகிறது. பின்வரும் விவிலிய வசனங்கள் அதை குறிக்கின்றது (வெளி 12 அதிகாரம் )

7. பின்னர் விண்ணகத்தில் போர் மூண்டது. மிக்கேலும் அவருடைய தூதர்களும் அரக்கப் பாம்போடு போர் தொடுத்தார்கள்: அரக்கப் பாம்பும் அதன் தூதர்களும் அவர்களை எதிர்த்துப் போரிட்டார்கள். 8 அரக்கப் பாம்பு தோல்வியுற்றது. விண்ணகத்தில் அதற்கும் அதன் தூதர்களுக்கும் இடமே இல்லாது போயிற்று. 9 அப்பெரிய அரக்கப் பாம்பு வெளியே தள்ளப்பட்டது. அலகை என்றும் சாத்தான் என்றும் அழைக்கப் பெற்ற அதுவே தொடக்கத்தில் தோன்றிய பாம்பு. உலகு முழுவதையும் ஏமாற்றிய அது மண்ணுலகுக்குத் தள்ளப்பட்டது: அதன் தூதர்களும் அதனுடன் வெளியே தள்ளப்பட்டார்கள்.

யூதா 1ம் அதிகாரம் ஒன்பதாம் வசனத்தில், மிக்கேல் பற்றி குறிப்பிடப்படுகின்றது.

9. தலைமைத் தூதரான மிக்கேல், மோசேயின் உடலைக் குறித்து அலகையோடு வழக்காடியபோது அதனைப் பழித்துரைத்துக் கண்டனம் செய்யத் துணியவில்லை. மாறாக, ஆண்டவர் உன்னைக் கடிந்து கொள்வாராக என்று மட்டும் சொன்னார்.

Additional Memorial

8 May - Apparition of Saint Michael and Protector of Cornwall

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Archangel. Leader of the army of God during the Lucifer uprising. Devotion is common to Muslims, Christians and Jews, and there are writings about him in all three cultures. Considered the guardian angel of Israel, and the guardian and protector of the Church. In the Book of Daniel (12:1), Michael is described as rising up to defend the Church against the Anti-Christ.

The feast of the Apparition of Saint Michael commemorates appearance of the archangel to a man named Gargan in 492 on Mount Gargano near Manfredonia in southern Italy. Gargan and others were pasturing cattle on the mountain; a bull wandered off and hid in a cave. An arrow was shot into the cave, but it came flying back out and wounded the archer. The cowherds went to their bishop who ordered three days of fasting and prayer to seek an explanation for the mystery. At the end of the three days Michael appeared to the bishop and requested a church built in the honour of the Holy Angels in the cave. If you find medals or holy cards with 'relics' of Michael, they are probably rock chips from the cave, or pieces of cloth that have touched it.

Born

wasn't

Died

hasn't

Name Meaning

Who is like God? (the battle cry of the army of heaven)

Patronage

• against storms and dangers at sea

• against temptations

• artists

• bakers

• bankers and banking

• battle

• coopers or barrel makers

• dying people

• EMTs and paramedics

• fencers and fencing

• grocers

• haberdashers

• hatmakers or hatters

• holy death

• knights

• milleners

• paratroopers

• police officers

• radiologists and radiotherapists

• sailors, mariners, watermen

• security guards

• sick people

• soldiers

• swordsmiths

• Belarus

• England

• Germany

• Papua, New Guinea

• Vatican City (given in 2013)

• Greek Air Force

• Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel

• Siegburg Abbey

• at least 14 dioceses and 42 cities around the world

Representation

• balance or scales (helping to judge at the Last Judgment)

• banner (as the leader of the army of God)

• dragon (representing the defeated devil)

• sword (as a soldier of God)

Raphael the Archangel

 புனிதர் ரபேல் 

அதிதூதர்:

(Archangel)

ஏற்கும் சமயம்: 

கிறிஸ்தவம்

(Christianity)

யூதம்

(Judaism)

இஸ்லாம்

(Islam)

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பாதுகாவல்: 

மருந்தாளுணர்கள்; குருடர்; உடல் நோய்கள்; நோயாளிகள்; கண் கோளாறுகள்; காதலர்கள்; செவிலியர்கள்; மன நோய்; பயணிகள்; இடையர்கள்; இளையோர்; பாதுகாவல் தேவதைகள்; சியாட்டில் உயர்மறைமாவட்டம் (Archdiocese of Seattle); 

மேடிசன் மறைமாவட்டம் (Diocese of Madison); மருத்துவர்கள்; பயணிகள்; இளைஞர்கள்;

டுபுக்யு உயர்மறைமாவட்டம் (Archdiocese of Dubuque); வாஷிங்க்டன்; பிலிப்பைன்ஸ்; ஆடு மேய்ப்பவர்கள்.

எபிரேய மொழியில் கூறப்படும் இவரின் பெயரின் பொருள் "கடவுள் குணமளிக்கின்றார்" என்பதாகும். இவரும் இறைவனின் முக்கிய தூதர்கள் எழுவரில் ஒருவர் ஆவார். இவர் கடவுளிடம் பரிந்து பேசி குணமளிக்கிறவராக இருக்கின்றார். நீண்ட பயணங்களிலும் பாதுகாப்பான பயணத்தை கொடுக்கின்றார்.

யூத மற்றும் கிறிஸ்தவ மரபுப்படி குணப்படுத்தும் இறைதூதர் ஆவார். கத்தோலிக்கர்கள் மற்றும் மரபுவழி திருச்சபையினரால் இறையேவுதல் பெற்ற நூலாக ஏற்கப்பட்ட விவிலியத்தின் பழைய ஏற்பாட்டுப் பகுதியாகிய இணைத் திருமுறைத் தொகுப்பைச் சேர்ந்த ஏழு நூல்களுள் ஒன்றான தோபித்து நூலில் அதிதூதர் புனிதர் ரபேல், குறிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார். விவிலியத்தில் பெயரோடு குறிக்கப்பட்டுள்ள மூன்று தூதர்களுள் இவரும் ஒருவர் ஆவார்.

விவிலியத்தில் கடவுளுடைய முன்னிலையில் பணிபுரியும் ஏழு வானதூதர்களுள் ஒருவர் தாம் என இவரே குறிப்பிடுவதாக உள்ளது.

இவரே தோபியாசும் அவர் மருமகள் சாராவும் மன்றாடியபோது அவர்களின் வேண்டுதல்களையும் நற்செயல்களையும் எடுத்துச்சென்று ஆண்டவரின் திருமுன் ஒப்படைதவரும், தோபியாசை சோதிக்க அனுப்பப்பட்டவரும், அவருக்கும் அவரின் மருமகள் சாராவுக்கும் நலம் அருளக் கடவுளால் அனுப்பப்பட்டவரும் ஆவார்.

Also known as

• Azariah

• Angel of Love

• Angel of Joy

Profile

Archangel. One of the three angels mentioned by name in Scripture, and one of the seven that stand before God's throne. Lead character in the deutero-canonical book of Tobit in which he travelled with (and guarded) Tobiah, and cured a man's blindness; hence his connection with travellers, young people, blindness, healing and healers. Traditionally considered the force behind the healing power of the sheep pool mentioned in John 5:1-4.

Born

wasn't

Died

hasn't

Name Meaning

• God has healed

• Healer from God

• God's remedy

• It is God who heals

• God Heals

• God, Please Heal

Patronage

• against all sickness or bodily ills

• against eye disease or eye problems

• mentally ill people; against insanity or mental illness

• against nightmares

• apothecaries, druggists, pharmacists

• blind people

• doctors, physicians

• guardian angels

• for happy meetings

• love; lovers

• nurses

• shepherds; shepherdesses

• sick people

• travellers

• young people

• Auchi, Nigeria, diocese of

• Dubuque, Iowa, archdiocese of

• MacKenzie - Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, diocese of

• Madison, Wisconsin, diocese of

• Seattle, Washington, archdiocese of

Representation

• angel holding a bottle or flask

• angel walking with Tobias

• archangel

• young man carrying a fish

• young man carrying a traveller's staff

1. வானதுதர்களின் படைப்பிரிவுகள் துதர்களின் ஒன்பது பிரிவுகள் https://youtu.be/s8FBygihr0E

2. காவல்துதரின் கடமைகள் ஆச்சியமுட்டும் 16 உண்மைகள் https://youtu.be/gfO2GtKZYkE

3. St. Raphael, Gabriel, Michael / மிக்கேல், கபிரியேல், இரபேல்/ https://youtu.be/UXjGOHiCfqw

4.  விவிலியத்தில் வானதுதர்கள்/ 14 அறிந்திராத உண்மைகள்https://youtu.be/SlDcVn7F1WI

5.  காவல் தூதர்கள்/

https://youtu.be/vjM4QEn5rgQ?list=PLWxRl2HKiRaKRiBipEGjgnLF77o7_YmV9

Blessed Luigi Monza

Profile

Born to a poor farming family. Entered seminary at age 18, and was ordained in the archdiocese of Milan, Italy on 19 September 1925. Assigned to a parish in Vedano Olona, Italy. Imprisoned for four months, having been falsley accused of planning an attack on a local Fascist official. Re-assigned to the Shrine of Our Lady of Miracles in Saronno, Italy in 1929 where he worked as a youth minister. Re-assigned to the parish of San Giovanni in Lecco, Italy in 1936 where he continued his work with youth and famillies. Known for his work with the poor, the sick, and the unjustly accused and persecuted. Founded the women's Istituto Secolare delle Piccole Apostole della Carità (Secular Institute of the Little Apostles of Charity) in 1937. He and the women of the Institute spun off the "Our Family" Association to provided education and medical help for poor and disabled children. Both groups continue their good work today, and the Little Apostles have spread from Italy to Sudan, Brazil, Ecuador, China, Morocco, and Palestine. Father Luigi became the model of a parish priest, working as a spiritual guide for his parishioners, and through families for a return to the love of the faith and of each of other found in the original Christian communities.

Born

22 June 1898 in Cislago, Varese, Italy

Died

• 29 September 1954 in Lecco, Italy of a heart attack

• buried in the province of Como, Italy

Beatified

• 30 April 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI

• recognition celebrated in Milan, Italy

Blessed John de Montmirail

Also known as

• Seigneur de Montmirail on the Marne

• John de Monte Mirabili

Profile

French nobility, born to Andrew, Lord of Montmirail and Ferté-Gaucher, and Hildiarde d'Oisy. Trained in religion by his mother, and secular science by his schools. Soldier. Friend of Philip Augustus, later King of France. Married to Helvide de Dampierre, and father of several children. Spent time in the French court, leading a dissolute life.

At age 30 he met Jobert, Prior of Saint-Etienne de Montmirail, whose intervention and counsel caused his conversion. John built a hospital with special facilities for lepers, cared for the poor, practiced self-imposed austerities, and spent whole nights in prayer. He finally obtained his wife's permission to enter religious life; he provided for her and the children, gave the remainder of his wealth to the poor, and became a Cistercian monk at Longpoint abbey. There he gave himself so wholly to prayer and penance; had to be reprimanded for going to excess in his self-imposed austerities. Harassed and insulted by relatives and former friends.

Pope Leo XIII granted a special office in his honour for the diocese of Soissons.

Born

1165

Died

• 29 September 1217 at Longpoint abbey of natural causes

• miracles were reported at his tomb, which soon became a pilgrimage site

Saint Rene Goupil

Also known as

Renatus Goupil

Additional Memorial

19 October as one of the Martyrs of North America

Profile

Entered the Jesuit noviate in Paris, France, but his deafness prevented his joining the order. He studied medicine, and in 1639 offered to work as a medic for the Jesuit missionaries in America. Missionary to the Hurons, working as a donné, a layman who worked without pay. Worked in a hospital in Quebec, Canada in 1640. Assistant to Saint Isaac Jogues on his missionary travels. Captured and tortured by Iroquois, enemies of the Huron, for making the sign of the cross over a child's head, which was mistaken for some type of curse. While they were in captivity, Father Isaac received Rene into the Jesuits as a religious brother. First martyr in North America. His death by tomahawk in the head led to his patronage of people who work with or receive anasthesia.

Born

1606 at Anjou, France

Died

tomahawked in the head following two months of torture in 1642

Canonized

29 June 1930 by Pope Pius XI

Patronage

• anesthetists

• anesthesiologists

Blessed Antonio Arribas Hortigüela

Profile

Student at the minor seminary of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Canet de Mar, Spain, and then joined the congregation on 30 September 1928. Ordained a priest on 6 April 1935. Taught Latin and served as treasurer of the Missionaries‘s school. Known for his exceptional physical strength, he was a father figure to many of the boys in his school. He was captured by Communist militia on 21 July 1936 when the militia men took over the school. He and several brother Missionary priests escaped on the night of 3 August 1936, and tried to make it to France, but were re-captured in the mountains on 28 September 1936, taken by bus to the Pont de Ser, and executed for the crime of being a priest. Martyred in the Spanish Civil War.

Born

29 April 1908 in Cardeñadijo, Burgos, Spain

Died

• machine-gunned on 29 September 1936 at a ruined house next to the Pont de Ser, Seriñá, Girona, Spain by members of the Communist militia

• buried in a mass grave nearby

• relics re-interred in a niche in the cemetery of Canet de Mar, Spain on 30 March 1940

Beatified

• 6 May 2017 by Pope Francis

• beatification recognition in the Cathedral of Santa Maria, Girona, Spain, presided by Cardinal Angelo Amato

Saint Jan of Dukla

Profile

Hermit. Friar Minor Conventual in 1440. Priest. Preacher in Ukraine, Moldavia and Belarus. Often a local superior, and once led the Franciscan custody headquartered in Lvív, Ukraine. In 1463 he joined part of the Observant Franciscans, who observed their Rule very strictly. Helped repel a Tartar attack on Lvív in 1474. John's life was characterized by poverty, obedience, asceticism, and devotion to Our Lady. Sought to reconcile schismatics to the Church. Blind at age 70, he continued his ministry as preacher and confessor.

Born

1414 at Dukla, Podkarpackie, Poland

Died

29 September 1484 in Lviv, L'vivs'ka oblast', Ukraine of natural causes

Beatified

• 23 January 1733 by Pope Clement XII (cultus confirmation)

• 2 July 1994 by Pope John Paul II (decree of heroic virtues)

Canonized

10 June 1997 at Krosno, Poland by Pope John Paul II before approximately one million pilgrims

Patronage

• Lithuania

• Poland

Blessed Charles of Blois

Profile

Son of Guy de Chatillon, Count of Blois, and Margaret, sister of King Philip VI of France. Charles felt a call to be a Francescan friar, but political duty kept him in secular life. Married Joan of Brittany in 1337, and became Duke of Brittany which involved him in disputes political and military. Soldier. Captured Nantes, France. Attended Mass daily. Founded religious houses, helped the sick and poor. Made a barefoot pilgrimage to Rennes. In 1346 he was defeated and lost his dukedom to John de Montfort who imprisoned him and sent him to England to languish in the Tower of London until ransomed and released nine years later in 1355. Charles then spent nine more years unsuccessfully fighting to regain his dukedom before dying in battle. Along the way he founded several religious houses, and was known for his Christian treatment of prisoners.

Born

1320

Died

killed in battle on 29 September 1364 at Aurey, France

Canonized

1904 by Pope Pius X

Patronage

prisoners

Blessed Francesc de Paula Castelló Aleu

Profile

Lifelong layperson in the diocese of Lleida, Spain. Youngest of three children, his father died when Francesc was an infant. Educated by Marists in Lleida, Catalonia, and then by Jesuits at the Chemical Intitute in Barcelona, Spain. During his college years in Oviedo, he became politically active, and continued working with the Jesuits. Member of the Federation of Young Christians of Catalonia. Member of Catholic Action. Worked as a chemist in Lleida. Engaged to Maria Pelegri. Drafted into the army just before the start of the Spanish Civil War. Imprisoned on the night of 21–22 July 1936 by anti–Catholic militiamen. Dragged before a “people’s court”, he refused to renounce his faith. Martyr.

Born

19 April 1914 in Alicante, Spain

Died

29 September 1936 in Lleida, Spain

Beatified

11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II

Blessed Richard Rolle de Hampole

Additional Memorial

1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University

Profile

An excellent student all his life, he was educated at Oxford. Studied in Paris, France from 1320 to 1326. Returning to England, he lived as a hermit on his family's estate. Some family members threatened to have him committed as mentally ill, and he moved to the estate of his friend and college classmate John Dalton of Pickering in 1326. Visionary and mystic. After several years of prayerful solitude, he began wandering England. Spiritual director for a community of Cistercian nuns at Hampole, England. Noted spiritual writer.

Born

c.1300 at Thornton, Yorkshire, England

Died

29 September 1349 at Hampole, England of natural causes

Saint Maurice of Carnoet

Also known as

• Maurice Duault

• Maurizio di Langonnet

Profile

Studied at the University of Paris. Cistercian monk at Langonette Monastery in France in 1144. Abbot of the house in 1176. Founding abbot of Carnoet Abbey in Brittany. When the woods around the house were threatened by aggressive wolves, Maurice reminded his brothers that wolves were God's creations, too, but for their protection he prayed for help, some wolves died, and the attacks ceased.

Born

1117 in Brittany (in modern France) as Maurice Duault

Died

• 1191 of natural causes

• miracles reported at his tomb, including the resurrection of a boy who drowned

Blessed Nicolás Tum Castro Quiatan

Profile

Married layman of the diocese of Quiché, Guatemala. A catechist, altar server and acolyte. Martyr.

Born

1945 in Cholá, Uspantán, Guatemala

Died

29 September 1980 in Los Plátanos, Chicamán, Quiché, Guatemala

Beatified

• 23 April 2021 by Pope Francis

• beatification recognition celebrated in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala

Blessed Alericus

Also known as

Alaric, Adelric, Adalricus, Adalrai

Profile

Son of duke Burhard II of Swabia. Educated at Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Monk of Einsiedeln. Hermit on the island of Ufnau in Lake Zurich where his mother had lived in seclusion following her diagnosis with leprosy, and where he built a church dedicated to Our Lady.

Died

975 of natural causes

Saint Guillermo Courtet

Also known as

Guillaume, Vilhelm, William, Thomas of Saint Dominic

Profile

Dominican priest. Missionary to Japan. Arrested for his faith in Okinawa, and martyred soon after.

Born

c.1590 in Sérignan, Languedoc, France

Died

29 September 1637 at Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan

Canonized

18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II

Saint Miguel González de Aozaraza de Leibar

Profile

Dominican priest. Missionary to Japan. Arrested for his faith in Okinawa. Martyr.

Born

February 1598 Oñate, Guipúzcoa, Spain

Died

29 September 1637 at Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan

Canonized

18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II

Saint Vicente Shiwozuka de la Cruz

Also known as

• Vincentius Shiotsuka

• Vincentius of the Cross

Profile

Dominican priest. Martyr.

Born

c.1576 in Nagasaki, Japan

Died

29 September 1637 at Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan

Canonized

18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II

Saint Rhipsime

Also known as

Arsema, Hripsime, Ripsima, Ripsime

Profile

Virgin martyr, executed with a group of fellow Christian in Armenia. She and her fellow victims are honored as the first Christian martyrs of Armenia. Many highly fanciful tales have grown up to fill in the blanks in her life story.

Died

c.290 in Vagharshapat, Armenia

Saint Liutwin of Trier

Also known as

• Liutwin of Mettlach

• Ludwino, Liudvino

Profile

Married. A widower, he founded a monastery in Mettlach, Germany and became a monk there. Bishop of Trier, Germany.

Born

Austrasia (eastern modern France)

Died

c.713

Saint Lazaro of Kyoto

Also known as

Lazarus

Profile

Layman. Leper. Martyr.

Born

Kyoto, Japan

Died

29 September 1637 at Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan

Canonized

18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II

Saint Grimoaldus of Pontecorvo

Profile

ArchPriest in Pontecorvo, southern Italy. Around 1137 he built a church dedicated to an apparition of Saint John the Baptist.

Died

c.1137 of natural causes

Saint Dadas of Persia

Also known as

Didas

Profile

Persian noble. Related to King Shapur II. Married to Saint Casdoe. Martyred for refusing to deny Christianity during the persecution of Shapur II.

Born

c.310 in Persia

Died

stabbed with a sword in 368 in Persia

Saint Theodota of Thrace

Profile

Repentant prostitute. Convert. Tortured and martyred for refusing to sacrifice to Roman idols during the persecutions of Agrippa.

Died

318 in Thrace

Patronage

• converts

• martyrs

• torture victims

Saint Gabdelas of Persia

Profile

May have been the son of Saint Dadas and Saint Casdoes. Martyred with them for refusing to deny Christianity during the persecution of Shapur II.

Born

Persia

Died

stabbed with a sword in 368 in Persia

Saint Quiriacus of Palestine

Also known as

Ciriaco, Quiriaco

Profile

Hermit in Palestine who lived among several groups of hermits, and was renowned in each one for his holiness.

Born

Greece

Died

6th century

Saint Casdoe

Profile

Persian noble woman. Married to Saint Dadas. Martyred with him and Saint Gabdelas, who may have been their son, for refusing to deny Christianity during the persecutions of Shapur II.

Born

Persian

Died

368 in Persia

Blessed John of Ghent

Also known as

Hermit of Saint Claude

Profile

Benedictine monk at the abbey of Sainte-Claude in the Jura Mountains. Worked with Saint Joan of Arc.

Died

1439 of natural causes

Saint Sapor of Persia

Also known as

Shapor

Profile

Relative of King Shapur II who had him executed for his faith. Martyr.

Died

stabbed with a sword in the mid-4th century in Persia

Saint Fraternus of Auxerre

Also known as

Fraterno

Profile

Bishop of Auxerre, France. Martyr.

Died

c.450

Saint Diethardus of Eichstätt

Profile

Monk who evangelized the area of Eichstätt, Germany in the 8th century.

Saint Catholdus of Eichstätt

Profile

Monk who evangelized the area of Eichstätt, Germany in the 8th century.

Saint Anno of Eichstätt

Profile

Monk who evangelized the area of Eichstätt, Germany in the 8th century.

Saint Gudelia

Profile

Maiden martyred in the persecutions of Shapur II.

Died

c.340 at Persia

Martyrs of Thrace

Profile

Three Christian men murdered in Thrace for their faith. They are - Eutychius, Heracleas and Plautus.

Martyred in the Spanish Civil War

Thousands of people were murdered in the anti-Catholic persecutions of the Spanish Civil War from 1934 to 1939. I have pages on each of them, but in most cases I have only found very minimal information. They are available on the CatholicSaints.Info site through these links:

• Abundio Martín Rodríguez

• Antonio Martínez López

• Dario Hernández Morató

• Francesc de Paula Castelló Aleu

• Francisco Edreira Mosquera

• Gumersindo Gómez Rodríguez

• Jesús Moreno Ruiz

• José Del Amo y Del Amo

• José Vergara Echevarria

• José Villanova Tormo

• Joseph Oriol Isern Massó

• Pau Bori Puig

• Santiago Mestre Iborra

• Vicente Sales Genovés

• Virgilio Edreira Mosquera

Also celebrated but no entry yet

• Gaiana

• Giacomo da Rafelbunol

• Henry Scarampi

• Lothair I

• Nicola da Forca Palena

இன்றைய புனிதர்கள் செப்டம்பர் 28

 St. John of Dukla

Feastday: September 28

Patron: of Poland and Lithuania

Birth: 1414

Death: 1484

Beatified: January 23, 1733 by Pope Clement XII

Canonized: Pope John Paul II

John of Dukla is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He is one of the patron saints of Poland and Lithuania.

John of Dukla (also called "Jan of Dukla") is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He is one of the patron saints of Poland and Lithuania.[1]

Biography

John was born in Dukla, Poland, in 1414. He joined the Friars Minor Conventual,[2] and studied at Krakow. After being ordained, he preached in Lwów (then part of Poland), Moldavia, and Belerus; and was superior of Lwów. He may have joined the Observants at a time when efforts were being made to unite the two branches of the Franciscans.[3]

Though he went blind at age seventy,[3] he was able to prepare sermons with the help of an aide. His preaching was credited with bringing people back to the Church in his province.[2] Soon after his death, there was an immediate veneration at his tomb and several miracles were attributed to him.

He died in 1484 in Lwów, Poland. On June 10, 1997, he was canonized by Pope John Paul II in a mass at Krosno, Poland, before approximately one million people

Saint Wenceslaus of Bohemia

 புனிதர் முதலாம் வென்செஸ்லாஸ் 

மறைசாட்சி:

(Martyr)

பிறப்பு: கி.பி. 907

ப்ராக், போஹேமியா

(Prague, Bohemia)

இறப்பு: செப்டம்பர் 28, 935

ஸ்டாரா போலேஸ்லாவ், போஹேமியா

(Stará Boleslav, Bohemia)

ஏற்கும் சமயம்: 

ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபை

(Roman Catholic Church)

கிழக்கு மரபுவழி திருச்சபை

(Eastern Orthodox Church)

முக்கிய திருத்தலங்கள்: 

தூய விதுஸ் பேராலயம், ப்ராக்

(St Vitus Cathedral, Prague)

நினைவுத் திருவிழா: செப்டம்பர் 28

சித்தரிக்கப்படும் வகை: 

மகுடம், குத்துவாள், பதாகையில் கழுகு

பாதுகாவல்: ப்ராக் (Prague), பொஹேமியா (Bohemia), செக் குடியரசு (Czech Republic)

புனிதர் முதலாம் வென்செஸ்லாஸ் "போஹேமியா"வின் (Bohemia) கோமகனாக கி.பி 921ம் ஆண்டு முதல் கி.பி. 935ம் ஆண்டில் தனது தம்பி “கொடூரன் போலஸ்லாஸ்” (Boleslaus the Cruel) என்பவரால் கொல்லப்படும்வரை ஆட்சியில் இருந்தவர் ஆவார். இவருடைய உயிர்த் துறப்பாலும் இவருடைய வாழ்க்கை வரலாற்று நூல்களாலும் நற்பண்புமிக்க நாயகன் என்று போற்றப்பட்டு புனிதராக அறிவிக்கப்பட்டார். இவர் செக் குடியரசு, பொஹேமியா மற்றும் ப்ராக் ஆகிய இடங்களின் பாதுகாவலராவார்.

வாழ்க்கை:

இவரது பெற்றோர், “முதலாம் விராடிஸ்லாஸ்” மற்றும் “டிராஹோமிரா” (Vratislaus I & Drahomíra) ஆவர். இவரது தந்தை, போஹேமியாவின் “பிரெமிஸ்லிட்” (Přemyslid dynasty) எனும் அரச வம்சத்தைச் சேர்ந்தவர் ஆவார். வென்செஸ்லாஸ், சிறுவயது முதல் இறையுணர்வும், அடக்கமும் கொண்டவராகவும், நன்கு கற்றறிந்தவராகவும், புத்திசாலியாகவும், அறியப்பட்டார். இவர் சிறுவயது முதல், நற்கருணை வழிபாட்டில் அதிக ஈடுபாடு கொண்டவர். அவரது தந்தையின் மறைவுக்குப் பிறகு போஹேமியாவின் கோமகனாக, வென்செஸ்லாஸ் பதவியேற்றார்.

மரணம்:

இவருக்கு ஒரு மகன் பிறந்ததால், தன் அரசு உரிமையை இழந்ததாக நினைத்த இவரது தம்பி போலெஸ்லாவ், இவரைக் கொல்லத் திட்டமிட்டான். தன் வீட்டில் ஏற்பாடு செய்யப்பட்டிருந்த புனிதர்கள் “கோஸ்மாஸ் மற்றும் தமியான்” (Saints Cosmas and Damian) விழாவில் பங்கேற்று விருந்துண்ண அழைத்தான். விருந்துக்குச் செல்லும் வழியில் தேவாலயத்திற்குச் சென்ற வென்செஸ்லாஸை, தேவாலயத்தின் வாசலிலேயே இவரது தம்பியுடனிருந்தோர்கள் குத்திக் கொன்றனர். "இறைவன் உன்னை மன்னிப்பாராக." என்ற வார்த்தைகளுடன் வென்செஸ்லாஸ் உயிர் துறந்தார்.

Also known as

Vaceslav, Vaclav, Wenzel, Wenceslas, Václav

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Son of Vratislav I, Duke of Bohemia, whose family had been converted by Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius, and Drahomira, daughter of a pagan chief; she was baptized on her wedding day, but who apparently never seriously took to the faith. Grandson and student of Saint Ludmilla. Duke of Bohemia, ascending to power when his father was killed during a pagan backlash against Christianity, which he fought against with prayer and patience. Murdered by his brother Boleslaus at the door of a church; killed for political reasons, but normally listed as a martyr since the politics arose from his faith. Miracles reported at his tomb. Subject of the Christmas carol Good King Wenceslas. His memorial is also Statehood Day in the Czech Republic.

Born

907 at Prague, Bohemia (in Czech Republic)

Died

28 September 929 at Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav, Bohemia (in Czech Republic)

Patronage

• brewers

• Bohemia

• Czech Republic

• Czechoslovakia

• Moravia

• Prague, Czech Republic, archdiocese of

• Prague, Czech Republic, city of

Representation

• banner

• crown

• eagle

• staff

Saint Lorenzo Ruiz of Manila

புனித லொரென்சோ 

இவர் முதல் பிலிப்பினோ மறைசாட்சி மற்றும் புனிதர் ஆவார் . ஒரு மகளும் ,இரு மகன்களும் கொண்ட பொதுநிலை கத்தோலிக்கராக இருந்தார் .மணிலாவில் 1600 களின் துவக்கத்தில் பிறந்த இவர் ,அங்கிருந்த ஒரு தொமினிக்கன் பள்ளியில் பயின்றார் . பிநோண்டோ தேவாலயத்தில் பீடச் சிறுவனாகவும் , பின்னர் உபதேசியாராகவும் பணி புரிந்தார் . செபமாலை மாதா சபையின் உறுப்பினராகவும் இருந்தார் . அலுவலக மற்றும் சொந்த பயன்பாட்டுக்கென உருவாக்கப்படும் ஆவணங்களில் அழகிய கையெழுத்து எழுதும் எழுத்தராக பணிபுரிந்தார் . அவர் வாழ்ந்த காலகட்டங்களில் மெத்தப் படித்த ,அதிகத் திறமையுள்ளவர்களே இப்பணியைச் செய்தனர்.1636 ம் ஆண்டில் இவர் ஒரு குற்றப்பழியைச் சுமக்க நேரிட்டது . இவர் குற்றமுள்ளவரா , இல்லையா என்பது தெளிவாக்க முடியாததால் ஜப்பானுக்கு புலம் பெயர்ந்தார் .அங்கு கத்தோலிக்கர்கள் பெருமளவில் வதைபட்டனர். இவரும் இவரது நண்பர்களும் பலவேறு இன்னல்களுக்கு ஆளாயினர் . கத்தோலிக்க மதத்தை விட்டு வரும்படி கட்டாயப்படுத்தப்பட்டனர். இவர்களோ மறுத்து விட்டனர் .தனக்கு ஆயிரம் உயிர்கள் இருந்தாலும் அத்தனையையும் கடவுளுக்கு அர்பணிக்க தான் தயாராக இருப்பதாக இவர் கூறினார் . இறுதியாக  தூக்கிலே தொங்க விடப்பட்டு இரு நாட்கள் மூச்சுத் திணறல் மற்றும் காயங்களால் வதைபட்டு மரித்தார் . இவரது உடல் எரிக்கப்பட்டு அஸ்தி கடலிலே கரைக்கப்பட்டது . இவருக்கும் இவரோடு மரித்த 15 பேருக்கும் திருத்தந்தை இரண்டாம் அருள் சின்னப்பர் 1981 இல் முத்திப்பேறு பட்டம் அளித்தார் . மீண்டும் 1987ல் புனிதர் பட்டம் அளித்தார்.

Also known as

Laurence, Lawrence

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Born to a Chinese father and Filipino mother, both Christians, Lorenzo learned Chinese and Tagalog at home, Spanish from the Dominicans whom he served as altar boy and sacristan. Professional calligrapher and document transcriptionist. Member of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary. Married layman, and the father of two sons and a daughter.

For unclear reasons, Lorenzo was accused of murder. He sought asylum on board ship with three Dominican priests, Saint Antonio Gonzalez, Saint Guillermo Courtet, and Saint Miguel de Aozaraza, a Japanese priest, Saint Vicente Shiwozuka de la Cruz, and a layman named Saint Lazaro of Kyoto, a leper. Only when they were at sea did he learn that they were going to Japan during a time of intense Christian persecution.

Lorenzo could have gone to Formosa (modern Taiwan), but feared the Spaniards there would hang him, and so stayed with the missionaries as they landed at Okinawa. The group was soon exposed as Christian, arrested, and taken to Nagasaki, Japan. They were tortured in several ways for days. Lawrence and the Japanese priest broke at one point, and were ready to renounce their faith in exchange for release, but after heir moment of crisis, they reclaimed their faith and defied their tormentors. First canonized Filipino martyr.

Born

c.1600 at Binondo, Manila, Philippines

Died

• 29-30 September 1637 at Nagasaki, Japan by being crushed over a period of three days while hanging upside down

• body burned, ashes thrown into the Pacific Ocean

Canonized

• 18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II

• the canonization miracle involved the healing Cecily Alegriae Policarpio from cerebral paralysis

Saint Simón de Rojas

Also known as

• Simón Ruiz de Rojas

• Simon of Rojas

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A pious child, his first words, at age 14 months, were reported to be Ave Maria. From his youth and throughout his life he loved to visit Marian shrines. Joined the Trinitarians in Valladolid, Spain at age 12, and made his religious profession on 28 October 1572. He studied at the University of Salamanca from 1573 to 1579, and was ordained a priest in 1577. Taught philosophy and theology in Toleda, Spain from 1581 to 1587. From 1588 to 1624, he served as superior of several Trinitarian convents in Castile and Andalusia, and served three periods as Apostolic Visitor to the regions.

His theological studies and contemplation of the mission and cooperating of the Blessed Virgin Mary led his to declare that he was a “slave” of Mary, and he founded the Congregation of the Slaves of the Most Sweet Name of Mary on 14 April 1612 for lay people who wanted to help lead people to God through devotion to Mary; the Congregation spread widely, included kings and princes, and helped to care for the poor. He caused the printing of thousands of images of the Blessed Virgin Mary with the caption “Ave Maria” and had them distributed inside and outside Spain. He made and distributed rosary crowns of 72 blue beads on white cord with symbols of the Assumption and of the Immaculate Conception; there was a tradition at the time Mary had lived to age 72.

Chosen the tutor of the royal infants of Spain in 1619. Elected Trinitarian Provincial of Castile on 12 May 1621. Confessor of Queen Isabella of Bourbon on 1 January 1622. Though a member of the royal court, he lived in poverty, travelled on foot everywhere he went, and spent whatever he had for the care of the poor.

Born

28 October 1552 in Valladolid, Spain

Died

28 September 1624 in Madrid, Spain of natural causes

Canonized

3 July 1988 by Pope John Paul II

Saint Lioba of Bischofsheim

Also known as

• Lioba of Wimborne

• Leoben, Liobgytha, Liobgetha, Truthgeba

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Born to the Wessex nobility to parents who had long prayed for a child. Relative of Saint Boniface with whom she corresponded for several years. Educated at the convent of Minster-in-Thanet and in Wimborne in Dorset, England. Nun at Wimborne at a time when Saint Tetta of Wimborne served as abbess.

In 748 Lioba led a group of 30 nuns, one of whom was Saint Agatha of Wimborne to Germany to help the missionary work of Saint Boniface and found convents. They based their work at Bischofsheim in Würzburg, Franconia, followed the Benedictine Rule, and Lioba served as abbess. Noted for her intelligence, her endless optimism and positive attitude for the work, and her constant study of the scriptures. Her work and the houses she founded were instrumental in the conversion of Germany to Christianity.

Lioba retired from her position in 776 only to start another house Schornsheim, Mainz. Visited the court of Charlemagne in Aachen, Germany and became a close friend of Empress Hildegard. The Benedictines of Saint Lioba are based in Frederiksberg, Denmark.

Born

c.710 in Wessex, England as Truthgeba (= God's gift)

Died

• 28 September 782 in Schornsheim, Germany of natural causes

• buried next to Saint Boniface in Fulda, Germany

• relics moved in 819

• relics moved in 839

• relics later moved to Saint Peter Berg Abbey in Fulda, Germany

Blessed Bernardine of Feltre

Also known as

• Bernardino of Feltre

• Martin Tomitani

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Born to the nobility, the eldest of nine children, he grew up with a speech impediment. After hearing Saint James of the Marches preach at Padua, Italy during Lent in 1456, he felt a call to the religious life. Joined the Order of Friars Minor in May 1456. Teacher. Studied at Mantua, Italy. Ordained in 1463. His speech impediment miraculously cured, and he became a travelling preacher throughout Italy, noted for his fiery sermons against usury. He organized more than thirty monti di pietá throughout Italy to give people an alternative to high-interest lenders.

Born

1439 at Feltre, Italy as Martin Tomitani

Died

28 September 1494 of natural causes

Beatified

• 13 April 1654 by Pope Innocent X (cultus confirmed)

• 1728 by Pope Benedict XIII (beatified)

Patronage

• bankers

• pawnbrokers

Representation

• green hill of three mounds, with a cross on each

• man holding monte di pietà, that is, a little green hill composed of three mounds and on the top either a cross or a standard with the inscription: Curam illius habe

Saint Conval of Strathclyde

Also known as

• Conval the Confessor

• Conwall...

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Son of an Irish prince. Spiritual student of Saint Kentigern. Archdeacon and priest. One day as he stood on the edge of the Irish sea he asked for God's guidance for his life. The stone on which he was standing broke loose and carried him to Inchinnan where a chapel stands to commemorate it. Evangelized throughout East Renfrewshire, Scotland where there still exist "Conval wells" in Barrhead and Thornliebank.

Born

Irish

Died

c.630 in Scotland of natural causes

Patronage

East Renfrewshire, Scotland

Blessed Francis Piani

Also known as

Francis of Caldarola

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Francis grew up in a poor farming community where he saw many people become enslaved to high-interest money lenders and pawn dealers. Franciscan friar. Known as a powerful preacher and a peacemaker between feuding people, families and clans; he said his secret to peace-making was to talk to the people by day and then spend his nights in prayer. Worked with Blessed Bernardino da Feltre to set up the alternatives to pawn shops.

Born

1424 in Caldarola, Macerata, Italy

Died

12 September 1507 in the Franciscan convent in Colfano, Italy of natural causes

Beatified

• miracles reported at his graves, and devotion to him was recorded as early as 1511

• 1634 by Pope Urban VII (cultus confirmation)

• 1 September 1843 by Pope Gregory XVI (cultus confirmation)

Blessed Thiemo of Salzburg

Also known as

Dietmar, Theodinarus, Theodmarus, Thimo

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Born to the Bavarian nobility. Benedictine monk at Niederaltaich Abbey. Renowned painter, engraver, sculptor, and artist in metal. Abbot of Saint Peter's Abbey in Salzburg, Austria in 1077. Archbishop of Salzburg in 1090. Attended the Council of Piacenza in 1095 which took place during a period of turmoil over lay investiture and the appointment of illegitimate bishops. Imprisoned in 1097 and exiled for loyalty to Pope Gregory VII. Crusader in 1101. Captured at Ascalon. Tortured and martyred in Corozain for refusing to convert to Islam.

Born

c.1040 in Bavaria, Germany

Died

1102 at Corozain, Palestine

Patronage

• engravers

• sculptors

Blessed Nikita Budka

Also known as

Niceta, Nykyta, Mykyta

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Greek-Catholic. Studied theology in Vienna and Innsbruck, Austria, graduating in 1905. Ordained on 25 October 1905. First bishop for Ukrainian Catholics in Canada on 15 July 1912. Auxiliary bishop of Lviv, Ukraine on 14 October 1912. Vicar General of the Metropolitan Curia in Lviv in 1928. Arrested for his faith and sentenced to eight years in the Soviet concentration camps on 11 April 1945. Martyr.

Born

7 June 1877 in Dobomirka, Zbarazh District, Poland (modern Ukraine)

Died

1 October 1949 in a Soviet concentration camp in Karaganda, Kazakhstan

Beatified

27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II in Ukraine

Saint Chariton of Palestine

Also known as

Chariton the Confessor

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Hermit in the Kidron Valley near Jericho. His reputation for holiness atrracted so many would-be spiritual students that he retreated to the desert of Jericho. Founded the Souka abbey at wadi Chareitun near Bethlehem, Palestine, and served as its first abbot; he founded several houses in the desert of Judea. Known for spending his days in manual labour and prayer, fasting till after sunset, and even then eating little and plainly.

Born

Iconium, Lycaonia, Asia Minor

Died

c.350 of natural causes at an advanced age

Saint Eustochium

புனித யூஸ்டோசியஸ் (369-419)

செப்டம்பர் 28

இவர் உரோமையில் பிறந்தவர். இவரது தந்தை டோக்சோசியுஸ், தாய் புனித பவுலா என்பவர் ஆவர். இவருக்கு மூன்று சகோதரிகள் இருந்தனர்.

சிறுவயதிலேயே ஆண்டவருக்குத் தன்னை அர்ப்பணித்து வாழத் தொடங்கிய இவர், ஒருமுறை புனித ஜெரோம் இத்தாலிக்கு வந்திருந்தபொழுது, அவரோடு பெத்லகேம் சென்று, திருவிவிலியத்தை மொழிபெயர்ப்பதில் அவருக்கு இவர் உறுதுணையாக இருந்து வந்தார்.

இவர்  கிரேக்கம், இலத்தின், ஹூப்ரு ஆகிய மொழிகளை நன்றாகக் கற்றறிந்திருந்ததால், புனித ஜெரோமோடு திருவிவிலியத்தை மொழிபெயர்ப்பதற்கு அது பேருதவியாக இருந்தது.

பின்னாளில் புதிய ஜெரோம் பெண்களுக்கென நான்கு துறவுமடங்களை நிறுவியபொழுது, அவற்றில் ஒரு துறவு மடத்திற்கு இவர் தலைவியாக நியமிக்கப்பட்டார். 

இவ்வாறு திருவிவிலியத்தை மொழிபெயர்ப்பதற்கு உதவியாய் இருந்து,  ஒரு துறவியாய் பலருக்கும் எடுத்துக்காட்டாக விளங்கிய இவர், 419 ஆண்டு இறையடி சேர்ந்தார்.

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Daughter of Saint Paula of Rome and Roman senator Toxotius. Sister of Saint Blaesilla. Spiritual student of Saint Jerome in 382. Made a personal vow of perpetual virginity. Spoke Latin and Greek, and could read Hebrew. Travelled with Paula and Jerome to the Holy Land where she helped with the Vulgate Bible translation, working as Jerome's housekeeper, reading and writing for him when his eyesight began to fail. When Paula died in 404, Eustochium took over the spiritual direction of three women's communities formerly guided by her mother.

Born

c.369 at Rome, Italy 

Died

c.419 at Bethlehem of natural causes

Saint Salonius of Geneva

Also known as

Salonio

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Son of Galla, who became a nun late in life, and of Saint Eucherius of Lyon; brother of Saint Veranus of Vence. Educated at Lérins Abbey where he became a monk. Bishop of Geneva, Switzerland in 439. Attended the Council of Orange in 441. Attended the Councils of Vaison in 442 and in 451. Supported the work of Pope Saint Leo the Great. Wrote Bible commentaries on the books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, and was so well known in theological and intellectual circles that other works of the time were dedicated to him.

Born

c.400

Died

mid-5th century in Geneva, Switzerland of natural causes

Saint Annemond of Lyons

Also known as

Annemund, Anemundo, Annemundus, Chamond, Delphinus, Ennemond

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Born to the nobility, the son of Sigon, a prefect in Lyons, France; his brother was Count Dalfin of Lyons. Annemond grew up in the court of King Dagobert I, and councilor to King Clovis II. Friend of Saint Wilfrid of York. Archbishop of Lyons, France. Murdered by Ebroin in the turmoil following the death of Clovis. Saint-Chamond, Loire, France is named in his honour.

Died

• 657 in Châlon-sur-Saône, France

• relics enshrined by Saint Wilfrid of York

Saint Alodius of Auxerre

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Bishop of Auxerre, France, probably consecrated in August 452, and then serving for 30 years.

Died

• 28 September 482 in Auxerre, France of natural causes

• re-interred in the crypt of the church in Auxerre in 865

• the relics were re-surveyed and recorded in 1636

• the relics were re-surveyed and recorded in 1857

Saint Zama of Bologna

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First known bishop of Bologna, Italy, consecrated by Pope Saint Dionysius, c.260.

Died

• c.268 of natural causes

• relics translated from the Church of the Crucifix in Saint Stephen to the cathedral of Saint Peter in Bologna, Italy c.1500

• buried next to Saint Faustinianus

Saint Exuperius of Toulouse

Also known as

Essuperio, Exsuperius, Soupire

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Bishop of Toulouse, France. Known for his charity, including aid to the poor in Egypt and Palestine. Saint Jerome thought highly of him, and dedicated one of his Bible commentaries to him.

Died

411

Saint Chuniald

Also known as

Conald, Cunialdo

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Seventh-century missionary priest in the region of Bavaria in modern Germany and Austria. Worked with Saint Rupert of Salzburg.

Born

Ireland, Scotland, France or Germany (records vary quite a bit)

Died

• c.718 at Salzburg, Austria of natural causes

• relics transferred to the church of Saint Rupert in 773–774

Saint Gislar

Also known as

Gisilario

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Seventh-century missionary priest in the region of Bavaria in modern Germany and Austria. Worked with Saint Rupert of Salzburg.

Born

Ireland, Scotland, France or Germany (records vary quite a bit)

Died

• c.718 at Salzburg, Austria of natural causes

• relics transferred to the church of Saint Rupert in 773–774

Blessed Christian Franco

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Brother of Blessed Desiderio Franco. Joined the Augustinians in 1362. Monk at the Carbonara convent in Naples, Italy in 1421. Augustinian superior general.

Born

Villafranca Piemonte, Italy

Died

• 1432 of natural causes

• buried at the Carbonara convent in Naples, Italy

Saint Tetta of Wimborne

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Abbess of Wimborne Abbey during a period when it had over 500 sisters including Saint Lioba of Bischofsheim, Saint Thecla of Kitzingen and Saint Agatha of Wimborne. Sent a contingent of the nuns and gave other help to the missionary work of Saint Boniface in Germany.

Died

c.772

Saint Faustus of Riez

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Monk at Lérins Abbey. Abbot there in 433. Bishop of Riez, France in 459. Fought Arianism and Pelagianism in his diocese.

Born

c.408 in Brittany, France

Died

c.490

Blessed Aaron of Auxerre

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Ninth-century bishop of Auxerre, France.

Died

• c.807 in Auxerre, France of natural causes

• relics enshrined in the church of Saint-Germain in Auxerre

Saint Willigod of Moyenmoutier

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Monk in the monastery in Moyenmoutier, France. Helped found the monastery in the area of Romont in modern Switzerland.

Died

c.690

Saint Martin of Moyenmoutier

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Monk in the monastery in Moyenmoutier, France. Helped found the monastery in the area of Romont in modern Switzerland.

Died

c.690

Saint Machan

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Educated in Ireland where he became a monk. Missionary to pagans in Scotland. Bishop, ordained in Rome, Italy.

Born

Scottish

Patronage

Aberdeen, Scotland

Saint Privatus of Rome

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Martyred in the persecutions of Alexander Severus.

Died

scourged to death in 223 in Rome, Italy

Saint Solomon of Genoa

Also known as

Salomon, Salonius

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First bishop of Genoa, Italy.

Died

c.269

Saint Paternus of Auch

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Second-century bishop of Auch, France.

Born

Bilbao, Spain

Saint Bardomianus

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One of a group of 28 Christians martyred in the early days of the Church in Asia Minor.

Saint Laurence of North Africa

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One of a group of 22 martyrs.

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-laurence-of-north-africa/

Saint Martial of North Africa

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One of a group of 22 martyrs.

Saint Eucarpus

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One of a group of 28 Christians martyred in the early days of the Church in Asia Minor.

Saint Stacteus

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Martyr.

Died

Rome, Italy

Augustinian Martyrs of Japan

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The first Augustinian missionaries arrived in Japan in 1602 and met with immediate success; many were brought to the faith; many of them became Augustinians; and many of them were martyred in the periodic persecutions of Christians. This memorial commemorates all of them, whether they have a sanctioned Cause for Canonization or not. They include

• Blessed Bartolomé Gutiérrez Rodríguez

• Blessed Ferdinand Ayala

• Blessed Francisco Terrero de Ortega Pérez

• Blessed Ioannes Mukuno Chozaburo

• Blessed Laurentius Kaida Hachizo

• Blessed Mancius Yukimoto Ichizaemon

• Blessed Martín Lumbreras Peralta

• Blessed Melchor Sánchez Pérez

• Blessed Michaël Ichinose Sukezaemon

• Blessed Pedro de Zúñiga

• Blessed Petrus Sawaguchi Kuhyoe

• Blessed Thomas Terai Kahyoe

• Blessed Vicente Simões de Carvalho

• Saint Magdalena of Nagasaki

• Blessed Thomas Jihyoe of Saint Augustine

Martyrs of Antioch

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A group of 30 soldiers and 7 civilians who were murdered together for their faith. The names that have come down to us are - Alexander, Alphinus, Heliodorus, Mark, Neon, Nicon and Zosumus.

Died

c.303 at Antioch, Pisidia (in modern Turkey)

Martyrs of China

About

A common memorial for the hundreds of the faithful, lay and clergy, who have died for their faith in the last couple of centuries in China.

Canonized

1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II

8 July – Martyrs of Shanxi

9 July – Franciscan Martyrs of China

28 September

Franciscan Martyrs of China

Martyrs of Zhaojia

Martyrs of Zhujiahe

Saint Agatha Lin

Saint Agnes Cao Guiying

Saint Alberic Crescitelli

Saint André Bauer

Saint Andreas Wang Tianqing

Saint Anna An Jiaoshi

Saint Anna An Xingshi

Saint Anna Wang

Saint Antonino Fantosati

Saint Auguste Chapdelaine

Saint Augustine Tchao

Saint Barbara Cui Lianshi

Saint Callistus Caravario

Saint Cesidio Giacomantonio

Saint Chi Zhuze

Saint Elia Facchini

Saint Elisabeth Qin Bianshi

Saint Francesco Fogolla

Saint Francis Ferdinand de Capillas

Saint Francis Serrano

Saint Francisco Díaz del Rincón

Saint Franciscus Zhang Rong

Saint Giovanni of Triora

Saint Gregorio Grassi

Saint Huailu Zhang

Saint Iacobus Yan Guodong

Saint Iacobus Zhao Quanxin

Saint Ioachim Hao

Saint Ioannes Baptista Luo Tingyin

Saint Ioannes Baptista Wu Mantang

Saint Ioannes Baptista Zhao Mingxi

Saint Ioannes Baptista Zhu Wurui

Saint Ioannes Wang Kuixin

Saint Ioannes Wang Rui

Saint Ioannes Wu Wenyin

Saint Ioannes Zhang Huan

Saint Ioannes Zhang Jingguang

Saint Iosephus Ma Taishun

Saint Iosephus Wang Kuiju

Saint Iosephus Wang Yumei

Saint Iosephus Yuan Gengyin

Saint Iosephus Yuan Zaide

Saint Iosephus Zhang

Saint Jean-Pierre Néel

Saint Jeanne-Marie Kerguin

Saint Jerome Lu

Saint Joaquín Royo Pérez

Saint Joseph Zhang Dapeng

Saint Juan Alcober Figuera

Saint Laurentius Bai Xiaoman

Saint Lawrence Wang

Saint Léon-Ignace Mangin

Saint Lucia Wang Cheng

Saint Lucia Wang Wangzhi

Saint Lucia Yi Zhenmei

Saint Luigi Versiglia

Saint Magdalena Du Fengju

Saint Marcus Ji Tianxiang

Saint Maria An Guoshi

Saint Maria An Linghua

Saint Maria Chaira

Saint Maria Chi Yu

Saint Maria Du Tianshi

Saint Maria Du Zhauzhi

Saint Maria Fan Kun

Saint Maria Fu Guilin

Saint Maria Guo Lizhi

Saint Maria Wang Lishi

Saint Maria Zhao

Saint Maria Zhao Guoshi

Saint Maria Zheng Xu

Saint Maria Zhu Wushi

Saint Marianna Giuliani

Saint Marie Adolphine Dierks

Saint Marie Amandine

Saint Marie de Saint Just

Saint Martha Wang

Saint Martinus Wu Xuesheng

Saint Mary Hermina Grivot

Saint Matthias Feng De

Saint Modeste Andlauer

Saint Patricius Dong

Saint Paul Denn

Saint Paulus Chen Changpin

Saint Paulus Ge Tingzhu

Saint Paulus Lang Fu

Saint Paulus Liu Hanzuo

Saint Paulus Liu Jinde

Saint Paulus Wu Anju

Saint Paulus Wu Wanshu

Saint Pere Sans Jordà

Saint Peter Ou

Saint Petrus Li Quanhui

Saint Petrus Liu Zeyu

Saint Petrus Wang Erman

Saint Petrus Wang Zuolung

Saint Petrus Wu Anbang

Saint Petrus Zhang Banniu

Saint Petrus Zhao Mingzhen

Saint Petrus Zhu Rixin

Saint Philippus Zhang Zhihe

Saint Raimundus Li Quanzhen

Saint Rémi Isoré

Saint Rosa Chen Aijieh

Saint Rosa Fan Hui

Saint Rosa Zhao

Saint Simon Chen

Saint Simon Qin Chunfu

Saint Teresia Chen Qingjieh

Saint Teresia Zhang Heshi

Saint Thaddeus Liu Ruiting

Saint Thomas Shen Jihe

Saint Yangzhi Lang

Martyred in the Spanish Civil War

Thousands of people were murdered in the anti-Catholic persecutions of the Spanish Civil War from 1934 to 1939. I have pages on each of them, but in most cases I have only found very minimal information. They are available on the CatholicSaints.Info site through these links:

• Blessed Amalia Abad Casasempere de Maestre

• Blessed Francesc Xavier Ponsa Casallach

• Blessed Josep Casas Juliá

• Blessed Josep Casas Ros

• Blessed Josep Tarrats Comaposada

• Blessed María Fenollosa Alcaina

Also celebrated but no entry yet

• Antonio of Almansa

• Valentino Rovira