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On July 1, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Juniper Serra y Abram of Petra
[Junípero] [baptized Miguel José (Michael Joseph)] (Spanish, Franciscan priest, university professor, missionary in
North American West, established the first 9 of 21 California missions, died at
age 70 in 1784 [beatified 1988, canonized 2015]) [On U.S. "particular
calendar"]
St. Aaron (Israelite born in Egypt,
brother of patriarch Moses, high priest, 13th Century B.C.)
Bl. Anthony Rosmini of Rovereto
[Antonio] (Italian, priest, theologian/philosopher, founded Institute of Charity and the Sisters of
Providence, died at age 58 in 1855 [beatified 2007])
St. Arnulf of Mainz (German, archbishop, martyred in 1160)
Bl. Assunta Marchetti of Lombrici de
Camaiore
(Italian, religious of Scalabrinian
Missionaries in Brazil, died at age
76 in 1948 [beatified 2014])
St. Carilefus of Auvergne (French, monk, hermit, abbot, d. 536)
Sts. Castus and Secundinus (Italian, bishops, early martyrs)
St. Cewydd of Anglesey (Welsh, 6th Century)
St. Domitian of Rome (Italian, orphan, monk in France, d. 440)
St. Eparchius of Perigord (French, duke, hermit, abbot, d. 581)
St. Esther [Hadassah] (Israelite, Jewish
queen of Persian king in Old Testament, 5th Century B.C.)
St. Felix of Como (Italian, bishop, c. 390)
St. Gall of Clermont
(French, courtier, bishop, died at about age 65 c. 554)
Bl. Ignatius Falzon of Valletta [Nazju] (Maltese, layman, founded Congregation of the Rosary, died on his 52nd birthday in 1865 [beatified 2001]) [On Maltese "particular calendar"]
Bl. Martyrs of Izabal (two men, martyred
[shot] by anti-Catholic guerrillas in 1981 [beatified 2018])
----- Bl. Tullio Maruzzo
of Lapio di Arcugnano
[baptized Marcello] (Italian, Franciscan missionary priest, died at age 51)
----- Bl. Louis Obdulio
of Quiriguá
[Luis] (Guatemalan, lay catechist, member of Secular Franciscan Order, died at age 31)
Bl. John Nepomucene Chrzan of Gostyczyn [Jan Nepomucen] (Polish, diocesan priest, martyred by Nazis at Dachau [Germany] at age 57 in 1942 [beatified 1999])
St. Juthware (British, virgin, martyred in 7th Century)
St. Martin of Vienne
(Italian? missionary bishop in France, 2nd Century)
St. Servan [“Apostle of West Fife”] (Irish, bishop, 6th Century)
St. Simeon Salos of
Emesa ["The
Holy Fool"] (Syrian, hermit, 6th Century)
St. Theodoric of Mont d’Or (abbot in France, healer, d. 533)
Bl. Thomas Maxfield of Enville [or Macclesfield] (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under James I at about age 26 in 1616 [beatified 1929])
Bl. Thomas Sprott of Skelsmerg (English, priest, martyred under Elizabeth I at about age 29 in 1600 [beatified 1987])
St. Veep [also called Wennapu] (Welsh?, 6th Century)
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On July 2, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Acestes (soldier, guarded St.
Paul after his arrest, martyred by beheading in first Century)
Sts. Ariston, Eutychian, Felicissimus, Felix, Justus, Marcia, Symphorosa, Urban, Vitalis, and Crescentian, of Campania (Italian, martyred in 284)
St. Bernardine Realino
of Lecce
[Bernardino] (Italian, nobleman, lawyer, mayor, judge, Jesuit priest, college rector, hero of poor and
galley slaves, died at age 85 in 1616 [beatified 1896, canonized 1947])
Bl. Eugenia Joubert of Yssingeaux
[Eugénie] (French, virgin, religious of Congregation of the Holy Family of
the Sacred Heart of Jesus, died at age 28 in 1904 [beatified 1994])
Bl. George Beesley of Goosenoor and
Bl. Montford Scott
of Hawkestead
(English, priests, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Elizabeth I at
about age 28 and 41 in 1591 [beatified 1987])
St. Lidanus of Sezze (Italian, Benedictine abbot, d. 1118)
St. Monegundis of
Chartres
(French, mother of two children that died young, hermitess, c. 570)
St. Otto of Bamberg
(German, nobleman, imperial chancellor, bishop, converted twenty thousand pagan
Poles, died at about age 79 in 1139 [canonized 1189])
St. Oudoceus of Brittany (bishop of Landaff in Wales, c. 580)
Bl. Peter of Ligny [also
called Peter of
Luxembourg]
[Pierre] (French, bishop of Metz at age 13, attempted to end Western Schism,
died at age 18 in 1387 [beatified 1527])
St. Swithun of Wessex
(British, king's chaplain, prince's tutor, bishop of Winchester, died at about
age 62 in 862)
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On July 3, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Thomas of
Galilee
["Didymus" or "The Twin"] ["Apostle of India"]
(Israelite, apostle of Jesus, missionary in Persia and India, martyred by spear
in 1st Century)
St. Anatolius of
Alexandria
(Egyptian, mathematician, bishop of Caesarea in Palestine and of Laodicea in
Syria, c. 283)
St. Anatolius of
Constantinople
(from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], patriarch, d. 458)
St. Bladus of the Isle of Man (British, bishop)
St. Byblig of Carnarvon
(Welsh, 5th Century?)
St. Cillene of Iona (Irish, abbot in Scotland, c. 752)
St. Dathus of Ravenna (Italian, bishop, d. 190)
St. Eulogius and companions (from Asia Minor, martyred c. 370)
St. Germanus (Irish, nephew of St. Patrick, missionary monk in Wales and France, bishop, c. 474)
St. Gunthiern of Brittany (Welsh, prince, hermit in France, c. 500)
St. Guthagon of Oostkerk (Irish, hermit in Belgium, 8th Century)
St. Heliodorus of
Altinum
(Dalmatian [Croatian], lifelong friend and patron of St. Jerome, bishop,
opposed Arian heresy, died at about age 58 c. 390)
St. Hyacinth of Caesarea (Cappadocian [from part of what is now Turkey], imperial official, martyred by starvation c. 120)
Sts. Irenaeus and Mustiola of
Chiusi
(Italian, deacon and noblewoman, martyred in 273)
Pope St. Leo II (Sicilian, elected to
papacy in 681, reigned until death in 683)
St. Maelmuire O'Gorman of Knock (Irish, abbot, c. 1168)
Sts. Mark, Mucian, Paul, and companion (early martyrs)
Bl. Mary Ann Mogas
Fontcuberta of Corró de Vall-Grenollers [María Ana] (Spanish, virgin,
founded Congregation of the Tertiary Franciscans of the Holy Mother of the
Shepherd, died at age 39 in 1886 [beatified 1996])
St. Philip Phan Van Minh of Caimong (Vietnamese, priest, martyred by beheading at about age 38 in 1853 [beatified 1900, canonized 1988])
St. Rumoldus [also called Rumbold] (Irish, Benedictine monk in England, bishop, martyred c. 775) [commemorated by some on June 24]
St. Tryphon and twelve companions, of
Alexandria
(Egyptian, early martyrs)
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On July 4, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Elizabeth of
Aragon
[also called Elizabeth of
Portugal]
[Isabel] (Spanish, grand-niece of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, daughter of king,
married king of Portugal at age 12, mother of two, Franciscan tertiary, peacemaker, died at about age 65 in
1336 [canonized 1625])
St. Albert Quadrelli of
Rivolta d'Adda
[Alberto] (Italian, parish priest for 25 years, bishop of Lodi, d. 1179)
St. Andrew of Jerusalem (Syrian, monk in
Jerusalem, deacon in Constantinople, writer of hymns, archbishop of Gortyna in
Crete, died at about age 80 c. 740)
St. Aurelian of Lyons (French, Benedictine abbot, archbishop, d. 895)
St. Bertha of Blangy
(French, aristocrat, mother of five, widow, Benedictine hermitess, c. 725)
St. Caesidius Giacomantonio
of Fossa Acquilana
[Cesidio] [baptized Angelo] (Italian, Franciscan missionary priest in China, martyred at age
27 in 1900 [beatified 1946, canonized 2000])
Bl. Catherine Jarrige of Doumis (French, virgin, Dominican tertiary, died at age 81 in 1836 [beatified 1996])
St. Finbar of Wexford
(Irish? abbot on British island, 6th Century)
Bl. Hatto of Ottobeuren (German, Benedictine monk, d. 985)
Bl. Henry of Albano [Henri] (French, Cistercian monk, cardinal archbishop in Italy, died in France in 1188)
Sts. Innocent, Sebastia, and thirty companions, of Sirmium (Serbian, early martyrs)
Blessed Martyrs of Japan of 1603 to 1639 [also known as "Bl. Peter Kasui Kibe and Companions"] (Japanese, 5 priests and 183 laity, martyred at various locations [beatified 2008])
[Click here to see the martyrs' names and other facts about them.]
Bl. John Cornelius of Bodmin [aka Mohun], Bl.
Thomas Bosgrave
of Cornwall,
Bl. Patrick Salmon, and
Bl. John [aka Terence] Carey
of Dublin
(English [3] and Irish ... Jesuit
priest, gentleman, two servants ... tortured and martyred [hanged] under
Elizabeth I in 1594 [beatified in 1929]) [Cornelius was about 37]
Bl. Joseph Kowalski of Siedliska
[Józef] (Polish, Salesian priest, martyred by Nazis [drowned] at
Auschwitz [Poland] at age 31 in 1942 [beatified 1999])
St. Joseph Peter Nguyen Dinh
Uyen of
East Tonkin
(Vietnamese ... Dominican
tertiary, catechist, martyred by strangling at about age 60 in 1838
[beatified 1900, canonized 1988])
St. Jucundian (African, early martyr by drowning)
St. Laurian of Seville
(Hungarian, deacon in Italy, archbishop in Spain, martyred in France c. 544)
Bl. Lucy of the Immaculate Ripamonti
of Acquate
[Lucia dell'Immacolata] (Italian, virgin, religious sister of the Handmaids of Charity, died at age 45 in
1954 [beatified 2021])
Bl. Mary of the Crucifix Curcio of Ispica [Maria Crocifissa] [baptized Rosa] (Sicilian, founded and led Congregation of the Carmelite Missionary Sisters of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, died at age 80 in 1957 [beatified 2005])
St. Namphanion and companions, of
Madaura
(Numidian [North African], martyred c. 180)
St. Odo the Good of
Canterbury
(British, Benedictine monk,
archbishop, advisor to kings, died at about age 88 in 959)
Bl. Peter George Frassati of Turin [Pier Giorgio] (Italian, single layman, Dominican tertiary, died at age 24 in 1925 [beatified 1990])
St. Procopius of Sazaba [Prokop] (Czech, priest, hermit, Basilian abbot, died at about age 72 in 1053 [canonized 1204])
St. Theodore of
Cyrene
(Libyan, scriptural copyist, bishop, martyred c. 310)
St. Ulrich of Augsburg (German, bishop for 50 years, died in Switzerland at about age 83 in 973 [canonized 993 - reputedly the first canonization by a pope for the universal Church])
Bl. William Andleby of Etton, Bl. Edward Fulthrop of Yorkshire, Bl. Thomas Warcop of Yorkshire, and Bl. Henry Abbot of Howden (English, priest and three laymen, martyred [hanged] under Elizabeth I in 1597 [beatified in 1929])
Bl. William of Hirsau
[Wilhelm] (German, Benedictine
abbot, d. 1091)
Blessed Martyrs of Japan of 1603 to 1639 – [CONTINUED]
(Japanese, 5 priests and 183 laity, martyred at various locations [beatified 2008])
[Priests:]
----- Bl. Didacus Yuki Ryosetsu of Awa (Jesuit, died at about age 61 in 1636)
----- Bl. Julian Nakaura of Nakaura (Jesuit, died at about age 66 in 1633)
----- Bl. Peter Kasui Kibe of Kibe (made pilgrimage to Jerusalem, ordained in Rome, Jesuit in Siam and Japan, tortured and died [speared] at about age 53 in 1639)
----- Bl. Thomas of St. Augustine Ochia Jihyoe of Omura (Augustinian, died at about age 35 in 1637)
[Jesuit brother:]
----- Bl. Nicholas Fukunaga Keian of Nagawara (died at about age 63 in 1633)
[Other laity:]
----- Bl. Adam Arakawa (married man, catechist, died at about age 63 in 1614)
----- Bl. Adrian Takahashi Mondo and Bl. Joanna Takahashi, of Arima (husband and wife, died in 1614)
----- Bl. Agatha of Omi (died in 1619)
----- Bl. Alexis Choemon, Bl. Candidus Bozu, and Bl. Ignatius, of Hanazawa (married man, his brother-in-law, and the latter's nephew ... died at about ages 26, 14, and 1 in 1629)
----- Bl. Alexis Sato Seisuke of Shindogadai, Bl. Lucy Sato of Yonezawa, Bl. Elizabeth Sato of Shindogadai, and Bl. Paul Sato Matagoro of Shindogadai (husband, wife, daughter, and brother ... died in 1629) [Bl. Elizabeth died at about age 3.]
----- Bl. Alexis Sugi Shohachi of Amakusa (died at about age 25 in 1627)
----- Bl. Andrew Yamamoto Shichiemon, Bl. Mary Yamamoto, and Bl. Ursula Yamamoto, of Yonezawa (husband, wife, and daughter ... died in 1629) [Bl. Ursula died at about age 3.]
----- Bl. Anna Kajiya and Bl. Thomas Kajiya Yoemon, of Tanba (widowed mother and son, died in
1619)
----- Bl. Anthony Anazawa Han'emon, Bl. Crescentia Anazawa, Bl. Paul Anazawa Juzaburo, Bl. Roman Anazawa Matsujiro, and Bl. Michael Anazawa Osamu, of Yonezawa (husband, wife, and three sons ... died in 1629) [Bl. Roman and Bl. Michael died at about ages 14 and 11.]
----- Bl. Anthony Domi of Yamato (died in 1619)
----- Bl. Balthasar Kagayama Hanzaemon of Takatsuki and Bl. James Kagayama of Hiji (father and son, died at about ages 47 and 4 in 1619)
----- Bl. Bartholomew Baba Han'emon of Fukae (married man, died at about age 53 in 1627)
----- Bl. Cosmas and Bl. Francis Shizaburo, of Kyoto (father and son, died in 1619)
----- Bl. Damian of Sakai [surname unknown] (catechist, died at about age 45 in 1605)
----- Bl. Damian Ichiyata of Antoku Koba (married man, died in 1627)
----- Bl. Dennis Saeki Zenka and Bl. Luke Saeki Kizo, of Fukae (father and son, died in 1627)
----- Bl. Didacus Kagayama Haito of Takatsuki (married man, died at about age 54 in 1619)
----- Bl. Didacus Tsuzu of Kyoto (died in 1619)
----- Bl. Emmanuel Kosaburo of Tanba (died in 1619)
----- Bl. Francis of Kyoto (died in 1619)
----- Bl. Francis Toyama Jintaro of Yamanashi (died at about age 24 in 1624)
----- Bl. Gabriel of Owari [surname unknown] (died at about age 70 in 1619)
----- Bl. Gaspar Kizaemon of Arie (died in 1627)
----- Bl. Gaspar Nagai Sohan of Kuchinotsu (died in 1627)
----- Bl. Gaspar Nishi Genka, Bl. Ursula Nishi, and Bl. John Nishi Mataishi, of Ikitsuki (father, wife, and son ... died at about ages 54, 54, and 24 in 1609)
----- Bl. Ignatius Iida Soemon and Bl. Lucy Iida, of Yonezawa (husband and wife, died in 1629)
----- Bl. Jerome and Bl. Lucia Soroku, of Aki (husband and wife, died in 1619)
----- Bl. Joachim Kuroemon of Aki (catechist, died at about age 65 in 1624)
----- Bl. Joachim Mine Sukedayu and Bl Mary Mine, of Kuchinotsu (husband and wife, died in 1627) [Bl. Joachim died at about age 60.]
----- Bl. Joachim Ogawa of Mino (died in 1619)
----- Bl. Joachim Saburobyoe of Wada (died in 1629)
----- Bl. Joachim Watanabe Jirozaemon of Yatsushiro (married man, died at about age 55 in 1606)
----- Bl. Joanna Takeda of Ise, Bl Simon Takeda Gohyoe of Kyoto, and Bl. Agnes Takeda of Ise (mother, her son, and his wife ... died at about ages 55, 35, and 30 in 1603)
----- Bl. John and Bl. Ursula Sakurai, of Bungo (married man and daughter-in-law, died in 1619)
----- Bl. John, Bl. Magdalena, and Bl. Regina Kyusaku, of Kyoto (husband, wife, and daughter ... died in 1619)
----- Bl. John Araki Kanshichi of Koga (died at about age 34 in 1627)
----- Bl. John Arie Kiemon, Bl. Magdalen Arie, and Bl. Peter Arie Jinzo, of Yonezawa (husband, wife, and son ... died in 1629)
----- Bl. John Banzai Kazue, Bl. Aurea Banzai, Bl. Anthony Banzai Orusu, Bl. Rufina Sanjuro [nee Banzai], Bl. Paul Sanjuro [Sr.], Bl Paul Sanjuro [Jr.], Bl. Martha Sanjuro, of Yonezawa (husband, wife, son, daughter, son-in-law, grandson, and granddaughter ... died in 1629) [Bl. Anthony died at about age 12. The grandchildren died at about ages 5 and 1.]
----- Bl. John Gorobyoe of Yonezawa (married man, died at about age 80 in 1629)
----- Bl. John Hara Mondo of Usui (Franciscan tertiary, died in 1619)
----- Bl. John Hashimoto Tahyoe, Bl. Thecla Hashimoto, Bl. Catharine Hashimoto, Bl. Thomas Hashimoto, Bl. Francis Hashimoto, Bl. Peter Hashimoto, Bl. Luke Hashimoto, of Kyoto (husband, wife, and their five children ... died in 1619) [The children were about 13, 12, 8, 6, and 3 years of age.]
----- Bl. John Hattori Jingoro of Muro and Bl. Peter Hattori of Yatsushiro (father and son, died at about ages 39 and 5 in 1609)
----- Bl. John Heisaku of Arie (married man, died in 1627)
----- Bl. John Kisaki Kyuhachi of Fukae (died in 1627)
----- Bl. John Matsutake Chozaburo of Fukae (died at about age 38 in 1627)
----- Bl. John Minami Gorozaemon of Yamato, Bl. Magdalen Minami of Setsu-No-Kuni, and Bl. Luke Minami of Yamashiro (husband, wife, and adopted son ... died at about ages 35/43/7 in 1603)
----- Bl. Leo and Bl. Martha Kyusuke, of Owari (husband and wife, died in 1619)
----- Bl. Leo Hayashida Sukeemon, Bl. Martha Hayashida, Bl. Magdalena Hayashida, and Bl. James Hayashida, of Arima (husband, wife, daughter, and son ... died in 1614) [Bl. Magdalena was about 21. Bl. James was about 13.]
----- Bl. Leo Nakajima Sokan and Bl. Paul Nakajima, of Fukae (father and son, died in 1627)
----- Bl. Leo Saisho Shichiemon of Jonai (member or rosary confraternity, died at about age 39 in 1608)
----- Bl. Leo Takedomi Kan'emon and Bl. Paul Takedomi Dan'emon, of Arima (father and son, died in 1614)
----- Bl. Linus Rihyoe of Chugoku and Bl. Mary Rihyoe of Setsu-No-Kuni (husband and wife, died in 1619)
----- Bl. Luke and Bl. Anna Jinemon, of Yonezawa (husband and wife, died both at about age 80 in 1629)
----- Bl. Luke Amagasu Iemon of Yonezawa, Bl. Vincent Kurogan Ichibiyoe of Yonezawa, Bl. Thecla Kurogane of Sado, and Bl. Lucy Kurogane of Yonezawa (father, son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter ... died at about ages ?, 26, 18, and 1 in 1629)
----- Bl. Luke Furue Sukeemon of Arie (married man, died at about age 37 in 1627)
----- Bl. Luke Hayashida Soka, Bl. Magdalen Hayashida, and Bl. Paul Hayashida Mohyoe, of Arie (husband, wife, and son ... died at about ages 67, 68, and 35 in 1627)
----- Bl. Luke Matagoro of Kyoto (died in 1619)
----- Bl. Luke Shinzaburo of Kuchinotsu (died at about age 26 in 1627)
----- Bl. Magdalen of Owari (died at about age 3 in 1619)
----- Bl. Magdalen Shichizaemon and three other Blessed members of her family [baptismal names unknown], of Shindogadai (wife, husband, and two daughters ... died in 1629) [The two girls died at about ages 5 and 3.]
----- Bl. Mancius Kyujiro of Kyoto (died in 1619)
----- Bl. Mancius Yoshino Han'emon and Bl. Julia Yoshino, of Yonezawa (husband and wife, died in 1629)
----- Bl. Martha and Bl. Benedict, of Kawachi [surname unknown] (mother and son, died in 1619) [Bl. Benedict died at about age 2.]
----- Bl. Mary and Bl. Monica, of Yamashiro [surname unknown] (mother and daughter, died in 1619) [Bl. Monica died at about age 4.]
----- Bl. Mary and Bl. Sixtus, of Tanba [surname unknown] (mother and son, died in 1619) [Bl. Sixtus died at about age 3.]
----- Bl. Mary of Fukae [surname unknown] (married woman, died at about age 36 in 1627)
----- Bl. Mary of Tanba (died in 1619)
----- Bl. Mary Chujo of Bungo (married woman, died in 1619)
----- Bl. Mary Ito, Bl. Marina Ito Chobo, Bl. Peter Ito Yahyoe, and Bl. Matthias Ito Hikosuke, of Yonezawa (mother, daughter, and two sons ... died in 1629)
----- Bl. Matthias Shobara Ichizaemon of Aki (died at about age 37 in 1624)
----- Bl. Melchior Kumagai Motonao of Miiri (married man, died at about age 51 in 1605)
----- Bl. Mencia and Bl. Lucia, of Omi [surname unknown] (widowed mother and daughter, died in 1619)
----- Bl. Michael Amagasu Tayemon of Yonezawa, Bl. Dominique Amagasu of Wakamatsu, and Bl. Justa Amagasu of Yonezawa (husband, wife, and daughter ... died at about ages 35, 23, and 3 in 1629)
----- Bl. Michael Kusuriya of Nagasaki (died in 1633)
----- Bl. Michael Mitsuishi Hikoemon and Bl. Thomas Mitsuishi, of Yatsushiro (father and son, died at about ages 50 and 12 in 1609)
----- Bl. Monica of Mino [surname unknown] (died in 1619)
----- Bl. Monica of Omi [surname unknown] (married woman, died in 1619)
----- Bl. Ogasawara household members, of Buzen (fifteen people [father, mother, six sons, three daughters, and four servants], died in 1636) [The family members were named Bl. Yosaburo Gen'ya, Bl. Miya Louisa, Bl. Genpachi, Bl. Sasaemon, Bl. Sayuemon, Bl. Shiro, Bl. Goro, Bl. Gonnosuke, Bl. Mari, Bl. Kuri, and Bl. Tsuchi. The servants' names are unknown.]
----- Bl. Paul Nishida Kyuhachi of Fukae (died at about age 74 in 1627)
----- Bl. Paul Nishihori Shikibu of Yonezawa (married man, died at about age 31 in 1629)
----- Bl. Paul Onizuka Magoemon of Hachirao (married man, died at about age 64 in 1627)
----- Bl. Paul Uchibori Sakuemon and Bl. Balthasar, Bl. Anthony, and Bl. Ignatius Uchibori, all of Fukae (father and three sons, died in 1627) [Bl. Anthony and Bl. Ignatius died at about age 18 and 5.]
----- Bl. Rufina and Bl. Martha, of Owari [surname unknown] (widow and daughter, died in 1619) [Bl. Martha died at about age 7]
----- Bl. Simon Takahashi Seizaemon and Bl. Thecla Takahashi, of Yonezawa (father and daughter ... died in 1629) [Bl. Thecla died at about age 13.]
----- Bl. Thomas and Bl. Lucia Toemon, of Owari (husband and wife, died in 1619)
----- Bl. Thomas Ikegami of Hokuriku (died in 1619)
----- Bl. Thomas Kian of Bungo (died in 1619)
----- Bl. Thomas Kondo Hyoemon of Mogi (died at about age 63 in 1627)
----- Bl. Thomas Koshima Shinshiro and Bl. Mary Koshima, of Yamashiro (husband and wife, died in 1619)
----- Bl. Thomas Uzumi Shingoro of Kuchinotsu (died at about age 52 in 1627)
----- Bl. Timothy Obasama Jirobyoe and Bl. Lucy Obasama, of Yonezawa (husband and wife, died in 1629)
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On July 5, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria
of Cremona
[Antonio Maria] (Italian, doctor of medicine, priest, founded Society of
Clerics of St. Paul [Barnabites] for men, founded Angelics of St. Paul for
women, died at about age 37 in 1539 [beatified 1849, canonized 1897])
Sts. Agatho and Triphina (Sicilian,
martyred in 306)
St. Athanasius of
Jerusalem
(Palestinian, deacon, martyred by beheading in 462)
St. Athanasius of Trebizond [baptized Abraham] (from Asia Minor, abbot at Mt. Athos in Greece, died at about age 83 c. 1003)
St. Cyrilla of Cyrene (Libyan, widow, tortured and martyred c. 300)
St. Domitius (Persian or Phrygian [from
part of what is now Turkey], martyred by stoning in 362)
St. Edana (Irish, virgin)
St. Erfyl (British, virgin)
Sts. Fragan and Gwen of Brittany (British, husband and wife, parents of four saints, refugees in France, 5th Century)
Bl. George Nichols of Oxford (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Elizabeth I at about age 39 in 1589 [beatified 1987])
Bl. Humphrey Pritchard [also
known as H. Richard]
(Welsh, layman, martyred under Elizabeth I in 1589 [beatified 1987])
Sts. Marinus, Theodotus and Sedolpha, of Tomi (Romanian, early martyrs)
St. Modwenna of Whitby (British, abbess, c. 695)
St. Numerian of Trier (German, Benedictine monk, bishop, c. 666)
St. Philomena of San Severino (Italian, virgin, c. 500)
Sts. Probus and Grace (Cornish [British], husband and wife)
Bl. Richard Yaxley of Boston (English, seminarian, martyred at about age 19 under Elizabeth I in 1589 [beatified 1987])
St. Stephen of Reggio
(Italian, bishop, martyred in 1st Century)
St. Zoë of Rome (Italian, wife of court official, martyred [burned (hung in a tree by her hair over a fire)] c. 286)
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On July 6, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Maria Teresa Goretti
of Corinaldo
(Italian, defended virginity when attacked by 19-year-old neighbor, martyred by
stabbing at age 11 in 1902 [beatified 1947, canonized 1950 (perhaps the only canonization
ever witnessed by a parent [Maria's mother, Assunta])])
St. Dominica of
Campania
(Italian, virgin, early martyr)
St. Goar of Aquitaine
(French, priest, hermit in Germany, c. 575)
St. Godeleva of
Ghistelles
(Belgian, noblewoman, martyred by drowning at about age 21 in 1070)
Bl. Innocent Guz of Lviv [Innocenty] [baptized Józef Wojciech (Joseph Adalbert)] (Polish born in Ukraine, Franciscan priest, martyred by Nazis at Sachsenhausen [Germany] at age 50 in 1940 [beatified 1999])
Bl. Louis Caburlotto of Venice
[Luigi] (Italian, priest, founded Daughters
of St. Joseph, died at age 80 in 1897 [beatified 2015])
Bl. Mary Teresa Ledóchowska
of Loosdorf
[Maria Teresa] (Polish [born in Austria], noblewoman, founded Missionary
Sisters of St. Peter Claver, died at age 59 in 1922 [beatified 1975])
St. Modwenna of Polesworth (British? virgin, c. 900)
St. Moninne of Killeavy (Irish, abbess, d. 518) [On Irish "particular calendar"]
St. Nazaria Ignacia of St. Teresa of Jesus March Mesa of Madrid [... de Santa Teresa de Jesús] (Spanish, virgin, founded Congregation of the Missionary Crusaders of the Church at Oruro, died in Argentina at age 54 in 1943 [beatified 1992, canonized 2018])
St. Noyala of Brittany (French, virgin, early martyr)
Blessed Martyrs of Orange (French ... one Benedictine nun, two Cistercian nuns, sixteen Ursuline sisters, and thirteen members of the Institute of Perpetual Adoration [Sacramentines] ... martyred [guillotined] by revolutionaries in 1794 [beatified 1925]) [Each “beata” has an individual date of commemoration too.]
[Click here to see the martyrs' names and other facts about them.]
Bl. Rosalind of
Villeneuve
[Roseline] (French, noblewoman, Carthusian contemplative nun, mystic,
died at about age 61 in 1329 [incorrupt] [beatified 1851])
Sts. Romulus, Carissimus, Dulcissimus, and Crescentius, of Fiesole (Italian, converts of Pope St. Peter, bishop and companions, martyred c. 90)
St. Sexburga of Ely (British, daughter of one king and wife of another, mother of two, sister of five saints, widow, abbess, c. 699)
St. Sisoes (Egyptian, hermit for over 60 years, c. 429)
Bl. Thomas Alfield of Gloucester (English, priest, martyred by hanging under Elizabeth I in 1585 [beatified 1929])
St. Tranquillinus of Rome (Italian, martyred in 286)
[When St. Maria Goretti was canonized by Pope Pius XII in 1950, a quarter of a million people were present. Among them was an elderly man who was weeping. His name was Alessandro Serenelli. This was the man who attempted to rape Maria and who stabbed her fourteen times, causing her to die about twenty hours later. He repented after some years, having experienced a conversion following a dream in which Maria appeared to him and offered him lilies. He begged the Goretti family's forgiveness. Upon his release from prison, he visited Maria's mother to personally ask her pardon. (St. Maria had forgiven him before she died.)]
Blessed Martyrs of Orange – [CONTINUED]
(French ... one Benedictine nun, two Cistercian nuns, sixteen Ursuline sisters, and thirteen members of the Institute of Perpetual Adoration [Sacramentines] ... martyred [guillotined] by revolutionaries in 1794 [beatified 1925]) [Each “beata” has an individual date of commemoration too.]
----- Bl. Mary Rose de Loye
of Sérignan
[Marie-Rose] [baptized Suzanne-Agathe (Susan Agatha)] (Benedictine, died
at age 53) {This is also her individual memorial date.}
----- Bl. Mary St. Henry de
Justamond of Bollène
[Marie Saint-Henri] and Bl. (Sister) of the Heart of Mary de
Justamond of Bollène
[(Soeur) du Coeur-de-Marie] [baptized Marguerite-Eléonore (Margaret Eleanor)
and Madeleine-Françoise (Madeleine Frances)] (biological sisters, Cistercians,
died at ages 48 and 40) {July 12 and 16, respectively}
----- Bl. (Sister) St. Augustine Bonnet of Sérignan
[(Soeur) Saint-Augustin] [baptized Marguerite (Margaret)] (Sacramentine,
died at age 75)
----- Bl. Catherine de
Justamond of Bollène
[baptized Marie-Madeleine (Mary Magdalen)] (Ursuline, died at age 70)
----- Bl. Clare Dubas
of Laudun
[baptized Claire] (Ursuline, died at age 67)
----- Bl. (Mother) of the Heart of Jesus de Consolin of Courthézon
[(Mere) du Coeur-de-Jesus] [baptized Elisabeth] (Ursuline superior, died at age 58)
----- Bl. Iphigenia de
Gaillard of Bollène
[Iphigénie] [baptized Suzanne] (Sacramentine, died at age 33)
----- Bl. (Sister) St. Melanie de Guilhermier of Bollène
[(Soeur) Sainte-Mélanie] [baptized Madeleine] (Ursuline, died at age 61)
----- Bl. Mary of the Angels de Rocher of Bollène
[Marie-des-Anges] [baptized Marie-Anne (Mary Ann)] (Ursuline, died at
age 39)
----- Bl. (Sister) of Holy Wisdom d'Alauzier of Bollène
[(Soeur) Sainte-Sophie] [baptized Gertrude] (Ursuline, died at age 37)
----- Bl. Agnes de
Romillon of Bollène
[baptized Sylvie] (Ursuline, died at age 44)
----- Bl. (Sister) St. Pelagius Bès of Beaume-du-Transit
[(Soeur) Sainte-Pélagie] [baptized Rosalie] (Sacramentine, died at age
41)
----- Bl. (Sister) St. Basil Cartier of Livron
[(Soeur) Saint-Basile] [baptized Anne] (Ursuline, died at age 61)
----- Bl. Madeleine de
Justamond of Bollène
[baptized Dorothée] (Ursuline, died at age 51)
----- Bl. (Sister) St. Andrew Laye of Bollène
[(Soeur) Saint-André] [baptized Marie-Rose] (Ursuline, died at age 66)
----- Bl. (Sister) St. Michael Doux of Bollène
[(Soeur) Saint-Michel] [baptized Marie-Anne] (Ursuline, died at age 56)
----- Bl. (Sister) St. Joachim Béguin-Royal of Bouvantes
[(Soeur) Saint-Joachim] [baptized Marie-Anne] (Sacramentine, died at age
58)
----- Bl. Mary of Jesus Charrensol
of Richerenches
[Marie-de-Jésus] [baptized Thérèse] (Sacramentine, died at age 36)
----- Bl. Amy de
Gordon of Mondragon
[Aimée] [baptized Rose] (Sacramentine, died at age 61)
----- Bl. (Mother) St. Gervase de Roquard of Bollène [(Mere)
Saint-Gervais] [baptized Anastasie (Anastasia)] (Ursuline superior, died at age 55)
----- Bl. (Sister) St. Theoctista Pélissier of Bollène
[(Soeur) Théotiste] [baptized Elisabeth] (Sacramentine, died at age 53)
----- Bl. (Sister) St. Martin Blanc of Bollène
[(Soeur) Saint-Martin] [baptized Claire] (Sacramentine, died at age 52)
----- Bl. (Sister) of Holy Wisdom d'Albarède of
Saint-Laurent-de-Carnols
[(Soeur) Sainte-Sophie] [baptized Marguerite] (Ursuline, died at age 54)
----- Bl. Rose Talieu
of Bollène
[baptized Thérèse] (Sacramentine, died at age 48)
----- Bl. (Sister) of the Good Angel Cluse of Bouvantes
[(Soeur) du Bon-Ange] [baptized Marie] (Sacramentine, died at age 33)
----- Bl. (Sister) St. Bernard de Romillon of Bollène
[(Soeur) Saint-Bernard] [baptized Jeanne (Joan)] (Ursuline, died at age
41)
----- Bl. Madeleine Verchières
of Bollène
[baptized Elisabeth] (Sacramentine, died at age 25)
----- Bl. Mary of the Annunciation Faurie of Sérignan
[Marie-de-l'Annonciation] [baptized Thérèse] (Sacramentine, died at age
24)
----- Bl. (Sister) St. Alexis Minutte of Sérignan
[(Soeur) Saint-Alexis] [baptized Andrée (Andrea)] (Sacramentine, died at
age 54)
----- Bl. (Sister) St. Francis Lambert of Pierrelatte
[(Soeur) Saint-François] [baptized Marie-Anne] (Ursuline, died at age
52)
----- Bl. (Sister) St. Frances Depeyre of Tulette
[(Soeur) Sainte-Françoise] [baptized Marie-Anne] (Ursuline, died at age
38)
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On July 7, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Ampelius of
Milan
(Italian, bishop, c. 672)
St. Angelelmus of Auxerre (French, abbot, bishop, d. 828)
St. Apollonius of Brescia (Italian, early bishop)
Sts. Astius of Dyrrachium,
Peregrinus, Lucian, Pompeius, Hesychius, Papius, Saturninus, and Germanus
(Greek [1] and Italian [7], bishop and refugee laymen, martyred [bishop
crucified, others drowned] in Greece c. 120)
Pope Bl. Benedict XI Boccasini
of Treviso
[Benedetto] [baptized Niccolo] (Italian, raised by an uncle [a priest], Dominican
master general, diplomat, cardinal bishop of Ostia, elected to papacy in 1303,
reigned until death at about age 64 in 1304 [beatified 1736])
St. Bonitus of Monte Cassino (Italian, Benedictine abbot, c. 582)
Bl. Charles Liviero of Vicenza [Carlo] (Italian, parish priest, bishop of Città di Castello, founded women's Congregation of Little Servants of the Sacred Heart, died [auto accident] at age 66 in 1932 [beatified 2007])
Sts. Claudius, Nicostratus, Castorius,
Victorinus, and Symphorina (martyred c. 288)
St. Ethelburga of
Faremoutiers
[also known as Ercongata] (British, Benedictine abbess in France, c. 664 [incorrupt])
St. Felix of Nantes
(French, nobleman, bishop, peacemaker, d. 584)
St. Hedda of Winchester (British, Benedictine abbot, bishop, d. 705)
St. Illidius of Clermont (French, bishop, d. 385)
St. Joseph Mary Gambaro
of Galliate
[Giuseppe Maria] [baptized Bernardo (Bernard)] (Italian, Franciscan missionary priest in China, martyred at age
31 in 1900 [beatified 1946, canonized 2000])
Bl. Laurence Humphrey of Hampshire (English, layman, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Elizabeth I at age 20 c. 1591 [beatified 1929])
St. Maelruain of Tallaght [also spelled Maolrain] (Irish, abbot, c. 792) [On Irish "particular calendar"]
Bl. Maria Romero Meneses of Granada (Nicaraguan, Salesian sister, cared for poor and children in Costa Rica, died at age 75 in 1977 [beatified 2002])
Sts. Medran and Odran (Irish, biological brothers, monk and abbot, 6th Century)
St. Merryn of Cornwall (French or British)
St. Odo of Urgell
(Spanish, military officer, bishop, d. 1122)
St. Palladius of Rome
(Italian, bishop of Leinster in Ireland, missionary in Scotland, d. 432)
St. Pantaenus of
Alexandria
(Sicilian, catechist in Egypt, missionary in India or Ethiopia, c. 216)
Bl. Peter ToRot of Rakunai (Papua New Guinean, catechist, martyred at age 33 in 1945 [beatified 1995]) [On Australian "particular calendar"]
Bl. Roger Dickenson of Lincoln and Bl. Ralph Milner of Stackstead (English, priest and plowman who helped him, martyred [hanged] under Elizabeth I in 1591 [beatified 1929])
St. Sethrida of
Faremoutiers-en-Brie
(British, Benedictine abbess in
France, c. 660) Blessed Ulma Family of
Markowa
(Polish, parents and seven children, hid eight Jewish people during World War
II, martyred [shot] by Nazis in 1944 [beatified 2023]) -----
Bl. Joseph Ulma
[Jozef] (father, died at age 44) -----
Bl. Victoria Ulma
[Wiktoria (nee Niemczak)]
(mother, died at age 31) -----
Bl. Stanislava Ulma
[Stanisława] (daughter, died at age 7) -----
Bl. Barbara Ulma
(daughter, died at age 6) -----
Bl. Ladislas Ulma
[Władysław] (daughter, died at age 5) -----
Bl. Francis Ulma
[Franciszek] (son, died at age 3) -----
Bl. Anthony Ulma
[Antoni] (son, died at age 2) -----
Bl. Maria Ulma
(daughter, died at age 1) -----
Bl. _____ Ulma
(preborn [8-month-old] infant son, not yet named by his parents) Holy Abrahamite Monks of Constantinople
(monks martyred by iconoclast heretics between 830 and 840) Pope St. Adrian III of Rome
(Italian, elected to papacy in 884, reigned until death in 885 [canonized
1892]) St. Albert of Genoa
[Alberto] (Italian, Cistercian
brother, hermit, d. 1239) St. Apollonius of
Benevento
(Italian, bishop, c. 327) Sts. Aquila and Priscilla of Rome
(Italian, Jewish tentmaker and wife in Corinth, converts and missionaries with
St. Paul to Ephesus, martyred in Rome or Asia Minor in 1st Century) St. Arnold of Julich
(Greek, courtier of Bl. Charlemagne, c. 801) St. Auspicius of Toul
(French, bishop, c. 475) St. Auspicius of
Trier
(German, bishop, c. 131) Bl. Benedict d'Alignan
of Marseilles
[Benoit] (French, Benedictine
abbot, bishop, Franciscan friar after resignation, d. 1268) King St. Edgar the Peaceful (British,
monarch, died at about age 32 in 975) Pope Bl. Eugene III dei
Paganelli of Montemagno
[Eugenio] [baptized Pietro (Peter), monastic name: Bernardo (Bernard)]
(Italian, Cistercian abbot,
elected to papacy in 1145, reigned until death in 1153 [beatified 1872]) St. Grimbald of
Winchester
(French, Benedictine abbot in
France and England, co-founder of University of Oxford, died at about age 78 in
903) Sts. Kilian, Colman, and Totnan, of
Mullagh
(Irish ... missionary bishop, priest, and deacon in Germany ? martyred [Kilian
at about age 49] c. 689) [On Irish "particular calendar"] St. Landrada of
Munsterbilsen
(Luxembourger, Benedictine
abbess, c. 690) Bl. Mancius Araki of Omura
(Japanese, layman, martyred [illness in prison] in 1626) St. Morwenna of
Cornwall
(British? virgin, 5th Century) Bl. Peter Vigne of Privas
[Pierre] (French, parish priest, itinerant missionary for 30+ years, founded Congregation
of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, died at age 69 in 1740 [beatified
2004]) St. Procopius of
Scythopolis
(Palestinian, translator, lector, exorcist, martyred in 303) St. Raymond Gayrard of Toulouse
(French, widower, archdeacon, d. 1118) Holy Martyrs of Shanxi (European [four
nations], seven religious sisters [Franciscan Missionaries of Mary]
serving poor in China, martyred by beheading in 1900 [beatified 1946, canonized
2000]) St. Sunniva of Bergen and companions
(Irish, princess and other refugees in Scandinavia, 10th Century) St. Urith of Chittlehampton
(British, virgin) St. Withburga of
Dereham
(British, Benedictine nun, c.
743) ---------------------- Holy Martyrs of China [also called
"St. Augustine Zhao Rong and companions"] (87 Chinese, 13 Italians,
12 French, 6 Spanish, 1 Belgian, 1 Dutch ... 120 people [83 men and 37 women]
... 29 ordained and 91 non-ordained [7 bishops, 18 European priests, 4 Chinese
priests, 1 European brother, 7 European sisters, 83 Chinese lay men and women
(including 7 seminarians and 11 catechists)], whose names and stories are
known, are representative of thousands of Catholic clergy, religious, and laity
who were martyred [beheaded, strangled, shot, etc.], sometimes after torture,
between 1648 and 1930) [All 120 were canonized in 2000, but they had been
beatified individually or in groups as follows: 5 who died in 1747 or 1748 were
beatified in 1893 ... 13 who died between 1814 and 1856 were beatified in 1900
... 14 who died between 1648 and 1862 were beatified in 1909 ... 29 who died in
1900 were beatified in 1946 ... 1 who died in 1900 was beatified in 1951 ... 56
who died in 1900 were beatified in 1955 ... and 2 who died in 1930 were
beatified in 1983] [Click here to
see the martyrs' names and other facts about them.] St. Agilulph of
Cologne
(German, Benedictine abbot,
archbishop, martyred c. 721) St. Agrippinus of
Autun
(French, bishop, d. 538) Sts. Anatolia and Audax (Roman, maiden and
her prison guard, martyred c. 250) Sts. Benedict [Benedikt], Andrew
[Andrzej], Barnabas [Barnaba], and Justus (Polish, Camaldolese hermits, c. 1000) St. Brictius of
Martola
(Italian, bishop, c. 312) St. Cyril of Gortyna
(Cretan, bishop, tortured and martyred by beheading in 250) St. Everild of Everingham
(British, Benedictine abbess, 7th
Century) Bl. Fidelis Chojnacki of Lodz
[baptized Hieronim (Jerome)] (Polish, Capuchin priest, martyred by Nazis at Dachau [Germany]
at age 35 in 1942 [beatified 1999]) St. Golvinus of
Rennes
(British, bishop of Saint Pol-de-Léon in France, c. 7th Century) Holy Martyrs of Gorkum (European [from
four nations], nineteen priests and religious [11 Franciscan Recollects,
2 Norbertines, 1 Dominican, 1 Augustinian Canon, 4
diocesan priests), refused to reject papacy and transubstantiation, tortured
and martyred [hanged] by Calvinists in Holland in 1572 [beatified 1675,
canonized 1867]) Bl. Jane Scopelli of Reggio
d'Emilia
[Giovanna] (Italian, Carmelite
prioress, died at about age 63 in 1491 [beatified 1771]) Bl. Mary of Jesus Crucified Petkovic
of Blato
[Marija od Propetoga Isusa] (Croatian, virgin, founded Congregation of the
Daughters of Mercy, died at age 73 in 1966 [beatified 2003]) Sts. Patermuthius, Copras, and Alexander
(Egyptian ... penitent robber, hermit, converted soldier ... martyred c. 363) St. Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of
Jesus Visintainer
of Vigolo Vattaro
[Paolina del Cuore Agonizzante di Gesù] [baptized Amabile Lucia] (Italian,
founded Little Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Brazil, died at
age 76 in 1942 [beatified 1991, canonized 2002, first Brazilian citizen
canonized]) St. Veronica Giuliani
of Mercatello
[baptized Ursula] (Italian, Poor Clare
abbess, stigmatist, died at about age 67 in 1727 [beatified 1804,
canonized 1839]) St. Zeno and over 10,000 companions (Christian
slaves forced to build imperial baths, martyred c. 300) Holy Martyrs of China – CONTINUED [also called "St. Augustine Zhao Rong and
companions"] (87 Chinese, 13
Italians, 12 French, 6 Spanish, 1 Belgian, 1 Dutch ... 120 people [83 men and
37 women] ... 29 ordained and 91 non-ordained [7 bishops, 18 European priests,
4 Chinese priests, 1 European brother, 7 European sisters, 83 Chinese lay men
and women (including 7 seminarians and 11 catechists)], whose names and stories
are known, are representative of thousands of Catholic clergy, religious, and
laity who were martyred [beheaded, strangled, shot, etc.], sometimes after
torture, between 1648 and 1930) [All 120 were canonized in 2000, but they had
been beatified individually or in groups as follows: 5 who died in 1747 or 1748
were beatified in 1893 ... 13 who died between 1814 and 1856 were beatified in
1900 ... 14 who died between 1648 and 1862 were beatified in 1909 ... 29 who
died in 1900 were beatified in 1946 ... 1 who died in 1900 was beatified in
1951 ... 56 who died in 1900 were beatified in 1955 ... and 2 who died in 1930
were beatified in 1983] [Bishops:] St. Amalburga of
Maubeuge
(Belgian, widow, Benedictine nun,
c. 690) St. Amalburga of
Münsterbilsen
(Belgian, Benedictine nun, c.
770) St. Anthony of the Caves
[Anton] (Ukrainian, hermit in Greece and Ukraine, abbot, died at about age 90
in 1073) St. Apollonius of
Sardis
(Lydian [from part of what is now Turkey], deacon, scourged and martyred by
crucifixion in 4th Century) Sts. Bianor and Sylvanus (from Asia Minor
[now called Turkey], martyred by beheading in 4th Century) Blessed Martyrs of Damascus (European and
Syrian [or Lebanese], eight Franciscans
friars and three Maronite laymen, martyred by Moslems in 1860 [beatified
1926]) [commemorated by some on July 13] St. Etto of Fescau
(Irish, Benedictine missionary in France and Belgium, bishop, c.
670) Sts. Lantfrid, Waltram, and Elilantus, of
Bavaria
(German, biological brothers, Benedictine abbots, 8th Century) Sts. Leontius, Maurice, Daniel, and 42 companions
(Armenian, martyred c. 329) Sts. Marinus and Nabor (African, early
martyrs) St. Paschasius of
Nantes
(French, bishop, c. 680) St. Peter Da of Tonkin
(Vietnamese, catechist, martyred in 1840 [beatified 1951, canonized 1988]) St. Peter of Perugia
[Pietro] (Italian, nobleman, Benedictine
abbot, d. 1007) Sts. Rufina and Secunda of Rome
(Italian, daughters of a senator, virgins, martyred by beheading in 257) St. Amabilis of
Rouen
(British, princess, nun in France, d. 634) St. Cindeus of Pamphylia (from
Asia Minor [now called Turkey], priest, martyred by burning in 300) St. Drostan of Deer
(Irish, abbot in Scotland, d. 610) St. Hidulphus of
Regensburg
(German, Benedictine abbot,
bishop of Trier, d. 707) Sts. Januarius and Pelagia (Armenian,
martyred by beheading in 320) St. John of Bergamo
(Italian, bishop for 34 years, opposed Arian heresy, c. 690) St. Leontius the Younger of
Bordeaux
(French, soldier, bishop, d. 565) St. Marcian of Iconium
(Lycaonian [from part of what is now Turkey], youth, early martyr) Bl. Olga of Pskov
[baptized Helena] (Ukrainian, queen, brutal but repentant, died at about age 90
in 969) St. Oliver Plunkett of Loughenew
(Irish, nobleman, professor of theology, archbishop of Armagh [primate of
Ireland], imprisoned in England, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under
Charles II at age 51 in 1681 [beatified 1920, canonized 1975]) [Commemorated in
England and Ireland on July 1] St. Placid of Dissentis
(Swiss, wealthy man who donated all his land for a Benedictine abbey, martyred
in 7th Century [canonized 1905]) St. Sabinus (French, martyred? in 5th
Century) Sts. Savinus and Cyprian of
Brescia (Italian,
early martyrs) St. Turketil (British, king's brother and
chancellor, abbot, d. 995) St. Ansbald of Prüm
(Luxembourger, courtier, Benedictine
abbot, d. 886) St. Balay of Ploermellac (French,
hermit) Bl. Benno of Osnabrück
(German, Benedictine monk,
headmaster, architect, archbishop, d. 1088) Bl. (Sir) David Gonson [also
spelled Genson or Gunston]
(English, layman, Knight of St. John, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under
Henry VIII in 1541 [beatified 1929]) St. Epiphania (early martyr) Sts. Hermagoras and Fortunatus of
Aquileia
(Italian, bishop and deacon, tortured and martyred by Emperor Nero c. 66) St. Ignatius Delgado
y Cebrian of Villa Feliz
[Ignacio] (Spanish, Dominican
friar, missionary in Vietnam for over forty years, bishop of East
Tonkin, martyred [hunger and exposure in a cage] at about age 77 in 1838
[beatified 1900, canonized 1988]) St. Jason of Thessalonica
(Greek, convert of St. Paul [Acts 17], martyred in 1st Century) St. John Gualbert of
Florence
[Giovanni Gualberto] (Italian, nobleman, Vallumbrosan abbot, died at about age 80 in 1073
[canonized 1193]) St. John Jones of Clynog Fawr
[aliases: John Buckley, John Griffith, and Godfrey Maurice] (Welsh, Franciscan priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered]
at about age 39 under Elizabeth I in 1598 [beatified 1929, canonized 1970]) [On
Welsh "particular calendar"] St. John the Hagiorite (Georgian, abbot in
Greece, c. 1002) Bl. John, Bl. Monica, and Bl. Louis
Naisen, of
Arima
(Japanese ... father, mother, and 7-year-old son ... martyred by burning at
Nagasaki in 1626 [beatified 1867]) Bl. John Tanaka and
Bl. Matthias Araki
(Japanese, laymen, sheltered illegal clergy, martyred by burning in 1626
[beatified 1867]) Bl. Lambert of Morimond
(French, Cistercian abbot, d.
1163) St. Leo of Cava
(Italian, Benedictine abbot, died
at about age 89 in 1079 [canonized 1893]) Sts. Louis Joseph Aloysius Stanislaus Martin
of Bordeaux
[Louis-Joseph-Aloys-Stanislaus] and Mary Azelia Martin of
Saint-Denis-sur-Sarthon [Marie-Azélie,
known as "Zelie"] [nee Guérin]
(French, watchmaker and lacemaker, married couple ... parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, four
other religious sisters, and four other children ... died at ages 70 [stroke]
and 45 [cancer] in 1894 and 1877 respectively [beatified 2008, canonized 2015]) St. Marciana of
Toledo
(virgin, martyred [exposed to animals] in Spain c. 303) St. Menulphus of
Quimper
(Irish, bishop in France, 7th Century) Sts. Nabor and Felix of
Milan
(Italian, biological brothers, martyred c. 304) St. Paternian of
Bologna
(Italian, bishop, c. 407) St. Paulinus of
Antioch
and three companions (Syrian? and Italians ... bishop of Lucca in Italy,
priest, deacon, and soldier ... early martyrs) Bl. Peter Araki
Kobioje
and Bl. Susanna Kobioje
(Japanese, husband and wife, martyred [one burned, one beheaded] in 1626 and
1628 [beatified 1867]) St. Peter Khanh of Tonkin
(Vietnamese, priest, martyred by beheading at about age 62 in 1842 [beatified
1909, canonized 1988]) Sts. Proclus and Hilarion of
Ankara
(Galatian [from part of what is now Turkey], martyred in 115) St. Proculus of
Bologna
(Italian, bishop, martyred by pagan Goths in 542) St. Veronica of
Jerusalem
(Israelite, woman who wiped the face of Jesus on the way to Calvary, 1st
Century) St. Viventiolus of
Lyons
(French, monk, archbishop, d. 524) Bl. Angelina of
Marsciano
(Italian, widow at age 17, Superior General of Regular Tertiaries of St.
Francis of Foligno, died at about age 58 in 1435 [beatified 1825]) Bl.
Charles Emmanuel Cecil Rodriguez
Santiago of Caguas
[Carlos Manuel Cecilio] (Puerto Rican, layman, died at age 44 in 1963
[beatified 2001, first Puerto Rican "Blessed"]) St. Clelia Barbieri of Bundrie di
San Giovanni
(Italian, founded Congregation of Minims of the Sorrowful Mother, died
[tuberculosis] at age 23 in 1870 [beatified 1968, canonized 1989]) St. Dogfan (Welsh, martyred by pagans in
5th Century) Sts. Eugene, Salutaris, Muritta, and
companions, of
Carthage (North
African, bishop and about five hundred of his flock (clergy and laity),
persecuted and exiled by Arian Vandals, c. 505) St. Ezra ben Seraiah of
Babylon
(Israelite, scribe, author of Old Testament historical books, led people back
to Jerusalem from exile, 5th Century B.C.) Bl. Ferdinand Mary Baccilieri
of Campodoso
[Ferdinando Maria] (Italian, priest, Servite tertiary, founded Congregation of the
Sisters Servants of Mary Galeazza, died at age 72 in 1893 [beatified 1999]) Bl. James of Voragine [Giacomo]
(Italian, Dominican provincial, archbishop of Genoa, died at about age
68 in 1298 [beatified 1816]) Bl. Marian of Jesus Euse
Hoyos of Yerumal
[Mariano de Jesus] (Colombian, priest, died at age 80 in 1926 [beatified 2000, first
Colombian "Blessed"]) Bl. Mary Ann Biernacka
of Lipsk
[Marianna] [née Czokala] (Polish, laywoman, martyred by Nazis at Naumowicze
[Poland] at about age 55 in 1943 [beatified 1999]) St. Mildred of Minster
(British, princess, Benedictine
abbess, c. 700) St. Myrope of Chios
(Greek, virgin, martyred [effects of torture] c. 251) St. Serapion of
Macedonia
(Greek, martyred in 195) St. Silas (Israelite, missionary with St.
Paul, bishop, died in Greece in 1st Century) St.
Teresa of Jesus Fernandez
Solar of Santiago
[Teresa de Jesus] [better known as "St. Teresa of the
Andes"]
[baptized/confirmed Juanita Enriqueta Josefina de los Sagrados Corazones (Joan
Henrietta Josephine of the Sacred Hearts)] (Chilean, Discalced Carmelite nun, died [typhus] at age 19 in 1920
[beatified 1987, canonized 1993]) Bl. Thomas Tunstal
(English, priest, became Benedictine in prison, martyred [drawn, hanged,
quartered] under James I in 1616 [beatified 1929]) St. Turiaf of Dol (French,
bishop, d. 750) "A Carmelite is a sister to priests.
Both priest and sister offer a host [victim] of holocaust for the salvation of
the world. A sister sanctifies herself, that by being more united to God, the
blood of the Divine Prisoner which she receives in her soul might circulate
through the other members of Christ's Body. In a word, a sister sanctifies
herself to sanctify her brothers." -------------------------- St. Kateri Tekakwitha of
Ossernenon
["Lily of the Mohawk"] (New Yorker [American Indian
(Mohawk/Algonquin)], virgin, died in Canada at about age 23 in 1680 [beatified
1980, canonized 2012]) [On U.S. and Canadian "particular calendars"]
[Commemorated in Canada on April 17 also] Bl. Caspar de Bono of Valencia
[Gaspar] (Spanish, silk merchant, soldier, Minim superior, priest, died at age 74 in 1604
[beatified 1786]) St. Deusdedit of
Canterbury
[baptized Frithona] (British, Benedictine monk, archbishop, d. 664) St. Felix of Como
(Italian, bishop, c. 390) St. Francis Solano of Montilla
[Francisco] (Spanish, Franciscan
priest, missionary to Latin America [especially Peru], had true gift of
tongues, died at age 61 in 1610 [beatified 1675, canonized 1726]) St. Heraclas of
Alexandria
(Egyptian, assistant and successor of theologian/teacher Origen, bishop, died
at about age 67 in 247) Bl. Humbert of Romans
(French, civil lawyer, Dominican master general, died at about age 84 in
1277) St. Idus of Leinster
(Irish, disciple of St. Patrick, bishop of Alt-Fadha, 5th Century) St. Justus of Rome
(Italian, early martyr) St. Libert of Saint-Trond
(French, Benedictine monk,
martyred by barbarian invaders in 783) St. Marcellinus of
Oldensee
(British, monk, missionary, died in Holland c. 762) St. Optatian of
Brescia
(Italian, bishop for over fifty years, c. 505) St. Phocas of Sinope (from
Asia Minor [now called Turkey], bishop, martyred in 117) Bl. Richard Langhorne of
Bedfordshire
(English, lawyer, martyred under Charles II in 1679 [beatified 1929]) St. Toscana of Verona
(Italian, widow, nun of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem [Gerosolimitan],
died at about age 53 in 1343) St. Ulrich of Zell
(German, empress's page, archdeacon, convent chaplain, Benedictine abbot, died at about age 73 in 1093) St. William of Breteuil
[Guillaume] (French, Benedictine abbot, d. 1130) [Litany
of St. Kateri Tekakwitha] Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. God the Father of Heaven, have mercy on
us. God the Son, Redeemer of the World, have
mercy on us. God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us. Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us. St. Kateri, lily of purity, pray for us. St. Kateri, consoler of the heart of
Jesus, pray for us. St. Kateri, bright light for all Indians,
pray for us. St. Kateri, courage of the afflicted,
pray for us. St. Kateri, lover of the cross of Jesus,
pray for us. St. Kateri, flower of fortitude for the
persecuted, pray for us. St. Kateri, unshakeable in temptations,
pray for us. St. Kateri, full of patience in
suffering, pray for us. St. Kateri, keeper of your virginity in
persecutions, pray for us. St. Kateri, leader of many Indians to the
true faith through your love for Mary, pray for us. St. Kateri, who loved Jesus in the
Blessed Sacrament, pray for us. St. Kateri, lover of penance, pray for
us. St. Kateri, who traveled many miles to
learn the faith, pray for us. St. Kateri, steadfast in all prayer, pray
for us. St. Kateri, who loved to pray the rosary
for all people, pray for us. St. Kateri, example to your people in all
virtues, pray for us. St. Kateri, humble servant to the sick,
pray for us. St. Kateri, who by your love of humility,
gave joy to the angels, pray for us. St. Kateri, who by your holy death gave
strength to all Indians to love Jesus and Mary, pray for us. St. Kateri, whose scarred face in life
became beautiful after death, pray for us. Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of
the world, spare us, o Lord. Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of
the world, graciously hear us, o Lord. Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of
the world, have mercy on us. Let us pray ... O Jesus, who gave St. Kateri to the Indians
as an example of purity, teach all men to love purity and to console your
immaculate Mother Mary through the lily, Kateri Tekakwitha, and through your Holy
Cross, Amen. St. Kateri Tekakwitha, pray
for us. [Novena
prayers to St. Kateri Tekakwitha] St. Kateri, favored child and Lily of the
Mohawk, I come to seek your intercession in my present needs: _______. I admire the virtues which adorned your
soul: love of God and neighbor, humility, obedience, patience, purity, and the
spirit of sacrifice. Help me to imitate your example in my state of life.
Through the goodness and mercy of God, Who has blessed you with so many graces,
which led you to the true faith and to a high degree of holiness, pray to God
for me and help me. Obtain for me a very fervent devotion to the
Holy Eucharist, so that I may love Holy Mass as you did and receive Holy
Communion as often as I can. Teach me also to be devoted to my crucified Savior
as you were, that I may cheerfully bear my daily crosses for love of Him Who
suffered so much for love of me. Most of
all I beg you to pray for me, that I may avoid sin, lead a holy life, and save
my soul. Amen. [Add, in thanksgiving to God for the graces
bestowed upon St. Kateri: the Lord’s
Prayer, the Hail Mary, the “Glory Be,” and ... St. Kateri, pray for me.] --------------------- St. Adalard the Younger of
Corbie
(French, Benedictine monk, died
at about age 20 c. 824) Sts. Agrippinus, Secundinus, Maximus,
Fortunatus, and Martialis (from Pannonia [now called Hungary], martyred in 4th
Century) Bl. Anne Marie Javouhey
of Jallanges
(French, co-founded Congregation of St. Joseph of Cluny, teacher of
slaves in French Guiana [in South America], died at age 52 in 1851 [beatified
1950]) Bl. Anthony Beszta-Borowski of
Borowskie Olki
[Antoni] (Polish, diocesan priest, martyred by Nazis at Piliki [Poland] at age
63 in 1943 [beatified 1999]) Bl. Anthony Francisco of Coimbra
[Antonio], Bl. Francis Aranha
of Braga
[Francisco], Bl. Rudolph Acquaviva
of Atri
[Rodolfo], and Bl. Peter Berna
of Ascona
[Pietro] (2 Portuguese, 1 Italian, and 1 Swiss, Jesuit missionary priests in India, martyred [all in
their early 30s] in 1583 [beatified 1893]) Sts. Antiochus and Cyriacus of
Sebaste
(from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], physician and converted executioner,
martyred in 3rd Century) St. Apronia of Troyes
(German, nun in France, 5th or 6th Century) St. Athanasius of
Naples
(Italian, nobleman, bishop at age 18, imprisoned and exiled after 20 years, d.
872) St. Baldwin of Rieti
[Balduino] (Italian, Cistercian
monk in France, abbot in Italy, d. 1140) St. Barhadbesaba of
Arbela (Persian,
deacon, tortured [racked] and martyred by stabbing in 355) St. Benedict of
Angers
(French, bishop, c. 820) Bl. Bernard of Baden
[Bernhard] (German, civil official, died at about age 30 in 1458 [beatified
1769]) Sts. Catulinus, Januarius, Florentius,
Julia, and Justa, of
Carthage
(North African, early martyrs) St. David of Munkentorp
(English, Benedictine abbot,
missionary bishop in Sweden, c. 1080) St. Donald of Ogilvy
(Scottish, widower, 8th Century) St. Edith of Polesworth
(British, widow, Benedictine
abbess, c. 927) St. Egino of Augsburg
(German, Benedictine abbot, died
in Italy in 1122) St. Eternus of Évreux
(French, bishop, c. 661) Sts. Eutropius, Zosima, and Nonosa, of
Porto
(Italian, martyred c. 273) St. Felix of Pavia
(Italian, early martyr) St. Haruch of Werden (German,
Benedictine abbot, bishop, c.
830) St. James of Nisibis
(Syrian, monk, bishop, c. 340) Blessed Jesuit Martyrs of 1570 [also
called "Bl. Ignatius de
Azevedo
and companions"] (Portuguese [31] and Spanish [9] ... Jesuit college
rector, superior, and his band of Jesuit
missionaries [novices, coadjutors, brothers, priests] headed to Brazil
... martyred by drowning off the Canary Islands by Huguenot pirates in 1570
[beatified 1854]) [Click here to
see the martyrs' names and other facts about them.] St. Peter Nguyên Bá
Tuân of
Tonkin
(Vietnamese, priest, martyred at about age 72 in 1838 [beatified 1900,
canonized 1988]) Sts. Philip, Zeno, Narseus, and
companions, of
Alexandria
(Egyptian, early martyrs [including ten little children]) St. Plechelm of
Guelderland
(British, Benedictine monk,
bishop, missionary in Holland, martyred while preaching c. 730) St. Pompilio Maria Pirotti
of Montecalvo Irpino
(Italian, Piarist priest, died at
age 45 in 1756 [beatified 1890, canonized 1934]) St. Swithun of Winchester
(British, king's chaplain and counselor, prince's tutor, bishop, d. 862) St. Vladimir Svyatoslavich I of Kiev
[baptized Basil] (Ukrainian, Grand Prince, first Christian ruler of his land,
died at about age 59 in 1015) [From
St. Bonaventure:] "Since happiness is nothing but the
enjoyment of the Supreme Good, and since the Supreme Good is above us, we
cannot be happy unless we rise beyond ourselves. Since we cannot reach above
ourselves in our own strength, we must be helped by supernatural strength,
lifted up by a higher power that stoops to raise us. However much we structure
our inner lives and make progress, it does us no good unless our efforts are
accompanied by help from on high. Divine aid is available for those who seek it
with a devout and humble heart; this is done by fervent prayer. Prayer is,
therefore, the source and origin of every upward journey toward God. Let us
each, then, turn to prayer and say to our Lord God: 'Lead me, O Lord, on your
path, that I may walk in your truth.'" (Prayer after Communion) "Pierce, O most sweet Lord Jesus, my
inmost soul with the most joyous and healthful wound of Thy love, and with true,
calm and most holy apostolic charity, that my soul may ever languish and melt
with entire love and longing for Thee, may yearn for Thee and for thy courts,
may long to be dissolved and to be with Thee. Grant that my soul may hunger after Thee, the
Bread of Angels, the refreshment of holy souls, our daily and supersubstantial
bread, having all sweetness and savor and every delightful taste. May my heart ever hunger after and feed
upon Thee, Whom the angels desire to look upon, and may my inmost soul be
filled with the sweetness of Thy savor; may it ever thirst for Thee, the
fountain of life, the fountain of widsom and knowledge, the fountain of eternal
light, the torrent of pleasure, the fulness of the house of God; may it ever
compass Thee, seek Thee, find Thee, run to Thee, come up to Thee, meditate on
Thee, speak of Thee, and do all for the praise and glory of Thy name, with
humility and discretion, with love and delight, with ease and affection, with
perseverence to the end; and be Thou alone ever my hope, my entire confidence,
my riches, my delight, my pleasure, my joy, my rest and tranquility, my peace,
my sweetness, my food, my refreshment, my refuge, my help, my wisdom, my
portion, my possession, my treasure; in Whom may my mind and my heart be ever
fixed and firm and rooted immovably. Amen." Blessed Jesuit Martyrs of 1570 --
CONTINUED [also
called "Bl. Ignatius de
Azevedo
and companions"] (Portuguese [31] and Spanish [9] ... Jesuit
college rector, superior, and his band of Jesuit missionaries [novices, coadjutors, brothers,
priests] headed to Brazil ... martyred by drowning off the Canary Islands by
Huguenot pirates in 1570 [beatified 1854]) [Priests:] We also honor, in a special way, the
following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds" whose
souls are now in heaven: Bl. Bartholomew Fernandes
dos Martires of Lisbon
[Bartolomeu] (Portuguese, Dominican
friar, archbishop of Braga, died at age 76 in 1590 [beatified 2001]) Holy Martyrs of Natal, Brazil (27
Brazilian, one Portuguese, one Spanish, one French ... two Jesuit parish priests and 28 parishioners ...
tortured and martyred by Dutch Calvinist fanatics and local Indians in 1645
[beatified 2000, canonized 2017]) St. Domnio of Bergamo
(Italian, martyred c. 295) St. Eustathius of Side
(Pamphylian [from part of what is now Turkey], patriarch [bishop] of Antioch,
opposed Arian heresy, c. 338) St. Faustus (martyred [crucified and shot
by arrows] in 250) St.
Fulrad of
Saint-Denis
(French, Benedictine abbot,
counselor to emperors, d. 784) St. Generosus of
Poitou
(French, Benedictine abbot, c.
682) St. Helier of Tongres
(Belgian, hermit on British island, martyred in 6th Century) Bl. Irmengard of
Chiemsee
(German, princess, Benedictine
abbess, d. 866 [beatified 1928]) Bl. John Sugar of Wombourne
(English, priest, martyred at about age 46 under James I in 1604 [beatified
1987]) Bl. Milo of Selincourt
(French, Norbertine abbot, d.
1159) St. Reineldis of
Saintes
(Belgian, nun, martyred by pagan Huns c. 680) Bl. Robert Grissold of Romington
(English, layman, martyred under James I in 1604 [beatified 1987]) St. Sinach MacDara
(Irish or Scottish, fisherman, 6th Century) St. Sisenandus of
Badajoz
(Portuguese, deacon in Spain, martyred [beheaded] by Moslems in 851) St. Tenenan of Léon
(British, hermit in France, bishop, c. 635) St. Valentine of
Trier
(German, bishop, martyred c. 305) St. Vitalian of
Capua
(Italian, bishop) St. Vitalian of
Osimo
(Italian, bishop, d. 776) ---------------------- St. Andrew of Opatovec na Visle
[Andrej or Ondrej] [baptized Swierad (Svorad, in Slovak)] (Polish, Byzantine
Catholic, Benedictine monk, teacher of St. Benedict the hermit in Slovakia,
died at about age 54 c. 1034 [canonized 1083]) St. Ansuerus of
Schleswig
and companions (German, Benedictine
abbot and monks in Denmark, martyred by stoning c. 1067) St. Benedict of
Považan [Beňadik
or Benedikt] [baptized Stojislav] (Slovak, Benedictine hermit at Skalka
nad Vahom,
murdered by robbers in 1033 [canonized 1083]) Bl. Benigno Visdomini of Florence
(Italian, priest, Vallumbrosan abbot
general, hermit, d. 1236) Bl. Czeslaw Odrowatz of Kannen
(Silesian [Polish], priest, Dominican
missionary, died at about age 62 in 1242 [beatified 1712]) St. Cynllo (Welsh, 5th Century) St. Ennodius of
Pavia
[as a pagan, Magnus Felix Ennodius] (Italian, professor of rhetoric, bishop,
writer of hymns, died at about age 48 in 521) St. Fredegand of
Kerkelodor
(Belgian, Benedictine abbot, c.
740) St. Generosus of
Tivoli
(Italian, early martyr) St. Gorazd (Slovak, aristocrat, disciple
of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, bishop, 9th Century) St. Hyacinth of
Paphlagonia
(from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], early martyr) King St. Kenelm of
Mercia
(British, monarch, c. 820) Blessed Martyrs of La Rioja [also known as
Bl. Enrique Angelelli and
Companions] (bishop, two priests, and layman ... martyred in Argentina by
oppressive government in 1976 [beatified 2019]) ~~~~~ Bl. Henry Angel Angelelli
of Córdoba
[Enrique Ángel] (Argentinian, beaten to death at age 53) ~~~~~ Bl. Charles of God Murias
of Córdoba
[Carlos] (Argentinian, Franciscan priest, tortured and mutilated, died [shot]
at age 30) ~~~~~ Bl. Gabriel Longueville
of Margillac de Étables
(French, diocesan priest in Argentina, tortured and mutilated, died [shot] at
age 45) ~~~~~ Bl. Wenceslas Pedernera
of Los Jagüeles
[Wenceslao] (Argentinian, married layman, shot to death [witnessed by his wife
and three daughters] at age 39) Pope St. Leo IV of Rome
(Italian, subdeacon, cardinal, elected to papacy in 847, reigned until death in
855) St. Marcellina of Rome
(Italian, elder sister of St. Ambrose [whom she taught], consecrated virgin, c.
398) St. Mary Magdalen Postel
of Barfleur
[Marie-Madeleine] [baptized Julie-Françoise-Catherine (Julia Frances
Catherine)] (French, co-foundress and superior of Sisters of the Christian
Schools of Mercy, died at age 89 in 1846 [beatified 1908, canonized 1925]) St. Nerses of Lampron
(Armenian, hermit, archbishop of Tarsus in Turkey, worked for Christian unity,
died at about age 45 in 1198) Bl. Paul Gojdic of Ruské Peklany
[Pavol] [baptized Peter] (Slovak, diocesan parish priest, became Basilian monk, Byzantine Catholic bishop of Prešov,
aided war refugees, arrested and tortured by Communists, died on his 72nd
birthday in 1960 [beatified 2001]) Seven Holy Apostles of Bulgaria [Sts.
Cyril, Methodius, Gorazd, Nahum, Sabas, Angelarius, and Clement Slovensky] (Eastern
Christians, foremost evangelizers of Bulgaria, 7th through 10th centuries) Sts. Speratus, Narzales, Cythinus,
Veturius, Felix, Acyllinus, Laetantius, Januaria, Generosa, Vestina, Donata,
and Secunda, of
Scillium
(North African, seven men and five women, martyred by the sword in 180) Blessed Teresian Martyrs of Compiègne
(French, 16 women from a Carmelite monastery [14 nuns/sisters, 2
servants], martyred [guillotined] by revolutionaries in 1794 [beatified 1906]) St. Theodosius of
Auxerre
(French, bishop, d. 516) St. Theodota of
Constantinople
(from what is now Turkey, protector of forbidden icons, martyred c. 735) St. Turninus of
Antwerp
(Irish, monk, missionary priest in Holland, 8th Century) St. Arnulf of Metz
(French, courtier, soldier, bishop, hermit, died at about age 60 in 640) Bl. Bertha of Marbais
[Berthe] (French, widow, Cistercian
abbess, d. 1247) St. Bruno of Solero
(Italian, nobleman, Benedictine
abbot, counselor to four popes, bishop of Segni, Vatican librarian,
papal legate, died at about age 74 in 1123 [canonized 1183]) St. Dominic Nicholas Dinh Dat of
Tonkin
(Vietnamese, soldier, martyred by strangling at about age 35 in 1838 [beatified
1900, canonized 1988]) Sts. Edburga and Edith of
Aylesbury
(British, princesses, Benedictine
nuns, c. 650) St. Emilian of Silistria (Bulgarian,
martyred in 362) St. Frederick of
Utrecht
[Fridrich] (Dutch, bishop, martyred by stabbing in 838) St. Goneri of Brittany
(British, hermit in France, 6th Century) St. Gundenis of
Carthage
(North African, virgin, martyred in 203) St. Harvey of Anjou
[Hervé] (English, hermit in France, d. 1130) St. Marina of Orense
(Spanish, virgin, early martyr) St. Maternus of
Milan
(Italian, bishop, c. 307) St. Minnborinus of
Cologne
(Irish, missionary to Germany, Benedictine abbot, d. 986) St. Pambo of the Nitrian Desert
(Egyptian, abbot, c. 390) St. Philastrius of
Brescia
(Spanish, bishop in Italy, opposed Arian heresy, champion of the poor, c. 387) Bl. Robert of Salentino
[Roberto] (Italian, Celestine
abbot, died at about age 69 in 1341) St. Rufilius of
Forlimpopoli
(Italian, bishop, d. 382) St. Simon of Lipnicza
[Szymon z
Lipnicy]
(Polish, Franciscan priest,
nursed plague victims, died at about age 42 in 1482 [beatified 1685, canonized
2007]) [commemorated by some on the 30th] Sts. Symphorosa, Crescens, Julian,
Nemesius, Primitivus, Justin, Stacteus, and Eugene, of
Tivoli
(Italian, widow and seven sons, martyred c. 135) St. Theneva of Glasgow
(Scottish, princess, 7th Century) Bl. Tiburcio Arnáiz
Muñoz of Valladolid
(Spanish, Jesuit priest,
co-founded Missionaries of the Rural Parishes, died at age 60 in 1926
[beatified 2018]) St. Ambrose Autpert
(French, tutor of Bl. Charlemagne, Benedictine abbot in Italy, exegete, c. 778) St. Arsenius the Great of Rome
(Italian, hermit in Egypt, died at about age 96 c. 450) St. Aurea of Cordova
(Spanish, widow, nun, martyred by beheading in 856) Bl. Bernard of Rodez
(French, Benedictine abbot,
cardinal, papal legate to Germany and Spain, d. 1079) St. Epaphras of Colossae
(Greek?, disciple of St. Paul [Col. 1], bishop, martyred in 1st Century) St. Felix of Verona
(Italian, bishop) Bl. Hroznata of Tepl
(Czech, widower, Norbertine monk
in Bavaria, martyred by starvation at about age 57 in 1217 [beatified 1897]) St. Jerome of Pavia
(Italian, bishop, d. 787) St. John Plessington of Dimples
Hall
[aliases: William Pleasington,
William Scarisbrick]
(English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] at about age 42 under
Charles II in 1679 [beatified 1929, canonized 1970]) Sts. Justa and Rufina of
Seville
(Spanish, biological sisters, potters, tortured [racked] and martyred in 287) St. Macrina the Younger of
Caesarea
(Cappadocian [from part of what is now Turkey], nun, died at about age 72 in
379) St. Martin of Trier
(German, bishop, c. 210) St. Stephen del Lupo of San
Liberatore di Majella
[Stefano] (Italian, Benedictine
abbot, d. 1191) Bl. Stilla of Abenberg (German,
virgin, c. 1141 [beatified 1927]) Pope St. Symmachus of
Sardinia
(Italian, archdeacon in Rome, elected to papacy in 498, reigned until death in
514) St. Aurelius of
Carthage
(North African, opposed various heresies, friend of St. Augustine, bishop, c.
429) St. Elijah of Tishbe [also
called Elias] (Israelite, Old Testament prophet, 8th Century B.C.) St. Etheldwitha of
Winchester
(British, princess, widow, Benedictine
nun, d. 903) Sts. Flavian of
Antioch
and Elias of
Jerusalem
(Syrian and Palestinian, patriarchs [bishops], opposed Monophysite heresy, died
c. 512 and 518) Bl. Gregory Lopez of Madrid
[Gregorio] (Spanish, king's page, hermit in Mexico, died at about age 54 in
1596) Bl. John Hambley of St. Mabyn
(English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Elizabeth I at
about age 27 in 1587 [beatified 1987]) St. Joseph Barsabas Justus (Israelite,
disciple of Jesus [Acts 1], 1st Century) Bl. Joseph Beotti of Gragnano Trebbiense
[Giuseppe] (Italian, farmer, diocesan parish priest, assisted Jews and other World
War II victims, martyred [shot] by Nazis at age 31 in 1944 [beatified 2023]) Bl. Louis Novarese of Casale
Monferrato
[Luigi] (Italian, diocesan priest, worked in Vatican curia, founded four
associations to aid the sick and handicapped, died nine days before 70th
birthday in 1984 [beatified 2013]) St. Margaret of
Antioch
(Pisidian [from part of what is now Turkey], virgin, martyred c. 304) St. Paul of Córdova
(Spanish, deacon, martyred [beheaded] by Moslems in 851) St. Rheticus of Autun
(French, bishop, opposed Donatist heresy, d. 334) Bl. Rita Dolores Pujalte
Sánchez of Aspe
and Bl. Frances of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Aldea Araujo of
Somolinos
[Francisca del Sagrado Corazón de Jesus] (Spanish, members of Sisters of
Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus [83-year-old, blind former Superior
General and 54-year-old college secretary], martyred [shot by Civil War rebels]
in 1936 [beatified 1998] [incorruptible]) Sts. Sabinus, Julian, Maximus, Macrobius,
Cassia, Paula, and ten companions (Syrian, early martyrs) St. Severa of Villeneuve
(German? abbess in France, c. 680) St. Severa of Öhren
(German, Benedictine abbess, c.
750) St. Vulmar of Samer
(French, Benedictine brother,
woodchopper, herder, priest, abbot, d. 689) Bl. Christopher of St.
Catherine López de Valladolid Orea of Mérida [Cristóbal de Santa Catalina]
(Spanish, priest of Third Order Regular of Saint Francis, founded Congregation
of the Franciscan Hospitallers of Jesus the Nazarene, died on his 52nd
birthday in 1690 [beatified 2013]) Sts. Claudius, Justus, Jucundinus, and
five companions, of
Troyes
(French, martyred in 273) St. Constantine of
Monte Cassino
(Italian, Benedictine abbot
[succeeded St. Benedict], c. 560) St. Daniel (Israelite, Old Testament
prophet, died in Babylon in 5th Century B.C.) St. John of Edessa
(Syrian, monk, 6th Century) Sts. John and Benignus of
Moyenmoutier
(French, twin brothers, monks, c. 707) St. Julia of Troyes
(French, virgin, martyred c. 273) Bl. Louis Lenzini of Fiumalbo
[Luigi] (Italian, archdiocesan priest, tortured and martyred [bludgeoned] by
communists at age 64 in 1945 [beatified 2022]) Bl. Oddino Barrotti of Fossano
(Italian, Franciscan tertiary,
parish priest, died at about age 76 in 1400 [beatified 1808]) St. Praxedes of Rome
(Italian, virgin, 2nd Century) Sts. Victor, Alexander, Felician, and
Longinus, of
Marseilles
(military officer and guards, tortured and martyred by beheading in 304) St. Wastrada of
Utrecht
(Dutch, widow, c. 670) St. Zoticus of Comana
(Cappadocian [from part of what is now Turkey], bishop, opposed Montanist
heresy, martyred in 204) St. Cyril of Antioch
(Syrian, patriarch [bishop], c. 300) St. Dabius of Albany
(Irish, missionary priest in Scotland, 6th Century?) St. Joseph of Tiberias
(Palestinian, converted Jewish layman, c. 356) Bl. Mary Agnes Therese of the Blessed
Sacrament Arias
Espinosa of Ixtlán del Río [Maria Inés Teresa] [baptized Manuela de
Jesús] (Mexican, virgin, religious of Poor
Clare Sacramentarians, founded Missionary
Poor Clares of the Blessed Sacrament
and Missionaries of Christ for the
Universal Church, died in Italy at age 77 in 1981 [beatified 2012]) St. Meneleus of
Ménat
(French, Benedictine abbot, c.
720) St. Movean of Inis-Coosery
(Irish, disciple of St. Patrick, abbot, hermit, 6th Century) St. Pancharius of
Besançon
(French, bishop, opposed Arian heresy, c. 356) Sts. Philip Evans of Monmouthshire and
John Lloyd
of Brecknockshire
(Welsh, priests [one Jesuit, one diocesan], martyred [drawn, hanged, and
quartered] under Charles II at about ages 34 and 49 in 1679 [beatified 1929,
canonized 1970]) [Commemorated in Wales on July 23] St. Plato of Ancyra
(Galatian [from part of what is now Turkey], rich young man, martyred c. 306) St. Syntyche of
Philippi
(Macedonian [Greek], female disciple of St. Paul [Philippians 4], 1st Century) St. Theophilus (fleet admiral, captured by
Moslem invaders on Cyprus, martyred in 789) St.
Wandrille of
Fontenelle
(French, courtier, hermit, priest, abbot, died at about age 68 in. 668) Sts. Apollonius and Eugene of Rome
(Italian, early martyrs [one shot with arrows, one beheaded]) Holy Martyrs of Bulgaria (9th Century) Bl. Christian Gondek
of Slona
[Krystyn] [baptized Wojciech (Adalbert)] (Polish, Franciscan priest, martyred by Nazis at Dachau [Germany]
at age 33 in 1942 [beatified 1999]) St. Ezekiel ben Buzi of
Tel-Abib (Israelite,
priest, among exiles in Babylon, Old Testament prophet, 6th Century B.C.) Bl. Jane of Orvieto
[Giovanna] (Italian, Dominican
tertiary, died at about age 42 in 1306 [beatified 1754]) St. John Cassian of
Marseilles
(pilgrim to Holy Land, monk in Egypt, deacon in Asia Minor, abbot in France,
died at about age 73 c. 433) St. Liborius of Le
Mans
(French, bishop, d. 390) Bl. Margaret Mary López
de Maturana y Ortiz de Zárate of Bilbao [Margarita María] [baptized
Pilar] (Spanish, Mercedarian
sister, founded Missionary Sisters of Mercy, died two days before
her 50th birthday in 1934 [beatified 2006]) Blessed Passionist Martyrs of Spain
(Spanish, father provincial and 25 religious [6 priests, 4 brothers, 15
students] of the Passionist congregation [mostly 18 to 21 in age],
martyred in civil war in 1936 [beatified 1989]) [Click here
to see the martyrs' names and other facts about them.] St. Phocas (from Asia Minor [now called
Turkey], innkeeper, gardener who fed the poor, martyred by beheading c. 303) St. Primitiva of Rome
(Italian, virgin, early martyr) St. Rasyphus of Rome
(Italian, early martyr) Sts. Rasyphus and Ravennus of Macé
(British, hermits in France, martyred in 5th Century) Sts. Romula, Redempta, and Herundo, of Rome
(Italian, virgins, c. 580) Sts. Trophimus and Theophilus (martyred in
Rome c. 302) St. Valerian of
Cimiez
(French, monk, bishop, c. 460) Blessed Passionist Martyrs of Spain --
CONTINUED (Spanish,
father provincial and 25 religious [6 priests, 4 brothers, 15 students] of the Passionist
congregation [mostly 18 to 21 in age], martyred in civil war in 1936 [beatified
1989]) [Superior:] Bl. Anthony Turriani of Milan
[Antonio] (Italian, physician, Augustinian friar, hermit, died at about age 50 in 1694
[beatified 1759]) Sts. Boris and Glev [baptized Romanus and
David] (Ukrainian, brother princes [sons of St. Vladimir], murdered at about
age 15 to 20 in 1015 [canonized 1724]) Blessed Carmelite Martyrs of Guadalajara
(Spanish, three Discalced Carmelite nuns, martyred [shot] by communists during
Civil War in 1936 [beatified 1987]) [Their names follow:] -----
Bl. Mary of the Angels of St. Joseph Valtierra Tordesillas
of Getafe
[Maria Angeles de San José] [baptized Marciana]
(died at age 30) -----
Bl. Mary Pilar of St. Francis Borgia Martínez García
of Tarazona
[Maria Pilar de San Francisco Borgia] [baptized Jacoba]
(died at age 58) -----
Bl. Teresa of the Child Jesus and of St. John of the Cross García y García
of Mochales
[Teresa del Niño Jesus y de San Juan de la Cruz] [baptized Eusebia] (died at
age 27) St. Christiana of
Termonde
(British, princess, nun in Belgium, 7th Century) St. Christina of
Bolsena
(Roman, virgin, martyred by arrows in 4th Century?) St. Christina the Astonishing of
Brustheim
(Belgian, orphan, eccentric wonder worker, nun, died at about age 74 in 1224) St. Christina of Tyre
(Phoenician [Lebanese], virgin, early martyr) St. Declan of Desi
(Irish, bishop of Ardmore, 5th Century) [On Irish "particular
calendar"] St. Dictinus of
Astorga
(Spanish, one-time heretic, bishop, d. 420) St. Germoc of Cornwall
(Irish, chieftain who settled in England, 6th Century) St. Godo of Oye
(French, Benedictine abbot, c.
690) Bl.
John Tavalli
of Tossignano
[Giovanni] (Italian, bishop of Ferrara, translated Bible into Italian, d. 1446) St. John Boste of Dufton [or Boast]
(English, priest, tortured [racked] and martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] at about
age 50 under Elizabeth I in 1594 [beatified 1929, canonized 1970]) St. Joseph Fernandez of Ventosa de
la Cueva
[José] (Spanish, Dominican
priest, missionary in Vietnam, martyred by beheading at about age 63 in
1838 [beatified 1900, canonized 1988]) St. Kinga of Esztergom
(Hungarian, princess, Franciscan
tertiary, queen of Poland, widow, Poor Clare nun, virgin [despite 40 years of marriage],
died at about age 68 in 1292 [beatified 1690, canonized 1999]) [commemorated by
some on July 23] St. Lewina of Berg
(British, virgin, martyred in 5th Century) Bl. Louise of Savoy
(French, widow, Poor Clare nun,
died at about age 41 in 1503 [beatified 1839]) Bl. Mary Bernice Duque
Heckner of Salamina
[María Berenice] [baptized/confirmed Ana Julia (Ann Julia)] [surname sometimes spelled Hencker] (Colombian, eldest of 19 children, Dominican nun, teacher, founded Little Sisters of the Annunciation to teach poor girls, prolific writer, died at
age 94 in 1993 [beatified 2022]) Bl. Mary of Mercies of the Sacred Heart Prat y
Prat of Barcelona
[María Mercedes del Sagrado Corazón] [baptized Mercedes] (Spanish, sister of the Society of St. Teresa of Jesus,
martyred by shooting at age 56 in 1936 [beatified 1990]) Bl. Maximilian Binkiewicz
of Zarnowiec
[Maksymilian] (Polish, diocesan priest, martyred by Nazis [beaten to death] at
Dachau [Germany] at age 29 in 1942 [beatified 1999]) St. Menefrida of
Cornwall
(British, virgin, 5th Century) Sts. Meneus and Capito (early martyrs) Bl. Modestino of Jesus and Mary Mazzarella
of Frattamaggiore
[Modestino di Gesu e Maria] [baptized Domenico (Dominic)] (Italian, Franciscan priest, died at age 51 in 1854 [beatified
1995]) Sts. Niceta and Aquilina (early martyrs) Bl. Nicolas Garlick of Dinting, Bl.
Richard Simpson
of Well,
and Bl. Robert Ludlam
of Radbourne
(English, priests, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Elizabeth I
[at about ages 33/35/37] in 1588 [beatified 1987]) St. Sigolena of
Troclar
(French, noblewoman, widow, Benedictine
abbess, c. 769) St. Ursicinus of Sens
(French, bishop, opposed Arian heresy, c. 380) Sts. Victor, Stercatius, and Antinogenes, of
Merida
(Spanish?, biological brothers?, martyred in 304) St. Vincent of Rome
(Italian, early martyr) Sts. Wulfhade and Ruffinus of
Mercia
(British, brother princes, martyred in 675) Bl. Anthony Lucci of Agnone
[Antonio] (Italian, Franciscan
friar, bishop, died 18 days before his 70th birthday in 1752 [beatified
1989]) St. Christopher of
Canaan
(Palestinian, carried people across a stream, martyred c. 251) St. Cucuphas of
Scillis
(North African, nobleman, martyred in Spain in 304) St. Ebrulf of Bayeux
(French, hermit, abbot, d. 600) Sts. Felix and Florentius of Rome
(Italian, soldiers, martyred in 235) St. Glodesind of Metz
(French, abbess, c. 608) Bl. John Soreth of Caen
[Jean] (French, Carmelite prior
general, died at about age 51 [cholera] in 1471 [beatified 1865]) [commemorated
by some on the 30th] St. Magnericus of
Trier
(German, bishop, d. 596) Bl. Marie Therese of the Child Jesus Kowalska
of Warsaw
[Maria Teresa od Dzieciatka Jezus] [baptized Mieczyslawa] (Polish, Poor
Clare Capuchin sister, martyred by
Nazis at Dzialdowo [Poland] at about age 39 in 1941 [beatified 1999])
[commemorated by some on July 28] St. Mary of Mt. Carmel Sallés
Barangueras of Vich
[Maria de Monte Carmelo] [baptized Carmen] (Spanish, virgin, founded Sisters
of the Immaculate Conception for the Instruction of Children, died at about
age 63 in 1911 [beatified 1998, canonized 2012]) St. Nissen (Irish, disciple of St.
Patrick, abbot, 6th Century) St. Paul of Gaza
(Palestinian, martyred in 308) Bl. Peter Corradini of Mogliano
[Pietro] (Italian, Franciscan
priest, died at about age 48 in 1490 [beatified 1760]) [commemorated by
some on the 30th] Sts. Thea of Gaza and
Valentina of
Caesarea
(Palestinian, tortured, early martyrs by burning) St. Theodomir of
Córdoba (Spanish,
monk, martyred by Moslems c. 850) Sts. Joachim and Ann, of
Nazareth
(Israelite, parents of Mary, grandparents of Jesus, 1st Century) St. Bartholomea Capitanio
of Lovere
(Italian, teacher, co-founded Sisters of Charity of Lovere, died at age
26 in 1833 [beatified 1926, canonized 1950]) Bl. Edward Thwing of Heworth
(English, priest, martyred under Elizabeth I at about age 35 in 1600 [beatified
1987]) St. Erastus of Corinth
(Greek, city treasurer [Romans 16], disciple of Sts. Paul and Timothy, bishop
of Philippi, martyred in 1st Century) St. George Preca of Valletta
(Maltese, priest, founded Society of Christian Doctrine, died at age 82
in 1962 [beatified 2001, canonized 2007]) [Commemorated in Malta on May 9] Bl. George Swallowell of Durham and
Bl. John Ingram
of Stoke Edith
(English, teacher and priest, tortured and martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered]
under Elizabeth I in 1594 [beatified 1929]) [Bl. John died at about age 29.] St. Hyacinth (martyred c. 110) Bl. Maria Pierina de
Micheli of Milan
[baptized Giuseppina (Josephine)] (Italian, virgin, religious of Daughters of the Immaculate Conception in Argentina, promoter of Holy Face medal,
died at age 54 in 1945 [beatified 2010]) Sts. Olympius, Exuperis, Theodulus, and
Symphronius, of
Rome (Italian
... wife, husband, son, and servant ... early martyrs [burned]) St. Parasceva of Rome
(Italian, virgin, missionary teacher, tortured and martyred by beheading in
180) St. Pastor of Rome
(Italian, priest, c. 160) Bl. Robert Nutter of Burnley
(English, Dominican priest,
martyred under Elizabeth I in 1600 [beatified 1987]) St. Simeon of Padolirone (Armenian,
hermit, monk in Italy, d. 1016) St. Titus Brandsma of Bolsward
[baptized Anno Sjoera] (Dutch, Carmelite
priest, translator, philosopher, teacher, university president, opposed
anti-Judaism, tortured in concentration camps, abused in medical experiments,
martyred [lethal injection given at Dachau by ex-Catholic Nazi nurse] at age 61
in 1942 [beatified 1985, canonized 2022]) St. Valens of Verona
(Italian, bishop, d. 531) Bl. William Webster of Thornby
[alias Ward]
(English, priest, imprisoned 20 years, martyred under Charles I at about age 81
in 1641 [beatified 1929]) St. Anthusa of Constantinople
(Turkish, abbess, tortured but not martyred, 8th Century) St. Arethas of Nedshran
(Arabian, martyred by beheading at about age 96 in 523) St. Berthold of
Garsten (Swiss,
widower, Benedictine abbot in
Austria, died at about age 82 in 1142 [canonized 1970]) St. Congall of Iabnallivin
(Scottish, abbot) Bl. Conrad of Ottobeuren
(Bavarian, Benedictine abbot, d.
1227) St. Ecclesius of
Ravenna
(Italian, bishop, d. 532) St. Etherius of
Auxerre
(French, bishop, d. 573) Sts. Felix, Julia, and Jucunda, of Nola
(early
martyrs) Sts. George, Aurelius, Natalia, Felix, and
Liliosa, of
Córdova
(one Palestinian and four Spanish, deacon and two married couples, martyred
[beheaded] by Moslems in 852) Sts. Hermolaus, Hermippus, and
Hermacrates, of
Nicomedia
(from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], priest and two brothers, martyred c.300) Bl. Joseph Lambton of Malton
(English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Elizabeth I at
about age 24 in 1592 [beatified 1987]) St. Luican (Irish) Bl. Lucy Bufalari of Castel
Porziano
[Lucia] (Italian, Augustinian
prioress, d. 1350 [beatified 1832]) Bl. Mary Clement of the Crucified Jesus Staszewska
of Zloczew
[Maria Klemensa] [baptized Elena (Helen)] (Polish, Ursuline sister, martyred by Nazis at Auschwitz
[Poland] three days before her 53rd birthday in 1943 [beatified 1999]) Bl. Mary Magdalen Martinengo
of Brescia
[Maria Maddalena] (Italian, Capuchin
prioress, died at about age 50 in 1737 [beatified 1900]) Bl. Mary of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus
Christ Tarallo
of Barra
(Maria della Passione di Nostro Signore Gesu Cristo) [baptized Mary Grace
(Maria Grazia)] (Italian, virgin, member of the Institute of the Sisters
Crucified Adorers of the Eucharist, mystic, stigmatist, died at age 45 in
1912 [beatified 2006]) Sts. Maurus, Pantalemon, and Sergius, of
Bisceglia
(bishop and others, martyred c. 117) Sts. Maximian, Malchus, Martinian,
Dionysius, John, Serapion, and Constantine, of Ephesus (from
Asia Minor [now called Turkey], martyred in 3rd or 4th Century) Bl. Nevolo of Faenza
(Italian, shoemaker, first Franciscan
tertiary, Camaldolese
brother, d. 1280 [beatified 1817]) St. Pantaleon of
Nicomedia
(from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], physician, martyred by beheading c. 305) Bl. Robert Sutton of
Burton-on-Trent
(English, priest, martyred under Elizabeth I at about age 43 in 1588 [beatified
1987]) St. Theobald of
Marly
(French, knight, Cistercian
abbot, d. 1247) Bl. William Davies of Colwyn Bay
(Welsh, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Elizabeth I in
1593 [beatified 1987]) ------------------- St. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception Mattathupandatu
of Arpukara
([Asian] Indian, virgin, religious sister of Congregation of the Third Order
of St. Francis, died at age 36 in 1946 [beatified 1986, canonized 2008]) Bl. Anthony della Chiesa of San
Germano
[Antonio] (Italian, nobleman, Dominican
prior, missionary with St. Bernardine, mystic, died at about age 64 in
1459 [beatified 1819]) St. Arduinus of
Ceprano
(Italian, 7th Century) St. Botvid of Sodermannland
(Swedish, lay missionary working with English monks, martyred in 1100) St. Camelian of
Troyes
(French, bishop for almost 50 years, c. 525) St. Eustace of Galatia (from
Asia Minor, victim of torture and early martyr by drowning) Pope St. Innocent I of
Albano
(Italian, elected to papacy in 401, reigned until death in 417) Bl. Joseph Ambrosoli of Ronago
[Giuseppe] (Italian, medical doctor/surgeon, educator/philanthropist, priest of
the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of
Jesus, died [kidney disease] in Uganda at age 63 in 1987 [beatified 2022]) St. Lucidus of Aquara (Italian,
Benedictine monk, hermit, died at
about age 78 c. 938) Sts. Nazarius and Celsus of Rome
(Italian, disciple of St. Peter and a child, martyred by beheading c. 68) St. Peregrine of
Lyons
(French, priest, hermit, 2nd Century) St. Peter Poveda Castroverde of
Linares
[Pedro] (Spanish, diocesan priest, founder of Teresian Institute,
martyred at age 61 in Civil War in 1936 [beatified 1993, canonized 2003]) St. Raymond Palmarius Zansogni
of Piacenza
[Raimondo] (Italian, pilgrim to Holy Land and throughout Europe, died at about
age 60 in 1200) St. Samson of Glamorgan
(Welsh, nobleman, abbot, hermit, bishop of Caerleon in Cornwall, missionary in
France, died at about age 75 c. 565) Bl. Stanley Francis Rother
of Okarche
(American [Oklahoman], diocesan priest, missionary in Guatemala, martyred [shot
by extremists] at age 46 in 1981 [beatified 2017]) Pope St. Victor I (North African, elected
to papacy in 189, may have been first to use Latin in liturgy, reigned until
death [possibly martyred] in 199) Sts. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus of
Bethany
(Israelite, virgins, siblings, disciples of Jesus, 1st Century A.D.) St. Faustinus of
Spello
(Italian, bishop's attendant, 4th Century) Sts. Joseph Zhang
Wen-lan of
Ba,
John Baptist Luo
Ting-ying of Qing-yian, and
Martha Wang Luo
Man-de of
Zun-yi
(Chinese ... seminarian, servant, and widow/messenger ... martyred by beheading
at ages 30/36/59 in 1861 [beatified 1909, canonized 2000]) St. Kilian of Inishcaltra
(Irish, abbot, 7th Century) Bl.
Louis Bertrán of Barcelona [Luis], Bl. Mancius of the Holy Cross, and
Bl. Peter of God's Holy Mother (Spanish and two Japanese ... Dominican missionary priest and catechists ... martyred
by burning in Japan in 1627 [beatified 1867]) Sts. Lucilla, Flora, Eugene, Anthony, and
Theodore (martyred c. 260) St. Lupus of Toul
(French, lawyer, bishop of Troyes for 52 years, died at about age 95 c. 478) King St. Olaf II Haraldsson of
Ringerike
(Norwegian, converted pirate, monarch, died [in battle] at about age 35 in 1030
[canonized 1164]) St. Paul Chen
Chang-pin of
Xing-ren
(Chinese, seminarian, martyred at age 23 in 1861 [beatified 1909, canonized 2000]) St. Prosper of Orléans
(French, bishop, c. 453) St. Seraphina (virgin, c. 426) St. Serapia (Syrian, slave, martyred in
119) Sts. Simplicius, Faustinus, and Beatrice, of Rome (Italian,
brothers and sister, tortured and martyred c. 303) St. Sulian (British, abbot, 6th Century) Pope Bl. Urban II of
Châtillons-sur-Marne
[Urbano] [baptized Odo] (French, nobleman, Benedictine prior, cardinal bishop of Ostia in Italy, papal
legate, elected to papacy in 1088, approved First Crusade, reigned until death
at about age 57 in Rome in 1099 [beatified 1881]) St. William Pinchon of Brittany
[Guillaume] (French, nobleman, bishop of Saint-Brieuc, died at about age 54 in
1234 [canonized about 1253] [incorrupt]) St. Peter Chrysologus of
Imola ["chrysologos"
is Greek for "golden word"] (Italian, adult convert, bishop of
Ravenna, fought paganism and Monophysite heresy, great preacher, Doctor of the
Church, died at about age 70 c. 450) Bl. Archangel of
Calafatimi
[Arcangelo] (Sicilian, hermit, Franciscan friar, d. 1460 [beatified 1836]) Bl. Edward Powell, Bl.
Richard Featherstone
of Brecknock,
and Bl. Thomas Abel (1
Welsh, 2 English ... counselor of Queen Catherine [of Aragon] / confessor and
tutor of Princess Mary / queen's chaplain ... martyred [drawn, hanged,
quartered] under Henry VIII in 1540 [beatified 1886]) [Bl. Thomas died at about
age 43.] St. Ermengytha of
Thanet
(British, Benedictine nun, c.
680) Bl. Everard Hanse of
Northamptonshire
(English, priest, martyred by hanging under Elizabeth I in 1581 [beatified
1886]) St. Hatebrand of Olden-Klooster
(Dutch, Benedictine abbot, d.
1198) Blessed Hospitaller Martyrs of Spain (64
Spanish men, 7 Colombian men ... 71 members of Order of the Hospitallers of
St. John of God [6 priests, 47 brothers, 13 novices, 1 postulant, 4
oblates], martyred in Civil War in 1936 [beatified 1992]) [Click
here to see the martyrs' names and other facts about
them.] St. Julitta of Caesarea
(Cappadocian [from part of what is now Turkey], widow, martyred by asphyxiation
in 303) St. Leopold Mandic of Castelnovo [baptized
Bogdan] (Dalmatian [from part of what is now Bosnia], Capuchin priest in Italy, heard confessions all day
after Mass for forty years, died [cancer of esophagus] at age 76 in 1942
[beatified 1976, canonized 1983]) [commemorated by some on May 12] Bl. Manes de Guzmán of Calaruega
(Spanish, elder brother of St. Dominic, Dominican friar in France, nuns' chaplain in Spain, d.
1230 [beatified 1834]) St. Mary of the Sacramental Jesus Venegas
de la Torre of Jalisco
[María de Jesús Sacramentado] [baptized María Natividad] (Mexican, co-founder
and superior of Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, died at age 90
in 1959 [beatified 1992, canonized 2000]) Bl. Mary Vincent of St. Dorothy Chávez
Orozco of Cotija
[María Vicenta de Santa Dorotea] (Mexican, virgin, founded Congregation of
the Servants of the Holy Trinity and the Poor, died at age 82 in 1949
[beatified 1997]) Sts. Maxima, Donatilla, and Secunda, of
Tebourba
(North African, virgins, martyred in 304) King St. Olav of
Stockholm
(Swedish, monarch for 30 years, convert who established Swedish Christianity,
martyred by pagans c. 950) St. Rheticus of
Autun
(French, bishop, opposed Donatist heresy, d. 334) St. Rufinus of Assisi
(Italian, early martyr) Bl. Solanus Casey of Oak Grove
[Bernard Francis] (Wisconsinite, Capuchin priest, reputed miracle worker, died at age
86 in 1957 [beatified 2017]) St. Tatwin of Canterbury
(British, Benedictine monk,
archbishop, d. 734) St. Ursus of Auxerre (French,
hermit, bishop, d. 508) Bl. Zdenka Schelingova of Kriva
[baptized Cecilia] (Slovak, member of Congregation of the Sisters of Charity
of the Holy Cross, nurse, imprisoned by Communists, tortured, martyred at
age 38 in 1955 [beatified 2003]) Blessed Hospitaller Martyrs of Spain --
CONTINUED (64
Spanish men, 7 Colombian men ... 71 members of Order of the Hospitallers of
St. John of God [6 priests, 47 brothers, 13 novices, 1 postulant, 4
oblates], martyred in Civil War in 1936 [beatified 1992]) [In
the list, assume "Spanish" unless "Colombian" is
mentioned.] [Priests:] Sts. Democritus, Secundus, and Dionysius
(early martyrs) Sts. Emmanuel Le Van
Phung of
Dan-nuoc
and Peter Doan Cong
Quy of
Bung
(Vietnamese, catechist and priest, martyred [one garrotted at about age 63, one
beheaded at about age 33] in 1859 [beatified 1909, canonized 1988]) St. Fabius of Mauritania
(Roman, soldier in Africa, martyred by beheading in 300) St. Firmus of Tagaste
(North African, early bishop, tortured) Bl. Francis Stryjas of Popowo
[Franciszek] (Polish, layman, martyred by Nazis at Kalisz [Poland] at age 62 in
1944 [beatified 1999]) St. Germanus of
Auxerre
(French, governor, bishop, opposed Pelagian heresy, died in Italy at about age
70 in 448) [Commemorated in Wales on August 3] St. Helen of Skövde
[Elin] (Swedish, widow, c. 1160 [canonized 1164]) Bl. John Colombini of Siena
[Giovanni] (Italian, merchant, magistrate, founded society of Gesuati for lay brothers, died at about age 67 in
1367) St. Justin de Jacobis of San Fele
[Giustino] (Italian, Vincentian
missionary in Africa, helped twelve thousand to convert, vicar apostolic
of Abyssinia [now called Ethiopia], died at age 59 in 1860 [beatified 1939,
canonized 1975]) Bl. Michael Ozieblowski of Izdebno
[Michal] (Polish, diocesan priest, martyred by Nazis at Dachau [Germany] at age
41 in 1942 [beatified 1999]) St. Neot of Cornwall
(British, dwarf, Benedictine
priest, hermit, c. 880) [From
St. Ignatius of
Loyola:] "We were created to praise, to
reverence and to serve God. And everything else on the face of the earth was
created for our sake, to help us to achieve the goal for which we were
created." "In a time of desolation, never
forsake the good resolutions you made in better times. Strive to remain patient
-- a virtue contrary to the troubles that harass you -- and remember that you
will be consoled." "Prefer neither health nor sickness,
neither riches nor poverty, neither honor nor ignominy, neither a long life nor
a short one." "We must put aside all judgment of
our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the true
Spouse of Christ our Lord, our holy Mother, the hierarchical Church." "Do not let any occasion of gaining merit
pass without taking care to draw some spiritual profit from it; as, for
example, from a sharp word which someone may say to you; from an act of
obedience imposed against your will; from an opportunity which may occur to
humble yourself, or to practice charity, sweetness, and patience. All of these occasions are gain for you, and
you should seek to procure them; and at the close of that day, when the
greatest number of them have come to you, you should go to rest most cheerful
and pleased, as the merchant does on the day when he had had most chance for
making money; for on that day business has prospered with him." "If God [allows] you to suffer much,
it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends
to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him
yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood
better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ
used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity." "Take, O Lord, and receive my entire
liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my whole will. All that I am and all
that I possess you have given me. I surrender it all to you to be disposed of
according to your will. Give me only your love and your grace. With these I will be rich enough and will
desire nothing more." "Dearest Lord, teach me to be
generous; teach me to serve You as You deserve: to give, and not count the
cost; to fight, and not to heed the wounds; to toil, and not to seek for rest;
to labor, and not to ask for reward, except that of knowing that I am doing
Your Will."
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On July 8, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
----- St. Mary Adolfina Dierks
[Marie-Adolphine] [baptized Anna Katarina (Ann Catherine)] (Dutch, factory
worker, domestic servant, died at age 34)
----- St. Mary Amandina Jeuris
of Schakebroek
[Marie-Amandine] [baptized Paulina] (Belgian, nurse, died at age 27)
----- St. Mary Clare Nanetti
of Ponte Santa Maria Maddalena [Maria Chiara] [baptized Clelia]
(Italian, died at age 28)
----- St. Mary Hermina of Jesus Grivot of Beaune
[Marie-Hermine-de-Jésus] [baptized Irma] (French, tutor, superior of sisters
martyred, died at age 34)
----- St. Mary of Peace Giuliani
of Bolsena
[Maria della Pace] [baptized Maria Anna (Mary Ann)] (Italian, organized
orphanage in China, died at age 25)
----- St. Mary of St. Justus Moreau of La Faye
[Marie-de-Saint-Just] [baptized Anne-Françoise] (French, farmer, overcame great
faith crisis in China, died at age 34)
----- St. Mary of St. Natalie Kerguin of Belle-Isle en Terre
[Marie-de-Sainte-Nathalie] [baptized Jeanne-Marie (Joan Marie)] (French,
peasant, died at age 36)
On July 9, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
{Note: Some of these martyrs are also commemorated individually or in a smaller
group on other days during the year.}
Bl. Adrian Fortescue
of Punsborne (English,
father of five, justice of the peace, Dominican tertiary, cousin of Anne Boleyn [but opposed
her sham marriage], martyred by beheading at about age 63 in 1539 [beatified
1895])
----- St. Adrian Janssen
of Hilvarenbeek
[also called Adrian Beanus] [Adriaan] (Dutch, Norbertine, died at about
age 40)
----- St. Andrew Wouters
of Heinenoord
[Andries] (Dutch, Franciscan, died at about age 30)
----- St. Anthony of
Hoornaer
[Antonius] (Dutch, Franciscan)
----- St. Anthony of
Weert
[Antonius] (Dutch, Franciscan, died at about age 49)
----- St. Anthony of
Holstein
[Antonius] [also known as Willehad] (Danish, Franciscan, died at about
age 90)
----- St. Cornelius of
Wyk
[Cornelis] (Dutch, Franciscan
brother, died at about age 24)
----- St. Godfrey of
Melveren
[Govaert] (Dutch, Franciscan superior, died at about age 60)
----- St. Godfrey van
Duynen of Gorkum
[Govaert] (Dutch, parish priest, died at about age 70)
----- St. James Lacops
of Oudenaarde
[Jacob] (Dutch, Norbertine, repentant apostate, died at about age 31)
----- St. Francis van
Rooy of Brussels
[Frans] (Belgian, Franciscan, died at about age 23)
----- St. Jerome Weerden
of Weert
[Jeronymus] (Dutch, Franciscan
missionary to Palestinian Moslems, vicar of friary in Holland, died at
about age 50)
----- St. John Lenartz
of Oosterwyk
[Johannes] (Dutch, Augustinian, nuns' chaplain, died at about age 68)
----- St. John of
Cologne
[Johannes von
Köln]
(German, Dominican friar, parish
priest in Holand)
----- St. Leonard Vechel
of 's-Hertogenbosch
(Bois-le-Duc)
[Lenaert] (Dutch, parish priest, died at about age 45)
----- St. Nicasius of
Heeze
(Dutch, Franciscan, parish priest in
Holland, died at about age 40)
----- St. Nicholas Janssen
Poppel of Welde
[Nicolaas] (Belgian, parish priest)
----- St. Nicholas Pieck
of Gorkum
[Claes] (Dutch, Franciscan, died at about age 38)
----- St. Peter of
Assche
(Belgian, Franciscan brother,
died at about age 42)
----- St. Theodore van
der Eem of Amersfoort
[Dirk] (Dutch, Franciscan, died at about age 73)
{Note: Some of these martyrs are also commemorated individually or in a smaller
group on other days during the year.}
----- St. Anthoninus Fantosati
of Santa Maria della Valle [Antonino] [baptized Antonio (Anthony)]
(Italy, Franciscan, died in 1900 at age 58 [beatified 1946])
----- St. Francis Fogolla
of Montereggio
[Francesco] (Italian, Franciscan, died in 1900 at age 61 [beatified
1946])
----- St. Francis Serrano
Frias of Guenejea
[Francisco] (Spanish, Dominican
priest [bishop-elect], tortured [branded, etc.] and strangled at age 53
in 1748 [beatified 1893])
----- St. Gregory Grassi
of Castellazzo Bormida
[Gregorio] [baptized Pierluigi (Peter Louis)] (Italian, Franciscan, died
in 1900 at age 67 [beatified 1946]))
----- St. John Gabriel Taurin
Dufresse of Ville-de-Lezoux [Jean-Gabriel] (French, religious of the Paris
Foreign Missions Society, died in 1815 at age 65 [beatified 1900])
----- St. Louis Versiglia
of Oliva Gessi
[Luigi] (Italian, Salesian, shot to death at age 57 in 1930 [beatified
1983])
----- St. Peter Sanz
y Jorda of Asco
[Pedro] (Spanish, Dominican
missionary to Philippines and China for over 30 years, tortured and
beheaded at age 67 in 1747 [beatified 1893])
[Priests:]
----- St. Alberico Crescitelli
of Altavilla
(Italian, missionary priest [member of Pontifical Institute for Foreign
Missions], tortured and beheaded at age 37 in 1900 [beatified 1951])
----- St. August Chapdelaine
of La Rochelle
[Auguste] (French, religious of the Paris Foreign Missions Society,
tortured and beheaded at age 42 in 1856 [beatified 1900])
----- St. Augustine Zhao
Rong of Su-Tchuen
(former soldier, died due to neglect in prison at age 59 in 1815 [beatified
1900]))
----- St. Caesidius Giacomantonio
of Fossa Acquilana
[Cesidio] [baptized Angelo] (Italian, Franciscan, died in 1900 at age 27
[beatified 1946])
----- St. Callistus Caravario
of Cuorgné Canavese
[Callisto] (Italian, Salesian, shot to death at age 27 in 1930
[beatified 1983])
----- St. Elijah Facchini
of Reno Centese
[Elia] (Italian, Franciscan, died in 1900 at age 61 [beatified 1946])
----- St. Francis Diaz
del Rincon of Ecija
[Francisco] (Spanish, Dominican, died in 1748 at age 35 [beatified
1893])
----- St. Francis Mary Lantrua
of Molini di Triora
[Francesco Maria] [baptized Giovanni (John)] (Italian, Franciscan friar, strangled at age 56 in 1816 [beatified
1900])
----- St. Francis Regis Clet
of Grenoble
[François-Régis] (French, Vincentian
missionary for 30 years, tortured and strangled at age 72 in 1820
[beatified 1900])
----- St. Francis Fernández
de Capillas of Baquerín de Campos [Francisco]
["Proto-martyr of China"] (Spanish, Dominican missionary priest in Philippines, first
Christian martyr in China, tortured and beheaded at age 41 in 1648 [beatified
1909])
----- St. Joachim Rojo
Perez of Hinojosa
[Joaquín] (Spanish, Dominican
missionary in Philippines and China for 36 years, tortured and strangled
at about age 57 in 1748 [beatified 1893])
----- St. John Alcober
Figuera of Gerona
[Juan] (Spanish, Dominican, strangled at age 54 in 1748 [beatified
1893])
----- St. John Peter Néel
of Sainte-Catherine-sur-Riviere [Jean-Pierre] (French, member of the Paris
Foreign Missions Society, died in 1862 at age 30 [beatified 1909])
----- St. Joseph Mary Gambaro
of Galliate
[Giuseppe Maria] [baptized Bernardo (Bernard)] (Italian, Franciscan,
died in 1900 at age 31 [beatified 1946])
----- St. Joseph Yuan
Zai-de of
Pe-Choui-Hien
(stranglied at age 51 in 1817 [beatified 1900])
----- St. Leon Ignatius Mangin
of Verny
[Leon-Ignace] (French, Jesuit, died in 1900 at age 43 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Modeste Andlauer
of Rosheim
(French, Jesuit, died in 1900 at age 53 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Paul Denn
of Lille
(French, Jesuit, died in 1900 at age 53 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Paul Liu Han-zuo of Lezi (died in 1819 at age 41 [beatified 1900])
----- St. Remy Isore
of Bambecque
(French, schoolteacher, Jesuit
missionary, ordained priest in China, died in 1900 at age 48 [beatified
1955])
----- St. Thaddeus Liu
Rui-ting of
Qunglai
(died in 1823 at age 50 [beatified 1900])
----- St. Theodore Balat
of Saint-Martin de Tours
(French, Franciscan, died in 1900 at age 42 [beatified 1946])
[Franciscan brother:]
----- St. Andrew Bauer
of Guebwiller
[Andrea] (Italian, died in 1900 at age 34 [beatified 1946])
[Sisters of the Franciscan
Missionaries of Mary, served the poor, all beheaded in 1900:]
----- St. Mary Adolfina Dierkx
of Ossendrecht
[Marie-Adolphine] [baptized Anna Katarina (Ann Catherine)] (Dutch, factory
worker, domestic servant, died at age 34 [beatified 1946])
----- St. Mary Amandina Jeuris
of Schakebroek
[Marie-Amandine] [baptized Paulina] (Belgian, nurse, died at age 27 [beatified
1946])
----- St. Mary Clare Manetti
of Ponte Santa Maria Maddalena [Maria Chiara] [baptized Clelia]
(Italian, died at age 28 [beatified 1946])
----- St. Mary Hermina of Jesus Grivot of Beaune [Marie-Hermine-de-Jesus]
[baptized Irma] (French, tutor, superior of sisters martyred, died at age 34
[beatified 1946])
----- St. Mary of Peace Giuliani
of Bolsena
[Maria della Pace] [baptized Maria Anna (Mary Ann)] (Italian, organized an
orphanage, died at age 25 [beatified 1946])
----- St. Mary of St. Justus Moreau of La Faye
[Marie-de-Saint-Just] [baptized Anne-Françoise (Ann Frances)] (French, farmer,
overcame great crisis of faith in China, died at age 34 [beatified 1946])
----- St. Mary of St. Natalie Kerguin of Belle-Isle-en-Terre
[Marie-de-Sainte-Nathalie] [baptized Jeanne-Marie (Joan Marie)] (French,
peasant, died at age 36 [beatified 1946])
[Lay men and women:]
----- St. Agatha Lin Zao of
Ma-Tchang
(virgin, school teacher, catechist, died in 1858 at age 41 [beatified 1909])
----- St. Agnes Cao Gui-ying
of
Wu-jia-zhai
(widow, died in 1856 at age 35 [beatified 1900])
----- St. Andrew Wang
Tian-qing of
Ma-jia-zhuang
(died in 1900 at age 9 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Ann An Jiao of
Liou-Koan-Ying
(died in 1900 at age 26 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Ann An Xin of
Liou-Koan-Ying
(died in 1900 at age 72 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Ann Wang of
Ma-jia-zhuang
(died in 1900 at age 14 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Barbara Cui Li-an
of
Xiao-ti-an
(died in 1900 at age 51 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Chi
Zhu-ze of
De-zhao (catechumen,
died in 1900 at age 18 [beatified 1955])
----- Sts. Elizabeth Qin Bi-an
and Simon Qin
Kun-fu of
Nanpeiluo
(mother and son, died in 1900 at ages 54 and 14 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Francis Zhang Rong of Qizi
Shan
(Franciscan tertiary, died in
1900 at age 62 [beatified 1946])
----- St. James Yan
Guo-dong of
Jian-he
(died in 1900 at age 47 [beatified 1946])
----- St. James Zhao
Quan-xin of
Liu-lin-zhuang
(died in 1900 at age 44 [beatified 1946])
----- St. Jerome Lu
Ting-mei of
Mo-kou
(catechist, tortured and beheaded at age 47 in 1858 [beatified 1909])
----- St. Joachim Hao
Kai-zhi of
Zha-zuo
(catechist, beheaded at age 65 in 1839 [beatified 1900])
----- St. John Baptist Luo
Ting-ying of
Qing-yian
(servant, beheaded at age 36 in 1861 [beatified 1909])
----- St. John Baptist Wu
Man-tang of
Xi-he-tou
(died in 1900 at age 17 [beatified 1955])
----- Sts. John Baptist Zhao
Ming-xi and Peter Zhao
Ming-zhen of
Bei-wang-tou
(died in 1900 at ages 56 and 61 [beatified 1955])
----- St. John Baptist Zhu
Wu-rui of
Lou-tcho-ang
(died in 1900 at age 17 [beatified 1955])
----- St. John Chen
Xian-heng of
Cheng-du
(catechist, died in 1862 at age 42 [beatified 1909])
----- St. John Wang
Kui-ju of
Qi
(died in 1900 at age 25 [beatified 1955])
----- St. John Wang Rui of
Xin-li
(seminarian, died in 1900 at age 15 [beatified 1946])
----- St. John Wu
Wen-yin of
Dong-er-tou
(died in 1900 at age 50 [beatified 1955])
----- St. John Zhang Hu-an
of
Nan-she
(seminarian, died in 1900 at age 18 [beatified 1946])
----- St. John Zhang
Jing-guang of
Fuj-ing Cun (seminarian,
died in 1900 at age 22 [beatified 1946])
----- St. John Zhang
Tian-shen of
Jia-shanl-ong
(catechist, died in 1862 at age 57 [beatified 1909])
----- St. Joseph Ma
Tai-shun of
Qian-sheng-zhuang
[also known as John Baptist] (died in 1900 at age 60 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Joseph Wang
Kui-xin of
Qi
(died in 1900 at age 37 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Joseph Wang
Yu-mei of
Ma-jia-zhuang
(died in 1900 at age 68 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Joseph Yuan
Geng-yin of
Hui
(died in 1900 at age 47 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Joseph Zhang
Da-peng of
Du-yun
(catechist, died in 1815 at age 61 [beatified 1909])
----- St. Joseph Zhang
Wen-lan of
Ba
(seminarian, beheaded at age 30 in 1861 [beatified 1909])
----- Sts. Lang Yang and
Paul Lang Fu of Lu
(mother and son, died in 1900 at ages 29 and 7 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Lawrence Bai
Xiao-man of
Shui-cheng
(beheaded at age 35 in 1856 [beatified 1900])
----- St. Lawrence Wang Bing of
Gui-yang
(catechist, tortured and beheaded at age 56 in 1858 [beatified 1909])
----- St. Lucy Wang Cheng of
Lao-chun-tan
(died in 1900 at age 18 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Lucy Wang Wang of
Ma-jia-zhuang
(died in 1900 at age 31 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Lucy Yi
Zhen-mei of
Mian-yang
(virgin, school teacher, catechist, died in 1862 at age 47 [beatified 1909])
----- Sts. Magdalene Du
Feng-ju and Mary Du Ti-an
of
Du-Yong-he
(daughter and mother, died in 1900 at ages 19 and 42 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Mark Ji
Tian-xiang of
Yan-zhuang-tou
(died in 1900 at age 66 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Martha Wang Luo
Man-de of
Zun-yi
(widow, messenger, beheaded at age 59 in 1861 [beatified 1909])
----- St. Martin Wu
Xue-sheng of
Chu-chang-bo
(catechist, died in 1862 at age 45 [beatified 1909])
----- St. Mary An Guo of
Liou-Koan-Ying
(died in 1900 at age 64 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Mary An
Ling-hua of
Liou-Koan-Ying
(died in 1900 at age 29 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Mary Chi Yu of
Da-ji
(died in 1900 at age 15 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Mary Du Zhao of Qi-feng-zhuang (died
in 1900 at age 51 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Mary Fan Kun of
Da-ji
(died in 1900 at age 16 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Mary Fu
Gui-Lin of
Luo-po
(died in 1900 at age 37 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Mary Guo Li of
Hu-jia-che
(died in 1900 at age 65 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Mary Wang Li of Wei (died
in 1900 at age 49 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Mary Zhao Guo of
Zhao-jia-cun
(died in 1900 at age 60 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Mary Zhao of
Zhao-jia-cun
(died in 1900 at age 17 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Mary Zheng Xu of Kou (died
in 1900 at age 11 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Mary Zhu Wu of
Zhu-jia-he
(died in 1900 at age 50 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Matthew Feng De of
Xiao-Ba-shi
(Franciscan tertiary, died in
1900 at age 45 [beatified 1946])
----- St. Patrick Dong Bo-di
of
Gu-cheng-yin
(seminarian, died in 1900 at age 18 [beatified 1946])
----- St. Paul Chen
Chang-pin of
Xing-ren
(seminarian, died in 1861 at age 23 [beatified 1909])
----- St. Paul Ge
Ting-zhu of
Xiao-tun
(died in 1900 at age 61 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Paul Liu
Jin-de of
Heng-shui
(died in 1900 at age 79 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Paul Wu
An-jyu of
Xi-he-tou
(died in 1900 at age 62 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Paul Wu
Wan-shu of
Xi-he-tou
(died in 1900 at age 16 [beatified 1955])
----- Sts. Peter Li
Quan-hui and Raymond Li
Quan-zhen of Chen-tun-cun
(biological brothers, died in 1900 at ages 63 and 59 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Peter Liu
Wen-yuan of
Gui-zhu
(catechist, strangled at age 74 in 1834 [beatified 1900])
----- St. Peter Liu Ze-yu
of
Zhu-jia-xie
(died in 1900 at age 57 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Peter Wang
Er-man of
Gu-cheng-yin Cun
(died in 1900 at age 36 [beatified 1946])
----- St. Peter Wang
Zuo-lung of
Shuang-zhong
(died in 1900 at age 58 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Peter Wu
An-bang of
Liu-lin-tsuen
(Franciscan tertiary, died in
1900 at age 40 [beatified 1946])
----- St. Peter Wu
Guo-sheng of
Long-ping
(catechist of 600 converts, strangled at age 46 in 1814 [beatified 1900])
----- St. Peter Zhang
Ban-niu of
Tul-ing
(Franciscan tertiary, died in
1900 at age 51 [beatified 1946])
----- St. Peter Zhu
Ri-xin of
Zhu-jia-he
(died in 1900 at age 19 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Philip Zhang
Zhi-he of
Shan-quin-gyu
(seminarian, died in 1900 at age 20 [beatified 1946])
----- Sts. Rose Chen
Ai-jieh and Teresa Chen
Tin-jieh of
Feng
(died in 1900 at ages 22 and 25 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Rose Fan Hui of
Fan
(virgin, died in 1900 at age 45 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Rose Zhao of
Zhao-jia-cun
(died in 1900 at age 22 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Simon Chen
Xi-man of
An-yang
(catechist, Franciscan tertiary,
died in 1900 at age 46 [beatified 1946])
----- St. Teresa Zhang He of Yuan (died
in 1900 at age 36 [beatified 1955])
----- St. Thomas Shen Ji-he
of
An-kao
(Franciscan tertiary, died in
1900 at age 49 [beatified 1946])
----- St. Zhang
Huai-lu of Zhu-ko-tian
(catechumen, died in 1900 at age 57 [beatified 1955])
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On July 10, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
Sts. Alexander, Felix, Philip,
Martial, Vitalis, Silvanus, and Januarius (Roman, seven sons of a martyred
mother, martyred c. 150)
----- Bl. Emmanuel Ruiz
of Santander
[Manuel] (Spanish, Franciscan
priest)
----- Bl. Carmel Volta
of Valencia
(Spanish, Franciscan priest)
----- Bl. Engelbert Kolland
of Tyrolia
(Austrian, Franciscan priest)
----- Bl. Nicanor Ascanius
of Castille
(Spanish, Franciscan priest)
----- Bl. Nicholas Alberca
of Andalusia
[Nicolás] (Spanish, Franciscan
priest)
----- Bl. Peter Soler
of Murcia
[Pedro] (Spanish, Franciscan
priest)
----- Bl. Francis Pinazo
d'Arpuentes
[Francisco] (Spanish, Franciscan
brother)
----- Bl. John James Fernández [Juan
Diego] (Spanish, Franciscan
brother)
----- Bl. Francis Masabki
(Lebanese, layman)
----- Bl. Abdul-Muti Masabki
(Lebanese, layman)
----- Bl. Raphael Masabki
(Lebanese, layman)
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On July 11, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Benedict of
Nursia
["Founder of Western Monasticism"] (Roman, nobleman, twin brother of
St. Scholastica, hermit, founder of monastic order now called the Benedictines
[once having 40,000 monasteries], died at about age 66 in 547)
St. Abundius of
Ananelos
(Spanish, parish priest, martyred [beheaded] by Moslems in 854)
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On July 12, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
Bl. Andrew Oexner
of Rinn
[Andreas] (Austrian, 3-year-old boy, martyred in 1462)
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On July 13, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Henry of
Albach
[Heinrich II] (Bavarian, husband of St. Cunegunda, ruled Holy Roman Empire,
died at age 52 in 1024 [canonized 1146])
[From St. Teresa of
the Andes:]
"Love is the fusion of two souls in one in order to bring about mutual
perfection."
On July 14, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Camillus de
Lellis of Bucchianico
[Camillo] (Italian, soldier, reformed gambling addict, hospital administrator,
priest, founded Congregation of the Servants of the Sick [Camellians],
died at about age 64 in 1614 [beatified 1742, canonized 1746]) [Transferred to
July 18 in the U.S.]
Bl. Boniface of
Savoy
(French, Carthusian prior in
Italy, bishop of Valence in France, archbishop of Canterbury in England, died
in France at about age 63 in 1270 [beatified 1838])
On July 15, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Bonaventure di
Fidanza of Bagnoregio
[Bonaventura] [baptized Giovanni] ["Seraphic Doctor"] ["Second
Founder of the Franciscans"]
(Italian, Franciscan priest and
Minister General, teacher of scripture in France, theologian, cardinal bishop
of Albano, Doctor of the Church, died at about age 53 in 1274 [canonized 1482])
St. Abudimus of
Tenedos
(from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], martyred in 4th Century)
----- Bl. Ignatius de
Azevedo of Oporto
[Ignacio] (Portuguese, superior, died at about age 42)
----- Bl. James Andrade
of Pedrógao
Grande [Iago] (Portuguese, died at age 39)
----- Bl. Louis Correa
of Évora
[Luis] (Portuguese)
[Brothers:]
----- Bl. Alphonse de
Baena of Villatobas
[Alonso] (Spanish, died at age 31)
----- Bl. Caspar Alvares
of Oporto
[Gaspar] (Portuguese)
----- Bl. Emmanuel Alvares
of Estremoz
[Manuel] (Portuguese, died at age 34)
----- Bl. Francis Alvares
of Covilha
[Francisco] (Portuguese, died at age 31)
----- Bl. Peter Fontoura
of Braga
[Pedro] (Portuguese)
----- Bl. Steven of
Zudaire
[Esteban] (Spanish)
[Other
laymen:]
----- Bl. Alexis Delgado
of Elvas
(Portuguese, novice, died at age 14)
----- Bl. Alvaro Borralho
Mendes of Elvas
(Portuguese, scholastic)
----- Bl. Andrew Gonzalves
of Viana de Alvito
[Andre] (Portuguese, scholastic)
----- Bl. Anthony Correia
of Oporto
[Antonio] (Portuguese, novice scholastic, died at age 17)
----- Bl. Anthony Fernandes
of Montemór-o-Novo
[Antonio] (Portuguese, novice brother)
----- Bl. Anthony Soares
of Vila de Trancoso
[Antonio] (Portuguese, scholastic)
----- Bl. Benedict de
Castro of Vila de Chacim
[Bento] (Portuguese, scholastic, died at age 27)
----- Bl. Blaise Ribeiro
of Braga
[Bras] (Portuguese, novice brother)
----- Bl. Dominic Fernandes
of Villa de Borba
[Domingos] (Portuguese, novice brother, died at age 19)
----- Bl. Emmanuel Fernandes
of Celorico da Beira [Manuel]
(Portuguese, scholastic)
----- Bl. Emmanuel
Pacheco
of Ceuta
[Manuel] (Portuguese, scholastic)
----- Bl. Emmanuel Rodrigues
of Alcochete
[Manuel] (Portuguese, scholastic)
----- Bl. Ferdinand Sanchez
of Gamle Castilla
[Fernando] (Spanish, scholastic)
----- Bl. Francis de
Magalhaes of Vila de Alcácer do Sal [Francisco] (Portuguese,
novice scholastic)
----- Bl. Francis Perez
Godoy of Torrijos
[Francisco] (Spanish, novice scholastic)
----- Bl. Gregory Escribano
of Gamle
Logroño [Gregorio] (Spanish, coadjutor)
----- Bl. Gonzalo Henriques
of Oporto
[Gonçalo] (Portuguese, deacon)
----- Bl. James Pires
Mimoso of Nisa
[Didacus] (Portuguese, scholastic)
----- Bl. John de
Baeza
[Juan] (Spanish, candidate)
----- Bl. John Fernandes
of Braga
[João] (Portuguese, novice scholastic, died at age 23)
----- Bl. John Fernandes
of Lisbon
[João] (Portuguese, scholastic, died at age 19)
----- Bl. John de
Mayorga of Saint Jean Pied de Port [Juan] (Spanish, novice
brother, died at age 37)
----- Bl. John de
San Martin of Yuncos
[Juan] (Spanish, novice scholastic, died at age 20)
----- Bl. John de
Zafra of Jerez de Badajoz
[Juan] (Spanish, novice brother)
----- Bl. Louis Rodrigues
of Évora
[Luis] (Portuguese, novice scholastic)
----- Bl. Mark Caldeira
of Vila da Feira
[Marcos] (Portuguese, novice brother, died at age 23)
----- Bl. Maurus Vaz
of Bemfazer
[Amaro] (Portuguese, novice brother)
----- Bl. Nicholas Dinis
of Bragança
[Nicolau] (Portuguese, novice scholastic)
----- Bl. Peter Nunes
of Vila da Fronteira
[Pedro] (Portuguese, scholastic)
----- Bl. Simon da
Costa of Oporto
[Simão] (Portuguese, novice brother)
----- Bl. Simon Lopes
of Ourèm
[Simão] (Portuguese, scholastic)
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On July 16, we members of the Catholic Church family honor the Blessed Virgin
Mary under her title, "Our Lady of Mount Carmel."
St. Athenogenes of
Pontus
(probably from Asia Minor [now known as Turkey], theologian, bishop, early
martyr by fire)
[Some of the horrible tortures endured: limbs were severed ... heads cut off
... bodies burned ... eyes, tongues, and noses torn off. One child was pinned
to a tree trunk, and another sliced in half with a sword. St. Matthew Moreira had his heart ripped out
through his back, as he cried: "Praised be the Blessed Sacrament".]
----- St. Ambrose Francis Ferro
[Ambrosio Francisco] (Portuguese, priest)
----- St. Andrew de
Soveral
[Andre] (priest)
----- St. Anthony Baracho
[Antonio]
----- St. Anthony Vilela
Cid
[Antonio] (Spanish)
----- St. Anthony Vilela
[Antonio, the younger] and his son
----- St. Dominic Carvalho
[Domingos]
----- St. Francis de
Bastos
[Francisco]
----- St. Francis Mendes
Pereira
[Francisco]
----- St. James Pereira
[Diogo]
----- St. John da
Silveira
[João]
----- St. John Lostau
Navarro
[Jean] (French)
----- St. John Martins
[João] and seven young companions
----- St. Joseph do
Porto
[Jose]
----- St. Manuel Rodrigues
de Moura
and his wife
----- St. Matthew Moreira
[Mateus]
----- St. Simon Correia
[Simão]
----- St. Steven Machado
de Miranda
[Estêvão] and his two children
----- St. Vincent de
Souza Pereira
[Vincente]
----- St. [name unknown] Dias (son
of Francisco Dias)
On July 17, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Alexis of Rome
["The Man of God"] (Italian, wealthy man, beggar for the poor in
Syria and Rome, 5th Century)
----- Bl. Charlotte of the Resurrection Thouret of Mouy
[baptized Anne-Marie-Madeleine (Ann Mary Magdalen)] (nun, chapel sacristan, age
78 at death)
----- Bl. Mary Henrietta of Providence Petras of Carjarc
[Marie-Henriette de la Providence] [baptized Anne] (nun, age 34)
----- Bl. Constance Meunier
of Saint-Denis
[baptized Marie-Geneviève] (novice, age 29)
----- Bl. Julie Louise of Jesus de la Neuville of Evreux
[Julie-Louise de Jesus] [baptized Rose Chrétien (Rose Christian)] (widow, nun,
age 53)
----- Bl. Euphrasia of the Immaculate Conception Brard of Bourth
[Euphrasie de l'Immaculee Concepcion] [baptized Marie-Claude Cyprienne (or
Catherine Charlotte?)] (nun, age 58)
----- Bl. (Mother) Therese of St. Augustine Ledoine of Paris
[(Mere) Thérèse de Saint-Augustin] [baptized Madeleine-Claudine] (prioress, age
41)
----- Bl. (Mother) St. Louis Brideau of Belfort
[(Mere) Saint-Louis] [baptized Marie-Anne (or Antoinette)] (sub-prioress, age
41)
----- Bl. (Sister) of Jesus Crucified Piedcourt
[(Soeur) de Jesus Crucifie] [baptized Marie-Anne] (nun, age 79)
----- Bl. Therese of the Holy Heart of Mary Hanisset of Rheims
[Thérèse de la Saint-Coeur-de-Marie] [baptized Marie-Antoniette (or Anne)]
(nun, age c. 54)
----- Bl. (Mother) Henrietta of Jesus de Croissy of Paris [Henriette
de Jesus] [baptized Marie-Françoise Gabrielle (Mary Frances Gabriel)] (former
prioress, age 49)
----- Bl. Therese of St. Ignatius Trézel of Compiègne
[Thérèse de Saint-Ignace] [baptized Marie-Gabrielle (Mary Gabriel)] (nun, age
51)
----- Bl. Mary of the Holy Spirit Roussel of Fresnes
[Marie de le Saint Esprit] [baptized Angélique (Angelica)] (religious sister,
age 51)
----- Bl. (Sister) St. Francis Xavier Vérolot of Laignes
[(Soeur) Saint-François-Xavier] [baptized Julie (or Juliette)] (religious
sister, age 30)
----- Bl. (Sister) St. Martha Dufour of Beaune
[(Soeur) Sainte-Marthe] [baptized Marie] (religious sister, age 51)
----- Bl. Catherine Soiron and
Bl. Thérèse Soiron
of Compiègne
(biological sisters, servants for over 20 years, ages 52 and 46)
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On July 18, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Camillus de
Lellis of Bucchianico
[Camillo] (Italian, soldier, reformed gambling addict, hospital administrator,
priest, founded Congregation of the Servants of the Sick [Camellians],
died at about age 64 in 1614 [beatified 1742, canonized 1746]) [Transferred
from July 14 in the U.S., to allow for commemoration of St. Kateri Tekakwitha]
Bl. Alanus of
Sassovivo
(Austrian, Benedictine monk,
hermit in Italy, d. 1313)
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On July 19, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
Bl. Achilles Puchala
of Kosina
[baptized Józef (Joseph)] and Bl. Herman Stepien of Lodz
[baptized Karol (Charles)] (Polish, Franciscan priests, martyred by Nazis at
Borowikowszczyzna [Poland] both at age 32 in 1943 [beatified 1999])
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On July 20, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Apollinaris of
Ravenna
(Syrian? disciple of St. Peter, bishop in Italy, tortured, c. 75)
St. Ansegisus of
Fontenelle
(French, Benedictine abbot, died
at about age 63 in 833)
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On July 21, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Lawrence de'
Rossi of Brindisi
[Lorenzo] [baptized Giulio Cesare (Julius Cæsar)] (Italian, Capuchin
Master General, theologian, linguist, military chaplain, writer of catechism,
diplomat, Doctor of the Church, died in Portugal the day before his 60th
birthday in 1619 [beatified 1783, canonized 1881])
St. Arbogast of
Aquitaine
(French? hermit, bishop of Strasbourg, c. 678)
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On July 22, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Mary Magdalene [also
called Mary of
Magdala]
["Apostle to the Apostles"] (Israelite, disciple of Jesus, present at
Calvary and at the tomb on Easter, 1st Century)
Bl. Augustine Fangi
of Biella
[Agostino] (Italian, nobleman, Dominican
prior, miracle worker, died at about age 63 in 1493 [beatified 1872]
[incorruptible])
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On July 23, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Bridget Birgersdotter
of Uppsala
[Birgitta] (Swedish, aristocrat, visionary from age 7, princess by marriage,
mother of eight, Franciscan tertiary, widow, counselor of Swedish royal
family and of three popes, founded Order of the Most Holy Savior [Brigittine nuns and monks], mystical writer, died in
Italy at about age 70 in 1373 [canonized 1391])
St. Anne of
Constantinople
(Turkish, spent inherited fortune on the poor, hermitess, died at about age 78
c. 918)
----- Bl. Nicephorus of Jesus and Mary Diez Tejerina of Herreruela
[Niceforo de Jesus y María] (priest, father provincial, died at age 43)
[Priests:]
----- Bl. Herman of Jesus and Mary Pérez Giménez of Cornago
[German de Jesus y María] [baptized Manuel (Emmanuel)] (died at age 30)
----- Bl. Ildephonse of the Cross García Nozal of Becerril del
Carpio
[Ildefonso de la Cruz] (died at age 38)
----- Bl. John Peter of St. Anthony Bengoa Aranguren of Santa
Agueda
[Juan Pedro de San Antonio] [baptized José María (Joseph Mary)] (died at age
46)
----- Bl. Justinian of St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin Cuesta
Redondo of Alba de los Cardaños [Justiniano de San Gabriel de la
Dolorosa] (died at age 26)
----- Bl. Peter of the Heart of Jesus Largo Redondo of Alba de los
Cardaños
[Pedro del Corazon de Jesus] (died at age 29)
----- Bl. Philip of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Valcabado Granado of San
Martín de Rubiales
[Felipe del Corazon Inmaculado de Maria] (died at age 62)
[Religious
Brothers:]
----- Bl. Anacario of the Immaculate Lady Benito Nozal of Becerril del
Carpio
[Anacario de la Inmaculada] (died at age 30)
----- Bl. Benedict of the Virgin of Villar Solano Ruiz of Cintruenigo [Benito
de la Virgen de Villar] (died at age 38)
----- Bl. Paul Mary of St. Joseph Leoz y Portillo of Leoz
[Pablo Maria de San Jose] (died at age 54)
----- Bl. Philip of St. Michael Ruiz Fraile of Quintanilla
[Felipe de San Miguel] (died at age 21)
[Students:]
----- Bl. Abilio of the Cross Ramos y Ramos of Resoba
[Abilio de la Cruz] (died at age 20)
----- Bl. Epiphanius of St. Michael Sierra Conde of San Martín de
los Herreros
[Epifanio de San Miguel] (died at age 20)
----- Bl. Eufrasius of the Merciful Love Celes Santos of Palencia
[Eufrasio del Amor Misericordioso] (died at age 21)
----- Bl. Felix of the Five Wounds Ulgade Irurzum of Mendigorría
[Feliz de las Cinco Llagas] (died at age 21)
----- Bl. Fulgentius of the Heart of Mary Calvo Sánchez of Cubillo de
Ojeda
[Fulgencio del Corazon de Maria] (died at age 19)
----- Bl. Honorino of the Sorrowful Virgin Carracedo Ramos of La Lastra
[Honorino de la Dolorosa] (died at age 19)
----- Bl. Joseph Mary of Jesus Cuartero Gascón of Tabuenca [José
María de Jesus] (died at age 19)
----- Bl. Joseph Mary of the Dying Jesus Ruiz Martínez of Puente la
Reina
[José María del Jesus Muriente] (died at age 20)
----- Bl. Joseph of Jesus and Mary Osés Sainz of Peralta [Jose
de Jesus y María] (died at age 21)
----- Bl. Joseph of the Sacred Hearts Estalayo Garcia of San Martin
de Perapertú
[Jose de los Sagrados Corazones] (died at age 21)
----- Bl. Julius of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Mediavilla Concejero of
La Lastra
[Julio del Sagrado Corazon] (died at age 21)
----- Bl. Lauren of the Crucified Jesus Profaño Cuesta of Villafría
[Laurino del Jesus Crucificado] (died at age 20)
----- Bl. Maurilio of the Child Jesus Macho Rodríguez of Villafría
[Maurilio del Niño Jesus] (died at age 21)
----- Bl. Thomas of the Most Blessed Sacrament Cuartero Gascón of
Tabuenca
[Tomás del Santísimo Sacramento] (died at age 21)
----- Bl. Zachary of the Most Blessed Sacrament Fernández Crespo of
Cintruenigo
[Zacarías del Santísimo Sacramento] (died at age 19)
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On July 24, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Sharbel Makhlouf
of Beqaa-Kafra
[baptized Joseph Zaroun] (Lebanese, Maronite Catholic priest, Baladite hermit, died at age 70 in 1898 [beatified
1965, canonized 1977]) [incorrupt]
St. Aliprandus of Ciel
d'Oro
(Italian, Benedictine abbot, 8th
Century)
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On July 25, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. James the Greater of
Galilee
(Israelite, son of Zebedee and Salome, brother of St. John, fisherman, apostle
of Jesus, martyred by the sword [first Apostle martyred] c. 44)
Bl. Angel Darius Acosta
Zurita of Naolinco
[Ángel Darío] (Mexican, orphan, parish priest for three months, martyred [shot
in church] at age 22 in 1931 [beatified 2005])
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On July 26, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
Bl. Andrew of Phu
Yen
(Vietnamese, catechist, martyred at age 19 in 1644 [beatified 2000])
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On July 27, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
Bl. Alphonse Pacheco
of Minaya
[Alonso] and Bl. Anthony Francisco of Coimbra
[Antonio] (Spanish and Portuguese, Jesuit missionary priests to pagans in India,
martyred [hacked by scimitars and spears] at about age 32 in 1583 [beatified
1893])
On July 28, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Acacius of
Miletus
(from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], martyred c. 310)
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On July 29, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Callinicus of
Paphlagonia
(from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], martyred by burning in 3rd Century)
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On July 30, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
Sts. Abdon and Sennen (Persian,
coopers, buried remains of martyrs, martyred in Rome in 3rd or 4th Century)
----- Bl. Braulio Maria Corres
Diaz de Cerio of Torralba del Rio [baptized Pablo (Paul)] (died
at age 39)
----- Bl. Cristinos Roca
Huguet of Milins de Rey [baptized Miguel (Michael)] (died
at age 37)
----- Bl. Francis Arias
Martín of Granada
[Francisco] (died at age 52)
----- Bl. Frederick Rubio
Alvarez of Benavides de Orbigo [Federico] [baptized Carlos (Charles)]
(died at age 74)
----- Bl. John Jesus Adradas
Gonzalo of Conquezuela
[Juan Jesús] (died at age 58)
----- Bl. Joseph Mora
Velasco of Cordoba
[José] (died at age 50)
[Brothers:]
----- Bl. Arthur Ayala
Niño of Paipa
[Arturo] [baptized Luis (Louis)] (Colombian, died at age 27)
----- Bl. Arthur Donoso
Murillo of Puebla de Alcocer [Arturo] (died at age 19)
----- Bl. Benedict Joseph Labré Mañoso González of Lomoviejo
[Benito José Labré] [baptized Arsenio (Arsenius)] (died at age 57)
----- Bl. Benjamín Cobos
Celada of Palencia
[baptized Alejandro (Alexander)] (brother, died at age 49)
----- Bl. Caesar Niño
Pérez of Torregutierrez
[Cesar] [baptized Mariano (Marian)] (died at age 58)
----- Bl. Carmel Gil
Arano of Tudela
[Carmelo] [baptized Isidro (Isidore)] (died at age 57)
----- Bl. Caspar Páez
Perdomo of Unión
[Gaspar] [baptized Luis Modesto (Louis Modest)] (Colombian, died at age 23)
----- Bl. Cecil López
López of Fondón
[Cecilio] [baptized Enrique (Henry)] (died at age 35)
----- Bl. Clement Díez
Sahagún of Fuentes de Nava [Clemente] (died at age 75)
----- Bl. Constantine Roca
Huguet of San Sadurní de Noya [Constantino] [baptized Sadurni] (died at
age 41)
----- Bl. Cosmas Brun
Arará of Santa Coloma di Farnes [Cosme] [baptized Simó Isidre Joaquím
(Simon Isidore Joachim)] (died at age 42)
----- Bl. Dositheus Rubio
Alonso of Madrigalejo
[Dositeo] [baptized Guillermo (William)] (died at age 67)
----- Bl. Eugene Ramírez
Salazar of La Ceja
[Eugenio] [baptized Alfonso Antonio (Alphonse Anthony)] (Colombian, died at age
23)
----- Bl. Eusebius Forcades
Ferraté of Reus
[Eusebio] [baptized Antonio (Anthony)] (died at age 61)
----- Bl. Euthymius Aramendía
García of Oteiza de la Solana
[Eutimio] [baptized Nicolas (Nicholas)] (died at age 58)
----- Bl. Faustino
Villanueva
Igual of Sarrión
[baptized Antonio (Anthony)] (died at age 23)
----- Bl. Flavius Argüeso
González of Mazuecos de Valdeginate [Flavio] [baptized Atilano
Dionisio (Atilla Dennis)] (died at age 59)
----- Bl. Gonzalo Gonzalo
Gonzalo of Conquezuela
(died at age 27)
----- Bl. Hilary Delgado
Vilchez of Cañar
[Hilario] [baptized Antonio (Anthony)] (died at age 18)
----- Bl. Hyacinth Hoyuelos
Gonzalo of Materrepudio
[Jacinto] (died at age 22)
----- Bl. Francis Xavier Ponsa
Casallach of Moya [Francisco
Javier] (died at age 20)
----- Bl. James of Cádiz García
Molina of Moral de Calatrava [Diego de Cádiz] [baptized Santiago
(James)] (died at age 44)
----- Bl. Jerome Ochoa
Urdangarin of Goñi
[Geronimo] (died at age 32)
----- Bl. Jesús Gesta
de Piquer of Madrid
(died at age 21)
----- Bl. John Anthony Burró
Más of Barcelona
[Juan Antonio] (died at age 22)
----- Bl. John Baptist Velázquez
Peláez of Jardín
[Juan Bautista] [baptized Jose (Joseph)] (Colombian, died at age 27)
----- Bl. John of the Cross Delgado Pastor of Puebla de Alcocer [Juan
de la Cruz] [baptized Eloy Francisco Felipe (Eligius Francis Philip)] (died at
age 22)
----- Bl. Julián Carrasquer
Fos of Sueca
[baptized Miguel (Michael)] (died at age 55)
----- Bl. Julián Plazaola
Artola of San Sebastian
(died at age 21)
----- Bl. Knute Franco
Gómez of Aljucer
[Canuto] [baptized Jose (Joseph)] (died at age 65)
----- Bl. Lazarus Múgica
Goiburu of Idiazabal
[Lázaro] [baptized Juan Maria (John Mary)] (died at age 69)
----- Bl. Martinian Meléndez
Sánchez of Malaga
[Martiniano] [baptized Antonio (Anthony)] (died at age 58)
----- Bl. Melchiades Ramírez
Zuloaga of Sonsón
[Melquiades] [baptized Ramon (Raymond)] (Colombian, died at age 27)
----- Bl. Michael Rueda
Mejías of Mordi
[Miguel] [baptized Miguel Francisco (Michael Francis)] (died at age 21)
----- Bl. Nicephorus Salvador
del Río of Villamorco
[Nicéforo] (died at age 23)
----- Bl. Peter Mary Alcalde
Negredo of Ledesma
[Pedro Maria] (died at age 58)
----- Bl. Peter of Alcántara Villanueva Larráyoz of Osinaga [Pedro
de Alcántara] [baptized Lorenzo (Lawrence)] (died at age 55)
----- Bl. Primo of St. Vincent Martínez Castillo of San Roman de Campezo
[Primo de San Vicente] (died at age 67)
----- Bl. Proceso Ruiz
Cascales of Beniel
[baptized Joaquin (Joachim)] (died at age 49)
----- Bl. Protase Cubells
Minguell of Coll de Nargó
[Protacio] (died at age 56)
----- Bl. Reuben of Jesus López
Aguilar of Concepción
[Rúben de Jesús] (Colombian, died at age 28)
----- Bl. Roman Touceda
Fernández of Madrid
[Román] [baptized Rafael (Raphael)] (died at age 32)
----- Bl. Rufinus Lasheras
Aizcorbe of Arandigoyen
[Rufino] [baptized Crescencio] (died at age 36)
----- Bl. Steven Maya
Gutiérrez of Pacora
[Esteban] [baptized Gabriel] (Colombian, (died at age 29)
----- Bl. Tobías Borrás
Román of Villa de San Jorge [baptized Francisco (Francis)] (died at
age 75)
----- Bl. Vincent de Paul Canelles
Vives of Onda
[Vicente de Pablo] (died at age 42)
----- Bl. William Llop
Gaya of Villareal
[Guillermo] [baptized Vicente Andres (Vincent Andrew)] (died at age 56)
[Novices:]
----- Bl. Angelo Sastre
Corporales of Villalbo del Vino (died at age 20)
----- Bl. Anthony Llauradó
Parisi of Reus
[Antonio] (died at age 26)
----- Bl. Anthony Martínez
Gil-Leonis of Montellano
[Antonio] (died at age 20)
----- Bl. Anthony Sanchiz
Silvestre of Villamarchante [Antonio] (died at age 26)
----- Bl. Dominic Pitarch
Gurrea of Villareal
[Domingo] (died at age 27)
----- Bl. Emmanuel López
Orbara of Puente de la Reina
[Manuel] (died at age 23)
----- Bl. Henry
Beltrán
Llorca of Villareal
[Enrique] (died at age 37)
----- Bl. Ignatius Tejero
Molina of Monzalbarba
[Ignacio] (died at age 20)
----- Bl. Isidore Martínez
Izquierdo of Madrid [Isidro]
----- Bl. John Alcalde Alcalde of Zuzones [Juan] (died at age 25)
----- Bl. Peter of Alcántara Bernalte
Calzado of Moral de Calatrava [Pedro
de Alcántara] (died at age 26)
----- Bl. Raphael Flamarique Salinas
of Mendívil [Rafael] (died at age 33)
----- Bl. Thomas
Urdánoz
Aldaz of Echarri
[Tomás] (died at age 33)
[Postulant:]
----- Bl. Joseph Ruiz
Cuesta of Dilar
[José] (died at age 29)
[Oblates:]
----- Bl. Acisclus Piña
Piazuelo of Caspe
[Acisclo] [baptized Joaquin (Joachim)] (died at age 58)
----- Bl. Edward Bautista
Jiménez of La Gineta
[Eduardo] (died at age 51)
----- Bl. Emmanuel Jiménez
Salado of Jerez de la Frontera
[Manuel] (died at age 29)
----- Bl. John
Baptist Egozcuezábal
Aldaz of Nuin
[Juan Bautista] (died at age 54)
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On July 31, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way,
the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds"
whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Ignatius Lopez
de Recalde of Loyola
[Iñigo] (Spanish, nobleman, court page, seriously wounded soldier, hermit,
pilgrim to Holy Land, evangelized Moslems, priest, founder of Society of
Jesus [Jesuits] in Italy, died at about age 65 in 1556 [beatified 1609,
canonized 1622])
St. Calimerius of
Milan
(Greek, bishop in Italy, martyred [cast into well] c. 190)
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