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On September 1, the Catholic Church honors, in a special way, the following
friends of God, "saints" and "blesseds" whose souls are now
in heaven:
St. Abigail of Maon
(Israelite, wife of King St. David, c. 950 B.C.)
St. Agia (French, widow, mother of
St. Lupus of Sens, 6th Century)
St. Ammon and forty companions, of
Thrace
(Greek, deacon and disciples [young women], martyred [burned with a poker] in
332)
St. Anna bat Phanuel (Israelite,
widow, prophetess at the "presentation" of Jesus [Luke 2:36], 1st
Century)
St. Beatrice da
Silva Meneses of Cueta
[Brites] (Portuguese, courtier, Cistercian abbess, foundress of Benedictine
Congregation of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
[Conceptionists], died at about age 66 in 1490 [beatified 1926, canonized
1976]) [commemorated by some on August 17]
St. Constantius of Aquino
(Italian, bishop, d. 520)
Bl. Elizabeth Christine Mrad Campos of Barbacena
[Isabel Cristina (known as "Cris")] (Brazilian, laywoman, medical student, Eucharistic adorer, martyred in defense of her virginity at age 20 in 1982 [beatified 2022])
St. Giles of
Athens
(Greek, hermit, abbot in France, c. 724)
St. Giles of
Borgo San Sepolcro
[Gil] (Spanish, founder of Benedictine
abbey, c. 1050)
St. Giles of
Castaneda
[Gil] (Spanish, Benedictine
abbot, c, 1203)
Bl. Jane Soderini
of Florence
[Giovanna] (Italian, Servite
tertiary, died at about age 66 in 1367 [beatified 1827])
Bl. Joseph Samsó i
Elias of Castellbisbal
[Josep] (Spanish, parish priest, spiritual director, martyred [shot] during
Civil War at age 49 in 1936 [beatified 2009])
Sts. Joshua ben Nun and Gideon ben
Joash of
Ophrah
(Israelites [the first, born in Egypt], Old Testament patriarch and judge, 12th
and 11th Century B.C.)
Bl. Juliana of
Collalto
[Giuliana] (Italian, Benedictine
abbess, died at about age 76 in 1262 [beatified 1753])
St. Lupus of Sens
(French, bishop, d. 623)
St. Lythan (Welsh)
Bl. Michael Ghebre of
Mertule Mariam
(Ethiopian, Vincentian priest,
martyred by abuse in prison at about age 64 in 1855 [beatified 1926])
St. Nivard of
Reims
(French, archbishop)
St. Regulus of
Tuscany
(North African, refugee in Italy, martyred by Ostrogoth Arian heretics in 545)
St. Terentian of Todi (Italian,
bishop, tortured [racked, tongue cut out] and martyred by beheading in 118)
St. Verena (Egyptian, hermitess in
Switzerland, 3rd Century)
St. Victorius of Le
Mans
(French, bishop, d. 490)
Sts. Vincent and Laetus (Spanish,
early martyrs)
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On September 2, the Catholic Church honors, in a special way, the following
friends of God, "saints" and "blesseds" whose souls are now
in heaven:
St. Agricola of
Avignon
(French, monk, bishop, died at about age 70 c. 700)
Bl. Anthony Franco
of Naples
[Antonio] (Italian, nobleman, doctor of laws at age 17, royal chaplain, bishop
of Santa Lucia del Mela, slept on floor with stone as pillow, died at age 40 in
1626 [beatified 2013]) [incorruptible]
St. Antoninus of
Pamia
(French or Syrian?, destroyer of idols, martyred by pagans in 4th Century)
St. Brocard of
Mount Carmel
(French, Carmelite prior of
hermits, d. 1231)
St. Castor of
Nimes
(French, bishop of Apt, c. 420)
Sts. Diomedes, Julian, Philip,
Eutychian, Hesychius, Leonides, Philadelphus, Menalippus, and Pantagapes (early
martyrs [by burning, drowning, beheading, crucifixion])
St. Elpidius of
Lyons
(French, bishop, d. 422)
St. Elpidius of
Cappadocia
(from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], cave hermit, abbot, 4th Century)
St. Hieu of
Tadcaster
(British, Benedictine abbess, c.
657)
Bl. Ingrid of
Skänninge
(Swedish, Dominican nun, d. 1282)
St. Justus of
Vienne
(French, bishop of Lyons, hermit in Egypt, d. 390)
St. Lolanus (Scottish, bishop, c.
1034)
St. Margaret la
Fiere of Louvain
[Marguerite] (French, maid at an inn, murdered at about age 18 in 1225
[canonized 1905])
St. Maxima of Rome
(Italian, slave, martyred by scourging in 304)
St. Nonnosus of
Mount Soracte
(Italian, Benedictine monk, c.
575)
Blessed Martyrs of September of the
French Revolution (French [190] and Swiss [1] ... [arch]bishops, diocesan
priests [86], consecrated men and women religious [including 23 Jesuit priests], and 4 laymen ... martyred [slain by
a mob] in 1792 [beatified 1926])
[Click here to see some of the martyrs' names and other
facts about them.]
St. Solomon Leclercq
of Boulogne-ser-Mer
[Salomon] [baptized Guillaume-Nicolas-Louis (William Nicholas Louis)] (French,
son of wealthy merchant, member of Brothers of Christian Schools,
teacher, martyred [slain by a mob] at age 46 in 1792 [beatified 1926, canonized
2016])
St. Valentine of
Strasbourg
(French, bishop, 4th Century)
St. William of
Roskilde
(English, king's chaplain, missionary in Denmark, bishop, died at about age 70
c. 1070)
Sts. Zeno, Concordius, and Theodore,
of
Nicomedia
(from Asia Minor, father and sons, martyred in 302)
Blessed Martyrs of September of the
French Revolution -- CONTINUED
(French [190] and Swiss [1] ... [arch]bishops, diocesan priests [86],
consecrated men and women religious [including 23 Jesuit priests], and 4 laymen ... martyred [slain by
a mob] in 1792 [beatified 1926])
[Some of their names were ...]
----- Bl. Andre Grasset
de Saint Sauveur
(French [born in Canada], priest, died at about age 34)
----- Bl. Alexander Charles Lanfant of Lyon
(French, Jesuit priest, died at
age 65)
----- Bl. Apollinaris Morel
of Prez-vers-Noréaz
(Swiss, Capuchin priest, died at
age 53)
----- Bl. Augustine Ambrose Chevreux of Saint-Maur
[Augustin Ambroise] and Bl. Julian Massey of Saint Florent de
Saumur
[Julien] [baptized René] (French, Maurist superior general and prior)
----- Bl. Charles Bérauld
du Pérou of Meursac
(French, Jesuit priest, died at
age 54)
----- Bl. Charles de
la Calmette of Valfons
(French, count)
----- Bl. Charles le
Gué of Rennes
(French, Jesuit priest, died at
age 67)
----- Bl. Claude Cayx-Dumas
of Martel
(French, Jesuit priest, died at
age 67)
----- Bl. Claude Gagnières
des Granges of Chambéry
(French, Jesuit priest, died at
age 70)
----- Bl. Claude Laporte
of Brest
(French, Jesuit priest, died at
age 57)
----- Bl. Elias Herque
du Roule of Lyon
(French, Jesuit priest, died at
age 51)
----- Bl. Francis Balmain
of Luzy
[François] (French, Jesuit
priest, died at age 59)
----- Bl. Francis de
la Rochefoucauld of Beauvais [François] (French, bishop, brother of
Bl. Louis)
----- Bl. Francis le
Livec of Quimper
[François] (French, Jesuit
priest, died at age 66)
----- Bl. Francis Urban Salins
de Niart of Neu-Breisach [François-Urban]
(French, priest, died at about age 32)
----- Bl. Francis Vareilhe-Duteil
of Felletin
[François] (French, Jesuit
priest, died at age 58)
----- Bl. James Julius Bonnaud
of Cap Français
[Jacques-Jules] (French born in Haiti, Jesuit priest, died at age 51)
----- Bl. James Friteyre-Durvé
of Marsac
(French, Jesuit priest, died at
age 66)
----- Bl. John Benedict Bourlat
of Lyon
[Jean-Benoît] (French, Jesuit
priest, died at age 61)
----- Bl. John Charton
de Millou of Lyon
[Jean] (French, Jesuit priest,
died at age 55)
----- Bl. John Francis Burte
[Jean-Francois] (French, Franciscan
friar)
----- Bl. John Mary du
Lau of Arles
[Jean-Marie] (French, archbishop)
----- Bl. John Seconds
of Rodez
[Jean] (French, Jesuit priest,
died on his 58th birthday)
----- Bl. Louis Barreau
de la Touche
(French, Benedictine monk)
----- Bl. Louis de
la Rochefoucauld of Saintes [François] (French, bishop, brother of
Bl. Francis)
----- Bl. Louis Joseph François of Busigny (French, Vincentian priest, died at age 41)
----- Bl. Mathurin Le
Bous de Villeneuve of Rennes (French, Jesuit priest, died at age 60)
----- Bl. Nicholas Verron
of Quimperlé
[Nicolas] (French, Jesuit priest, died at age 51)
----- Bl. Peter Guérin
du Rocher of Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume [Pierre] (French, Jesuit priest, died at age 61)
----- Bl. René Andrieux
of Rennes
(French, Jesuit priest, died at
age 50)
----- Bl. Robert Guérin
du Rocher of Repas
(French, Jesuit priest, died at
age 55)
----- Bl. Severin Girault
(French, Franciscan friar)
----- Bl. Vincent le
Rousseau de Rosancoat of Chateauneuf (French, Jesuit priest, died at age 66)
----- Bl. William Anthony Delfaud
of l'Estang-de-Lol
[Guillaume-Antoine] (French, Jesuit
priest, died at age 59)
----- Bl. Wolf Thomas Bonnotte
of Entrains
[Loup-Thomas] (French, Jesuit
priest, died at age 72)
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On September 3, the Catholic Church honors, in a special way, the following
friends of God, "saints" and "blesseds" whose souls are now
in heaven:
Pope St. Gregory I the Great of Rome
(Italian, nobleman, Benedictine
monk, pope's ambassador to Byzantine emperor, elected pope in 590, sent
missionaries to Britain, champion of [Gregorian] chant, one of four original
Doctors of Western Church, died at about age 63 in 604) [Feast observed in
Malta on the Wednesday after Easter]
St. Aigulf of
Blois,
St. Frugentius of
Fleury,
and companions (French, Benedictine
abbot and monks, martyred in 676) [St. Aigulf died at about age 46.]
St. Ambrose of Sens
(French, bishop, c. 355)
Bl. Andrew Dotti
of Borgo San Sepolcro
[Andrea] (Italian, soldier, Servite
priest, hermit, died at about age 65 in 1315 [beatified 1806])
St. Auxanus of
Milan
(Italian, bishop, d. 568)
St. Balin of
Techsaxon
(British, prince, missionary in Ireland, 7th Century)
St. Basilissa of
Nicomedia
(from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], martyred at age 9 c. 303)
Bl. Bridget of Jesus Zancano
of San Michele di Pagana
[Brigida di Gesu] [nee Morello]
(Italian, widow, founded Institute of the Ursuline Sisters of Mary
Immaculate, died at age 69 in 1679 [beatified 1998])
Sts. Cuthburga and Quenburga of
Wimborne
(British, noblewomen, Benedictine
abbess and nun, c. 725)
Sts. Euphemia, Dorothea, Thecla, and
Erasma, of
Aquileia (Italian,
virgins, tortured and martyred by the sword in 1st Century)
St. Hereswitha of
Chelles (British,
princess, widow, nun, c. 690)
St. Hermann of
Heidelberg
(Bavarian, Benedictine hermit, c
1326)
Bl. John of
Perugia
[Giovanni] and Bl. Peter of
Sassoferato
[Pietro] (Italian, friars among first disciples of St. Francis, martyred
[beheaded] by Moslems in Spain in 1231 [beatified 1783])
St. Mansuetus of Toul
(French, bishop, c. 350)
St. Martin de
Hinojosa of Siguenza
(Spanish, Cistercian monk,
bishop, c. 1200)
Bl. Mary Louise of the Most Blessed
Sacrament Velotti
of Naples
[Maria Luigia del Santissimo Sacramento] (Italian, founded Franciscan Sisters Adorers of the Holy Cross, visionary, died at
age 59 in 1886 [beatified 2019])
St. Maurilius of
Cahors
(French, bishop, d. 580)
Blessed Martyrs of Nagasaki of 1632 (Christians
in Japan, tortured for 33 days [scalded] and martyred by burning in 1632
[beatified 1867])
----- Bl. Anthony Ishida
of Shimabara
(Japanese, Jesuit priest, died at
about age 63)
----- Bl. Bartholomew Gutierrez
[Bartolome] (Mexican, Augustinian priest, missionary in Philippines and Japan,
died at about age 62)
----- Bl. Francis of Jesus Ortega of Villamediana
[Francisco de Jesus] (Spanish, Augustinian friar, missionary in
Mexico/Philippines/Japan)
----- Bl. Gabriel of St. Magdalen of Fonseca [Gabriel
de Santa Magdalena] (Spanish, Franciscan
brother, missionary in Philippines and Japan)
----- Bl. Jerome of the Cross de Torres [Geronimo de la Cruz]
(Filipino, priest, missionary to Japan)
----- Bl. Vincent Carvalho
of Alfama
[Vincente] (Portuguese, Augustinian
friar, missionary in Mexico and Japan)
St. Natalis of
Casale
(Italian, priest, 6th Century)
St. Phoebe of
Cenchreae
(Greek, disciple of St. Paul [Romans 16], 1st Century)
St. Regulus of
Rheims
(French, Benedictine monk, archbishop,
d. 698)
St. Remaclus of
Aquitaine
(French, courtier, Benedictine
abbot, missionary bishop in Holland, c. 673)
St. Sandila of
Cordoba
(Spanish, martyred by Moslems in 855)
Bl. Walter Romanoni
of Bergamo
[Guala] (Italian, prior among first disciples of St. Dominic, bishop of
Brescia, died at about age 64 in 1244 [beatified 1866])
Sts. Zeno and Chariton (martyred c.
303)
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On September 4, the Catholic Church honors, in a special way, the following
friends of God, "saints" and "blesseds" whose souls are now
in heaven:
Bl. Agnes of
Bagno
[Agnese] (Italian, Camaldolese
nun, c. 1105)
Sts. Ammianus, Julian, Oceanus, and
Theodore (martyred by burning at the stake c. 310)
Pope St. Boniface I of Rome
(Italian, parish priest, elected to papacy in 418, reigned until death at about
age 72 in 423)
St. Caletricus of
Chartres
(French, bishop, died at about age 51 c. 580)
St. Candida the Elder of
Naples
(Italian, virgin, martyred c. 78)
Sts. Castus, Magnus, and Maximus, of
Galatia (from
Asia Minor [now called Turkey], early martyrs)
Bl. Catherine Mattei
of Racconigi
[Caterina] (Italian, pauper, Dominican
tertiary, virgin, visionary, mystic, died at about age 87 in 1574 [beatified
1810])
St. Cuthbert of
Lyminge
(British, Benedictine monk,
bishop of Hereford, archbishop of Canterbury, d. 758) [On English
"particular calendar"]
St. Frezal of
Mende
(French, bishop)
St. Hermione of
Ephesus
(prophetess, martyr, c. 117)
St. Ida of
Herzfeld
(noblewoman of Charlemagne's court, widow, 9th Century)
St. Macanisius of
Kells
[also called Angus Mac
Nissi]
(Irish, disciple of St. Patrick, archbishop, c. 514) [On Irish "particular
calendar"]
St. Marinus of Albe
[Marino] (Dalmatian [Croatian], stonemason in Italy, bishop, hermit, 5th or 6th
Century)
St. Marcellus of
Lyons
(French, priest, martyred c. 178)
St. Marcellus of
Trier
(German, bishop)
Bl. Mary St. Cecilia of Rome Belanger of Quebec [Marie Sainte-Cécile-de-Rome] [baptized Marie-Marguerite-Dina-Adélaïde, and widely known as "Dina"] (Canadian, pianist, member of Sisters of Jesus and Mary, died [tuberculosis] at age 32 in 1929 [beatified 1993]) [On Canadian "particular calendar"]
St. Monessa (Irish, virgin, disciple of
St. Patrick, died on the day of her baptism in 456)
St. Moses ben Amram (Israelite born
in Egypt, Old Testament patriarch, received Ten Commandments, led Chosen People
to Promised Land, author of the Pentateuch, 14th Century BC?)
Bl. Nicholas Rusca
of Bedano [Nicolò]
(Italian, diocesan priest in Switzerland, tortured and martyred by Calvinists
at age 55 in 1618 [beatified 2013])
St. Rhuddlad (Welsh, virgin, 7th
Century)
St. Rosalia of Palermo
(Sicilian,
hermitess, c. 1160)
St. Rose of
Viterbo
[Rosa] (Italian, Franciscan
tertiary, raised dead person at age 3, preached in streets at age 10,
prophetess, died at about age 18 in 1252 [canonized 1457])
Sts. Rufinus, Silvanus, and Victalicus,
of
Galatia
(from Asia Minor, children, early martyrs)
St. Salvinus of Verdun (French,
bishop, d. 420)
St. Thamel and companions (converted
pagan priest, his sister, and others ... martyred in 125)
St. Ultan of
Ardbraccan
(Irish, bishop, 7th Century)
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On September 5, the Catholic Church honors, in a special way, the following
friends of God, "saints" and "blesseds" whose souls are now
in heaven:
Bl. Albert of Pontida
[Alberto] (Italian, soldier, Benedictine
abbot, d. 1095)
St. Albert of Butrio
[Alberto] (Italian, Benedictine
abbot, d. 1073)
St. Alvito of Galicia
(Spanish, Benedictine monk,
bishop of León, c. 1073)
St. Bertin of Sithiu (French, abbot, 7th Century)
Sts. Eudoxius, Zeno, Macarius, and about
1,000 companions, of
Melitene
(Armenian, soldiers, martyred in 2nd Century)
St. Genebald of Laon (French, bishop, c. 555)
Bl. Gentilis of
Matelica
(Italian, Franciscan missionary
to Moslems, martyred in Persia in 1340)
St. Herculanus of Porto (Italian, martyr, c. 180)
St. Jordan of Pulsano
[Giordano] (Italian, Benedictine
abbot, d. 1152)
St. Joseph Hoang Luong
Canh of
Tonkin
(Vietnamese, physician, Dominican
tertiary, martyred by beheading at about age 74 in 1838 [beatified 1900,
canonized in 1988])
Holy Martyrs of Košice (martyred
[beheaded] by Transylvanian Calvinists in Slovakia in 1619 [beatified 1905,
canonized 1995])
----- St. Melchior Grodziecki
of Czeszyn
(Polish, Jesuit priest, died at
about age 35)
----- St. Steven Pongracs
of Alvincz
[Istvan] (Hungarian, Jesuit
priest, died at about age 36)
----- St. Mark Križevcanin
of Križevci
[Marko] (Croatian, nobleman, parish priest, died at about age 31)
St. Lawrence Giustiniani of Venice [Lorenzo] (Italian, bishop, writer on mystical contemplation, died at age 73 in 1455 [beatified 1524, canonized 1690])
St. Madrona of Barcelona
(Spanish, orphan, virgin in Rome, tortured and martyred by starvation in 300)
Bl. Mary of the Apostles von Wüllenweber of Monchengladbach [baptized Theresia] (German, noblewoman, co-founder and superior of Sisters of the Catholic Teaching Society and superior general of Sisters of the Divine Savior, died at age 74 in 1907 [beatified 1968])
St. Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu
of Skopje
[baptized Anjezë (Agnes) Gonxhe] ["Mother Teresa of
Calcutta,"
"Saint of the Gutters"] (Albanian [born in Ottoman Empire], member of
Sisters of Loreto in Ireland, schoolteacher and principal in India, founded
Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity [sisters, brothers, priests
-- active and contemplative] to serve "the poorest of the poor,"
mother superior for almost fifty years, winner of Nobel Peace Prize, died at
age 87 in 1997 [beatified 2003, canonized 2016])
St. Obdulia of Toledo (Spanish, nun)
Sts. Quintius, Arcontius, and Donatus, of Capua (Italian, early martyrs)
St. Romulus of Rome (Italian, courtier, martyred c. 112)
Sts. Urban, Theodore and about eighty companions (priests and others, martyred [left on burning ship] by Arian heretics in 370)
St. Victorinus of Como (Italian, bishop, d. 644)
St. Victorinus of Ponza (martyred in Rome in 2nd Century)
Bl. William Browne of
Northamptonshire
(English, layman, martyred [hanged] under James I in 1605 [beatified 1929])
[From "Mother Teresa," whose baptismal names mean "lamb" and "flower bud":]
"By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, I am an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus."
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On September 6, the Catholic Church honors, in a special way, the following
friends of God, "saints" and "blesseds" whose souls are now
in heaven:
St. Arator of
Verdun
(French, bishop, c. 460)
Sts. Augustine, Sanctian, and Beata [also known as Benedicta] (Spanish, martyred in France in 273)
St. Bega (Irish, noblewoman, hermit, abbess, 7th Century)
Bl. Bertrand of Garrigue (France, Dominican priest and provincial, opposed Albigensian heretics, died at about age 35 in 1230 [beatified 1881])
St. Cagnoald of Laon (French, bishop, d. 633)
Sts. Cottidus, Eugene, and companions, of
Cappadocia
(from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], deacon and others, early martyrs)
Sts. Donatian, Praesidius, Mansuetus, Germanus, Fusculus, and Laetus (North African, exiled by Arian Vandals in 5th Century)
St. Eleutherius of
Spoleto
(Italian, Benedictine abbot,
miracle worker, c. 590)
St. Eve of Dreux (French, early martyr)
Sts. Faustus, Macarius and ten companions, of Alexandria (Egyptian, martyred in 250)
St. Faustus of Siracusa (Sicilian, abbot, c. 607)
Sts. Felix and Augebert of Champagne (British, slaves in France, redeemed to be priest and deacon, martyred by pagans in 7th Century)
Bl. Liberato of Loro
(Italian, Franciscan friar, d.
1258 [beatified 1868])
St. Maccallin of Lusk (Irish, bishop, c. 497)
St. Magnus of Füssen (German, Benedictine priest, c. 666)
Bl. Michael Czartoryski of Pelkinie [Michal] [baptized Jan (John)] (Polish, Dominican priest, martyred by Nazis at Sluzew at age 47 in 1944 [beatified 1999])
Bl. Olinto Marella of Pellestrina (Italian, diocesan priest, died at age 87 in 1969 [beatified 2020])
Sts. Onesiphorus and Porphyrius of Ephesus (disciple of St. Paul [2 Tim 1] and his servant, martyred in Asia Minor [tied to horses and torn apart] c. 80)
Bl. Peregrine of Falerone
[Pellegrino] (Italian, disciple of St. Francis of Assisi, Franciscan brother, c. 1240)
St. Petronius of Verona (Italian, bishop, c. 450)
St. Zechariah ben Berechiah (Israelite, Old Testament prophet, 6th Century B.C.)
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On September 7, the Catholic Church honors, in a special way, the following
friends of God, "saints" and "blesseds" whose souls are now
in heaven:
Sts. Alcmund and Tilbert of
Hexham
(British, Benedictine monks,
bishops, d. 781 and 789)
St. Anastasius of
Aquileia
(Italian, fuller, martyred by drowining in 304)
St. Augustalis of
Arles
(French, bishop, c. 450)
St. Carissima of Albi
(French, nun, 5th Century)
St. Cloud of
Nogent
(French, prince of Orleans, priest, founder of monastery, died at about age 38
in 560)
St. Diuma (Irish, bishop in England,
7th Century)
Bl. Eugenia Picco
of Crescenzago
(Italian, superior general of Congregation of the Little Daughters of the
Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, died at age 53 in 1921 [beatified 2001])
St. Eupsychius of
Caesarea (Cappadocian
[from part of what is now Turkey], martyred c. 130)
Bl. Eustace of Flay
(French, Cistercian abbot, papal legate to England, d. 1211)
St. Evortius of Rome
(Italian, bishop of Orléans in France, 4th Century?)
St. Faciolus of
Poitiers
(French, Benedictine monk, c.
950)
St. Gratus of
Aosta
(Italian, bishop, c. 470)
St. Grimonia of Laon
(Irish, laywoman in France, martyred in defense of virginity, 4th Century)
St. Hiduard of
Dickelvenne
(Belgian, Benedictine monk,
missionary bishop, c 750)
Bl. Ignatius Klopotowski
of Korzeniówka
[Ignacy] (Polish, parish priest, hospital chaplain, seminary professor,
established a Catholic newspaper and multiple institutions for the needy,
founded Congregation of the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto,
died at age 65 in 1931 [beatified 2005])
Bl. John Duckett of
Underwinder
(English, priest, martyred [drawn/hanged/quartered] under Charles I at about
age 41 in 1644 [beatified 1929])
Bl. John and Bl. Louis Maki
(Japanese, laymen, martyred by burning at Nagasaki in 1627 [beatified 1867])
St. John of Lodi
Vecchio
[Giovanni] (Italian, Benedictine
hermit, bishop of Gubbio, d. 1106)
St. John of
Nicomedia
(Turkish, martyred by burning in 303)
St. Madalberta of
Maubeuge
(Belgian, Benedictine abbess, d.
706)
St. Memorius and five companions, of
Troyes
[also known as Nemorius] (French, deacon and others, martyred [beheaded] by
Attila the Hun in 451)
St. Pamphilus (Greek, bishop of
Capua in Italy, c. 400)
Bl. Ralph Corby
of Maynooth
[also known as Corbington]
(Irish, Jesuit priest in England,
martyred [drawn/hanged/quartered] under Charles I at age 46 in 1644 [beatified
1929])
St. Regina of
Autun
(French, virgin, martyred in 3rd Century)
St. Sozon of
Cilicia
[name before conversion: Tarasius] (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey],
shepherd boy, martyred by burning c. 304)
Bl. Stephen de
Châtillon of Lyons
[Etienne] (French, Carthusian
prior, bishop of Die, died at about age 53 in 1208 [beatified 1907])
[commemorated by his order on October 13]
Bl. Thomas Tsugi
of Sonogi
(Japanese, Jesuit priest,
martyred by burning at Nagasaki at about age 57 in 1627 [beatified 1867])
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On September 8, the Catholic Church celebrates the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Church also honors, in a
special way, the following friends of God, "saints" and
"blesseds" whose souls are now in heaven:
Bl. Adam Bargielski
of Kalinowo
(Polish, diocesan priest, martyred by Nazis at Dachau [German] at age 39 in
1942 [beatified 1999])
St. Adela of Messines
(Belgian, countess, widow, Benedictine
nun, d. 1071)
St.
Adrian and companions of
Nicomedia ((from
Asia Minor [now called Turkey], a converted pagan guard [husband of St.
Natalia] and his twenty-three Christian prisoners, martyred [limbs crushed] in
304)
Sts. Ammon, Theophilus, Neoterius, and 22 companions, of Alexandria (Egyptian, early martyrs)
St. Corbinian of Freising [baptized Waldegiso] (French, hermit, missionary bishop in Bavaria, died at about age 60 in 730)
St. Disibod of Bingen
(Irish, Benedictine missionary in
Germany, c. 700)
Sts. Eusebius, Nestabus, Zeno, and Nestor, of Gaza (Palestinian, three brothers and a friend, horribly tortured and martyred [burned] by pagan mob in 362)
St. Ethelburga of
Wessex
(British, wife of St. Ina, died at Rome c. 730)
Bl. Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan
of Gurtweil
[Franziskus Maria vom Kreuze] [baptized Johann Baptist (John the Baptist)]
(German, house painter, priest, expert in Semitic languages, founded the Salvatorian congregations [Society of the Divine Savior and
Sisters of the Divine Savior], died at age 70 in Switzerland in 1918
[beatified 2021]) [commemorated by some on July 21]
St. Ina of Wessex (British, abdicated king, monk, d. 727)
St. Kingsmark (Scottish, chieftain)
Bl. Ladislaus Bladzinski
of Myzlatycze
[Wladyslaw] (Polish, Michaelite
priest, martyred by Nazis at Gross-Rosen at age 36 in 1944 [beatified
1999])
Blessed Martyrs of Nagasaki of 1628
(Japanese and European Catholics, clergy and laity [some of whom are named
below], martyred in 1628 [beatified in 1867])
----- Bl. Anthony of St. Bonaventure of Tuy
[Antonio de San Buenaventura] (Spanish, Franciscan missionary priest in Philippines and Japan)
----- Bl. Anthony of St. Dominic (Japanese, Dominican tertiary, beheaded at age 20)
----- Bl. Dominic of
Omura
(Japanese, catechist, Franciscan
friar, burned)
----- Bl. James Fayashida
(Japanese, Dominican tertiary,
beheaded)
----- Bl. John, Bl. Dominic, Bl. Michael, Bl. Paul, and Bl. Thomas Tomaki
(Japanese, father [Dominican tertiary] and four sons [aged 16, 13, 7, ?],
beheaded)
----- Bl. John Inamura
(Japanese, Dominican tertiary,
beheaded)
----- Bl. Jordan of St. Stephen [Giordano di San Stefano] (Sicilian, Dominican missionary priest in Philippines and Japan,
infirmarian, tortured and burned)
----- Bl. Michael and Bl. Lawrence Jamada
(Japanese, father [Dominican
tertiary] and son, beheaded)
----- Bl. Leo Kombiogi
(Japanese, Dominican tertiary,
beheaded)
----- Bl. Louis, Bl. Francis, and Bl. Dominic Nifaki
(Japanese, father [Dominican
tertiary] and sons [aged 5 and 2], beheaded)
----- Bl. Louise of
Omura
(Japanese, laywoman)
----- Bl. Matthew Anjin Alvarez
(Japanese, Dominican tertiary,
catechist, beheaded)
----- Bl. Romanus and Bl. Paul Aybara (Japanese, father and son,
catechists, Dominican tertiaries,
beheaded)
----- Bl. Thomas of St. Hyacinth of Nagasaki
(Japanese, Dominican priest
ordained in Philippines, burned)
Pope St. Sergius I of
Palermo
(Sicilian [son of Syrians], reigned from 687 to death in 701)
Sts. Timothy and Faustus of Antioch (Syrian, early martyrs)
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On September 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:
St. Peter Claver
of Verdu
[Pedro] (Spanish, Jesuit priest,
missionary to African slaves in West Indies and South America, died at about
age 73 in 1654 [beatified 1851, canonized 1888]) [On U.S. particular calendar]
Sts. Alexander, Hyacinth, and
Tiburtus (Italian, early martyrs)
Bl. Alphonse-Marie Eppinger
of Niederbronn-les-Bains
[baptized Élisabeth] (French [Alsatian], child of poor farmers, virgin, founded
Congregation of the Sisters of the Most
Holy Savior [nurses of sick and
wounded], died [stroke] at age 52 in 1867 [beatified 2018])
St. Audomarus [or Omer] of Coutances (French, Benedictine monk, bishop of Thérouanne, miracle worker, died at about age 75 c. 670)
St. Bettelin of Croyland (British, Benedictine hermit, 8th Century)
St. Ciaran [or Kieran] of Connacht (Irish, princess's tutor, hermit, abbot, miracle worker, died at about age 40 c. 556) [On Irish "particular calendar"]
Sts. Dorotheus, Peter, and Gorgonius, of Nicomedia (from
Asia Minor [now called Turkey], imperial courtiers [eunuchs, bodyguards],
grossly tortured and martyred [two hanged, one broiled] in 303)
Bl. Francis Gárate of Azpeitia [Francisco] (Spanish, Jesuit brother, died at age 72 in 1929 [beatified 1985])
Bl. Frederick Ozanam of Lyons [Frédèric] (French, doctor of laws, literature professor, founder of Society of St. Vincent de Paul, husband and father, died at age 40 in 1853 [beatified 1997])
Bl. George Douglas of Edinburgh (Scottish, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Elizabeth I in 1587 [beatified 1987])
St. Godfrey of Savigny
[Gaudefroy] (French, Benedictine
abbot, d. 1139)
St. Isaac the Great of
Ashtishat
(Armenian, patriarch (bishop), died at about age 90 in 440)
Bl. James Desiré Laval
of Croth
[Jacques-Desiré] (French, medical doctor, Spiritan missionary priest in Mauritius, died nine
days before his 61st birthday in 1864 [beatified 1979])
Bl. Maria Euthymia Uffing of Halverde [baptized Emma] (German, member of the Congregation of Sisters of Compassion, nursed prisoners and others during World War II, died at age 41 in 1955 [beatified 2001])
Bl. Mary de la Cabeza of Torrejon
[Maria] (Spanish, wife of St. Isidore the Farmer, c. 1175 [beatified 1697])
St. Osmanna of
Brieuc
(French, noblewoman, c. 650)
Bl. Peter Bonhomme
of Gramat
[Pierre] (French, parish priest, preacher of missions, founded Congregation
of the Sisters of Our Lady of Calvary, died at age 58 in 1861 [beatified
2003])
Sts. Rufinus and Rufinian
(biological brothers, early martyrs)
Bl. Serafina Sforza
of Urbino
(Italian, abused and cast out by husband, Poor Clare abbess, died at about age 43 in 1478
[beatified 1754] [incorruptible])
St. Severian of Sebaste
(Armenian, senator, martyred [torn by iron rakes] in 322)
St. Straton (early martyr by
dismemberment)
St. Wilfrida of
Wilton
(British, repentant concubine of a king, abbess, c. 988)
St. Wulfhilda of
Barking
(British, Benedictine abbess,
died at about age 60 c. 1000)
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On September 10, the Catholic Church honors, in a special way, the following
friends of God, "saints" and "blesseds" whose souls are now
in heaven:
St. Agnes Cao Gui-ying
of
Wu-jia-zhai
(Chinese, widow, catechist, martyred at age 35 in 1856 [beatified 1900,
canonized 2000])
St. Ambrose Barlow
of Manchester
[baptized Edward] (English, Benedictine
priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Charles I at about
age 56 in 1641 [beatified 1929, canonized 1970])
St. Autbert of
Avranches
(French, bishop, founded Mont St. Michel, d. 725)
St. Barypsabas (hermit, martyred in
Dalmatia in 1st Century)
St. Candida the Younger of
Naples
(Italian, wife and mother, miracle worker, d. 586)
St. Cosmas of
Palermo
[Cosimo] (Sicilian, bishop of Aphrodisia, martyred by Moslems in 1160)
Sts. Felix, Nemesian, Lucius,
Litteus, Polyanus, Victor, Jader, Dativus, [another] Felix, and companions (nine
bishops, other clergy, and laity ... condemned for faith to slave labor in
quarries, early martyrs)
St. Finian of
Strangford
(Irish, abbot, miracle worker, d. 579)
St. Frithestan of
Winchester
(British, Benedictine monk,
bishop, d. 933)
Sts. Menodora, Metrodora, and Nymphodora, of Bithynia (from
Asia Minor, orphan sisters, martyred [two beaten, one beheaded] in 306)
Blessed Martyrs of Nagasaki of 1622
(Asian and European Catholics, clergy and laity in Japan, martyred by burning or
beheading in 1622 [beatified in 1867])
[Click
here to see some of the martyrs' names and other facts
about them.]
St. Nicholas of
Tolentino
[Niccola] (Italian, Augustinian
priest, died at about age 60 in 1305 [canonized 1446])
Bl. Ogerius of
Locedio
(Italian, Cistercian abbot, d.
1214 [beatified 1875])
St. Peter Martinez
of Moronzo
[Pedro] (Spanish, Benedictine
abbot, archbishop of Compostela, d. 1000)
St. Pulcheria of
Constantinople
(from what is now Turkey, empress of Byzantine Empire, sponsored ecumenical
Council of Chalcedon, died at age 54 in 453)
St. Salvius of Albi
(French, lawyer, abbot, hermit, bishop, d. 584)
Sts. Sosthenes and Victor (from Asia
Minor [now called Turkey], martyred [exposed to beasts] c. 304)
St. Theodard of
Maastricht
(Belgian, Benedictine abbot,
bishop in Holland, murdered in 670)
Bl. Thomas Sherwood
of London
(English, layman, tortured [racked, left naked in a dungeon] and martyred
[drawn, hanged, and quartered] at about age 27 under Elizabeth I in 1578
[beatified 1895])
St. Veranus of
Vence
(French, monk, bishop, d. 480)
Blessed Martyrs of Nagasaki of 1622
-- CONTINUED
(Asian and European Catholics, clergy and laity in Japan, martyred by burning or beheading in 1622 [beatified in 1867])
[Some of their names were ...]
----- Bl. Agnes and Bl. Cosmas
Takea
(Japanese, husband and wife, beheaded)
----- Bl. Angel Orsucci
of Lucca
[Angelo] (Italian, Dominican
missionary priest in Philippines and Japan, burned)
----- Bl. Anthony Kiun
of Makata
(Japanese, Jesuit priest, burned)
----- Bl. Anthony, Bl. Mary, and Bl. John of Korea
(Korean ... catechist, wife, and 12-year-old son, beheaded)
----- Bl. Anthony, Bl. Magdalen, and Bl. Peter Sanga (Korean
... catechist, wife and 3-year-old son ... beheaded)
----- Bl. Apollinaris Franco
of Aguilar del Campo
(Spanish, lawyer, Franciscan
superior, missionary priest, burned)
----- Bl. Bartholomew and Bl. Peter Shikiemon
(Japanese, father and 7-year-old son, beheaded)
----- Bl. Caspar Kotenda
(Japanese, nobleman)
----- Bl. Charles Spinola
of Prague
(Italian born in Bohemia, nobleman, Jesuit missionary priest, burned)
----- Bl. Clare and Bl. Dominic Shamada (Japanese, husband and wife,
beheaded)
----- Bl. Clement and Bl. Anthony Vom
(Japanese, father and son)
----- Bl. Damien and Bl. Michael Yamiki
(Japanese, father and 5-year-old son, beheaded)
----- Bl. Elizabeth Jorjes [nee Fernandez] and
Bl. Ignatius Jorjes
[Isabel and Ignacio] (Spanish, mother and 4-year-old son, beheaded)
----- Bl. Francis de
Morales of Madrid
[Francisco] (Spanish, Dominican
missionary priest in Japan, burned)
----- Bl. Gonzalo Fusai
(Japanese, converted imperial courtier, burned)
----- Bl. Hyacinth Orfanel
of Llana
[Jacinto] (Spanish, Dominican
missionary, burned at about age 44)
----- Bl. John Kingoku
of Amanguchi
(Japanese, catechist, beheaded)
----- Bl. Joseph of St. Hyacinth of Villareal [Jose
de San Jacinto] (Spanish, Dominican
missionary, burned)
----- Bl. Leo Satsuma
(Japanese, Franciscan tertiary,
burned)
----- Bl. Louis Kawara
of Arima
(Japanese, court page, burned)
----- Bl. Lucy de
Freitas
[Lucia] (Japanese, laywoman, burned)
----- Bl. Mary Tanaura
(Japanese, beheaded)
----- Bl. Mary Tokuan and
Bl. Mary Choun and
husbands (Japanese)
----- Bl. Michael Shumpo
(Japanese, burned)
----- Bl. Matthias and Bl. Dominic Nakano
(Japanese, father and son, beheaded)
----- Bl. Paul and Bl. Mary Tanaka (Japanese, husband and wife,
beheaded)
----- Bl. Paul, Bl. Thecla, and Bl. Peter Nangashi
(Japanese ... husband, wife, and 7-year-old son ... beheaded)
----- Bl. Peter of
Avila
[Pedro] (Spanish, Franciscan
missionary priest in Philippines and Japan, burned)
----- Bl. Peter Sampo
of Ochu
(Japanese, burned)
----- Bl. Richard of St. Ann of Brussels [Ricardo de Santa Ana]
(Spanish born in Belgium, tailor, Franciscan priest, missionary in
Mexico/Philippines/Japan)
----- Bl. Sebastian Kimura
(Japanese, grandson of St. Francis Xavier's first Japanese convert, catechist
working with Jesuits, burned)
----- Bl. Thomas and Bl. Francis Takea
(Japanese, father and 12-year-old son, beheaded)
----- Bl. Thomas of the Holy Rosary (Japanese, catechist working with Dominicans,
beheaded)
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On September 11, we, members of the Catholic Church family, honor in a special
way the following friend of God, a saint whose soul is now in heaven:
St. Adelphus of
Remiremont
(French, Benedictine abbot,
d.670)
St. Agapius (Italian, bishop of
Novara)
St. Almirus of
Auvergne(French,
hermit, d. 560)
Sts. Apellius, Luke, and Clement
(early martyrs)
St. Bodo of Toul
(French, bishop, d. 670)
St. Daniel of
Bangor
[Deiniol] (Welsh, bishop, d. 584) [On Welsh "particular calendar"]
Sts. Diodorus, Diomedes, and
Didymus, of
Laodicea
(Syrian, early martyrs)
St. Emilian of
Vercelli
(Italian, hermit for 40 years, bishop, d. 520)
Sts. Felix and Regula (Italian,
brother and sister, martyred in Switzerland in 3rd Century)
Bl. Francis John Bonifacio
of Piran
[Francesco Giovanni] (Italian [from what is now Slovenia], diocesan priest in
what is now Croatia, martyred by Communists at age 34 in 1946 [beatified 2008])
Sts. Hyacinth and Protus of Rome
(Italian, martyrs, c. 257)
St. John Gabriel Perboyre
of Le Puech
[Jean-Gabriel] (French, Vincentian
priest, theology professor, seminary rector, missionary to China,
tortured [hung by thumbs, flogged with bamboo, tied to a cross on a hill],
martyred [strangled] at age 38 in 1840 [beatified 1889, canonized 1996])
Bl. Louis of
Thuringia
[Ludwig] (German, count, husband of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, father of three,
died at age 27 in Italy [fever] in 1227)
St. Paphnutius (Egyptian, hermit,
bishop, opposed Arian heresy, 4th Century)
St. Patiens of
Lyons
(French, archbishop, opposed Arian heresy, d. 491)
St. Peter of Chavanon
[Pierre] (French, Augustinian
priest, d. 1080)
St. Sperandea of
Cingoli (Italian,
Benedictine abbess, mystic, d.
1276 [incorruptible])
St. Theodora of
Alexandria
(Egyptian, penitent hermitess, d. 491)
St. Vincent of Leon
(Spanish, abbot, martyred by Arian Visigoths in 6th or 7th Century)
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On September 12, we members of the Catholic Church family honor the Holy
Name of Mary.
We also honor, in a special way, the following friends of God,
"saints" and "blesseds" whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Ailbe [or Ailbhe] of Emly
(Irish, missionary bishop, 5th or 6th Century) [On Irish "particular
calendar"]
St. Autonomus of
Bithynia
(Italian, bishop in Asia Minor [modern Turkey], martyred c. 300)
St. Curonotus of
Iconium
(Lycaonian [from part of what is now Turkey], bishop, martyred c. 258)
St. Eanswida of
Folkestone
(British, Benedictine abbess of
first convent in Britain, c. 640)
Bl. Francis of St. Bonaventure of
Musashi,
Bl. Peter Paul of St. Clare of Saigo, and Bl. Mancius of
St. Thomas (Japanese, catechists, martyred by burning at Omura in 1622
[beatified 1867])
St. Guy of
Anderlecht
(Belgian, peasant, lay sacristan, died at about age 62 in 1012)
Sts. Hieronides, Leontius, Serapion,
Seleucus, Valerian, Straton, and companions, of Alexandria
(Egyptian, deacon and others, martyred by drowning c. 300)
Bl. John Juvenal Ancina
of Fossano
[Giovanni Giovenale] (Italian, professor of medicine, Oratorian with St. Philip Neri, bishop of Saluzzo,
martyred by poison at about age 59 in 1604 [beatified 1869])
Sts. Macedonius, Theodulus, and
Tatian, of
Mevos
(Phrygian [from part of what is now Turkey], destroyed pagan idols, martyred
[roasted on gridirons] in 362)
Bl.
Mary Louise Angelica Prosperi
of Flogiano
[Maria Luisa Angelica] [baptized/confirmed Gertrude Teresa Elisabetta]
(Italian, Benedictine abbess, mystic, died at age 68 in 1847
[beatified 2012])
Bl. Mary Victoria Strata
of Genoa
[Maria Vittoria] [nee Fornari]
(Italian, mother of six, widow at age 25, foundress and superior of the "Blue
Nuns," died at about age 55 in 1617 [beatified 1828])
Bl. Miro of Vich
(Spanish, Augustinian friar, d.
1161)
St. Sacerdos of
Lyons
(French, bishop, d. 551)
Bl. Sigmund Sajna
of Zurawlowka
[Zygmunt] (Polish, diocesan priest, martyred by Nazis at Palmiry [Poland] at
age 43 in 1940 [beatified 1999])
St. Silvinus of
Verona
(Italian, bishop, c. 550)
Bl. Thomas Zumárraga
of Vitoria
[Tomás] (Spanish, Dominican
missionary priest in Japan, martyred by burning at Omura in 1622
[beatified 1867])
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On September 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. John Chrysostom of
Antioch [means
"Golden-mouthed"] (from Asia Minor [modern Turkish], monk, patriarch
(bishop) of Constantinople, Father and Doctor of the Church, died at about age
60 in 407)
St. Amatus of
Grenoble
(French, Benedictine hermit,
abbot, died at about age 63 in 630)
St. Columbinus of Lure (French, Benedictine abbot, d. 680)
St. Eulogius (Egyptian, bishop of Alexandria)
St. Hedwig of Westphalia (German, Benedictine abbess, c. 887)
St. Julian of Galatia (from
Asia Minor [modern Turkish], priest, martyred c. 321)
St. Ligorius (early martyr of the East)
St. Macrobius of
Cappadocia
(from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], early martyr)
Bl. Mary of Jesus López de Rivas of Tartanedo [María de Jesus] (Spanish, Discalced Carmelite prioress, died at age 80 in 1640 [beatified 1976])
St. Maurilius of Angers (Italian, bishop in France, 5th Century)
St. Nectarius of Autun (French, bishop)
St. Philip (confessor, 3rd Century)
St. Venerius of Tino
(Italian, hermit, abbot, 7th Century)
[St. John Chrysostom, the Eastern Father, once wrote the following, which would
be so apropos to share with Eastern non-Catholics today:]
"O envious one, you injure yourself more than he whom you would injure, and the sword with which you wound will recoil and wound yourself.
"What harm did Cain do to Abel? Contrary to his intention he did him the greatest good, for he caused him to pass to a better and a blessed life, and he himself was plunged into an abyss of woe. ... What harm did his brothers do to Joseph, whose envy went so far as to wish to shed his blood? Were they not driven to the last extremity, and well-nigh perishing with hunger, whilst their brother reigned all through Egypt?
"It is ever thus; the more you envy your brother, the greater good you confer upon him. God, who sees all, takes the cause of the innocent in hand, and, irritated by the injury you inflict, deigns to raise up him whom you wish to lower, and will punish you to the full extent of your crime.
"If God usually punishes those who rejoice at the misfortunes of their enemies, how much more will He punish those who, excited by envy, seek to do an injury to those who have never injured them?"
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On September 14, we members of the Catholic Church family celebrate the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (also called the Triumph of the Cross).
We
also honor, in a special way, the following friends of God --
"saints" and "blesseds" whose souls are now in heaven:
Sts. Caerealis and Sallustia of Rome
(Italian, soldier and wife, martyred in 251)
King St. Cormac of Cashel (Irish, monarch, bishop, d. 908)
Sts. Crescentian, Victor, Rosula, and
Generalis (North African, martyred c. 258)
St. Crescentius of
Perugia
(Italian, 11-year-old boy, tortured and martyred by beheading c. 300)
St. John Gabriel Taurin Dufresse of Ville-de-Lezoux [Jean-Gabriel] (French, religious of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, bishop in China, martyred by beheading at age 65 in 1815 [beatified 1900, canonized 2000])
Bl. Mary Celeste Crostarosa
of Naples
[Maria Celeste] [baptized Giulia Marcella (Julia ...)] (Italian, virgin,
founded Redemptoristine Nuns, died at
age 58 in 1755 [beatified 2016])
St. Maternus of Cologne (German, bishop of Trier, c. 326)
St. Notburga of Rattenburg (Austrian, maidservant, died at about age 48 in 1313 [canonized 1862])
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On September 15, we members of the Catholic Church family honor Mary under her title, "Our Lady of Sorrows."
We
also honor, in a special way, the following friends of God --
"saints" and "blesseds" whose souls are now in heaven:
St. Adam of
Caithness
(Scottish, Cistercian abbot,
bishop, martyred by burning in 1222)
St. Aichard of Jumièges
(French, nobleman, Benedictine
abbot, c. 687)
Bl. Aichard of Clairvaux
(French, Cistercian monk under
St. Bernard, c. 1170)
St. Albinus of Lyons (French, bishop, c. 390)
Bl. Anthony Mary Schwartz
of Baden
[Anton Maria] (Austrian, founded Pious Workers of St. Joseph Calasanz of the
Mother of God, died at age 77 in 1929 [beatified 1998])
St. Aprus of Trier (German, lawyer, bishop of Toul, d. 507)
St. Catherine Fieschi of Genoa [Caterinetta] (Italian, widow, Franciscan tertiary, mystic, died at about age 63 in 1510 [beatified 1675, canonized 1737])
Sts. Emilas and Jeremias of
Cordova
(Spanish, deacon and friend, martyred [beheaded] by Moslems in 852)
St. Eutropia of Auvergne (French, widow, 5th Century)
St. Hernan of Brittany (British, hermit in France)
St. Joseph Abibos of Alavendi (Syrian, abbot in Georgia, c. 590)
Bl. Joseph Puglisi of Palermo [Giuseppe] ["Pino"] (Italian [Sicilian], son of shoemaker and dressmaker, diocesan priest, vigorously opposed organized crime, martyred by the Mafia on his 56th birthday in 1993 [beatified 2013])
Bl. Ladislaus Miegon
of Samborzec
[Wladyslaw] (Polish, priest, chaplain of Military Ordinariate, martyred by
Nazis at age 49 in 1942 [beatified 1999]) [born September 30, 1892]
St. Leobinus of Chartres (French, hermit, abbot, bishop, d. 556)
St. Mamilian of
Palermo
(Sicilian, bishop, exiled for opposition to Arian heresy, d. 460)
Sts. Maximus, Theodore, and Scelpiodotus, of Marcianopolis (Bulgarian, martyred c.310)
St. Melitina of
Marcianopolis
(Bulgarian, virgin, martyred by the sword in 2nd Century)
St. Mirin of Bangor (Irish, abbot in Scotland, c. 620)
St. Nicetas (central European Goth, martyred [burned])
St. Nicomedes of Rome
(Italian, priest, martyred by scourging c. 90)
Bl. Paul Manna of Avellino [Paolo] (Italian, missionary priest in Burma, in Italy promoted the Mission Societies for the Propagation of the Faith and Holy Childhood, founded Pontifical Missionary Union, founded Missionary Sisters of Immaculate Mary, died at age 80 in 1952 [beatified 2001])
St. Porphyrius (horse trader, actor, martyred in 362)
St. Ribert of Saint-Valèry (French, Benedictine abbot, 7th Century)
St. Ritbert of Varennes
(French, Benedictine abbot, preached
countryside missions, c. 690)
Bl. Roland de' Medici of Florence
[Orlando] (Italian, renounced inheritance of famed family's power, forest
hermit for 26 years, died at about age 56 in 1386 [beatified 1852])
St. Valerian of
Lyons
(French, bishop, martyred by beheading in 178)
St. Vitus of Pontida
[Vito] (Italian, Benedictine
monk, d. 1095)
[from St. Catherine of Genoa:]
"If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory, and will in nothing but good actions, careless of danger and fatigue."
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On
September 16, 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:
Pope St. Cornelius and St. Cyprian of
Carthage
(martyrs)
----- St. Cornelius (Italian,
21st pope, reigned 251 until death in 253)
----- St. Cyprian [full name: Thaschus Caecilius Cyprianus] (North African,
bishop, Father of the Church, beheaded in 258)
Sts. Abundantius, Abundius, Marcian,
and John, of
Rome
(Italian ... deacon, priest, senator and his son ... tortured and martyred by
beheading c. 304)
St. Curcodomus of Maroilles (French, Benedictine abbot, d. 680)
St. Dulcissima (Italian, virgin, early martyr)
St. Edith of Wilton (British, princess, Benedictine nun from age 15, died at about age 23 in 984)
St. Euphemia of
Chalcedon (Bithynian
[from part of modern Turkey], virgin, tortured and martyred [exposed to
animals] c. 304)
Sts. Geminian and Lucy of Rome
(Italian, catechist and widow, martyred in 300)
Bl. John Baptist and Bl. Hyacinth of the
Angels, of
San Francisco Cajonos
[Juan Bautista and Jacinto de los Ángeles] (Mexican, attorneys, martyred by
non-Christians both at about age 40 in 1700 [beatified 2002])
Bl. Louis Allemand of
Arles
(French, cardinal archbishop, repented of his support for an antipope, d. 1450)
St. Ludmila of Mielnik (Bohemian, duchess, grandmother of St. Wenceslas, martyred by strangling at about age 61 in 921)
Bl. Michael and Bl. Paul Fimonaya (Japanese, father and son, Dominican tertiaries, martyred by beheading at Nagasaki in 1628 [beatified 1867])
St. Ninian of Cumbria (British, missionary bishop in Scotland, miracle worker, died at about age 72 c. 432) [On Scottish "particular calendar"] [Commemorated by some on August 26]
Sts. Rogellus and Servus Dei of
Cordoba
(Spanish, monk and student, martyred by Moslems in 852)
St. Sebastiana of
Heraclea (Greek,
converted by St. Paul, tortured and martyred [beheaded] in 1st Century)
Bl. Pope Victor III of Benevento [baptized
Dauferius] [monastic name: Desiderius] (Italian, son of a prince, Benedictine abbot, cardinal, elected to papacy in 1086,
reigned until death at about age 60 in 1087 [beatified 1887])
[from St. Cyprian, in "The Unity of the Catholic Church":]
"You cannot have God for your Father if you do not have the Church for your mother.... God is one and Christ is one, and his Church is one; one is the faith, and one is the people cemented together by harmony into the strong unity of a body."
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On September 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. Robert Bellarmine
of Montepulciano
[Roberto Bellarmino]
(Italian, Jesuit, cardinal archbishop of Capua, counter-deformer, writer
of catechisms, advisor to popes, Doctor of the Church, died at age 78 in 1621
[beatified 1923, canonized 1930])
St. Hildegard of
Bingen
(German, tenth child of noble family, nun, mystic, theologian, Doctor of the
Church, advisor to bishops/popes/kings, died at about age 81 in 1179)
St. Agathoclia (slave, virgin, tortured, early martyr)
St. Ariadne of Phrygia (from
Asia Minor [now called Turkey], prince's slave, martyred c. 130)
St. Brogan of Ossory
(Irish, abbot, 7th Century)
St. Columba of Cordova
(Spanish, nun, martyred [beheaded] by Moslems in 852)
Sts. Crescentio and Narcissus of Rome (Italian, early martyrs)
St. Emmanuel Nguyen Van Trieu of Saigon (Vietnamese, diocesan priest, martyred by beheading at about age 42 in 1798 [beatified 1900, canonized 1988])
St. Flocellus of
Autun
(French, tortured and martyred [thrown to animals] in 2nd Century)
Sts. Gordian, Niacrinus, and Valerian (early martyrs)
St. Justin (priest, martyred in 259)
St. Lambert of Maastricht (Belgian, nobleman, bishop of Tongres-Maastricht, martyred at about age 65 c. 700)
Bl. Leonella Sgorbati
of Gazzola
[baptized Rosa Maria (Rosemary)] (Italian, virgin, religious of Consolata Mission Sisters, children's
nurse and educator of nurses, served first in Kenya, martyred [shot] by Moslems
in Somalia at age 65 in 2006 [beatified 2018])
St. Peter Arbues of Aragon
[Pedro] (Spanish, canon lawyer, Augustinian priest, inquisitor, martyred by Jews at about
age 43 in 1485 [beatified 1664, canonized 1867])
St. Rodingus (Irish, Benedictine missionary priest in Germany, hermit, abbot, d. 7th Century)
St. Satyrus of Trier (German, brother of Sts. Ambrose of Milan and Marcellina, lawyer in Italy, d. 376)
St. Sigmund Szczesny Felinski of Wojutyn [Zygmunt] (Polish, parish priest, archbishop of Warsaw, founded Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, exiled to Siberia for 20 years, died at age 72 in 1895 [beatified 2002, canonized 2009])
Sts. Socrates and Stephen (British, early martyrs)
St. Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary Papczynski
of Podegrodzie
[Stanislaw] [baptized Jan (John)] (Polish, shepherd boy, Piarist priest, founded Congregation of Marian Clerics of the
Immaculate Conception, died at age 70 in 1701 [beatified 2007, canonized
2016])
St. Theodora of Rome (Italian, noblewoman, martyred in 305)
St. Uni of Saxony
(German, Benedictine monk, bishop
of Bremen-Hamburg, d. 936)
[Members of the Franciscan orders and congregations also remember this as the day on which St. Francis of Assisi received the stigmata in 1224.]
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On September 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:
Bl. Charles Eraña Guruceta of Aozaraza-Arechavaleta [Carlos], Bl. Fidel Fuidio Rodriguez of Yeroca, and Bl. Jesus Hita Miranda of Calagurri (Spanish, Marist religious, martyred during Civil War [at ages 51, 56, and 36] in 1936 [beatified 1995])
St. Dominic Trach Doai of
Tonkin
(Vietnamese, priest, Dominican
tertiary, martyred by beheading at age 49 in 1842 [beatified 1900,
canonized 1988])
St. Eumenus (Cretan, bishop of Gortyna)
St. Ferreolus of Vienne (army
officer in France, martyred by beheading in 304)
St. Ferreolus of Limoges (French, bishop, d. 591)
St. Hygbald of Bardney (British, Benedictine abbot, c. 690)
Sts. Irene and Sophia (Egyptian, martyred by beheading c. 200)
St. John de Massias of Ribera del Fresno [Juan] (Spanish, Dominican brother in Peru, died at age 60 in 1645 [beatified 1837, canonized 1975])
St. Joseph Desa of Cupertino
[Giuseppe] ["The Flying Friar"] (Italian, Franciscan priest, mystic known for ecstatic levitation,
died at age 60 in 1663 [beatified 1753, canonized 1767])
Bl. Joseph Kut of Slawin [Józef] (Polish, diocesan priest, martyred by Nazis at Dachau [Germany] at age 37 in 1942 [beatified 1999])
St. Methodius of Olympus
(theologian admired by St. Jerome, bishop of Olympus [in Asia Minor (Turkey)],
bishop of Tyre [in what is now Lebanon], martyred c. 311)
St. Richardis of Andlau (Alsatian, empress of Holy Roman Empire in 881, Benedictine nun, died at about age 56 in 895)
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On September 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:
St. Januarius of
Benevento
(Italian, bishop, martyred by beheading c. 304)
St. Acutius of Pozzuoli (Italian, martyred c. 304)
St. Alphonse de
Orozco of Oropesa
[Alonso] (Spanish, Augustinian
prior, emperor's "royal preacher," devoted life to poor, wrote
ascetical and mystical works, died at age 91 in 1591 [beatified 1882, canonized
2002])
St. Arnulph of Vendome (French,
Benedictine, bishop of Gap, d. 1070)
Blessed Martyrs of Boves (Italian, two
diocesan priests, martyred [in massacre of 23 villagers] by Nazis in 1943
[beatified 2022])
-----
Bl. Joseph Bernardi
of Caraglio
[Giuseppe] (died [doused with gasoline and set afire] at age 45)
-----
Bl. Mario Ghibaudo
of Borgo San Dalmazzo
(died [shot while giving absolution] at age 23)
Sts. Constantia and Felix of Nocera (Italian, martyred by Nero c. 65)
Sts. Desiderius and Festus of
Pozzuoli
(Italian, lector and deacon, martyred c. 304)
St. Dorymedon of
Antioch
(senator, tortured and martyred by beheading in Syria c. 277)
Sts. Elias of Phunon, Nilus, and Peleus
(Egyptian, bishops, martyred by burning in Palestine)
St. Emily de Rodat of Rodez
[baptized Marie Guillemette (Mary Wilhelmina), but known by confirmation name:
Emilie] (French, foundress of Religious Congregation of the Holy Family of
Villefranche, died at age 65 in 1852 [beatified 1940, canonized 1950])
St. Eustochius of
Tours (French,
bishop)
St. Eutychius of Pozzuoli (Italian, martyred c. 304)
St. Francis Mary Croese
of Camporosso
[Francesco Maria] [baptized Giovanni Evangelista (John Evangelist)] (Italian,
shepherd, Capuchin brother,
infirmarian, questor [beggar], nursed cholera victims, died at age 61 in 1866
[beatified 1929, canonized 1962])
St. Goeric of Metz (French, bishop, d. 647)
Bl. Hugh of Sassoferrato [Ugo]
(Italian, Benedictine monk, died
at about age 23 c. 1290 [beatified 1757])
Bl. Maria de Cerevellon of Barcelona (Spanish, foundress of Mercedarian sisters, died at about age 60 in 1290 [beatified 1692])
St. Pomposa of Cordoba (Spanish,
nun, martyred [beheaded] by Moslems in 835)
Sts. Proculus and Sosius of Pozzuoli (Italian, deacons, martyred c. 304)
St. Sabbatius of
Antioch
(Syrian, tortured and martyred by scourging c. 277)
St. Sequanus of Mesmont (French, hermit, abbot, d. 580)
St. Susanna of Eleutheropolis (from town now in Israel, martyred in 362)
St. Theodore of Tarsus (Greek born in Turkey, archbishop of Canterbury in England, d. 690) [On English "particular calendar"]
Bl. Thomas Akafuji of Higo
(Japanese, nobleman, catechist, martyred by burning in 1622 [beatified 1867])
St. Trophimus of
Antioch
(Syrian, tortured and martyred by beheading c. 277)
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On September 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:
Holy Martyrs of Korea [also known as
"Sts. Andrew Kim
Tae-gon of
Solmoi,
Paul Chong
Ha-sang of
Majae,
and companions"] (Korean [93] and French [10] ... clergy [3 missionary
bishops, 7 missionary priests, 2 native priests] and laity [91] ... tortured
and martyred by beheading between 1839 and 1867 [beatified 1925 (79 who died
before 1847) or 1968 (24 who died after 1859), canonized (all 103) 1984])
[Click here to
see the martyrs' names and other facts
about them.]
St. Cajetan Catanoso of Chorio di
San Lorenzo
[Gaetano] (Italian, parish priest, founder of Congregation of the Daughters
of St. Veronica [Missionaries of the Holy Face], died at age 84 in 1958
[beatified 1998, canonized 2005])
St. Candida of Carthage
(North African, virgin, martyred in 300)
Bl. Clement Marchisio of Racconigi [Clemente]
(Italian, priest, founded Institute of the Daughters of St. Joseph, died
at age 70 in 1903 [beatified 1984])
Sts. Denis and Privatus (Phrygian [from part of what is now Turkey], early martyrs)
St. Eustachius of Rome [born
Placidus] (Italian, pagan general [convert], martyred by boiling in 188)
Sts. Evilasius and Fausta of Cyzicum (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], repentant judge and girl of thirteen tortured by him, martyred in 303)
Bl. Francis de Posadas of Cordova [Francisco] (Spanish, Dominican priest, died at age 68 in 1713 [beatified 1818])
St. Glycerius of Milan (Italian, archbishop, c. 438)
St. John Charles Cornay
of Loudin
[Jean] (French, missionary priest in Vietnam, tortured and caged for three
months, martyred [cut to pieces] in 1837 [beatified 1900, canonized 1988])
Bl. John Eustace of Mons
[Jean] (Belgian, Cistercian abbot
in France, d. 1481)
St. Joseph Mary de Yermo y Parres of Jalmolonga [Jose Maria] (Mexican, priest, founded Congregation of the Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Poor, died at age 52 in 1904 [beatified 1992, canonized 2000])
Blessed Martyrs of Korea [also known as
"Bl. Paul Yun
Ji-Chung of Jinsan and 123 Companions"] (Korean, one priest and 122 lay
people [men and women, married and single, old and young], martyred [mainly
beheaded, beaten, or hanged] between 1791 and 1888 [beatified 2014])
[Click here to see the martyrs' names and other facts
about them.]
Bl.
Mark of
Modena
[Marco] (Italian, Dominican
priest, itinerant preacher, d. 1498)
Bl. Mary Therese of St. Joseph Tauscher van den Bosch of Sandow [Maria Teresia van de heilige Jozef] [baptized Anna Maria] (from Brandenburg [now in Poland], daughter of Lutheran minister, virgin, director of insane asylum, convert at age 33, founded Congregation of Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus [to care for orphans] in Italy, died in Holland at age 83 in 1938 [beatified 2006])
St. Priscus (early martyr by stabbing and beheading)
Sts. Theodore, Philippa, Socrates, and Dionysius (soldier, his mother, soldier, and converted pagan priest ... martyred by crucifixion in 220)
Bl. Thomas Johnson
(English, Carthusian monk,
martyred [starvation] under Henry VIII in 1537 [beatified 1886])
St. Vincent of Strepy [baptized Madelgarus] (Belgian, father of four, widower, Benedictine abbot, died at about age 62 in 677)
Holy Martyrs of Korea -- CONTINUED
[also known as "Sts. Andrew Kim Tae-gon of Solmoi, Paul Chong Ha-sang of Majae, and companions"] (Korean [93] and French [10] ... clergy [3 missionary bishops, 7 missionary priests, 2 native priests] and laity [91] ... tortured and martyred by beheading between 1839 and 1867 [beatified 1925 (79 who died before 1847) or 1968 (24 who died after 1859), canonized (all 103) 1984])
[Below are the names of the
canonized martyrs. They are representative of the more than 10,000 people who
died in Korean persecutions that extended over more than one hundred years.
(Note: When a Korean person's name is made up of three parts, the first is the
baptismal name, the second is the surname, and the third is the pre-Christian
given name. Consider the name of the most famous of the martyrs: Andrew Kim Tae-gon. If using the "Western" style of
naming, we would have called him "Tae-gon Kim"
before his conversion and "Father Andrew Kim"
after his conversion.)]
[Missionary bishops:]
----- St. Anthony Daveluy
of Amiens
[Antoine] (French, died at age 48 in 1866)
----- St. Lawrence Imbert
of Marignane
[Laurent] (French, 43, 1839)
----- St. Simon Berneux
of Chateau-du-Loir
(French, 52, 1866)
[Missionary priests and native priests:]
----- St. James Honorat Chastan
of Marcoux [Jacques-Honoré]
(French, died at age 36 in 1839)
----- St. Justin Ranfer de
Bretenières of Chalon-sur-Saône (French, 28, 1866)
----- St. Louis Beaulieu
of Langon
(French, 26, 1866)
----- St. Martin Luke Huin
of Guyonville
[Martin-Luc] (French, 30, 1866)
----- St. Peter Aumaitre
of Aizecq
[Pierre] (French, 29, 1866)
----- St. Peter Maubant
of Vassy
[Pierre] (French, 36, 1839)
----- St. Peter Henry Dorie
of Saint-Hilaire-de-Talmont [Pierre-Henri] (French, 27, 1866))
----- St. Andrew Kim
Tae-gon of
Solmoi
(first Korean-born priest, 25, 1846)
----- St. Joseph Chang
Chu-gi (Korean, 1860)
[Lay catechists:]
----- St. Andrew Chong
Kwang-yong (d. 1840)
----- St. Damian Nam
Myong-hyog of
Munan
(38, 1839)
----- St. Ignatius Kim
Che-jun of
Myonch'on
(43, 1839)
----- St. John Baptist Chong
Chang-un (1860)
----- St. John Baptist Yi
Kwang-nyol of
Kwangju
(42, 1839)
----- St. John Yi
Yun-il (1860)
----- St. Joseph Peter Han
Jae-kwon (1860)
----- St. Lawrence Han
Ih-yong (1840)
----- St. Mark Chong
Ui-bae (1860)
----- St. Paul Chong
Ha-sang of
Majae
(44, 1839)
----- St. Paul Hong
Yong-ju (1840)
----- St. Peter Ch'oe
Ch'ang-hub (1860)
----- St. Peter Ch'oe
Hy-ong (1840)
----- St. Peter Nam
Kyong-mun (1840)
----- St. Peter Son
Son-ji (1860)
----- St. Peter Yu
Chong-yul (1860)
----- St. Stephen Min
Kuk-ka (1840)
[Other laity:]
----- St. Agatha Chon
Kyong-hyob of
Seoul
(virgin, died at age 49 in 1839)
----- St. Agatha Kim A-gi of
Kangch'on
(56, 1839)
----- St. Agatha Kwon
Chi-ni (1840)
----- St. Agatha Yi
of Seoul
(16, 1840)
----- St. Agatha Yi
Kan-nan ((1860)
----- St. Agatha Yi
Kyong-I (1840)
----- St. Agatha Yi So-sa
of Ich’on (55,
1839)
----- St. Agnes Kim
Hyo-ju of
Banisom
(23, 1839)
----- St. Alexis U
Se-yong (1860)
----- St. Anna Kim
Chang-gum of
Seoul
(50, 1839)
----- St. Anna Pak A-gi
(1840)
----- St. Anthony Kim
Song-u (1840)
----- St. Augustine Pak
Chong-won (1840)
----- St. Augustine Yi
Ching-il of
Cho Dong
(48, 1839)
----- St. Augustine Yi
Kwang-hon of
Kwangju
(52, 1839)
----- St. Barbara Cho Chung-I
of
Ich’on
(57, 1839)
----- St. Barbara Ch'oe
Yong-I of
Seoul
(21, 1840)
----- St. Barbara Han A-gi of
Kwang-ch’on
(47, 1839)
----- St. Barbara Kim of
Shi-heung
(34, 1839)
----- St. Barbara Ko Su-ni
(1860)
----- St. Barbara Kwon Hu-I of
Seoul
(45, 1839)
----- St. Barbara Yi of
Ch’ongp’a
(14, 1839)
----- St. Barbara Yi
Chong-hui of
Pongch’on
(40, 1839)
----- St. Bartholomew Chong
Mun-ho (1860)
----- St. Benedicta Hyon
Kyong-nyon (1840)
----- St. Catherine Chong
Ch'or-yom (1840)
----- St. Catherine Yi
of Seoul
(56, 1839)
----- St. Cecilia Yu So-sa
of
Seoul
(mother of St. Paul Chong
Ha-sang, 78, 1839)
----- St. Charles Cho
Shin-ch'ol of
Hoeyang
(44, 1839)
----- St. Charles Hyon
Song-mun (1840)
----- St. Columba Kim
Hyo-im of
Bamsom
(25, 1839)
----- St. Elisabeth Chong
Chong-hye of
Majae
(virgin, 42, 1939)
----- St. Francis Ch'oe Hyong-hwan of Ch'ungchong (34,
1839)
----- St. John Baptist Nam
Chong-sam (1860)
----- St. John Pak
Hu-jae of
Yongin
(40, 1839)
----- St. John Yi Mu-nu
(1839)
----- St. Joseph Chang
Song-jib of
Seoul
(53, 1839)
----- St. Joseph Cho
Yun-ho (1860)
----- St. Joseph Im
Ch'i-baeg (1840
----- St. Juliet Kim
of Hanyang
(virgin, 55, 1839)
----- St. Lucia Kim
of Kanch’on
(21, 1839)
----- St. Lucia Kim
of Seoul
(70, 1839)
----- St. Lucia Pak
Hui-sun (1840)
----- St. Luke Hwang
Sok-tu (1860)
----- St. Magdalen Cho
of Seoul
(32, 1839)
----- St. Magdalen Han
Yong-I (1840)
----- St. Magalen Ho
Kye-im of
Yongin
(66, 1839)
----- St. Magdalen Kim O-bi of
Seoul
(65, 1839)
----- St. Magdalen Pak Pong-son
of
Seoul
(widow, 43, 1839)
----- St. Magdalen Son
Sob-yog (1840)
----- St. Magdalen Yi
Yong-dok (1840)
----- St. Magdalen Yi
Yong-hui of
Pongch’on
(30, 1839)
----- St. Maria Pak
K'un-agi of
Seoul
(53, 1839)
----- St. Maria Won
Kwi-im of
Yongmo Ri
(virgin, 21, 1839)
----- St. Maria Yi
In-dok (1840)
----- St. Maria Yi
Yon-hui of
Seoul
(35, 1839)
----- St. Martha Kim
Song-im of
Pup’yong
(52, 1839)
----- St. Paul Ho Hy-op
(1840)
----- St. Perpetua Hong
Kum-ju of
Seoul
(widow, 35, 1839)
----- St. Peter Cho
Kwa-so (1860)
----- St. Peter Chong
Won-ji (1860)
----- St. Peter Hong
Pyong-ju (1840)
----- St. Peter Kwon
Tu-gin of
Kyonggi (34,
1839)
----- St. Peter Yi
Ho-yong of
Ich’on
(35, 1839)
----- St. Peter Yi
Myong-so (1860)
----- St. Peter Yu
Tae-ch'ol of
Ipjong Dong
(13, 1839)
----- St. Protase Chong
Kur-bo of
Songdo
(40, 1839)
----- St. Rosa Kim
of Seoul
(widow) (55, 1866)
----- St. Sebastian Nam
Ig-wan of
Ch'ungju
(59, 1839)
----- St. Susanna U
Su-rim (1840)
----- St. Teresa Kim
of Myonch'on
(43, 1840)
----- St. Teresa Kim I-mi
(1840)
----- St. Teresa Yi
Mae-im of
Pongch’on
(51, 1839)
----- St. Thomas Son
Cha-son (1860)
Blessed Martyrs of Korea [also known as
"Bl. Paul Yun
Ji-Chung of Jinsan and 123 Companions"] -- CONTINUED
(Korean, one priest and 122 lay people [men and women, married and single, old
and young], martyred [mainly beheaded, beaten, or hanged] between 1791 and 1888
[beatified 2014])
[Their names were ...]
-----
Bl. Agatha Han
Sin-ae (liaison, beheaded on July 2, 1801)
-----
Bl. Agatha Magdalene Kim
Yun-deok (beaten to death at end of April or early in May, 1815)
-----
Bl. Agatha Yun
Jeom-hye (virgin, catechist, beheaded on July 4, 1801)
-----
Bl. Alexius Kim Si-u
(single layman, died before October 21, 1816)
-----
Bl. Ambrose Kim Se-bak
(died on December 3, 1828)
-----
Bl. Anastasia Kim Jo-i
(died c. October, 1839)
-----
Bl. Anastasia Yi
Bong-geum (virgin, hanged on December 5 or 6, 1839)
-----
Bl. Andrew Kim
Cheon-ae (servant, beheaded on August 27 or 28, 1801)
-----
Bl. Andrew Kim
Gwang-ok (chief of township, beheaded on August 25, 1801)
-----
Bl. Andrew Kim
Jong-han (lay leader, beheaded on December 19, 1816)
-----
Bl. Andrew Kim
Sa-geon (beheaded on May 26, 1839)
-----
Bl. Andrew Pak Sa-ui
(beheaded on May 26, 1839)
-----
Bl. Andrew Seo
Seok-bong (layman, died before October 21, 1816)
-----
Bl. Andrew Yi
Jae-haeng (layman, beheaded on May 26, 1839)
-----
Bl. Anna Yi
(married woman, died in 1867)
-----
Bl. Anna Yi Si-im
(widow, beheaded on December 19, 1816)
-----
Bl. Anthony Hong
Ik-man (lay leader, beheaded on January 29, 1802)
-----
Bl. Anthony Jeong
Chan-mun (beaten to death on January 25, 1867)
-----
Bl. Anthony Yi Hyeon
(beheaded on July 2, 1801)
-----
Bl. Augustine Jeong
Yak-jong (catechist, beheaded on April 8, 1801)
-----
Bl. Augustine Yu
Hang-geom (catechist, died on October 24, 1801)
-----
Bl. Barbara Choe Jo-i
(widow, beheaded on January 4, 1840)
-----
Bl. Barbara Jeong
Sun-mae (virgin, beheaded on July 3 or 4, 1801)
-----
Bl. Barbara Ku
Seong-yeol (married woman, beheaded on December 19, 1816)
-----
Bl. Barbara Sim A-gi
(virgin, beaten to death in early April, 1801)
-----
Bl. Barbara Sim Jo-i
(died on November 11, 1839)
-----
Bl. Barnabas Jeong
Gwang-su (lay leader, beheaded on January 29, 1802)
-----
Bl. Barnabas Kim I-u
(lay leader, beaten to death in May, 1801)
-----
Bl. Benedict Song (died
in 1867)
-----
Bl. Brigid Choe
(widow, hanged on December 8 or 9, 1839)
-----
Bl. Candida Jeong
Bok-hye (liaison widow, beheaded on May
14, 1801)
-----
Bl. Charles Jeong
Cheol-sang (lay leader, beheaded on May 14, 1801)
-----
Bl. Charles Yi
Gyeong-do (beheaded on January 29, 1802)
-----
Bl. Columba Kang
Wan-suk (catechist, beheaded on July 2, 1801)
-----
Bl. Felix Peter Kim
Gi-ryang (trader, hanged in January 1867)
-----
Bl. Florus Hyeon
Gye-heum (lay leader, pharmacist, beheaded on December 10, 1801)
-----
Bl. Francis Bae
Gwan-gyeom (lay leader, beaten to death on January 7, 1800)
-----
Bl. Francis Bang
(petty official, beaten to death or hanged on January 21, 1799)
-----
Bl. Francis Choe
Bong-han (layman, died in about May, 1815)
-----
Bl. Francis Kim
Hui-seong (beheaded on December 19, 1816)
-----
Bl. Francis Kim
Jong-gyo (physician, beheaded on October 4, 1801)
-----
Bl. Francis Kim
Sa-jip (beaten to death on January 25, 1802)
-----
Bl. Francis Pak
Gyeong-jin (layman, died on September 28, 1868)
-----
Bl. Francis Xavier Hong
Gyo-man (scholar, beheaded on April 8, 1801)
-----
Bl. Francis Yi
Bo-hyeon (beaten to death on January 9, 1800)
-----
Bl. Francis Yun
Ji-heon (lay leader, died on October 24, 1801)
-----
Bl. Gervase Son
Gyeong-yun (catechist, pharmacist, beheaded on January 29, 1802)
-----
Bl. Ignatius Choe
In-cheol (lay leader, beheaded on July 2, 1801)
-----
Bl. James Heo
In-baek (farmer, beheaded on September 14, 1868)
-----
Bl. James Kim
Hwa-chun (layman, beheaded on December 19, 1816)
-----
Bl. James Kwon
Sang-yeon (layman, scholar, beheaded on December 8, 1791)
-----
Bl. James Oh
Jong-rye (beheaded on January 4, 1840)
-----
Bl. James Won Si-bo
(beaten to death on April 17, 1799)
-----
Bl. James Yun Yu-o
(lay leader, beheaded on April 27, 1801)
-----
Bl. James Zhou
Wen-mo (priest, died on May 31, 1801)
-----
Bl. Job Yi
Il-eon (layman, beheaded on May 29, 1839)
-----
Bl. John Choe Chang-hyeon
(catechist, beheaded on April 8, 1801)
-----
Bl. John Choe
Hae-seong (catechist, beheaded on September 6, 1839)
-----
Bl. John Won
Gyeong-do (beheaded on April 25, 1801)
-----
Bl. John Yi
Jeong-sik (catechist, military officer, beheaded in September, 1868)
-----
Bl. John Yu
Jung-cheol (single layman, hanged on November 14, 1801)
-----
Bl. John Yu
Mun-seok (virgin, hanged on November 14, 1801)
-----
Bl. Joseph (or Peter) Yun
Bong-mun (catechist, hanged on April 1, 1888)
-----
Bl. Joseph Ko
Seong-un (single layman, beheaded on December 19, 1816)
-----
Bl. Juliana Kim
Yeon-i (liaison, beheaded on July 2, 1801)
-----
Bl. Lawrence Pak
Chwi-deuk (lay leader, hanged on April 3, 1799)
-----
Bl. Leo Hong In
(beheaded on January 30, 1802)
-----
Bl. Lucy Yun
Un-hye (liaison, beheaded on May 14, 1801)
-----
Bl. Luke Hong
Nak-min (government official, beheaded on April 8, 1801)
-----
Bl. Luke Kim Jong-ryun (beheaded on September 14, 1868)
-----
Bl. Lutgarda Yi Sun-i
(single layman, beheaded on January 31, 1802)
-----
Bl. Magdalene Yi Jo-i
(widow, beheaded on January 4, 1840)
-----
Bl. Marcellinus Choe
Chang-ju (beheaded on April 25, 1801)
-----
Bl. Margaret Oh
(married woman, died on September 28,
1868)
-----
Bl. Mark Sin
Seok-bok (merchant, hanged on March 18 or 31, 1866)
-----
Bl. Martin In
Eon-min (scholar, beaten to death on January 9, 1800)
-----
Bl. Martin Yang
Jae-hyeon (petty official, beheaded in September, 1868)
-----
Bl. Martin Yi
Jung-bae (beheaded on April 25, 1801)
-----
Bl. Mary Yi
Seong-rye (beheaded on January 31, 1840)
-----
Bl. Matthew Kim
Hyeon-u (lay leader, beheaded on July 2, 1801)
-----
Bl. Matthew Yu
Jung-seong (virgin, beheaded on January 31, 1802)
-----
Bl. Matthias Pak
Sang-geun (petty official, hanged in January, 1867)
-----
Bl. Matthias Choe
In-gil (lay leader, translator, beaten to death on June 28, 1795)
-----
Bl. Matthias Choe
Yeo-gyeom (beheaded on August 27, 1801)
-----
Bl. Paul Yi Do-gi
(potter, beaten to death on July 24, 1798)
-----
Bl. Paul Jeong
Tae-bong (layman, beheaded on May 29, 1839)
-----
Bl. Paul Oh
Ban-ji (layman, hanged on March 26 or 27, 1866)
-----
Bl. Paul Pak
Gyeong-hwa (died on November 15, 1827)
-----
Bl. Paul Yi
Guk-seung (teacher, beheaded near the end of May, 1801)
-----
Bl. Paul Yi
Gyeong-eon (lay leader, died on June 27, 1827)
-----
Bl. Paul Yun
Ji-chung (lay leader, scholar, beheaded on December 8,1791)
-----
Bl. Paul Yun Yu-il
(lay leader, secret envoy, beaten to death on June 28, 1795)
-----
Bl. Peter Choe
Pil-je (lay leader, pharmacist, beheaded on May 14, 1801)
-----
Bl. Peter Jeong
San-pil (catechist, beheaded or beaten to death in 1799)
-----
Bl. Peter Jo Suk
(lay leader, virgin, beheaded after August 10, 1819)
-----
Bl. Peter Jo
Yong-sam (single layman, died on March 27, 1801)
-----
Bl. Peter Kim
Dae-gwon (layman, beheaded on May 29, 1839)
-----
Bl. Peter Kim
Jeong-deuk (beheaded on August 25, 1801)
-----
Bl. Peter Ko
Seong-dae (single layman, beheaded on December 19, 1816)
-----
Bl. Peter Sin
Tae-bo (lay leader, beheaded on May 29, 1839)
-----
Bl. Peter Song (died
in 1867)
-----
Bl. Peter Won
Si-jang (beaten to death on January 28, 1793)
-----
Bl. Peter Yi
Tae-gwon (beheaded on May 29, 1839)
-----
Bl. Peter Yi
Yang-deung (catechist, merchant, beheaded on September 14, 1868)
-----
Bl. Philip Hong
Pil-ju (lay leader, beheaded on October 4, 1801)
-----
Bl. Pius Kim
Jin-hu (petty official, died on December 1, 1814)
-----
Bl. Protase Hong
Jae-yeong (lay leader, beheaded on January 4, 1840)
-----
Bl. Richard An
Gun-sim (layman, d.1835)
-----
Bl. Saba Ji Hwang
(lay leader, secret envoy, beaten to death on June 28, 1795)
-----
Bl. Sebastian Kwon
Sang-mun (lay leader, beheaded on January 30, 1802)
-----
Bl. Simon Hwang
Il-gwang (beheaded on January 30, 1802)
-----
Bl. Simon Kim Gang-i
(lay leader, died on December 5, 1815)
-----
Bl. Simon Kim
Gye-wan (acolyte, pharmacist, beheaded on January 29, 1802)
-----
Bl. Stanislaus Han
Jeong-heum (teacher, beheaded on August 26, 1801)
-----
Bl. Stephen Kim
Won-jung (layman, hanged on December 16, 1866)
-----
Bl. Susan Kang
Gyeong-bok (virgin, liaison, courtier, beheaded on July 2, 1801)
-----
Bl. Teresa Kwon
Cheon-rye (virgin, couple, beheaded after August 10, 1819)
-----
Bl. Thaddeus Jeong
In-hyeok (lay leader, pharmacist, beheaded on May 14, 1801)
-----
Bl. Thaddeus Ku
Han-seon (acolyte, beaten to death in
1866)
-----
Bl. Thomas Choe
Pil-gong (lay leader, pharmacist, beheaded on April 8, 1801)
-----
Bl. Thomas Han
Deok-un (beheaded on January 30, 1802)
-----
Bl. Thomas Jang
(beheaded in 1866)
-----
Bl. Victorinus Pak
Dae-sik (layman, beheaded on October 12, 1868)
-----
Bl. Vivian Mun
Yeong-in (virgin, liaison, courtier, beheaded on July 2, 1801)
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On September 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. Matthew of
Capernaum
[also called Levi] (Israelite Jew, tax collector, apostle of Jesus, evangelist,
missionary to dispersed Jews, martyred c. 48)
St. Alexander (Italian, bishop,
tortured and martyred in 2nd Century)
St. Eusebius (Phoenician [from modern Lebanon], tortured and martyred [beheaded])
St. Francis Jaccard of Onnion
[François] (French, missionary priest in Vietnam, martyred by strangling at
about age 39 in 1838 [beatified 1900, canonized 1988])
St. Gerulph (Flemish, layman, martyr, c. 746)
St. Hieu of Northumbria (British, abbess, d. 657)
St. Iphigenia (Ethiopian, convert of St. Matthew)
Sts. Isaac and Meletius, of Cyprus (Cypriot, bishops, early martyrs)
St. Jonah ben Amittai of
Gath-Hepher
(Israelite, prophet to Nineveh in Assyria in Old Testament book, 8th Century
B.C.)
St. Mabyn (Welsh, 6th Century)
St. Maura of Troyes
(French, single noblewoman, died at about age 23 in 850)
St. Pamphilus (early martyr in Rome)
Bl. Rosary Angel Livatino
of Canicattì
[Rosario Angelo] (Italian [Sicilian], attorney, magistrate/judge, martyred
[shot] by organized-crime hit-men at age 37 in 1990 [beatified 2021])
St. Thomas Tran Van Thien of Trung Quan (Vietnamese, seminarian, tortured and martyred by strangling at about age 18 in 1838 [beatified 1900, canonized 1988])
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On September 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:
Sts. Digna and Emerita of Rome
(Italian, virgins, martyred in 259)
St. Emmeramus of
Poitiers
(French, Benedictine abbot in
Germany, bishop of Regensburg, martyred in 690)
Pope St. Felix III of Rome [also called Felix IV, due to numbering error] (Italian, priest, elected to papacy in 526, reigned until death in 530)
St.
Florentius of
Bavaria
(German, missionary in France, hermit, abbot, 5th Century)
St. Ignatius Belvisotti of Santhia [Ignazio] [baptized Lorenzo Maurizio (Lawrence Maurice)] (Italian, parish priest, Capuchin friar for 54 years, army chaplain, died at age 84 in 1770 [beatified 1966, canonized 2002])
St. Irais (Egyptian, martyred by beheading c. 300)
St. Jonas of Paris
(French, priest, martyred by stabbing in third Century)
St. Lauto of Constance
[better known as St. Lo] (French, bishop for 40 years, d. 568)
St. Lindru of Partois (French, virgin)
St. Liobgetha of Wessex (British, Benedictine abbess in Germany, d. 781)
St. Lolanus (Scottish, bishop, d. 1034)
St. Phocas of Paphlagonia (from
Asia Minor [now called Turkey], gardener, hermit, early martyr by beheading)
St. Salaberga of Laon
(French, mother of five, hermitess, abbess, d. 665)
St. Sanctinus of Meux (French, bishop, d. 300)
Blessed Scalopian Martyrs of Spain [also
known as the Piarist Martyrs] (Spanish, 13 men [11 priests and 2 brothers,
members of Clerks Regular of the Pious Schools], martyred during Civil
War in 1936 [beatified 1995])
----- Bl. Alfred Parte
Saiz of Cilleruelo de Bricia [Alfredo] (priest, died at age 36)
----- Bl. Charles Navarro
Miquel of Torrente
[Carlos] (priest, died at age 25)
----- Bl. David Carlos Maranon
of Asarta (brother,
died at age 28)
----- Bl. Dennis Pamplona
Polo
[Dionisio] (died at age 68)
----- Bl. Emmanuel Segura
Lopez of Almonacid de la Sierra [Manuel] (priest, died at age 55)
----- Bl. Faustino Oteiza
Segura of Ayegui
(priest, died at age 46)
----- Bl. Florentino Felipe
Naya of Alquezar
(brother, died at age 79)
----- Bl. Francis Carceller
Galindo of Forcall
[Francisco] (priest, died one day before 35th birthday)
----- Bl. Henry Canadell
Quintana of Olot
[Enrique] (priest, died at age 46)
----- Bl. Ignatius Casanovas
Perramon of Igualada
[Ignacio] (priest, died at age 43)
----- Bl. John Agramunt
Rivera of Almazora
[Juan] (priest, died at age 32)
----- Bl. Joseph Ferrer
Esteve of Algemesí
[Jose] (priest, died at age 32)
----- Bl. Matthias Cardona
Meseguer of Vallibona
[Matias] (priest, died at age 33)
St. Sylvanus of
Bourges (French)
St. Thomas of Villanova [Tomás de Villanueva] (Spanish, professor of theology, Augustinian prior, archbishop of Valencia, died at about age 67 in 1555 [beatified 1618, canonized 1658]) [commemorated by some on the 18th]
Holy Marytrs of the Theban Legion (mainly
Egyptian, at least 6,000 imperial soldiers in France [led by Mauritius,
Exuperius, Candidus, Innocent, Vitalis, Victor, and Victor], refused to adore
pagan gods, martyred in what is now Switzerland c. 304)
Blessed Martyrs of Valencia (1 French, 2 Uruguayan, 230 Spanish ... clergy, religious men and women, lay persons ... martyred during the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1938 [beatified 2001])
[Here
is a list of the 233 beatified martyrs, who include 37 diocesan priests of the
Archdiocese of Valencia, 19 women of Catholic Action of the Archdiocese of Valencia, 18 men and
youth of Catholic Action of the
Archdiocese of Valencia, 20 Dominicans
(priests, novices, etc.), 4 Franciscans of the Order of Friars
Minor, 6 Franciscan priests
and brothers of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, 12 Capuchin priests, deacon, and brothers, 5 Capuchin
Sisters of the Order of Saint Clare, 1 Discalced Augustinian friar, 12 Jesuits, 30 Salesians (priests, etc.), 2 Daughters of Mary Help
of Christians, 20 Third Order Capuchins of Our Lady of Sorrows, 1 priest
of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 6 Brothers of the Christian Schools,
24 Carmelite Sisters of Charity, 1 Servant of Mary, 8 Sisters
of the Pious Schools, 1 Claretian Sister, 2 Little Sisters of the
Abandoned Elderly, 3 Third Order Capuchins of the Holy Family, and 1
member of Catholic Action Youth of the Diocese of Lleida.]
[Diocesan
priests of the Archdiocese of Valencia:]
----- Bl. Alphonse Sebastián
Viñals of Valencia
[Alfonso] (died at age 26)
----- Bl. Anthony Silvestre
Moya of Ollería
[Antonio] (died at age 44)
----- Bl. Carmel Sastre
Sastre of Alicante
[Carmelo] (died at age 45)
----- Bl. James Llorca
Llopis of Oliva
[Diego] (died at age 40)
----- Bl. Elijah Carbonell
Mollá of Cocentaina
[Elías] (died at age 67)
----- Bl. Henry Juan Requena
of Aielo de Malferit
[Enrique] (died at age 33)
----- Bl. Henry Morant
Pellicer of Bellreguard
[Enrique] (died at age 28)
----- Bl. Ferdinand García
Sendra of Pego
[Fernando] (died at age 31)
----- Bl. Ferdinand González
Añón of Turís
[Fernando] (died at age 50)
----- Bl. Francis Ibáñez
Ibáñez of Penaguila
[Francisco] (died at age 60)
----- Bl. Francis Sendra
Ivars of Benissa
[Francisco] (died at age 37)
----- Bl. Felix Yuste
Cava of Chuilla
[Félix] (died at age 49)
----- Bl. Herman Gozalbo
Andreu of Torrent
[Germán]
----- Bl. Gonzalo Viñes
Masip of Xativa
(died at age 53)
----- Bl. Joachim Vilanova
Camallonga of Ontynient
[Joaquín] (died at age 48)
----- Bl. Joseph Aparicio
Sanz of Enguera
[José] (died at age 43)
----- Bl. Joseph Canet
Giner of Bellreguard
[José] (died at age 33)
----- Bl. Joseph Fenollosa
Alcayna of Rafelbuñol
[José] (died at age 33)
----- Bl. Joseph García
Mas of Pego
[José] (died at age 40)
----- Bl. Joseph González
Huguet of Alaquas
[José] (died at age 62)
----- Bl. Joseph Mary Ferrándiz
Hernández of Campo de Mirra [José Maria] (died at age 57)
----- Bl. Joseph Mary Segura
Penadés of Ontynient
[José Maria] (died at age 40)
----- Bl. Joseph Ruiz
Bruixola of Foios
[José] (died at age 79)
----- Bl. Joseph Toledo
Pellicer of Llaurí
[José] (died at age 27)
----- Bl. John Carbonell
Mollá of Cocentaina
[Juan] (died at age 62)
----- Bl. John Ventura
Solsona of Villahermosa del Rio [Juan] (died at age 61)
----- Bl. Paschal Ferrer
Botella of Algemesí
[Pascual] (died at age 42)
----- Bl. Paschal Penadés
Jornet of Montavemer
[Pascual] (died at age 42)
----- Bl. Raymond Steven
Bou Pascual of Benimanteill [Ramón Esteban] (died at age 30)
----- Bl. Raymond Martí
Soriano of Burjassot
[Ramón] (died at age 34)
----- Bl. Salvador Estrugo
Salves of Alzira
(died at age 74)
----- Bl. Salvador Ferrandis
Seguí of L'Orxa
(died at age 56)
----- Bl. Vincent Ballester
Far of Benidoleig
[Vicente] (died at age 48)
----- Bl. Vincent Mary Izquierdo
Alcón of Cheste
[Vicente Maria] (died at age 45)
----- Bl. Vincent Pelufo
Orts of Alzira
[Vicente] (died at age 68)
----- Bl. Vincent Rubiols
Castelló of La Pobla Liarga [Vicente] (died at age 62)
----- Bl. Vincent Sicluna
Hernández of Navarres
[Vicente] (died at age 77)
[Women
of Catholic Action of the Archdiocese of Valencia:]
----- Bl. Amalia Abad
Casasempere of Alcoi
(widow, died at age 39)
----- Bl. Ann Mary Aranda
Riera of Denia
[Ana María] (died at age 48)
----- Bl. Crescencia Valls
Espí of Ontynient
(died at age 73)
----- Bl. Incarnation Gil
Valls of Ontynient
[Encarnación] (died at age 48)
----- Bl. Florence Caerols
Martínez of Caudete
[Florencia] (died at age 46)
----- Bl. Frances Cualladó
Baixauli of Valencia
[Francisca] (died at age 46)
----- Bl. Hermione Martínez
Amigó of Puçol
[Herminia] (died at age 49)
----- Bl. Josephine Moscardó
Montalvá of Alzira
[Josefina] (died at age 56)
----- Bl. Mary Climet
Mateu of Xativa
[María] (died at age 49)
----- Bl. Mary of Carmel Viel
Ferrando of Sueca
[María Carmen] (died at age 43)
----- Bl. Mary del Olvido Noguera
Albelda of Carcaixent [María
del Olvido] (died at age 33)
----- Bl. Mary of the Pillar Jordá Botella of Alcoi
[María del Pilar] (died at age 31)
----- Bl. Mary Louise Frías
Cañizares of Valencia
[María Luisa] (died at age 40)
----- Bl. Mary Louise Montesinos
Orduña of Valencia
[María Luisa] (died at age 36)
----- Bl. Mary of the Purification Vidal Pastor of Alzira
[María Purificación] (died at age 44)
----- Bl. Mary Sophie Therese Ximénez Ximénez of Valencia
[María Sofía Teresa] (widow, died at age 60)
----- Bl. Mary Teresa Ferragut
Roig of Algemesí
[María Teresa] (died at age 83)
----- Bl. Pilar Villalonga
Villalba of Valencia
(died at age 45)
----- Bl. Társila Córdoba
Belda of Sollana
(widow, died at age 75)
[Men
and Youth of Catholic Action of the Archdiocese of Valencia:]
----- Bl. Arthur Ros
Montalt of Vinalesa
[Arturo] (died at age 35)
----- Bl. Charles Díaz
Gandía of Ontynient
[Carlos] (died at age 29)
----- Bl. Charles López
Vidal of Gandía
[Carlos] (died at age 42)
----- Bl. Emmanuel Torró
García of Ontynient
[Manuel] (died at age 34)
----- Bl. Ishmael Escrihuela
Esteve of Tavemes de Valldigna [Ismael] (died at age 34)
----- Bl. John Baptist Faubel
Cano of Lima
[Juan Bautista] (died at age 47)
----- Bl. John Gonga
Martínez of Carcaixent
[Juan] (died at age 25)
----- Bl. Joseph Mary Corbín
Ferrer of Valencia [José
María] (died at age 22)
----- Bl. Joseph Mary Zabal
Blasco of Valencia
[José Maria] (died at age 38)
----- Bl. Joseph Medes
Ferrís of Almagesí
[José] (died at age 51)
----- Bl. Joseph Perpiñá
Nacher of Sueca
[José] (died at age 25)
----- Bl. Joseph Raymond Ferragud
Girbés of Algemesí
[José Ramón] (died at age 49)
----- Bl. Marino Blanes
Giner of Alcoi
(died at age 48)
----- Bl. Paul Meléndez
Gonzalo of Valencia
[Pablo] (died at age 60)
----- Bl. Paschal Torres
Lloret of Carcaixent
[Pascual] (died at age 51)
----- Bl. Raphael Alonso
Gutiérrez of Ontynient
[Rafael] (died at age 46)
----- Bl. Salvador Enguix
Garés of Alzira
(widower, died at age 74)
----- Bl. Vincent Galbis
Gironés of Ontynient
[Vicente] (died at age 26)
[Dominicans:]
----- Bl. Anthony Emmanuel López Conceiro of El Ferrol
[Antonio Manuel] (died at age 67)
----- Bl. Constantine Fernández
Alvarez of La Vecilla
[Constantino] (died at age 29)
----- Bl. Felicisimo Díez
González of Devesa de Curueño (died at age 29)
----- Bl. Philip James Meseguer
Burillo of Híjar
[Felipe Santiago] (died at age 51)
----- Bl. Francis Calvo
Burillo of Híjar
[Francisco] (died at age 55)
----- Bl. Francis Mary Monzón
Romeo of Híjar
[Francisco María] (died at age 24)
----- Bl. Gumersindo Soto
Barros of Amil
(died at age 67)
----- Bl. Hyacinth Ignatius Serrano López of Urrea de Gaén
[Jacinto Ignacio] (priest, died at age 35)
----- Bl. Joachim Prats
Baltueña of Zaragoza
[Joaquín] (died at age 21)
----- Bl. Joseph Mary Muro
Sanmiguel of Tarazona
[José María] (died at age 31)
----- Bl. Joseph Mary Vidal
Seguí of Secuita
[José María] (died at age 24)
----- Bl. Lambert Mary Navascués
y Juan of Zaragoza
[Lamberto María] (novice, died at age 25)
----- Bl. Lucio Martínez
Mancebo of Vegas del Contado (priest, died at age 34)
----- Bl. Louis Urbano
Lanaspa of Zaragoza
[Luis] (priest, died at age 54)
----- Bl. Emmanuel Albert
Ginés of Calanda
[Manuel] (priest, died at age 69)
----- Bl. Raphael Pardo
Molina of Valencia
[Rafael] (died at age 37)
----- Bl. Raymond Peiró
Victori of Aiguafreda
[Ramón] (died at age 45)
----- Bl. Saturio Rey
Robles of Devesa de Curueño (died at age 29)
----- Bl. Tirso Manrique
Melero of Alfaro
(died at age 59)
----- Bl. Zosimus Izquierdo
Gil of Villahermosa del Campo [Zósimo] (priest, died at age 41)
[Order of Friars Minor:]
----- Bl. Alfred Pellicer
Muñoz of Bellreguard
[Alfredo] (died at age 22)
----- Bl. Paschal Fortuño
Almela of Villareal
[Pascual] (priest, died at age 50)
----- Bl. Placid García
Gilabert of Benitachell
[Placido] (died at age 41)
----- Bl. Salvador Mollar
Ventura of Manises
(died at age 40)
[Order of Friars Minor Conventual:]
----- Bl. Alphonse López
López of Secorum
[Alfonso] (priest, died at age 58)
----- Bl. Dennis Vicente
Ramos of Caudé
[Dionisio] (priest, died at age 65)
----- Bl. Francis Remón
Játiva of Caudé
[Francisco] (brother, died at age 46)
----- Bl. Michael Remón
Salvador of Caudé
[Miguel] (brother, died at age 29)
----- Bl. Modesto Vegas
Vegas of La Serna
(priest, died at age 24)
----- Bl. Peter Rivera
Rivera of Villacreces
[Pedro] (priest, died at age 24)
[Order of Friars Minor Capuchin:]
----- Bl. Ambrose Valls
Matamales of Benaguacil
[Ambrosio] [baptized Luis (Louis)] (priest, died at age 66)
----- Bl. Aurelius Ample
Alcaide of Vinalesa
[Aurelio] [baptized José (Joseph)] (priest, died at age 40)
----- Bl. Berard Bleda
Grau of Lugar Nuevo de Fenollet [baptized José (Joseph)] (brother, died
at age 69)
----- Bl. Bonaventure Esteve
Flors of Puzol
[Buenaventura] [baptized Julio (Julius)] (priest, died at age 39)
----- Bl. Henry García
Beltran of Almazora
[Enrique] [baptized Enrique (Henry)] (deacon, died at age 34)
----- Bl. Fidel Climent
Sanchis of Puzol
[baptized Mariano (Marian)] (brother, died at age 80)
----- Bl. Herman Garrigues
Hernández of Carecagente
[Germán] [baptized Jorge María (George Mary)] (priest, died at age 41)
----- Bl. Joachim Ferrer
Adell of Albocácer
[Joaquín] [baptized José (Joseph)] (priest, died at age 57)
----- Bl. Modesto García
Marti of Albocácer
[baptized Modesto] (priest, died at age 56)
----- Bl. Pacifico Salcedo
Puchades of Valencia
[baptized Pedro (Peter)] (brother, died at age 62)
----- Bl. Peter Más
Ginestar of Benisa
[Pedro] [baptized Alejandro (Alexander)] (priest, died at age 60)
----- Bl. James Mestre
Iborra of Rafelbuñol
[Santiago] [baptized Santiago (James)] (priest, died at age 27)
[Capuchin Sisters of the Order of
Saint Clare:]
----- Bl. Isabel Calduch
Rovira of Alcala de Chivert [Isabel] (died at age 55)
----- Bl. Mary Felicitas Masiá
Ferragud of Algemesí
[María Felicidad] [baptized Maria Felicidad (Mary Felicitas)] (died at age 46)
----- Bl. Mary Jesus Masiá
Ferragud of Algemesí
[María Jesús] [baptized Maria Vicenta (Mary Vincent)] (died at age 54)
----- Bl. Mary Veronica Masiá
Ferragud of Algemesí
[María Verónica] [baptized María Joaquina (Mary Joachim)] (died at age 52)
----- Bl. Miracles Ortells
Gimeno of Valencia
[Milagros] (died at age 54)
[Discalced Augustinian:]
----- Bl. Josepha of the Purification Masiá Ferragud of Almegesi
[Josefa Purificación] (died at age 49)
[Society of Jesus (Jesuit):]
----- Bl. Alfred Simón
Colomina of Valencia
[Alfredo] (died at age 59)
----- Bl. Constantine Carbonell
Sempere of Alcoi
[Constantino] (died at age 70)
----- Bl. Darius Hernández
Morato of Buñol
[Dario] (died at age 56)
----- Bl. Joseph Tarrats
Comaposada of Manresa
[José] (died at age 58)
----- Bl. John Baptist Ferreres
Boluda of Ollería
[Juan Bautista] (died at age 75)
----- Bl. Louis Campos
Górriz of Valencia
[Luis] (seminarian, died at age 31)
----- Bl. Narcissus Basté
Basté of San Andrés de Palomar [Narciso (died at age 70)
----- Bl. Paul Bori
Puig of Vilet de Malda
[Pablo] (died at age 72)
----- Bl. Peter Gelabert
Amer of Manacor
[Pedro] (died at age 49)
----- Bl. Raymond Grimaltos
Monllor of Puebla Larga
[Ramón] (died at age 75)
----- Bl. Thomas Sitjar
Fortiá of Gerona
[Tomás] (died at age 70)
----- Bl. Vincent Sales
Genovés of Valencia
[Vicente] (died at age 55)
[Salesian Society of Saint John
Bosco:]
----- Bl. Angel Ramos
Velázquez of Sevilla
[Ángel] (priest, died at age 62)
----- Bl. Augustine García
Calvo of Santander
[Agustín] (priest, died at age 31)
----- Bl. Alexander Planas
Saurí of Mataró
[Alejandro] (layman, died at age 58)
----- Bl. Álvaro Sanjuán
Canet of Alcocer de Planes (priest, died at age 28)
----- Bl. Anthony Mary
Martín Hernández of Béjar
[Antonio María] (priest, died at age 51)
----- Bl. Eliseus García
García of El Manzano
[Elíseo] (priest, died at age 29)
----- Bl. Francis Bandrés
Sánchez of Hecho
[Francisco] (priest, died at age 40)
----- Bl. Felix Vivet
Trabal of San Feliu de Torelló [Felix] (priest, died at age 25)
----- Bl. Gil Rodicio
Rodicio of Requejo
(priest, died at age 48)
----- Bl. James Bonet
Nadal of Santa María de Monmagastrell [Jaime] (priest, died at age
52)
----- Bl. James Buch
Canals of Bescanó
[Jaime] (priest, died at age 47)
----- Bl. James Ortiz
Alzueta of Pamplona
[Jaime] (priest, died at age 23)
----- Bl. John Martorell
Soria of Picasent
[Juan] (priest, died at age 47)
----- Bl. Joseph Batalla
Parramón of Abella
[José] (priest, died at age 63)
----- Bl. Joseph Bonet
Nadal of Santa María de Monmagastrell [José] (priest, died at age
61)
----- Bl. Joseph Calasanz
Marqués of Azanuy
[José] (priest, died at age 64)
----- Bl. Joseph Caselles
Moncho of Benidoleig
[José] (priest, died at age 29)
----- Bl. Joseph Castell
Camps of Ciudadela
[José] (priest, died at age 34)
----- Bl. Joseph Giménez
López of Cartagena
[José] (priest, died at age 32)
----- Bl. Joseph Otín
Aquilué of Huesca
[José] (priest, died at age 35)
----- Bl. Joseph Rabasa
Ventanach of Noves de Segre [José] (priest, died at age 74)
----- Bl. Julius Junyer
Padern of Vilamariscle
[Julio] (priest, died at age 46)
----- Bl. Julian Rodríguez
Sánchez of Salamanca
[Julian] (priest, died at age 40)
----- Bl. Michael Domingo
Cendra of Caseras
[Miguel] (priest, died at age 27)
----- Bl. Peter Mesonero
Rodríguez of Aldearrodrigo [Pedro] (priest, died at age 24)
----- Bl. Philip Hernández
Martínez of Villena
[Felipe] (died at age 33)
----- Bl. Recaredo de
los Rios Fabregat of Bétera (priest, died at age 43)
----- Bl. Sergio Cid
Pazo of Allariz
(priest, died at age 52)
----- Bl. Xavier Bordás
Piferrer of San Pol de Mar [Javier] (priest, died at age 22)
----- Bl. Zachary Abadía
Buesa of Almuniente
[Zacarias] (priest, died at age 23)
[Daughters of Mary Help of
Christians:]
----- Bl. Mary of Carmel Moreno
Benítez of Villamartín
[María del Carmen] (died at age 51)
----- Bl. Mary Amparo Carbonell
Muñoz of Alboraya
[María Ámparo] (died at age 43)
[Third Order of Capuchins of Our
Lady of Sorrows:]
----- Bl. Ambrose Mary Chullá
Ferrandis of Torrente
[Ambrosio María] [baptized Salvador] (died at age 70)
----- Bl. Benedict Mary Ferrer
Jordá of Burriana
[Benito María] [baptized Manuel (Emmanuel)] (died at age 64)
----- Bl. Bernardine Mary Martínez
Robles of Andujar
[Bernardino María] [baptized Pablo (Paul)] (died at age 57)
----- Bl. Carmen García Moyón
of Nantes
(French, died at age 49)
----- Bl. Crescencio García
Pobo of Celadas
(died at age 33)
----- Bl. Dominic Mary Hurtado
Soler of Alboraya
[Domingo María] [baptized Agustín (Augustine)] (died at age 64)
----- Bl. Florentin Pérez
Romero of Valdecuenca
(died at age 32)
----- Bl. Francis Mary Lerma
Marunez of Torrente
[Francisco María] [baptized Justo (Justus)] (died at age 50)
----- Bl. Francis Tomás
Serer of Alcalalí
[Francisco] (died at age 25)
----- Bl. Gabriel Mary Sánchis
Mompó of Benifayó
[Gabriel María] [baptized José María] (died at age 78)
----- Bl. Joseph Llosá
Balaguer of Benaguacil
[José] (died at age 35)
----- Bl. Laureano María Ferrer
Cardet of Vurriana
[baptized Salvador] (died at age 52)
----- Bl. Leon Mary Legua
Martí of Alacuas
[Leon María] [baptized Manuel (Emmanuel)] (died at age 61)
----- Bl. Modest Mary Gay
Zarzo of Torrente
[Modesto María] [baptized Vicente (Vincent)] (died at age 51)
----- Bl. Recaredo Mary Llópez
Mora of Torrente
[Recaredo María] [baptized José María (Joseph Mary)] (died at age 62)
----- Bl. Timothy Valero
Pérez of Torrente
[Timoteo] (died at age 35)
----- Bl. Urban Gil
Sáez of Albarracin
[Urbano] (died at age 35)
----- Bl. Valentine Mary Jaunzarás
Gómez of Torrente
[Valentín María] [baptized Vicente (Vincent)] (died at age 40)
----- Bl. Vincent Cabanes
Badenas of Torrente
[Vicente] (died at age 28)
----- Bl. Welcome Mary Arahal
de Miguel of Dos Hermanas
[Bienvenido María] [baptized José (Joseph)] (died at age 49)
[Priest of the Sacred Heart of Jesus]
----- Bl. John Mary of the Cross García Mendez of Avila [Juan
María de la Cruz] [baptized Mariano] (died at age 45)
[Brothers of the Christian Schools:]
----- Bl. Ambrose Leo Lorente
Vicente of Ojos Negros
[Ambrosio León] [baptized Pedro (Peter)] (died at age 22)
----- Bl. Bertrand Francis Lahoz Moliner of Campos
[Bertran Francisco] [baptized Francisco (Francis)] (died at age 24)
----- Bl. Elijah Julian Torrijo
Sánchez of Torrijo del Campo [Elías Julian] [baptized Julian] (died at
age 36)
----- Bl. Florencio Martin Ibáñez Lázaro of Godos
[baptized Álvaro] (died at age 23)
----- Bl. Honorat Andrew Zorraquino
Herrero of Bañon
[Honorato Andres] [baptized Andres (Andrew)] (died at age 28)
----- Bl. Leonard Olivera
Buera of Campo
[Leonardo] (priest, died at age 47)
[Carmelite Sisters of Charity:]
----- Bl. Agatha of Our Lady of Virtue Hernández Amorós of Villena
[Agueda de Nuestra Señora de las Virtudes] (died at age 43)
----- Bl. Antonia of St. Timothy Gosens Sáez de Ibarra of
Vitoria
[Antonia de San Timoteo] (died at age 66)
----- Bl. Ascension of St. Joseph of Calasanz Lloret Marco of Gandía
[Ascensión de San José de Calasanz] (died at age 57)
----- Bl. Clare of Our Lady of Hope Ezcurra Urrutia of Uribarri de
Mondragón
[Clara de Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza] (died at age 40)
----- Bl. Conception of St. Ignatius Odriozola Zabalia of Azpeitia
[Concepción de San Ignacio] (died at age 54)
----- Bl. Conception of St. Magdalen Rodríguez Fernández of Santa Eulalia de las Manzanas [Concepción de Santa Magdalena] (died at age 41)
----- Bl. Consuelo
of the Most Blessed Sacrament Cuñado González of Bilbao
[Consuelo del Santísimo Sacramento] (died at age 52)
----- Bl. Candace of Our Lady of the Angels Cayuso González of Ubiarco
[Candida de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles] (died at age 35)
----- Bl. Daria of Holy Wisdom Campillo Paniagua of Vitoria
[Daria de Santa Sofía] (died at age 63)
----- Bl. Elvira Torrentallé Paraire of Balareny (died at age 53)
----- Bl. Erundina of Our Lady of Carmel Colino Vega of Lagarejos
[Erundina de Nuestra Señora del Carmen] (died at age 53)
----- Bl. Feliciana of Our Lady of Carmel de Uribe Orbe of Múgica
[Feliciana de Nuestra Señora del Carmen] (died at age 43)
----- Bl. Frances of St. Teresa de Amezua Ibaibarriaga of Abadiana
[Francisca de Santa Teresa] (died at age 55)
----- Bl. Justa of the Immaculate Maiza Goicoechea of Ataún
[Justa de la Inmaculada] (died at age 39)
----- Bl. Mary of Our Lady of Providence Calaf Miracle of Bonastre
[María de Nuestra Señora de la Providencia] (died at age 65)
----- Bl. Mary of the Purification Ximénez Ximénez de San José of
Valencia
[María de la Purificación] (died at age 65)
----- Bl. Mary of the Snows of the Most Holy Trinity Crespo
López of Ciudad Rodrigo
[María de las Nieves de la Santisima Trinidad] (died at age 39)
----- Bl. Mary of the Abandoned of the Most Blessed Sacrament Giner
Lister of El Grao de Valencia [María Desamparados del Santísimo
Sacramento] (died at age 59)
----- Bl. Mary of Sorrows of St. Francis Xavier Vidal Cervera of
Valencia
[María Dolores de San Francisco Javier] (died at age 41)
----- Bl. Mary Josepha of Holy Wisdom del Río Messa of Tarragona
[María Josefa de Santa Sofia] (died at age 41)
----- Bl. Niceta of Holy Prudence Plaja Xifra of Torrente
[Niceta de San Prudencia] (died at age 73)
----- Bl. Paula of St. Anastasia Isla Alonso of Villalaín
[Paula de Santa Anastasia] (died at age 73)
----- Bl. Rose of Our Lady of Good Counsel Pedret Rull of Falset [Rosa
de Nuestra Señora del Buen Consejo] (died at age 72)
----- Bl. Teresa Chambó
Palés of Valencia
(died at age 47)
[Servant
of Mary:]
----- Bl. Mary Guadalupe Ricart
Olmos
[María Guadalupe] (died at age 55)
[Sisters of the Pious Schools:]
----- Bl. Carmen of St. Philip Neri Gómez Lezáun of Eulz
[Carmen de San Felipe Neri] [baptized Nazaria] (died at age 67)
----- Bl. Clemency of St. John Baptist Riva Mestres of Igualada
[Clemencia de San Juan Bautista] [baptized Antonia] (died at age 43)
----- Bl. Consuelo Aguilar-Mella
Díaz of Montevideo
(Uruguayan, died at age 38)
----- Bl. Dolores Aguilar-Mella
Díaz of Montevideo
(Uruguayan, died at age 39)
----- Bl. Mary of Jesus de
la Yglesia de Varo of Cabra [María de Jesús] [baptized Maria de
Encarnación (Mary of the Incarnation)] (died at age 45)
----- Bl. Mary of the Boy Jesus Baldillou Bullit of Balaguer
[María del Nino Jesús] [baptized María] (died at age 31)
----- Bl. Mary Louise of Jesus Girón Romera of Bujalance
[María Luisa de Jesús] [baptized María Luisa (Mary Louise)] (died at age 49)
----- Bl. Presentation of the Holy Family Gallén Martí of Morella
[Presentación de la Sagrada Familia] [baptized Pascuala Presentación (Paschal
Presentation)] (died at age 64)
[Claretian Sister:]
----- Bl. Mary Patrocinio of St. John Giner Gómis of Tortosa
[María] (died at age 62)
[Little Sisters of the Abandoned
Elderly:]
----- Bl. Dolores of St. Eulalia Puig Bonany of Berja
[Dolores de Santa Eulalia] (died at age 79)
----- Bl. Josepha of St. John Ruano García of Berja
[Josefa de San Juan] (died at age 82)
[Third Order Capuchins of the Holy
Family:]
----- Bl. Seraphina Mary Fernández
Ibero of Ochovi
[Serafina María] [baptized Manuela] (died at age 64)
----- Bl. Frances Xavier Fenollosa
Alcaina of Rafelbuñol
[Francisca Javier] [baptized María] (died at age 35)
----- Bl. Rosary Quintana
Argos of Soano
[Rosaria] [baptized Victoria] (died at age 70)
[Member of Catholic Action Youth
of the Diocese of Lleida:]
----- Bl. Francis of Paola Castelló y Aleu of Alicante
[Francisco de Paula] (died at age 22)
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On September 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. Pius Forgione of Pietrelcina
[better known as "Padre Pio"] [baptized Francesco (Francis)]
(Italian, Capuchin priest,
stigmatist with gifts of bilocation, levitation, healing, reading hearts, died
at age 81 in 1968 [beatified 1999, canonized 2002])
St. Adomnan of
Donegal
[also called Eunan] (Irish, missionary, abbot, biographer, died at about age 76
in 704)
Sts. Andrew, John, Peter, and Anthony
(Sicilian, deported and tortured in Africa, martyred by Moslems in 900)
Bl. Bernardina Jablonska
of Pyzuny Lukawica
[baptized Maria] (Polish, virgin, co-founded Congregation of the Sisters of
the Third Order of St. Francis of the Poor Servers, died at age 62 in 1940
[beatified 1997])
Holy Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala
(Mexican, children, martyred 1527 to 1529 [beatified 1990, canonized 2017])
----- St. Christopher [Cristóbal] (died at age 13 in 1527)
----- St. John [Juan] (d. 1527)
----- St. Anthony [Antonio] (died at age 13 in 1529)
St. Cissa of Northumbria (British, Benedictine hermit, 7th Century)
St. Constantius of Ancona (Italian, sacristan, 6th Century)
Bl. Emily Gamelin of Montreal [Emilie, nee Tavernier] (Canadian, orphan, mother of three sons who died young, widow, foundress and superior of Sisters of Providence, died [cholera] at age 51 in 1851 [beatified 2001]) [On Canadian "particular calendar"]
Bl. Francis of Paola Victor
of Campanha
[Francisco de Paula] (Brazilian, son of a slave, priest, died at age 78 in 1905
[beatified 2015])
Bl. Guy of Durnes (French, disciple of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercian abbot, c. 1157)
Bl. Helen Duglioli of Bologna
[Elena] (Italian, widow, died at about age 48 in 1520 [beatified 1828])
St. Linus of Tuscany (Italian, pope who succeeded St. Peter, reigned from c. 67 until death by martyrdom in 76)
Sts. Polyxena and Xantippa (Spanish? virgins, 1st Century)
St. Thecla of Iconium (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], disciple of St. Paul, virgin, hermitess, 1st Century)
Bl. William Way of Exeter (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Elizabeth I in 1588 [beatified 1929])
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On September 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. Anathalon of
Milan
(companion of St. Barnabas, bishop, 1st Century)
Sts. Andochius and Thyrsus of
Smyrna
and St. Felix of
Autun
(from Asia Minor (2) and France ... missionary priest, deacon, and merchant in
France ... tortured and martyred in 2nd Century)
Bl. Anthony Martin Slomsek
of Ponikva
[Anton] (Slovenian, educator, bishop of Maribor, died at age 61 in 1862
[beatified 1999, first Slovene beatified])
St. Bercthun of Beverley (French, Benedictine abbot, d. 733)
St. Bystrík of Nitra (Slovak, bishop, martyred by a pagan's sword while visiting Hungary in 1046 [canonized 1083])
Holy Martyrs of Chalcedon (from Asia Minor
[now called Turkey], 49 choir members, martyred in 394)
Sts. Chuniald and Gislar (Irish or
Scottish, missionaries in Germany and Austria, 7th Century)
Bl. Columba Gabriel of Stanislawow
[Colomba] [baptized Joanna Matylda (Jane Matilda)] (Ukrainian, founded Benedictine
Sisters of Charity, died in Italy at age 68 in 1926 [beatified 1993])
St. Erinhard of Normandy (French, monk and prior, d. 739)
St. Gerard Sagredo of Venice
[Gerardo] (Italian, Benedictine
abbot, bishop of Csanad in Hungary, martyred by stabbing at about age 66
in 1046)
St. Geremarus of Beauvais (French, abbot, later hermit, c. 658)
St. Isarne of Toulouse (French, abbot, d. 1048)
St. Pacifico of San
Severino
(Italian, Franciscan priest,
teacher, parish missionary, lame/deaf/blind contemplative for last 29 years,
died at age 68 in 1721 [beatified 1786, canonized 1839])
St. Paphnutius and companions (Egyptian, martyred in 303)
Bl. Robert Hardesty of Yorkshire (English, layman, martyred by hanging under Elizabeth I in 1589 [beatified 1987])
St. Rusticus of Clermont (French, bishop, d. 446)
Bl. William Spenser of Gisburn (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Elizabeth I at about age 34 in 1589 [beatified 1987])
On this date, the Blessed Virgin Mary is also honored …
under the title Our Lady of Mercy (or Our Lady of Ransom) [especially in Spain], and
under the title Our Lady of Walsingham [especially in England].
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On September 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. Albert Avogadro of Parma
[Alberto] (Italian, bishop of Bobbio, bishop of Vercelli, patriarch (bishop) of
Jerusalem, murdered at about age 66 in 1215) [commemorated by some on April 8]
St. Anacharius of Auxerre (French, bishop, d. 604)
Bl. Augustine Ota of Firando (Japanese, Jesuit catechist, martyred by beheading in 1622 [beatified 1867])
Sts.
Aurelia and Neomisia, of
Anagni (virgins)
St. Austin of Bordeaux
[Ostend] (French, Benedictine
abbot, archbishop of Auch, d. 1068)
Sts. Bardomian, Eucarpus, and 26 companions (from Asia Minor [modern Turkey])
Blessed Benedictine Martyrs of Madrid
[also known as Bl. José Antón
Gómez
and Companions] (Spanish, four Benedictine priests martyred during Civil War by
Communists in 1936 [beatified 2016])
-----
Bl. Joseph Antón
Gómez of Hacinas
[José] (died at age 58)
-----
Bl. Raphael Alcocer
Martínez of Madrid
[Rafael] (died at age 46)
-----
Bl. Antolín Pablos
Villanueva of Lerma
(died at age 65)
-----
Bl. Louis Vidaurrázaga
González of Bilbao
[Luis] (died at age 35)
St. Cadoc of Llancarvan (Welsh, priest, hermit, martyred c. 580)
St. Caian of Brecknock (Welsh, 5th Century)
St. Ceolfrid of
Northumbria
[aka Jeffrey, Godfrey] (British, Benedictine abbot, died at about age 74 in 716)
St. Cleophas (Israelite, disciple of Jesus
[one of two at Emmaus], husband of Mary [at Calvary], possibly father of St.
James the Less, possibly brother of St. Joseph, 1st Century)
St. Egelred of Crayland
(British, Benedictine monk,
martyred by pagan Danes in 870)
St. Finbarr of Connaught (Irish, bishop of Cork, died at about age 73 in 623) [On Irish "particular calendar"]
St. Firminus of Pamplona (Spanish, missionary in France, bishop of Amiens, martyred by beheading at about age 31 c. 303)
St. Fymbert (Scottish, bishop, 7th Century)
St. Herculanus of Rome
(Italian, soldier, martyred in 2nd Century)
Bl. Hermann the Cripple of Altshausen [also called "Herman Contractus"] (German, Benedictine monk, poet, composed immortal Marian hymns ["Salve Regina" and "Alma Redemptoris Mater"], died at age 41 in 1054 [beatified 1863])
St. Lupus of Lyons (French, archbishop, d. 542)
Bl. Mancius Shisiso-iemon
(Japanese, Augustinian tertiary,
martyred by beheading at Nagasaki in 17th Century)
Bl. Mark Criado of Andujar [Marco] (Spanish, Trinitarian priest, martyred by Moslems in 16th Century)
St. Mewrog (Welsh)
St. Paphnutius of Alexandria (Egyptian, abbot, d. 480)
Sts. Paul, Tatta, Savinian, Maximus,
Rufus, and Eugenius, of
Damascus
(Syrian, parents and their four sons, tortured and martyred)
St. Principius (French, bishop of Soissons)
St. Solemnius of
Blois (French,
bishop of Chartres)
St. Vincent Mary Strambi
of Civitavecchia
[Vincenzo Maria] (Italian, druggist's son, parish priest, Passionist
provincial, theology professor, bishop of Macerata-Tolentino, advisor to pope,
died on his 79th birthday [January 1] in 1824 [beatified 1925, canonized 1950])
[From St. Herman Contractus:]
SALVE, REGINA, mater misericordiae:
vita,
dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.
Ad te
clamamus exsules filii Hevae.
Ad te
suspiramus, gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle.
Eia, ergo,
advocata nostra,
illos tuos
misericordes oculos ad nos converte.
Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.
O
clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria. Amen.
ALMA
REDEMPTORIS MATER, quae pervia caeli porta manes,
et stella
maris, succurre cadenti,
surgere qui
curat, populo:
tu quae
genuisti, natura mirante,
tuum sanctum Genitorem virgo prius ac posterius,
Gabrielis ab ore sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.
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On September 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:
Sts. Cosmas and Damian of
Egaea
(Arabian, twin brothers, physicians in Asia Minor, tortured and martyred by
beheading, c. 303)
St. Amantius of
Cittá di Castello
(Italian, parish priest, d. 600)
St. Callistratus and 49 companions (North
African, martyred by drowning at Constantinople in 300)
Bl. Caspar Stangassinger of
Unterkälberstein
[Kaspar] (Bavarian, son of farmer, Redemptorist priest, seminary official, died at age 28
[peritonitis] in 1899 [beatified 1988])
St. Colman of Glenelly
(Irish, abbot, bishop of Connor, spiritual writer, d. 612)
Bl. Dalmatius Moner of San Coloma de Farnés [Dalmacio] (Spanish, Dominican priest, died at about age 50 in 1341 [beatified 1721])
St. Eusebius (Italian, Bishop of Bologna, friend of St. Ambrose, opposed Arianism, c. 400)
Bl. John Baptist Mazzucconi of Rancio di Lecco [Giovanni Battista] (Italian, priest, religious of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, martyred in Australia at age 29 in 1855 [beatified 1984])
St. John of Meda [Giovanni] (Italian, priest, d. 1159)
St. Justina of Antioch (from
Asia Minor [now called Turkey], virgin, martyred by beheading c. 304)
Sts. Justina and Cyprian of
Nicomedia (from
Asia Minor [most of modern Turkey], virgin and converted magician, martyred
[exposed to beasts])
Bl. Louis Tezza of Conegliano [Luigi] (Italian, priest, member of Order of the Ministers of the Sick of St. Camillus in France and Peru, founder of Daughters of St. Camillus, died at age 81 in 1923 [beatified 2001])
Bl. Mary Augustina Rivas
López of Coracora
[María Agustina, nicknamed "Aguchita"] [baptized/confirmed Antonia
Luzmila] (Peruvian, virgin, professed religious of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, schoolteacher, servant of the rural
poor, martyred [shot at least five times by a 17-year-old communist girl] at
age 70 in 1990 [beatified 2022])
St. Mary Victoria Teresa Couderc of Sablières [Marie-Victoire-Therese] (French, member of Sisters of St. Regis, co-founder of Congregation of Our Lady of the Retreat in the Cenacle at age 21, died at age 80 in 1885 [beatified 1951, canonized 1970])
St. Meugant of Bardsey (British, hermit, 6th Century)
St. Nilo the Younger of
Rossano
(Italian, Basilian abbot, died at
about age 95 c. 1004)
St. Senator of Albanum (probably Italian or French)
St. Vigilius of Brescia (Italian, bishop, d. 506)
[From St. Mary Victoria Teresa Couderc, 1864]
I pray to our Lord to give an understanding of this word ["surrender"] to all souls desirous of pleasing him and to inspire them to take advantage of so easy a means of sanctification.
Oh! If people could just understand ahead of time the sweetness and peace that are savored when nothing is held back from the good God! How He communicates Himself to the one who seeks him sincerely and has known how to SURRENDER herself! Let her experience it and she will see that here is found the true happiness she is vainly seeking elsewhere. The surrendered soul has found Paradise on Earth ...
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On September 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:
St. Vincent de
Paul of Gascony
(French, peasant, parish priest, slave of Moslem pirates, chaplain of French
court, worker for poor and abandoned, co-founder of Daughters of Charity
and Congregation of Priests of the Mission [Lazarists/Vincentians], died
at age 79 in 1660 [beatified 1729, canonized 1737] [incorruptible])
St. Adheritus of
Ravenna
(Greek, bishop in Italy, 2nd Century)
Sts. Adolphus and John of
Seville
[Adolfo and Juan] (Spanish, biological brothers, martyred by Moslems in 850)
St. Barrog (Welsh, island hermit, 7th Century)
St. Bonfilius of
Osimo
[Bonfiglio] (Italian, Benedictine
monk, bishop of Storace, d. 1125)
St. Ceraunus of Paris (French, bishop, d. 614)
Bl. Delphine of Glandenes (French, noblewoman, widow of St. Elzear, Franciscan tertiary, died at about age 77 in 1360)
St. Deodatus of Sora (Italian)
St. Elzear of Ansouis
(French, husband of Bl. Delphine, Franciscan tertiary, count and king's tutor in Italy,
uncle of a pope, died in France at about age 38 in 1323 [canonized 1369])
St. Epicharis of
Byzantium
(wife of Roman senator, martyred in Asia Minor in 300)
Sts. Fidentius and Terence of Todi (early martyrs)
St. Gaius of Milan
(Italian, bishop, father of two saints, 1st Century)
Sts. Hilary the Hermit and Florentinus
(French and Swiss, early martyrs)
St. Hiltrude of Liessies (French, recluse, c. 790)
St. Marcellus of Saint Gall (Irish, monk in Switzerland, c. 869)
[From St. Vincent de Paul:]
“The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.”
“Even though the poor are often rough and unrefined, we must not judge them from external appearances nor from the mental gifts they seem to have received. On the contrary, if you consider the poor in the light of faith, then you will observe that they are taking the place of the Son of God who chose to be poor. Although in his passion he almost lost the appearance of a man and was considered a fool by the Gentiles and a stumbling block by the Jews, he showed them that his mission was to preach to the poor: ‘He sent me to preach the good news to the poor.’ We also ought to have this same spirit and imitate Christ's actions, that is, we must take care of the poor, console them, help them, support their cause. Since Christ willed to be born poor, he chose for himself disciples who were poor. He made himself the servant of the poor and shared their poverty. He went so far as to say that he would consider every deed which either helps or harms the poor as done for or against himself. Since God surely loves the poor, he also loves those who love the poor.“
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On September 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:
Holy Martyrs of Nagasaki of 1637
[also known as "St. Lorenzo Ruiz and
companions"] (Filipino [1], Spanish [4], Japanese [9], French [1], Italian
[1] ... 14 men [9 Dominican
priests, 2 brothers, 3 laymen] and 2 women [Dominican tertiaries] ... martyred at Nagasaki between
1633 and 1637 [beatified 1981, canonized 1987])
----- St. Anthony Gonzalez
[Antonio] (Spanish, Dominican
priest)
----- St. Dominic Ibáñez
de Erquicia
[Domingo] (Spanish, Dominican)
----- St. Francis Shoyemon
(Japanese, layman)
----- St. James of St. Mary Kyusei (Japanese)
----- St. Jordan of St. Steven [Jordán de San Esteban] (Spanish, Dominican)
----- St. Lawrence Ruiz
of Manila
[Lorenzo] (Filipino, married father of three, martyred [crushed after hanging
upside down for three days] in 1637)
----- St. Lazarus of
Kyoto
(Japanese, layman, leper)
----- St. Luke of the Holy Spirit [Luca del Espíritu Santo] (Italian)
----- St. Magdalen of
Nagasaki
(Japanese, Dominican tertiary)
----- St. Marina of
Omura
(Japanese, Dominican tertiary)
----- St. Matthew of the Rosary Kohioye (Japanese)
----- St. Michael de
Aozaraza
[Miguel] (Spanish, Dominican
priest)
----- St. Michael Kurobioye
(Japanese)
----- St. Thomas of St. Hyacinth Hioji
(Japanese)
----- St. Vincent of the Cross Shiwozuka (Japanese, Dominican priest)
----- St. William Courtet
[Guillaume] (French, Dominican
priest)
St. Annemund of
Lyons
(French, king's counselor, bishop, d. 658)
Bl. Bernardine of Feltre [Bernardino] (Italian, Franciscan priest, teacher and preacher, died at about age 55 in 1494 [beatified 1654])
St. Eustochium of Rome
(Italian, virgin, disciple of St. Jerome, died at about age 50 c. 419)
St. Exuperius (French, bishop of Toulouse)
St. Faustus of Riez
(French, abbot, spiritual writer, bishop, opposed heresies, d. 490)
St. Heliodorus of
Antioch
(Pisidian [from part of what is now Turkey], martyred c. 303)
St. John of Dukla [Jan]
(Polish, Franciscan priest, died
at about age 70 in 1484 [beatified 1733, canonized in 1997]) [commemorated by
some on July 19]
Sts. Lawrence, Martial, and twenty companions (North African, early martyrs)
Bl. Lawrence of
Ripafratta
[Lorenzo] (Italian, Dominican
priest, died at about age 83 in 1456)
Bl. Lawrence Shizu, Bl.
Michael Kinoshi, Bl.
Peter Kufioji, Bl.
John Shozaburo, and
Bl. Thomas Kufioji
(Japanese, Augustinian
tertiaries, martyred by beheading at Nagasaki in 1630)
St. Machan (Scottish, bishop [in Ireland?])
Sts. Mark, Alexander, Alphius, Zosimus, Nicon, Neon, Heliodorus, and thirty companions, of Antioch (Pisidian [from part of what is now Turkey], shepherd and his six brothers with thirty soldiers, early martyrs)
Sts. Martin and Willigod of Romont (French, Benedictine abbots, 7th Century)
St. Maximus of Ephesus (early martyr)
St. Paternus of
Bilbao
(Spanish, bishop of Auch in France, d. 150)
St. Simon de Rojas of Valladolid (Spanish, Trinitarian priest and superior, teacher, founded Servants of the Sweet Name of Mary, queen's spiritual advisor, died at age 71 in 1624 [beatified 1766, canonized 1988])
St. Solomon (Italian, bishop of Genoa)
St. Tetta of Wimborne (British, Benedictine abbess, d. 772)
St. Thiemo of Meglin
(Bavarian, nobleman, Benedictine
abbot, archbishop of Salzburg, exiled to Palestine, martyred by Moslems
in 1102)
St. Wenceslas of
Prague
[Vaclav] (Bohemian, duke and "Good King Wenceslas," martyred
[murdered by his brother] at about age 22 in 929)
[The Japanese governors asked: "If we grant you life, will you renounce your faith?"
St. Lawrence Ruiz replied: "That I will never do, because I am a Christian, and I shall die for God, and for him I would give many thousands of lives if I had them. And so, do with me as you please."]
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On September 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:
Sts. Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael
(archangels)
Bl. Charles of Blois
(French, duke, died at about age 44 in 1364 [beatified 1904])
Sts. Dadas, Casdoe, and Gabdelas (Persian
... nobleman, wife, and fellow Christian ... martyred in 368)
St. Fraternus of Auxerre (French, bishop, martyred in 450)
St. Garcia of Artanza (Spanish, abbot, c. 1073)
St. Grimoaldo of Pontecorvo (Italian, priest, c. 1135)
St. Gudelia (Persian, virgin, martyred c. 340)
Sts. Heracleas, Eutychius, and Plautus, of Thrace (Greek, early martyrs)
St. John of Montmirail
[Jean] (French, nobleman, husband, father, later Cistercian monk, died at about age 52 in 1217)
Bl. Louis Monza of Cis-lago [Luigi] (Italian, field worker, parish priest, imprisoned by Fascists, founded "Our Family" [association for children with disabilities], died at age 56 in 1954 [beatified 2006])
St. Ludwin of Trier [also
known as Liutwin] (German, widower, Benedictine abbot, bishop, d. 713)
St. Quiriacus (Greek, hermit in Palestine, 6th Century)
St. Rhipsime and companions (Armenian, virgins, martyred in 290)
Bl. Richard Rolle de Hampole of Thornton (English, hermit, mystic, advisor to Cistercian nuns, d. 1349)
St. Theodota of
Thrace
(Greek, penitent prostitute, martyred in 318)
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On September 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:
St. Jerome of
Strido
(Dalmatian [from part of what is now Croatia], convert at 18, hermit priest in
Syria and Bethlehem, prolific writer, secretary to pope, translated Bible into
Latin [Vulgate] over 30 years, Doctor and Father of the Church, died at about
age 72 in 419)
Bl. Conrad of
Urach
[Konrad] (German, Cistercian
abbot in Belgium, cardinal bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina in Italy, Cistercian superior general, papal legate, combated
Albigensian heretics in France, preached crusade in Germany, died in Italy at
about age 47 in 1227)
St. Enghenedl (Welsh, 7th Century)
Bl. Frederick Albert of Turin [Federico] (Italian, priest, founded Congregation of the Vincentian Sisters of Mary Immaculate [Albertines], died at age 55 in 1876 [beatified 1984])
St. Gregory the Illuminator of
Ashtishat
(Armenian, bishop, died at about age 75 in 332)
St. Honoratus of Rome (Italian, Benedictine monk, missionary in Britain, bishop of Lincoln, archbishop of Canterbury, d. 653)
St. Laurus of Brittany (Welsh, abbot in France, 7th Century)
St. Leopardus (slave, martyred in Rome in 362)
St. Midan of Anglesey (Welsh, missionary, d. 610)
St. Simon of Crépy
(French, nobleman, monk, died in Rome at age 36 in 1082)
St. Sophia (Roman, widow, mother of Sts. Faith, Hope, and Charity)
Sts. Tancred, Torthred, and Tova, of Thorney (Danish, hermits, martyred in 870)
Sts. Ursus and Victor (soldiers, martyred
in Egypt in 286)
[St. Jerome, writing in 406 A.D., on one aspect of the Communion of Saints that
has often been attacked by our separated brethren:]
"You say in your book that while we live we are able to pray for each other, but afterwards when we have died, the prayer of no person for another can be heard. ... But if the apostles and martyrs while still in the body can pray for others, at a time when they ought still be solicitous about themselves, how much more will they do so after their crowns, victories, and triumphs?" (From "Against Vigilantius")
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