Sept 10 Martyrs

Bl. Agnes Tsao-Kou Ying, Roman Catholic Martyr of China. Agnes was a widow when she faced persecution for being a missionary catechist. She was executed by being placed in a cage at Sy-Lin-Hien. Feastday Sept 10 ST. NICHOLAS DA TOLENTINO, AGOSTINIAN Nicholas was born in the Diocese of Fermo, Italy, in the year 1245. From a young age he was acquainted with the Augustinian order. Attracted by the monastic life, he joined their community in Tolentino. His prayer and fasting was always accompanied by sympathy and charity. He died in 1305. Sept. 10 St. Menodora, Roman Catholic Martyr, Martyred with her sisters, Metrodora and Nymphodora. They were orphans of Bithynia, in Asia Minor, who were denounced as Christians and taken before the local Roman governor, named Fronto. They refused to worship the pagan gods, and Menodora was beaten to death, as was Nymphodora. Metrodora was tortured, burned, and beheaded. Feastday, September 10