SAINTS NOVEMBER 18

 SAINTS NOVEMBER 18

St. Keverne, 6th century. Saint of Cornwall, England. A friend of St. Kieran. 

 

St. Mawes, 6th century. Welsh hermit and abbot, also called Maudetus and Maudez. He lived as a solitary near Falmouth, in Cornwall, England, where his name is still venerated. He then went to an island off the coast of Brittany, France, where he is revered as St. Maudez. He is believed to have founded monasteries and churches in Cornwall and Brittany.

St. Rose Phillipine Duchesne, Virgin (Born in Grenoble, France, in 1769, Rose joined the Society of the Sacred Heart. In 1818, when she was forty-nine years old, Rose was sent to the United States. She founded a boarding school for daughters of pioneers near St. Louis and opened the first free school west of the Missouri. At the age of seventy-one, she began a school for Indians, who soon came to call her "the woman who is always praying". Her biographers have also stressed her courage in frontier conditions, her single mindedness in pursuing her dream of serving Native Americans, and her selfacceptance. This holy servant of God was beatified by Pope Pius XII in 1940 and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1988.

St. Leonard Kimura, Roman Catholic Martyr of Japan.  A temporal coadjutor of the Jesuits. He was arrested for his faith and association with the Jesuits, he was burned alive at Nagasaki and was beatified in 1867.  Feastday Nov. 18

Bl. John Shoun, Roman Catholic Martyr of Japan. Died: 1619. He was a Japanese from Meako and was baptized at Nagasaki. Seized for being a Christian, he was burned alive at Nagasaki and was beatified in 1867. Feastday Nov 18

Dedication of the basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul, Nov 18

ST. ODO ABBOT OF CLUNY,ST. ROMAN OF ANTIOCH