SAINTS JANUARY 23

SAINTS JANUARY 23

St. Marianne Cope, Roman Catholic Nun.  a member of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Syracuse, New York. Known for her charitable works and virtuous deeds, she spent many years caring for lepers on the island of Molokaʻi in Hawaiʻi. Despite direct contact with the patients over many years, Cope was not afflicted by the disease, which some faithful consider miraculou. Feastday January 23

St. Colman of Lismore, 702 A.D.  Abbot Bishop of the monastery of Lismore, Ireland. He succeeded St. Hierlug in 698.  

St. Maimbod. Irish martyr, also called Mainboeuf, missionary to o them.

St. Emerentiana Roman Catholic Martyr Feastday Jan 23 sister of St Agnes

ST. ILDEFONSUS, BISHOP OF TOLEDO, Archbishop of Toledo; died 23 January, 667. He was born of a distinguished family and was a nephew of St. Eugenius, his predecessor in the See of Toledo. At an early age, despite the determined opposition of his father, he embraced the monastic life in the monastery of Agli, near Toledo. Jan. 23