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 SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR  MAY 17  ST. VICTOR, MARTYR ON THE VIA SALARIA ANTICA Bl. Antonia Mesina, Roman Catholic Martyr, she was murdered by a teenager when she resisted his rape attempt, Patron of martyrs; rape victims, May 17 ST. PASCHAL BAYLON, FRANCISCAN LAY , PATRON OF THE EUCHARISTIC ASSOCIATIONS-St. Paschal Baylon, Roman Catholic Franciscan lay brother and mystic. Patron of all eucharistic confraternities and congresses. Feast May 17 St. Madern. Hermit of Cornish descent also called Maden and Madron. Nothing is known of his life, but he was of Cornish descent and connected with Brittany, France. Numerous churches in England bear his name, and the reputed site of his hermitage, St. Madern’s Well, is still popular.   St. Cathan, 6th or 7th century. Bishop of the isle of Bute, in Scotland, called Kil-Cathan in his honor. A tomb bearing his name was found near Londonderry, Ireland, but Scottish scholars claim his remains are at Kil-Cathan.   St. Maid...

  St Simon Stock, St Brendan the Navigator, St Gemma Galgani https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/145

  Gospel in Art: I am the way, and the truth, and the life https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52387

 SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR  MAY 16  ST. ALEXANDER, BISHOP OF JERUSALEM AND MARTYR St. Simon Stock.  Although little is known about Simon Stock's early life, legend has it that the name Stock, meaning "tree trunk," derives from the fact that, beginning at age twelve, he lived as a hermit in a hollow tree trunk of an oak tree. It is also believed that, as a young man, he went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land where he joined a group of Carmelites with whom he later returned to Europe. Simon Stock founded many Carmelite Communities, especially in University towns such as Cambridge, Oxford, Paris, and Bologna, and he helped to change the Carmelites from a hermit Order to one of mendicant friars. In 1254 he was elected Superior-General of his Order at London. Simon Stock's lasting fame came from an apparition he had in Cambridge, England, on July 16, 1251, at a time when the Carmelite Order was being oppressed. In it the Virgin Mary appeared to him holding the brown scapular i...

  In Leo XIV, I see qualities of a holy/whole person, and potential for more https://www.globalsistersreport.org/node/301436 https://www.globalsistersreport.org/feature-series/habemus-papam/stories