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SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 05

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 SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 05 \ PRAY FOR US "There is only one tragedy in this life, not to have been a saint."- Leon Bloy ST. IRENE, VIRGIN AND MARTYR Peace, charity and purity: these were the baptismal names assumed by the three martyr sisters in Thessaloniki in 304 under the governor Dulcitius, during Diocletian's persecutions. Irene was the youngest; she was guilty of hiding the Holy Scripture and refusing to eat food offered to the gods. A Roman widow of the sixth century; feast, October 5. According to St. Gregory the Great (Dial. IV, ch. xiii) she was the daughter of the younger Symmachus, a learned and virtuous patrician of Rome, whom Theodoric had unjustly condemned to death (525). Becoming a widow before the end of the first year of her married life, she, still very young, founded a convent and hospital near St. Peter’s, there spent the remainder of her days in austerities and works of mercy, April 6 Martyrs of Lesbos, Five virgin Roman Catholic maidens who su...
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St Benedict the African

  St Benedict the African https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/100
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Gospel in Art: Holy Saturday

  Gospel in Art: Holy Saturday https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/54717
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SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 04 PRAY FOR US

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SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 04 PRAY FOR US  We all must repent and reconcile with The Holy Church, it is the only way forward. "There is only one tragedy in this life, not to have been a saint."- Leon Bloy St. Isidore of Seville, Roman Catholic Priest and Doctor of The Church. Isidore was the first Christian writer to try to compile a summa of universal knowledge, in his most important work, the Etymologiae his learning caught fire in Spanish minds and held back the Dark Ages of barbarism from Spain. Feastday April 4 St. Guier. Hermit priest of Cornwall, England. A local church bears his name.    St. Tigernach. St. Tigernach died 549, bishop. Said to have been the godchild of St. Brigid, and educated in Scotland, he may have been a monk at Clones as well as a bishop of Clogher, but accounts are not too clear. He also is called Tierney and Tierry  ST. BENEDICT THE MOOR, FRANCISCAN-Born to African slaves descendants in Sicily in 1524, Benedict became known as “the holy...
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St Luigi Scrosoppi

  St Luigi Scrosoppi https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/99
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Gospel in Art: The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John + video

  Gospel in Art: The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John + video https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/54709
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SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 03 PRAY FOR US

SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 03 PRAY FOR US St. Agape, Roman Catholic Martyr, Agape and her sisters Chionia and Irene, Christians of Thessalonica, Macedonia, were convicted of possessing texts of the Scriptures despite a decree issued in 303 by Emperor Diocletian naming such possessions a crime punishable by death. When they further refused to sacrifice to pagan gods, the governor, Dulcitius, had Agape and Chionia burned alive. When Irene still refused to recant, Dulcitius ordered her sent to a house of prostitution. There she was unmolested after being exposed naked and chained, she was put to death either by burning or by an arrow through her throat. Feastday April 3 St. Richard of Wyche, 1253 A.D. Richard of Wyche, also known as Richard of Chichester, was born at Wyche (Droitwich), Worcestershire, England. He was orphaned when he was quite young. He retrieved the fortunes of the mismanaged estate he inherited when he took it over, and then turned it over to his brother Robert. Richar...
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