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St. Jerome - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Saint Jerome, Roman Catholic priest, confessor, theologian and historian, who also became a Doctor of the Church.Feastday Serpt 30

Saint of the Day for Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Honorius of Canterbury, Roman Catholic Priest and  Archbishop of Canterbury, England, a native of Rome, sent to the British Isles by Pope St. Gregory I the Great. Honorius was a Benedictine who went to England at the request of St. Augustine of Canterbury. He succeeded to the see in 627. Honorius was consecrated by St. Paulinus, and he consecrated Sts. Felix and Ithamar, the first English born bishops. Honorius gave St. Paulinus refuge when he fled Caedwalla of Wales after the death of King Edwin. Feastday Sept. 30

St. Theodota - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Theodota, Roman Catholic Martyr and penitent, she was converted and refused to obey the decree of the local prefect for all citizens of Philipopolis, Thrace (modern southeast Balkans), to participate in the festival of Apollo. Hundreds of Christians followed her lead, and she was arrested and put to torture, she was finally stoned to death. Feastday Sept 29

St. Rhipsime - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Rhipsime, Roman Catholic Virgin martyr who was put to death with a group of fellow virgins in Armenia. Brought before King Tiridates. Rhipsime refused the royal favors and was put to death by being roasted alive. Gaiana and all of the other maidens except one, called Christiana, were massacred by Armenian soldiers. Christiana later became a missionary in Georgia. Feastday Sept 29

St. Neol - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Noel was born in France. He joined the Jesuits in 1630 and in 1643 was sent as a missionary to the Huron Indians in New France. He became assistant to Father Charles Garnier at the Indian village of Etarita in 1649 and was murdered on December 8 by an apostate Indian while returning from a visit to neighboring Ste. Marie. He is one of the martyrs of North America. Feastday Sept 26th.

Saint of the Day for Thursday, September 24th, 2015 - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Feast of Our Lady of Ransom http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/ladyransom.html

Martyrs of Chalcedon - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Martyrs of Chalcedon, A group of forty-nine Roman Catholic Christians slain in Chalcedon during the reign of Emperor Diocletian . Records indicate that the martyrs were members of the choir in the church of Chalcedon. Feastday Sept 24

24th September - Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham - Independent Catholic News

St. Andrew and Companions - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Andrew and Companions, Roman Catholics Martyred by the Saracens. Andrew, with John, Peter, and Anthony, were deported from Sicily to Africa by the Saracens (Muslims), who occupied that land at the time. In Africa, they were tortured brutally and martyred for defending the faith. Feastday Sept 23

23rd September - Saint Padre Pio - Independent Catholic News

St. Thomas of Villanueva - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Thomas of Villanueva, Roman Catholic Spanish friar of the Order of Saint Augustine who was a noted preacher, ascetic and religious writer of his day. He became an archbishop who was famous for the extent of his care for the poor of his see. Feastday Sept 22

Martyrs of the Theban Legion - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Roman Catholic Martyrs of the Theban Legion. Roman legion composed largely of Egyptians and serving in the army of co-Emperor Maximian, colleague of the famed hater of Christians, Emperor Diocletian. While serving in France, the legion marched to Agaunum, where it encamped for pagan rituals. Maurice, a commander, and Exuperius, Candidus, Innocent, Vitalis, two Victors, and the men of the legion refused to worship pagan deities, or possibly refused to massacre the local innocent populace. They were supposed to be pressured to obey by witnessing the beheading of some of their officers, but refused to offer sacrifices to the Roman gods. Reportedly, Maximian brought in another legion to slay the 6,600 Christians. A basilica, St. Maurice-en-Valais, was built from about 369-391 to commemorate this remarkable martyrdom. Feastday Sept 22

Bl. Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Roman Catholic Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, is the name given by the Catholic Church to the people who were killed by Republicans during the war because of their faith. As of July 2008, almost one thousand Spanish martyrs have been beatified or canonized. For some two thousand additional martyrs, the beatification process is underway. Feastday Sept 22

22nd September - Saint Maurice and Companions - Independent Catholic News

St. Maura Troyes - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Maura Troyes, Roman Catholic Virgin. - She was nobly born at Troyes in Cham pagne in the ninth century, and in her youth obtained of God by her prayers the wonderful conversion of her father, who had till then led a worldly life. After his happy death, Maura continued to live in the most dutiful subjection and obedience to her mother, Sedulia and by the fervor of her example was the sanctification of her brother Eutropius and of the whole family. Feastday Sept 21

Sts. Chastan & Imbert - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Sts. Chastan & Imbert, Roman Catholic Martyrs of Korea. A native of Aix-en-Provence, France, Laurence Imbert joined the Paris Foreign Missionary Society and was sent to China in 1825. He worked there as a missionary for twelve years and was named titular bishop of Capsa. In 1837, he was sent to Korea and entered the country secretly, as Christianity was forbidden there. He was successful in his missionary activities, but in 1839 a wave of violent persecutions of the Christians swept the country. In the hope of ending the persecution of native Christians, he, Fr. Philibert Maubant, and Fr. James Honore' Chastan, who had preceded him into Korea, surrendered to the authorities. They were bastinadoed and then beheaded at Seoul on September 21. During the same persecution, John Ri was bastinadoed and suffered martyrdom, and Agatha Kim was hanged from a cross by her arms and hair, driven over rough country in a cart,...

Bl. Carlo Erana Guruceta - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Carlo Erana Guruceta, was a member of the Marianists. Martyred with Blessed Fidel Fuidio Rodriguez and Blessed Jesus Hita Miranda during the Spanish Civil War.

St. Valerian - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Valerian, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr. The massacre of the martyrs of Lyons with their bishop, St. Pothinus, took place during the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius in the year 177. Marcellus, a priest, we are told, by Divine intervention, managed to escape to Chalon-sur-Saone, where he was given shelter. His host was a pagan, and seeing him offer incense before images of Mars, Mercury, and Minerva, Marcellus remonstrated with and converted him. While journeying toward the North, the priest fell in with the governor Priscus, who asked him to a celebration at his house. Marcellus accepted the invitation, but when he found that Priscus was preparing to fulfill religious rites, he asked to be excused on the ground that he was a Christian. This raised an outcry, and the bystanders tried to kill Marcellus there and then by tying him to the tops of two young trees in tension and then letting them fly apart. The governor ordered hi...

St. Caerealis & Sallustia - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Caerealis & Sallustia, Roman Catholic Martyrs. A soldier and his wife martyred in Rome. They were converted by Pope St. Cornelius. Caerealis and Sallustia were slain during the persecution conducted by Emperor Trajanus Decius. Feastday Sept 14

'If you can't forgive, you cannot receive the peace of the Lord,' Pope Francis declares - Living Faith - Home & Family - News - Catholic Online

St. Paphnutius - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Paphnutius, Roman Catholic, holy confessor and bishop, Paphnutius was an Egyptian, defending the Catholic faith against the Arian heresy. Feastday Sept 11

St. Adrian, Roman Catholic Martyr. Adrian was a pagan officer at the imperial court of Nicomedia. Impressed by the courage of a group of Christians who were being tortured, he declared himself a Christian and was imprisoned with them and suffered excruciating tortures before he was put to death. His young wife, Natalia, who was present at his death, comforted him in his agony, recovered one of his severed hands, and took it to Argyropolis near Constantinople, where she fled to escape the importunities of an imperial official of Nicomedia who wanted to marry her. She died there peacefully on December 1. Adrian is the patron of soldiers and butchers. Feastday Sept 8 St. Adrian - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Thamel & Companions - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Thamel & Companions, Roman Catholic Martyrs, Thamel was a priest for a pagan god who was converted to Christianity. He was killed with his sister during the persecutions of Christians under the Roman emperor Hadrian. Feastday Sept 4

Pope Saint Gregory the Great - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Gregory the Great - Pope and Doctor of the Church. He is most famous for sending a mission, often called the Gregorian mission, under Augustine of Canterbury, prior of Saint Andrew's, where he had perhaps succeeded Gregory, to evangelize the pagan Anglo-Saxons of England. Feastday Sept 3                                         

Martyrs of September - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Martyrs of September, A group of 190 martyrs who were massacred on September 2 and 3, during the French Revolution. One hundred twenty were martyred at the Carmelite Church on the rue de Rennes in Paris. Feastday Sept 2

Bl. Michael Ghebre - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Michael Ghebre, Roman Catholic Vincentian Priest Martyr of Ethiopia also listed as Mikael Gabra. A native of that country, Michael became a Catholic in 1844 - converted by a Vincentian and was ordained in 1851. Theodore II, the Negus of Ethiopia, launched a persecution of Catholics in 1855. Michael and four companions were arrested. Michael was dragged from place to place and died from abuse in prison on August 28. Feastday Aug 28