ST. CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA, ST. MOSES, MARTYR IN ROME, ST PETER OF ALEXANDRIA, BISHOP AND MARTYR, B. LUIGI AND MARIA BELTRAME QUATTROCCHI, SPOUSES

ST. CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA

Fifty pagan philosophers are said to have debated with St Catherine, hoping to convince her to abjure her faith. Instead, Catherine converted them to Christianity. Furious, the Emperor ordered her to be put to death on a spiked wheel; but the wheel broke. Eventually, she was martyred by beheading.  

ST. MOSES, MARTYR IN ROME

Saint Moses of Rome. After the execution of Pope saint Fabian under Emperor Decius, he administered the Church with the help of the priests and bishops who were in Rome. Helped reconcile repentant apostates who were sick and about to die. Imprisoned for nearly a year for his faith. Martyr .

ST PETER OF ALEXANDRIA, BISHOP AND MARTYR

1. He was charged with several crimes; but apostasy was the main article alleged against him. St. Peter called a council, in which Meletius was convicted of having sacrificed to idols and of other crimes, and sentence of deposition was passed against him..

B. LUIGI AND MARIA BELTRAME QUATTROCCHI, SPOUSES 

The riches of faith and love of the husband and wife Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi, are a living proof of what the Second Vatican Council said about the call of all the faithful to holiness, indicating that spouses should pursue this goal, " propriam viam sequentes", "following their own way" (Lumen gentium, n. 41).