SAINTS DECEMBER 09

SAINTS DECEMBER 09

St. Budoc, 7th century. Bishop and hermit also called Budeux and Beuzec. He is reported to be the son of a king of Brittany and of Azenor, the daughter of the ruler of Brest, France. Azenor was supposedly exiled in a cask, and Budoc was born at sea, attended by St. Brigid. He was raised in a monastery near Waterford, Ireland, and became first the abbot of the house and then bishop of Dol, Brittany. Budoc ruled there for twenty-six years. Another tradition claims that Budoc was an Irish hermit who settled in Budock, near Falmouth, England.

St. John Roberts, 1610 A.D. Benedictine member of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He was born in Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, Wales, and studied at Oxford. John became a Catholic and went to Paris

in 1598, Studying and becoming a Benedictine priest in 1602. He then returned to England and aided so many victims of the plague of 1603 that he became quite famous. He left England for a time to establish a seminary but then returned to London. He had many adventures until his final arrest for being a priest. With Blessed Thomas Somers, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn.

St. Ethelgiva, Benedictine abbess of Shaftesbury, England. She was a daughter of King Alfred the Great.

Martyrs of Saragossa, Two groups of Roman Catholic martyrs put to death at Saragossa, Spain, by the Romans during the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian. Roman prefect named Dacian. exiled all Christians from the city, and when they started toward the gates of Saragossa, they were massacred by Dacians Roman troops. Feastday Dec.9

St. Proculus of Verona, Roman Catholic Priest and Bishop of Verona, Italy. While he died of natural causes as bishop, he spent many years of trials during the final persecutions of the Church in the early fourth century while serving as a confessor to the faithful. Dec.9

St. Juan Diego, Roman Catholic layman saw apparition of the Virgin Mary at Tepeyac Mexico.Dec.9

ST. SYRUS, BISHOP OF PAVIA, Evangelized and served as first bishop of Pavia, Italy in the 1st century; tradition says that he was appointed by the Apostles, and an old legend says that he was the boy with five loaves who appears in the Gospels. Worked with Saint Juventius of Pavia. Fought Arianism. Died. relics in the cathedral of Pavia, Italy; Dec. 9

ST. LEOCADIA,VIRGIN AND MARTYR, ST. LEOCADIA was a native of Toledo, and was apprehended by an order of Dacian, the cruel governor under Diocletian in 304, Dec 9

St. Peter Fourier, Roman Catholic Priest and Founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame. A native of Mirecourt, Lorraine, France. Dec. 9