SAINTS JANUARY 06

 SAINTS JANUARY 06

St. Peter of Canterbury, 607 A.D. A Benedictine abbot. Peter was originally a monk in the monastery of St. Andrew’s, Rome, and was chosen by Pope St. Gregory I the Great to embark with St. Augustine of Canterbury and other monks on the missionary enterprise to England in 596. Peter became the first abbot of the monastery of Sts. Peter and Paul at Canterbury in 602. He died by drowning at Ambleteu, near Boulogne while on a mission to France.

St. Schotin, 6th century. He was also known as Scarthin, a hermit and disciple of St. David of Wales. Born in Ireland, he left the island to become a student of David. Returning home, he lived for many years as a hermit and is traditionally believed to have established a boy's school in Kilkenny.

St. Diman, 658 A.D. Abbot-bishop of Connor, Ireland, also called Diman Dubh or “Diman the Black,” Dimas, or Dima. He was a monk under St. Columba. Diman was one of the bishops who received a letter from the Roman Church in 640, concerning the Easter controversy and the Pelagian heresy.

St. Eigrad, 6th century. Founder of a church in Anglesey, Wales, the brother of St. Samson of York, trained by St. Illtyd.

St. Hywyn, 516 A.D. Welsh founder and patron of churches in western England. He was a disciple of St. Cadfan, who founded monasteries in Wales. Hywyn founded Aberdaron in Gwynedd, Wales. He is sometimes called Ewen or Owen.

St. Merinus, 6th century. Titular patron of churches in Wales and Brittany. He was a hermit of Bangor and a disciple of Abbot Dunawd.

St. Andre Bessette, Roman Catholic lay brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross and a significant figure of the Roman Catholic Church among French-Canadians. Feastday January 6

ST. CARLO DA SEZZE, FRANCISCAN

Born in Sezze in 1613, the son of peasants, he joined the Order of Friars Minor: he worked as a cook, porter, and beggar. Despite poor education, he had the gift of infused knowledge and was advisor to the Popes. He was distinguished for his humility, combining contemplation and concrete charity. Jan 6

ST. RAFFAELLA OF THE SACRED HEART, VIRGIN, FOUNDRESS OF THE ANCELLE OF THE SACRED HEART. A Spanish religious (1850-1925), she founded a Congregation dedicated to perpetual eucharistic adoration and to the apostolate. Misunderstood by her sisters, she resigned and carried out the most humble tasks with meekness, as a simple nun, accepting everything "as if it came from the hand of God".