Saint of the day October 05

 Saint of the day October 05

Bl. William Hartley, 1588 A.D. Martyr of England. Born at WiIne, Derbyshire, he studied at Oxford and was an Anglican minister before his conversion to Catholicism. Going to Reims, France, he received ordination in 1580 and went back to the English mission to aid St. Edmund Campion. He was arrested in 1582 and deported from England. He returned and was captured again at Holborn. William was hanged at Shoreditch and beatified in 1929

Bl. Robert Sutton, 1588 A.D. English martyr. Born at Kegwell, Leicestershire, he became an Anglican priest, studying at Oxford. In 1575, he converted and went to Douai, France. He returned to England and was arrested in London and hanged at Clerkenwell. .

St. Anna Schaeffer, Roman Catholic Laywoman. She was paralyzed during an industrial accident in 1901. From her bed she carried out an apostalate through corresondence. Anna was known for her devotion to the Sacred Heart.

Saint Faustina, Roman Catholic Nun. Feastday October 5-Among the Saints who have made mercy their life’s mission, the humble Polish nun, Saint Faustina Kowalska, to whom Jesus himself entrusted the message of Divine Mercy and the task of spreading devotion. She is a pre-eminent example in recent times. She lived between the two World Wars.   https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/10/05/st--faustina-kowalska.html

STS. PLACIDUS AND MAURUS, DISCIPLES OF ST. BENEDICT

Bl. Francis Xavier Seelos, Roman Catholic Priest and Redemptorist missionary in the USA.

Bl. Alberto Marvelli - Roman Catholic Layman. During World War II, Alberto rescued those being deported by the Nazis to concentration camps by breaking open the locked rail cars to let the prisoners free. Feastday October 5

St. Flora, Roman Catholic Virgin, Patron of the abandoned, of converts, single laywomen, and victims of betrayal - Feast day is October 5th