SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 13

SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 13 

Bl. Edward Catheriek, 1642 A.D. English martyr. He was born at Carlton, near Richmond, Yorkshire, England, and educated at Douai, France. He returned to England in 1635 as a missionary priest and worked there until his martyrdom at York. Edward was beatified in 1929. 

Bl.. John Lockwood, 1642 A.D. English martyr, sometimes called John Lascelles. He was born in Sowerby, Yorkshire, and went to Rome to study for the priesthood as a mature man. He was ordained in 1597 returned to England the following year. He was arrested and banished in 1610 but returned to work until his arrest in 1642. At the age of eighty-one, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at York with Blessed John Catherick. John was beatified in 1929.  

ST. MARTIN I, POPE AND MARTYR-Pope Saint Martin I, Roman Catholic Pope and martyr who stood up for the right of the Church to establish doctrine even in the face of imperial power. Feastday April 13

ST. HERMENEGILD, MARTYR, Prince of Visigothic Spain, and martyr. He was the son of Leovigild the Visigoth, king of Spain, and was raised as an Arian. His wife, Indegundis, converted him from that heresy, which brought about his disinheritance by Leovigild and his defeat at Seville, Spain, by his father. When Hermenegild refused to accept Arianism, he was axed to death. April 13

St. Caradoc, 1124 A.D. Welsh hermit and harpist. He served a local king in southern Wales before becoming a hermit at St. Cendydd Church in Gower, later taking up residence on Barry Island at St. Issels. Forced into exile by Henry I's invasion of the region, Caradoc went to Haroldston, where he occupied the cell of St. Ismael.  

St. Gunioc, 838 A.D. Scottish bishop who is recorded in the Aberden Breviary.