Saint of the day October 07

Saint of the day October 07

St. Canog, 492 A.D.  Martyr and eldest son of the local king of Brecknock in Wales. He was slain by barbarians at MerthyrCynog. In Brittany, France, he is called St Cenneur. Several churches in Wales honor him.  

St. Osyth, 700 A.D. Martyred nun, also called Osith and Sytha. Known mainly through legends, she was supposedly the daughter of a chieftain of the Mercians in England and Wilburga, daughter of the powerful pagan king Penda of Mercia. Raised in a convent, Osyth desired to become a nun but was married against her will to King Sighere of Essex, by whom she had a son. Eventually, she won his permission to enter a convent, and she established a monastery on land at Chich, Essex, donated by Sighere, where she served as an abbess. She was reputedly slain by Danish raiders and is thus depicted in art as carrying her own head. There are historical difficulties associated with her existence, especially as no mention is made of her by Bede in his Ecclesiastical History.

Sts. Sergius & Bacehus, Roman Catholic Martyrs. they were officers in the legions of co-Emperor Maximian in Syria who refused to enter the temple of Jupiter or to make sacrifices to the gods. For their crimes, they were dressed in women’s clothing and led through the streets of Arabissus before being sent to die in Mesopotamia. Bacehus was flogged to death, and Sergius was scourged. and beheaded.

St. Justina of Padua, Roman Catholic Martyr. A young woman who took private vows of chastity and was killed during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Diocletian. She is a patron saint of Padua. Her feast day is October 7.St. Dubtach, 513 A.D. The Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, from 497 until his death. 

 

St. Helanus, 6th century. Irish hermit who went to France with six brothers and three sisters. They settled in Reims, where Helanus became a priest. 

 

Our Lady of the Rosary-Today's feast was introduced by St Pius V, who was also a Dominican, in gratitude for the victory of Christian fleets under Don John of Austria, against the Turkish forces on this day in 1571. Pope Leo XIII was particularly devoted to Our Lady of the Rosary, producing 11 encyclicals on the subject of this feast. In the first of them, 1883's 'Supremi Apostolatus Officio' he echoed the words of the oldest known Marian prayer (known in the Latin tradition as the 'Sub Tuum Praesidium'), when he wrote: "It has always been the habit of Catholics in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary."

"Turkish victory at Lepanto would have been a catastrophe of the first magnitude for Christendom," wrote historian John F Guilmartin, Jr "and Europe would have followed a historical trajectory strikingly different from that which obtained."

Pope St. Mark, Roman Catholic Priest and Pope, successor to St. Sylvester I , elected January 18, 336. He was the son of Priscus and a priest of Rome. During his pontificate he erected two basilicas on land donated by Emperor Constantine I. Feast day is October 7.