SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 16

SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 16 

Bl. Francoise Suhard Menard, Roman Catholic laywoman martyred during the French Revolution. Feastday April 16

Bl. Francoise Micheneau Gillot, Roman Catholic laywoman martyred during the French Revolution. Feastday April 16

Bl. Anne Maugrain, Roman Catholic laywoman martyred during the French Revolution. Feastday April 16

Bl. Pierre Delepine, Roman Catholic layman and a martyr during the French Revolution. Feastday April 16

St. Paternus. The first 5th century saint. He followed his father's path by becoming a hermit in Wales. He founded the monastery at the great church of Paternus, and became a bishop of that region. He was known for his preaching, charity and mortifications. Scholars believe his story is an amalgam. Feastday April 16.

St. Benedict Joseph Labré, Roman Catholic Patron of Unmarried men (bachelors), rejects, mental illness, mentally ill people, insanity, beggars, hobos, the homeless. Benedict, a French man, was given the nickname “the vagabond of God,” having chosen the streets as his monastery. With a crucifix and a breviary 

he made pilgrimages throughout France and Italy, living on charity that he shared with others. He died in Rome in 1783, and was canonized by Pope Leo XIII.   Feastday April 16

ST. MARY-BERNARDETTE SOUBIROUS, VIRGIN

St. Donan.  A remarkable fact about the widespread work of the Celtic missionary saints from the fifth century onwards is that scarcely any cases of violent