SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR MAY 03

 SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR  MAY 03 

Sts. Timothy & Martha, Roman Catholic Martyrs, husband and wife, in Antinoe (modern Egypt). Timothy was a reader in the Egyptian Church who was ordered to hand over the Scriptures to Roman officials. When he refused, he was arrested and condemned with his wife of a mere three weeks, Martha. They were nailed to a wall and lingered for nine terrible days during which they gave encouragement to each other. Feastday May 3

ST. ALEXANDER, POPE, WITH STS. EVENTIUS AND THEODULUS, PRIESTS, MARTYRED ON THE VIA NOMENTANA -

STS. PHILIP AND JAMES THE LESS

St.  Ethelwin, (d. eighth century).  Ethelwin, Second bishop of Lindsey, England. He accompanied St. Egbert to Ireland, where he died. Feast day: May 3.  

St. Gluvias, 6th century. Monastic founder and brother of St. Cadoc of Llancarfan, Wales. Gluvias labored in Cornwall, England, where he may have started an abbey. He is also called Glywys.  

St. Scannal, 563 A.D. Disciple of St. Columba and an Irish missionary. He was associated with the region of CellColeraine.  

Bl. Marie Leonie Paradis, Roman Catholic Nun. Taught in Montreal, in New York, and in Indiana. With 14 of her sisters, she founded the Poor Sisters of the Holy Family, devoted to assisting priests and seminarians, at Memramcook, New Brunswick in 1877.