SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR MAY 22

SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR  MAY 22 

Bl. John Forest, 1538 A.D. Martyr of England, the confessor of the first wife of King Henry VIII, Queen Catherine of Aragon. He became a Franciscan at Greenwich at the age of seventeen and studied at Oxford. John opposed Henry’s divorce and the suppression of religious orders. Because of this he was arrested at Newgate and ordered to agree to the Oath of Supremacy. Refusing, John was dragged on a hurdle to Smithfield and then burned to death at the stake. A wooden statue of St. Derfel was burned with John. He was beatified in 1886.   

ST. JULIA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR OF CORSICA-Patron of Corsica, Julia was one of the young Carthaginians that a slave merchant wanted to sell in Gaul. She was kidnapped in a port of Corsica. True to her Christian faith, she refused to sacrifice to pagan gods. She is commemorated on May 22.  https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/05/22/st--julia--virgin-and-martyr-of-corsica.html

St. Boethian, 7th century. Benedictine martyr and a disciple of St. Fursey. An Irishman by birth, Boethian built the Pierrepoint Abbey near Laon, in France. He was murdered there by rebellious monks.  

ST. RITA OF CASCIA, AGOSTINIAN-The Church remembers Saint Rita on 22 May. She is known as patroness of lost causes. First a wife and exemplary mother, then an Augustinian nun, she asked Christ to share His Passion with her, and had the sign of a thorn on her forehead. Her remains are lodged in the Basilica of Cascia.  

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/05/22/st--rita-of-cascia--agostinian.html

St. Conall, 7th century. Abbot of Inniscoel Monastery in County Donegal, Ireland. A holy well there is named after St. Conall.