Saint of the day August 20

Saint of the day August 20

Roman Catholic Martyrs of Thrace, A group of thirty-seven martyrs who suffered in Thrace, in modem northern Greece. Their feet and hands were sliced off and then they were cast into a furnace. Feastday Aug. 20  http://full-of-grace-and-truth.blogspot.com/2009/09/forty-virgin-martyrs-and-their-deacon.html

Sts. Leovigild and Christopher, Martyrs of Cordoba, Spain, put to death under the Muslim ruler of Cordoba, Abd al-Rahman II. Leovigild was a priest and Christopher was a monk. Feastday Aug 20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_C%C3%B3rdoba#:~:text=Leovigild%20and%20Christopher%20%2D%20August%2020,Jeremiah%20%2D%20September%2015%2C%20852.

St. Edbert, 960 A.D.  King of Northumbria, England, the successor of St. Ceolwulph. He reigned for two decades and then became a Benedictine monk at York.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadberht_of_Northumbria

  

St. Herbert Hoscam, 1180 A.D. Archbishop and patron saint of Conze, Italy. He was English by birth but served as prelate of the Basilicata area.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoscam

St. Ronald, 1158 A.D. A warrior chieftain in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. According to tradition, he made a vow to build a church, fulfilling the pledge by erecting the cathedral of St. Magnus at Kirkwall. Ronald was later murdered by a group of rebelling warriors and was venerated as a martyr at Kirkwall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6gnvald_Kali_Kolsson

St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Roman Catholic Abbot and Doctor of the Church.  Reminds Us that 'Love Is Sufficient of Itself' Doctor of the Church, founder of the Abbey of Clairvaux, one of the fathers of the Cistercians, patron of beekeepers. St Bernard of Clairvaux, travelled all the roads of Europe, fighting heresy and defending the Pope and the Church.  Feastday Aug. 20

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/08/20/st--bernard--abbott-and-doctor-of-the-church.html

ST. SAMUEL, PROPHET, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel

ST. MARY DE MATTIAS, VIRGIN,FOUNDRESS OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS ADORERS OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_De_Mattias#:~:text=Maria%20Matilda%20De%20Mattias%2C%20A.S.C.,of%20the%20Blood%20of%20Christ.