SAINTS SEPTEMBER 27

 SAINTS SEPTEMBER 27  "There is only one tragedy in this life, not to have been a saint."- Leon Bloy

Sts. Adolphus and John, Roman Catholic Martyrs of Spain, brothers and residents of Seville, the sons of an Islamic father and a Christian mother. Caught in the persecutions conducted by the Muslim Caliph of Córdoba, Abdal-Rahman II, Adolphus and John were martyred in Córdoba. Feastday Sept 27

Bl. Thiemo, Benedictine bishop and martyr. Journeying to Palestine to aid the crusading movement, he was captured by the Muslims and imprisoned at Ascalon (modern Israel). Tortured for a long time, he was finally killed for refusing to abjure the faith.

Saint Fr. Jacobo Kyushei Gorobioye Tomonaga de Santa María After 1614,  Ordained priest in 1626 he returned to Japan his native country in 1632, risking his life for the service of God and the conversion of souls. After one year of difficult apostolate in the midst of dangers, privations and sufferings, his hiding place was discovered by the authorities through the revelations of his own catechist Arrested in July 1633, he was put to the torture of the gallows and the pit on August 15, 1633; expiring after two days of agony.

St. Barrog, 7th century. Disciple of St. Cadoc, in Wales, also called Barroq and Barnoc. He was a hermit who lived on Barry Island, off the coast of Glamorgen.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL, PRIEST, FOUNDER OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE MISSION AND THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY, PATRON OF ALL THE ASSOCIATIONS OF CHARITY.