SAINTS OCTOBER 28

 SAINTS OCTOBER 28 "There is only one tragedy in this life, not to have been a saint."- Leon Bloy

St. John Dat, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr of Vietnam. He was a native of that land, ordained in 1798, and arrested in that same year and imprisoned for three months before being beheaded.

St. Joachim Royo, Roman Catholic Priest and Dominican martyr in China. A Spaniard, Joachim was sent to China with Blessed Peter Sanz and was ordained there. He was strangled to death in a prison after horrible atrocities.

STS. SIMON AND JUDE (TADDEO), APOSTLES, Two Saints and two Apostles of Christ, according to tradition both martyrs of the Gospel in Mesopotamia. The Church remembers Saint Simon, known as the “Zealot” and Saint Jude Thaddeus, on the 28th of October.  

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/10/28/sts--simon-and-jude--taddeo---apostles.html

St. Eadsin, 1050 A.D. Archbishop of Canterbury, England, who crowned King St. Edward the Confessor.