SAINTS NOVEMBER 06

 SAINTS NOVEMBER 06 "There is only one tragedy in this life, not to have been a saint."- Leon Bloy

Roman Catholic Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, the people who were killed by Republicans during the war because of their faith. As of July 2008, almost one thousand Spanish martyrs have been beatified or canonized. For some two thousand additional martyrs, the beatification process is underway.Nov. 6

St. Edwen, 7th century. Patroness of Llanedwen, Anglesey, Wales. She is reported to have been the daughter of King Edwin of Northumbria, the first Christian ruler there.  

St. Leonard of Reresby, 13th century. Crusader prisoner of the Saracens set free in a miraculous fashion. He was a native of Yorkshire, England.  

 

St. Pinnock. Welsh saint, honored by a church in Cornwall, England. As there is no historical evidence for St. Pinnock’s existence, it is assumed by some scholars that Pinnock is a derivation of St. Winnow.

Bl. Anthony Baldinucci, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and Missionary. He would always walk barefoot as a penance with the intent “that God may be moved by my sufferings to touch the hearts of my hearers,” as he once explained. He highly revered an image of the Blessed Virgin with the title, “Refuge of Sinners,” attributing numerous conversions and miraculous cures to its veneration. Feastday: November 6

ST. LEONARD, HERMIT-Leonard was born in Limoges, France, at the beginning of the 6th century. He joined with the Archbishop of Rheims in order to free captives taken prisoner in wars. He lived as a hermit, and built a monastery which is still a stop on the Cammino of Santiago.