SAINTS NOVEMBER 29

 SAINTS NOVEMBER 29

St. Paramon and Companions, Three hundred and seventy five Roman Catholic Martyrs, who are reported to have been put to death on the same day during the persecutions of the Church under Emperor Trajanus Decius. Feastday Nov 29

Sts. Saturninus & Sisinius Roman Catholic Martyrs of Rome. Saturninus was a priest from Carthage who went to Rome and was arrested with a deacon, Sisinius, during the persecutions of Emperor Maximian. They were sentenced to hard labor and either died during their ordeal or were tortured and then beheaded. It is known with certainty that Saturninus lived, was martyred, and was buried on the Via Saleria, Rome, Feastday Nov 29

St. Cuthbert Mayne, 1577 A.D. An English martyr, born near Barnstable, in Devonshire, as a Protestant. He converted to Catholicism at St. John’s, Oxford. Cuthbert was ordained at Douai, France, and sent home to England about 1575. Working in Cornwall, he was captured after a year. Condemned for celebrating a Mass, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered on November 25. Cuthbert was a friend of Edmund Campion, and he was aided by Francis Tregian in Cornwall. He was the first Englishman trained for the priesthood at Douai and was the Protomartyr of English seminaries. Cuthbert was canonized by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. 

 

St. Egelwine, 7th century. Confessor and a prince of the house of Wessex. He lived at Athelney, in Somersetshire, England.

St. Sadwen, 6th century. Confessor, also known as Saturninus, brother of St. IIltyd. He was a disciple of St. Cadfan and had churches dedicated to him in parts of Wales.

  

St. Brendan of Birr, 573 A.D. Friend of St. Brendan the Voyager. Brendan was a monk at Clonard, Ireland. He became the abbot of Birr, near Offaly, and he also advised St. Columba. Columba had a vision of Brendan of Birr's soul being carried heavenward by angels.  

St. Francis Fasani, Roman Catholic Franciscan Friar. he was known for prayer and for supernatural gifts. Feastday nov 29

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