SAINTS DECEMBER 10

SAINTS DECEMBER 10

ST. MAURUS, MARTYR ON THE VIA SALARIA-Dec 10.Saint Maurus' attributes is a crutch, in reference to his patronage of cripples. He was invoked especially against fever, and also against rheumatism, epilepsy, and gout. He is also sometimes depicted with a scale, a reference to the implement used to measure a monk's daily ration of bread, given to him by Benedict when he left Montecassino for France. Dec.10

St. Eustace White, 1591 A.D. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, England. Converted to the faith, he studied for the priesthood at Reims, France, and in Rome. After ordination in 1588, he returned to England. Eustace was taken prisoner because of his missionary work and executed at Tyburn, England.

Bl. Thomas Somers, 1610 A.D English martyr. Born in Westmoreland, England, he worked for a time as a schoolmaster. Leaving England, he went to Douai, France, where he studied for the priesthood and received ordination before returning home under the alias of Wilson to assist the Catholic cause in London. Arrested for being a priest, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn with Blessed John Roberts.

St. Edmund Genings, 1591 A.D. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Born in Lichfield, England, he converted to the faith. He was ordained a priest at Reims, France, in 1590. The following years, after working in England, he was martyred at Gray’s Inn Fields in London.

Bl. John Mason, 1591 A.D. Martyr of England, a layman arrested for harboring St. Edmund Gennings, priest. He was martyred at Tyburn by being hanged, drawn, and quartered with Sts. Edmund Gennings and Palydore Plasden and With Blessed Sidney Hodgson. Pope Pius Xl beatified him in 1929.

St. Polydore Plasden, 1563-1591 A.D. One of the Forty Martyrs of England. A native of London, he studied for the priesthood at Reims and Rome and was ordained in 1586. Sent to England soon after, he worked for the reconversion of the island until his arrest by English authorities. He was taken prisoner  with St. Edmund Genings. Polydore was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tybum. Beatified in 1929, he was canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs.

St. Julia of Merida, Roman Catholic Laywoman and Martyr. She professed herself a Christian, insulted the pagan gods and emperor Maximian, and challenged the authorities to martyr her.Dec. 10

Pope Saint Gregory III, Roman Catholic Priest and head of the Catholic Church from 11 February 731 to his death in 741. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by the iconoclastic controversy in the Byzantine Empire, and by the ongoing advance of the Lombards, in which he invoked the intervention of Charles Martel, Feastday December 10

Our Lady of Loreto, The title "Our Lady of Loreto" is associated with the Holy House of Loreto in Italy, the house of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, miraculously transported by the angels from Palestine to Europe. Dec. 10