SAINTS OCTOBER 14 -19
SAINTS OCTOBER 14
"There is only one tragedy in this life, not to have been a saint."- Leon Bloy
Pope Callixtus I Roman Catholic Priest and Pope, also called Callistus I, was the bishop of Rome from c. 218 to his death in 223. He lived during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Elagabalus and Alexander Severus. He was martyred for his Christian faith. Feastday Oct 14
St. Burchard, 754 A.D. Disciple of St. Boniface and a missionary to Germany. Burchard was a priest of Wessex, England, and Benedictine. In 732, he went to Germany, serving under St. Boniface who consecrated him the first bishop of Würzburg. In 749, Burchard was sent by the Frankish King Pep in the Short to Rome, where he received Pope St. Zachary's approval of Pepsin’s accession to the Frankish throne. After founding the abbey of St. Andrew's, Burchard resigned from his see around 753. He retired to Hamburg, Germany, and the monastic life, dying there on February 2.
St. Manakus. Welsh abbot of Holyhead, Wales, also called Manaccus. He was a co worker of St. Cybi. Manakus died in Cornwall, England.
Bl. Marie Poussepin, Roman Catholic Nun. She began her institute of the Dominican Sisters of Charity in Angerville, France. She started with high hopes and one companion, and postulants soon came to fill the ranks. The sisters wore the colors of the Order. Feast day is October 14th.
SAINTS OCTOBER 15 "There is only one tragedy in this life, not to have been a saint."- Leon Bloy
St. Callistus, Roman Catholic Layman and Spanish Martyr. Callistus went to France with St. Mercurialis to fight against the Saracens (Muslim Invaders), dying in battle. Feastday Oct 15
St. Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, Doctor of The Church, Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, writer of the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer. She was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered to be a founder of the Discalced Carmelites along with John of the Cross.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/10/15/st--theresa-of-jesus--virgin--doctor-of-the-church--discalced-ca.html
SAINTS OCTOBER 16 "There is only one tragedy in this life, not to have been a saint."- Leon Bloy
St. Eliphius, 362 A.D. Irish or Scottish martyr, also called Eloff. He was martyred in Toul, France. His relics were enshrined in Cologne, Germany, in the tenth century.
St. Kiara, 680 A.D. Irish virgin, a disciple of St. Fintan Munnu Kiara, who is also listed as Chier, lived near Nenagh, in Tipperary, Ireland.
St. Gerard Majella, Roman Catholic lay brother of the Congregation of the Redeemer. This great saint is invoked as a patron of expectant mothers as a result of a miracle effected through his prayers for a woman in labor. Feast day is October 16th.
ST. MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE, APOSTLE OF THE SACRED HEART,
Saint Angela of Foligno Therefore if you want to begin and to receive this divine light, pray. If you have begun to make progress, pray. And if you have reached the summit of perfection, and want to be super-illumined so as to remain in that state, pray. If you want faith, pray. If you want hope, pray. If you want charity, pray. If you want poverty, pray. If you want obedience, pray. If you want chastity, pray. If you want humility, pray. If you want meekness, pray. If you want fortitude, pray. If you want any virtue, pray." (( from Voices of the Saints, Bert Ghezzi ))
"And pray in this fashion: always reading the Book of Life, that is, the life of the God-man, Jesus Christ, whose life consisted of poverty, pain, contempt and true obedience." (from Voices of the Saints, Bert Ghezzi) http://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-angela-of-foligno
ST.HEDWIG, DUCHESSE OF POLONIA, RELIGIOUS, True nobility consists in serving those most in need. This was a notable aspect of the life of Saint Hedwig, Duchess of Silesia and of Poland, and later a religious in a Cistercian monastery. She lived in the 12th century. Her feast is celebrated by the Church each year on October 16.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/10/16/st-hedwig--duchesse-of-polonia--religious.html
SAINTS OCTOBER 17 "There is only one tragedy in this life, not to have been a saint."- Leon Bloy
St. Ignatius of Antioch, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr. He was among the Apostolic Fathers, was the third Bishop of Antioch, and was a student of John the Apostle. En route to Rome, where according to Christian tradition he met his martyrdom by being fed to wild beasts. Feast day is October 17th.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/10/17/st--ignatius-of-antioch--bishop--martyr-in-rome.htm
Bls. Marie Magdalen Desjardin and Marie Louise Vanot, Roman Catholic Nuns and Martyrs. Ursuline martyrs of the French Revolution. She was guillotined in Valenciennes with Marie Louise Vanot. In religion, Marie Magdalen was called Marie-Augustine. Marie Louise was called Natalie. Feast day is October 17th.
Bl. Jane Louise Barre and Jane Reine Prin, Roman Catholic Nuns. Ursuline martyrs. Known in the religious life as Sisters Cordula and Laurentina respectively, the 3 were guillotined by officials of the French revolutionary government at Valenciennes and were members of the Ursuline nuns martyred during the French Revolution. Feast day is October 17th.
St. Richard Gwyn, 1584 A.D. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Also called Richard White, he was born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, in 1547, and studied at Cambridge University, England. Converted from Protestantism, he returned to Wales in 1562, married, had six children, and opened a school. Arrested in 1579, he spent four years in prison before his execution by being hanged, drawn, and quartered at Wrexham on October 15, for being a Catholic. While jailed, he composed many religious poems in Welsh. He is considered the Protomartyr of Wales and was included among the canonized martyrs of England and Wales by Pope Paul VI in 1970.
St. Francis Isidore Gagelin, Roman Catholic Priest and Vietnam Martyr. Born in Montperreux, France, in 1799, he entered the Society of Foreign Missions of Paris. He was sent to Vietnam in 1822, where he was ordained a priest. In 1833, Francis was seized by anti-Christian forces and was martyred by strangulation. Feastday Oct 17
Sts. Ethelbert and Etheired, 670 A.D. Martyred great grandsons of King Ethelbert of Kent, England (d. 616), at Eastery near Sandwich. Their shrine is at Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire.
St. Nothlem, Archbishop of Canterbury. Originally a priest in London, he was named archbishop in 734 A.D. Notheim conducted research on the history of Kent which was collected by Abbot Albinus and in turn utilized by the Venerable Bede in the writing of his Ecclesiastical History.
St. Louthiem, 6th century. Irish saint, patron of St. Ludgran in Cornwall, England. Also called Luchtighem.
St. Regulus, 4th century. An Abbot of Scotland. He is best known for bringing the relics of St. Andrew to Scotland from Greece.
St. Colman of Kilroot, 6th century. Abbotbishop of Kiltrout, near Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. He was a disciple of St. Ailbhe of Emly.
B. PETER CASANI, PIARIST
https://www.jesuit.org.sg/oct-john-ogilvie-sj/
SAINTS OCTOBER 18 "There is only one tragedy in this life, not to have been a saint."- Leon Bloy
ST. LUKE, EVANGELIST, PHYSICIAN, PATRON OF ARTISTS Of the four Evangelists, St Luke is the best at drawing descriptions of individual personalities. He probably owes his reputation as an artist to this characteristic. St. Luke, the writer of the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, has been identified with St. Paul's "Luke, the beloved physician.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/10/18/st--luke--evangelist--physician---patron-of--artists.html
St. Justus of Beauvais, Roman Catholic Martyr. Justus was reported to the authorities to be a Christian magician, and soldiers were sent to arrest him. When confronted at Beauvais, Justus, who was nine years old, confessed that he was a Christian, and he was immediately beheaded Feast day is October 18th.
St. Gwen, 5th century. Widowed martyr sometimes called Blanche, Wenn, or Candida. She was the daughter of a Chieftain, Brychan or Brecknock. Saxon pagans martyred Gwen at Talgrarth.
St. Keyna, 5th century. Welsh virgin, also called Keyne or Ceinwen. She is possibly one of the twentyfour children of the chieftain Brychan of Brecknock, Wales. Keyna supposedly became a hermitess on the banks of the Severn River in Somerset, England St. Cadoc, her nephew, convinced her to return to Wales. She founded churches in southern Wales and in Cornwall, England, and possibly in Somerset.
St. Monon, 645 A.D. Scottish pilgrim who moved to Ardennes, France, to become a hermit in that area. Monon was murdered at Nassogne, in Luxembourg, by a group of unrepentant sinners.
St. Peter of Alcantara, Roman Catholic Fransican Priest. Feast day is October 18th.
https://www.jesuit.org.sg/oct-isaac-joques-sj/
SAINTS OCTOBER 19 "There is only one tragedy in this life, not to have been a saint."- Leon Bloy
St. Laura, Roman Catholic and Martyr. She was martyred by Muslims who took her captive and scalded her to death by placing her in a vat of boiling lead. She is one of the Martyrs of Córdoba. Feast Day Oct. 19.
St. Theofrid, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr. He was killed by Muslim raiders who had crossed into southern France. Feastday October 19
St. Philip Howard, 1595 A.D. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Philip was the earl of Arundel and Surrey and, although a Catholic, led a religiously apathetic life until his personal conversion, after which he was a zealous Catholic in the midst of Elizabethan England. Arrested by authorities, he was placed in the Tower of London in 1585 and condemned to death in 1589. The sentence was never carried out, and Philip languished in the Tower until his death at the age of thirty eight. Beatified in 1929, he was included among the English martyrs canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI.
STS. JOHN DE BRÉBEUF AND ISAAC JOGUES, PRIESTS AND COMPANIONS, JESUITS, Six French Jesuit priests, a Jesuit lay brother, and a layman who sought to bring the Gospel to the indigenous tribes of New France became the seed of the Church in North America. All were martyred.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/10/19/sts--john-de-brebeuf-and-isaac-jogues--priests-and-companions--j.html
St. Eadnot, 1016 A.D. Bishop of Dorchester, England, who was a champion of St. Oswald of York. He is listed as a martyr in some records, having been slain in an invasion by the Danes.
St. Frideswide, 735 A.D. Benedictine hermitess and nun, the daughter of Prince Didan of the Upper Thames region of England. She is sometimes called Fredeswinda. When Prince Algar of a neighboring kingdom asked for her hand in marriage, Frideswide fled to Thomwry Wood in Birnsey, where she became a hermitess. She founded the St. Mary’s Convent in Oxford and is patroness of the University of that City. Her relics are extant. In liturgical art she is depicted as Benedictine, sometimes with an ox for companion.
Bl. Agnes de Jesus Galand, Roman Catholic Dominican Nun.
ST. PAUL OF THE CROSS, PRIEST, FOUNDER OF THE PASSIONISTS
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