SAINTS OCTOBER 21

SAINTS OCTOBER 21

St. Tuda, 664 A.D. Irish monk and bishop. He succeeded St. Colman as bishop of Lindisfarne, and he was a

supporter of the Roman Rite versus the Celtic Church in England. He died after only one year in his see from an

outbreak of plague. No other facts are available about him, owing to the destruction of so many records in the s

acking of Lindisfarne by the Danes in the ninth century.

Bl. Giuseppe "Pino" Puglis, Roman Catholic Priest. September 15, 1993) was a Roman Catholic priest in the rough

Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio. He openly challenged the Mafia who controlled the neighbourhood, and

was killed by them on his 56th birthday. His life story has been retold in a book, Pino Puglisi, il prete che fece t

remare la mafia con un sorriso (2013), and portrayed in a film, In the Sunlight (2005).

St. Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena, Roman Catholic Colombian nun. In 1914 she founded the Congregation of

the Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate and St. Catherine of Siena.

ST. GASPARE OF THE BUFALO, 

ST. HILARION, ABBOT

St. Maichus