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CALENDAR of the SAINTS
Anno Dómini 1 January 2012
"....and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. ~ ~ Apocalypse
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Bishop Blessed Adalbero of Liege
Born to the nobility. Brother of Count Godfrey Le Barbu of Louvain. Priest. Canon of Metz, France. Bishop of Liège, Belgium. Founded the abbey of Saint-Gilles.
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Saint Almachius, Martyr
A martyr and hermit who died in a Roman arena. He lost his life for protesting against the inhuman practice of having gladiators fight to the death for entertainment. During one of the events, Almachius entered the arena in Rome and demanded an end to the barbaric custom. He was promptly stoned to death by an irate crowd. His actions prompted Emperor Honorius to put end to the gladiatorial duels across the Roman Empire.
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Bishop Saint Basil of Aix
Priest at Arles, France. Bishop of Aix, Provence, France. Known for his exceptional sanctity, his work in his diocese, and his work as a miracle worker.
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Saint Basilios of Ancyrat
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Blessed Bonannus of Roio
Benedictine monk of the Celestine Congregation at the monastery of Saint Laurence, Abruzzi, Italy.
Saint Brogan, Martyr
Mentioned in the Gorman Martyrology. No other information has survived.
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Circumcision of the Lord
Though he was not bound by law, Christ wanted to fulfill the law and to show His descent in the flesh from Abraham, and so was circumcised on the eighth day of his life ( Blessed Apostle Saint Luke 2:21 ), and received the name expressive of His office, Jesus, ( Savior ). He was, as Blessed Apostle Saint Paul says, “made under the law”, that is, He submitted to the Mosaic Dispensation, “that he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might receive the adoption of sons” ( Galatians 4:4-5 ). “The Christ, in order to fulfil all justice, was required to endure this humiliation, and bear in His body the stigma of the sins which He had taken upon Himself.”
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Saint Clarus of Vienne
Benedictine monk at the abbey of Saint Ferreol. Abbot of Saint Marcellus in Vienne, Dauphine (in modern France). Noted spiritual director, including work at the convent of Saint Blandina where his own mother and sisters were nuns. Was also known for a profound understanding of theology, yet a teaching style that made it clear to any student. Reputed miracle worker
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Saint Concordius of Spoleto, Martyr
Sub-deacon in Rome, Italy. Spent most of his time alone in prayer and meditation. Imprisoned for his faith during the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius. Tried at Spoleto, Italy by Torquatus, the governor of Umbria, Italy, he was offered his freedom if he would renounce his faith and worship a statue of Jupiter; Concordius declined. The judge had him beaten and tortured on the rack; when he could speak, Concordius praised Jesus. After two more days in prison, Concordius was offered an idol to worship; he spat on it, and was beheaded A.D. 175 in a prison cell in Spoleto, Italy.
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Saint Connat
Nun and abbess of Saint Brigid’s convent in Kildare, Ireland.
Saint Cuan
Founded several churches and monasteries in Ireland.
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Saint Elvan
Sent by King Saint Lucius to Pope Saint Eleuterus to petition for missionaries to Britain, then returned to work as a missionary himself.
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Saint Euphrosyne of Alexandria
A virgin of Alexandria, Egypt, daughter of Paphnutis, a merchant. She received the veil without the permission of her father and dressed as a monk in order to escape detection, using the name Smaragdus. Her father consulted her without recognizing his daughter on several occasions. She identified herself on her deathbed, and her father took her place in the hermitage. This tradition is duplicated in other lives of saints and is not considered valid.
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Saint Eugendus of Condat, Martyr
Taught to read and write at home by his father, a man who became a priest himself. Moved into the Condat Monastery, Mount Jura, Switzerland at age seven, and stayed there the rest of his 61 years. Learned to read Greek and Latin, and became a noted Scripture authority. He refused to become ordained, saying he was unworthy to be a priest. Chosen abbot of his house c.496; the monastery was later renamed Saint-Oyend in his honour, and still later was known as Saint-Claude. When the wooden monastery burned, he managed to get it rebuilt in stone; it lasted for centuries. Known for the extreme austerity, simplicity, humility and good cheer, and for his life of continual prayer.
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Bishop Saint Felix of Bourges
Bishop of Bourges, France. Had a special devotion to the Eucharist. Attended the Council of Paris in A.D. 573. Many miraculous cures attributed to his intercession. Praised by Saint Gregory of Tours, there was poetry dedicated to him, and he is still venerated at Bourges.
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Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe
Born to a Roman senatorial family. Well educated. Provincial fiscal procurator and lieutenant governor of Byzacena. He became a monk early in life, led to the religious life by the writings of Saint Augustine of Hippo, whose work remained a touchstone for him the rest of his life. Priest. Abbot. Bishop of Ruspe (modern Kudiat Rosfa, Tunisia) in 508, an illegal election in the Arian controlled land following the invasion of the Vandals led by Thrasimund.
Exiled with 60 other bishops to Sardinia. There they built a monastery, and continued to write, pray, and study. He returned to Carthage in 515 to debate with Arians; he was so convincing that he was exiled again in A.D. 518. King Hilderic succeeded Thrasimund in A.D. 523, and permitted the exiles to return. Fulgentius preferred to return to his monastery and resume his studies, but he was such a popular preacher, he was kept busy in the pulpit until his death.
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Saint Gregory Nazianzen the Elder, Martyr
Gregory spent the first 50 years of his life as a pagan, and worked as a government official most of his adult life. Married to Saint Nonna, who converted him to Christianity in A.D. 325. Father of Saint Gregory Nazianzen, Saint Caesarius of Nazianzen, and Saint Gorgonius. Bishop of Nazianos, Cappadocia, Asia Minor A.D. 328. As bishop he became attached to an heretical Christian offshoot, but in A.D. 361 was brought back to the orthodox faith by his son Gregory. At age 94, he made younger Gregory his co-adjutor in Nazianos.
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Saint Hesychius of Gaza
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Blessed Hugolinus of Gualdo Cattaneo
Augustinian hermit as a young man. With Blessed Angelus of Foligno, he founded a monastery in Gualdo Cattaneo, Italy in 1258, and served his remaining years as the prior of the house. For many years there was fellowship named for him, but it dissolved in 1568.
Blessed Jean-Baptiste Lego, Martyr
one of the Martyrs of Anjou.
Brother of Blessed René Lego. Priest in the diocese of Angers, France. Martyred A.D. 1 January 1794 at Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France, during the persecution of Catholics caught up in the French Revolution.
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Saint John of Saint-Just-en-Chaussée
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Saint Joseph Mary Tomasi, Martyr
Born to the wealthy Sicilian nobility, the son of the duke of Palermo and Rosalia Traino. When their children were grown, both of his parents entered religious life, and four of his sisters became nuns. Joseph renounced his inheritance and position in favour of his brother, and joined the Theatines on 24 March 1665. He studied philosophy at Messina, Ferrara, and Modena, Italy, and theology in Rome and Palermo, Italy. Joseph learned Greek, Ethiopic, Arabic, Syriac, Chaldaic, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin. He was ordained A.D. 25 December 1673.
Father Joseph was stationed in Rome and served as examiner of the clergy for Pope Innocent XII. He lived as a hermit, and was chastised by authorities for being over-scrupulous. Studied and wrote extensively on the liturgy, publishing several titles under the pen name Joseph Marie Carus
Confessor to Cardinal Alboni; when Albani was elected Pope, he was reluctant to accept the throne. Joseph advised him it would be a mortal sin to refuse, so Albani became Clement XI. Consultor of the Theatines. Theologian to several congregations. Consultor to the Congregation of Rites, and to the Congregation of Indulgences and Sacred Relics. Though he insisted he was not worthy, he was created cardinal-priest by Clement XI A.D. 18 May 1712. He was a prolific writer on theology, Scripture, and patristics. Known for his knowledge, humility, charity, and reforming work. Joseph always enjoyed teaching catechism to children. He is reported to have predicted the date of his death.
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Bishop Saint Justin of Chieti
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Saint Lojze Grozde, Martyr
Lay man in the Archdiocese of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Martyred by Communist partisans A.D. 1 January 1943 in Mirna, Trebnje, Slovenia.
Saint Maelrhys
Lived on the isle of Bardsey. Venerated in northern Wales where an ancient stone church is dedicated to him.
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Saint Magnus, Martyr
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Blessed Marianus Konopinski
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Martyred Soldiers of Rome
Three soldiers who were converted at the martyrdom of Blessed Apostle Saint Paul the Apostle. They were martyred, A.D. 68 in Rome, Italy.
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Mary, Mother of God
Saint Mydwyn
Sent by King Saint Lucius to Pope Saint Eleuterus to petition for missionaries to Britain, then returned to work as a missionary himself.
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Saint Oyend
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Saint Paracodius of Vienne
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Saint Peter of Atroa
Eldest of three children. Following a message from the Blessed Virgin, he became the spiritual student of Saint Paul the Hesychast. Monk at age 18 at Crypta, Phrygia (in modern Turkey), taking the name Peter. Ordained at Zygos, Greece. On the day of his ordination he healed a possessed man at the door of the church, which was the beginning of a ministry of healing. Noted confessor, able to read the souls of his parishioners.
He began a pilgrimage with his teacher Blessed Apostle Saint Paul to Jerusalem, but they did not make it there. A vision from God sent them to Mount Olympus in Bithynia where Paul founded a monastery at the chapel of Saint Zachary near Atroa, and served as its first abbot. When Paul died in 805, 32-year-old Peter succeeded him as abbot. The monastery flourished, but in 815 Peter closed it due to the persecutions of the iconoclastic Emperor Leo the Armenian. Peter moved to Ephesus and then to Crete.
Due to his support of the use of icons, Peter found that he was a wanted man. He escaped imperial troops by miraculously becoming invisible. He briefly returned to his family home where his brother Christopher and widowed mother received monastic habits from his hands. He then settled for several years at Kalonaros near the Hellespont, but his own fame as a healer forced him to move on. His wonder-working caused an accusation of practicing magic and invoking devils, but he was completely cleared by Saint Theodore Studites.
Hermit near Atroa. Restored the Saint Zachary monastery and reorganized several others. However, after a few years of this work there was another outbreak of iconoclasm. This included his own bishop, and for their safety he sent his brother monks into hiding. When the persecutions turned violent, Peter retired to Saint Porphyry monastery on the Hellespont, and except for a brief visit to his friend Saint Joannicus of Mount Olympus at Balea, he never left again.
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Saint Peter of Temissis, Martyr
Blessed René Lego, Martyr
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Saint Telemachus, Martyr
Hermit from the eastern part of the Roman empire. He protested in Rome against gladiatorial combat, and was murdered by its supporters. His efforts moved the Christian emperor Honorius to ban the combats, and Telemachus was martyred A.D. 1 January 391 in Rome, Italy
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Blessed Valentin Paquay, Martyr
The fifth of eleven children born to Hendrik Paquay and Anne Neven, a pious couple who raised all their children to have a strong connection to the Church. Louis studied literature at the College in Tongres. He entered Saint Trond Seminary in A.D. 1845. When his father died unexpectedly in A.D. 1847, Louis left school to join the Franciscans, making his vows A.D 4 October 1850 and taking the name Valentine. He then resumed his studies, and was ordained A.D. 10 June 1854. Assigned to the monastery of Hasselt, Belgium where he lived for the rest of his life.br> He served as sub-prior and prior of the house. Served as a Provincial Definitor from 1890 to 1899. Noted, eloquent and popular preacher. He wrote constantly. Had the gift of reading a visitor’s consience, and became sought after confessor and spiritual director. Valentin had a strong devotion to the Holy Eucharist, and promoted frequent communion. He also had a great devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and encouraged it as well, especially to his fellow Franciscans. He prayed the Way of the Cross each day.
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Saint William of Dijon
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Saint Zedislava Berka
Saint Zygmunt Gorazdowski
Roman Catholic in an area predominantly Greek Catholic. Suffered with respiratory problems all his life. Studied law for two years, but quit to enter the seminary at Lviv, Ukraine. Ordained A.D. 1871. Senior priest of the parish of Saint Nicholas in Lviv.
Organized The Affordable Public House and The House for Workers, shelters for the poor, hungry, and homeless. Built a dormitory for poor students of a teacher‘s college so they could concentrate on study. Founded The House of the Child Jesus, a shelter for abandoned children and single mothers and their children. Founded a convent for the Sisters of Mercy of Saint Joseph in A.D. 1884 so the sisters could help with these organizations; their mission was to work in boarding schools, and to care for the aged and sick Wrote catechisms and other educational works.
today the Sisters continue their work in Poland, France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Congo, and Cameroon.
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