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CALENDAR of the SAINTS
22 January A.D. 2005
Saint Anastasius the Persian
Strangled and beheaded in 628 in Persia; relics translated to Palestine, and then to Rome
Saint Blaesilla Saint Brithwald Saint Blaithmaic Saint Caterina Volpicelli Saint Dominic of Sora Saint Francis Gil de Frederich
Educated in Barcelona, Spain where he joined the Dominicans. Missionary to the Philippines. Missionary to Vietnam in 1732. Spent nine years in prison for his faith during which he converted fellow prisoners and supervised evangelists on the outside. Beheaded in 1744 in Checo, Vietnam. One of the Martyrs of Vietnam. Saint Guadentius of Novara Saint Ladislao Batthyany-Strattmann Saint Laura Vicuna Saint Matthew Alonso Leziniana Saint Orontius
Brother of Saint Vincent. Missionary in the Pyrenees. Martyred with Saint Vincent and Saint Victor. Martyred in 305 at Puigcerda; relics enshrined at Embrun, France Saint Paschasius Saint Valerius of Saragossa Saint Victor
Missionary in the Pyrenees. Martyred with Saint Vincent and Saint Victor in 305 at Puigcerda; relics enshrined at Embrun, France Saint Vincent
Brother of Saint Orontius. Missionary in the Pyrenees. Martyred with Saint Orontius and Saint Victor in 305 at Puigcerda; relics enshrined at Embrun, France. Saint Vincent of Digne 
Saint Vincent of Saragossa
Friend of Saint Valerius of Saragossa in Spain, and served as his deacon. Imprisoned and tortured in Valencia, some of it by burning on a gridiron, for his faith. Converted the jailer. Was finally offered release if he would give up the sacred texts to the fire, but he refused. Martyred c.304 at Valencia during the persecutions of Diocletian.
Saint Vincent Pallotti Saint Walter of Himmerode Saint William Joseph Chaminade Saint William Patenson
Studied at Reims, France. Ordained in 1587. Returned to England in 1588 to minister covertly to Catholics. Arrested in 1591, he was condemned to death for the crime of priesthood. While in awaiting his execution, he ministered to other prisoners, and converted some of them to Catholicism. Hanged, drawn, and quartered in 1592 at Tyburn, England. |
