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CALENDAR of the SAINTS
Anno Dómini 29 May 2011
"....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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Saint Alexander of Trentino
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Saint Bona of Pisa, Martyr
Mystic and visionary from her childhood. Augustinian tertiary by age 10.Pilgrim to the Holy Lands at age 14, travelling to see her father who was fighting in the Crusades. On the way home she was captured and imprisoned by Islamic pirates in the Mediterranean, but was rescued by fellow Pisan Christians.Pilgrim to Rome.Pilgrim to Santiago de Compostela, Spain nine times, leading groups of pilgrims each time, which led to several of her areas of patronage.
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Saint Conon the Elder, Martyr
Father of Conon the Younger. On the death of his wife, he urged his son to religious life, and lived as a hermit. He and his son were charged with the treason of being Christian; he freely admitted it. He was tortured to death in a fire and on the rack in A.D. 275. His relicsAcerra, Italy. were translated to
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Saint Conon the Younger , Martyr
Son of Saint Conon the Elder. A pious youth, he was a lector at age 12.Deacon. He and his father were charged with the treason of being Christian; he freely admitted it. He was tortured to death in a fire and on the rack aalong side his father. His relics were translated to Acerra, Italy.
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Saint Cyril of Caesarea
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Saint Elias Fracasso
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Saint Eleutherius of Rocca d’Arce
Brother of Saint Grimwald and Saint Fulk.
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Saint Felix de la Peña, Martyr
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Bishop Saint Gerald of Mâcon
Benedictine monk at Brou.Bishop of Macon for 40 years, but in his old age he resigned and retired to his old monastery.
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Blessed Gerardesca of Pisa
Married lay woman. After a few years of married life, she convinced her husband to become a Camaldolese monk at San Salvio. She lived nearby as a recluse, under the obedience of the abbey, but without taking orders.
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Saint Joachim of Fiore
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Saint John de Atarés
Hermit in the diocese of Jaca, Aragonesecell was under a huge rock on which the Benedictine abbey of Saint John de Peña, a cradle of Christianity in Navarre and Aragon, was later built. Pyrenees. His
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Saint John de Atares, Martyr
Spanish hermit in the Aragonese Pyrenees. He lived under a rock promontory, and a monastery was later established on the site, the Benedictine Abbey of Saint John de Ia Pena. It served as the cradle of the religious and spiritual life of Navarre and Aragon.
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Saint Joseph Gérard
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Saint Martyrius of Trentino
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Blessed Martyrs of Toulouse
Twelve martyrs put to death by Albigensian heretics nearToulouse, France, on the eve of the feast of the Ascension. Four diocesan priests, three Dominicans, two Benedictines, two Franciscans, and one layman died singing the Te Deum. They were beatified in 1866.
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Saint Maximinus of Trier
Educated and ordained by Saint Agritius, whom he succeeded as bishop of Trier in 332 or 335.Trier was the government seat of the Western Empire, and his office put Maximinus close contact with Emperors Constantine II and Constans. Friend of Saint Athanasius, whom he harboured as an honoured guest during his exile of 336-8. Received the banished patriarch Paul of Constantinople in 341, and effected his return to Constantinople.
Fought Arianism. When four Arian bishops came to Trier in A.D. 342 to sway Emperor Constans, Maximinus refused to receive them, and convinced the emperor to reject their proposals. With Pope Julius I and Bishop Hosius of Cordova, he persuaded Emperor Constans to convene the Synod of Sardica in A.D. 343, and probably took part in it. Arians considered him one of their chief opponents, and they condemned him by name at their synod of Philippopolis in A.D. 343. In A.D. 345 he took part in the Synod of Milan. Presided over a synod at Cologne in A.D. 346 where Bishop Euphratas of Cologne was deposed due to his leanings toward Arianism.
Sent Saint Castor and Saint Lubentius as missionaries to the valleys of the Mosel and the Lahn.
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Bishop Saint Maximus
A bishop of Verona, Italy. No details of his life are extant, although he governed his see in a period of political and military turmoil.
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Saint Peter Petroni
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Saint Raymund
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Saint Restitutus of Rome, Martyr
A Roman martyr. He was put to death during the persecution of the Church under Emperor Diocletian.
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Blessed Richard Thirkeld, Martyr
Educated at Queen's College, Oxford, 1564-1565. Studied at Douai and Rheims, France.Ordained on 18 April 1579 at an age somewhat older than his confreres. Returned to England on 23 May 1579 as a home missioner around York.Confessor to Saint Margaret Clitherow.Arrested on Annunciation Eve in 1583 for the crime of priesthood; the authorities became suspicious when he visited a Catholic prisoner. Lodged in Ousebridge Kidcote prison, York, for two months. He wore a cassock to trial, was convicted on 27 May 1583 of hearing confessions and bringing the lapsed back to the Church, and was sentenced on 28 May 1583 to death. He used his time in jail to minister to other prisoners, working especially with others sentenced to death. Hanged, drawn, and quartered on 29 May 1583 at York, England in secret for fear his covert parishioners would cause a civil disturbance. Six of his letters have survived.
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Saint Sisinnius of Trentino
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Saint Stephen of Narbonne
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Saint Theodosia and Companions, Martyrs All
A group of thirteen female martyrs who were supposedly slain at Caesarea, in Palestine. Theodosia was also the reputed mother of Saint Procopius.
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Saint Theodosia of Constantinople, Martyr
Saint Theodosia of Constantinople lived during the eighth century and was born in answer to the fervent prayers of her parents. After their deaths, she was raised at the women’s monastery of the Holy Martyr Anastasia in Constantinople. After distributing what remained of her parental inheritance to the poor, she became a nun. She also used part of the money to commission gold and silver icons of the Savior, the Theotokos, and Saint Anastasia.
When Leo the Isaurian ascended the throne, he issued an edict that holy icons be destroyed everywhere. Above the Bronze Gates at Constantinople was a bronze icon of the Savior, which had been there for more than 400 years. In 730, the iconoclast Patriarch Anastasius ordered that the icon be destroyed.
The Virgin Martyr Theodosia and other women rushed to protect the icon and toppled the ladder with the soldier who was carrying out the command. The women then stoned Patriarch Anastasius.
Emperor Leo ordered the women to be beheaded. Saint Theodosia, an ardent defender of icons, was thrown in prison. She was given one hundred lashes a day for over one week. On the eighth day, she was led through the city, being beaten along the way. Ultimately, one of the soldiers stabbed her in the throat with a ram’s horn, and she received the crown of martyrdom.
Following the Triumph of Orthodoxy over iconoclasm she was recognized as a martyr and saint, and The body of the holy virgin martyr was reverently buried by Christians in the Saint Euphemia Monastery in Constantinople, near a place called Dexiokratis. The tomb of Saint Theodosia was glorified by numerous healings of the sick.
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Saint Ulric of Einsiedeln
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Saint Ursula Ledóchowska
Daughter of Count Anthony Ledochowska, a Polish noble, and an Austrian mother. One of five children in a pious family; sister of Saint Theresa Ledochowska. Due to family financial failure, they moved to Saint Poelten, Poland in 1873. Her father died of smallpox in February 1885, and Julia's uncle Cardinal Lebo assumed responsibility for them.
Julia felt a call to religious life, and became an Ursuline nun, taking the name Ursula. Founded the Ursulines of the Sacred Heart ( Ursuline Sisters of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, Gray Ursulines ) in 1906 with the motherhouse in Pniewy, Poland.
Missionary to Russia in 1907 by order of PopePius X. Expelled during the Communist Revolution, she continued her work throughout Scandanavia.Translatedcatechism in Finnish. At the request of Pope Benedict XV, she moved to Rome. From there she administered her Order, and inspired others. A noted orator, she frequently spoke before royalty and national leaders. Called for, and defended the right of Polish independence. The Gray Ursulines continue their work today in Poland, Italy, France, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Finland, Germany, Tanzania, Belarus, and Ukraine.
Saint Julia died 29 May 1939 in the Gray Ursuline convent, Via del Casalet, Rome, Italy of natural causes. On 29 May 1989 her incorrupt body was transferred to the Gray Ursuline motherhouse in Pniewy, Poland.
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Saint Votus de la Peña
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Saint William Arnaud
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