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• Godefride Moritius
• Godefridus Mauritius
• Godfrey Maurice
• Griffith Jones
• Gryffith Jones
• John Buckley
• John Griffith
• Robert Buckley
• Robertus Jonus
25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
Born to a strong Catholic Welsh family. Joined the Franciscans in Greenwich, England. When his monastery was dissolved in 1559, he travelled to France to study. Ordained at Rheims, France.
John returned to England to work with Catholic prisoners at Marshalsea Prison in London. He was arrested for being a priest and imprisoned at Wisbech Castle, but escaped to the Continent. He lived for a while at Pontoise, France, and then the Ara Coeli Franciscan Observant house at Rome, Italy, finally returning to England as a missioner 1592. He worked in several places in the country, and was elected Franciscan provincial of England.
Arrested and tortured by the priest-catcher Topcliffe in 1596. Imprisoned for two years, doing time with Blessed John Rigby. Convicted on 3 July 1598 for the treason of being a Catholic priest.
His execution took place early in the morning to reduce the chance of a mob; the executioner, roused out of bed for the job, forgot his ropes. During the delay while he went for them, John preached to the crowd that had gathered, and explained he was being murdered for his faith, not any disloyalty to his country. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
1559 in Clynog-Fawr, Carnarvonshire, Wales
• hanged, drawn, and quartered in the early morning of 12 July 1598 at Southwark, London, England
• body chopped to pieces and displayed on roadside poles as warnings to others
• body parts pulled down by local Catholics, at least one of whom was jailed for the offense
• surviving relics at Pontoise, France
25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-john-jones/
Mnason, Nason
Acts 17:5-9 says that Saint Paul the Apostle stayed at Jason's home in Thessalonica, and he is mentioned in Romans 16:21. Legend says he was bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, and evangelized the Greek island of Corfu. While imprisoned for preaching the faith, he helped convert the Martyrs of Corfu. Martyr.
torn apart by wild animals
The Jews became jealous and recruited some worthless men loitering in the public square, formed a mob, and set the city in turmoil. They marched on the house of Jason, intending to bring them before the people's assembly. When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city magistrates, shouting, "These people who have been creating a disturbance all over the world have now come here, and Jason has welcomed them. They all act in opposition to the decrees of Caesar and claim instead that there is another king, Jesus." They stirred up the crowd and the city magistrates who, upon hearing these charges, took a surety payment from Jason and the others before releasing them. - Acts 17:5-9
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-jason/
Giovanni Gualberto
Florentine nobility; part of the Visdomini family. His brother Hugh was murdered; John tracked down the killer, finding him on a Good Friday. John received a vision of Christ on the Cross, which he took as a sign to pardon the killer, and convert to Christianity. He did both.
Against his family opposition, he became a Benedictine monk at the San Miniato del Monte monastery. Founded and built by hand the monastery in Vallombrosa, Italy in 1038. The rule of John's order was an austere form of the Benedictine Rule, included an order of lay brothers, and received papal approval in 1070. When it seemed he would be appointed abbot, John fled. He founded abbeys at at San Salvi, Moscetta, Rozzuolo, Monte Salario, and Passignano, though did not do all the construction himself. Reported to have the gift of prophecy. Known for his great charity. Claims of miracles throughout his intercession in life and after.
c.985 at Florence, Italy
1073 at Passignano near Florence, Italy of natural causes
1193 by Pope Celestine III
• forest workers, foresters
• park services
• parks
• Florence, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-john-gualbert/
Lifelong layman in the diocese of Bayeux-Liseux, France. Son of an army officer. Watchmaker. Married to Blessed Marie-Azelie Guérin Martin on 12 July 1858. Father of nine children; five of them, all girls, survived to adulthood and became nuns; the youngest was Saint Therese of Lisieux. In 1889 he suffered two paralyzing strokes followed by a complete mental collapse, and was hospitalized for three years.
22 August 1823 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France
29 July 1894 in Arnières-sur-Iton, Eure, France of natural causes
• Mission Sunday, 19 October 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI at the cathedral at Lisieux, France
• his beatification miracle involved the 2002 repair of a normally-fatal congential lung condition suffered by the infant Pietro Schiliro of Monza, Italy; the healing followed a novena said by Pietro's mother asking for the intervention of Blessed Louis and Blessed Marie-Azelie
18 October 2015 by Pope Francis during the Synod on the Family
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-louis-martin/
Lifelong lay woman. Lace maker. Married to Blessed Louis Martin on 12 July 1858. Mother of nine children; five of them, all girls, survived to adulthood and became nuns; the youngest was Saint Therese of Lisieux.
23 December 1831 in Saint-Denis-sur-Sarthon, Orne, France
28 August 1877 in Alençon, Orne, France of breast cancer
• Mission Sunday, 19 October 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI
• recognition celebrated at the cathedral at Lisieux, France
• the beatification miracle involved the 2002 repair of a normally-fatal congential lung condition suffered by the infant Pietro Schiliro of Monza, Italy following a novena prayed by Pietro's mother asking for the intervention of Blessed Louis and Blessed Marie-Azelie
18 October 2015 by Pope Francis during the Synod on the Family
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-marie-azelie-guerin-martin/
Berenice
When Christ fell on his way to the Golgotha, a woman wiped his face with a towel; an image of Christ remained on the towel. This woman was Veronica; this incident is all we really know about her, and the relic has become her symbol ever since.
• against bleeding or hemorraghes
• domestic workers
• dying people
• laundry workers
• linen weavers
• maids
• parsonage or rectory housekeepers
• photographers
• seamstresses
• washerwomen
woman holding a cloth that bears the image of Christ's face
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-veronica/
Ignacio Clemente, Ignatius, Klemens Ignatius
24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam
Raised in a pious family. Joined the Dominicans in 1780. Priest. Missionary to the Philippines, and then Vietnam where he worked for nearly 50 years. Apostolic vicar and of East Tonkin (in modern Vietnam) and titular bishop of Metellopolis on 11 February 1794. He and several of his Dominican brothers ttried to escape the persecution of Christians by living in a cave, but they were betrayed and arrested on 13 May 1838. He was locked in a cage, put on public display for ridicule and abuse, and left to die of hunger, thirst and exposure. Martyr.
23 November 1761 in Villafeliche, Zaragoza, Spain
12 July 1838 in Nam Ðinh, Vietnam of general abuse
19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-clemente-ignacio-delgado-cebrian/
Leo I
Benedictine monk at the monastery of the Holy Trinity in La Cava de Tirreni at Salerno, Italy. Spiritual student of Saint Alferius who chose him as the second abbot of Cava in 1050; he served for 29 years. Known for his care and charity to the poor, often going off into the woods to collect firewood for them. Received the support and protection of the house and local people from Duke Gisulf II of Salerno, and praise from Pope Gregory VII.
c.990 in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
• 1079 at the monastery of the Holy Trinity in La Cava de Tirreni at Salerno, Italy of natural causes
• buried in the "Arsicia" cave at the monastery
• relics enshrined in the Holy Fathers chapel of the monastery in 1641
• 1579 by Pope Gregory XIII (cultus confirmation)
• 23 December 1893 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmation)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-leo-of-cava/
• John the Iberian
• John the Hagiorite
• John Iweron
Born to the 10th century Iberian nobility. Married layman, and outstanding military commander. Father of Saint Euthymius the Illuminator. With his wife's approval, he became a monk on Mount Olympus in Bithynia. Travelled to Constantinople to his son, who was being held hostage by the emperor. Euthymius then joined his father as a monk. Their holiness attracted would-be followers, so they retired to the monastery of Saint Athanasius on Mount Athos in Macedonia. With John's brother-in-law, retired general John Thornikos, and Euthymius, John founded Iviron (Iweron) monastery on Mount Athos; Saint John served as its first abbot. The monastery is still in use, though now by Greek Orthodox monks.
at Georgia near the Black Sea
c.1002 at Mount Athos
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-john-the-georgian/
• Maria Cluse
• Marta of the Good Angel
• Marta dell'Angelo Buono Cluse
• Sister Marthe of the Good Angel
9 July as one of the Martyrs of Orange
Sacramentine nun, making her profession on 4 November 1783. Martyred in the French Revolution.
5 December 1761 in Bouvante, Drôme, France
• guillotined on 12 July 1794 in Orange, Vaucluse, France
• on the scaffold, her executioner offered to marry her; she declined, saying she would rather have dinner with the angels that night
10 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-marie-cluse/
• Anê Lê Thi Thành
• Bà Ðê
24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam
Raised in a Christian family. Married lay woman in the apostolic vicariate of West Tonkin (in modern Vietnam). Mother. Imprisoned, tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Thieu Tri for the crime of hiding a priest.
c.1781 at Ba Den, Tranh Hóa, Vietnam
12 July 1841 in prison at Ninh Binh, Vietnam
19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-agnes-de/
Arduin
Benedictine monk at the monastery of Saint-Wandrille in Fontenelle, Rouen, Normandy (in modern France). Priest. He received permission to live as a hermit, and lived locked in a cell near the abbey. Prolific copyist of the writings of the Fathers of the Church. Taught mathematics and calligraphy. Pilgrim to Rome during the papacy of Pope Hadrian I.
749 in Alvimare, diocese of Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Gaul (in modern France)
• 12 July 811 at Fontenelle, France of natural causes
• buried at the church of Saint Paul at the monastery
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-harduin-of-fontenelle/
David Gunston
Son of a British vice-admiral and a member of the English nobility. Lifelong layman in the apostolic vicariate of England. Knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. Imprisoned in the Tower of London, then Marshalsea prison, and finally executed for refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church. One of the Martyrs of England and Wales.
hanged, drawn and quartered on 12 July 1541 in Southwark, London, England
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-david-gonson/
Ermacora, Ermagora, Hermagoras, Hermagoro, Mohor
Disciple of Saint Mark the Evangelist. First bishop of Aquileia in northern Italy, appointed by Mark. Martyred with Saint Fortunatus in the persecution of Nero.
beheaded c.66
• Aquileia, Italy
• Hermagor-Pressegger See, Austria
• Udine, Italy
bishop holding a crozier and palm (indicative of his office and martyrdom)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-hermagorus-of-aquileia/
• Maria di S. Enrico de Justamond
• Sister Marie of Saint Henry
9 July as one of the Martyrs of Orange
Cistercian nun. Martyred in the French Revolution.
12 January 1746 in Bollène, Vaucluse, France
guillotined on 12 July 1794 in Orange, Vaucluse, France
10 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-marguerite-eleonore-de-justamond/
24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam
Priest in the apostolic vicariate of West Tonkin (in modern Vietnam). Imprisoned for six months in the persecutions of Thieu Tri, and repeatedly order to renounce his faith; Father Phêrô refused. Martyr.
c.1780 in Hòa Hue, Nghe An, Vietnam
beheaded on 12 July 1842 in Hà Tinh, Vietnam
19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-phero-khan/
• Giovanna Maria di S. Bernardo de Romillon
• Sister Saint Bernard
9 July as one of the Martyrs of Orange
Ursuline nun. Martyred in the French Revolution.
12 July 1753 in Bollène, Vaucluse, France
guillotined on 12 July 1794 in Orange, Vaucluse, France
10 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-jeanne-marie-de-romillon/
Sister Rose of Saint Xavier
9 July as one of the Martyrs of Orange
Sacramentine nun. Martyred in the French Revolution.
13 September 1746 in Bollène, Vaucluse, France
guillotined on 12 July 1794 in Orange, Vaucluse, France
10 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-madeleine-therese-talieu/
• Paulinus of Lucca
• Paulino of...
First bishop of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. Legend says he was sent there by Saint Peter the Apostle. Martyred with a priest, deacon, and soldier whose names have not come down to us.
Antioch, Syria
martyred c.67
Lucca, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-paulinus-of-antioch/
First century deacon, serving Saint Hermagorus of Aquileia. Martyred with Saint Hermagorus in the persecution of Nero.
beheaded c.66
• Udine, Italy
• Aquileia, Italy
• deacon
• book (likely the Gospels)
• palm (of martyrdom)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-fortunatus-of-aquileia/
Eleventh-century Cistercian monk in Morimond Abbey, Parnoy-en-Bassigny, France. Abbot of Clairfontaine Abbey in Belgium. Abbot of Morimond Abbey. Abbot of the Cîteaux Abbey in Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux, France from 1155 to 1161. In 1161 he retired from leadership to spend retirement as a prayerful monk at the Morimond Abbey.
1163 in Morimond Abbey, Parnoy-en-Bassigny, France of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-lambert-of-citeaux/
Lucio, Lucius, Luguzzone, Uguzon, Uguzzone
Shepherd in the mountains of Carvagna in the Italian Alps. Poor as he was, he regularly gave away all he had to the church and those poorer than himself. Killed by a former employer who was jealous of Uguzo’s reputation and the admiration he received.
cheese makers
shepherd handing out cheese
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-uguzo-of-carvagna/
Soldier in the imperial Roman army. Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian when the ranks were violently purged of Christians.
• c.304 in Milan, Italy
• relics enshrined by Saint Ambrose of Milan in the late 4th century
• relics enshrined in the cathedral of Milan
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-felix-of-milan/
Soldier in the imperial Roman army. Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian when the ranks were violently purged of Christians.
• c.304 in Milan, Italy
• relics enshrined by Saint Ambrose of Milan in the late 4th century
• relics enshrined in the cathedral of Milan
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-nabor-of-milan/
Proclo
Martyred in the persecutions of emperor Trajan and the governor Maximus.
Ancyra, Asia Minor (in modern Turkey)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-proclus-of-ancyra/
Menou, Menuiphus
Seventh century bishop of Quimper in Brittany, (part of modern France).
Ireland
near Bourges, France of natural causes while returning from Rome, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-menulphus-of-quimper/
Monk at Prüm Abbey near Trier, Germany. Abbot of Saint-Hubert in the Ardennes. Abbot of Prüm Abbey in 860. Prüm was burned by Vikings in 882, but Ansbald managed to re-build.
Luxembourg
886
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ansbald-of-prum/
Martyred in the persecutions of Trajan.
115 at Ancyra, Galatia
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-hilarion-of-ancyra/
Juventiole, Viventiole, Vivenziolo
Monk at Saint Oyend, France. Archbishop of Lyons, France. Friend of Saint Avitus of Vienne.
524
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-viventiolus-of-lyons/
Bishop of Bologna, Italy from 540 until his death. Martyred by Goths led by Goterne.
542
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-proculus-of-bologna/
Christian soldier. Martyred for his faith, but the time and place of his death have been lost.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-andreas-the-soldier/
Christian soldier. Martyred for his faith, but the time and place of his death have been lost.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-faustus-the-soldier/
Christian soldier. Martyred for his faith, but the time and place of his death have been lost.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-menas-the-soldier/
Bishop of Bologna, Italy from c.450 until his death.
c.470
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-paternian-of-bologna/
Bachla
Hermit at Ploermellac, Brittany, France. Spiritual student of Saint Guenole.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-balay/
Epiphania
Martyr.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-epiphana/
10 September as one of the 205 Martyrs of Japan
Eight lay people, many them related to each other, who were martyred together.
• Catharina Tanaka
• Ioannes Onizuka Naizen
• Ioannes Tanaka
• Ludovicus Onizuka
• Matthias Araki Hyozaemon
• Monica Onizuka
• Petrus Araki Chobyoe
• Susanna Chobyoe
12 July 1626 in Nagasaki, Japan
7 May 1867 by Pope Blessed Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/martyrs-of-nagasaki-12-july/
• Bertha the Queen
• Colman of Clonpriest
• Dedication of the Cathedral of Coutances
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