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• Elene, Helen
• Flavia Julia Helena Augusta
21 May (Eastern Church)
Converted to Christianity late in life. Married Constantius Chlorus, co-regent of the western Roman empire. Mother of Constantine the Great. Her husband put her aside for a second marriage with better political connections. On his death, her son ascended to the throne, brought her home, and treated her as royalty. She used her high position and wealth in the service of her religious enthusiasm, and helped build churches throughout the empire.
At the age of 80 she led a group to the Holy Land to search for the True Cross. She and her group unearthed three crosses in 326. At the suggestion of Saint Macarius of Jerusalem, she took them to a woman afflicated with an incurable disease, and had her touch each one. One of them immediately cured her, and it was pronounced the True Cross. She built a church on the spot where the cross was found, and sent pieces to Rome and Constantinople; the Feast of the Holy Cross on 14 September celebrates the event. Thus in art, she is usually depicted holding a wooden cross.
c.248 at Drepanon, Bithynia, Asia Minor
• c.328 in Nicomedia of natural causes
• interred in the Church of Santa Maria di Aracoeli, Rome, Italy
• against fire
• against thunder
• archeologists
• converts
• difficult marriages
• divorced people
• dyers
• empresses
• nail smiths
• needle makers
• Birkirkara, Malta
• Helena, Montana, diocese of
• cross
• cross in hand
• nails
• queen giving a letter to a messenger
• queen holding a cross
• queen leading the search for the True Cross
• with Constantine
• woman receiving the location of the True Cross in a dream
• woman with a book and small cross
• woman with cross and nails
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-helena/
Alberto's father died when the boy was four years old, and he grew up in poverty. Educated at the Jesuit College in Santiago, Chile. He early felt a call to religion, and to work with those as poor as himself. He entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1923, and was ordained in 1933. He taught religion at Colegion San Ignacio, trained teachers at Catholic University in Santiago, led retreats for young men, and worked in the poor areas of the city whenever he could. In 1941 he wrote Is Chile a Catholic Country?, and became national chaplain to the youth movement Catholic Action. During a retreat in 1944, Father Alberto started the work that would lead to El Hogar de Cristo which shelters the homeless and tries to rescue abandoned children, and was later modelled somewhat on the American Boys Town movement. In 1947, Hurtado founded the Chilean Trade Union Association (ASICH) to promote a Christian labour-union movement. He founded the journal Mensaje, dedicated to explaining the Church's teaching, in 1951. He wrote several works in his later years on trade unions, social humanism and the Christian social order.
22 January 1901 at Vina del Mar, Chile
18 August 1952 at Santiago, Chile of pancreatic cancer
23 October 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI at Rome, Italy
I am happy, Lord. - Saint Alberto's frequent prayer during his fight with cancer
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-alberto-hurtado-cruchaga/
Son of Martín Martínez Callao, a carpenter, and Francisca Pascual Amposta; Martin was baptized at the age of one day. He was a religious child. He joined the Diocesan Laborer Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1934 while in seminary in the diocese of Zaragoza, Spain. Priest, ordained on 15 June 1935 in the diocese of Tortosa, Spain. Taught at a vocational Colegio San José de Murcia, and then taught Latin in the seminary in Murcia, Spain where he was considered an excellent instructor.
At the outbreak of the persecutions of the Spanish Civil War, Father Martin grabbed the reserved consecrated hosts from his church and went into hiding, spending his time in prayer while sitting in caves and haystacks. He evaded the militia for a few days but was caught and imprisoned where he spent his remaining time ministering to other prisoners, hearing confessions, and distributing the Eucharist he had rescued; he died giving his executioners a blessing in hopes that they would come to their senses. Martyr.
11 November 1910 in Valdealgorfa, Teruel, Spain
shot by firing squad on 18 August 1936 at the cemetery in Valdealgorfa, Teruel, Spain
1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-martin-martinez-pascual/
• Agapetus the Martyr
• Agapitus of Palestrina
• Agapitus of Praeneste
• Agapito...
Born to an imperial patrician family. At fifteen years of age, the boy proudly, publicly proclaimed his Christianity during the persecution of Aurelian. Martyr.
Because he was a young man, and because the heroic way he met his martyrdom brought about many conversions, his was a favourite story in times past, and often grew in the telling, but we know very little about him for sure.
c.259 in Palestrina, Italy
• thrown to wild animals in the arena
• when they would not touch him, he was beheaded c.274 at Palestrina, Italy
• relics at Palestrina, Italy and Besancon, France
• against colic
• Palestrina, Italy
• young man chained in a dungeon
• young man hanging upside down over a fire
• young man with palm, crown, burning coal, lions or dragons
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-agapitus-the-martyr/
• Christopher
• Macarius of Constantinople
Monk at the monastery at Pelekete, taking the name Macarius. Abbot. Miracle worker. Ordained by Patriarch Tarasius of Constantinople. Imprisoned and tortured for his opposition to Emperor Leo's orders of iconoclasm. Released by Emperor Michael the Stammerer, then exiled for his continued support of icons.
9th century Constantinople as Christopher
18 August 850 on the island of Aphusia, Bithynia of natural causes
To you, O Master, who loves all mankind
I hasten on rising from sleep.
By your mercy I go out to do your work
and I make my prayer to you.
Help me at all times and in all things.
Deliver me from every evil thing of this world
and from pursuit by the devil.
Save me and bring me to your eternal kingdom,
For you are my Creator,
You inspire all good thoughts in me.
In you is all my hope and to you I give glory,
now and forever.
- Saint Macarius
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-macarius-the-wonder-worker/
Leonardo
Benedictine monk. Abbot of La Trinita de La Cava Abbey in 1232; he served for over 22 years. Known as a wise, gentle, peaceful man, an able administrator, and a leader smart enough to keep his house out of political fights of the day. Attended the Council of Lyon in 1245. He led by example, and his brother monks became known for their devotion to the Benedictine Rule. Accepted and cared for the relics of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle and the treasury of the diocese of Benevento, Italy when that area was overrun by invading Germans. When peace returned, he returned all the treasures entrusted to him; the diocese enshrined some of the relics of Saint Bartholomew to the permanent care of the abbey.
• 1255 at La Cava Abbey, Campania, Italy
• relics enshrined in the side altar of the abbey church
1928 by Pope Pius XI (cultus confirmed)
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-leonard-of-cava/
Franco
Greek rite monk from Calabria, Italy. Monk in the Abruzzo region of Italy, possibly fleeing Muslim raids on monasteries in Calabria. Hermit in the central Appennine mountains.
mid-10th-century in Italy
• 11th-century of natural causes
• buried at the parish church of Francavilla al Mare, Abruzzo, Italy
• on 30 July 1566 invading Turks burned his relics; a few bone fragments were recovered and re-enshrined
1893 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmed)
Francavilla al Mare, Abruzzo, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-francus-of-francavilla/
Priest in the diocese of Limoges, France. Imprisoned on a ship in the harbor of Rochefort, France and left to die during the anti-Catholic persecutions of the French Revolution. One of the Martyrs of the Hulks of Rochefort.
20 May 1729 in Guéret, Creuse, France
of starvation on 18 August 1794 aboard the prison ship Deux-Associés, in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France
1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-antoine-bannassat/
• Raynald Concorezzo
• Rinaldo....
Priest. Canon of Lodi, Italy. Bishop of Vicenza, Italy in 1296. Held several governmental posts in the papal states. Archbishop of Ravenna, Italy in 1303. Defended the good work of the Knights Templar.
c.1245 in Milan, Italy
1321 in Ravenna, Italy
18 August 1852 by Pope Pius IX (cultus confirmed)
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-raynald-of-ravenna/
• Dagaeus MacCairaill
• Daganus MacCairaill
• Daig of Inish Cain
• Daig of Iniskeen
• Daig of Iniskin
Spiritual student of Saint Finnian of Clonard. Bishop of Inish Cain Dega (Iniskeen or Iniskin), Ireland. He founded a monastery there, and served as its abbot. The Book of Leinster describes him as a one of the Three Master Craftsmen of Ireland, though its unclear exactly what this means.
Irish
586
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-daig-maccairaill/
Inan, Inane, Tinan, Tennand
Pilgrim to Rome and Jerusalem. Hermit at Ayrshire, Scotland where several wells are named for him, and churches dedicated to him including one, now dedicated to Mary, which is thought to have been built on the site of his cell.
9th century in Scotland
at Irvine, Scotland
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-evan-of-ayrshire/
1 January (Scotland)
Nephew and spiritual student of Saint Columba of Iona. Missionary to the Picts. Founded a monastery in Donegal, Ireland. When Saint Columba died, Ernan had a vision of Columba's soul ascending to heaven. Saint Adamnan of Iona mentioned Ernan in his writings.
634 in his abbey in Donegal, Ireland of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ernan/
Floro
Twin brother of Saint Laurus of Illyria. Stone-cutter who worked to build Christian churches. Martyr.
drowned in a well
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-florus-of-illyria/
Mercedarian friar and travelling preacher. In 1419 he helped ransom 293 Christians from slavery in Muslim Granada.
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-domenico-de-molinar/
Mercedarian friar and travelling preacher. In 1419 he helped ransom 293 Christians from slavery in Muslim Granada.
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-gaspar-di-salamanca/
Twin brother of Saint Florus of Illyria. Stone-cutter who worked to build Christian churches. Martyr.
drowned in a well
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-laurus-of-illyria/
Born to the Frankish nobility, Milo and his father both gave it up to become Benedictine monks at Fontenelle Abbey. Milo later left the monastery to live as a hermit.
c.735
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-milo-of-fontenelle/
Benedictine monk at Saint Andrew's monastery on the Coelian Hill, Rome, Italy under abbot Saint Gregory the Great who later wrote about him. Miracle worker.
c.590 of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-john-of-rome/
Eonio
Archbishop of Arles, France in the late 5th and early 6th century. Fought the Pelagian heresy. Ordained Saint Cesareo of Arles.
502
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-eonus-of-arles/
Monk at Iona Abbey. Was involved in the controversy with Saint Finan of Iona concerning the celebration of Easter. Confessor of the faith.
c.660 of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ronan-of-iona/
Priest in Rome, Italy in the early days of the Church. With Saint John of Rome he recovered and properly buried the bodies of martyrs - and was martyred for it.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-crispus-of-rome/
Prochus
Sculptor. Stone-cutter who worked to build Christian churches. Martyr.
drowned in a well
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-proculus-of-illyria/
Hermes
Martyred by a pagan mob.
dragged by the heels over rough ground until he died in Rome, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-hermas-of-rome/
Sculptor. Stone-cutter who worked to build Christian churches. Martyr.
drowned in a well
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-maximus-of-illyria/
Martyred by a pagan mob.
dragged by the heels over rough ground until he died in Rome, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-polyaenus-of-rome/
Martyred by a pagan mob.
dragged by the heels over rough ground until he died in Rome, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-serapion-of-rome/
Fermin
Bishop of Metz, France for eight years.
496
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-firminus-of-metz/
León
Martyr.
at Myra, Lycia
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-leo-of-myra/
Martyr.
Strobylum, Asia Minor
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-juliana-of-stobylum/
Martyr.
at Myra, Lycia
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-juliana-of-myra/
• Martyrs of Utica
• White Company
Three hundred 3rd century Christians at Carthage who were ordered to burn incense to Jupiter or face death by fire. Martyrs. Saint Augustine of Hippo and the poet Prudentius wrote about them.
jumped into a pit of burning lime c.253 at Carthage, North Africa
https://catholicsaints.info/massa-candida/
Thousands of people were murdered in the anti-Catholic persecutions of the Spanish Civil War from 1934 to 1939. I have pages on each of them, but in most cases I have only found very minimal information. They are available on the CatholicSaints.Info site through these links:
• Blessed Adalberto Vicente y Vicente
• Blessed Agustín Pedro Calvo
• Blessed Angelo Reguilón Lobato
• Blessed Atanasio Vidaurreta Labra
• Blessed Aurelio García Anton
• Blessed Celestino José Alonso Villar
• Blessed Daniel García Antón
• Blessed Eliseo María Camargo Montes
• Blessed Eudald Rodas Saurina
• Blessed Fermín Gellida Cornelles
• Blessed Francisco Arias Martín
• Blessed Francisco Pérez y Pérez
• Blessed Gregorio Díez Pérez
• Blessed Jaume Falgarona Vilanova
• Blessed José María Ruiz Cardeñosa
• Blessed José Sánchez Rodríguez
• Blessed Joseph Chamayoux Auclés
• Blessed Liberio González Nombela
• Blessed María Luisa Bermúdez Ruiz
• Blessed Micaela Hernán Martínez
• Blessed Nicomedes Andrés Vecilla
• Blessed Patricio Gellida Llorach
• Blessed Rosario Ciércoles Gascón
• Blessed Santiago Franco Mayo
• Blessed Silvano Villanueva González
• Blessed Vicente María Izquierdo Alcón
• Ivan Rilski
• Paola Montaldi
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