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Optional Memorial of Saint John Eudes, Priest

One of the great modern saints, to whom the Church owes the development of the devotion to Saint Joseph, is Saint Bernardine of Sienna. He was a great theologian as well as a great preacher, and a great saint and worker of miracles, and we have the advantage of possessing his sermons as revised by himself. They are, in truth, like those of Bourdaloue, very often complete theological treatises on the subjects with which they deal. In his famous sermon on Saint Joseph, Saint Bernardine lays down a great principle of the Kingdom of God as the foundation of his reasonings concerning the Saint. He says it is a general rule as to all singular graces which are communicated to any rational creature of God, that whenever the Divine favour chooses anyone for any singular grace or sublime state or position, He gives, with the vocation, those gifts of grace which are necessary for the person so chosen, and for the office to which he is chosen. He says that it is not only the graces absolutely necessary which are thus conferred, but those also which belong to the office by a kind of convenience, to embellish, and, as it were, decorate it duly and in fair proportion. This is the substance of the principle on which Saint Bernardine insists. It is easy to see that this rule extends far beyond the occasion for which he uses it, which is the drawing out the graces which Saint Joseph received as the Spouse and husband of Mary, and the reputed father of our Lord Himself. - Henry James Coleridge, SJ
Daily Bread #3, by Father Richard Waldo Sibthorp
The Lives and Times of the Popes - Saint Linus - A.D. 67

Saint John Eudes

Also known as

Jean Eudes

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Farmer's son who attended the Jesuit college at Caen, France at age 14. Joined the Congregation of the Oratory of France. Studied at Paris and Aubervilliers in France. Priest. Ministered to plague victims. Missionary and preacher, working well over 100 missions. Worked against Jansenism. Established seminaries. Founded the Congregation of Jesus and Mary Eudists on 25 March 1643 to promote virtuous secular parochial clergy not bound by vows, but dedicated to improving the clergy through seminaries and missions; due to opposition by Oratorians and Jansenists, he never obtained papal approval. Founded the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity who worked for the welfare of penitent women. Author of the liturgical devotion of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Born

14 November 1601 at Ri, Normandy, France

Died

19 August 1680 at Caen, Normandy, France

Canonized

31 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI

Patronage

diocese of Baie-Comeau, Québec

Representation

priest with or presenting the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

Video

YouTube PlayList

Works

• Devotion to the Adorable Heart of Jesus
• Admirable Heart of the Most Holy Mother of God

Readings

Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desires, and his disposition live and reign there. All our religious exercises should be directed to this end. It is the work which God has given us to do unceasingly. - Saint John Eudes

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us. - Saint John Eudes

Father of mercies and God of all consolation, You gave us the loving Heart of your own beloved Son, because of the boundless love by which You have loved us, which no tongue can describe. May we render You a love that is perfect with hearts made one with His. Grant, we pray, that our hearts may be brought to perfect unity: each heart with the other and all hearts with the Heart of Jesus....and may the rightful yearnings of our hearts find fulfillment through Him: Our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen. - Collect from Saint John Eudes' Mass, Gaudeamus, 1668

The Christian life is a continuation and completion of the life of Christ in us. We should be so many Christs here on earth, continuing His life and His works, laboring and suffering in a holy and divine manner in the spirit of Jesus. - Saint John Eudes

The air that we breathe, the bread that we eat, the heart which throbs in our bosoms, are not more necessary for man that he may live as a human being, than is prayer for the Christian that he may live as a Christian. - Saint John Eudes

A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head. - Saint John Eudes

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-john-eudes/


Blessed Jordan of Pisa

Profile

Joined the Dominicans at Pisa, Italy in 1280. Educated at the University of Paris, France. Lector at Sainta Maria Novella church in Florence, Italy in 1305. Noted preacher in and around Florence. Founded the Confraternity of the Holy Redeemer at Pisa. Professor of theology at Saint James Friary, Paris in 1311. A visionary, Jordan had two great devotions - Our Lady and Saint Dominic de Guzman.

Made a scientific study of the use of preaching as an apostolic tool. Considered a daring innovator for extending the use of vernacular Italian as a beautiful, musical language of evangelization; his use of Italian and Tuscan helped lead to the modern Italian language. Knew the breviary, missal, most of the Bible (with commentary), and the second part of the Summa Theologica by heart. Quick to state that learning alone can never make a preacher; it needed a holiness of life.

Born

c.1255 at Pisa, Italy

Died

• 19 August 1311 at Piacenza, Italy of natural causes while on his way to teach in Paris, France
• relics venerated at the church of Saint Catalina at Pisa, Italy

Beatified

• 23 August 1833 (cultus confirmed) by Pope Gregory XVI
• 1838 (beatification) by Pope Gregory XVI

Prayers

God of holiness, by the integrity of his life and gentle manner you made Blessed Jordan a fitting minister to preach the gospel. By following his example may we generously strive to serve you through service to our neighbor and so gain the fruit of an everlasting reward. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. - General Calendar of the Order of Preachers

https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-jordan-of-pisa/


Saint Sebaldus

Also known as

Sebald, Sinibaldo, Siward

Profile

Son of a Danish chieftain who had settled in England. Missionary in the Reichswald area of Germany, working with Saint Willibald of Eichstatt, Saint Winibald and Saint Boniface. Popular preacher who converted many, he later retired near Nuremburg, Germany where he would alternate life as a prayerful hermit and then a zealous evangelist.

A number of miracle stories are told about him

• he converted stones to bread and water to wine to feed his fellow missionaries

• he burned icicles as firewood in the dead of winter to keep the poor from freezing

• when he was being heckled by a profane blasphemer, Sebaldus prayed, and the earth opened up to swallow the pagan; as he fell into the earth, the heckler asked for forgiveness; the earth spat him back out

• when a poor peasant was blind by his lord, Sebaldus restored the man's missing eyes by praying over him

Born

probably in England

Died

c.770

Patronage

• against cold weather
• Bavaria, Germany
• Nuremberg, Germany

Representation

• carrying pilgrim's staff and a church
• church with two towers in his hand; it represents the faith he helped establish in Nuremburg, Germany
• pilgrim with wallet and shell
• pilgrim with a shell in his hat, a rosary and a staff

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-sebaldus/


Blessed Gregorio Martos Muñoz

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Born to a farm family who had migrated from Válor, Spain to Argentina in search of a better life; Gregorio was baptized at the age of nine days. When the boy was ten years old, the family returned to Spain. When he was old enough, Gregorio studied at the seminary in Granada, and was such an able student that he graduated early, and served as a teacher before ordination. Ordained a priest in the archdiocese of Granada in 1933. As a parish priest, he was known as a gentle pastor who lived a life of poverty, and cared deeply about the sacramental life for the poor.

Father Gregorio was arrested by anti–Catholic forces at the start of the Spanish Civil War, and was imprisoned in Dalias, Berja and El Ejido prisons. His captors tried to get him to renounce his faith, and at one point tried to get him to desecrate a medal of the Virgin Mary; he swallowed it to get it away from them. They eventually gave up on changing him, and murdered him instead. Martyr.

Born

3 April 1908 in Chilecito, La Rioja, Argentina

Died

19 August 1936 in Albufera de Adra, Almería, Spain

Beatified

• 25 March 2017 by Pope Francis
• beatification celebrated in the Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos de Aguadulce, Almería, Spain, presided by Cardinal Angelo Amato

https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-gregorio-martos-munoz/


Saint Magnus of Anagni

Also known as

• Magno di Anagni
• Magnus of Fabrateria Vetus
• Magnus of Trani

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Son of Apollonius, a poor farmer. As a young man he worked as a shepherd to support his family and neighbors who were poorer than himself. Convert, baptized with his father by Bishop Redemptus of Trani, Italy. Magnus succeeded him as bishop of Trani, chosen by popular acclaim of the local laity and clergy. Evangelized in Fondi, Aquino, and Anagni. During the persecutions of Tarquinius, Magnus fled to Rome, Italy, but tried to secretly return to Trani. Found in a cave near Fondi by imperial soldiers. Martyr.

Born

2nd century at Trani, Italy

Died

• beheaded near Fabrateria Vetus, Latium (modern Ceccano, Italy)
• buried in Fondi, Italy
• relics translated from Fondi to Veroli, Italy
• relics translated to the cathedral in Anagni, Italy after a wealthy but superstitious Muslim had some horses die when near them in Veroli

Patronage

• Anagni-Alatri, Italy, diocese of
• Anagni, Italy
• Colle San Magno, Italy

Representation

bishop with a palm of martyrdom

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-magnus-of-anagni/


Saint Louis of Toulouse

Also known as

• Louis of Anjou
• Ludwig of...

Profile

Born to the nobility, the son of Charles II of Anjou, king of Naples. Great-nephew of Saint Louis IX, and of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Grew up in Provence (in modern France). Spent seven years as a hostage for his father at Barcelona and Tarragona in Spain. Ordained at age 23. Friar Minor. Reluctant bishop of Toulouse, France for the last six months of his life.

Born

February 1274 at Nocera, Italy

Died

• 19 August 1297 at Brignolles, Italy of natural causes
• some relics in Valencia, Spain

Canonized

7 April 1317 by Pope John XXII

Patronage

• Valencia, Spain
• Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, California

Representation

• boy bishop
• young bishop with a crown by his feet
• young man in pontifical garments and holding a book and a crosier

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-louis-of-toulouse/


Saint Ezekiel Moreno y Díaz

Also known as

Ezequiel Moreno y Díaz

Profile

Raised in a pious family in a pious town. Joined the Augustinian Recollects on 21 September 1864 at Montegudo, Navarra, Spain. Prior of his monastery. Ordained at Manila, Philippines on 3 June 1871, and became a well-known missionary. Vicar apostolic of Casanare and bishop of Pinara, Colombia on 23 October 1893. Bishop of Pasto, Columbia on 2 December 1893. Noted for his generous charity to the faithful of his diocese.

Born

9 April 1848 at Alfaro, Tarazona, Spain

Died

• 19 August 1906 at Montegudo, Navarra, Spain of cancer of the palatte
• the miracles related to his beatification and canonization involve cures of cancer patients

Canonized

11 October 1992 by Pope John Paul II at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Patronage

against cancer

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ezekiel-moreno-y-diaz/


Blessed Leo II of Cava

Profile

Benedictine monk. Fourteenth abbot of the monastery of Cava de Tirreni in Campania, Italy, chosen on 25 January 1268, consecrated on 5 February 1268, granted a bull of confirmation by Pope Gregory X and served for 27 years. Partipated in the Council of Lyons in 1274, and used the trip to visit the abbey of Cluny and learn from the Cluniac monks. Built a new church and new cloister at his monastery, and had many new manuscripts copied for its library.

Born

1239

Died

• 19 August 1295 at the Cava dei Tirreni monastery in Campania, Italy
• buried before the main altar in the abbey church
• relics re-interred in 1675 into a wall of the Arsicia cave, the first hermitage of the founder of Cava dei Tirreni

Beatified

16 May 1928 by Pope Pius XI (cultus confirmation)

https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-leo-ii-of-cava/


Sarah the Matriarch

Also known as

Sari, Sarai, Sara

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Jewish Old Testament Matriarch. Wife of the Patriarch Abraham. A convert from paganism, she was the first female convert to the faith of Abraham. Nomad in the desert of Canaan. When she was aged 90, she heard angels say she would finally become a mother. She laughed at the idea, and when her son was born, she named him Isaac from the word for laughter.

Died

of natural causes at age 127

https://catholicsaints.info/sarah-the-matriarch/


Pope Saint Sixtus III

Also known as

Xystus III

Profile

Chosen 44th pope in 432. Approved the results of the Council of Ephesus. Corresponded extensively with Saint Augustine of Hippo. Fought Nestorianism and Pelagianism. Restored several Roman basilicas including Saint Peter's and Saint John Lateran. Defended the supremacy of the pope over local bishops, and over Illyria which the emperor wanted to transfer to the control of Constantinople.

Born

at Rome, Italy

Papal Ascension

31 July 432

Died

18 August 440 in Rome, Italy of natural causes

https://catholicsaints.info/pope-saint-sixtus-iii/


Saint Magino of Tarragona

Also known as

Magi, Magin, Maginus

Profile

Born to the Gallic nobility of Burgundy (in modern France), he was orphaned at an early age. Hermit on Mount Brufagaña for 30 years. Had the gift of healing by prayer, which he did for the governor of Tarragona, Spain. Imprisoned, tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.

Died

beheaded with a sickle in c.304 in Tarragona, Spain

Patronage

Tarragona, Spain

Representation

using his staff to cause springs to erupt from the ground

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-magino-of-tarragona/


Blessed Hugh Green

Also known as

Ferdinand Brooke

Additional Memorial

29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai

Profile

Educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, England. Convert to Catholicism. Studied for the priesthood, and ordained at Douai, France in 1612. Worked with covert Catholics at Dorset, England during a period of persecution. One of the Martyrs of England and Wales.

Born

London, England

Died

hanged on 19 August 1642 at Dorchester, Dorset, England

Beatified

15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-hugh-green/


Blessed Angelo of Acquapagana

Also known as

Angel

Additional Memorials

• 19 October in Acquapagana, Italy)
• Sunday after the Feast of the Annunciation (local popular festival)

Profile

Monk at Valdicastro, Italy. Hermit, joining the Camaldolese c.1285 at the San Salvatore di Acquapagana hermitage and living in a nearby cave.

Born

1261

Died

• 1313 in Acquapagana, Piceno, Italy
• relics enshrined in the church of the territorial monastery of Montecavallo, Italy

Beatified

14 June 1846

https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-angelo-of-acquapagana/


Blessed Guerricus

Profile

Studied at Tournai, Belgium. Headmaster of the cathedral school at Tournai. Visited Clairvaux Abbey to see Saint Bernard and ended by staying there. Sent by Saint Bernard to be the first abbot at Igny, France in 1138. Prolific writer, some of whose works on ascetism were sometimes mistakenly attributed to Saint Bernard.

Born

c.1080 at Tournai, Belgium

Died

c.1155 at Igny, France of natural causes

Beatified

1889 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmed)

https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-guerricus/


Saint Andrew the Tribune

Also known as

Andrew Stratelates

Profile

Soldier. Tribune in the Greek army. Convert to Christianity, along with a number of his men, following a miraculous victory over the Persians. Martyred by Seleucus as a group for their new faith.

Died

• 300 at Mount Tarsus, Cilicia (in modern Turkey)
• relics of Andrew and some unnamed fellow soldier-martyrs are venerated in the church of Saint Vincent, Brioude, France

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-andrew-the-tribune/


Saint Magnus of Cuneo

Also known as

• Magnus of the Theban Legion
• Magnus of Fabreteria Vetere
• Magno of...

Profile

One of the soldiers in the Theban Legion who survived their massacre. He fled to the mountains of the Piedmont region, and became an evangelist. When his reputation for holiness spread, the same persecutors who had killed his brothers in the Legion tracked him down. Martyr.

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-magnus-of-cuneo/


Saint Donatus of Mount Jura

Also known as

• Donatus of Sisteron
• Donato of....

Profile

Deacon. Priest. Following a pilgrimage to the tomb of Saint Martin of Tours, he retired from world to live as a hermit on Mount Jura near Sisteron, Provence (in modern France). Reported to have the gift of healing by prayer.

Born

Orleans, France

Died

c.535

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-donatus-of-mount-jura/


Saint Flavien of Toulon

Profile

Sixth century Gothic soldier. He was a convert to Christianity, brought to the faith and baptized by Saint Cyprian of Toulon. Due to the persecutions of Arian Gothic king Aleric II, Flavien abandoned military life and fled to the island of Cépet, France where he lived the rest of his life as a hermit.

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-flavien-of-toulon/


Saint Julius of Rome

Profile

Imperial Roman senator. Martyred in the persecutions of Commodus.

Died

• scourged and beaten to death c.190 in Rome, Italy
• buried in the Calepodius cemetery, Aurelian Road outside Rome

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-julius-of-rome/


Blessed Michele Soriano

Profile

Mercedarian friar at the convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli in El Puig, Spain, known for his extreme piety, penance and asceticism.

Died

1604

https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-michele-soriano/


Saint Timothy of Gaza

Profile

Bishop of Gaza, Palestine. Scourged, tortured and martyred by order of Urban, governor of Palestine, during the persecutions of Diocletian.

Died

burned alive in 304

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-timothy-of-gaza/


Saint Magnus of Avignon

Profile

Married. Father of Saint Agricola of Avignon. Governor of Avignon, France. Widower. Monk at Lérins Abbey. Bishop of Lérins, France.

Born

Avignon, France

Died

660

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-magnus-of-avignon/


Saint Guenninus

Profile

7th century bishop of Vannes, Brittany (in modern France).

Died

relics at the cathedral of Vannes, Brittany (in modern France)

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-guenninus/


Saint Calminius

Also known as

Calmilius

Profile

Hermit. Founded the monasteries of Villars and Mauzac near Riom, France.

Died

c.690

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-calminius/


Saint Elaphius of Châlons

Profile

Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne, France. Envoy to Spain.

Died

580 of natural causes in Spain while on a pilgrimage to the relics of Saint Eulalia of Merida

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-elaphius-of-chalons/


Saint Thecla of Caesarea

Profile

Martyred by order of Urban, governor of Palestine, during the persecutions of Diocletian.

Died

torn apart by wild beasts in 304 at the amphitheater at Caesarea

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-thecla-of-caesarea/


Saint Marianus of Entreaigues

Profile

Hermit in the forest of Entreaigues in Berry, France. Saint Gregory of Tours wrote a biography of him.

Died

c.515

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-marianus-of-entreaigues/


Saint Mochta

Also known as

Mochteus

Profile

Spiritual student of Saint Patrick. Monk. Founded the monastery of Louth, Ireland. Bishop of Louth.

Died

c.535

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-mochta/


Saint Badulf of Ainay

Also known as

Badour, Badolf

Profile

Monk. Abbot of Ainay Abbey near Lyons, France.

Died

c.850

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-badulf-of-ainay/


Saint Marinus of Besalu

Profile

Bishop at the monastery of Saint Peter in Besalu, Catalonia, Spain.

Died

c.800

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-marinus-of-besalu/


Saint Bertulf of Luxeuil

Profile

Monk at Luxeuil Abbey. Abbot of a house in Bobbio, Italy.

Died

640

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-bertulf-of-luxeuil/


Saint Namadia of Marsat

Profile

Married to Saint Calminius. Widow. Nun at Marsat, France.

Died

c.700

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-namadia-of-marsat/


Saint Rufinus of Mantua

Profile

Long venerated in Mantua, Italy, but all details have been lost.

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-rufinus-of-mantua/


Saint Credan of Evesham

Profile

Abbot at Evesham Abbey.

Died

c.780

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-credan-of-evesham/


Saint Italo

Profile

Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.

Died

c.303 in southern Italy

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-italo/


Martyrs of Nagasaki

Profile

A group of missionaries and their laymen supporters who were executed for spreading Christianity in Japan.

Antonius Yamada
Bartholomaeus Mohyoe
Iacobus Matsuo Denji
Ioachim Díaz Hirayama
Ioannes Miyazaki Soemon
Ioannes Nagata Matashichi
Ioannes Yago
Laurentius Ikegami Rokusuke
Leo Sukeemon
Ludovic Frarijn
Marcus Takenoshita Shin'emon
Michaël Díaz Hori
Paulus Sankichi
Pedro de Zúñiga
Thomas Koyanagi

Died

beheaded on 19 August 1622 at Nagasaki, Japan

Beatified

7 May 1867 by Pope Pius IX

https://catholicsaints.info/martyrs-of-nagasaki-19-august/


Martyred in the Spanish Civil War

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 Agueda Hernández Amorós
Blessed Agustí Busquets Creixell
Blessed Andrés Pradas Lahoz
Blessed Antolín Martínez y Martínez
Blessed Antoni Pedró Minguella
Blessed Càndid Feliu Soler
Blessed Cipriano González Millán
Blessed Damián Gómez Jiménez
Blessed Elvira Torrentallé Paraire
Blessed Félix González Bustos
Blessed Francisca de Amézua Ibaibarriaga
Blessed Francisco de Paula Ibáñez y Ibáñez
Blessed Ignasi Guilà Ximenes
Blessed Isidro Muñoz Antolín
Blessed Joan Roca Bosch
Blessed José Erausquin Aramburu
Blessed Josep Maria Fontseré Masdeú
Blessed Justo Arévalo Mora
Blessed Maria Calaf Miracle
Blessed María de Las Nieves Crespo López
Blessed María Desamparados Giner Sixta
Blessed María Dolores Vidal Cervera
Blessed Pascual Escuin Ferrer
Blessed Pedro Buitrago Morales
Blessed Remigio ángel Olalla Aldea
Blessed Rosa Pedret Rull
Blessed Teresa Chambó Palet
Blessed Tomàs Sitjar Fortiá
Blessed Urbano Corral González
Blessed Valeriano Ruiz Peral


Also celebrated but no entry yet

• Bartholomew Simeri


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