| 23 August |
• yesterday • tomorrow |
Born to Spanish immigrants to the New World. A beautiful girl and devoted daughter, she was so devoted to her vow of chastity that she used pepper and lye to ruin her complexion so she would not be attractive. Lived and meditated in a garden, raising vegetables and making embroidered items to sell to support her family and help the other poor. Dominican tertiary in 1606. Mystic. Visonary. Received invisible stigmata. Suffered from assorted physical and mental ailments. First saint born in the Americas. Founder of social work in Peru. Great devotion to Saint Catherine of Siena.
20 April 1586 at Lima, Peru as Isabel
24 August 1617 at Lima, Peru of natural causes
2 April 1671 by Pope Clement X
• against vanity
• embroiderers
• florists
• gardeners
• needle workers
• people ridiculed for their piety
• Americas
• Central America
• Latin America
• New World
• South America
• India
• Peru
• Philippines
• West Indies
• diocese of Santa Rosa, California
• Villareal Samar, Philippines
• Lima, Peru
• World Youth Day 2011
• anchor (noted for being steadfast in hope and courage in spite of great sufferings)
• city
• crown of flowers
• crown of roses
• Dominican tertiary accompanied by the Holy Infant
• Dominican tertiary holding roses
• Holy Infant
• roses
Lord, increase my sufferings, and with them increase Your love in my heart. - Saint Rose of Lima
Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. - Saint Rose of Lima
Our Lord and Savior lifted up his voice and said with incomparable majesty: "Let all men know that grace comes after tribulation. Let them know that without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. Let them know that the gifts of grace increase as the struggles increase. Let men take care not to stray and be deceived. This is the only true stairway to paradise, and without the cross they can find no road to climb to heaven." When I heard these words, a strong force came upon me and seemd to place me in the middle of a street, so that I might say in a loud voice to people of every age, sex and status: "Hear, O people; hear, O nations. I am warning you about the commandment of Christ by using words that came from his own lips: We cannot obtain grace unless we suffer afflictions. We must heap trouble upon trouble to attain a deep participation in the divine nature, the glory of the sons of God and perfect happiness of soul." "If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men." - from the writings of Saint Rose of Lima
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-rose-of-lima/
The son of Miguel and Catalina, a pious couple, Juan was baptized at the age of two days. He felt early called to the priesthood, studied at the seminary of San Indalecio, and later taught there for nine years. He became private secretary to Bishop Bernardo Martínez y Noval, diocese of Almería, Spain in 1926. Ordained a priest on 2 June 1928, he served as parish priest while continuing to teach and work for his bishop. Counselor of the Union of Catholic Women and secretary of the Diocesan Board of Religious Education in 1936. Martyred in the Spanish Civil War by Communist militiamen for the offense of being a priest.
1 December 1904 in Chirivel, Almería, Spain
23 August 1936 in Chirivel, Almería, Spain
• 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-juan-soler-garcia/
Eugene, Eugenius, Euny, Owen, Tir Eoghain, Tyrone
As a boy he was captured and enslaved by pirates, first to Britain, then to Brittany. Friend of Saint Tighernach. As an adult he escaped from the pirates, returned to Ireland, and became a monk. Abbot of Kilnamanagh Abbey, County Wicklow for 15 years. Retired to live as a hermit in the the Mourne valley, County Tyrone c.576; his piety attrached many would-be students. Spiritual teacher of Saint Kevin of Glendalough. First bishop of Ardstraw, Ireland c.581. He was considered its patron from the beginning; the see was moved to Derry in 1254, and Eoghan continued as a patron.
6th century in Leinster, Ireland
c.618 of natural causes
diocese of Derry, Ireland
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-eoghan/
Priest in the archdiocese of Gniezno, Poland. Prefect of the secondary school in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Arrested on 17 September 1939 during the Nazi occupation, he was imprisoned in several place before ending in the Dachau concentration camp where he was tortured and used in “medical” experimentation. Martyr.
22 September 1910 in Salno, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
23 August 1944 in Dachau, Oberbayern, Germany from reaction to pseudo-scientific medical experiments
13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-franciszek-dachtera/
Protais of Séez
Franciscan Capuchin priest. 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.
3 April 1747 in Séez, Orne, France
23 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-jean-bourdon/
Basilian monk at the Greek monastery of San Felipe Argiró near Locri in lower Calabria, Italy. Friend of Saint Nicodemus of Mammola and Saint Jeiunio of Gerace. Known for his ascetic physical and deep prayer life, and as a miracle worker.
• 10th century at the monastery of San Felipe Argiró near Locri in lower Calabria, Italy of natural causes
• buried at the monastery
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-anthony-of-gerace/
Tudful
Born a princess, the daughter of Saint Brychan of Brecknock in Wales. Killed by pagan Saxons.
5th century Wales
• murdered c.480
• buried at Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-tydfil/
Sixth century bishop in North Africa near modern Tunis, Tunisia. Exiled to Sardinia by Arian heretics. His writings on the persecutions by the Arian Vandals has survived.
Carthage, North Africa
c.535 on Sardinia, Italy of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-victor-of-vita/
Jailer in Rheims, France. A spectator at the martyrdom of Saint Timothy, Apollinaris was so moved by the Timothy's courage and faith that he converted. Martyr.
beheaded c.290 at Rheims, France
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-apollinaris-of-rheims/
Luppo
Martyr.
stabbed with a sword in Novi (Cezava), Moesia Inferior (in modern Bulgaria)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-lupo-of-novi/
Flavinian, Flavius
Seventh-century bishop of Autun, France.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-flavian-of-autun/
Pious Christian woman martyred in the persecutions of Pro-consul Lysias.
drowned in 285 at Aegea, Cilicia (in Asia Minor)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-theonilla-of-aegea/
Pious Christian woman martyred in the persecutions of Pro-consul Lysias.
drowned in 285 at Aegea, Cilicia (in Asia Minor)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-domnina-of-aegea/
Zacharius, Zaccheus
Fourth bishop of Jerusalem.
116
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-zacchaeus-of-jerusalem/
Deacon. One of a group martyred in the persecutions of Alexander Severus.
c.235
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-archelaus-of-ostia/
Bishop. One of a group martyred in the persecutions of Alexander Severus.
c.235
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-quiriacus-of-ostia/
Priest. One of a group martyred in the persecutions of Alexander Severus.
c.235
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-maximus-of-ostia/
Martyr.
cemetery of Saint Lawrence, Via Tiburtina, Rome, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-abbondius-of-rome/
Benedictine monk martyred by Saracens.
731 at Saint-Seine, diocese of Langres, France
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-altigianus/
Martyr.
cemetery of Saint Lawrence, Via Tiburtina, Rome, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ireneus-of-rome/
Benedictine monk martyred by Saracens.
731 at Saint-Seine, diocese of Langres, France
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-hilarinus/
Martyr.
3rd century in Lyons, France
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-minervius-of-lyons/
Martyr.
3rd century in Lyons, France
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-eleazar-of-lyons/
Christian slave. Martyr, date and location unknown.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-luppus/
A group of Christian brothers, Asterius, Claudius and Neon, denounced by their step-mother who were then tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Pro-consul Lysias.
• crucified in 285 outside the walls of Aegea, Cilicia (in Asia Minor)
• bodies left scavengers
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-asterius-of-aegea/
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-claudius-of-aegea/
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-neon-of-aegea/
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 Constantino Carbonell Sempere
• Blessed Estanislau Sans Hortoneda
• Blessed Florentín Pérez Romero
• Blessed José Polo Benito
• Blessed Lorenzo Ilarregui Goñi
• Blessed Manuela Justa Fernández Ibero
• Blessed Mariano García Méndez
• Blessed Nicolás Alberich Lluch
• Blessed Pere Gelabert Amer
• Blessed Petra María Victoria Quintana Argos
• Blessed Ramón Grimaltos Monllor
• Blessed Urbano Gil Sáez
• Blessed Vicente Alberich Lluch
• Anthony the Ethiopian
• Ferdinand of Cardona
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