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Daughter of Andrew de'Botti, a merchant. Villana was a pious child, and at age 13 ran away from home to join a convent. She was refused and had to return home. Soon after, her family married her to Rosso di Piero.
The rejection at the convent and the marriage seemed to change Villana. She suddenly became lazy and worldly, concerned only with pleasure. One day as she was getting dressed for some type of entertainment, her reflection in all her mirrors suddenly changed to a demon. Villana understood this to be a reflection of her sin-laden soul. She tore off her clothes, put on something poor and simple, and ran to the Dominican Fathers of Santa Maria Novella for help.
She became a Dominican tertiary, concentrated on her vocation of married life, and spent her free time praying and reading Scripture and the lives of the saints. Her desire to atone for her earlier life sometimes overwhelmed her, and her husband and family had to stop her begging door to door and doing other penances. She was given to religious ecstasies at Mass, but became the object of much ridicule and slander. Her health suffered, but she received visions of Our Lady and the saints, and had the gift of prophecy. Even her fiercest opponents eventually came to see her as a living saint.
1332 in Florence, Italy
• 29 January 1361 of natural causes
• body taken to Santa Maria Novella
• the Fathers were unable to bury her for a month due to the constant crowd of mourners
O God, our merciful Father, you called Blessed Villana back from the emptiness of the world and aroused in her a spirit of humility and true penitence. Recreate in our hearts the power of your love and, filled by that same spirit, may we serve you in newness of life. 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-villana-debotti
• Augustus Chapdelaine
• Father Ma
• Papa Chapdelaine
28 September as one of the Martyrs of China
Youngest of nine children born to Nicolas Chapdelaine and Madeleine Dodeman. Following grammar school, Auguste dropped out to work on the family farm. He early felt a call to the priesthood, but his family opposed it, needing his help on the farm. However, the sudden death of two of his brothers caused them to re-think forcing him to ignore his life's vocation, and they finally approved. He entered the minor seminary at Mortain on 1 October 1834, studying with boys half his age. It led to his being nicknamed Papa Chapdelaine, which stuck with him the rest of his life.
Ordained on 10 June 1843 at age 29. Associate pastor from 1844 to 1851. He finally obtained permission from his bishop to enter the foreign missions, and was accepted by French Foreign Missions; he was two years past their age limit, but his zeal for the missions made them approve him anyway. He stayed long enough to say a final Mass, bury his sister, and say good-bye to his family, warning them that he would never see them again. Left Paris, France for the Chinese missions on 30 April 1852, landing in Singapore on 5 September 1852.
Due to being robbed on the road by bandits, Auguste lost everything he had, and had to fall back and regroup before making his way to his missionary assignment. He reached Kwang-si province in 1854, and was arrested in Su-Lik-Hien ten days later. He spent two to three weeks in prison, but was released, and ministered to the locals for two years, converting hundreds. Arrested on 26 February 1856 during a government crackdown, he was returned to Su-Lik-Hien and sentenced to death for his work. Tortured with and died with Saint Lawrence Pe-Man and Saint Agnes Tsau Kouy.
6 January 1814 at La Rochelle-Normande, France
beheaded on 29 February 1856 in Su-Lik-Hien, Kwang-Si province, China
1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-auguste-chapdelaine/
Ordained in 1899. Taught at the college of Pontlevoy, France. Entered the Congregation of the Holy Ghost at Orly, France in 1902. Missionary to Saint-Louis, Senegal in 1903. His health suffered, and he returned to France in 1911.
At the request of Bishop Jalabert, he conducted a fund-raising campaign to build a cathedral in Dakar, Senegal; he promoted the structure as a way to honour Africans who had died for France, and French who had died for Africa. The cathedral was consecrated on 2 February 1936, just a few weeks before his death.
Chaplain in the French army in World War I. Cited six times for bravery, awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honour; he attributed his survival on the front lines to the intercession of Saint Therese of Lisieux, and built a chapel for her at Auteuil when she was canonized. After the war he administered the Orphan Apprentices of Auteuil. Honoured in his life and today as a man who put the family of God above considerations of nationality or race.
7 September 1876 at La Ferté-Saint-Cyr, Diocese of Blois, France
• 28 February 1936 of natural causes at Paris, France of natural causes
• 15,000 Parisiens turned out to honour him, and Cardinal Verdier preached his funeral homily
25 November 1984 by Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-daniel-brottier/
Hilarus, Hilarius
Deacon. Trusted aide to Pope Saint Leo the Great. Papal legate. Sent to the "Robber Synod" at Ephesus in 449 to report on the Monophysitism heresies of Eutyches, which denied the humanity of Christ and claimed that He had only a divine nature, a teaching condemned in 451 by the Council of Chalcedon. Eutyches' followers attacked the legate party, and forced them to return to Rome. Arch-deacon c.455. Worked on an updated method of calculating the date of Easter. Chosen 46th pope in 461.
As pope, Hilary confirmed the work of several general councils, rebuilt and remodeled many churches, fought Nestorianism and Arianism, and held several Councils at Rome. Renowned for defending the rights of his bishops while exhorting them to curb their excesses and devote themselves more completely to God. Helped define the Church‘s role in the empire, and affirmed the position of the pope, and not the emperor, as leader in spiritual matters. He continued Leo I‘s vigorous policy, strengthening ecclesiastical government in Gaul and Spain. Erected churches, convents, libraries, and two public baths, and his synod of 465 is the earliest Roman synod whose records are extant.
on Sardinia
19 November 461
28 February 468 at Rome, Italy of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/pope-saint-hilary/
• Tymoteusz
• Timoteo Trojanowski
• Stanislaw Tymoteusz Trojanowski
• prisoner 25431
12 June as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II
Born to a poor, rural family, he had limited schooling and had to work from an early age. Joined the Friars Minor Conventual in Niepokalanów, Poland on 5 March 1930, taking the name Tymoteusz and making his solemn profession on 11 February 1935. Worked in the convent infirmary, and the warehouse and shipping departments of the magazine Rycerz Niepokalanej (Knight of the Immaculate) with its founder Saint Maximilian Kolbe. At one point Brother Tymoteusz tried to go to the foreign missions, but gave it up when the Nazis invaded Poland to start World War II. Arrested with six of his brother friars in October 1941 by the Gestapo, and sentenced for forced labour at the Auschwitz death camp for the crime of being Catholic. Ministered to his fellow prisoners in his remaining few months. Martyr.
29 July 1908 in Sadlowo, Mazowieckie, diocese of Plock, Poland
28 February 1942 in the death camp hospital at Oswiecim (Auschwitz), Malopolskie, Nazi-occupied Poland of pneumonia
13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-stanislaw-antoni-trojanowski/
Youngest of three boys born to Henry and Clementine Gnocchi; his father died when Carlo was 5 years old, and his two brothers died of tuberculosis before he was 13. Priest in the archdiocese of Milan, Italy, ordained in 1925. Teacher and spiritual director of children. Chaplain to alpine troops in World War II. Helped Jews and Allied POWs escape to Switzerland, and was imprisoned for writing against Fascism. Founder of the Fondazione Pro Juventute and worked in the post-War era to care for those orphaned or disabled in the conflict.
25 October 1902 at San Colombano al Lambro, Italy
• 28 February 1956 at Milan, Italy of cancer
• he was an organ donor, and his corneas returned sight to two blind young people
• 25 October 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI
• beatification recognition celebrated in the Piazza del Duomo, in Milan, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-carlo-gnocchi/
Oswald's parents came from Denmark to England before his birth. The boy was educated by his uncle, Saint Odo the Good. Priest in the diocese of Winchester, England. Benedictine monk at Fleury-sur-Loire, France. Bishop of Worcester, England in 962. Worked with Saint Dunstan and Saint Ethelwold to revive monastic and ecclesiastical discipline in England. Founded the abbey at Ramsey, and the monastery at Winchester. Archbishop of York in 972. Wrote theological treatises, and worked for the improved theological training of his clergy. Daily washed the feet of poor people.
29 February 992 of natural causes
• church
• demon
• dove
• ship
• stone
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-oswald-of-worcester/
Born a Gallo-Roman; brother of Saint Lupicinus. Became a monk at Lyon, France at age 35. Hermit in Condat (modern Saint-Claude) in the Jura mountains with his brother and sister; would-be students were attracted to them. Founded abbeys of Condat and Leuconne, and the convent of La Beaume (later named St-Romain-de-la-Roche), among others. Spiritual teacher of Saint Eugendus of Condat. Ordained by Saint Hilary of Arles. Healed two lepers by embracing them.
c.390 at Upper Bugey, France
• c.465 of natural causes
• buried at the abbey of Beaume
• against insanity or mental illness
• drowning victims
• mentally ill people
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-romanus-of-condat/
Married and a mother of one. Widowed twice. Franciscan tertiary. Poor Clare nun. Spiritual student of Saint John Capitran. Abbess at Aquila, Italy from 1433 to 1447. Founded a Observant-oriented house of Poor Clares in Aquila. Sick the last 15 years of her life.
1400 at Florence, Italy
29 February 1472 in her convent at Aquila, Italy of natural causes
1847 by Pope Blessed Pius IX (cultus confirmed)
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-antonia-of-florence/
Married layman of the archdiocese of Nagasaki, Japan. Father of Blessed Ludovicus Saeki Kizo. One of the Martyrs of Unzen.
Fukae, Nagasaki, Japan
28 February 1627 in Unzen, Japan
24 November 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-dionisius-saeki-zenka/
Boson
Born to the Italian nobility, he was one of the first brought to the monastic life by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
early 12th century Italy
• late 12th century of natural causes
• legends say that angels came and sang around his death bed
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-bosone-of-chiaravalle/
Ruellin, Ruelin
Monk. Priest. Bishop of Tréguier, Brittany, France.
6th century of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ruellinus-of-treguier/
Layman of the archdiocese of Nagasaki, Japan. One of the Martyrs of Unzen.
c.1602 in Amakusa, Nagasaki, Japan
28 February 1627 in Unzen, Japan
24 November 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-alexius-sugi-shohachi/
Married layman of the archdiocese of Nagasaki, Japan. One of the Martyrs of Unzen.
Antoku Koba, Japan
28 February 1627 in Unzen, Japan
24 November 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-damianus-ichiyata/
Cerulus, Celerius
Imperial Roman soldier. Married to Saint Sallustia. Convert to Christianity, instructed in the faith by Pope Saint Cornelius. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.
Egyptian
251 in Rome, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-caerealis/
A number of clerics and layman who died as martyrs of charity for ministering to the sick during a plague that ravaged Alexandria, Egypt in 261.
https://catholicsaints.info/martyrs-of-alexandria-28-february/
Pious woman who lived a life of extreme asceticism walled up in a small house just outside of Beroea, Syria.
c.455 in Beroea, Syria of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-marana-of-beroea/
Cerulus. Celerius
Martyr.
Egyptian
in Alexandria, Egypt, date unknown
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-caerealis-of-alexandria/
Sillian, Silvanus
Spiritual student of Saint Comgall of Bangor. Abbot of Bangor Abbey.
c.610
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-sillan-of-bangor/
Caius
Martyr.
Egyptian
in Alexandria, Egypt, date unknown
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-gaius-of-alexandria/
Martyr.
Egyptian
martyred in Alexandria, Egypt, date unknown
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-serapion-of-alexandria-2/
Pious woman who lived a life of extreme asceticism walled up in a small house just outside of Beroea, Syria.
c.455
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-cyra-of-beroea/
Martyr.
Egyptian
in Alexandria, Egypt, date unknown
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-pupulus-of-alexandria/
Potter. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.
martyred c.250
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-theophilus-the-potter/
Libio
No information has survived.
6th century
Llanlibio, Wales
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-llibio/
Potter. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.
martyred c.250
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-macarius-the-potter/
Potter. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.
martyred c.250
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-rufinus-the-potter/
Abircius
Martyr.
stabbed with a sword
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-abercius-28-february/
Potter. Martyred in the persecutions of Decius.
martyred c.250
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-justus-the-potter/
Madoc
Sixth-century bishop. Llanmadog, Wales is named in his honour.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-maidoc/
Ermina, Febaria
Sixth century nun. Honoured in Ireland.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ermine/
16 lay people martyred together in one of the periodic anti-Christian persecutions in imperial Japan.
• Alexius Sugi Shohachi
• Damianus Ichiyata
• Dionisius Saeki Zenka
• Gaspar Kizaemon
• Gaspar Nagai Sohan
• Ioannes Araki Kanshichi
• Ioannes Heisaku
• Ioannes Kisaki Kyuhachi
• Leo Nakajima Sokan
• Ludovicus Saeki Kizo
• Ludovicus Shinzaburo
• Maria Mine
• Paulus Nakajima
• Paulus Uchibori Sakuemon
• Thomas Kondo Hyoemon
• Thomas Uzumi Shingoro
28 February 1627 in Unzen, Japan
24 November 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI
https://catholicsaints.info/martyrs-of-unzen/
14 Christians who were martyred together. We know nothing about them but the names Alexander, Anicetus, Cyriacus, Eulalia, Faustus, Genesius, Hirena, Macarius, Mauritius, Modestus, Placidus, Rochus, Symforian and Victorinus.
• in Rome, Italy, date unknown
• relics transferred and enshrined in Antwerp, Belgium
https://catholicsaints.info/martyrs-of-antwerp-28-february/
A group of Christians martyred together in Corinth, Greece. The only information we have about them are the names Basilia, Betha, Caius, Claudius, Diodorus, Donatus, Enuclus, Felix, Hermes, Januaria, Januarius, Maccaris, Maninlia, Mansuetus, Nicophorus, Papias, Quinquianus, Rufunia, Serapion, Servilia, Silvana, Stercola, Tella, Veneria, Victor and Victorinus.
https://catholicsaints.info/martyrs-of-corinth/
• Abba the Great of Selevkia-Ktesiphon
• Elisabeth of Pomerania
• Jirays Hana Saleh
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