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• Man of the Eight Beatitudes
• Girolamo
Born to a wealthy and politically influential family; his mother was the painter Adelaide Ametis; his father was an agnostic, the founder and editor of the liberal newspaper La Stampa, and became the Italian ambassador to Germany. A pious youth, average student, outstanding athlete and mountain climber, he was extremely popular with his peers, known by the nickname "Terror" due to his practical jokes. He was tutored at home for years with his younger sister Luciana. He studied minerology in an engineering program after graduating high school. He worked often with Catholic groups like Apostleship of Prayer and the Company of the Most Blessed Sacrament that ministered to the poor and promoted Eucharistic adoration, Marian devotion, and personal chastity. He became involved in political groups like the Young Catholic Workers Congress, the Popular Party, the Catholic Student Federation, Catholic Action and Milites Mariae that supported the poor, opposed Fascism and worked for the Church's social teachings. Enrolled as a Dominican tertiary on 28 May 1922, taking the name Girolamo (Jerome). Especially devoted to the teachings of Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Thomas Aquinas. He spent his fortune on the needy and visited the sick; during this ministry he contracted the disease that killed him.
6 April 1901 in Turin, Italy
• 4 July 1925 in Turin, Italy of poliomylelitis
• buried in the family cemetery of Pollone, Italy
• body found incorrupt when moved to the Cathedral of Turin in 1981
20 May 1990 by Pope John Paul II
By his example he proclaims that a life lived in Christ's Spirit, the Spirit of the Beatitudes, is "blessed", and that only the person who becomes a "man or woman of the Beatitudes" can succeed in communicating love and peace to others. He repeats that it is really worth giving up everything to serve the Lord. He testifies that holiness is possible for everyone, and that only the revolution of charity can enkindle the hope of a better future in the hearts of people. - Pope John Paul II during the beatification of Blessed Pier
At an age in which the passions bubble in the hearts of young people and threaten to break all bounds, Pier Giorgio concentrated his vital forces and kept them in balance. Day by day, in front of God and men, he learned to conquer himself and to master himself. It would have to be said that, without realising it, he was preparing for leadership; for it is true that, in order to know how to lead the others, first of all one must know how to lead oneself. The designs of God are incomprehensible, because He sees things from so much higher and so much further than we: both in general and in particular. But it is permissible to think that, by calling to Himself Pier Giorgio, in the moment in which so many had placed their hopes in him, God intends that his unexpected death, which has caught us unawares, may put in relief the beauty of his life, and that it may attract the attention of you, the young people who will be able to take of inspiration from it. - Father Martin Stanislaus Gillet, O.P., Master-General of the Order of the Friars Preachers, and the man who enrolled Pier Giorgio into the Dominicans
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-pier-giorgio-frassati/
• Elisabet of Portugal
• Elizabeth of Aragon
• Isabel of Portugal
• Isabella of Portugal
• The Peacemaker
Princess. Daughter of King Pedro III of Aragon and Constantia; great-granddaughter of Emperor Frederick II. Great-niece of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, for whom she was named. She had a pious upbringing with daily liturgy and praying of the hours, regular religious instruction and education. Married at age twelve to King Diniz of Portugal, and thus Queen of Portugal before she was a teenager.
The king was known for his hard work, his poetic nature, and his lack of morals. Elizabeth suffered through years of abuse and adultery, praying all the while for his conversion, and working with the poor and sick. Mother of two, Princess Constantia and Prince Affonso. She sometimes convinced the ladies of the court to help with her charity work, but most of the time she just incurred their jealousy and ill will. The king appears to have reformed late in life, though whether from Elizabeth's faith or his imminent death is unknown.
Prince Affonso rebelled against the favours that King Diniz bestowed on his illegitimate sons, and in 1323 forces of the king and prince clashed in open civil war. Though she had been unjustly accused of siding with her son against the crown, Elizabeth rode onto the battlefield between them, and was able to reconcile father and son, and prevent bloodshed. This led to her patronage as a peacemaker, and as one invoked in time of war and conflict.
After the death of the king in 1325, she distributed her property to the poor, became a Franciscan tertiary, and retired to a monastery of Poor Clares she had founded at Coimbra.
In 1336 her son, now King Affonso IV, marched against his son-in-law, the King of Castile to punish him for being a negligent and abusive husband. Despite her age and ill health, Elizabeth hurried to the battlefield at Estremoz, Portugal, and again managed to make peace in her family, and thus maintain peace in her land.
1271 at Aragon, Spain
• 4 July 1336 at Estremoz, Portugal of fever
• buried at Coimbra, Portugal
• miracles reported at her tomb
25 May 1625 by Pope Urban VIII
• against jealousy
• brides
• charitable societies and their workers
• Coimbra, Portugal
• difficult marriages
• falsely accused people
• invoked in time of war
• for peace
• queens
• tertiaries
• victims of adultery
• victims of jealousy
• victims of unfaithfulness
• widows
• Franciscan nun rose in her hand
• Franciscan nun with a beggar nearby
• Franciscan nun with a jug in her hand
• Franciscan tertiary nun
• woman carrying roses in her lap in winter
• woman crowned with roses
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-elizabeth-of-portugal/
Udalric, Udalrich, Uldaricus, Ulderic, Ulrich
Son of Count Hucpald and Thetbirga; related to the dukes of Alamannia and the imperial family of the Ottos. He was a sickly child. Educated at the monastic school of Saint Gall where he proved to be an excellent student. Chamberlain to his uncle Blessed Adalbero, bishop of Augsburg. Priest. Bishop of Augsburg on 28 December 923.
Built churches, worked with the sick in hospital, endlessly visited his parishes, set a good example for his priests, brought relics from Rome - and his good work paid off in the form of improved moral and social conditions for both the clergy and laity.
When the Magyars plundered Germany, they besieged Augsburg. Due to Ulric's courage, his leadership, and his ability to organize the resistance, Augsburg held until Emperor Otto arrived. On 10 August 955, a battle was fought in the Lechfeld, and the invaders finally defeated. Some legends say that Ulrich fought in the battle, but that was impossible.
After 48 years as bishop, an ill and exhausted Ulric resigned his seat, and handed the diocese to his nephew, a move which had the blessing of the emperor, but which the Synod of Ingelheim ruled un-canonical. They charged and tried the aging bishop for nepotism; Ulrich apologized, did penance, and was forgiven, the message of which reached him on his death bed.
A letter circulated for a while that indicated Ulric did not support priestly celibacy, seeing it as an unnecessary burden. However, this was later proven a forgery, and certainly Ulric had enforced the discipline on himself and his clergy.
Ulric was the first Saint canonized by a Pope, which led to the formal process which continues today. Legend has it that pregnant women who drank from his chalice had easy deliveries, and thus his patronage of them, and for easy births. The touch of his pastoral cross was used to heal people bitten by rabid dogs.
890 at Kyburg, Zurich, Switzerland
• 4 July 973 at Augsburg, Germany of natural causes
• buried in the Church of Saint Afra
• earth from his grave is reported to repel rodents, and over the centuries, much has been carried away for that purpose
3 February 993 by Pope John XV
• against birth complications
• against dizziness, faintness or vertigo
• against fever
• against frenzy
• against mice
• against moles
• for a happy death
• pregnant women
• weavers
• city of Augsburg, Germany
• diocese of Augsburg, Germany
• Creazzo, Italy
• bishop holding a fish
• at dinner with Saint Wolfgang
• rewarding a messenger with a goose leg, which turns into a fish on Friday morning
• giving a fish to a beggar
• giving a garment to a beggar
• with Saint Afra
• riding through a river on horseback as his companion sinks
• with a cross given him by an angel
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ulric-of-augsburg/
the Japanese Marco Polo
Raised in a Christian family, Kibe early felt called to the priesthood, and began studying at seminary at age 13. He began studying Jesuit spirituality in 1606. When the Japanese government ordered the deportation of Christians in 1614, Kibe was exiled to the Portuguese colony in Macau; he spent his time there studying Latin and theology. He travelled to Rome, Italy, to continue his studies for the priesthood, a trip that took three years, covering thousands of miles on land and sea, on the way becoming the first Japanese Christian to visit Jerusalem. The Jesuits in Rome had received a letter from Macau recommending that they not even talk to Kasui, but they did and found him sufficiently educated and well suited for the priesthood. Ordained a priest at the Basilica of Saint John Latern on 15 November 1620. He continued his studies with the Jesuits in Rome, and took his vows as a Jesuit in Lisbon, Portugal in 1622. In 1623 he and 20 brother Jesuits sailed for India, arriving in Goa in 1624. Father Kibe wanted to return to Japan, but priests were forbidden to enter the country, and he had trouble finding anyone who would take him there. He finally found a ship that would take him from Manila, Phillippines to Kagoshima, Japan in 1630. For the next nine years he travelled northeast Japan, hiding from authorities and ministering to covert Christians. He was finally captured in 1639, imprisoned, sent to Edo (modern Tokyo) where he met Cristóvão Ferreira who had renounce Christianity; Ferreira tried to get Kibe to renouce his faith while Father Kibe tried to get Ferreira to return to the Church. Kibe was repeatedly tortured but instead of renouncing Christianity he encouraged his fellow prisoners to not lose faith. Martyr.
c.1587 in Kibe, Oita, Japan
run through with a spear on 4 July 1639 in Tokyo, Japan
• 24 November 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI
• beatification recognition celebrated at the Nagasaki Prefectural Baseball Park, Nagasaki, Japan, presided by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-petrus-kasui-kibe/
Rosa Curcio
Seventh of ten children born to Salvatore Curcio and Concetta Franzò. During much of her life she was diabetic, and suffered from health problems related to it. A clever and out-going girl, she had only six years of school, but educated herself by reading widely in her family library. She was deeply affected by reading the Life of Saint Teresa of Jesus, which she found at a time when she was feeling drawn to religious life. In 1890, at age thirteen and against some family objection, she joined the Carmelite tertiaries in Ispica, Italy. She and several other tertiaries moved in together to see if they were ready for community life. Rosa transferred to Modica, Italy and managed the Carmela Polara which helped poor and orphaned girls. She travelled to Rome, Italy on 17 May 1925 for the canonization of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus. Soon after she moved to Santa Marinella, diocese of Porto Santa Rufina, Italy on 3 July 1925 to work with the many poor of the area. There she founded the Congregation of the Carmelite Missionary Sisters of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus which received official recognition in 1930; its goal was "to bring souls to God" by feeding the poor, educating children and supporting families. The Sisters spread out across Italy, and in 1947 she sent them to Brazil; the Congregation continues its good work today. Her whole adult life Rosa felt a call to the missions, but due to her health problems she was forced to stay put, be a loving mother to her sisters, and send them into the world.
30 January 1877 in Ispica, diocese of Noto, Sicily
4 July 1957 in Santa Marinella, diocese of Porto Santa Rufina, Italy of natural causes
• 13 November 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI
• recognition celebrated by Cardinal Saraiva Martins at Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-maria-crocifissa-curcio/
• Joseph Kowalski
• prisoner 17350
12 June as one of the 108 Polish Martyrs of World War II
Educated at the local state elementary school, and the Salesian school in Auschwitz, Poland. Member of the Holy Brigade, an unofficial group dedicated to the spiritual life of the school. Joseph joined the Salesians in 1927. Ordained in 1938. Personal secretary of the Salesian provincial. Noted for his youth ministry, conducting conferences, teaching, hearing confessions, and forming a youth choir. Arrested with eleven other Salesians at the church of Mary Help of Christians in Krakow, Poland by the Nazis on 23 May 1941 for providing such non-approved youth programs.
In June 1942 he was scheduled for shipment to Dachau concentration camp, but a Nazi officer who didn't like his attitude beat him and ordered him to stomp on his rosary; Joseph refused and was assigned to a hard labour gang. In his remaining months he spent non-work time ministering to other prisoners. Beaten, tortured, and drowned by camp guards for no particular reason. Martyr.
13 March 1911 at Siedliska, Podkarpackie, Poland
drowned in a cesspool on 3 July 1942 at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland
13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II at Warsaw, Poland
Do not worry about me; I am in God's hands. I want to assure you that I feel His help at every step. Despite the present situation, I am happy and completely at peace. - Blessed Joseph, writing to his parents from the concentration camp
At every step I feel the power of God. Wherever I am, whatever happens to me I am in the hands of Divine Providence which watches over nations and over every individual! - Blessed Joseph, writing to his parents from the concentration camp
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-jozef-kowalski/
• Sister Lucia of the Immaculata
• Lucia dell'Immacolata
• Lucia of Lecco
• Lucia Ripamonte
Youngest of four children in her family; her father's name was Ferdinando, and Maria was baptized when she was 4 days old. As a girl, she began working in a local spinning mill to help support her family. She was active in her parish, tended to children, worked with Catholic Action, and was a close spiritual student of the parish priest, Father Luigi Piatti, as she felt a call to religious life. She became a sister in the Ancelle della carità (Handmaids of Charity) in Brescia, Italy in 1932, taking the name Lucia dell'Immacolata, and making her final profession in 1938. Sister Lucia developed a devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes and Saint Maria Crocifissa di Rosa, and assisted visiting priest conducting retreats and the Spiritual Exercises.
26 May 1909 in Acquate, Lecco, Italy
4 July 1954 in hospital in Ronco, Brescia, Italy of natural causes
• 23 October 2021 by Pope Francis
• the beatification was celebrated in the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, Brescia, Italy, presided by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro
• the beatification miracle involved Irene Zanfino who, on 26 April 1967 at the age of six, was involved in a traffic accident in Bolzano, Italy, was declared dead, and healed through the intercession of Sister Lucia; Irene is alive today, is a nurse and mother of three
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-maria-ripamonti/
• Andrew of Jerusalem
• Andrew of Gortina
• Andrea, Andreas
Young monk at Mar Sabas. Monk at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem at the age of 15. Sent to Constantinople by Patriarch Theodore of Jerusalem in 685 to accept the decrees of the Council of Constantinople. He stayed there as head of an orphanage and a men's home for aged. Deacon at the church of Santa Sophia in Constantinople. Archbishop of Gortyna, Crete c.700.
Noted and eloquent preacher, he wrote Greek liturgical poetry and many idiomela (short hymns). May have introduced the Byzantine litugical hymn form known as kanon; his Great Kanon, a penitential Lenten hymn, is still sung in the Byzantine liturgy.
In 712 he attended a synod convened by Phillipicus Bardanes, a Monthelite imperial usurper who denounced the orthodox decisions of the Council of Constantinople. When Bardanes was overthrown, Pope Constantine accepted that Andrew attended the heretical synod under duress, and welcomed him back.
c.660 at Damascus, Syria
c.740 in Crete of natural causes
• bishop holding a Gospel
• bishop holding a book
• bishop holding a scroll
• bishop with gray hair and a long, tapering gray beard
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-andrew-of-crete/
John Mohun
• 29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai
• 1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University
Born to Irish immigrant parents. Educated at Oxford, and a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Studied theology at Rheims, France, and at the English College in Rome, Italy beginning on 1 April 1580. Ordained in Rome in 1583. Returned to England as a missionary in Lanherne, often torn between his zeal to work with the faithful, and his love of the meditative life. Chaplain to Lady Arundell. Arrested at Chideock Castle on 24 April 1594 by the Sheriff of Dorsetshire with Blessed John Carey, Blessed Thomas Bosgrave, and Blessed Patrick Salmon who showed their support of the priest. Joined the Jesuits in 1594 while in prison. Tortured in London to obtain the names of people who had helped or sheltered him, but he told his tormenters nothing. Condemned for the high treason of being a Catholic priest on 2 July 1594. Martyr.
1557 at Bodmin, Lanherne, Cornwall, England on the estate of Sir John Arundell
• hanged and hacked to pieces on 4 July 1594 at Dorchester, Oxfordshire, England
• body later stolen and properly buried by local Catholics
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-john-cornelius/
Angelo
Born to Giovanni and Maria Loreta Antonucci. Early feeling a call to religious life, Angelo joined the Franciscan Friars Minor (Reformed) at the convent of San Angelo in Ocre, Italy at age 15. He made his initial vows on 21 November 1891, age 18, taking the name Brother Cesidio in honour of Saint Caesidius, and his solemn profession on 8 December 1892. After further studies, he was ordained a priest in the archdiocese of L'Aquila, Italy in 1897.
Assigned first to the convent in Capestrano, Italy, in 1898 he was sent to Rome, Italy to study at the International College of San Antonio to prepare for work as a missionary. On 22 October 1899, he and two other brothers sailed for China. There he worked in the small community of Tong-siang until the anti-Catholic persecutions of the Boxer Rebellion overran the area. He was seized by the Boxer forces while trying to protect the Blessed Sacrament, stoned, beaten and murdered. Martyr.
30 August 1873 in Fossa, L'Aquila, Italy as Angelo Giacomantonio
wrapped in a sheet soaked in oil and then burned to death on 4 July 1900 in Hengzhou, Hunan, China
1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-cesidio-giacomantonio/
The youngest of seven daughters born to Pietro Jarrige and Maria Célarier. At the age of nine, Catherine began domestic work; she later learned to do lace work. She became a Dominican tertiary in 1778 and began caring for the poor, sitting with the dying, and insuring that the dead received proper burial.
During the persecutions of the French Revolution, she sheltered and care for priests who were in hiding and ministering to covert Catholics. For this work, she was arrested, imprisoned and sentenced to death in 1794, but was released due to a popular uprising by locale people against the Revolutionary court. Following the Revolution, she spent the rest of her days caring for the poor.
4 October 1754 in Doumis, Cantal, France
4 July 1836 in Mauriac, Cantal, France of natural causes
24 November 1996 by Pope John Paul II
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-catherine-jarrige/
Daughter of Count Rigobertus and Ursanna, daughter of the king of Kent, England. Married a noble named Siegfried, a cousin of the king, at age 20. Mother of five daughters. Widowed in 672. Built a convent at Blangy, Artois, France in 682. Legend says that two partially built houses collapsed, but Bertha had a vision in which an angel pointed out a better location. Retired to the convent at Blangy, and was soon joined by two of her daughters, Deotila and Gertrude, both of whom she outlived. Abbess. When she felt the house was on firm footing, she placed it in the hands of one of her daughters, retired to a cell in the convent, and spent her remaining years as an anchoress in prayer.
7th century France
• c.725 of natural causes at Blangy, Artois, France
• relics at Blangy
nun kneeling at an altar with her daughter(s)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-bertha-of-blangy/
Antoine Daniel
19 October as one of the Martyrs of North America
Joined the Jesuits in Rome, Italy on 1 October 1621. Ordained in 1629. Missionary to Canada in 1632, stationed at Cape Breton and Bias-d'or Lakes. Missionary to the Huron at Ihonatiria from July 1634 until his death. Founded the first boy's college in North America at Quebec in 1635. Murdered just outside the chapel in which he had just celebrated Mass. Martyr.
27 May 1601 at Dieppe, Normandy, France
• shot with arrows on 4 July 1648 by Iroquois at Teanaostae, near Hillsdale, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
• body burned in the chapel in which he had been celebrating Mass
29 June 1930 by Pope Pius XI
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-anthony-daniel/
John of Vespignano
Born to the wealthy nobility. From his youth he felt drawn to religious vocation, gave up his claim to wealth and moved to the area of Florence, Italy where he was known for his simple life, his charity and his work to care for war refugees. Legend says that when he paused in the fields to read the Bible, his oxen would continue to plow without him.
1235 in Aia Santa, Vespignano (in modern Vicchio), Italy
• 1331 of natural causes
• buried in the church of the monastery of San Pier Maggiore, Florence, Italy
• relics later enshrined in a glass case behind the great altar of San Pier Maggiore
by Pope Pius VII (cultus confirmed)
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-giovanni-da-vespignano/
Laureano, Laurianus
Deacon in Milan, Italy. Ordained by Saint Eustogius II. Fled to Seville, Spain to escape Arian persecution; he was chosen archbishop of Seville in 522 and served for 17 years. Martyred by Totila, king of the Arian Ostrogoths.
in Hungary
• beheaded on 4 July 546 at Bourges, France
• Totila sent the severed head of Laurian to Seville, Spain as a message about the power of the Arians; locals credited the arrival of the relic with ending a plague they were suffering
• surviving relics enshrined at Seville
Bornos, Spain
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-laurian-of-seville/
Hermit in the area of Anille (modern St-Calais), France. The monastery erected in Anille in 576 was named in his honour. While his piety was so well known that a monastery was named for him, no reliable details about him have survived.
• prior to 576
• relics taken to Blois, France to protect them from invading Normans
• relics returned to St-Calais, France in 1663
• Pre-Congregation
• documents in 693 refer to him as confessor
• documents in 712 refer to him as blessed
• documents in 752 refer to him as saint
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-carileffo-of-anille/
Moved to Toulouse, France at age 16 to obtain an education. Joined the Mercedarians in Toulouse, received into the Order by Blessed Bernardo of Poncelli. While she could not make the trips into Muslim occupied territory to ransom Christians held as slaves, she became known for her zealous prayer life for the slaves to keep their faith, to be released, and for the work of the Mercedarians who journeyed to free the slaves. Received a vision of Christ encouraging her in this ministry.
1312 in Gaillac, France
4 July 1355 in Toulouse, France of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-natalia-of-toulouse/
Damian, Damien
Spurred by the martyrdom of Blessed Antonius Neyrot in 1460, Damiano joined the Dominicans, ready to accept martyrdom in his own turn. Graduated from the University of Paris in 1500. Appointed to the Dominican general chapter in Pavia, Italy, a position with extensive adminsitrative duties; he never let it interfere with his ministry to preach. Provincial of the province of Saint Peter Martyr in 1513. Confessor to Charles III of Savoy.
mid-15th century Turin, Italy
4 July 1515 in Piombino, Italy of natural causes while travelling from the Dominican General Chapter in Naples, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-damiano-grassi-of-rivoli/
Benedictine monk. Abbot at Saint Emmeram monastery, Ratisbon (Regensburg), Germany. Abbot of Hirsau abbey, Würtemberg, Germany. He restored the house's scriptorium, introduced the Cluniac observance, and saw to the education and improvement of the farmers living on abbey lands. Founded a monastery school and seven abbeys. Supported Pope Gregory VII against Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV in the dispute over lay investiture. Wrote a number of scholarly treatises.
1091 of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-william-of-hirsau/
29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai
Raised Protestant. Studied at Saint Johns College, Cambridge, England. Soldier. Convert to Catholicism. Studied in Douai, France. Ordained in 1577. Returning to England, he spent 20 years ministering to covert Catholics in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Arrested for the crime of priesthood. Martyr.
Etton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
hanged, drawn, and quartered on 4 July 1594 at Dorchester, Dorset, England
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-william-andleby/
• Odo of Canterbury
• Odo the Severe
• Oda...
Odo's parents were pagan Danish nobility who had come to East Anglia as part of a colonizing/invading force. Uncle of Saint Oswald of Worcester. Benedictine monk. Bishop of Rambury, Wessex, England. Present at the battle of Brunanburk. Archbishop of Canterbury in 942. Advisor to King Edmund and King Edgar, and helped set their legislative agendas. Paved the way for the later monastic restoration in England.
c.870 at East Anglia, England
2 June 959 of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-odo-the-good/
20 September as one of the Martyrs of Korea
Lay woman martyr in the apostolic vicariate of Korea.
Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
4 July 1801 in Yanggeun, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
15 August 2014 by Pope Francis
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-agatha-yun-jeom-hye/
Layman. Convert. He was approached by a Protestant minister who claimed to be searching for a priest so he could reconcile with the Church; Henry arranged a meeting with a priest who was in hiding due to state persecution of Catholics, the minister betrayed them to the authorities, and Henry was imprisoned for the crime of hiding a priest. Martyr.
at Howden, East Riding, Yorkshire, England
hanged, drawn, and quartered on 4 July 1597 at York, North Yorkshire, England
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-henry-abbot/
Terence Carey
Layman. Servant of Blessed Thomas Bosgrave. Arrested during the persecutions of Queen Elizabeth I for the treason of assisting a priest, Blessed John Cornelius. Offered his freedom if he would denouce Catholicism; he declined. Martyr.
in Dublin, Ireland
• hanged, drawn and quartered on 4 July 1594 at Dorchester, Oxfordshire, England
• on the scaffold he kissed the noose and called it a "precious collar"
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-john-carey/
Parish priest at Rivolta d'Adda, Italy for 25 years. Chosen bishop of Lodi, Italy on Holy Thursday, 29 March 1168. Staunch supporter of Pope Alexander III against anti-pope Pascual III. Participated in the 3rd Lateran Council.
Rivolta d'Adda, diocese of Cremona, Italy
1179 at Lodi, Italy of natural causes
Rivolta d'Adda, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-albert-quadrelli/
Ulrich, Ulrik
Born to the nobility. Premonstratensian canon at the monastery of Ratzeburg, Germany. Priest. Bishop of Ratzeburg in 1257; he served for 27 years. Known for his zeal for the faith, his dedication to the Norbertine Rule, his piety, charity, and his care for the poor of his diocese.
c.1214 in Blucher-Ludwigslust (in modern Germany)
15 January 1284 of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-ulric-of-ratzeburg/
Oudryc, Odalric, Odobric
Canon and archdeacon of Langres, France. Archbishop of Lyon, France in 1041 at the request of Emperor Henry III of Germany. Though he brought several years of stability and return to regular ecclesastical matters to the diocese, he was murdered by a group who, for political reasons, sought to have their own man as archbishop.
poisoned in 1046 in Lyon, France
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-odolric-of-lyon/
Born to the Swabian nobility, when Hatto came of age he gave all his property to the Benedictine abbey at Ottobeuren, and became a monk there. He left the abbey to live as a hermit on his old lands; his abbot saw that being a hermit was merely an excuse to live on his old property, and promptly summoned back to community life.
Swabia, Germany
985 of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-hatto-of-ottobeuren/
Bosgrave committed the crime of showing support for a priest, Blessed John Cornelius, and helping him by giving him a hat. Arrested for his faith at the home of his uncle, Chidicock Castle, Dorset, England. Martyr.
England
hanged, drawn, and quartered on 4 July 1594 at Dorchester, Dorset, England
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-thomas-bosgrave/
Landed gentleman in Yorkshire, England. Arrested and executed for the crime of giving shelter to Blessed William Andleby, a priest. Martyr.
England
hanged, drawn, and quartered on 4 July 1594 at Dorchester, Dorset, England
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-thomas-warcop/
Scribe and manuscript copyist. Bishop of Cyrene, Libya. Arrested in the persecutions of Diocletian. Theodore was ordered to surrender his copies of the Scriptures; when he refused he was scourged, his tongue was cut out, and he was executed. Martyr.
c.310 at Cyrene, Libya
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-theodore-of-cyrene/
Patriarch of Jerusalem from 494 to 516. Exiled by the Emperor Anastasius supporting the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon which affirmed the existence of the Two Natures in Jesus Christ, both God and man.
518 at Aila on the shores of the Red Sea of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-elias-of-jerusalem/
Servant of Blessed Thomas Bosgrave. With Thomas, he was arrested and martyred for the crime of sheltering priests.
Ireland
hanged, drawn, and quartered on 4 July 1594 at Dorchester, Dorset, England
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-patrick-salmon/
Grew up in the court of King Childebert of Paris. Against the wishes of his family and friends, Valentine declined an arranged marriage and gave up the worldly life, saying he wished to devote himself to God.
519
547 of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-valentine-of-paris/
Redemptorist priest in the diocese of Cuenca, Spain. Martyred in the Spanish Civil War.
28 April 1871 in Pancorbo, Burgos, Spain
4 July 1938 in Cuenca, Spain
27 October 2013 by Pope Francis
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-pedro-romero-espejo/
Patriarch of Antioch. Exiled by the Emperor Anastasius supporting the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon which affirmed the existence of the Two Natures in Jesus Christ, both God and man.
512 at Petra, Arabia
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-flavian-of-antioch/
Henricus Gallus
Cistercian Benedictine monk. Bishop of Albano, Italy in 1179. Cardinal.
French
1188 at Arras, France of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-henry-of-albano/
Martyr.
Yorkshire, England
hanged, drawn and quartered on 4 July 1594 at York, North Yorkshire, England
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-edward-fulthrop/
Martyred with several companions whose names have not come down to us.
Carthaginian
c.180 at Madaura, Numidia (in North Africa)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-namphanion-the-archmartyr/
Sabbatia
Martyred with 31 companions, most of whose names have not come down to us.
at Sirmium (modern Mitrovica, Kosovo)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-sebastia-of-sirmium/
Martyred with 31 companions, most of whose names have not come down to us.
at Sirmium (modern Mitrovica, Kosovo)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-innocent-of-sirmium/
Founded a monastery on the Innis Doimhle (Isle of Crimlen), Wexford, Ireland in the sixth century, and served as its first abbot.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-finbar-of-wexford/
Bishop of Cahors, France. Saint Paulinus of Nola describes him as humble of heart, strong in grace, gentle in speech.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-fiorenzo-of-cahors/
Benedictine monk of Ainay, France. Abbot of Ainay. Archbishop of Lyons, France.
895 of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-aurelian-of-lyons/
Jucundianus
Martyr.
African
thrown overboard at sea to drown
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-jucundian/
Fifth century priest and hermit at Langres, Aquitaine (in modern France).
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-valentine-of-langres/
Listed on ancient menologies, but no details about him have survived.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-theodotus-of-libya/
Martyr.
Vistin, Berry, France
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-lauriano-of-vistin/
Martyr.
Africa, date and exact location unknown
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-giocondiano/
Bishop in Libya.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-donatus-of-libya/
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