⛪ On January 18

📰 Sts. Archelais, Thecla, and Susanna, of Romagna (Italian, virgins, tortured and martyred by beheading in 293)

📰 Bl. Beatrice of Este (Italian, niece of another Bl. Beatrice of Este, foundress of a convent, died at about age 32 in 1262 [beatified 1774])

📰 Bl. Christine Ciccarelli of Luco [Cristina] [baptized Matthia] (Italian, prioress of Augustinian  hermits, healer, visionary, died at age 61 in 1543 [beatified 1841])

📰 St. Day (Cornish? abbot)

📰 St. Deicolus of Leinster (Irish, hermit, abbot in France, died at about age 95 c. 625)

📰 St. Diarmis (Irish, abbot, 6th Century)

📰 Sts. Faustina and Liberata of Como (Italian, biological sisters, foundresses of a convent, d. 580)

📰 St. Fazzio of Verona (Italian, goldsmith, founder of charitable society, died at about age 82 in 1272)

📰 St. James Hilary Barbel Cosán of Enviny [Jaime Hilario] [baptized Manuel (Emmanuel)] (Spanish, member of Brothers of the Christian Schools [LaSalle Brothers] teacher, catechist, went deaf, gardener, martyred at age 39 by firing squad in 1937 [beatified 1990, canonized 1999])

📰 St. Leobard of Tours (French, hermit, d. 593)

📰 St. Margaret of Budapest [Margit] (Hungarian, princess, in Dominican convent from age 3, nun, mystic, miracle worker, died at about age 27 in 1270 [beatified 1789, canonized 1943]) [commemorated by some on January 26]

📰 Bl. Maria Teresa Fasce of Torriglia [baptized Maria Giovanna (Mary Joan)] (Italian, Augustinian  nun, died at about age 66 in 1947 [beatified 1997])

📰 Sts. Moseus and Ammonius (soldiers, martyred in Bithynia [part of what is now Turkey] by burning in 250)

📰 Sts. Paul, Recombus, Theonas, Papias, and thirty-two companions (Egyptian, noblemen, missionaries, martyred by burning/beheading/crucifixion)

📰 St. Prisca of Rome (Italian, virgin, early martyr)

📰 Bl. Regina Protmann of Braniewo (Polish/German, founded Congregation of the Sisters of St. Catherine, died at about age 60 in 1613 [beatified 1999])

📰 St. Ulfrid [or Wolfred] (British, missionary in Germany and Sweden, martyred by pagans in 1029)

📰 St. Volusian of Tours (French, bishop, d. 496)

[From Bl. James Hilary Barbel Cosán, one of over 95 LaSalle Brothers murdered during the Spanish Civil War:]

God be blessed! I'll pray for all of you in heaven. What more could I desire than to die for no other crime but that of being a religious and for having made my contribution to the Christian education of children?  Dear father and family, I have been judged and condemned to death. I accept the sentence with joy.

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