January 21, 2010

⛪ On January 21


πŸ“° St. Agnes of Rome (Italian, adolescent virgin, tortured and martyred in 254 or 304)

πŸ“° St. Alban Roe of Bury Saint Edmunds [baptized Bartholomew] (English, Benedictine  priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Charles I at about age 62 in 1642 [beatified 1929, canonized 1970]) 

πŸ“° Bl. Anthony Swiadek of Pobiedziska [Antoni] (Polish, diocesan priest, martyred by Nazis at Dachau [Germany] at age 35 in 1945 [beatified 1999]) 

πŸ“° St. Brigid of Kilbride (Irish, virgin, 6th Century)

πŸ“° Bl. Edward Stransham of Oxford (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Elizabeth I in 1586 [beatified 1929])

πŸ“° St. Epiphanius of Pavia (Italian, bishop, champion of the poor, miracle worker, died at about age 57 in 496)

πŸ“° Sts. Fructuosus, Augurius, and Eulogius, of Tarragona (Spanish, bishop and deacons, martyred by burning in 259)

πŸ“° Bl. Josepha Mary of St. Agnes AlbiΓ±ana of Beniganim [Josefa MarΓ­a de Santa InΓ©s] [baptized InΓ©s (Agnes)] (Spanish, discalced Augustinian  hermitess, died at about age 70 in 1696 [beatified 1888])

πŸ“° St. Lawdog (Welsh, 6th Century)

πŸ“° St. Maccallin of Waulsort (Irish, Benedictine  hermit, abbot, d. 978)

πŸ“° St. Meinrad of Einsiedeln (German, Benedictine  hermit, died in Switzerland in 861)

πŸ“° Bl. Nicholas Woodfen of Leominster [alias Wheeler] (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Elizabeth I at about age 36 in 1586 [beatified 1987])

πŸ“° St. Patroclus of Troyes (French, martyred by beheading c. 279)

πŸ“° St. Publius (Maltese, prominent man known to St. Paul [Acts 28:7-10], bishop, martyred c. 112) [Memorial on Maltese "particular calendar" for January 22]

πŸ“° Bl. Thomas Green of Oxford [alias Reynolds] (English, diocesan priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Charles I at about age 80 in 1642 [beatified 1929]) 

πŸ“° St. Vimin of Holywood (Scottish, bishop, 6th Century)

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