February 24, 2010

⛪ February 24

πŸ“° St. Adele (French, queen, widow, died at about age 75 in 1137)

πŸ“° Bl. Ascension of the Heart of Jesus Goi of Tafalla [AscensiΓ³n del CorazΓ³n de Jesus] [baptized Florentina Nicol] (Spanish, Dominican  nun, teacher, missionary in Peru, co-founder and superior general of Dominican Missionaries of the Rosary, died at age 71 in 1940 [beatified 2005])

πŸ“° St. Betto of Sens (French, Benedictine  monk, bishop of Auxerre, d. 918)

πŸ“° Bl. Ida of Hohenfels (German, countess, widow, Benedictine  nun, c. 1195)

πŸ“° St. John Theristus of Calabria [Giovanni] ["theristus" means "harvester"] (Italian, son of slave, monk, miracle worker, d. 1129)

πŸ“° Bl. Joseph Mayr-Nusser of Bolzano [Josef] (German born in Austria-Hungary, layman, refused to swear a Nazi oath, martyred [dysentery en route to concentration camp] at age 34 in 1945 [beatified 2017])

πŸ“° Bl. Mark dei Marconi of Milliarino [Marco] (Italian, Hieronymite  monk, died at about age 30 in 1510 [beatified 1906])

πŸ“° St. Modestus of Trier (German, bishop, d. 489)

πŸ“° Sts. Montanus, Lucius, Julian, Victoricus, Flavian, Rhenus, and two companions, of Carthage (North African [from what is now Tunisia], disciples of St. Cyprian, martyred by beheading in 259)

πŸ“° St. Praetextatus of Rouen (French, archbishop, martyred by stabbing in 586)

πŸ“° St. Primitiva of Rome (Italian, virgin, early martyr)

πŸ“° Bl. Robert of Arbrissel (French, university chancellor, Benedictine  abbot, died at about age 69 in 1117)

πŸ“° St. Sergius of Cappadocia (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], magistrate, monk, martyred in 304)

πŸ“° Bl. Thomas Mary Fusco of Pagani [Tommaso Maria] (Italian, priest, founded Congregation of the Daughters of Charity of the Most Precious Blood, died at age 59 in 1891 [beatified 2001])

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