Apr 11, 2010

⛪ April 11


πŸ“° St. Stanislaus of Szczepanow [Stanislaw ze Szczepanowa] (Polish, nobleman, bishop of Krakow, martyred by excommunicated king while celebrating Mass at about age 49 in 1079 [canonized 1253])

πŸ“° St. Agericus of Tours (French, Benedictine  abbot, c. 680)

πŸ“° St. Aid of Achad-Finglas (Irish, abbot)

πŸ“° St. Antipas of Pergamum (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], bishop [named in Revelation 2], martyred [roasted in a bronze bull] c. 90)

πŸ“° St. Barsanuphius of Gaza (Egyptian, hermit for 50 years, c. 540)

πŸ“° St. Domnio and companions (early martyrs)

πŸ“° St. Eustorgius of Nicomedia (from Asia Minor, priest, martyred c. 300)

πŸ“° St. Gemma Galgani of Borgo Nuovo di Camigliano (Italian, orphan, raised seven siblings, Passionist   tertiary, virgin, stigmatist, visionary, died [tuberculosis] at age 25 on Holy Saturday in 1903 [beatified 1933, canonized 1940])

πŸ“° Bl. George Gervase of Bosham (English, adventurer with Sir Francis Drake, Benedictine  priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under James I at about age 39 in 1608 [beatified 1929])

πŸ“° St. Godeberta of Noyon (French, abbess, d. 700)

πŸ“° St. Guthlac of Mercia (British, soldier, Benedictine  hermit, died at about age 41 in 714)

πŸ“° St. Isaac of Monteluco (Syrian, hermit in Italy, c. 550)

πŸ“° Bl. John of Cupramontana [Giovanni] (Italian, Camaldolese  hermit, d. 1303)

πŸ“° Bl. Lanuin of Torre (German, Carthusian  prior, c. 1120 [beatified 1893]) [commemorated by his order on October 13]

πŸ“° St. Machai of Bute (Irish, abbot, 5th Century)

πŸ“° St. Maedhog of Clonmore (Irish, abbot, 6th Century)

πŸ“° St. Philip of Gortyna (Cretan, bishop, fought Gnostics, c. 180)

πŸ“° Bl. Raynerius Inclusus of OsnabrΓΌck (German, hermit, d. 1237)

πŸ“° Bl. Stephen [Etienne] and Bl. Hildebrand of Languedoc (French, Cistercian  abbot and monk, martyred by Albigensian heretics in 1209)

πŸ“° Bl. Symforian Ducki of Warsaw [baptized Felix] (Polish, Capuchin  priest, martyred by Nazis at Auschwitz [Poland] at age 53 in 1942 [beatified 1999])

πŸ“° Bl. Waltmann of Cambrai (French, Norbertine  abbot, d. 1138)

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