Apr 12, 2010

⛪ April 12


πŸ“° Bl. Alferio of Salerno (Italian, ambassador, Benedictine  abbot, died at about age 120 on Holy Thursday in 1050 [beatified 1893])

πŸ“° Bl. Andrew of Mascioni [Andrea] (Italian, Augustinian  priest, died at about age 81 c.1479 [beatified 1764])

πŸ“° St. Angel Carletti of Chivasso [Angelo] (Italian, lawyer, senator, Franciscan  priest, converted Moslems and heretics, died at about age 84 in 1495)

πŸ“° St. Constantine of Gap (French, bishop, d. 529)

πŸ“° St. Damian of Pavia (Italian, bishop, opposed the Monothelite heresy, d. 710)

πŸ“° St. Erkemboden of ThΓ©rouanne (French, Benedictine  abbot, bishop, d. 714)

πŸ“° St. Joseph Mario Charles Alphonse Moscati of Benevento [Giuseppe Mario Carlo Alfonso] (Italian, medical doctor to soldiers and poor, university professor, researcher, died at age 46 in 1927 [beatified 1975, canonized 1987]) [commemorated by some on November 16]

πŸ“° Pope St. Julius I of Rome (Italian, elected to papacy in 337, opposed the Arian heresy, reigned until death in 352)

πŸ“° St. Mechtildis of Lappion (Scottish, hermitess, c. 1200)

πŸ“° Bl. Meinhard of Yxkill (Latvian, Augustinian  friar, bishop, d. 1196)

πŸ“° Bl. Peter of Montepiano [Pietro] (Italian, Vallumbrosan  abbot, hermit, d. 1098)

πŸ“° St. Sabas the Goth and about fifty companions, of Targoviste (Romanian, lector and others, tortured and martyred by drowning in 372)

πŸ“° St. Tetricus of Auxerre (French, Benedictine  abbot, bishop, martyred by the sword in 707)

πŸ“° St. Victor of Braga (Portuguese, catechumen [received Baptism of blood], martyred by beheading c. 300)

πŸ“° St. Vissia of Fermo (Italian, virgin, martyred c. 250)

πŸ“° St. Wigbert of Friesland (missionary in Denmark, died in Ireland in 690)

πŸ“° St. Zeno of Verona (North African, bishop in Italy, died at about age 70 c. 375)

πŸ“° [Bl. Alferio died at the age of 120 on Holy Thursday, alone in his cell after he had celebrated the Mass and washed the feet of his brothers, including the future Pope Victor III.]

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