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Apr 15, 2010

⛪ April 15


📰 Sts. Basilissa and Anastasia, of Rome (Italian, noblewomen, buried Sts. Peter and Paul, mutilated and martyred by beheading, 1st Century)

📰 Bl. Caesar de Bus of Cavillon [Cesar] (French, priest, devoted to catechesis, founded men's and women's religious congregations, died at age 63 on Easter in 1607 [beatified 1975])

📰 St. Crescens of Myra (Lycian [from part of what is now Turkey], early martyr by burning)

📰 St. Eutychius of Ferentino (early martyr)

📰 St. Hunna of Alsace ["Holy Washerwoman"] (French, noblewoman, devoted to the poor, d. 679 [canonized 1520])

📰 Bl. Laurentinus Sossius of Valrovina (Italian, boy aged 5 years, martyred in 485 [beatified 1867])

📰 Sts. Maro, Eutyches, and Victorinus, of Rome (Italian, martyred [stabbed; hung upside down over a sulphur spring; beheaded] c. 99)

📰 Sts. Maximus and Olympiades (Persian [Iranian], noblemen, martyred [beaten with iron bars] in 251)

📰 St. Mundus of Argyle (Scottish, abbot, c. 962)

📰 Bl. Nidger of Augsburg (German, Benedictine  abbot, bishop, c. 829)

📰 St. Padarn of Vannes (French, bishop, c. 500)

📰 St. Ruadan of Lothra (Irish, abbot, d. 584)

📰 St. Silvester of Réome (French, abbot, c. 625)

📰 Sts. Theodore and Pausilipus (martyred in Asia Minor [Turkey] c. 130)