Apr 18, 2010

⛪ April 18


πŸ“° St. Agia of Mons (Belgian, Benedictine  nun, c. 714)

πŸ“° Bl. Andrew Hibernon of Alcantarilla [Andres] (Spanish, Franciscan  brother, died at age 67 in 1602 [beatified 1791])

πŸ“° St. Apollonius the Apologist of Rome (Italian, senator, tortured and martyred by beheading c. 190)

πŸ“° St. Calocerus of Brescia (Italian, army officer, early martyr)

πŸ“° St. Cogitosus of Kildare (Irish, monk, biographer of St. Brigid, 8th Century)

πŸ“° St. Corebus of Messina (Sicilian, prefect, martyred c. 138)

πŸ“° St. Deicola of Bosham (British, founder of abbey, 7th Century)

πŸ“° Sts. Eleutherius and Anthia of Illyrium (Greek, bishop and his mother, tortured and martyred c. 138)

πŸ“° St. Eusebius of Fano (Italian, bishop, d. 526)

πŸ“° St. Galdino of Milan (Italian, nobleman, cardinal archbishop, papal legate, died in his pulpit at about age 76 in 1176)

πŸ“° St. Gebuinus of Lyons (French, archbishop, d. 1080)

πŸ“° Bl. Idesbald of Dunes (Belgian, Cistercian  abbot, died at about age 67 in 1167 [beatified 1894])

πŸ“° Bl. James of Oldo [Giacomo] (Italian, Franciscan   tertiary, widower, priest, prophet, died at about age 40 in 1404 [incorruptible])

πŸ“° St. John of Janina (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], tailor, martyred [buried alive] in 1526)

πŸ“° St. Laserian of Leighlin (Irish, nobleman, abbot, bishop, c. 639) [On Irish "particular calendar"]

πŸ“° Bl. Luke Passi of Bergamo [Luca] (Italian, diocesan priest, founded Institute of the Sisters of St. Dorothy, died at age 77 in 1866 [beatified 2013])

πŸ“° Bl. Mary Ann Blondin of Terrebonne [Marie-Anne] [baptized Esther] (Canadian [from Quebec province], virgin, founded Congregation of Religious of St. Anne, died at age 80 in 1890 [beatified 2001]) [On Canadian "particular calendar"]

πŸ“° Bl. Mary of the Incarnation Acarie of Paris [Marie de l'Incarnation] [baptized BarbΓ© (Barbara), nee Avrillot] (French, mother of six, widow, mystic, Discalced Carmelite, died at age 52 in 1618 [beatified 1791])

πŸ“° St. Peter of St. Joseph Betancur of Villaflores [Pedro de San Jose] ["The St. Francis of the Americas"] (Spanish [from Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands], shepherd, Franciscan  tertiary in Guatemala, founder of Congregation of Hospitalers Bethlehemite, died at age 47 in 1667 [beatified 1980, canonized 2002])

πŸ“° St. Perfectus of Cordova (Spanish, priest, martyred by Moslems on Easter in c. 850)

πŸ“° Bl. Roman Archutowski of Karolin (Polish, diocesan priest, martyred by Nazis at Majdanek [Poland] at age 60 in 1943 [beatified 1999])

πŸ“° Bl. Savina Petrilli of Siena (Italian, virgin, founded Institute of the Poor Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, died at age 71 in 1923 [beatified 1988])

πŸ“° St. Wicterp of Augsburg (German, bishop, d. 749)

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