Apr 20, 2010

⛪ April 20


πŸ“° St. Agnes of Gracchiano Vecchio [also known as Agnes of Montepulciano] [Agnese] (Italian, Franciscan  sister from age 9, abbess from age 15 to 35, Dominican  prioress, visionary, died at about age 48 in 1317 [beatified 1534, canonized 1726] [incorruptible])

πŸ“° Bl. Anthony Page of Harrow (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] at about age 28 under Elizabeth I in 1593 [beatified 1987])

πŸ“° St. Beuno of Clynnog Fawr (Welsh, abbot, c. 630) [On Welsh "particular calendar"]

πŸ“° King St. Caedwalla (Welsh, warlike king of Wessex, abdicated to convert, died at about age 30 in 689 in Rome just days after baptism by pope)

πŸ“° Bl. Claire Bosatta of Pianello [Chiara] (Italian, virgin, religious of the Institute of the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence, died at age 28 in 1887 [beatified 1991])

πŸ“° Bl. Dominic Vernagalli of Pisa [Domenico] (Italian, Camaldolese  monk, died at about age 37 in 1218 [beatified 1854])

πŸ“° Bl. Francis Page of Antwerp (Belgian, Jesuit  priest in England, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Elizabeth I in 1602 [beatified 1929])

πŸ“° St. Gundebert (French, courtier, monk in Ireland, martyred by pagan invaders in 8th Century)

πŸ“° Bl. Harduin of Fontenelle (French, Benedictine  monk, copyist of the Church Fathers, hermit, d. 811)

πŸ“° St. Heliane of Lauriano (Italian, virgin, 9th Century)

πŸ“° St. Hugh of Anzy-le-Duc (French, Benedictine  prior, c. 930)

πŸ“° Bl. James Bell of Warrington and Bl. John Finch of Eccleston (English, priest and married farmer/catechist, tortured and martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Elizabeth I [at ages _?_ and 35] in 1584 [beatified 1929])

πŸ“° Bl. John of God's Grace [Jean-de-Grace-Dieu] (French, Cistercian  abbot, d. 1280)

πŸ“° Sts. Marcellinus of Embrun, Vincent, and Domninus (African, bishop and missionaries in France, c. 374)

πŸ“° St. Marcian of Auxerre (French, monk, shepherd, c. 488)

πŸ“° Bl. Margaret of Amelia [Margherita] (Italian, Benedictine  abbess, mystic, d. 1666)

πŸ“° Bl. Richard Sergeant of Gloucestershire [alias Lee or Long] (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Elizabeth I in 1586 [beatified 1987])

πŸ“° Bl. Robert Watkinson of Heminbrough (English, priest, martyred under Elizabeth I at about age 23 in 1602 [beatified 1929])

πŸ“° Bl. Simon Rinalducci of Todi [Simone] (Italian, Augustinian  provincial, d. 1322 [beatified 1833])

πŸ“° Sts. Sulpicius and Servilian of Rome (Italian, martyred by beheading c. 117)

πŸ“° St. Theodore Trichinas of Constantinople (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], hermit, c. 330)

πŸ“° St. Theotimus of Tomi (Romanian, bishop, d. 407)

πŸ“° Sts. Victor, Zoticus, Zeno, Acindynus, Caesareus, Severian, Chrysophorus, Theonas, and Antoninus, of Nicomedia (from Asia Minor, martyred c. 303)

πŸ“° Bl. William Thomson of Blackburn [or Thompson, alias Blackburn] (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] at about age 26 under Elizabeth I in 1586 [beatified 1987])

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