April 23, 2010

⛪ April 23


πŸ“° St. Adalbert of Libice [baptized Vojtech] ["Apostle of Bohemia"] (Czech, nobleman, Benedictine  monk, bishop of Prague, missionary, martyred in Poland at about age 40 in 997) [Commemorated in England on April 24]

πŸ“° St. George the Great of Cappadocia (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], soldier, tortured and martyred by beheading in Palestine perhaps at age 23 c. 304)

πŸ“° Sts. Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus, of Vienne (French, priest and deacons, martyred in 212)

πŸ“° St. Gerald of Cologne (German, nobleman, bishop of Toul, died at about age 59 in 994)

πŸ“° Bl. Gerard of Orchimont (French, Benedictine  abbot, d. 1138)

πŸ“° Bl. Giles of Assisi [Egidio] (Italian, disciple of St. Francis, missionary to Tunisian Moslems, hermit in Italy, d. 1262)

πŸ“° Bl. Giles of Saumur [Gilles] (French, king's chaplain, crusader, bishop of Damietta, archbishop of Tyre in Lebanon, died in Belgium in 1266)

πŸ“° Bl. Helen dei Cavalcanti of Udine [Elena] [nee Valentini] (Italian, mother, widow, Augustinian   tertiary, died at about age 61 in 1458 [beatified 1848])

πŸ“° St. Ibar of Meath (Irish? disciple of St. Patrick, bishop, 5th Century)

πŸ“° St. Marolus of Milan (Syrian, bishop in Italy, d. 423)

πŸ“° Bl. Teresa Mary of the Cross Manetti of Florence [Teresa Maria della Croce] (Italian, Carmelite   tertiary, died at age 64 in 1910 [beatified 1986])

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