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Apr 25, 2010

⛪ April 25


📰 St. Mark [also known as John Mark] (Israelite, relative of St. Barnabas, companion of St. Paul, evangelist, martyred in Egypt c. 68-75) [Feast observed in Australia and New Zealand on April 26, to allow for celebration of ANZAC Day on April 25]

📰 St. Anianus of Alexandria (Egyptian, shoemaker, disciple of St. Mark, bishop, 1st Century)

📰 Bl. Boniface of Valperga [Bonifacio] (Italian, Benedictine  monk, Augustinian  prior, bishop of Aosta, d. 1243 [beatified 1890])

📰 St. Erminus of Laon (French, Benedictine  monk, bishop of Lobbes, d. 737)

📰 Sts. Evodius, Hermogenes, and Callistus (early martyrs)

📰 St. John Baptist Piamarta of Brescia [Giovanni Battista] (Italian, priest, died at about age 72 in 1913 [beatified 1997, canonized 2012])

📰 St. Heribald of Auxerre (French, Benedictine  abbot, bishop, c. 857)

📰 St. Kebius of Cornwall (French?, missionary bishop in British Isles, 4th Century)

📰 St. Macaille of Croghan (Irish, bishop, c. 489)

📰 St. Mella of Doire-Melle (Irish, widow, abbess, c. 780)

📰 St. Phaebadius of Agen (French, bishop, opposed Arian heresy, c. 392)

📰 Sts. Philo and Agathopodes of Antioch (Syrian, disciples of St. Ignatius, deacons, c. 150)

📰 Blessed Martyrs of Rancho San Joaquín (2 Mexican and 1 Spanish, two priests and one layman, martyred [shot] by anticlerical government in 1927 [beatified 2005])
----- Bl. Andrew Solá y Molist of Can Vilarrasa [Andrés] (Spanish, Claretian  priest, died at age 31)
----- Bl. Joseph Trinity Rangel Montaño of Dolores Hidalgo [José Trinidad] (Mexican, diocesan priest, died at age 39)
----- Bl. Leonard Pérez Larios of Lagos de Moreno [Leonardo] (Mexican, single layman, died at age 43)

📰 St. Robert of Siracusa [Roberto] (Sicilian, Benedictine  abbot, c. 1000)

📰 Bl. Robert Anderton and Bl. William Marsden, both of Lincolnshire (English, priests, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Elizabeth I both at about age 25 in 1586 [beatified 1929])

📰 St. Stephen of Antioch (Syrian, patriarch (bishop), opposed Monophysite heresy, martyred by heretics at the altar in 481)