April 26, 2010

⛪ April 26


πŸ“° Bl. Alda of Siena (Italian, widow, tertiary of the Humiliati [Holy Humility of Mary] order], devoted to alms and mortification, died at about age 60 in 1309)

πŸ“° St. Basileus of Amasea (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], bishop, martyred by drowning in 319)

πŸ“° St. Clarence of Vienne (French, bishop, c. 620)

πŸ“° Pope St. Cletus of Rome [also known as Anacletus] (Italian, third pope, elected in 76, reigned until martyrdom c. 88)

πŸ“° Bl. Dominic [Domingo] and Bl. Gregory [Gregorio], of Besians (Dominican  missionary priests in Moslem Spain, d. 1300 [beatified 1854])

πŸ“° St. Exuperantia of Troyes (French, virgin, d. 380?)

πŸ“° St. Franca Visalta of Piacenza (Italian, Cistercian  abbess, died at about age 48 in 1218)

πŸ“° Bl. John of Valence [Jean] (French, Cistercian  abbot, bishop, d. 1146 [beatified 1901])

πŸ“° St. Lucidius of Verona (Italian, bishop, 4th Century)

πŸ“° Pope St. Marcellinus of Rome (Italian, elected to papacy in 296, reigned until death in 304)

πŸ“° St. Paschasius Radbertus of Soissons (French, foundling raised by monks, Benedictine  abbot, hermit, writer, died at about age 75 in 865)

πŸ“° St. Peter of Braga (Portuguese, bishop, martyred in 6th Century?)

πŸ“° St. Raphael Arnaiz Baron of Burgos [Rafael] (Spanish, member of Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance [Trappists], died at age 27 in 1938 [beatified 1992, canonized 2009])

πŸ“° St. Richarius of Centula (French, missionary priest, abbot, hermit, d. 645)

πŸ“° Bl. Stanislaus Kubista of Kostuchna [Stanislaw] (Polish, Divine Word Missionaries  priest, martyred by Nazis at Sachsenhausen [Germany] at age 41 in 1940 [beatified 1999])

πŸ“° St. Trudpert of Munstethal (Irish, hermit in Germany, abbot, martyred c. 644)

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