Apr 4, 2010

β›ͺ April 4


πŸ“° St. Isidore of Cartagena [better known as Isidore of Seville] ["Schoolmaster of the Middle Ages"] (Spanish, brother of three saints, hermit, archbishop of Seville, writer of encyclopedia, Doctor of the Church, died at about age 75 in 636 [canonized 1598])

πŸ“° Sts. Agathopus and Theodulus of Thessalonica (Greek, deacon and lector, martyred by drowning in 303)

πŸ“° Bl. Aleth of Dijon (French, mother of St. Bernard, widow, d. 1105)

πŸ“° St. Benedict the Black of Messina [Benedetto il Moro] (Italian, son of freed slaves, Franciscan  superior, cook, died at about age 63 in 1589 [beatified 1743, canonized 1807] [incorrupt])

πŸ“° St. Gwerir of Liskeard (British, hermit, 9th Century)

πŸ“° Bl. Henry of Gheest (Belgian, Cistercian  monk, c. 1190)

πŸ“° St. Hildebert of Ghent (Belgian, Benedictine  abbot, martyred by iconoclasts in 752)

πŸ“° Bl. Joseph Benedict Dusmet of Palermo [Giuseppe Benedetto] (Italian, Benedictine  monk, cardinal archbishop of Catania, died at age 75 in 1894 [beatified 1988])

πŸ“° St. Peter of Poitiers [Pierre] (French, bishop, d. 1115)

πŸ“° St. Plato of Constantinople (from what is now Turkey, orphan, abbot, died at about age 78 in 813)

πŸ“° St. Tigernach of Clogher (Irish, godson of St. Brigid, abbot, bishop, d. 549)

πŸ“° St. Zosimus (Palestinian, hermit, 5th Century)

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