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Apr 4, 2010

⛪ April 4


📰 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])

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

📰 Bl. Aleth of Dijon (French, mother of St. Bernard, widow, d. 1105)

📰 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])

📰 St. Gwerir of Liskeard (British, hermit, 9th Century)

📰 Bl. Henry of Gheest (Belgian, Cistercian  monk, c. 1190)

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

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

📰 St. Peter of Poitiers [Pierre] (French, bishop, d. 1115)

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

📰 St. Tigernach of Clogher (Irish, godson of St. Brigid, abbot, bishop, d. 549)

📰 St. Zosimus (Palestinian, hermit, 5th Century)