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Apr 5, 2010

⛪ April 5


📰 St. Vincent Ferrer of Valencia [Vicente] (Spanish, Dominican  priest, teacher of theology, advisor to king and pope, missionary to at least eight nations, had true gift of tongues, miracle-worker, died in France at about age 68 in 1419 [canonized 1455])

📰 Holy Martyrs of Africa (martyred by Arian Vandals during Easter Sunday Mass in 459)

📰 St. Albert of Montecorvino (French, bishop in Italy, d. 1127)

📰 Bl. Anthony Fuster ["Angel of Peace"], Bl. Blaise of Auvergne, and Bl. Peter Cerdan [Pedro] (European, disciples of St. Vincent Ferrer, 14th Century)

📰 St. Becan of Kill-Beggan (Irish, abbot, 6th Century)

📰 St. Derfel Gadarn (Welsh, soldier, abbot?, 5th or 6th Century)

📰 St. Ethelburga of Lyminge (British, princess, widow, Benedictine  abbess, c. 647)

📰 St. Gerald of Corbie (French, Benedictine  abbot, died at about age 69 in 1095 [canonized 1197])

📰 St. Irene of Thessalonica (Macedonian, virgin, martyred in 304)

📰 Bl. Juliana of Retinnes (Belgian, orphan, Augustinian  prioress, died at about age 64 in 1258 [beatified 1869])

📰 Holy Martyrs of Lesbos (Greek, virgins, early martyrs)

📰 St. Maria Crescentia Höss of Kaufbeuren [baptized Anna] (Bavarian, superior of Franciscan Regular Tertiaries, mystic, died at age 61 on Easter in 1744 [beatified 1900, canonized 2001]) [commemorated by some on February 6]

📰 Bl. Mariano de la Mata Aparicio of Barrio de la Puebla (Spanish, Augustinian  priest in Brazil, champion of the poor, died [cancer] at age 77 in 1983 [beatified 2006])

📰 Sts. Probus and Grace (Welsh, husband and wife)

📰 Bl. Sighardus of Bonlieu (French, Cistercian  abbot, d. 1162)

📰 St. Zeno (early martyr by burning)