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Apr 5, 2010

⛪ April 5


๐Ÿ“ฐ 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])

๐Ÿ“ฐ Holy Martyrs of Africa (martyred by Arian Vandals during Easter Sunday Mass in 459)

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Albert of Montecorvino (French, bishop in Italy, d. 1127)

๐Ÿ“ฐ Bl. Anthony Fuster ["Angel of Peace"], Bl. Blaise of Auvergne, and Bl. Peter Cerdan [Pedro] (European, disciples of St. Vincent Ferrer, 14th Century)

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Becan of Kill-Beggan (Irish, abbot, 6th Century)

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Derfel Gadarn (Welsh, soldier, abbot?, 5th or 6th Century)

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Ethelburga of Lyminge (British, princess, widow, Benedictine  abbess, c. 647)

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Gerald of Corbie (French, Benedictine  abbot, died at about age 69 in 1095 [canonized 1197])

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Irene of Thessalonica (Macedonian, virgin, martyred in 304)

๐Ÿ“ฐ Bl. Juliana of Retinnes (Belgian, orphan, Augustinian  prioress, died at about age 64 in 1258 [beatified 1869])

๐Ÿ“ฐ Holy Martyrs of Lesbos (Greek, virgins, early martyrs)

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Maria Crescentia Hรถss 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]

๐Ÿ“ฐ 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])

๐Ÿ“ฐ Sts. Probus and Grace (Welsh, husband and wife)

๐Ÿ“ฐ Bl. Sighardus of Bonlieu (French, Cistercian  abbot, d. 1162)

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Zeno (early martyr by burning)