April 06, 2010

⛪ April 6


πŸ“° St. Amandus of Bergamo (Italian, count, d. 515)

πŸ“° St. Berthanc of Kirkwall ["Fer-da-Leithe" (man of two countries)] (Scottish, monk, bishop, died in Ireland c. 840)

πŸ“° Bl. Catherine of Pallanza [Caterina] (Italian, hermitess, Augustinian  superior, died at about age 40 in 1478 [beatified 1769])

πŸ“° Pope St. Celestine I of Campania (Italian, elected to papacy in 422, reigned until death in 432)

πŸ“° St. Elstan of Winchester (British, Benedictine  monk, cook, abbot, bishop, d. 981)

πŸ“° St. Eutychius of Constantinople (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], patriarch (bishop), d. 582)

πŸ“° St. Gennard of Flay (French, Benedictine  abbot, hermit, d. 720)

πŸ“° Holy Martyrs of Hadiab (Persian [Iranian], 120 virgins/priests/deacons, martyred by beheading in 345)

πŸ“° St. Marcellinus (Roman? secretary to emperor, martyred in Carthage in 413)

πŸ“° Bl. Michael Rua of Turin (Italian, Salesian  priest [successor of Don Bosco], died at age 72 in 1910 [beatified 1972])

πŸ“° St. Notker Balbulus of Heiligau (Swiss, Benedictine  brother, musician and composer, died at about age 71 in 912 [beatified 1512])

πŸ“° St. Paul Le Bao Tinh of Trinh-ha (Vietnamese, priest, martyred by beheading at about age 63 in 1857 [beatified 1909, canonized 1988])

πŸ“° Bl. Pierina Morosini of Fiobbio di Albino (Italian, poor seamstress, factory worker, catechist, martyred in preserving her virginity at age 26 in 1957 [beatified 1987])

πŸ“° St. Platonides and companions, of Nisibis (Mesopotamian [Iraqi], foundress of convent and followers, possibly martyred c. 308)

πŸ“° St. Prudentius of Troyes [baptized Galindo] (Spanish, lawyer, bishop, writer of hymns [e.g., "Of the Father's Love Begotten"], died in France in 861)

πŸ“° Sts. Timothy and Diogenes (Macedonian, martyred probably by Arians c. 345)

πŸ“° St. Ulched (British)

πŸ“° St. Urban of PeΓ±alba (Spanish, Benedictine  abbot, c. 940)

πŸ“° St. William of Paris [Guillaume] (French, Augustinian  abbot in Denmark, died at about age 77 on Easter in 1203 [canonized 1224])

πŸ“° St. Winebald of Troyes (French, Benedictine  abbot, c. 650)

πŸ“° Bl. Zephyrinus Agostini of Verona [Zefirino] (Italian, parish priest, founder of Ursuline Daughters of Mary Immaculate, died at age 82 in 1896 [beatified 1998])

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