May 16, 2010

⛪ May 16


πŸ“° St. Adam of Fermo [Adamo] (Italian, hermit, Benedictine  abbot, c. 1213)

πŸ“° St. Andrew Bobola of Sandomir [Andrzej] ["Duszochwat" or "Thief of Souls"] (Polish, aristocrat, parish priest, Jesuit  superior, missionary [reconciled whole villages of Eastern Orthodox], tortured [partially flayed] and martyred by sword in Lithuania at age 65 in 1657 [beatified 1853, canonized 1938] [incorrupt]) [commemorated by some on the 21st]

πŸ“° St. Annobert of SΓ©ez (French, Benedictine  monk, bishop, c. 690)

πŸ“° Sts. Aquilinus and Victorian of Isauria (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], early martyrs)

πŸ“° St. Audas [also known as Abdas] and 28 companions (Persian [Iranian] ... bishop, seven priests, nine deacons, seven virgins ... martyred in 420)

πŸ“° St. Brendan the Navigator (Irish, priest, missionary [possibly sea-going], abbot, died in his 90s c. 580) [On Irish "particular calendar"]

πŸ“° St. Carantoc (Welsh, prince, abbot, 5th Century)

πŸ“° St. Carannog of Cernach (Welsh, abbot, 6th Century)

πŸ“° St. Domnolus of Le Mans (French, bishop, d. 581)

πŸ“° Sts. Felix and Gennadius (African?, early martyrs)

πŸ“° St. Fidolus of Aumont (French, abbot, c. 540)

πŸ“° St. Fort of Bordeaux (French?, bishop, early martyr)

πŸ“° St. Francoveus (French, monk, hermit, 7th Century)

πŸ“° St. Germerius of Toulouse (French, bishop for fifty years, c. 560)

πŸ“° St. Hilary of Pavia (Italian, bishop, opposed Arian heresy, d. 376)

πŸ“° St. Honoratus of Port-le-Grand (French, bishop of Amiens, d. 653)

πŸ“° St. John Woelflein of Nepomuk [better known as John Nepomucene] [Jan] ["Martyr of the Confessional"] (Czech, vicar general of Prague, confessor to queen of Bohemia, tortured and martyred [drowned] by the king for guarding the secrecy of the confessional at about age 52 in 1393 [beatified 1721, canonized 1729])

πŸ“° St. Maxima of FrΓ©jus (French, virgin)

πŸ“° Bl. Michael Wozniak of Sokolowo [Michal] (Polish, diocesan priest, martyred by Nazis at Dachau [Poland] at age 66 in 1942 [beatified 1999])

πŸ“° St. Peregrine of Rome (Italian, bishop of Auxerre in France, martyred in 3rd or 4th Century)

πŸ“° St. Peregrinus of Terni (Italian, bishop, c. 138)

πŸ“° St. Possidius of Hippo (North African, bishop of Calama, died in Italy in 450)

πŸ“° St. Primael of Quimper (British, hermit in France, c. 450)

πŸ“° St. Simon Stock of Aylesford (English, hermit, itinerant preacher, Carmelite  prior general, received the brown scapular from Our Lady [private revelation], died in France at about age 99 in 1265)

πŸ“° St. Ubaldo Baldassini of Gubbio (Italian, bishop, d. 1160 [canonized 1192])

πŸ“° Bl. Vladimir Ghika of Constantinople (Romanian, aristocrat, reconciled from Orthodoxy to Catholicism at age 29, operated free clinic, ordained bi-ritual priest in France at age 50, papal legate around the world, tortured and martyred in Communist prison [starvation] at age 80 in 1954 [beatified 2013])

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