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⛪ May 19


๐Ÿ“ฐ Bl. Alcuin of York (British, schoolmaster, adviser to Charlemagne, died at about age 74 in 804)

๐Ÿ“ฐ Bl. Augustine Novello of Taormina [Agostino] [baptized Matteo (Matthew)] (Sicilian, lawyer, king's chancellor, Augustinian  prior general, papal legate and confessor, hermit, d. 1309 [beatified 1759])

๐Ÿ“ฐ Bl. Bellatanus and Bl. Savinus of Montacuto (Italian, Camaldolese  hermits)

๐Ÿ“ฐ Sts. Calocerus and Parthenius of Rome (Italian, palace eunuchs, martyred by burning c. 304)

๐Ÿ“ฐ Pope St. Celestine V del Morrone of Isernia [Celestino] [baptized Pietro (Peter)] (Italian, peasant, hermit, priest, Benedictine  monk, elected to papacy in 1294 at age 84, abdicated after five months, died at about age 85 in 1296 [canonized 1313])

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Crispin Fioretti of Viterbo [Crispino] [baptized Pietro (Peter)] (Italian, shoemaker's apprentice, Capuchin  brother, infirmarian, beggar for alms, catechist to peasants, died at age 81 in 1750 [beatified 1806, canonized 1982] [incorrupt]) [commemorated by some on the 21st]

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Cyriaca and five companions, of Nicomedia (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], virgins, martyred by burning in 307)

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Cyril of Trier (German, bishop, 5th Century)

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Dunstan of Baltonsborough (British, Benedictine  monk, goldsmith, harpist, prophet, king's advisor, bishop of Worcester, bishop of London, archbishop of Canterbury, died at about age 89 in 988) [On English "particular calendar"]

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Francis Coll Guitart of Gombreny [Francisco] (Spanish, Dominican  friar, parish priest, founder of Dominican Sisters of the Annunciation, died at age 62 in 1875 [beatified 1979, canonized 2009])

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Hadulph of Saint-Vaast (French, Benedictine  abbot, bishop of Arras-Cambrai, c. 728)

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Ives Hรฉlory of Kermartin [Yves] (French, civil and ecclesiastical lawyer, judge, Franciscan  tertiary, parish priest, miracle worker, died at age 49 in 1303 [canonized 1347])

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Joaquina Vedruna de Mas of Barcelona (Spanish, widow, foundress of Institute of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity, died at age 70 in 1854 [beatified 1940, canonized 1959]) [commemorated by some on August 28]

๐Ÿ“ฐ Bl. Josephine Suriano of Partinico [Giuseppina, nicknamed Pina] (Sicilian, single laywoman, dedicated to "Catholic Action" and Marian devotion, died [heart attack] at age 35 in 1950 [beatified 2004])

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Mary Bernard Bรผtler of Auw [Maria Bernarda] [baptized Verena] (Swiss, virgin, founded Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, Help of Christians, died in Spain 9 days before her 76th birthday in 1924 [beatified 1995, canonized 2008])

๐Ÿ“ฐ Bl. Peter Wright of Slipton (English, Jesuit  priest, army chaplain, martyred by hanging at about age 47 in 1651 [beatified 1929])

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Philoterus of Nicomedia (from Asia Minor, nobleman, martyred in 303)

๐Ÿ“ฐ Sts. Pudens and Pudentiana of Rome (Italian, senator and daughter, martyred c. 160)

๐Ÿ“ฐ Bl. Rafael Louis Rafiringa of Antananarivo (Madagascaran, convert from paganism at age 13, missionary/catechist, member of Christian Brothers, died at age 63 in 1919 [beatified 2009])

๐Ÿ“ฐ St. Theophilus Arrighi of Corte [Teofilo] [baptized Biagio (Blaise)] (Corsican [French], Franciscan  priest, teacher of theology in Italy, missionary, died at age 63 in 1740 [beatified 1895, canonized 1930]) [commemorated by some on the 21st]

๐Ÿ“ฐ Bl. Umiliana Bonaguisi of Florence [nee de' Cerchi] (Italian, mother of two, widow at age 20, Franciscan  tertiary, died at about age 27 in 1246 [beatified 1694])