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May 19, 2010

⛪ May 19


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

📰 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])

📰 Bl. Bellatanus and Bl. Savinus of Montacuto (Italian, Camaldolese  hermits)

📰 Sts. Calocerus and Parthenius of Rome (Italian, palace eunuchs, martyred by burning c. 304)

📰 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])

📰 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]

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

📰 St. Cyril of Trier (German, bishop, 5th Century)

📰 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"]

📰 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])

📰 St. Hadulph of Saint-Vaast (French, Benedictine  abbot, bishop of Arras-Cambrai, c. 728)

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

📰 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]

📰 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])

📰 St. Mary Bernard Bütler 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])

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

📰 St. Philoterus of Nicomedia (from Asia Minor, nobleman, martyred in 303)

📰 Sts. Pudens and Pudentiana of Rome (Italian, senator and daughter, martyred c. 160)

📰 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])

📰 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]

📰 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])