May 20, 2010

⛪ May 20


πŸ“° St. Bernardine of Massa Maritima [better known as Bernadine of Siena] [Bernardino] (Italian, Franciscan  priest, itinerant preacher, theological writer, died at about age 64 in 1444 [canonized 1450])

πŸ“° Bl. Albert of Bologna [Alberto] (Italian, Vallumbrosan  abbot, d. 1245)

πŸ“° St. Anastasius of Brescia [Anastasio] (Italian, bishop, opposed Arian heresy, d. 610)

πŸ“° Bl. Anastasius Pankiewicz of Nagorzany [Anastazy] [baptized Jakub (James)] (Polish, Franciscan  brother, founder of Congregation of the Antonian Sisters of Christ the King, martyred by Nazis at Dachau [Germany] at age 59 in 1942 [beatified 1999])

πŸ“° St. Aquila of Nimes (Egyptian, martyred [torn by iron combs] in 311)

πŸ“° St. Archangel Tadini of Verolanuova [Arcangelo] (Italian, diocesan priest, founded Sisters of the Work of the House of Nazareth, died at age 65 in 1912 [beatified 1999, canonized 2009])

πŸ“° St. Austregisilus of Bourges (French, courtier, abbot, bishop, d. 624)

πŸ“° St. Basilla of Rome (Italian, virgin, martyred in 304)

πŸ“° St. Baudelius of Nimes (French, married missionary, martyred in 2nd or 3rd Century)

πŸ“° Bl. Columba Guardagnoli of Rieti [baptized Angelella] (Italian, Dominican  tertiary, virgin, visionary, died at age 34 in 1501 [beatified 1625])

πŸ“° King St. Ethelbert of East Anglia (British, reigned for 44 years, d. 793)

πŸ“° Bl. Guy de Gherardescha of Pisa [Guido] (Italian, hermit, d. 1099)

πŸ“° St. Hilary of Toulouse (French, bishop, 4th Century)

πŸ“° Bl. Josepha Stenmanns of Issum [baptized Hendrina] (German, cofounded Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit,  died 8 days before her 51st birthday in 1903 [beatified 2008])

πŸ“° Bl. MarΓ­a Crescencia PΓ©rez of San MartΓ­n [baptized MarΓ­a AngΓ©lica] (Argentinian, virgin, religious sister of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Garden, teacher, nurse in Chile, died [tuberculosis] at age 34 in 1932 [beatified 2012]) [incorruptible]

πŸ“° Bl. Orlando (Italian, Vallumbrosan  brother, exorcist, hermit, d. 1242)

πŸ“° St. Plautilla of Rome (Italian, widow, c. 67)

πŸ“° Sts. Thalelaeus the Merciful of Anazarbus, Alexander, Asterius, and companions (Lebanese ... physician, soldiers?, and others ... died by beheading in Asia Minor [Turkey] c. 284)

πŸ“° St. Theodore of Pavia (Italian, bishop, opposed Arian heresy, d. 778).

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