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May 20, 2010

⛪ May 20


📰 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])

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

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

📰 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])

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

📰 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])

📰 St. Austregisilus of Bourges (French, courtier, abbot, bishop, d. 624)

📰 St. Basilla of Rome (Italian, virgin, martyred in 304)

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

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

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

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

📰 St. Hilary of Toulouse (French, bishop, 4th Century)

📰 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])

📰 Bl. María Crescencia Pérez of San Martín [baptized María Angélica] (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]

📰 Bl. Orlando (Italian, Vallumbrosan  brother, exorcist, hermit, d. 1242)

📰 St. Plautilla of Rome (Italian, widow, c. 67)

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

📰 St. Theodore of Pavia (Italian, bishop, opposed Arian heresy, d. 778).