May 22, 2010

⛪ May 22


πŸ“° St. Rita Mancini of Roccaporena [better known as Rita of Cascia] [baptized Margarita, nee Lotti] (Italian, wife, mother of twins, widow, Augustinian  nun, stigmatist, died at about age 70 in 1457 [beatified 1627, canonized 1900])

πŸ“° St. Aigulf of Bourges (French, hermit, bishop, c. 836)

πŸ“° St. Atto of Badajoz (Spanish, Vallumbrosan  abbot general, bishop of Pistoia in Italy, d. 1153)

πŸ“° St. Ausonius of Angouleme (French, bishop, early martyr)

πŸ“° St. Basiliscus of Comana (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], bishop, martyred by beheading in 312)

πŸ“° St. Bobo of Provence (French, knight, hermit, died in Italy c. 985)

πŸ“° St. Boethian of Pierrepont (Irish, Benedictine  monk, martyred in France in 7th Century)

πŸ“° Sts. Castus and Aemilius (African, martyred by burning c. 250)

πŸ“° St. Conall of Inniscoel (Irish, abbot, 7th Century)

πŸ“° Sts. Faustinus, Timothy, and Venustus, of Rome (Italian, martyred c. 362)

πŸ“° St. Fulk of Castrofurli (Italian, cared for those stricken by plague, c. 601 [canonized 1572])

πŸ“° St. Helen of Auxerre (French, virgin, c. 419)

πŸ“° St. Helen Luyddog of Carnarvon [Elen] (Welsh, princess, wife of emperor, mother of five, widow, 4th Century)

πŸ“° St. Hemming of Balinge (Swedish, bishop of Abo in Finland, martyred at about age 76 in 1366)

πŸ“° St. Humility of Faenza [Umilita] [baptized Rosanna] (Italian, widow, hermitess, Vallumbrosan  abbess, died at about age 83 in 1310 [canonized 1720])

πŸ“° Bl. John Baptist Machado of Terceira [JoΓ£o Bautista] (from Azores [Portuguese islands], Jesuit  priest in Portugal, missionary in Japan, martyred by beheading in Nagasaki at about age 37 in 1617 
[beatified 1867])

πŸ“° Bl. John of Cetina [Juan] and Bl. Peter de Duenas of Palencia [Pedro] (Spanish, Franciscan  missionaries, martyred [beheaded] by Moslems in 1397) [Bl. Peter died at about age 19.]

πŸ“° Bl. John Forest of Oxford (English, Franciscan  provincial, chaplain of Queen Catherine of Aragon [only true wife of Henry VIII], martyred [hanged and burned] at about age 66 in 1538 [beatified 1886])

πŸ“° St. John of Parma (Italian, Benedictine  abbot, c. 982)

πŸ“° St. Julia of Corsica (North African, noblewoman, kidnapped and sold into slavery, tortured and martyred [crucified] on Corsica c. 620)

πŸ“° St. Marcian of Ravenna (Italian, bishop, c. 127)

πŸ“° Bl. Margaret of Hulme (English, martyred in 1170)

πŸ“° Bl. Mary Dominic Brun Barbantini of Lucca [Maria Domenica] (Italian, founded Congregation of the Sisters of the Least, died at age 79 in 1868 [beatified 1995])

πŸ“° Bl. Matthias of Arima (Japanese, catechist, servant of Jesuit  provincial, martyred in 1622 [beatified 1867])

πŸ“° St. Michael Ho Dinh Hy of Nhu-lam (Vietnamese, superintendent of silk mills, martyred by beheading at about age 48 in 1857 [beatified 1909, canonized 1988])

πŸ“° Bl. Peter of the Assumption of Cuerva [Pedro Asuncion] (Spanish, missionary priest, Franciscan  guardian of friary in Japan, martyred by beheading at Nagasaki in 1617 [beatified 1867])

πŸ“° St. Peter Parenzi of Rome [Pietro] (Italian, opposed Catharist heresy, martyred in 1199)

πŸ“° St. Quiteria (Spanish, virgin, martyred by beheading in 5th Century)

πŸ“° St. Romanus of Subiaco (Italian, monk, advisor to young St. Benedict, c. 560)

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