May 23, 2010

⛪ May 23


πŸ“° Bl. Bartholomew Pucci-Franceschi of Montepulciano [Bartolomeo] (Italian, Franciscan  friar, d. 1330 [beatified 1880])

πŸ“° Holy Martyrs of Cappadocia (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], tortured and martyred in 303)

πŸ“° St. Desiderius of Genoa (Italian, bishop of Langres in France, martyred by barbarians c. 407)

πŸ“° St. Desiderius of Autun (French, bishop of Vienne, martyred in 608)

πŸ“° Sts. Epitacius of Tuy and Basileus of Braga (bishops in Spain and Portugal, martyred in 1st Century)

πŸ“° St. Euphebius of Naples (Italian, bishop)

πŸ“° St. Euphrosyne of Polotsk [baptized Pradslava] (Belarusan, virgin, hermitess, copyist, died at about age 63 in 1173 [canonized 1984])

πŸ“° Sts. Eutychius and Florentius of Valcastoria (Italian, Benedictine  monks, 6th Century)

πŸ“° St. Goban Gobhnena of Old-Leighlin (Irish, abbot in England, 6th or 7th Century)

πŸ“° St. Guibert of Gembloux (Belgian, military officer, hermit, Benedictine  abbot, d. 962 [canonized 1211])

πŸ“° St. Ives of Beauvais [Yves] (French, Augustinian  prior, bishop of Chartres, died at about age 76 in 1116)

πŸ“° St. Joan Antide Thouret of Sancy [Jeanne-Antide] (French, foundress of Institute of the Daughters of Charity, died in Italy at age 60 in 1826 [beatified 1926, canonized 1934]) [commemorated by some on August 24]

πŸ“° St. John Baptist de’ Rossi of Voltaggio [Giovanni Battista] (Italian, epileptic, priest, miracle worker, died at about age 65 in 1764 [beatified 1860, canonized 1881])

πŸ“° Bl. Joseph Kurzawa of Swierczyn [JΓ³zef] and Bl. Vincent Matuszewski of Chruscienska Wola [Wincenty] (Polish, diocesan priests, martyred by Nazis at Witowo [Poland] at ages 30 and 71 in 1940 [beatified 1999])

πŸ“° St. Merculialis of Forli (Italian, bishop, zealous opponent of paganism and Arian heresy, c. 406)

πŸ“° Holy Martyrs of Mesopotamia ([Iraqi], martyred c. 307)

πŸ“° St. Michael of Synnada (Phrygian [from part of what is now Turkey], bishop, opposed iconoclast heresy, c. 820)

πŸ“° Sts. Quintian, Lucius, Julian, and 16 companions (North African, martyred by Arian Vandals c. 430)

πŸ“° St. Syagrius of Lerins (French, Benedictine  abbot, bishop of Nice, c. 787)

πŸ“° St. William of Perth (Scottish, baker, pilgrim, martyred in England in 1201 [canonized 1256])

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