⛪ May 9

📰 St. Beatus of Beatenberg (Swiss, hermit)

📰 St. Brynoth of Scara (Sweden, bishop for 38 years, d. 1317 [canonized 1498])

📰 St. Gerontius of Cervia (Italian, bishop, martyred c. 501)

📰 St. Gofor of Llanover (Welsh)

📰 St. Gregory of Ostia [Gregorio] (Italian, Benedictine  monk, cardinal bishop, papal legate, died in Spain c. 1044)

📰 St. Hermas of Rome (Italian, bishop of Philippi in Greece, mentioned by St. Paul [Romans 16], martyred in 1st Century)

📰 St. Isaiah ben Amoz [also called Isaias] (Judean, Old Testament prophet, c. 681 B.C.)

📰 St. John of Chalon-sur-Saône (French, bishop, c. 475)

📰 Bl. Mary Carmen Rendiles Martínez of Caracas [María Carmen] [baptized Carmen Elena] (Venezuelan, born without left arm, virgin, religious sister of Servants of the Eucharist, founded Servants of Jesus of Caracas, died [influenza] at age 73 in 1977 [beatified 2018])

📰 Bl. Mary Teresa of Jesus Gerhardinger of Regensburg [Maria Theresia von Jesus] [baptized Karoline (Caroline)] (German, founded School Sisters of Notre Dame, died at age 81 in 1879 [beatified 1985])

📰 Bl. Nicholas Albergati of Bologna [Niccola] (Italian, Carthusian  monk, cardinal archbishop, died at about age 73 in 1448 [beatified 1744]) [commemorated by his order on October 13]

📰 St. Pachomius of Tabenna (Egyptian, soldier, desert hermit, abbot, wrote earliest known communal rule for monks [at least 3,000 in nine monasteries], had true gift of tongues, opposed Arian heresy, died at about age 57 c. 348) [commemorated by some on the 15th]

📰 St. Sanctan of Kill-da-Les (British, bishop in Ireland, 6th Century)

📰 Bl. Thomas Pickering of Westmoreland (English, Benedictine  brother, martyred by hanging under Charles II in 1679 [beatified 1929])

📰 St. Tudy of Landevennec (French, hermit, missionary, 5th or 6th Century)

📰 St. Vincent of Montes (Spanish, Benedictine  abbot, bishop, c. 950)

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