Archive for August, 2024
St. Euplus of Catania
Died: flogged to death on 12 August 304 in Catania, Sicily, Italy, relics in Trevico, Italy that were long thought to be from Euplus were examined scientifically in 2005 and determined to be from three different people Patronage: Catania, Sicily, Italy, Francavilla di Sicilia, Italy, Trevico, Italy. Also known as Euplio, Euplius Deacon. Tortured and […]
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St. Jeanne de Chantal
Born: 28 January 1572 at Dijon, Burgundy, France Died: 13 December 1641 at the Visitationist convent at Moulins, France of natural causes, relics at Annecy, Savoy (in modern France Canonized: 16 July 1767 by Pope Clement XIII Patronage: against in-law problems, against the death of parents, forgotten people, parents separated from children, widows. Also known […]
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St. Cassian of Imola
Died: tied to a post, tortured and stabbed to death with iron styles, the device used as a pencil on wax tablets, at Imola, Italy c.304, buried in the catacombs in Rome, Italy, a sepulchre was built over his place of burial later in the 4th century, in the 5th century, a basilica was built […]
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St. John Berchmans
Born: 13 March 1599 at Driest, Brabant, Belgium Died: 12 August 1621 at Rome, Italy, relics at Saint Ignatius Church, Rome Canonized: 15 January 1888 by Pope Leo XIII Patronage: altar boys, altar girls, altar servers, Oblate novices, young people. Also known as Jan Berchmans Son of a shoemaker, and one of five children, three […]
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St. Maximus the Confessor
Born: c.580 at Constantinople Died: 13 August 662 at Batum near the Black Sea of natural causes, strange lights reported hovering near his tomb. Also known as Maximus of Constantinople, Maximus Confessor, Maximus the Theologian, Maximus Homogoletes Born to the Byzantine nobility. Chief secretary to Emperor Heraclius, a post he resigned to become a monk […]
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St. Zacchaeus the Publican
Also known as Zaccheo Additional Memorials 20 April (Coptic calendar), 32nd Sunday after Pentecost (Byzantine calendar), 27 August (Martyrology of Rabban Sliba) Mentioned in Gospel of Luke as the short tax collector who climbed a tree in order to see Jesus because he couldn’t see over the crowd. Jesus decided to go to the man’s […]
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St. Maria de Mattias
Born: 4 February 1805 at Vallecorsa, Frosinone, Papal States (modern Italy) Died: 20 August 1866 in Rome, Italy of natural causes, buried in the Verano cemetery, Rome, relics venerated in Rome at the Church of the Precious Blood Canonized: 18 May 2003 by Pope John Paul II at Vatican Basilica. Born to a pious and […]
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St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Born: 1090 at Fontaines-les-Dijon, Burgundy, France Died: 20 August 1153 at Clairvaux Abbey, Ville-sous-la-Ferté, Aube, France Canonized 1170 by Pope Alexander III Patronage: beekeepers, bees, Burgundy, France, candlemakers, chandlers, Cistercian Order, Cistercians, Gibraltar, Knights Templar, Queens College, Cambridge, England, Speyer Cathedral, wax-melters, wax refiners. Also known as Mellifluous Doctor of the Church, Last of the […]
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Daily Reflection 20.08.2024
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St. Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia
Born: February 1589 in Régil, Guipúzcoa, Spain Died: 14 August 1633 in Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan Canonized: 18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II. Joined the Dominicans in 1605. Priest. Missionary to Pangasinan, Philippines in 1611. Taught theology at the Colegio de Santo Tomas. Missionary to Japan in 1623 during a time of violent persecution […]
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