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Today, September 26, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way, the following friends of God -- saints whose souls are now in heaven:

St. Cosmas and St. Damian (Arabian, twin brothers, physicians, martyred by torture and beheading, c. 303)
St. John of Meda (Italian, priest, d. 1159)
St. Nilus the Younger (Italian, Basilian abbot, d. 1004)
St. Marie Victoire Therese Couderc (French, nun in Sisters of St. Regis, co-founder of Congregation of Our Lady of the Retreat in the Cenacle at age 21, d. 1885 [canonized 1970])

If you have anything to share about these holy people, please reply now -- biographical episodes, prayers through their intercession, the fact that one is your patron saint -- whatever moves you. If you are interested in one of these saints and want to find out more about him/her, please ask. Information is sometimes available on the Internet.

All you holy men and women, saints of God, pray for us.
God bless you.
John

-- J. F. Gecik (jgecik@amdg.ihs), September 26, 2001

Answers

I pray to our Lord to give an understanding of this word to all souls desirous of pleasing him and to inspire them to take advantage of so easy a means of sanctification.
Oh! If people could just understand ahead of time the sweetness and peace that are savored when nothing is held back from the good God! How he communicates himself to the one who seeks him sincerely and has known how to SURRENDER herself. Let them experience it and they will see that here is found the true happiness they are vainly seeking elsewhere.
The surrendered soul has found paradise on earth ...

Saint Marie Victoire Therese Couderc, 1864

-- (_@_._), September 26, 2001.

[Here are some September 26 saints to be added to those listed in the opening message:]

St. Amantius of Cittá di Castello (Italian, parish priest, d. 600)
St. Callistratus and 49 companions (North African, martyred by drowning in 300)
St. Colman of Elo (Irish, abbot, bishop, spiritual writer, d. 612)
St. Justina of Antioch (from Asia Minor [Turkish], virgin, martyred by beheading c. 304)
St. Meugant (English or Welsh, hermit, 6th century)
St. Senator (probably Italian or French)
St. Vigilius (Italian, bishop, d. 506)

JFG

-- (jfgecik@hotmail.com), September 26, 2002.

Jmj

On September 26, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way, the following friends of God -- saints and blesseds whose souls are now in heaven:

Sts. Cosmas and Damian of Egaea (Arabian, twin brothers, physicians in Asia Minor, tortured and martyred by beheading, c. 303)

St. Amantius of Cittá di Castello (Italian, parish priest, d. 600)
St. Callistratus and 49 companions (North African, martyred by drowning at Constantinople in 300)
Bl. Caspar Stangassinger of Unterkälberstein [Kaspar] (Bavarian, son of farmer, Redemptorist priest, seminary official, died at age 28 [peritonitis] in 1899 [beatified 1988])
St. Colman of Elo (Irish, abbot, bishop, spiritual writer, d. 612)
Bl. Dalmatius Moner of San Coloma de Farnés (Spanish, Dominican priest, d. 1341 [beatified 1721])
Bl. John Baptist Mazzucconi of Rancio di Lecco [Giovanni Battista] (Italian, priest, religious of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, martyred in Australia at age 29 in 1855 [beatified 1984])
St. John of Meda [Giovanni] (Italian, priest, d. 1159)
St. Justina of Antioch (from Asia Minor [Turkish], virgin, martyred by beheading c. 304)
Bl. Louis Tezza of Conegliano [Luigi] (Italian, priest, member of Order of the Ministers of the Sick of St. Camillus in France and Peru, founder of Daughters of St. Camillus, d. 1923 [beatified 2001])
St. Mary Victoria Teresa Couderc of Sabličres [Marie Victoire Therese] (French, nun in Sisters of St. Regis, co-founder of Congregation of Our Lady of the Retreat in the Cenacle at age 21, d. 1885 [canonized 1970])
St. Meugant of Bardsey (English or Welsh, hermit, 6th century)
St. Nilo the Younger of Rossano (Italian, Basilian abbot, d. 1004)
St. Senator of Albanum (probably Italian or French)
St. Vigilius of Brescia (Italian, bishop, d. 506)

If you have anything to share about these holy people, please reply now -- biographical episodes, prayers through their intercession, the fact that one is your patron -- whatever moves you. If you are interested in one of these saints or blesseds and want to find out more about him/her, please ask. Information is sometimes available on the Internet.

All you holy men and women, saints of God, pray for us.
God bless you.
John

-- J. F. Gecik (jfgecik@hotmail.com), September 28, 2003.