Jmj

Today, January 14, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way, the following friends of God -- saints whose souls are now in heaven:

Bl. Amadeus of Clermont (French, nobleman, Cistercian monk, c. 1150)
Sts. Barbasymas and sixteen companions (Persian, bishop and others, tortured and martyred in 346)
St. Datius of Milan (Italian, bishop, d. 552)
St. Euphrasius (African, bishop)
St. Felix of Nola (Italian, priest, tortured, helped by an angel to escape, d. 260)
St. Felix of Rome (Italian, priest)
Sts. Isaias, Sabas, and thirty-six companions (monks on Mt. Sinai, martyred by pagan Arabs in 309)
St. Macrina the Elder (from Asia Minor [Turkish], widow, mother of one saint and grandmother of four [including St. Basil the Great], c. 340)
St. Malachi (Israelite, prophet, writer of Old Testament book, 5th century B.C.)
Holy Martyrs of Raithu (Egyptian, hermits, martyred c. 510)
Bl. Odo of Novara (Italian, Carthusian prior in Croatia, chaplain to convent in Italy, d. 1200)
Bl. Peter Donders (Dutch, missionary priest in South American, joined Redemptorists at age 57, d. 1887 in Surinam [beatified 1978])
St. Sava [baptized Ratsko] (Serbian, prince, monk in Greece, bishop, died in Bulgaria c. 1237) [Note: highly revered by Eastern Orthodox, but I am uncertain if he is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church]

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 (jfgecik@hotmail.com), January 14, 2002

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Jmj

On January 14, 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:

Bl. Amadeus of Clermont (French, nobleman, Cistercian monk, c. 1150)
St. Datius of Milan (Italian, bishop, d. 552)
St. Euphrasius (African, bishop)
St. Felix of Nola (Italian, priest, tortured, helped by an angel to escape, d. 260)
St. Felix of Rome (Italian, priest)
Sts. Isaias, Sabas, and thirty-six companions, of Mt. Sinai (monks, martyred by pagan Arabs in 309)
St. Macrina the Elder of Neocaesarea (from Asia Minor [Turkish], widow, mother of one saint and grandmother of four [including St. Basil the Great], c. 340)
St. Malachi of Sapha (Israelite, prophet, writer of Old Testament book, 5th century B.C.)
Bl. Odo of Novara (Italian, Carthusian prior in Croatia, chaplain to convent in Italy, d. 1200)
Bl. Peter Donders of Tilburg [Pietje] (Dutch, missionary priest in South American, joined Redemptorists at age 57, d. 1887 in Surinam [beatified 1982])
Sts. Simeon Barsabba’e, Shahdost, Barba’shmin and sixteen companions, of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (Persian, three bishops and others, tortured and martyred between 341 and 346)
Holy Martyrs of Raithu (Egyptian, hermits, martyred c. 510)

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), January 14, 2004.

St. Hilary of Poitiers, ora pro nobis.

-- jake (j@k.e), January 14, 2004.