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Today, March 23, 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. Turibius of Mongrovejo [Toribio Alfonso de M.] (Spanish, professor of law, missionary archbishop in Peru, d. 1606)
St. Benedict of Campania (Italian, hermit, c. 550)
Sts. Domitius, Pelagia, Aquila, Eparchius, and Theodosia (martyred in Palestine in 361)
St. Ethelwald of Farne (English, Benedictine priest, hermit, d. 699)
St. Felix of Monte Cassino (Italian, Benedictine monk, c. 1000)
Sts. Felix, Fidelis, and twenty companions (African, martyred in 5th century)
Sts. Gwinear, Phiala, and companions (Irish ... prince, princess, and many others converted by St. Patrick ... missionaries in Wales and Brittany ... martyred in 460)
St. Joseph Oriol [Jose, "Wonder-worker of Barcelona"] (Spanish, parish priest, lived on bread and water for 26 years, d. 1702)
St. Julian (early martyr)
St. Liberat and companions (physician, wife, and some of their children ... martyred by Vandals in 484)
St. Maidoc of Fiddown (Irish, abbot, 5th century)
St. Nicon and 200 companions (Roman, soldier and fellow Christians, martyred in Sicily c. 250)
Bl. Peter Ghisengi of Gubbio [Pietro] (Italian, Augustinian provincial, c. 1300)
Bl. Rebecca Shabaq al-Rayes [Sister Rafqa, the "Little Flower of Lebanon"] [baptized Pierina] (Lebanese, servant in Syria, Maronite nun of the Baladiya Order, became blind but also a seer [!], d. 1914 [beatified 1985])
Bl. Sibyllina Biscossi of Pavia (Italian, orphan, blind at age 12, Dominican tertiary, hermitess for 67 years, d. 1367)
St. Theodolus of Antioch (Syrian, priest)
Sts. Victorian, Frumentius, and three companions (African ... proconsul and merchants ... tortured and martyred by Arian Vandals in 484)

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), March 23, 2002

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Jmj

On March 23, 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:

St. Turibius of Mongrovejo [Toribio Alonso] (Spanish, professor of law, missionary archbishop in Peru, d. 1606)

Bl. Annunciata Cocchetti of Rovato (Italian, virgin, founded Dorothean Sisters of Cemmo, d. 1882 [beatified 1991])
St. Benedict of Campania (Italian, hermit, c. 550)
Sts. Domitius, Pelagia, Aquila, Eparchius, and Theodosia (Phrygian [Turkish], martyred in Palestine in 361)
Bl. Edmund Sykes of Leeds (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Elizabeth I in 1587 [beatified 1987])
St. Ethelwald of Farne (English, Benedictine priest, hermit, d. 699)
St. Felix of Monte Cassino [Felice] (Italian, Benedictine monk, c. 1000)
Sts. Felix, Fidelis, and twenty companions (African, martyred in 5th century)
Sts. Gwinear, Phiala, and companions (Irish ... prince, princess, and many others converted by St. Patrick ... missionaries in Wales and Brittany ... martyred in 460)
St. Joseph Oriol of Barcelona [Jose] ["Wonder-worker of Barcelona"] (Spanish, parish priest, lived on bread and water for 26 years, d. 1702 [canonized 1909])
St. Julian (early martyr)
St. Liberat and companions (physician, wife, and some of their children ... martyred by Vandals in 484)
St. Maidoc of Fiddown (Irish, abbot, 5th century)
Bl. Methodius Dominic Trcka of Frędlant [Metod Dominik] (Slovak born in Moravia, Redemptorist superior, arrested by Communists in 1950, sent to a concentration camp, died forgiving persecutors in 1959 [beatified 2001])
St. Nicon of Rome and 200 companions of Palestine (soldier and fellow Christians, martyred in Sicily c. 250)
Bl. Peter Ghisengi of Gubbio [Pietro] (Italian, Augustinian provincial, c. 1300)
Bl. Rebecca Shabaq al-Rayes of Hemlaya [Sister Rafqa, the "Little Flower of Lebanon"] [baptized Pierina] (Lebanese, servant in Syria, Maronite nun of the Baladiya Order, became blind but also a seer [!], d. 1914 [beatified 1985])
Bl. Sibyllina Biscossi of Pavia (Italian, orphan, blind at age 12, Dominican tertiary, hermitess for 67 years, d. 1367)
St. Theodolus of Antioch (Syrian, priest)
Sts. Victorian of Adrumetum, Frumentius of Carthage, and three companions (African ... proconsul and merchants ... tortured and martyred by Arian Vandals in 484)

If you have anything to share about these 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/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), March 23, 2003.