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On July 2, 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. Acestes (soldier, guarded St. Paul after his arrest, martyred by beheading in first century)
Sts. Ariston, Eutychian, Felicissimus, Felix, Justus, Marcia, Symphorosa, Urban, Vitalis, and Crescentian, of Campania (Italian, martyred in 284)
St. Bernardine Realino of Lecce [Bernardino] (Italian, nobleman, lawyer, mayor, judge, Jesuit priest, college rector, hero of poor and galley slaves, died at age 85 in 1616 [beatified 1896, canonized 1947])
Bl. Eugenia Joubert of Yssingeaux [Eugénie] (French, virgin, religious of Congregation of the Holy Family of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, died at age 28 in 1904 [beatified 1994])
Bl. George Beesley of Goosenoor and Bl. Montford Scott of Hawkestead (English, priests, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Elizabeth I at about age 28 and 41 in 1591 [beatified 1987])
St. Lidanus of Sezze (Italian, Benedictine abbot, d. 1118)
St. Monegundis of Chartres (French, mother of two children who died young, hermitess, c. 570)
St. Otto of Bamberg (German, nobleman, imperial chancellor, bishop, led twenty thousand pagan Poles to conversion, died at about age 79 in 1139 [canonized 1189])
St. Oudoceus of Brittany (bishop of Landaff in Wales, c. 580)
St. Swithun of Wessex (English, king's chaplain, prince's tutor, bishop of Winchester, died at about age 62 in 862)

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. Additional 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), July 02, 2004

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