July 12 -- today's saints and blesseds

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On July 12, 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. Andrew Oexner of Rinn [Andreas] (Austrian, 3-year-old boy, martyred in 1462)
St. Ansbald of Prüm (Luxembourger, courtier, Benedictine abbot, d. 886)
St. Balay of Ploermellac (French, hermit)
Bl. Benno of Osnabrück (German, Benedictine monk, headmaster, architect, archbishop, d. 1088)
Bl. David Gonson [also spelled Genson and Gunston] (English, layman, Knight of St. John, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Henry VIII in 1541 [beatified 1929])
St. Epiphania (early martyr)
Sts. Hermagoras and Fortunatus of Aquileia (Italian, bishop and deacon, tortured and martyred by Emperor Nero c. 66)
St. Ignatius Delgado y Cebrian of Villa Feliz [Ignacio] (Spanish, Dominican friar, missionary in Vietnam for over forty years, bishop of East Tonkin, martyred [hunger and exposure in a cage] at about age 77 in 1838 [beatified 1900, canonized 1988])
St. Jason of Thessalonica (Greek, convert of St. Paul [Acts 17], martyred in 1st century)
St. John Gualbert of Florence [Giovanni Gualberto] (Italian, nobleman, Vallumbrosan abbot, died at about age 80 in 1073 [canonized 1193])
St. John Jones of Clynog Fawr [aliases: John Buckley, John Griffith, and Godfrey Maurice] (Welsh, Franciscan priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] at about age 39 under Elizabeth I in 1598 [canonized 1970])
St. John the Hagiorite (Georgian, abbot in Greece, c. 1002)
Bl. John, Bl. Monica, and Bl. Louis Naisen, of Arima (Japanese ... father, mother, and 7-year-old son ... martyred by burning at Nagasaki in 1626 [beatified 1867])
Bl. John Tanaka and Bl. Matthias Araki (Japanese, laymen, sheltered illegal clergy, martyred by burning in 1626 [beatified 1867])
Bl. Lambert of Morimond (French, Cistercian abbot, d. 1163)
St. Leo of Cava (Italian, Benedictine abbot, died at about age 89 in 1079 [canonized 1893])
St. Marciana of Toledo (virgin, martyred [exposed to animals] in Spain c. 303)
St. Menulphus of Quimper (Irish, bishop in France, 7th century)
Sts. Nabor and Felix of Milan (Italian, biological brothers, martyred c. 304)
St. Paternian of Bologna (Italian, bishop, c. 407)
St. Paulinus of Antioch and three companions (Syrian? and Italians ... bishop of Lucca in Italy, priest, deacon, and soldier ... early martyrs)
Bl. Peter Araki Kobioje and Bl. Susanna Kobioje (Japanese, husband and wife, martyred [one burned, one beheaded] in 1626 and 1628 [beatified 1867])
St. Peter Khanh of Tonkin (Vietnamese, priest, martyred by beheading at about age 62 in 1842 [beatified 1909, canonized 1988])
Sts. Proclus and Hilarion of Ankara (Galatian [from what is now part of Turkey], martyred in 115)
St. Proculus of Bologna (Italian, bishop, martyred by pagan Goths in 542)
St. Veronica of Jerusalem (Israelite, woman who wiped the face of Jesus on the way to Calvary, 1st century)
St. Viventiolus of Lyons (French, monk, archbishop, d. 524)

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 12, 2004

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