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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 [now called Turkey], 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 Glenelly (Irish, abbot, bishop of Connor, spiritual writer, d. 612)
Bl. Dalmatius Moner of San Coloma de Farnés [Dalmacio] (Spanish, Dominican priest, died at about age 50 in 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, 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, died at age 81 in 1923 [beatified 2001])
St. Mary Victoria Teresa Couderc of Sablières [Marie-Victoire-Therese] (French, member of Sisters of St. Regis, co-founded Congregation of Our Lady of the Retreat in the Cenacle at age 21, died at age 80 in 1885 [beatified 1951, canonized 1970])
St. Meugant of Bardsey (British, hermit, 6th century)
St. Nilo the Younger of Rossano (Italian, Basilian abbot, died at about age 95 c. 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. 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), September 25, 2004

Answers

[Reflections by St. Mary Victoria Teresa Couderc, 1864]

"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 a person 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 her experience it and she will see that here is found the true happiness she is vainly seeking elsewhere. The surrendered soul has found paradise on earth ..."

-- ("jfgecik@hotmail.com), September 25, 2004.

I've lurked a bit now and then on this forum, but it's been a while since I last poked my nose in here. Since when has this daily posting of Saints started? Not to undermine the significance of these people's contributions, but it does make the forum hard to read. Just my opinion, but perhaps this sort of things has its place elsewhere?

My two cents.

-- rw (person@earth.com), September 26, 2004.

"..Since when has this daily posting of saints started?"

If you have to ask a question like that, than this shows you haven't been "lurking" to long around here.

If it bothers you that much than I have a simple solution to your problem. Don't read the threads because they are titled " todays saints and blesseds".

-- - (David@excite.com), September 26, 2004.