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On November 11, 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. Martin of Sabaria [better known as Martin of Tours] (Pannonian [Hungarian], cavalry officer, hermit, bishop of Tours in France, died at about age 81 in 397 [first non-martyr honored as a saint by whole Church])

Bl. Agnes of Munich (Bavarian, noblewoman, Poor Clare nun, d. 1532)
Bl. Alicia Kotowska of Warsaw [Alicja] [baptized Maria Jadwiga (Mary Hedwig)] (Polish, Resurrectionist sister, martyred by Nazis at Piasnica nine days before her 40th birthday in 1939 [beatified 1999])
Bl. Alradus of Isenhagen (German, knight, Cistercian brother, c. 1250)
St. Athenodorus (Mesopotamian [Iraqi], martyred c. 304)
Bl. Bartholomew of Marmoûtier [Bartelemy] (French, Benedictine abbot, archbishop of Tours, d. 1067)
St. Bartholomew of Rossano [Bartolomeo] (Italian, Basilian abbot, hymn writer, d. 1065)
St. Bertuin of Malonne (Anglo-Saxon, Benedictine monk, missionary bishop in France, c. 698)
St. Cynfran (Welsh, 5th century)
St. Menas (Egyptian, soldier, hermit, tortured and martyred by beheading c. 295)
St. Mennas of Santomena (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], hermit in Italy, 6th century)
St. Rhedius (Welsh)
St. Theodore the Studite of Constantinople (Turkish, abbot, champion of Church's religious independence of civil power, defender of legitimacy of sacred images, monastic reformer, died at about age 67 in 826)
Sts. Valentine, Felician, and Victorinus, of Ravenna (Italian, martyred c. 304)
St. Veranus of Lyons (French, bishop, 5th century)

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), November 11, 2004

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-- ("jfgecik@hotmail.com), November 11, 2004.