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On January 7, 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. Raymond of Penyafort [Ramón de Peñafort] (Spanish, nobleman, civil and canon lawyer to age 46, Dominican at 47, missionary to Moslems, pope's confessor, master general of his Order at 63, died at about age 99 in 1275 [canonized 1601])

St. Aldric of Le Mans (German, bishop in France, d. 856)
St. Anastasius of Sens (French, archbishop, d. 977)
St. Brannock of Braunton (Welsh, abbot, 6th century)
St. Canute Lavard of Roskilde (Danish, duke, martyred at about age 35 in 1131 [canonized 1169])
St. Clerus of Antioch (Syrian, deacon, martyred c. 300)
Sts. Crispin of Pavia [I and II] (Italian, bishops, died c. 250 and c. 450)
St. Cronan Beg of Aendrum (Irish, bishop, 7th century)
Bl. Edward Waterson of London (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Elizabeth I in 1593 [beatified 1929])
St. Emilian of Saujon (French, Benedictine hermit, d. 767)
Sts. Felix and Januarius of Heraclea (early martyrs)
St. Julian of Cagliari (Sardinian [Italian], martyr)
St. Kentigerna of Loch Lomond (Irish, widow in Scotland, c. 734)
St. Lucian of Antioch (Syria, priest, theologian, tortured and martyred [by sword] in 312)
Bl. Marie Therese Haze of Liège [baptized Jeanne (Joan)] (Belgian, virgin, founded Congregation of the Daughters of the Cross, died at age 93 in 1876 [beatified 1991])
St. Reinhold of Cologne (French, Benedictine monk, martyred by stonemasons' hammers in 960)
St. Theodore (Egyptian, hermit, 4th century)
St. Tillo of Solignac (German, hermit, Benedictine abbot in France, d. 702)
St. Valentine of Rhaetia (missionary bishop, died in Austria c. 470)
Bl. Wittikund of Westphalia (German, duke, c. 804)

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), December 25, 2004

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-- ("jfgecik@hotmail.com), January 07, 2005.