January 14 -- today's saints and blesseds

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On January 14, 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. Amadeus of Clermont (French, nobleman, Cistercian monk, c. 1150)
St. Datius of Milan (Italian, bishop, d. 552)
St. Euphrasius (African, bishop)
St. Felix of Nola (Italian, priest, tortured, helped by an angel to escape, d. 260)
St. Felix of Rome (Italian, priest)
Sts. Isaias, Sabas, and thirty-six companions, of Mt. Sinai (monks, martyred by pagan Arabs in 309)
St. Macrina the Elder of Neocaesarea (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], widow, mother of one saint and grandmother of four [including St. Basil the Great], c. 340)
St. Malachi of Sapha [also known as Malachias] (Israelite, prophet, writer of Old Testament book, 5th century BC)
Bl. Odo of Novara (Italian, Carthusian prior in Croatia, chaplain to convent in Italy, died at about age 95 in 1200 [beatified 1859])
Bl. Peter Donders of Tilburg [Pietje] (Dutch, missionary priest in South American, joined Redemptorists at age 57, died in Surinam at age 77 in 1887 [beatified 1982])
Bl. Roger of Todi [Ruggiero] (Italian, Franciscan priest, spiritual director of a Poor Clare convent, d. 1237)
Sts. Simeon Barsabba’e, Shahdost, Barba’shmin and sixteen companions, of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (Persian, three bishops and others, tortured and martyred between 341 and 346)
Holy Martyrs of Raithu (Egyptian, hermits, martyred c. 510)

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 27, 2004

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