February 27 -- today's saints and blesseds

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On February 27, 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. Abundius, Alexander, Antigonus, and Fortunatus (early martyrs in Rome or Greece)
St. August Chapdelaine of La Rochelle [Auguste] (French, parish priest, member of Paris Foreign Missions Society in Asia, tortured and martyred by beheading in China at age 42 in 1856 [beatified 1900, canonized 2000])
St. Baldomerus of Lyons (French, locksmith, monk, d. 650)
Sts. Besas, Cronion Eunus, and Julian, of Alexandria (Egyptian ... soldier, servant, and prisoner ... martyred in 250)
Bl. Emmanuel of Cremona [Manuele] (Italian, bishop, died in Netherlands in 1198)
Bl. Frances Ann of the Sorrowful Virgin Cirer Carbonell of Sencelles [Francisca Ana] (Spanish, virgin, member of Institute of the Sisters of Charity, died at age 73 in 1855 [beatified 1989])
St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows Possenti of Assisi [Gabriele dell'Addolorata] [baptized Francesco] (Italian, Passionist priest, died two days before his 24th birthday [tuberculosis] in 1862 [beatified 1908, canonized 1920])
St. Honorina (French, early martyr)
St. John of Gorze (French, Benedictine monk, c. 975)
St. Leander of Cartagena (Spanish, brother of three saints, monk, bishop of Seville, died at about age 65 c. 600)
Bl. Mark Barkworth of Lincolnshire [alias Mark Lambert, alias George Barkworth] (English, Benedictine priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Elizabeth I at about age 28 in 1601 [beatified 1929])
Bl. Mary of Charity Brader of Kaltbrunn [Maria Caritas] [baptized Maria Josefa Carolina] (Swiss, virgin, founded Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate, died in Colombia at age 72 in 1943 [beatified 2003])
Bl. Mary of Jesus Deluil-Martiny of Marseilles [Marie de Jesus] (French, virgin, founded Daughters of the Heart of Jesus, died at age 43 in 1884 [beatified 1989])
Bl. Roger Filcock of Sandwich (English, Jesuit priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Elizabeth I at about age 30 in 1600 [beatified 1987])
St. Thalelaeus Epiklautos of Cilicia [“epiklautos” is Greek for “weeping much”] (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], hermit in Syria for 60 years, d. 450)

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), February 27, 2005

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