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Today, November 19, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way, the following friends of God -- saints whose souls are now in heaven:

St. Barlaam (Syrian, peasant, tortured and martyred in 304)
St. Ebbe of Minster-in-Thanet (English, Kentish queen, sister of four saints, widow, abbess, d. 694)
St. James of Sasseau (Constantinopolitan [Turkish], army officer, priest and hermit in France, c. 865)
St. Mechtilde von Hackenborn of Helfta (German, teacher of St. Gertrude the Great, d. 1298)
St. Nerses the Great (Cappadocian [Turkish], married, bishop, martyred by poisoning in 373)
St. Obadiah (Israelite, Old Testament prophet, several centuries B.C.)
St. Raphael Kalinowski [Jozef] (Polish/Lithuanian, military officer, prisoner in Siberia, tutor, Carmelite parish priest in Pope John Paul II's hometown, spiritual director, d. 1907 [canonized 1991])

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 saint -- whatever moves you. If you are interested in one of these saints and want to find out more about him/her, please ask. 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 19, 2001

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On November 19, 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. Atto of Tordino (Italian, Benedictine abbot, d. 1010)
St. Azas and companions, of Isauria (about 150 people martyred in 304)
St. Barlaam of Antioch (Syrian, peasant, tortured and martyred in Cappadocia [Turkey] in 304)
St. Crispin of Ecijia (Spanish, bishop, martyred [beheaded] in 4th century)
St. Ebbe of Minster-in-Thanet (English, Kentish queen, sister of four saints, widow, abbess, d. 694)
Sts. Exuperius, Felician, and Severinus, of Vienne (French, martyred in 170)
St. Faustus of Alexandria (Egyptian, deacon, martyred in 4th century)
Bl. James Benefatti of Mantua [Giacomo] (Italian, Dominican friar, bishop, d. 1332)
St. James of Sasseau (Constantinopolitan [Turkish], army officer, priest and hermit in France, c. 865)
St. Maximus of Rome (martyred in 255)
St. Mechtilde von Hackenborn of Helfta (German, teacher of St. Gertrude the Great, d. 1298)
St. Medana of Galloway (Irish, virgin in Scotland, 8th century)
St. Nerses the Great of Cappadocia (from Asia Minor [Turkish], married, bishop, martyred by poisoning in 373)
St. Obadiah (Israelite, Old Testament prophet, several centuries B.C.)
St. Raphael Kalinowski of Vilnius [Rafal] [baptized Józef] (Polish/Lithuanian, military officer, prisoner in Siberia, tutor, Carmelite parish priest in Pope John Paul II's hometown, spiritual director, d. 1907 [canonized 1991])
Bl. Salvatore Lilli of Cappadocia (Italian, Franciscan missionary priest in Palestine and Armenia, martyred by Turkish Moslems at age 42 in 1895 [beatified 1982])

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. 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 19, 2003.