Jmj

Today, April 12, 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. Alferius of La Cava (Italian, ambassador, Benedictine abbot, d. 1050)
Bl. Andrew of Montereale (Italian, Augustinian priest, d. 1480)
St. Angelo Carletti (Italian, lawyer, senator, Franciscan priest, converted Muslims and heretics, d. 1495)
St. Constantine of Gap (French, bishop, d. 529)
St. Damian of Pavia (Italian, bishop, opposed the Monothelite heresy, d. 710)
St. Erkemboden of Thérouanne (French, Benedictine abbot, bishop, d. 714)
Pope St. Julius I (Roman, elected to papacy in 337, opposed the Arian heresy, reigned until death in 352)
St. Mechtildis (Scottish, hermitess, c. 1200)
Bl. Meinhard of Yxkill (Latvian, Augustinian friar, bishop, d. 1196)
Bl. Peter of Montepiano (Italian, Vallumbrosan abbot, hermit, d. 1098)
St. Sabas the Goth and about fifty companions (Romanian, lector and others, tortured and martyred by drowning in 372)
St. Tetricus of Auxerre (French, Benedictine abbot, bishop, martyred by the sword in 707)
St. Victor of Braga (Portuguese, catechumen [received Baptism of blood], martyred by beheading c. 300)
St. Vissia of Fermo (Italian, virgin, martyred c. 250)
St. Wigbert of Friesland (missionary in Denmark, died in Ireland in 690)
St. Zeno of Verona (North African, bishop in Italy, c. 375)

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), April 12, 2002

Answers

St. Alferius died at the age of 120 on Holy Thursday, alone in his cell after he had celebrated the Mass and washed the feet of his brothers, including the future Pope Victor III.

-- (_@_._), April 12, 2002.

Jmj

On April 12, 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. Alferio of La Cava (Italian, ambassador, Benedictine abbot, d. 1050)
Bl. Andrew of Montereale [Andrea] (Italian, Augustinian priest, d. 1480)
St. Angelo Carletti of Chivasso (Italian, lawyer, senator, Franciscan priest, converted Muslims and heretics, d. 1495)
St. Constantine of Gap (French, bishop, d. 529)
St. Damian of Pavia (Italian, bishop, opposed the Monothelite heresy, d. 710)
St. Erkemboden of Thérouanne (French, Benedictine abbot, bishop, d. 714)
Pope St. Julius I of Rome (Italian, elected to papacy in 337, opposed the Arian heresy, reigned until death in 352)
St. Mechtildis of Lappion (Scottish, hermitess, c. 1200)
Bl. Meinhard of Yxkill (Latvian, Augustinian friar, bishop, d. 1196)
Bl. Peter of Montepiano [Pietro] (Italian, Vallumbrosan abbot, hermit, d. 1098)
St. Sabas the Goth and about fifty companions, of Targoviste (Romanian, lector and others, tortured and martyred by drowning in 372)
St. Tetricus of Auxerre (French, Benedictine abbot, bishop, martyred by the sword in 707)
St. Victor of Braga (Portuguese, catechumen [received Baptism of blood], martyred by beheading c. 300)
St. Vissia of Fermo (Italian, virgin, martyred c. 250)
St. Wigbert of Friesland (missionary in Denmark, died in Ireland in 690)
St. Zeno of Verona (North African, bishop in Italy, c. 375)

St. Alferius died at the age of 120 on Holy Thursday, alone in his cell after he had celebrated the Mass and washed the feet of his brothers, including the future Pope Victor III.

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), April 13, 2003.