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Today, May 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:

Bl. Alcuin of York (English, schoolmaster, adviser to Charlemagne, d. 804)
Bl. Augustine Novello of Taormina [baptized Matthew] (Sicilian, lawyer, king's chancellor, Augustinian prior general, papal legate and confessor, hermit, d. 1309)
Bl. Bellatanus and Savinus (Italian, Camaldolese hermits)
Sts. Calocerus and Parthenius (Roman, palace eunuchs, martyred by burning c. 304)
St. Cyriaca and five companions (from Asia Minor [Turkish], virgins, martyred by burning in 307)
St. Cyril of Trier (German, bishop, 5th century)
St. Dunstan of Canterbury (English, Benedictine monk, goldsmith, harpist, prophet, king's advisor, bishop, d. 988)
Bl. Francis Coll Guitart (Spanish, Dominican friar, parish priest, founder of Dominican Sisters of the Annunciation, d. 1875)
St. Hadulph of Saint-Vaast (French, Benedictine abbot, bishop, c. 728)
Bl. Humiliana de' Cerchi (Italian, widow, Franciscan tertiary, d. 1246)
St. Ivo Hélory of Kermartin (French, civil and ecclesiastical lawyer, judge, Franciscan tertiary, parish priest, miracle worker, d. 1303)
St. Joaquina Vedruna de Mas (Spanish, widow, foundress of Institute of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity, d. 1854 [canonized 1959])
Bl. John Duns Scotus (Scottish, Franciscan priest, theologian [noted for work concerning the Immaculate Conception], visionary, d. 1308)
Bl. Peter Wright (English, Jesuit priest, army chaplain, martyred in 1651)
Pope St. Celestine V [Pietro del Morrone] (Italian, peasant, hermit, priest, Benedictine monk, elected to papacy in 1294 at age 84, abdicated after five months, d. 1296)
St. Philoterus of Nicomedia (from Asia Minor [Turkish], nobleman, martyred in 303)
Sts. Pudens and Pudentiana (Roman, senator and daughter, martyred c. 160)

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), May 19, 2002

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Jmj

On May 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:

Bl. Alcuin of York (English, schoolmaster, adviser to Charlemagne, d. 804)
Bl. Augustine Novello of Taormina [Agostino] [baptized Matteo (Matthew)] (Sicilian, lawyer, king's chancellor, Augustinian prior general, papal legate and confessor, hermit, d. 1309)
Bl. Bellatanus and Savinus of Montacuto (Italian, Camaldolese hermits)
Sts. Calocerus and Parthenius of Rome (Italian, palace eunuchs, martyred by burning c. 304)
Pope St. Celestine V del Morrone of Isernia [Celestino] [baptized Pietro (Peter)] (Italian, peasant, hermit, priest, Benedictine monk, elected to papacy in 1294 at age 84, abdicated after five months, d. 1296)
St. Cyriaca and five companions, of Nicomedia (from Asia Minor [Turkish], virgins, martyred by burning in 307)
St. Cyril of Trier (German, bishop, 5th century)
St. Dunstan of Canterbury (English, Benedictine monk, goldsmith, harpist, prophet, king's advisor, bishop, d. 988)
Bl. Francis Coll Guitart of Gombreny [Francisco] (Spanish, Dominican friar, parish priest, founder of Dominican Sisters of the Annunciation, d. 1875 [beatified 1979])
St. Hadulph of Saint-Vaast (French, Benedictine abbot, bishop, c. 728)
St. Ivo Hélory of Kermartin [Yves] (French, civil and ecclesiastical lawyer, judge, Franciscan tertiary, parish priest, miracle worker, d. 1303)
St. Joaquina Vedruna de Mas of Barcelona (Spanish, widow, foundress of Institute of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity, d. 1854 [canonized 1959])
Bl. John Duns Scotus (Scottish, Franciscan priest, theologian [noted for work concerning the Immaculate Conception], visionary, d. 1308)
Bl. Mary Bernard Bütler of Auw [Maria Bernarda] [baptized Verena] (Swiss, virgin, founded Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Help of Christians, died in Spain in 1924 [beatified 1995])
Bl. Peter Wright of Slipton (English, Jesuit priest, army chaplain, martyred by hanging in 1651 [beatified 1929])
St. Philoterus of Nicomedia (from Asia Minor [Turkish], nobleman, martyred in 303)
Sts. Pudens and Pudentiana of Rome (Italian, senator and daughter, martyred c. 160)
Bl. Umiliana de' Cerchi of Florence (Italian, widow, Franciscan tertiary, d. 1246)

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), May 19, 2003.