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On September 11, 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. Adelphus of Remiremont (French, Benedictine abbot, d. 670)
St. Almirus of Auvergne (French, hermit, d. 560)
St. Bodo of Toul (French, bishop, d. 670)
St. Daniel of Bangor [Deiniol] (Welsh, bishop, d. 584)
Sts. Diodorus, Diomedes, and Didymus, of Laodicea (Syrian, early martyrs)
St. Emilian of Vercelli (Italian, hermit for 40 years, bishop, d. 520)
Sts. Felix and Regula (Italian, brother and sister in Switzerland, martyred in 3rd century)
St. Hyacinth of Rome (Italian, martyr, c. 257)
St. John Gabriel Perboyre of Le Puech [Jean-Gabriel] (French, Vincentian priest, theology professor, seminary rector, missionary to China, tortured [hung by thumbs, flogged with bamboo, tied to a cross on a hill], martyred [strangled] at age 38 in 1840 [beatified 1889, canonized 1996])
Bl. Louis of Thuringia [Ludwig] (German, count, husband of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, father of three, died at age 27 in Italy [fever] in 1227)
St. Paphnutius (Egyptian, hermit, bishop, opposed Arian heresy, 4th century)
St. Patiens of Lyons (French, archbishop, opposed Arian heresy, d. 491)
St. Peter of Chavanon [Pierre] (French, Augustinian priest, d. 1080)
St. Sperandea of Cingoli (Italian, Benedictine abbess, mystic, d. 1276 [incorruptible])
St. Theodora of Alexandria (Egyptian, penitent hermitess, d. 491)
St. Vincent of Leon (Spanish, abbot, martyred by Arian Visigoths in 6th or 7th century)

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), September 11, 2004

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-- ("jfgecik@hotmail.com), September 11, 2004.