September 21 -- today's saints and blesseds

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On September 21, 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. Matthew of Capernaum (Israelite Jew, tax collector, apostle of Jesus, evangelist, missionary to dispersed Jews, martyred c. 48)

St. Alexander (Italian, bishop, tortured and martyred in 2nd century)
St. Francis Jaccard of Onnion [François] (French, missionary priest in Vietnam, martyred by strangling at about age 39 in 1838 [beatified 1900, canonized 1988])
St. Gerulph (Flemish, layman, martyred c. 746)
St. Hieu of Northumbria (British, abbess, d. 657)
St. Iphigenia (Ethiopian, convert of St. Matthew)
Sts. Isaac and Meletius (Cypriot, bishops, early martyrs)
St. Mabyn (Welsh, 6th century)
St. Maura of Troyes (French, single noblewoman, died at about age 23 in 850)
St. Pamphilus (early martyr in Rome)
St. Thomas Trân Van Thiên of Trung Quan (Vietnamese, seminarian, tortured and martyred by strangling at about age 18 in 1838 [beatified 1900, canonized 1988])

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 21, 2004

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