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On November 1, we members of the Catholic Church family celebrate the Solemnity of All Saints (a holy day of obligation in most places) on which we honor all saints, known and unknown by name.
We also honor, in a special way, the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds" whose souls are now in heaven:

St. Amabilis of Auvergne (French, priest, d. 475)
St. Austremonius of Clermont (French, early bishop)
St. Benignus of Dijon (Greek, missionary to France, martyred [clubbed with an iron bar] in 3rd century)
St. Cadfan of Bardsey (French or Welsh, abbot, 6th century)
Sts. Caesarius, Decius, and five companions, of Damascus (martyred in Syria)
St. Caesarius and Julian (African, deacon and priest, martyred [drowned in a sack off the coast of Italy])
St. Caesarius of Clermont (French, bishop, c. 627)
St. Ceitho (Welsh, 6th century)
St. Clydwyn (Welsh, 5th century)
Bl. Corradino of Brescia (Italian, nobleman, lawyer, Dominican prior, d. 1429)
Sts. Cyrenia and Juliana, of Tarsus (martyred by burning in 306 in Asia Minor [now called Turkey])
St. Deborah (Israelite, Old Testament judge, 12th century B.C.?)
St. Dingad (Welsh, monk, 5th century)
St. Floribert of Ghent (Belgian, Benedictine abbot, c. 660)
St. Genesius of Fontenelle (French, abbot, bishop of Lyons, c. 679)
St. Germanus of Montfort [Germaine] (French, Benedictine prior, hermit, died at about age 94 in 1000) Sts. James and John of Persia (martyred c. 344)
St. Jerome Hermosilla of La Calzada [Geronimo] (Spanish, Dominican missionary priest in Philippines and Vietnam, bishop, tortured and martyred by beheading at about age 81 in 1861 [beatified 1906, canonized 1988])
St. Marcellus of Paris (French, bishop, c. 430)
St. Mary of Rome (Italian, tortured slave girl, virgin, c. 300)
St. Maturinus of Sens (French, priest, d. 388)
Bl. Nuņo of St. Mary Alvares Pereira of Bomjardin [Nuņo de Santa Maria] (Portuguese, nobleman, heroic soldier, widower, Carmelite brother, beggar, died at age 70 on Easter Sunday in 1431 [beatified 1918]) [commemorated by some on the 6th]
St. Pabiali (Welsh, c. 6th century)
Bl. Peter Paul Navarro of Laino [Pietro Paolo], Bl. Peter Sandaju Onizuka of Hachirao, Bl. Denis Fugishima of Aitsu, and Bl. Clement Kuijemon of Arima (Italian, Jesuit missionary priest in India and Japan ... and Japanese, three lay catechists ... martyred by burning in Japan in 1622 [beatified 1867]) [Bl. Peter Paul died at about age 62.]
Bl. Rupert Emil Mayer of Stuttgart (Bavarian, Jesuit priest, World War I chaplain, imprisoned by Nazis during World War II, died while preaching at age 69 in 1945 [beatified 1987]) [commemorated by some on the 3rd]
St. Salaun of Lesneven (French, pauper, mystic, d. 1358)
St. Severinus of Tivoli (Italian, Benedictine hermit, c. 699)
St. Vigor of Artois (French, hermit, bishop of Bayeux, c. 537)

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), October 26, 2004

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