January 18 -- today's saints and blesseds

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On January 18, 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:

Sts. Archelais, Thecla, and Susanna, of Romagna (Italian, virgins, tortured and martyred by beheading in 293)
Bl. Beatrice of Este (Italian, niece of another Bl. Beatrice of Este, foundress of a convent, died at about age 32 in 1262 [beatified 1774])
Bl. Christine Ciccarelli of Luco [Cristina] [baptized Matthia] (Italian, prioress of Augustinian hermits, healer, visionary, died at age 61 in 1543 [beatified 1841])
St. Day (Cornish? abbot)
St. Deicolus of Leinster (Irish, hermit, abbot in France, died at about age 95 c. 625)
St. Diarmis (Irish, abbot, 6th century)
Sts. Faustina and Liberata of Como (Italian, biological sisters, foundresses of a convent, d. 580)
St. Fazzio of Verona (Italian, goldsmith, founder of charitable society, died at about age 82 in 1272)
St. James Hilary Barbel Cosán of Enviny [Jaime Hilario] [baptized Manuel (Emmanuel)] (Spanish, member of Brothers of the Christian Schools [LaSalle Brothers] teacher, catechist, went deaf, gardener, martyred at age 39 by firing squad in 1937 [beatified 1990, canonized 1999])
St. Leobard of Tours (French, hermit, d. 593)
St. Margaret of Budapest [Margit] (Hungarian, princess, in Dominican convent from age 3, nun, mystic, miracle worker, died at about age 27 in 1270 [beatified 1789, canonized 1943]) [commemorated by some on January 26]
Bl. Maria Teresa Fasce of Torriglia [baptized Maria Giovanna (Mary Joan)] (Italian, Augustinian nun, died at about age 66 in 1947 [beatified 1997])
Sts. Moseus and Ammonius (soldiers, martyred in Bithynia [part of what is now Turkey] by burning in 250)
Sts. Paul, Recombus, Theonas, Papias, and thirty-two companions (Egyptian, noblemen, missionaries, martyred by burning/beheading/crucifixion)
St. Prisca of Rome (Italian, virgin, early martyr)
Bl. Regina Protmann of Braniewo (Polish/German, founded Congregation of the Sisters of St. Catherine, died at about age 60 in 1613 [beatified 1999])
St. Ulfrid [or Wolfred] (British, missionary in Germany and Sweden, martyred by pagans in 1029)
St. Volusian of Tours (French, bishop, d. 496)

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), January 18, 2005

Answers

[From Bl. James Hilary Barbel Cosán, one of 97 LaSalle Brothers murdered during the Spanish Civil War:]

God be blessed! I'll pray for all of you in heaven. What more could I desire than to die for no other crime but that of being a religious and for having made my contribution to the Christian education of children? Dear father and family, I have been judged and condemned to death. I accept the sentence with joy.

-- ("jfgecik@hotmail.com), January 18, 2005.


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