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On January 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. Agnes of Rome (Italian, adolescent virgin, tortured and martyred in 254 or 304)

St. Alban Roe of Bury Saint Edmunds [baptized Bartholomew] (English, Benedictine priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Charles I at about age 62 in 1642 [beatified 1929, canonized 1970])
Bl. Anthony Swiadek of Pobiedziska [Antoni] (Polish, diocesan priest, martyred by Nazis at Dachau [Germany] at age 35 in 1945 [beatified 1999])
St. Brigid of Kilbride (Irish, virgin, 6th century)
Bl. Edward Stransham of Oxford (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Elizabeth I in 1586 [beatified 1929])
St. Epiphanius of Pavia (Italian, bishop, champion of the poor, miracle worker, died at about age 57 in 496)
Sts. Fructuosus, Augurius, and Eulogius, of Tarragona (Spanish, bishop and deacons, martyred by burning in 259)
Bl. Josepha Mary of St. Agnes Albiñana of Beniganim [Josefa María de Santa Inés] [baptized Inés (Agnes)] (Spanish, discalced Augustinian hermitess, died at about age 70 in 1696 [beatified 1888])
St. Lawdog (Welsh, 6th century)
St. Maccallin of Waulsort (Irish, Benedictine hermit, abbot, d. 978)
St. Meinrad of Einsiedeln (German, Benedictine hermit, died in Switzerland in 861)
Bl. Nicholas Woodfen of Leominster [alias Wheeler] (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Elizabeth I at about age 36 in 1586 [beatified 1987])
St. Patroclus of Troyes (French, martyred by beheading c. 279)
St. Publius (Maltese, prominent man known to St. Paul [Acts 28:7-10], bishop, martyred c. 112)
Bl. Thomas Green of Oxford [alias Reynolds] (English, diocesan priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Charles I at about age 80 in 1642 [beatified 1929])
St. Vimin of Holywood (Scottish, bishop, 6th 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), January 21, 2005

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