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On February 12, 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. Antony Kauleas of Constantinople (Turkish, nobleman, abbot, patriarch [bishop], died at about age 72 in 901)
St. Benedict Revelli of Albenga (Italian, Benedictine hermit, bishop, c. 900)
Bl. Charles Meehan (Irish, Franciscan priest shipwrecked on Welsh coast, martyred at about age 39 under Charles II in 1679 [beatified 1987])
St. Damian of Alexandria (Egyptian, soldier, early martyr)
St. Damian of Rome (Italian, early martyr)
St. Ethelwald of Northumbria (British, leather worker, Benedictine abbot in Scotland, bishop of Lindisfarne, c. 740)
St. Eulalia of Barcelona (Spanish, virgin, tortured and martyred by crucifixion at about age 14 in 304)
St. Gaudentius of Verona (Italian, bishop, c. 465)
Bl. George Haydock of Cottam Hall (English, priest, martyred at about age 27 under Elizabeth I in 1584 [beatified 1987])
St. Goscelinus of Turin [Goscelino] (Italian, Benedictine abbot, d. 1153)
St. Humbeline of Fontaines-les-Dijon (French, Benedictine abbess, sister of St. Bernard, died at about age 43 in 1135 [canonized 1763])
Bl. James Fenn of Montacute, Bl. John Nutter of Lancastershire, Bl. John Munden of Coltley, and Bl. Thomas Hemerford of Dorsetshire (English, priests, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Elizabeth I in 1584 [beatified 1929]) [Fenn died at about age 44, Munden at about 41.]
St. Ludan of Alsace (French, pilgrim to Jerusalem, c. 1202)
St. Marina of Bithynia (from Asia Minor [Turkish], virgin)
St. Meletius of Melitene (Armenian, bishop of Sebastea, archbishop of Antioch in Syria, died in Asia Minor in 381)
St. Modestus of Sardinia (Italian, deacon, martyred c. 304)
Sts. Modestus and Ammonius, of Alexandria (Egyptian, early martyrs)
Sts. Modestus of Carthage and Julian of Alexandria (North African, early martyrs)
Bl. Nicholas Saggio of Longobardi [Niccola] (Italian, Minim brother, died at age 60 in 1709 [beatified 1786])
Bl. Robert Middleton of York (English, Jesuit priest, martyred at about age 31 under Elizabeth I in 1601 [beatified 1987])
St. Sedulius of Athens ["The Christian Virgil"] (Irish, epic poet ["Carmen Paschale"] in Greece, 5th century)
Bl. Stephen Rowsham of Oxfordshire (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] at about age 35 under Elizabeth I in 1587 [beatified 1987])
Bl. Thomas Belson of Brill (English, layman, martyred at about age 24 under Elizabeth I in 1589 [beatified 1987])
Bl. Thomas Hunt of Norfolk [alias Benstead] (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] at about age 26 under Elizabeth I in 1600 [beatified 1987])
Bl. Thurstan Hunt of Carleton Hall (English, priest, martyred at about age 46 under Elizabeth I in 1601 [beatified 1987])
Bl. William Lampley of Gloucester (English, layman, martyred under Elizabeth I in 1588 [beatified 1987])
Bl. William Pike of Dorset (English, layman, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Elizabeth I in 1591 [beatified 1987])

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), February 12, 2005

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