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On February 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. Peter Damian of Ravenna [Pietro Damiani] (Italian, swineherd, teacher, writer, Benedictine monk, bishop, cardinal bishop of Ostia, Doctor of the Church, died at about age 65 in 1072 [canonized 1823])

St. Avitus of Clermont (French, bishop, d. 689)
Sts. Daniel and Verda (Persian ... priest and virgin ... martyred in 344)
St. Felix of Metz (French, bishop, 2nd century)
St. George of Amastris (Armenian, hermit, monk, bishop, c. 825)
Sts. Germanus and Randoald of Trier (German, Benedictine abbot and prior, martyred by the sword c. 677)
St. Gundebert of Sens (French, bishop, Benedictine hermit, c. 676)
St. Irene (Spanish, sister of Pope St. Damasus)
Bl. Nicholas of Vangadizza [Niccola] (Italian, Camaldolese priest, c. 1210)
Bl. Noel Pinot of Angers (French, priest, martyred by the revolutionaries’ guillotine [while vested for Mass] at age 46 in 1794 [beatified 1926])
St. Paterius of Brescia (Roman, monk, bishop, d. 606)
Bl. Pepin of Landen (French, duke, minister to three kings, c. 646)
St. Peter of Majuma (Palestinian, scribe, martyred by Moslem sheik in 743)
St. Robert Southwell of Horsham Saint Faith's (English, Jesuit priest, horribly tortured and martyred [hanged] under Elizabeth I at about age 33 in 1595 [beatified 1929, canonized 1970])
St. Severian of Scythopolis (Palestinian, bishop, martyred by Eutychian heretics c. 452)
St. Valerius of Astorga (Spanish, Benedictine abbot, d. 695)
Sts. Verulus, Secundinus, Siricius, Felix, Servulus, Saturninus, Fortunatus, and nineteen companions, of Hadrumetum (North African, martyred c. 434)

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 21, 2005

Answers

-- ("jfgecik@hotmail.com), February 21, 2005.

Thank you Mr. Gecik for all the work.

-- Mike Chavez (Virginia@apart.ofpast), February 21, 2005.

You're welcome, Mike. Are you heading for two million?

-- ("jfgecik@hotmail.com), February 21, 2005.