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St. Marian -- 20 April 2022
 
When St. Mamertinus was Abbot of the monastery which St. Germanus had founded at Auxerre, there came to him a young man called Marcian (also known as Marian), a fugitive from Bourges then occupied by ... READ MORE
St. Alphege -- 19 April 2022
 
Patron: of Greenwich; Solihull; kidnap victims Birth: 953 Death: 1012 Archbishop and "the First Martyr of Canterbury." He was born in 953 and became a monk in the Deerhurst Monastery in Glouceste... READ MORE
St. Apollonius the Apologist -- 18 April 2022
 
Death: 185 Martyr whose Apologia, or defense of the faith, is considered one of the most priceless documents of the early Church. Apollonius was a Roman senator who was denounced as a Christian by ... READ MORE
St. Anicetus -- 17 April 2022
 
Anicetus was a Syrian from Emesa. He became pope about 155 and actively opposed Marcionism and Gnosticism. His pontificate saw the appearance of the controversy between East and West over the date of ... READ MORE
St. Bernadette -- 16 April 2022
 
Patron: of illness, people ridiculed for their piety, poverty, shepherds, shepherdesses, and Lourdes, France Birth: January 7, 1844 Death: April 16, 1879 Beatified: 1925 Canonized: by Pope Pius XI... READ MORE
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St. Cletus -- 26 April 2021
 
St. Cletus was the third bishop of Rome, and succeeded St. Linus, which circumstance alone shows his eminent virtue among the first disciples of St. Peter in the West. He sat twelve years, from 76 to ... READ MORE
St. Simon Stock -- 16 May 2021
 
Although little is known about Simon Stock's early life, legend has it that the name Stock, meaning "tree trunk," derives from the fact that, beginning at age twelve, he lived as a hermit in a hollow ... READ MORE
St. Giles, Abbot -- 01 September 2020
 
Patron: of beggars; blacksmiths; breast cancer; breast feeding; cancer patients; disabled people; Edinburgh (Scotland); epilepsy; fear of night; noctiphobics; forests; hermits; horses; lepers; mental ... READ MORE
St. John the Silent -- 13 May 2020
 
Birth: 452 Death: 558 Bishop of Colonia in Palestine and a hermit. Born in Nicopolis, Armenia, he established a monastery at the age of eighteen. Appointed a bishop at the age of twenty-eight, he ... READ MORE
St. Constantine -- 11 March 2020
 
Constantine was king of Cornwall. Unreliable tradition has him married to the daughter of the king of Brittany who on her death ceded his throne to his son and became a monk at St. Mochuda monastery a... READ MORE
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