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This Day, the First Day of September
1. Commemoration of Saint Joshua, son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, who, when Moses had laid hands upon him, was filled with the spirit of wisdom, and after the death of Moses miraculously led the people of Israel through the bed of the Jordan into the land of promise.
2. At Reims in Belgic France, Saint Sixtus, who is held to have been the first bishop of this city.
3. At Capua on the Via Aquaria in Campania, Saint Priscus, martyr.
4. At Todi in Umbria, Saint Terentianus, bishop.
5. At Dax in Aquitaine, Saint Vincent, who is honored as bishop and martyr.
6. At Zurzach on the River Rhine in the district of Zürich in Germany, Saint Verena, virgin.
7. At Le Mans in Lyon France, Saint Victor, bishop, of whom Saint Gregory of Tours makes mention.
8. At Aquino in Latium, Saint Constantius, bishop, whose gift of prophecy Pope Saint Gregory the Great praises.
9. In the district of Nîmes in Narbonese France, Saint Giles, after whom a town was named, which later grew into Saint-Gilles-du-Gard, where he is said to have built a monastery and completed the course of his earthly life.
10. At Sens in Neustria, Saint Lupus, bishop, who, when he had boldly declared before a man of great rank that the people should be governed by the priest and obey God rather than princes, suffered exile.
11. At Venice, blessed Giuliana of Collalto, abbess of the Order of Saint Benedict.
12. At Florence in Etruria, blessed Joanna, virgin of the Third Order of the Servants of Mary, distinguished for prayer and austerity.
13. At Madrid in Spain, the blessed martyrs Christino (Michael) Roca Huguet, priest, and eleven companions, all of the Order of Saint John of God, who, during the raging civil war, were killed in hatred of the faith.
14. In the town of Paterna in the region of Valencia, likewise in Spain, blessed Alfonso Sebastià Viñals, priest and martyr, who, superior of the school of social formation in Valencia, received the glorious crown in the persecution against the faith.
15. At Barcelona, also in Spain, the blessed martyrs Peter Rivera, priest of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, María of Mount Carmel Moreno Benítez, and María of the Refuge Carbonell Muñoz, virgins of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, who, in the same persecution, conformed to the Passion of Christ the Bridegroom, attained the reward of everlasting peace.
This Day, the Second Day of September
1. At Nicomedia in Bithynia, Saint Zeno, martyr.
2. Also at Nicomedia in Bithynia, the passion of Saint Theodota with her sons Evodius, Hermogenes, and Callistus.
3. At Edessa in Osrhoene, Saint Habib, deacon and martyr, who under Emperor Licinius, was ordered by Lysanius the governor to be thrown into the fire and completed a noble contest.
4. At Apamea in Syria, Saint Antoninus, martyr, who, a stonecutter, after destroying the idols of the gentiles, is said to have been killed by pagans in the twentieth year of the reign because of his zeal for the faith.
5. At Tarraco in Spain, Saint Prosper, bishop.
6. At Lyon in France, the burial of Saint Justus, bishop, who, after resigning the bishopric following the Council of Aquileia, withdrew with Viator, lector, to a desert of Egypt, where for several years he lived a humble life joined to monks; his holy body was afterwards transferred with the bones of Saint Viator to Lyon.
7. On Mount Soracte by the Via Flaminia in Latium, Saint Nonnos, abbot.
8. At Autun in Burgundy, Saint Syagrius, bishop, who shone in the councils he attended by knowledge and zeal.
9. At Avignon in the Province, Saint Agricola, bishop, who, after a monastic life led on the island of Lérins, was helper to his father Saint Magnus and succeeded him in the bishopric.
10. In Picenum in Italy, Saint Elpidius, after whom the town where his body is kept was named.
11. At Ponte in the Bergamo district of Lombardy, Saints Albert and Vitus, monks, the former of whom forsook the military service of Christ with arms and honors of the world and founded a monastery in his own city according to the customs of Cluny, over which the other presided.
12. On Mount Carmel in Palestine near the spring of Elisha, blessed Brocard, prior of the hermits to whom Saint Albert, bishop of Jerusalem, gave a rule to remain day and night in the law of the Lord, meditating and watching in prayers.
13. At Skänninge in Sweden, blessed Ingrid Elofsdotter, who, having become a widow, dedicated all her goods to the honor of God and after a pilgrimage to the Holy Land assumed the habit of the nuns of the Order of Preachers.
14. At Paris in France, the passion of the blessed martyr saints John Mary of Laud’Allemans, Francis Joseph, and Peter Louis of La Rochefoucauld, bishops, and ninety-three companions, clerics or religious, who, having refused to take the nefarious oath imposed on clerics during the time of the French disturbance, were forced into the Carmelite convent and slain for Christ in hatred of the religion.
15. There also, on the same day and year, blessed Peter James Mary Vitalis, priest, and twenty companions, martyrs,2 who in the same time were killed in hatred of the Church at the Abbey of Saint Germain des Prés.
This Day, the Third Day of September
Memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, pope and Doctor of the Church, who, having embraced monastic life, served as legate in Constantinople, and, finally elected on this day to the Roman See, cared for both earthly affairs and sacred matters as the servant of the servants of God. He showed himself to be a true shepherd in governing affairs, in providing every assistance to the poor, in fostering monastic life, and in confirming or spreading the faith everywhere, on account of which he also wrote outstandingly on moral and pastoral matters. He died on the twelfth day of March.
2. Commemoration of Saint Phoebe, servant of the Lord among the faithful at Cenchreae, who assisted the blessed Apostle Paul and many others, as he himself testifies in the letter to the Romans.
3. At Nicomedia in Bithynia, Saint Basilissa, virgin and martyr.
4. At Córdoba in Baetica, Spain, Saint Sandalus, martyr.
5. At Toul in Belgic France, Saint Mansuetus, first bishop of this city.
6. On Mount Titano near Rimini in Flaminia, Saint Marinus, deacon and hermit, who is believed to have led a still-pagan people to the light of the Gospel and the freedom of Christ.
7. In Ireland, Saint Macanisius, bishop.
8. At Milan in Lombardy, Saint Auxanus, bishop.
9. At Caudium in Campania, Saint Vitalian, bishop.
10. In the monastery of Stavelot in Brabant, Saint Remaclus, bishop and abbot, who, after living at the monastery of Solignac, founded the twin monasteries of Stavelot and Malmedy in the solitude of the Ardennes forest.
11. On the island of Lérins in Provence, Saint Aigulphus, abbot, and his fellow monks, who are thought to have suffered martyrdom at the hands of invading Saracens.
12. At Séez in Neustria, Saint Chrodogang, bishop and martyr.
13. In the region of Asti, in the Camonica Valley of Lombardy, blessed Gualterus, bishop of Brescia, of the Order of Preachers, who prudently labored for the peace of the Church and the state during the time of Emperor Frederick II, and suffered exile.
14. At Nagasaki in Japan, the blessed Bartholomew Gutiérrez, priest of the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine, and five companions, martyrs 4, who, out of hatred for the Christian faith, were first immersed in boiling sulfurous waters and then consigned to fire.
15. At Piacenza in Emilia, blessed Brigida Morello of Jesus, who, having become a widow, consecrated herself to the Lord in penance, devoted herself with all zeal to works of charity, and founded the Congregation of the Ursuline Sisters of Mary Immaculate for the Christian formation of young girls.
16. At Paris in France, the passion of the blessed martyrs André Abel Alricy, priest, and seventy-one companions,5 most of whom were priests, who, after having confessed the faith on the previous day, were confined in the Seminary of Saint Firmin as in a prison, and were slaughtered out of hatred for the Church.
17. In the same place, on the same day and year, the blessed martyrs Jean-Baptiste Bottex, Michel-Marie-François de la Gardette, and François Hyacinthe le Livec de Trésurin, who perished for Christ in the same time of persecution in the prison called “La Force.”
18. At Seoul in Korea, the passion of Saints John Pak Hu-jae and five female companions, 6 martyrs, who, during a fierce persecution, were led before a tribunal for their being Christians, endured cruel tortures for the faith, and were put to death by beheading.
This Day, the Fourth Day of September
1. Commemoration of Saint Moses, the prophet, whom God chose to free the people oppressed in Egypt and to lead them into the land of promise; to whom also on Mount Sinai He revealed Himself, saying: “I am who am,” and proposed the law that would govern the life of the chosen people. That servant of God died, full of days, on Mount Nebo in the land of Moab, before the land of promise.
2. At Chalon in Lugdunese France, Saint Marcellus, martyr.
3. At Rome, in the cemetery of Maximus on the Via Salaria, the burial of Saint Boniface the First, pope, who resolved many controversies concerning ecclesiastical discipline.
4. At Chartres in Neustria, Saint Caletricus, bishop.
5. At Hersfeld in Saxony, Saint Ida, widow of Duke Ecbert, distinguished for charity toward the poor and perseverance in prayer.
6. At Mende in Aquitaine, Saint Fredaldus, bishop and martyr.
7. At Cologne in Lotharingia, Saint Irmgard, who, countess of Süchteln, devoted her goods to the founding of churches.
8. At Palermo in Sicily, Saint Rosalia, virgin, who is believed to have led a solitary life on Mount Pellegrino.
9. At Carmagnola in the sub-Alpine region, blessed Catherine Mattei, virgin, sister of the Penitents of Saint Dominic, who endured chronic illness, the slanders of men, and all temptations with wondrous charity and abundance of virtues.
10. In the sea strait at anchor before Rochefort in France, blessed Scipio Hieronymus Brigeat de Lambert, priest and martyr, who, a canon of Avranches, during the persecution in the time of the French turmoil, was cruelly cast onto a galley ship because of his priesthood and died from hunger.
11. In the town of Sillery in the province of Quebec, Canada, blessed Mary of Saint Cecilia Roman (Dina) Bélanger, virgin, of the Congregation of the Religious of Jesus and Mary, who, trusting in God alone, bore the severity of grave illness for many years.
12. In the town of Oropesa near Castile on the coast of Spain, blessed Joseph Pascual Carda Saporta, priest of the Society of Diocesan Worker Priests and martyr, who, during the persecution against the Church, was led to glorious martyrdom in hatred of religion.
13. In the village of Teulada near Alicante, also in Spain, blessed Francis Sendra Ivars, priest and martyr, who in the same persecution against the faith suffered martyrdom.
14. Near the village of Genovés in the region of Valencia, also in Spain, blessed Bernard (Joseph) Bieda Grau, religious of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and martyr, who in the same period fought nobly for Christ.
This Day, the Fifth Day of September
1. At Portus Romanus, the holy martyrs Acontius, Nonnus, Herculanus, and Taurinus.
2. At Capua in Campania, Saint Quintus, martyr.
3. At Nicomedia in Bithynia, the holy martyrs Urbanus, Theodorus, Menedemus, and companions, both clerics and laymen, who, under the emperor Valens, were placed onto a ship and ordered to be burned at sea for the Catholic faith.
4. In the region of Thérouanne in Flanders, Saint Bertin, abbot of Sithiu, who was buried in the monastery which he had founded together with Saint Mummolinus and which was named after him.
5. At Tortona in Liguria, Saint Alpertus, who is considered the founder and first abbot of the monastery of Butrium.
6. In Dalmatia, blessed John Bonus of Siponto, abbot, who rebuilt the monastery of Saint Michael on the Dalmatian coast, in view of Mount Gargano.
7. At Ripon in England, blessed William Browne, martyr, who, under King James the First, was condemned to death for having led others to embrace the Catholic faith, and was hanged and cruelly dismembered.
8. On a filthy ship bound at anchor in the sea off Rochefort in France, blessed Florentius Dumontet de Cardaillac, priest and martyr, who, during the time of the French turmoil, was condemned because of the priesthood, and completed his martyrdom as a victim to disease through his charity and zeal in serving his sick fellow captives.
9. In the city of Ninh Tai in Tonkin, the holy martyrs Peter Nguyễn Van Tự, priest of the Order of Preachers, and Joseph Hoang Luong Canh, physician, who were beheaded in hatred of the Christian name.
10. At Calcutta in India, blessed Teresa (Agnes) Gonxha Bojaxhiu, virgin, who, born in Epirus, quenched the thirst of Christ abandoned on the cross with extraordinary charity toward her most impoverished brothers, and founded the Congregations of the Missionaries of Charity for the full service of the sick and the abandoned.
This Day, the Sixth Day of September
1. Commemoration of Saint Zechariah, prophet, who foretold that the people would return from exile to the land of promise, and brought to them the message of the peaceful king; a message that Christ the Lord wondrously fulfilled by His triumphal entry into the Holy City, Jerusalem.
2. Likewise, the commemoration of Saint Onesiphorus, who often refreshed the blessed Apostle Paul at Ephesus and was not ashamed of his chain, but, having journeyed to Rome, diligently sought him, and found him.
3. Commemoration of Saints Donatian, Praesidius, Mansuetus, Germanus, and Fusculus, bishops in Africa, who, in the Vandal persecution by order of Huneric the Arian king, were most cruelly beaten with clubs and subjected to exile for their defense of Catholic truth; along with them also was Laetus, bishop of Neptis in Byzacena, a vigorous and most learned man, who, after long squalor in prison, was consumed by fire.
4. At Spoleto in Umbria, Saint Eleutherius, abbot, whose simplicity and compunction of heart Pope Saint Gregory the Great praises.
5. At Laon in France, Saint Cagnoald, bishop, who was a disciple of Saint Columbanus and his sole companion in the desert near Bregenz.
6. On the coast of Cumbria in the region of England, in a town later named after her, Saint Bega, virgin and nun.
7. In the monastery of Fussen in Bavaria, Saint Magnus, abbot.
8. In the Cistercian monastery of Le Bosquet near Orange in Provence of France, the commemoration of blessed Bertrand of Garrigues, priest, who, being among the first disciples of Saint Dominic, always strove to conform himself to the example of his master.
9. In the village of Gata de Gorgos in the region of Lucentum in Spain, blessed Diego Llorca Llopis, priest and martyr, who, in the persecution against the Church, was crowned on account of his witness to Christ.
10. In the village of Carcaixent in the region of Valencia, likewise in Spain, blessed Pascual Torres Lloret, martyr, who, a father of a family, bearing the cross of Christ, deserved to attain the heavenly reward.
11. At Warsaw in Poland, blessed Michał Czartoryski, priest of the Order of Preachers and martyr, who, when Poland was invaded by the enemies of God, was slain by bullets in a parish of the place for the faith which he never renounced.
This Day, the Seventh Day of September
1. At Alise near the Aedui in France, Saint Regina, martyr.
2. At Pompeiopolis in Cilicia, Saint Sozon, martyr.
3. At Benevento in Campania, the holy martyrs Festus, deacon, and Desiderius, lector.
4. At Orléans in Lyon France, Saint Evurtius, bishop.
5. At Aosta in the Graian Alps, Saint Grat, bishop.
6. At Bar-sur-Aube in the region of Troyes in France, the holy martyrs Memorius and companions, who are believed to have been killed by Attila, king of the Huns.
7. At Châlons in Lyon France, Saint Alpinus, bishop, who was a disciple of Saint Lupus of Troyes.
8. In the village of Nogent in the territory of Paris, also in France, Saint Clodoald, priest, who, born of royal lineage and taken in by his grandmother Saint Clotilda after his father and brothers were killed, rejected an earthly kingdom and became a cleric.
9. At Albi in Aquitaine, Saint Carissima, virgin and recluse.
10. At Maubeuge in Hainaut, Austrasia, Saint Madelbertha, abbess, who succeeded her sister Saint Adeltrudis.
11. In Flanders of Austrasia, the commemoration of Saint Hilduard, bishop.
12. At Toul in Lotharingia, Saint Gauzelin, bishop, who fostered monastic discipline.
13. At Gubbio in Umbria, Saint John of Lodi, bishop, who was a companion of Saint Peter Damian on legations.
14. At Die in the region of the Vocontii in France, Saint Stephen of Châtillon, bishop, who, taken from the solitude of Portes, but diminishing nothing of the Carthusian austerity, served this Church with utmost zeal.
15. At Košice in the Carpathian Mountains, the holy martyrs Mark Križin, priest of Esztergom, Stephen Pongrácz and Melchior Grodziecki, priests of the Society of Jesus, who could not be compelled to renounce the Catholic faith by hunger, torture, or the agony of fire.
16. At Nagasaki in Japan, the blessed martyrs Thomas Tsuji, priest of the Society of Jesus, Louis Maki and his son John, who were condemned to fire out of hatred for the Christian faith.
17. At London in England, the blessed martyrs Randolph Corby, of the Society of Jesus, and John Duckett, priests, who, under King Charles I, were condemned to death for having entered England as priests and attained the heavenly palm at Tyburn by the noose.
18. On a prison ship off Rochefort in France, the blessed martyrs Claude Barnabé Laurent de Mascloux and François d’Oudinot de la Boissière, priests, who, during the upheaval in France, were arrested for being priests and condemned to the naval hulks, and, afflicted with grave illness due to hunger, died for Christ.
19. On Woodlark Island in Oceania, blessed Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi, priest of the Milan Institute for Foreign Missions and martyr, who, after two years of missionary labor, already exhausted by fevers and sores, was struck down with an axe out of hatred for the faith.
20. At Parma in Emilia, Italy, blessed Eugenia Picco, virgin of the Congregation of the Little Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, who, wholly devoted to the will of God. “… promoted the dignity of women and provided for the spiritual formation and liberal education of religious women. …” [Note: nothing can be found to corroborate this claim, although it is clearly stated in the 2004 Roman Martyrology. It appears to have no historical or biographical basis. Ed.]
21. In the town of Gandía in the region of Valencia, Spain, blessed Ascensión of Saint Joseph Calasanz Lloret Marco, virgin of the Institute of Carmelite Sisters of Charity and martyr, who, during a persecution, completed her struggle for the faith.
This Day, the Eighth Day of September
Feast of the Nativity of the blessed Virgin Mary, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Judah, of the lineage of King David, from whom was born the Son of God, made man by the Holy Spirit, so that He might free men from the ancient slavery of sin.
2. At Rome, the commemoration of Saint Hadrian, martyr, who suffered at Nicomedia in Bithynia, and in whose honor Pope Honorius I converted the Roman Senate house into a church.
3. At Alexandria in Egypt, the holy martyrs Faustus, Dius, and Ammonius, priests, who, in the persecution of the emperor Diocletian, received the crown of martyrdom together with Saint Peter the bishop.
4. In the city of Bagrevand in Greater Armenia, Saint Isaac, bishop, who, to foster the Christian life of the people, translated the Sacred Scripture and the Liturgy into the Armenian language; he adhered to the faith confirmed at the Council of Ephesus, but was soon expelled from his see and died in exile.
5. At Rome, near Saint Peter’s, the burial of Pope Saint Sergius I, of Syrian lineage, who dedicated great effort to the evangelization of the Saxons and Frisians and resolved many controversies and disputes, choosing death rather than agreement with errors.
6. At Freising in Bavaria, Saint Corbinian, who, having been ordained bishop and sent to preach the Gospel in Bavaria, bore abundant fruit.
7. At Pébrac, in the territory of Le Puy-en-Velay in France, Saint Peter of Chavanon, priest, who, aspiring to a more perfect life, withdrew into that solitude where he rebuilt a monastery of Canons Regular, and was also appointed its prior.
8. At Pesaro in Picenum, Italy, blessed Seraphina Sforza, who, having experienced many adversities in married life, after becoming a widow, spent the remainder of her life in deep humility under the Rule of Saint Clare.
9. At Valencia in Spain, Saint Thomas of Villanova, bishop, who, a hermit under the Rule of Saint Augustine, when he accepted the office of bishop out of obedience, excelled among other pastoral virtues with such burning love for the poor that he gave away everything to the needy, not even keeping a bed for himself.
10. At Durham in England, of the blessed martyrs Thomas Palaser, priest, John Norton, and John Talbot, who, under Queen Elizabeth the First, were condemned to death — the first because he had returned to England as a priest, the others, because they had given him assistance — and endured the torments of the gallows
11. At Cartagena in Colombia, the heavenly birthday of Saint Peter Claver, priest, whose memorial is celebrated tomorrow.
12. At Nagasaki in Japan, the blessed martyrs Anthony of Saint Bonaventure, of the Order of Friars Minor, Dominic Castellet, of the Order of Preachers, priests, and twenty companions,7 seven of whom were martyrs, others being laypersons and several children, all of whom suffered martyrdom for Christ either by sword or by fire.
13. At Marseille in France, the passing of blessed Frédéric Ozanam, a man renowned for his learning and piety, who defended and spread the truths of the faith through his distinguished teaching, offered tireless charity to the poor in the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, and, as an exemplary father of a family, made his household into a domestic church.
14. At Almería, on the Andalusian coast in Spain, the blessed martyrs Joseph Crecilius (Boniface) Rodríguez González, Theodemir Joachim (Adrian) Sainz Sainz, and Eventius Richard (Eusebius Alphonsus) Urjurra, Brothers of the Christian Schools, who, during the civil war, attained the palm of martyrdom due to religious persecution.
15. In the village of Alcoy near Alicante, also in Spain, blessed Marino Blanes Giner, martyr, a father of a family, who during the same persecution received death from men but eternal life from God.
16. In the city of Paterna, in the region of Valencia, also in Spain, blessed Ismael Escrihuela Esteve, martyr, a father of a family, who became a sharer in the victory of Christ through martyrdom.
17. At Villarreal, in the region of Castellón, also in Spain, blessed Paschal Fortuño Almela, priest of the Order of Friars Minor and martyr, who was crowned for his witness to Christ.
18. In the city of Burjasot near Valencia, also in Spain, the blessed virgins and martyrs Josefa of Saint John of God Ruano García and María of Sorrows of Saint Eulalia Puig Bonany, of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly, who in the same persecution for the faith received the crown of glory through the shedding of their blood.
19. Near Munich in Bavaria, Germany, in the detention camp of Dachau, blessed Adam Bargielski, priest and martyr, who during the war voluntarily surrendered himself to the enemies of the faith in place of his pastor, and, after enduring severe suffering in prison, passed undefeated into eternal glory.
20. At the place of Groß-Rosen in Germany, blessed Ladislaus Błądziński, priest of the Congregation of Saint Michael and martyr, who, in the same time of trial, was deported from his native Poland by enemies of the Church to the stone quarries and was killed there.
This Day, the Ninth Day of September
Saint Peter Claver, priest of the Society of Jesus, who, at Cartagena in Colombia, for more than forty years with marvelous self-denial and outstanding charity labored on behalf of black people who had been taken into slavery; about three hundred thousand of them he regenerated in Christ by baptism with his own hand.
2. At Rome in the cemetery at the Two Laurels on the Labican Way, Saint Gorgonius, martyr.
3. In the Sabine region, at the thirtieth milestone from the City of Rome, Saint Hyacinth, martyr.
4. In the monastery of Clonmacnoise on the bank of the River Shannon in Ireland, Saint Ciaran, priest and abbot, founder of the same monastery.
5. In Castile, a region of Spain, blessed Mary de la Cabeza, or “of the Head,” who, the wife of Saint Isidore the Farmer, led a humble and laborious eremitical life.
6. At a monastery in Germany, blessed Mary Euthymia (Emma) Offing, virgin of the Congregation of the Sisters of Compassion, who, with outstanding piety, kindness, and self-forgetfulness, served God among the sick.
7. At York in England, blessed George Douglas, priest and martyr, who, of Scottish origin, having been a schoolmaster, became a priest in Paris; under Queen Elizabeth I, because he had persuaded others to embrace the Catholic faith, he passed over into heaven victorious through the torments of the gibbet.
8. In the town of Gramat in the region of Cahors in France, blessed Peter Bonhomme, priest, who zealously devoted himself to missions among the people and to the evangelization of rural areas, and founded the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mount Calvary, to which he entrusted the care of youth, the sick, and the poor in need.
9. At Port Louis on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, blessed James Désiré Laval, priest, who, after spending some years in the medical profession, became a missionary in the Congregation of the Holy Spirit and led black people, recently freed from slavery, to the freedom of the children of God.
10. At Flaviobriga in the Basque region of Spain, blessed Francis Garate Aranguren, religious of the Society of Jesus, who fulfilled the office of doorkeeper for forty-two years with Christian humility.
This Day, the Tenth Day of September
1. At Alexandria in Egypt, Saint Nemesius, martyr, who, first having been falsely accused before the judge as a thief and acquitted of that crime, was soon after, in the persecution of the Emperor Decius, accused before the judge Aemilian by name of the Christian religion; tortured with doubled punishments, he was ordered to be burned with thieves, bearing the likeness of the Savior, who bore the cross together with thieves.
2. Commemoration of Saints Nemesian and companions Felix, Lucius, another Felix, Litteus, Polianus, Victor, Jader, and Dativus, who, bishops, priests, and deacons, in Africa under the Emperors Valerian and Gallienus, as the fury of persecution rose up, were first gravely beaten with rods for Christ, then bound with chains and assigned to dig in the mines, with Saint Cyprian encouraging them in letters that they might firmly endure their chains and preserve the Lord’s commandments.
3. At Constantinople, Saint Pulcheria, who defended and promoted the true faith.
4. At Novara in Liguria, Saint Agabius, bishop.
5. At Albi in Aquitaine, Saint Salvius, bishop, who, taken from the cloister, was unwillingly ordained to this see; when the plague grew severe, as a good shepherd he never wished to depart from the city.
6. Near Speyer in Rhenish Austrasia, the passion of Saint Theodard, bishop of Tongeren and martyr, who was killed on a journey to King Childeric.
7. At Avranches in Neustria, Saint Autbert, bishop, through whose effort the cult of Saint Michael the Archangel flourished on Mont Tombe.
8. In the monastery of Lucedio near Vercelli in the Subalpine region, blessed Oglerius, abbot from the Cistercian Order.
9. At Tolentino in Picenum of Italy, Saint Nicholas, priest of the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine, who, given to very strict abstinence and constant in prayer, severe with himself but gentle toward others, often took upon himself the penance of others.
10. At Nagasaki in Japan, the blessed martyrs Sebastian Kimura, of the Society of Jesus, Francis Morales, of the Order of Preachers, priests, and fifty companions, 8 eight of them priests, religious, married people, young persons, catechists, widows, and children, who, before a large crowd on a hill, died for Christ under most cruel torments.
11. At London in England, Saint Ambrose Edward Barlow, priest of the Order of Saint Benedict and martyr, who, for twenty-four years in the region of Lancashire strengthened Catholics in faith and piety, and, having been arrested while preaching on the day of the Lord’s Pasch, under King Charles the First, after imprisonment, was condemned to death for his priesthood and hanged on the gallows at Tyburn.
12. On the rafts of the pontoon before Rochefort in France, blessed James Gagnot, priest of the Carmelite Order and martyr, who, during the French upheaval, was inhumanely cast into a filthy ship on account of his priesthood; sustaining his fellow prisoners in sickness, he was consumed by decay of the flesh.
This Day, the Eleventh Day of September
1. At Rome in the cemetery of Basilla on the Old Salarian Way, the burial of the holy martyrs Protus and Hyacinth, whose tombs, hidden underground, Pope Saint Damasus restored and adorned with verses. In the same place, nearly fifteen centuries later, the intact tomb and cremated body of Saint Hyacinth was again discovered.
2. At Zurich among the Swiss, the holy martyrs Felix and Regula.
3. Commemoration of Saint Paphnutius, bishop in Egypt, who was one of those confessors of the faith who, under the Emperor Galerius Maximinus, with the right eye gouged out and the left hamstring cut, were condemned to the mines; afterward, he took part in the Council of Nicaea and strove vigorously against the Arians for the Catholic faith.
4. At Lyon in France, Saint Patient, bishop, who, moved by charity, distributed freely a great quantity of grain to cities along the Rhône and Saône rivers, in order to assist peoples oppressed by famine, and devoted himself extensively to apostolic work for the conversion of heretics and care of the poor.
5. At Paris in France, the passing of Saint Sacerdos, bishop of Lyon, who lived in the love and fear of God and, when he had come to this city for a council, died there.
6. On the island of Bardsey off the northern coast of Wales, Saint Daniel (Deiniol Wyn), bishop and abbot of Bangor.
7. In the monastery of Luxeuil in Burgundy, the passing of Saint Adelphius, abbot of the monastery of Remiremont, who atoned for a brief disagreement by shedding many tears.
8. At Toul in Austrasia, Saint Leudinus, also called Bodo, bishop, who, first having been married, later embraced monastic life, his wife Odilia at the same time having taken the same decision.
9. In the monastery of Aulinas in Calabria, Saint Elias, surnamed the Cave-Dweller, renowned for the eremitical and cenobitic life.
10. At Nagasaki in Japan, the blessed martyrs Gaspar Koteda, catechist, Francis Takeya and Peter Shichiemon, boys, who, after their fathers had suffered martyrdom the day before, underwent the same punishment of beheading in the same place, with equal steadfastness, for Christ.
11. At Rome, blessed Bonaventure of Barcelona (Michael) Gran, brother of the Order of Friars Minor, who, in his zeal for regular observance, established houses for sacred retreats in many places of the Roman territory, always showing the greatest austerity of life and charity toward the poor.
12. Off the coast of Rochefort in France, on a ship moored at anchor, blessed Francis Mayaudon, priest and martyr, who, during the French upheaval, was arrested on the prison-ship because of his priesthood and at length was consumed by the wasting of the flesh.
13. In the city of Wuchang in the province of Hubei in China, Saint John Gabriel Perboyre, priest of the Congregation of the Mission and martyr, who, to preach the Gospel, took on the appearance according to the customs of the place; but when the persecution arose, afflicted by various torments in prolonged imprisonment, at last was hung upon a cross and strangled with a cord.
14. At Barcelona in Spain, blessed Peter of Alcántara (Lawrence) Villanueva Larrayoz, religious of the Order of Saint John of God and martyr, who, during the persecution against the faith, obtained martyrdom because he was a religious.
15. In the village of Genovés in the region of Valencia, likewise in Spain, blessed Joseph Mary Segura Penadés, priest and martyr, who in the same persecution shed his blood for Christ.
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1. Whose names are: Blessed Processus (Joachim) Ruiz Cascales, Euthymius (Nicholas) Aramendia Garcia, Canutus (Joseph) Franco Gomez, Dositheus (William) Rubio Alonso, Caesarius (Marian) Niño Perez, Benjamin (Alexander) Cobos Celada, Carmelus (Isidore) Gil Arano, Cosmas (Simon) Brun Arara, Crecilius (Henry) Lopez Lopez, Rufinus (Crescentius) Lasheras Aizcorbe, and Faustinus (Anthony) Villanueva Igual, religious.
2. Whose names are: Blessed Vincent Abraham, Andrew Angar, John Baptist Claude Aubert, Francis Balmain, John Peter Bangue, Louis Francis Andrew Barret, Joseph Becavin, James Julius Bonnaud, John Anthony Hyacinth Boucharene de Chaumeils, John Francis Bosquet, Claude Cayx, also known as Dumas, John Charton de Millon, Claude Chaudet, Nicholas Clairet, Claude Colin, Francis Dardan, William Anthony Delfaut, Maturinus Victor Deruelle, Gabriel Desprez de Roche, Thomas Nicholas Dubray, Thomas Renatus Dubuisson, Francis Dumasrambaud de Calandelle, Henry Hippolytus Ermes, Armand de Foucauld de Pontbriand, James Friteyre-Durve, Claude Francis Gagnieres des Granges, Louis Laurence Francetier, John Goizet, Andrew Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, John Anthony Guilleminet, John Baptist Jannin, John Lacan, Peter Landry, Claude Anthony Ralph de Laporte, Robert Le Bis, Maturinus Nicholas Le Bous de Villeneuve de la Villecrohain, Oliver Lefevre, Charles Francis Legue, James Joseph Lejardinier Deslandes, James John Lemeunier, Vincent Joseph Le Rousseau de Rosencoat, Francis Caesar Londiveau, Louis Longuet, James Francis de Lubersac, Gaspar Claude Maignien, John Philip Marchand, Louis Mauduit, Francis Louis Meallet de Fargues, James Alexander Menuret, John Baptist Nativelle, Renatus Nativelle, Matthias Augustine Nogier, Joseph Thomas Pazery de Thorame, Julius Honoratus Cyprian Pazery de Thorame, Peter Francis Pazery de Thorame, Peter Ploquin, Renatus Nicholas Poret, Julian Poulain-Delaunay, John Robert Queneau, Francis Urban Salins de Niart, John Henry Louis Samson, John Anthony de Savine, John Anthony Barnabas Seguin, John Baptist Mary Tessier, Lupus Thomas, also known as Bonnotte, Francis Vareilhe-Duteil, Peter Louis Joseph Verrier; and Louis Barreau de la Touche, of the Congregation of Saint Maur of the Order of Saint Benedict; John Francis Burte, of the Order of Friars Minor; Apollinaris (John James) Morel, of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin; Ambrose Augustine Chevreux and Renatus Julian Massey, of the Order of Saint Benedict; Bernard Francis de Cucsac, James Gabriel Galais, Peter Gauguin, Peter Michael Guerin, James Stephen Philip Hourrier, Henry Augustus Luzeau de la Mulonnière, John Baptist Michael Pontus, Peter Nicholas Psalmon, and Claude Rousseau, of the Society of Saint Sulpice; Charles Jeremiah Bérauld du Pérou, Francis Louis Hébert, and Francis Lefranc, of the Society of Jesus and Mary; Urban Lefevre, of the Paris Society for the Missions to Foreign Nations; Severinus (George) Girauld, of the Third Order Regular of Saint Francis — all of them priests; Louis Alexis Matthias Boubert, Stephen Francis Deusdedit de Ravinel, and James Augustine Robert de Lézardières, deacons; Salomon (William Nicholas Louis) Leclercq, a religious of the Christian Schools; Augustus Nézel, a cleric; and Charles Regis Matthew de la Calmette.
3. Whose names are: Blessed Daniel Louis André des Pommerayes, Louis Remigius Benoist, Louis Renatus Nicholas Benoist, Anthony Charles Octavian du Bouzet, John Andrew Capeau, Armand Chapt de Rastignac, Claude Fontaine, Peter Louis Gervais, Sanctus Hure, John Louis Guyard de Saint-Clair, Alexander Charles Lenfant, Laurence, Louis Le Danois, Thomas John Monsaint, Francis Joseph Pey, John Joseph Rateau, Mark Louis Royer, John Peter Simon, as well as Charles Louis Hurtrel, of the Order of Minims — all of them priests — and Louis Benjamin Hurtrel, a deacon.
4. Whose names are: Blessed priests Vincent Carvalho and Francis Terrero, of the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine; Anthony Ishida, of the Society of Jesus; Jerome Jo; and Gabriel of Magdalene, a religious of the Order of Friars Minor.
5. Whose names are: Blessed Renatus Mary Andrieux, Peter Paul Balzac, John Francis Mary Benoît, also called Vourlat, Michael Andrew Sylvester Binard, Nicholas Bize, Peter Bonze, Peter Briquet, Peter Brisse, Charles Carnus, Bertrand Anthony de Caupenne, James Dufour, Dionysius Claude Duval, Joseph Falcoz, Gilbert John Fautrel, Philibert Fougère, Peter John Garrigues, Nicholas Gaudreau, Stephen Michael Gillet, George Jerome Giroust, Joseph Mary Gros, Peter Guerin du Rocher, Robert Francis Guerin du Rocher, Ivo Andrew Guillan de Keranrun, Julian Francis Bédouin, Peter Francis Henocq, Eligius Herque, also called du Roule, Peter Louis Jaret, James de la Lande, Giles Louis Symphorian Lanchon, Louis John Matthew Lanier, John Joseph de Laveze-Belay, Michael Leber, Peter Florentius Leclercq, John Charles Legrand, John Peter Le Laisant, Julian Le Laisant, John Lemaitre, John Thomas Leroy, Martin Francis Alexis Loublier, Claude Louis Marmotant de Savigny, Claude Sylvanus Mayneaud de Bizefranc, Henry John Millet, Francis Joseph Monnier, Mary Francis Mouffle, Joseph Louis Oviefre, John Michael Philippot, James Rabe, Peter Robert Regnet, Ivo John Peter Rey de Kervizic, Nicholas Claude Roussel, Peter Saint-James, James Louis Schmid, John Anthony Seconds, Peter James de Turmenies, Renatus Joseph Urvoy, Nicholas Mary Verron, and Charles Victor Veret — all priests.
And also: John Charles Mary Bernard du Cornillet, canon of the Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris; John Francis Bonnel de Pradel and Claude Pons, canons of the Abbey of Saint Geneviève in Paris; John Charles Caron, Nicholas Colin, Louis Joseph François, and John Henry Gruyer, of the Congregation of the Mission; Claude Bochat and Eustace Felix, of the Congregation of the Fathers of Christian Doctrine; Cosmas (John Peter) Duval, of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin; Peter Claude Pottier, of the Society of Jesus and Mary; and Sebastian Desbrielles, schoolmaster in Paris, Louis Francis Rigot, and John Anthony Joseph de Villette.
6. Whose names are: Saint Mary Pak Kun-a-gi Hui-sun, sister of Saint Lucy Pak Hui-sun; Barbara Kwon-hui, wife of Saint Augustine Yi Kwang-hem; Barbara Yi Chong-hui; Mary Yi Yon-hui, wife of Saint Damian Nam Myong-hyog; Agnes Kim Hyo-ju.
7. Whose names are: Blessed Dominic of Nagasaki, a religious of the Order of Friars Minor; Thomas of Saint Hyacinth and Anthony of Saint Dominic, religious of the Order of Preachers; Lucy Ludovica, a widow; John Tomachi and his sons Dominic, Michael, Thomas, and Paul; John Imamura, Paul Sadayu Aybara, Roman Aybara and his son Leo, James Hayashida, Matthew Alvarez, Michael Yamada and his son Lawrence, Louis Higashi and his sons Francis and Dominic.
8. Whose names are: Blessed Angelus Orsucci, Alphonsus de Mena, Joseph of Saint Hyacinth of Salvanes, and Hyacinth Orfanel, priests of the Order of Preachers; and Dominic of the Rosary and Alexis, religious of the same Order; Richard of Saint Anne and Peter of Ávila, priests of the Order of Friars Minor; and Vincent of Saint Joseph, a religious of the same Order; Charles Spinola, a priest of the Society of Jesus; and Gundisalvus Fusai, Anthony Kiuni, Thomas of the Rosary, Thomas Akahoshi, Peter Sampo, Michael Shumpo, Louis Kawara, and John Chugoku, religious of the same Society; Leo of Satsuma and Lucy de Freitas; Anthony Sanga, a catechist, and Magdalene, his wife; Anthony the Korean, a catechist, and Mary, his wife, with their sons John and Peter; Paul Nagaishi and Theda, husband and wife, with their son Peter; Paul Tanaka and Mary, husband and wife; Dominic Yamada and Clara, husband and wife; Isabella Fernandez, widow of Blessed Dominic Jorge, with their son Ignatius; Mary, widow of Blessed Andrew Tokuan; Agnes, widow of Blessed Cosmas Takeya; Mary, widow of Blessed John Shoun; Dominica Ogata, Mary Tanaura, Apollonia, and Catherine, widows; Dominic Nakano, son of Blessed Matthew Nakano; Bartholomew Kawano Shichiemon; Damian Yamichi Tanda and his son Michael; Thomas Shichiro, Rufus Ishimoto; and Clement (Bosio) Vom and his son Anthony.
9. Whose names are: Blessed Francis of Saint Bonaventure and Peter of Saint Clare, religious of the Order of Friars Minor; and Dominic Magoshichi and Matthew of Saint Thomas Chiwiato, religious of the Order of Preachers.
10. Whose names are: Saints Simeon Berneux, Anthony Daveluy, and Lawrence Imbert, bishops; Justus Ranfer de Bretenières, Louis Beaulieu, Peter Henry Dorie, Peter Maubant, James Chastan, Peter Aumaitre, and Martin Lucas Huin, priests; John Yi Yun-il, Andrew Chong Hwa-gyong, Stephen Min Kuk-ka, Paul Ho Hyob, Augustine Pak Chong-won, Peter Hong Pyong-ju, Paul Hong Yong-ju, Joseph Chang Chu-gi, Thomas Son Chason, Luke Hwang Sok-tu, Damian Nam Myong-hyog, Francis Ch’oe Kyong-hwan, Charles Hyon Song-mun, Lawrence Han I-hyong, Peter Nam Kyong-mun, Augustine Yu Chin-gil, Peter Yi Ho-yong, Peter Son Son-ji, Benedicta Hyon Kyong-nyon, Peter Ch’oe Ch’ang-hub, catechist; Agatha Yi, Mary Yi In-dog, Barbara Yi, Mary Won Kwi-im, Teresa Kim Im-i, Columba Kim Hyo-im, Magdalene Cho, Elizabeth Chong Chong-hye, virgins; Teresa Kim, Barbara Kim, Susanna U Sur-im, Agatha Yi Kan-nan, Magdalene Pak Pong-son, Perpetua Hong Kum-ju, Catherine Yi, Cecilia Yu So-sa, Barbara Cho Chung-i, Magdalene Han Yong-i, widows; Magdalene Son So-byog, Agatha Yi Kyong-i, Agatha Kwon Chin-i, John Yi Mun-u, Barbara Ch’oe Yong-i, Peter Yu Chong-nyul, John Baptist Nam Chong-sam, John Baptist Chon Chang-un, Peter Ch’oe Hyong, Mark Chong Ui-bae, Alexis U Se-yong, Anthony Kim Song-u, Protase Chong Kuk-ho, Augustine Yi Kwang-hon, Agatha Kim A-gi, Magdalene Kim O-bi, Barbara Han A-gi, Anna Pak A-gi, Agatha Yi So-sa, Lucy Pak Hui-sun, Peter Kwon Tu-gin, Joseph Chang Song-jib, Magdalene Yi Yong-hui, Teresa Yi Mae-im, Martha Kim Song-im, Lucy Kim, Rose Kim, Anna Kim Chang-gum, John Baptist Yi Kwang-nyol, John Pak Hu-jae, Mary Pak Kun-a-gi Hui-sun, Barbara Kwon-hui, Barbara Yi Chong-hui, Mary Yi Yon-hui, Agnes Kim Hyo-ju, Catherine Chong Ch’or-yom, Joseph Im Ch’i-baeg, Sebastian Nam I-gwan, Ignatius Kim Che-jun, Charles Cho Shin-ch’ol, Julitta Kim, Agatha Chon Kyong-hyob, Magdalene Ho Kye-im, Lucy Kim, Peter Yu Taech’ol, Peter Cho Hwa-so, Peter Yi Myong-so, Bartholomew Chong Mun-ho, Joseph Peter Han Chae-kwon, Peter Chong Won-ji, Joseph Cho Yun-ho, Barbara Ko Sun-i, and Magdalene Yi Yong-dog.
11. Whose names are: Saints Peter Nam Kyong-mun, catechist; Teresa Kim Im-i, virgin; Susanna U Sur-im and Agatha Yi Kan-nan, widows; Catherine Chong Ch’or-yom and Joseph Im Ch’i-baeg, baptized in prison.
12. Whose names are: Saints Ignatius Kim Che-jun, Charles Cho Shin-ch’ol, Columba Kim Hyo-im, virgin; Magdalene Pak Pong-son and Perpetua Hong Kum-ju, widows; Julitta Kim, Agatha Chon Kyong-hyob, and Magdalene Ho Kye-im.
13. Whose names are: Saints Dominic Ibañez de Erquicia, James Kyuhei Gorobioye Tomonaga, Anthony Gonzalez, Michael de Aozaraza, William Courtet, Vincent Shiwozuka, Luke Alphonsus Gorda, Jordan (Hyacinth) Ansalone, and Thomas Hioji Rokuzayemon Nishi, priests of the Order of Preachers; Francis Shoyemon, Michael Kurobioye, and Matthew Kohioye, religious of the same Order; Magdalene of Nagasaki, virgin of the Third Order of Saint Augustine; Marina of Omura, virgin of the Third Order of Preachers; Lazarus of Kyoto, a layman.
Omnes
sancti Mártyres, oráte pro nobis.
(“All ye Holy Martyrs, pray for us,”
from the Litaniae Sanctorum, the Litany of the
Saints)
2004 Roman Martyrology by Month (to be completed)
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