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OCTOBER SAINTS

The Month of the Most Holy Rosary

1. Saint Therese of Lisieux (1897). This beautiful little girl of the last century was called Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face. She is now one of the best-known saints in the whole world. She became a Carmelite nun when she was fifteen years old. She died of consumption when she was only twenty-four. In nine short years as a nun, she shed the luster of her love so that all might know it by her prayers, her works and her simple and innocent writing. Her prayers were especially for priests and the foreign missions. She has been united with Saint Francis Xavier and made one of the great patrons of all missionary work done by Catholic priests.

Saint Therese called herself the "Little Flower of Jesus," and by that name she is known everywhere. Her great devotions were to the Blessed Sacrament and to Our Lady, who once appeared to her in a grave sickness. It is in no small way due to Saint Therese of Lisieux that daily Communion was restored by Saint Paul X, the holy Pope who loved the Little Flower so much. MORE INFO

2. The Holy Guardian Angels. The mission of the Guardian Angels is, as Saint Paul tells us, to serve the future heirs of salvation. Every kingdom, country, diocese, church and religious order has its protecting Guardian Angel. So has every person. Each bishop of the Catholic Church has two Guardian Angels. Our Guardian Angel is given us at the moment of birth, stays with us all through life, comforts us in Purgatory, and escorts us, if we are saved, into Heaven. There is a special angel in each church to record all distractions and irreverences that occur there. The greatest joy any of us can give our Guardian Angel is to receive Holy Communion and make our breast a tabernacle of the Eternal God before Whom this angel can adore. Many of the saints saw their Guardian Angels. Saint Rose of Lime did, and so did Saint Gemma Galgani. And so did Saint Frances of Rome, Saint Margaret of Cortona and Saint Gridget of Sweden. A great Pope, Saint Gregory the Great, was tenderly devoted to his Guardian Angel. Saint Catherine of Siena saw her Guardian Angel. Saint Francis de Sales had, as one of his special devotions, reverence for the Holy Angels who have charge of the care of the tabernacle in every Catholic Church.

There are nine choirs of angels, and three hierarchies. These choirs and hierarchies are: first hierarchy, Angels, Archangels and Principalities; second hierarchy, Powers, Virtues and Dominions; third hierarchy, Thrones, Cherubim and Seraphim. This is in the order of ascent. It is from the first hierarchy, Angels, Archangels and Principalities; that guardians are chosen by God for man. Angels are for individuals. Archangels are for parishes, churches and religious communities. And Principalities are for provinces, countries and nations. Saint Augustine says, "Go where we will, our angels are always with us." Saint Jerome says, "So sublime is the dignity of the human soul that from its birth there is appointed to each one a Guardian Angel." And Saint Bernard says, "Make the holy angels your friends. No matter how weak we may be, or lowly our condition, or how great the dangers which surround us, we have nothing to fear under the protection of these guardians." In every difficulty, danger and temptation, Saint Bernard urges us to invoke our Guardian Angel.

3. Saint Hesychius (Fourth Century). He was a disciple of the abbot Saint Hilarion and the companion of his journeys. Saint Hesychius brought Saint Hilarion’s body back to Palestine for burial.

4. Saint Francis of Assisi (1226). Saint Francis of Assisi was called by Pope Benedict XV the "greatest image of Our Lord that has ever been." He was born in 1182. His name was John Bernardone. His father was a rich cloth merchant who had to travel frequently to France and who spoke French so well that he was called, in Italy, "Francesco," which means "the Frenchman". When he became a religious he gave up his family name and took his nickname for his title.

Saint Francis of Assisi, in imitation o Jesus with His Twelve Apostles, chose twelve companions with which to begin his Religious Order of the Friars Minor. His Order was approved in 1215. He made a journey to foreign lands so as to be martyred for the Catholic Faith. But he came back unharmed by way of Palestine. Saint Francis of Assisi built the first Christmas crib in 1223. He was given the stigmata, the five wounds of Jesus, in his hands and feet and side, when he was praying on a mountain in 1224. This was when he was making a forty-day crusade of prayer and fasting to Saint Michael, the great Archangel who protects the Catholic Church from its enemies. Along with Saint Clare of Assisi, a beautiful and radiant young girl who joined him when she was eighteen, Saint Francis founded the Poor Clares, an Order for women under the Franciscan Rule. He also founded a Third Order of Saint Francis for the sanctification of lay people who want to practice some of the works of humility and poverty for which the Franciscans are noted. There are various branches of the first Order of Saint Francis, including the Friars Minor, the Capuchins and the Conventuals. The Franciscan Order has given the Catholic Church more than one hundred canonized saints.

Saint Bernice (Fourth Century). She was martyred in Syria along with her mother and sister.

5. Saint Placid (541). This was the notable Benedictine monk who, two years before the death of Saint Benedick himself, along with his two brothers, Saint Eutychius and Saint Victorinus, and his sister, Saint Flavia, and thirty Benedictine monks, was martyred on the Island of Sicily, in the town of Messia. These are the Benedictine protomartyrs.

6. Saint Bruno (1101). Saint Bruno was the founder of the great Carthusian Order. He was born in Cologne, in Germany, in 1030. He later retired to France, to a solitary place known as Grande Chartreuse, form which the name Carthusian is derived. His Order is the most contemplative of all the Orders of monks in the Catholic Church. Saint Bruno believed that in saintly contemplation of the soul alone with God the highest adoration, love and prayer are evoked. A monk in a small cell for personal prayer, and in a simple chapel for common prayer, and in a country garden for work, was his idea of perfect preparation on a mountain for the life that awaits us at death. He promised all true Catholic contemplatives a peace which this world does not know, the source of which is the Holy Ghost, the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, with all His Divine Gifts and Fruits.

7. Our Lady of the Rosary. The Holy Rosary is a lovely instrument of prayer. By it we direct our minds and our hearts to God as we move our mouths and our fingers while we pray. The rosary was given personally to Saint Dominic by Our Blessed Lady in the year 1214, in Toulouse, in France. Saint Dominic was the first great apostle of the Holy Rosary. Saint Dominic died in 1221, at the age of fifty-one. The last great apostle of the Holy Rosary was Saint Louis Marie de Montfort, who died in 1716 at the age of forty-three. The great Pope who promoted the cult of the Holy Rosary was Saint Pius V, who died in 1572. In the year 1571 he set up the feast of the Most Holy Rosary on October 7. The Catholics won a great naval victory that day over the Turks at Lepanto, who were trying to crush them and blot out their Faith. Their protection was the Holy Rosary.

Another great victory of the Catholics over the Turks because of the Holy Rosary was in 1716, in Hungary, the year Saint Louis Marie died. Pope Gregory XIII, in 1573, Pope Clement XI, in 1716, and Pope Leo XIII, in 1888, all did much to make the feast of the Most Holy Rosary on October 7 more and more observed reverenced in the liturgy of the Church. The rosary is not only a prayer, it is a weapon. The little beads of love that are strung on the rosary are bullets of destruction against the enemies of the Catholic Faith and the enemies of one's salvation. In a simple chaplet, five decades of the rosary, the Holy Name of Jesus is invoked fifty-four times, and the Holy Name of Mary, one hundred and seven times. No Catholic should ever be without the rosary in his possession, night or day. The devil is afraid of these beads as they lie in our pockets or are held in our hands.

8. Saint Simeon (First Century). He was the aged man mentioned in Saint Luke’s Gospel who took Jesus into his arms and prophesied about Him when He was presented in the Temple. He uttered a beautiful canticle about Our Lord and told Our Lady that a sword would pierce her soul.

9. Daint Denis (95). Saint Denis is called “the Areopagite” because, as a judge, he lived on the hill of Ares in Athens. He was converted to the Catholic Faith by Saint Paul and was soon brought by him to see the Blessed Virgin Mary in Jerusalem. Saint Denis said, when he beheld the Mother of Jesus, that if he had not been prevented from doing so, so outstanding was Mary’s beauty, he would have fallen on his face and adored her as God. Saint Denis was the first Bishop of Athens in Greece. He later became the first Bishop of Paris in France. He was transported with Apostles miraculously to Jerusalem to witness the death and burial of Our Blessed Lady, as were also Saint Hierotheus of Athens, his teacher and friend, and Saint Timothy. Saint Denis was beheaded under the Roman Emperor Domitian. He is the patron saint of France. He is one of the fourteen Holy Helpers, and is invoked against demons.

Saint John Leonardi (1609). He was a priest of Lucca in Italy. With the assistance of Saint Philip Neri and Saint Joseph Calasanctius he founded and Order known as the Clerks of Regular of the Mother of God to work among the sick and the imprisoned. He was canonized in 1938).

Saint Abraham (2000 B.C.). The great patriarch of pre-Christian times was Abraham, who lived two thousand years before the coming of Christ. He was first called Abram, which means "father". His name was later changed by God to Abraham, which means "great father", father of a multitude. Abraham was a type of God the Father's generosity in sacrificing His Divine Son for our salvation. Abraham agreed to do so because it was God's request. But God stopped Abraham, and Abraham sacrificed a ram instead. Abraham's name is mentioned in the genealogy of Our Lord, in the very first sentence of the New Testament, in the Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Abraham's name is mentioned in the Roman Canon of the Mass, in the second prayer after the consecration of the Most Precious Blood. Mary, the Mother of God, uses Abraham's name in her beautiful canticle, the Magnificat. Mary calls those who fully acknowledge her Divine Maternity and share its fruits, "the seed of Abraham forever." Abraham was one hundred and seventy-five years old when he died.

10. Saint Francis Borgia (1572). Saint Francis Borgia was the Duke of Gandia and Viceroy of Catalonia, an intimate and trusted friend of the King and Queen of Spain. When his wife died, he distributed his vast estates and titles among his children and became a religious. He joined the Society of Jesus and was its third General. He was one of the great opponents of the rise of protestantism in the sixteenth century. Saint Francis Borgia died in 15172, the same year as his great friend, Saint Pius V, who gave us the feast of the Most Holy Rosary. Saint Francis Borgia’s last words as he was dying were, “I long for Jesus,”

11. Saint Kenneth (599). He was born in Ireland and was trained to be a monk by Saint Finian, and by Saint Cadoc in Wales. He founded two monasteries. The city of Kilkenny in Ireland is named for him.

The feast of the Divine Maternity of Our Lady, set up by Pope Pius XI in 1931 to commemorate the fifteen hundredth anniversary of the Council of Ephesus, has been replaced by the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, which is observed on January 1, the octave of Christmas.

12. Our Lady of the Pillar (36). This feast commemorates the apparition of the Mother of God during her own lifetime to Saint James, the great apostle of Spain, in the year 36, in the town of Saragossa Spain. This was to encourage Saint James to be the apostle to the great country of Spain, which by its valiant Catholicism and its many saints was to mean so much to the one true Faith in the centuries to come. The feast of Our Lady of the Pillar has a very important significance to us Americans. Christopher Columbus packed his boat to sail from Spain to America on August 2,1492, the feast of Our Lady of the Angels. Columbus and his men sailed all the rest of August and the whole of September without sighting the land they were looking for. And then October approached. Columbus said if he did not see land on October 12, the feast of Our Lady of the Pillar, he would turn and go back to Spain. By the special providence of Our Lady, it was on October 12 that Columbus first saw land. Columbus did not choose this day because it was October 12 simply. He chose it because it was the feast of Our Lady of the Pillar. In childlike innocence, every one of us must admit that it was because of the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, that America was discovered. The whole New World was meant to belong to her.

Saint Edwin (633). He was a king of Northumbria in England who was martyred for the Faith. His wife brought him into the Catholic Church. He was baptized six years before he died.

Saint Wilfred (709). He became a monk at Lindisfarne in England. He founded an abbey at Ripon and was made later Bishop of Compiegne.

13. Saint Edward the Confessor (106). Saint Edward the Confessor, known as Good King Edward, was raised to the throne of England when he was forty years old, on Easter Sunday in 1042. To satisfy his nobles and his people, and so that England might have a queen, he married a noblewoman named Edith, but he lived with her as a brother with a sister because he had already vowed himself to the Blessed Virgin in chastity. He had a great devotion to the poor, especially to beggars and to lepers. God gave him the power of working miracles to heal diseases. During his twenty-four years as king, England prospered as almost never before. Saint Edward rebuilt all the ruined churches he could find. His greatest and noblest work by way of restoring a church was Westminster Abbey, which it took him nearly sixteen years to construct. It was completed just before he died. His saintly body was buried in it. It remains there even to this day, unfortunately now in the possession of Anglican heretics. Saint John the Evangelist, to whom Saint Edward had a great devotion, came to escort him to Heaven when he died.

Saint Gerald (909). He was a Count of Aurillac in France. He led a life of great virtue. He founded a Benedictine Abbey and made it one of the most beautiful religious houses of his day. His great devotion was to the poor.

14. Saint Callistus (222). He was the seventeenth Pope and reigned for five years. He built a beautiful church to Our Lady called “Holy Mary beyond the Tiber.” He was martyred for the Faith.

15. Saint Teresa of Avila (1582). She is the radiant Carmelite nun and prioress who was born at the beginning of the sixteenth century and died at the age of sixty-seven in the year 1582. Saint Teresa of Avila was one of twelve children. From reading the lives of the saints, when she was seven years old, she wanted to go and be martyred by the Moors. Her mother died when she was twelve. When she was eighteen she became a Carmelite. She has often been called "the greatest woman of Christendom." She wrote three wonderful spiritual books: her Autobiography, telling of her visions and revelations; the "Way of Perfection", for the direction of her nuns; and "The Interior Castle", a study in mystical theology.

It was reading Saint Jerome that gave her her vocation. And after she became a Carmelite, it was reading Saint Augustine that drove her to the heights of perfection. She suffered dreadfully from physical sicknesses, and was constantly attacked by the devil. Our Lord once appeared to her, and asked her who she was. She replied, "I am Teresa of Jesus." Our Lord then said to her, "I am Jesus of Teresa." In the year 1558 her heart was pierced by the lance of an angel, which left her with a consuming love of God. Saint Teresa's special patron in Heaven was Saint Joseph, the virginal spouse of Mary. Her spiritual friends and directors among the saints were: Saint Peter of Alcantara, a Franciscan, Saint Francis Borgia, a member of the Society of Jesus, Saint John of the Cross, a Carmelite, and Saint Louis Bertrand, A Dominican. She was also indebted for spiritual direction to a townsman of her own, Saint John of Avila, a very humble and worthy priest.

When Our Lord once appeared to Saint Teresa and told her to carry out a certain work, she asked Our Lord why He did not tell some learned theologian to do this. Our Lord replied to her: "Theologians will do nothing to enter into personal communication with Me. Repulsed by them, I must choose women to open to them My Heart and speak of My affairs."

Saint Teresa's motto was, "To suffer or to die." She craved for martyrdom so that she could see God in the Beatific Vision. When she was dying, and Holy Viaticum was brought to her, she said, "O God, it is about time that we see each other." The day she died, by dramatic arrangement, Pope Gregory XIII changed the calendar to make allowance for the proper insertion of leap-year day. The days were dropped out of the calendar to commemorate one thing in one way, but to commemorate the going to God of the great Teresa of Avila in another, and though she died on October 4, her feast in on October 15. The day Saint Teresa died, she was welcomed into Heaven by the ten thousand martyrs of Mount Ararat, who were crucified there in 138 A.D., and to whom she had a great devotion all her life. These martyrs came to welcome her and escort her to the Beatific Vision. In 1970 Pope Paul VI declared her the first woman Doctor of the Church. MORE INFO

16. Saint Hedwig (1243). Saint Hedwig was the aunt of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. She was a queen. She did much to foster convents for the consecration to Jesus and Mary of Young Catholic girls. She herself became a nun in her widowhood. She was canonized twenty-three years after her death.

Saint Margaret Mary (1690). Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque was a Visitation nun who, in the year 1675, received from Our Lord, Who appeared to her out of the depths of the Blessed Sacrament, the assignment to be the great apostle of the public veneration of His Most Sacred Heart. Her spiritual supporter and director was a saintly priest of the Society of Jesus, Blessed Claude de la Colombiere. He died eight years before her. Our Lord told Saint Margaret Mary that He received in the Blessed Eucharist only irreverence and ingratitude. It was to her that Our Lord made the request that the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi be set aside as a special feast in honor of the Sacred Heart. It was to Saint Margaret Mary that Jesus made the request that Catholics receive Him in Holy Communion on each first Friday on the month, and keep the Holy Hour on the night before the first Friday with the Blessed Sacrament exposed. MORE INFO

Saint Gerard Majella (1755). He was a poor boy of southern Italy. His great loves were the Blessed Sacrament, Our Lady and the crucifix. He used to say, “Suffer only for God and your suffering will bring you Heaven on earth,” He tried to become a Capuchin friar but was refused on account of his ill health. The Order of Redemptorists took him when he was twenty-three. He lived with them as a lay brother. His obedience to his superiors was the most exemplary in the history of that Order. Every moment not given to work he spent in adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament. He was, by his prayer, a great missioner and converted hundreds of sinners to repentance. Saint Gerard Majella died at the age of twenty-nine.

17. Saint Ignatius of Antioch (107). He was the third Bishop of Antioch and governed the Church there for forty years. Because of the courage and clarity with which he declared the truths of the Catholic Faith and its necessity for salvation, he was taken to Rome and thrown to wild beasts in the amphitheater before 87,000 people. The beasts tore him to pieces. He is one of the Fathers of the Church.

Saint Rudolph (1066). He was the noted monk, a disciple of Saint Peter Damian, who was made Bishop of Gubbio. He is known as Blessed Rudolph of Gubbio.

18. Saint Luke (84). Saint Luke the Evangelist was a doctor of medicine in Antioch in Syria. He was converted to Christianity and became a disciple of Saint Paul. He is the one Gentile who wrote books in the New Testament. His two books are the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. All we know about the Incarnation, birth and childhood of Our Lord comes to us from Saint Luke. He was a great painter. He painted a most beautiful picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to whom his whole life was devoted. Saint Luke was martyred for the Catholic Faith.

19. The North American Martyrs (1642,1646,1648,1649). The eight North American martyrs were six priests and two lay brothers. There were heroic members of the Society of Jesus who were martyred in North America to bring the Faith that is necessary for salvation to the Huron, the Iroquois and the Mohawk Indians. Five of the eight North American martyrs were put to death in what is now Canada, and three of them in New York State. There is a shrine to the United States' martyrs at Auriesville in New York. There is a shrine to the Canadian martyrs at Fort Saint Mary near Midland, Ontario. The names of the eight North American martyrs are Saint Rene Goupil, a lay brother martyred in 1642 in New York State; Saint Isaac Jogues, a priest, and Saint John de Lalande, a lay brother, martyred in 1646in New York State; Saint Anthony Daniel, a priest, martyred in Canada in 1648; Saint John de Brebeuf, Saint Charles Garnier, Saint Noel Chabanel and Saint Gabriel Lalemant, all priests, and all martyred in Canada in 1649.

Saint Isaac Jogues, after thirteen months' imprisonment by the Mohawks, had several fingers cut off his hand. He went back to Europe, but returned again to North America and was killed by tomahawk blows at Ossernenon, now called Auriesville, in New York State. Saint John de Brebeuf declared before he died, "I have a strong desire to suffer for Jesus Christ." He was tortured terribly, and a burning torch was put into his mouth, which strangled him.

Saint Rene Goupil said, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!" as he died, Saint Rene Goupil, thirty-five, was the youngest of the martyrs. Saint Noel Chabanel was thirty-six. Saint Isaac Jogues and Saint Gabriel Lalemant were thirty-nine. The oldest of the eight North American martyrs, Saint John de Brebeuf, was fifty-six when the Indians killed him.

Saint Paul of the Cross (1775). He was the founder of the Passionist Order, which has done so much to revive in the hearts of all true Catholics a love for the sorrows of Jesus upon the Cross. Two other members of his Order have already been canonized as saints. They are: Saint Vincent Mary Strambi, who died in 1824, and Saint Gabriel of the Most Sorrowful Virgin, who died in 1862. Saint Vincent Mary Strambi wrote the life of Saint Paul of the Cross.

Saint Peter of Alcantara (1562). He was a Franciscan. He was a great friend and encourager of the great Saint Teresa of Avila. He was the son of the Governor of Alcantara. At sixteen years of age, he distributed all his fortune to the poor so as to become a Franciscan. Though given high offices in his Order, Saint Peter resigned from them. He went to live in the mountains of Portugal as a hermit. He instituted the Alcantarine reform in the Franciscan Order and led with this friars a life of the utmost austerity and poverty. He ate only every third day. He lived in a cell so small he could never lie down to sleep. He died when he was sixty-three years old.

Saint Laura (864). She was a glorious Spanish widow who became a nun at Cordova in Spain. She was an abbess in her convent. Saint Laura was seized by the Mohammedans and thrown into a caldron of boiling lead.

Saint Howard (1595). His full name is Saint Philip Howard. He died in England as a martyr at the time of the Reformation. His grandson was also a Blessed.

20. Saint Irene (653). She was a Portuguese nun who was martyred in defense of her chastity. Her body was thrown into the river and then miraculously recovered. So many miracles were worked at her tomb that she was canonized as a Catholic saint. Her shrine, which is at "Santarem"( (Saint Irene), has been in no small part responsible for the beautiful quality of the Catholic Faith which the Portuguese people have kept even to this day.

21. Saint Ursula (383). When the pagan Saxons started to invade England in the fourth century, with the intention of destroying the Catholic Faith and the purity of all young English virgins, a great group of English girls, numbering ten friends of Saint Ursula, and each having a thousand companions, - which made their number in all, 11,011 - fled from England to the Continent. In the year 383, Saint Ursula and her 11,010 companions were all slaughtered for their purity and their Faith. This great martyrdom occurred in Cologne, at Germany. A shrine has been erected to them there, containing as may of their bones as could be rescued. A Religious Order of nuns in the Catholic Church in honor of Saint Ursula was established by Saint Angela Merici in the year 1535. They are known as the Ursulines.

22. Saint Mary Salome (First Century). Saint Mary Salome, a daughter of Saint Mary of Cleophas, was first called simply, Salome. She added Mary to her name in honor of the Blessed Virgin. Her father and her mother both were saints. She was the wife of Zebedee, who was not a saint. But she was the mother of Saint John and Saint James the Greater. And her brothers were Saint Simon, Saint James the Less and Saint Jude, Apostles, and Saint Joseph Barsabas, a disciple of Our Lord.

Saint Mary Salome was one of the "three Marys" who stood by the Cross of Jesus when He died, and to whom He appeared on the first Easter Sunday. She and her mother, and Saint Mary Magdalen, Saint Martha and companions, were put on a boat which had no sails and no oars, during a persecution by the Jews in the year 47, and were pushed out to sea. The boat miraculously floated unharmed to the south of France. Saint Mary Salome died in France. She is still venerated there with great love and devotion.

Saint Delia (Cordelia, Cordula) (383). Saint Cordula was one of the companions of Saint Ursula who were martyred by the Huns at Cologne. Saint Cordula, at first, hid herself in fright, but later repented. On the next day she too suffered martyrdom. Her feast is celebrated on the day following the feast of her companions.

23. Saint John of Capistrano (1456). He was one of the great apostles of the Holy name of Jesus. Three other great apostles of the Holy name of Jesus are: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint Bernardine of Siena and Sain Ignatius of Loyola. Saint John of Capistrano was a Franciscan. It was through his devotion to the Holy name of Jesus that the Catholics were able to beat the Turks in the Battle of Belgrade in 1456. Led by Saint John of Capistrano, every soldier in the Catholic army kept saying, "Jesus! Jesus!" as he fought. The relics of Saint John of Capistrano were thrown into the River Danube by the Lutherans in the sixteenths century, but the Catholics were able to recover them.

24. Saint Anthony Mary Claret (1870). He was born in Catalonia, in Spain, in 1807. He was ordained a priest in 1835. He was a missioner in his own country and in the Canary Islands, which are just off the northwest coast of Africa. He formed a group of priests into an Order known as the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary - also known as the Claretians. He was made Archbishop of Santiago in Cuba, in 1851. He was recalled to Spain in 1857. He was exiled with his queen in the revolution thereof 1868. May attempts were made on this life. He is the one saint so far canonized who was present at the Vatican Council of 1869-1870.

Saint Ignatius of Constantinople (877). He was the son of a Byzantine emperor. He was first a monk, then an abbot, and then a patriarch of Constantinople. He suffered much from Photius, who was the father of the Greek Schism that eventually led to the so-called Greek Orthodox Church, which divided people from unity with the Holy Roman Catholic Church, outside of which no one can be saved.

25. Saint Crispin and Saint Crispinian (285). They were shoemakers by trade who, because of the simple holiness and innocence of their lives, were known to be Catholics. They courageously refused to yield to the persecutors of their Faith who wanted them to apostatize. At the beginning of the reign of Diocletian they were both beheaded. Some of their relics are in Rome. Saint Crispin and Saint Crispinian are invoked by Catholic cobblers.

26. Saint Evaristus (121). He was the sixth Pope of the Catholic Church. He succeeded Saint Anacletus in the year 112. He was the Pope who divided Rome into its parishes and set up the dignity of cardinal priests. Saint Evaristus was martyred for the Catholic Faith. He was buried near the tomb of Saint Peter.

27. Saint Frumentius (380). He was born in Tyre near the Holy Land. He knew Saint Athanasius and was appointed by him Bishop of Ethiopia in Africa. He brought thousands of Africans into the one true Faith. His great patron was Saint Matthew, the Evangelist, who was martyred in Ethiopia in the year 65.

-from “Saints to Remember from January to December,” by the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

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