Octave of the Holy Innocents
Madonna delle Rose / Our Lady of the Rose (Albano Sant’Alessandro, Italy) (1417) – 4 January:
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Madonna della Treviso di San Jerome Emiliani / Our Lady of Treviso of St Jerome Emiliani
https://anastpaul.com/2021/01/04/our-lady-of-treviso-and-memorials-of-the-saints-4-january/
HERE:
https://anastpaul.com/2022/01/04/madonna-delle-rose-our-lady-of-the-roses-albano-santalessandro-italy-1417-madonna-della-treviso-di-san-jerome-emiliani-our-lady-of-treviso-of-st-jerome-emiliani-and-memorials-of-the-sain/
St Aedh Dubh
St Aggaeus the Martyr
St Angela of Foligno TOSF (1248-1309) known as the “Mistress of Theologians” – Wife, Mother, Widow, Religious, Mystic, Writer, Third Order Franciscan, Foundress of a religious community, which refused to become an enclosed religious order, so that it might continue her vision of caring for those in need. It is still active today.
About St Angela:
https://anastpaul.com/2020/01/04/saint-of-the-day-4-january-saint-angela-of-foligno-tosf-1248-1309/
St Celsus of Trier
Bl Chiara de Ugarte
St Chroman
St Dafrosa of Acquapendente
St Ferreolus of Uzès
St Gaius of Moesia
St Gregory of Langres (Died 539) Bishop of Langres and Dijon, Count and Governor, Father of 2 Sons and Widower, before being appointed as the Bishop of Langres, Ascetic, Miracle-worker. Great-grandfather of St Gregory of Tours. He ordered the translation of the Relics of Saint Benignus and built the Church and the Abbey of Saint-Benignus of Dijon.
Biography:
https://anastpaul.com/2023/01/04/saint-of-the-day-4-january-saint-gregory-of-langres-died-539-bishop/
St Hermes of Moesia
St Libentius of Hamburg
Bl Louis de Halles
St Mavilus of Adrumetum
St Neophytos
St Neopista of Rome
St Oringa of the Cross
Bl Palumbus of Subiaco
St Pharaildis of Ghent (c650-c 740) Virgin, Apostle of the poor, Miracle-worker.
About St Pharaildis:
https://anastpaul.com/2022/01/04/saint-of-the-day-4-january-saint-pharaildis-of-ghent-c-650-c-740/
St Rigobert of Rheims (Died c743) Archbishop
Bl Roger of Ellant
St Stephen du Bourg
St Theoctistus
Blessed Thomas Plumtree (Died 1570) Priest, Martyr, Rector of Stubton, Military Chaplain to Blessed Thomas Percy (7th Earl of Northumberland), renowned Preacher of the uprising and Martyr of the Rising of the North. He was Beatified on 9 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII.
His Life and Death:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/01/04/saint-of-the-day-4-january-blessed-thomas-plumtree-died-1570-priest-martyr/
Martyrs of Africa – 7 Saints: A group of Christians Martyred together in the persecutions of the Arian Vandal king Hunneric. Saint Bede wrote about them. – Aquilinus, Eugene, Geminus, Marcian, Quintus, Theodotus and Tryphon. In 484 in North Africa.
Martyrs of Rome – 3 Saints: Three Christians Martyred together in the persecutions of Julian the Apostate for refusing to renounce Christianity as ordered. – Benedicta, Priscillianus and Priscus. In 362 in Rome, Italy.
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