VIGIL OF ST THOMAS, APOSTLE
Ember Saturday – Fast & Abstinence
https://anastpaul.com/2020/12/16/today-is-an-ember-day-did-you-remember/
Christmas Novena to the Divine Infant Jesus
By St Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787)
THE FIFTH DAY
The Monthly Novena to the Miraculous
Infant Jesus of Prague
The Fifth Day
Notre-Dame de Bon Retour à Île-Molène / Our Lady of Molene, France (1075) – 20 December
HERE:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/12/20/notre-dame-de-bon-retour-a-ile-molene-our-lady-of-molene-france-1075-christmas-novena-day-five-and-memorials-of-the-saints-20-december/
St Attala of Strasbourg
St Bajulus of Rome
St Crescentius of Africa
St Damian of Padua
St Dominic Bishop and Confessor of Brescia
St Dominic de Silos OSB (1000-1073) Abbot. He was a Spanish Monk, to whom the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos, where he served as the Abbot, is dedicated. The mother of the better-known Saint Dominic de Guzmán, the Blessed Joan of Aza, prayed at his Shrine before she was able to conceive the son she named for him. That son would grow up to found the Dominican Order. Dominic’s special patronage thus became connected with pregnancy and until the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931, his abbatial crozier was used to bless the queens of Spain and was placed by their beds when they were in labour.
His Namesake is more Renowned than he is:
https://anastpaul.wordpress.com/2017/12/20/saint-of-the-day-20-december-st-dominic-de-silos-o-s-b-c1000-1073/
St Eugene of Arabia
St Hoger (Died 916) Bishop of Hamburg-Bremen in Saxony, modern Germany. Hoger was a Reformer and strict disciplinarian of the Clergy.
About St Hoger:
https://anastpaul.com/2024/12/20/saint-of-the-day-20-december-st-hoger-died-916-bishop/
Bl John de Molina
St Julius of Gelduba
Bl Lorenzo Company
St Liberatus of Rome
St Macarius of Arabia
St Malou Priest at Hautvillers, Marne, France. No other information has survived.
St Paul (Died c956) Hermit of Latra, Greece
Blessed Peter de la Cadireta
Blessed Peter Massalenus (1375-1453) Monk, Mystic
His Holy Life:
https://anastpaul.com/2022/12/20/saint-of-the-day-20-december-blessed-peter-massalenus-1375-1453-monk/
St Philogonius (Died 324) Bishop of Antioch, Widower, Lawyer. Defender of the true Faith against Arianism, in fact, he was one of the first to publicly denounce the heresy, Defender of the people against persecution, Ascetic.
His Courageous Life:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/12/20/saint-of-the-day-20-december-saint-philogonius-of-antioch-died-324/
St Thomas of Dover
St Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne (c552-c625) Abbot, Hermit, disciple of St Columban (543-615). Born in c552 in either France or Ireland and died on 20 December in c625 near modern St-Ursanne, Jura, Switzerland of natural causes. Patronages – against stiff neck, Besançon in France, in Switzerland – Basel, Saint-Ursanne.
A Saint Patron against a Stiff Neck!:
https://anastpaul.com/2023/12/20/saint-of-the-day-20-december-saint-ursicinus-of-saint-ursanne-c552-c625-abbot/
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