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Matka Boża Tęskniąca / Longing Mother of God, Warsaw, Poland, Sts John and Paul Sibling Martyrs and the Saints for 26 June

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Matka Boża Tęskniąca / Longing Mother of God, Warsaw, Poland – 26 June:
HERE:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/06/26/matka-boza-teskniaca-longing-mother-of-god-warsaw-poland-and-memorials-of-the-saints-26-june/

St John of Rome * Layman Brothers, Martyr
St Paul of Rome * Layman Brothers, Martyr
The year of their Martyrdom is uncertain according to their Acts; it occurred under the Emperor, Julian the Apostate.
The Roman Martyrology reads today: “At Rome, on Mount Coelus, the holy Martyrs, John and Paul, brothers. The former was Steward, the other Secretary of the virgin Constantia, daughter of the Emperor Constantine. Afterwards, under Hulian the Apostate, they received the Palm of Martyrdom by being beheaded.”
Their Lives and Deaths:
https://anastpaul.com/2023/06/26/saints-of-the-day-26-june-saint-john-and-saint-paul-died-c362-laymen-brothers-martyrs/

St Acteie of Rome
St Albinus of Rome

St Anthelm of Belley O. Cart. (c 1105-1178) Bishop of Belley, France, Prior of the Carthusian Grand Chartreuse. Reformer, talented Administrator, Founder of the female Carthusians and originated of the Carthusian Rule (with the zealous and learned assistance of Bless John the Spaniard whom we celebrated yesterday) Apostle of the poor, the sick and the needy.
The wonderful St Anthelm:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/06/26/saint-of-the-day-st-anthelm-of-belley-o-cart-c-1105-1178/

St Babolenus of Stavelot-Malmédy
St Barbolenus of Fossés
Bl Bartholomew of Vir
St Corbican
St David of Thessalonica
St Deodatus of Nola
St Dionysius of Bulgaria
St Edburga of Gloucester
St Hermogius of Tuy
St John of the Goths
St Maxentius of Poitou (c448-c515) Abbot
St Medico of Otricoli
St Pelagius of Oviedo
St Perseveranda of Poitiers
Bl Raymond Petiniaud de Jourgnac
St Salvius
Bl Sebastian de Burgherre
St Soadbair
St Superius
St Terence of Rome
St Vigilius of Trent

Martyrs of Africa – 4 Saints: Four Christians who were Martyred together – Agapitus, Emerita, Felix and Gaudentius at an unknown location in Africa, date unknown.

Martyrs of Alexandria – 3 Saints: Three Christians who were Martyred together but we really know little more that the names – Agatho, Diogenes and Luceja. They were Martyred in Alexandria, Egypt, date unknown.

Martyrs of Cambrai – 4 Beati: Four Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, Nuns at Arras, France. Imprisoned together in 1792 and executed together two years later in the anti-Catholic excesses of the French Revolution. They were: , Jeanne Gerard, Marie-Françoise Lanel, Marie-Madeleine Fontaine, Thérèse-Madeleine Fantou, They were guillotined on 26 June 1794 at Cambrai, Nord, France and Beatified in June 1920 by Pope Benedict XV.

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Saint of the Day – 26 June – St Maxentius of Poitou (c448-c515) Abbot

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Saint of the Day – 26 June – St Maxentius of Poitou (c448-c515) Abbot, Miracle-worker. Born in c448 in Agde, France and died in c515 at of natural causes. Also known as – Masenzio, Massenzio, Maixent.

The Roman Martyrology records: “In the territory of Poitiers in Aquitaine, in today’s France, Saint Maxentius, Abbot, famous for his virtues.”

Maxentius was born at Agde,and Baptised with the name of Adjutor. He was placed, from his infancy, by his pious parents in the Monastery of St Severus and formed to piety by that holy Abbot, who never lost sight of him and continually taught him that everything in the world, is full of snares and temptations and unless we live in watchfulness and circumspection, the devil besieges us so close that it is impossible for us not to be surprised by him.

The youth, by walking always in holy fear, was happy to preserve his soul free from whatever could defile it. He fled with great dread the applause of men, as the bane of virtue. To avoid this danger, he stole away into a distant country but after two years was found and brought back by his parents and friends. The fear of the esteem of men again forced him abroad,and going into Poitou, he changed his name into that of Maxentius and put himself under the direction of a virtuous Abbot named Agapetus.

The brethren were struck with admiration to see one so perfectly disengaged from the world, so humble, so mortified, so full of charity and so enlightened in the paths of salvation and they unanimously chose him their superior. In his devotions he seemed animated with the spirit of David when he composed his psalms and in his instructions with the zeal and charity of John the Baptist. Austere towards himself, he showed in all his actions that he sought only that food which never perishes. Following the example of Agapetus, he laid down his office as soon as it was possible and shut himself up in a remote cell but the Monks obliged him still to continue to direct them by his counsels.

St Maxentius turns back the plundering army

Clovis, the King of the French, was then at war with Alaric, King of the Visigoths, who reigned in Spain, Languedoc and Aquitaine. A barbarous army was stopped by the Saint’s presence from plundering the Monastery and a soldier who attempted to strike him was seized with a numbness which continued until he was cured by the Saint. Nature on many occasions obeyed his voice, as St Gregory of Tours relates.

St Maxentius died about the year 515 and is named in the Roman Martyrology.

The Crypt at St Maxentius Abbey