Polish Franciscan priest who was murdered by the Nazis in a concentration camp, after voluntarily giving himself in exchange of a family's father's life.
View moreSaint Alfred, Bishop of Hildeseheim in the 9th century.
Celebrate today: Alfred, Alfreda, Alfredo.
View moreIn Rome, in the cemetery of Callixtus, via Appia, commemoration of saint Tarsicio, martyr, seeking to defend the Holy Eucharist from Christ, a furious mob of gentiles profaning, preferred be slain, dying stoned before that give dogs the Holy things (c. 257). Patron of the servers of the Altar (altar).
In the Illyricum, St. Ursicino, martyr (s. IV).
In Rome, Eusebius, founder of the Church that bears his name at monte Esquilino (s. IV/V).
In Apamea in Syria, saint Marcelo, Bishop and martyr, that have destroyed a temple of Jupiter, was killed by the enraged gentiles (c. 390).
At Ross, on Hibernia, St. Facanano, Bishop and Abbot, who established there a monastery, famous for its school, in which Sciences were taught divine and human (s. VI).