Saints calendar of the day

In Cordoba, in the Spanish region of Andalusia, holy martyrs Leovigild and Christopher, monks. During the persecution carried out by the Muslims they proclaimed spontaneously to Christ in front of the judge, who were beheaded, thus receiving the Palm of martyrdom.

In the monastery of Noirmoutier, in the island of Hero, on the coast of Aquitaine, saint Filiberto, Abbot, who, educated in the Court of King Dagoberto, and still a teenager, became a monk. He founded and directed first the monastery of Jumièges and then of Hero (c. 684).

Near the fortress of Chinon, on the territory of Tours on Aquitaine, saint Max, saint Martín disciple, who first was a monk in the place of île-Barbe, near Lyon, and later founded a monastery on the banks of the Vigenne River, where he died in very advanced age (s. V).