Blessed Florentino Barroso – Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Barbastro (Spain)
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, bishop and Doctor of the Church (†1787 Pagani – Italy). Blessed Thomas Welbourne, martyr (†1605). Lay schoolteacher hanged in York during the reign of James I of England for having encouraged fidelity to the Pope among his students.
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time. St. Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop (†371 Vercelli – Italy). St. Peter Julian Eymard, priest (†1868 La Mure – France). Blessed Justin Maria Russolillo, priest (†1955). Priest of Naples and founder of the Society of Divine Vocations.
St. Euphronius, bishop (†c. 475). Constructed a basilica in honour of St. Symphorian in Autun, France.
St. Jean-Marie Vianney, priest (†1859 Ars-sur-Formans – France). St. Aristarchus. Disciple of St. Paul; faithful companion on his journeys and imprisonment in Rome.
Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major. St. Emidius, bishop and martyr (†fourth century). Appointed Bishop of Ascoli, Italy, he converted countless pagans.
Transfiguration of the Lord. St. Justus and St. Pastor, martyrs (†304). Brothers martyred in Spain. When still boys, they voluntarily appeared before the tribunal to profess their faith in Christ.
St. Sixtus II, Pope, and companions, martyrs (†258 Rome). St. Cajetan of Thiene, priest (†1547 Naples – Italy). St. Victricius of Rouen, bishop (†410). For love of Christ he abandoned his military career and evangelized the north of France.
St. Dominic of Guzman, priest (†1221 Bologna – Italy). St. Altmann, bishop (†1091). Founded the abbey of Göttweig, Austria.
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time. St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, virgin and martyr (†1942 Auschwitz – Poland). Blessed Florentino Asensio Barroso, bishop and martyr (†1936). He was arrested and shot during the Spanish Civil War, a short time after taking possession of the Diocese of Barbastro.
St. Lawrence, deacon and martyr (†258 Rome). Blessed Juan Martorell Soria, priest and martyr (†1936). Salesian priest subjected to torture and finally put to death in Valencia, Spain.
St. Clare of Assisi, virgin (†1253 Assisi – Italy). Blesseds John Sandys (†1586) and Stephen Rowsham (†1587), priests, and William Lampley (†1588), martyrs. Killed in England during the reign of Elizabeth I.
St. Jane Frances de Chantal, religious (†1641 Moulins – France). Blessed Victoria Díez y Bustos de Molina, virgin and martyr (†1936). Shot to death during the Spanish Civil War; she died exhorting other Catholics to martyrdom.
Sts. Pontian, Pope, and Hippolytus, priest, martyrs (†c. 236 Sardinia – Italy). St. Radegund, queen (†587). Queen of the Franks; she entered Holy Cross Monastery in Poitiers, France while her husband, King Chlothar, was still alive.
St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, priest and martyr (†1941 Auschwitz – Poland). St. Marcellus of Apamea, bishop and martyr (†c. 390). He was assassinated in this Syrian city by enraged pagans, after having ordered the destruction of a temple dedicated to Juniper.
Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady. St. Tarcisius, martyr (†c. 257). He was stoned to death in Rome for defending the Holy Eucharist from profanation by pagans.
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time. St. Stephen of Hungary, king (†1038 Székesfehérvár – Hungary). St. Arsacius, hermit (†c. 358). He abandoned the Roman army to dedicate himself to a life of prayer and penance.
St. Clare of Montefalco, virgin (†1308). Outstanding for her great devotion to the Passion of Christ and the practice of austere penance.
Blessed Rinaldo of Concorezzo, bishop (†1321). He governed the Diocese of Ravenna, Italy with zeal, prudence and charity.
St. John Eudes, priest (†1680 Caen – France). St. Bartholomew of Simeri, abbot (†1130). Hermit in the vicinity of the Sella-Massif in Italy, he built Santa Maria Nuova Odigitria Monastery.
St. Radegund – Church of St. Hilary the Great, Poitiers (France)
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, abbot and Doctor of the Church (†1153 Langres – France). St. Samuel, prophet. Called by God while still a child, he was judge of Israel. He anointed Saul king of his people and, when Saul was unfaithful, he anointed David, from whose descendants the Saviour was born.
St. Pius X, Pope (†1914 Rome). Blessed Victoire Rasoamanarivo, widow (†1894). Born into one of the most prominent families of Madagascar, she converted to the Catholic Faith. When the missionaries were expelled from the country, she defended the Church before the civil authority.
The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Blessed James Bianconi, priest (†1301). Dominican religious from Bevagna, Italy, where he founded a convent. He eradicated the Nicolaites sect from Umbria.
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time. St. Rose of Lima, virgin (†1617 Lima – Peru).Blessed John Bourdon, priest and martyr (†1794). Capuchin priest imprisoned with many other priests in a galley, during the French Revolution. He died consumed by illnesses, while he cared for his fellow prisoners.
St. Bartholomew, Apostle. St. Emily de Vialar, virgin (†1856). She founded the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition, in France.
St. Louis, King of France (†1270 Tunis – Tunisia). St. Joseph Calasanz, priest (†1648 Rome). St. Menas of Constantinople, bishop (†552). As Patriarch of Constantinople, he strove to reverse the harm done by the Monophysites and to re-establish religious peace in the Middle East.
St. Joan Elizabeth Bichier des Âges, virgin (†1838). She founded the Congregation of the Daughters of the Cross.
St. Monica (†387 Ostia – Italy). St. Poemen, abbot (†fourth-fifth century). An anchorite famous for his wise teachings.
St. Augustine, bishop and Doctor of the Church (†430 Hippo – Algeria). St. Florentina, virgin (†seventh century). Sister of three Saints: Leander, Fulgentius and Isidore of Seville; she was abbess of the Benedictine monastery in Écija, Spain.
Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist. Blessed Sancha Szymkowiak, virgin (†1942). Religious of the Congregation of the Daughters of Our Lady of Sorrows, who cared for prisoners in Poznań, Poland.
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. St. Margaret Ward, martyr (†1588). Catholic woman condemned to death and hanged during the reign of Elizabeth I for having helped a priest.
St. Aristides, apologist (†c. 150). A philosopher distinguished for his faith and wisdom, he addressed an apology of Christianity to the Emperor Hadrian.
