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(Catholic Online) Albinus as a young man, entered the Monastery at Tincilloc, at the age of thirty-five in 529, he became Abbott and Bishop of Angers, Bishop Albinus became widely known as a Servant of God for the many miracles through Christ Jesus, that were performed during his lifetime.

Bishop Albinus, showed great generosity to the sick and poor, together with ransoming slaves whenever possible and caring for them.

• Jesus: “Very truly I tell you, the one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do and in fact, will do greater works than these because I am going to the Father. I will do whatever you ask in My name so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If in My name you ask Me for anything, I will do it.” –John 14:12-14

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(Catholic Online) Fr. Romanus, ordained a Priest in 444, was of Roman descent, adopting the life of a hermit in France at the age of thirty-five and was joined by his biological brother Lupicinus and many other disciples. The two brothers became leaders of a community of Monks, establishing Monasteries at Condat and Leuconne and a Convent at La Beaume, that was governed by their sister.

• Jesus: “Go into all the world and proclaim ‘The Good News’ to the whole creation. The one who believes and is baptized will be saved but the one who does not believe will be condemned.” –Mark 16:15-16

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(Catholic Online) Fr. Augustus was ordained into the Priesthood in the ‘Paris Society of Foreign Missions’ and sent to China after a brief period of Parish work. Fr. Augustus was arrested accused of insurrection and imprisoned, sentenced to cage torture, was beaten on hundred times on his face, then hung at the gate of the jail, the planks that he stood upon  were gradually removed, leading to a slow and painful death by suffocation in 1856 during the persecution of Christians and the Church.

In October 2000, Fr. Augustus was Canonized by Pope John Paul II together with 120 other Christian Martyrs who had died in China between the 17th and  20th centuries.

• Jesus: “Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul, rather fear Him (Almighty God) who can destroy both soul and body in Hell.” –Matthew 10:28

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(Catholic Online) Isabel sister of St. Louis IX and daughter of King Louis VIII of France, Isabel would refuse offers of marriage from several noble suitors to continue her life of virginity consecrated to God. Isabel ministered to the sick and poor, following the death of her mother, she founded the ‘Franciscan Monastery of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary’ in Paris, where she then lived in austerity but never became a Nun and refused to become its Abbess.

• Jesus: “Do unto others
  as you would have them do to you.”  –Luke 6:31

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(Catholic Online) Ananias was a missionary commanded by Christ Jesus in a vision to seek out Saul the future St. Paul that was blinded on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-9) and converted to Christianity, Ananias finding Saul, was instrumental through Christ Jesus in healing Saul’s blindness and baptizing him. Subsequently Ananias went to Eleutheropolis, where he was martyred for his faith in Jesus.

• Jesus: “Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul, rather fear Him (Almighty God) who can destroy both soul and body in Hell.” –Matthew 10:28

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(Catholic Online)  English princess, youngest daughter of  King William the Conqueror (1028-1087) Princess Adela (1067-1137) married  Stephen, Count of Blois (1045-1102) throughout Princess Adela’s life she was active in English politics, was famed for her endowments for Church’s and monastic institutions.

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Saint Polycarp
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(EWTN) St. Polycarp was one of the most illustrious of the apostolic fathers who, being the immediate disciple of the Apostles, received instructions from their own mouths and inherited of them the Spirit of Jesus Christ, in a degree so much the more eminent.

Bishop of Smyrna (modern day Turkey Izmir) Saint Polycarp was a revered Christian leader during the first half of the second century.

St. Ignatius on his way to Rome to be martyred, visited Polycarp at Smyrna and later at Troas, wrote him a personal letter. The Asia-Minor (modern day Turkey) Churches recognized Polycarp’s leadership by selecting him as their representative  in about the year 158 to discuss with Pope Anicetus the date of the Easter celebration in Rome–a major controversy in the early Church.

Only one of the many letters written by Saint Polycarp has been preserved, according to EWTN the one that he wrote to the Church of Philippi in Macedonia.

• St. Polycarp helped to form many Holy Disciples
  among them were St. Irenaeus and St. Papias

During the sixth year of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180) a violent persecution broke out in which the Christian faithful, gave heroic proof of their courage and love for God, to the astonishment of the infidels. When the Christians were torn to pieces with scourges until their very bowls laid bare, amidst the moans and tears of the spectators, who were moved with pity at the sight of their torments, not one of the Christians gave a so much as a single groan, so little regard had they for their own flesh in their cause for God.

No kinds of torture, no inventions of cruelty, cause them to to conform to the pagan worship of the times.

Polycarp was  subsequently led into the crowded Smyrna stadium to be burned alive at which time he said to his tormentors:

“You threaten me with a fire which burns for a short time then goes out but are yourselves ignorant of the judgment to come and the fire of everlasting torments which is prepared for the wicked. Why do you delay? Bring against me what you please.”

Miracle: St. Polycarp in the Flames
Which Did Not Consume Him

The flames did not harm Polycarp and an Order went out for a Spearman to pierce him through which he did and such a huge quantity of blood poured out of his left side that it quenched out the fire–the Centurion then ordered that Polycarp’s body be burned.

The “Acts” of Polycarp’s martyrdom are the earliest preserved, fully reliable account of a Christian Martyr’s death in 156

Saint Peter Damian (1007-1072)
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(Franciscan Media) Peter was born into a good family but was orphaned at an early age and went to live with his brother.

According to EWTN his bother treated him more life a slave than one so closely related. Peter escaped poverty and the neglect of his brother, when he was sent away to another brother that was an Archpriest in Italy Raveena, who took pity on him and had the charity to provide him with an education–Peter became a professor

Maybe because he was orphaned, Peter was very good to the poor, it was an ordinary thing for him to have an impoverished person or two dine with him and he enjoyed the opportunity this provided to minister to them.

Already in those days, Peter was very strict with himself, he wore a chalice underneath his clothing, fasted rigorously and spent many hours in prayer–Later he left teaching and gave himself to prayer with the Benedictines of the Reform of Saint Romuald at Fonte Avellnam–they lived two Monks to a hermitage. Peter was so eager to pray, sleeping so little and studying the Bible, that he soon suffered severe insomnia, finding that he had to use some prudence to take better care of himself.

His superiors ordered that Peter make frequent appeals to the religious, as he had acquired a very good character for virtue and learning–later he founded 5 other hermitages (monasteries) encouraging his brother in a life of prayer and solitude, wanting nothing more for himself. The Holy See however periodically called on Peter to be a peacemaker/troubleshooter between two Abbey’s in dispute or between a Cleric and government official in some disagreement with Rome.

Pope Stephen IX in 1057 made Peter the Cardinal-Bishop of of Ostia (Rome) but such was his reluctance, that nothing less than Pope Stephen IX threatening him with excommunication and his commands, induced Peter to acquiesce.

Peter worked hard to to wipe out simony (buying or selling ecclesiastical privileges) and encouraged his priest’s to observe celibacy and even encouraged the diocesan clergy to live together to maintain scheduled prayer and religious observances–wanting to restore the discipline among the religious and priests, warning them against needless travel, violations of poverty and too comfortable of living.

Following Peter’s retirement, he continued to edify the Church by his penance and writing bust was still called to serve as a personal representative to the Pope.

Henry, Archbishop of Ravenna having been excommunicated for grievous moral offenses, Peter was sent by Pope Alexander II to take care of the affairs of the Church. When Peter arrived, he found the Bishop deceased but found his accomplices. Bringing them around to a sense of their guilt, he imposed suitable penances upon them.

This was Peter’s last undertaking for the Church before God, being pleased with his his labors soon after called him home on the 22 February, 1072

Peter was Canonized in 1823 by Pope Leo XII and in 1828 made Doctor of the Church.