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Many martyrs who suffered death under Emperor Nero . Owing to their executions during the reign of Emperor Nero, they are called the Neronian Martyrs, and they are also termed the Protomartyrs of Rome, being honored by the site in Vatican City called the Piazza of the Protomartyrs. These early Christians were disciples of the Apostles, and they endured hideous tortures and ghastly deaths following the burning of Rome in the infamous fire of 62.Their dignity in suffering, and their fervor to the end, did not provide Nero or the Romans with the public diversion desired. Instead, the faith was firmly planted in the Eternal City. This all that is known about these Martyrs. Prayer Father, you sanctified the Church of Rome with the blood of its first martyrs. May we find strength from their courage and rejoice in their triumph. We ask this through Christ our Lord. AMEN References: Catholic.Org

Ethelbert, He married Berta Christian princess, daughter of the king of Paris, he asked her to be erected a church and some Christian priests hold sacred rites there. When Pope Gregory the Great heard the news, concluded that the time was ripe for the evangelization of the island. Entrusted with the mission to the prior of the Benedictine monastery of Saint Andrew, whose main characteristic was not courage, but humility and docility. That monk was Augustine. In 597 out of Rome leading a group of forty monks. He stopped at the island of Lerins. Here is discussed the bellicose temperament of the Saxons, and it terrified him to the point of him back to Rome to ask the pope to change his program. To encourage him, Gregory was appointed abbot and soon after, almost to make him take the final step, as soon came to Gaul, he consecrated bishop. He continued his journey with short steps. Finally he came to the British island of Thenet, where the king was personally welcome the invitation of his...

Patron of lawyers, notaries, stained glass artists, captives of Egypt, Venice, against impenitence and insect bites. St. Mark is a Jew from Jerusalem, accompanied St. Paul and St. Barnabas, his cousin, to Antioch in the first such mission trip (Acts 12, 25), also accompanied Paul to Rome. He left them at Perga and returned to his home. (Acts 13:13). We do not know the reasons for this separation but if we know that later caused a separation between St. Paul and St. Barnabas, when St. Paul refused to accept St. Mark. St. Barnabas was so angry that he broke his missionary association with St. Paul and went to Cyprus with Mark (Acts 15.36-39). Years later, St. Paul and St. Mark returned to join in a mission trip. He was a disciple of St. Peter and interpreter of it in his Gospel, the second canonical Gospel (the first written). St. Mark wrote in Greek in simple and strong. In their terminology is understood that his audience was Christian. His gospel contains history and theology. Debate ...

Valentine was a holy priest in Rome, who, with St. Marius and his family, assisted the martyrs in the persecution under Claudius II. He was apprehended, and sent by the emperor to the prefect of Rome, who, on finding all his promises to make him renounce his faith in effectual, commended him to be beaten with clubs, and afterwards, to be beheaded, which was executed on February 14, about the year 270. Pope Julius I is said to have built a church near Ponte Mole to he memory, which for a long time gave name to the gate now called Porta del Popolo, formerly, Porta Valetini. The greatest part of his relics are now in the church of St. Praxedes. His name is celebrated as that of an illustrious martyr in the sacramentary of St. Gregory, the Roman Missal of Thomasius, in the calendar of F. Fronto and that of Allatius, in Bede, Usuard, Ado, Notker and all other martyrologies on this day. To abolish the heathens lewd superstitious custom of boys drawing the names of girls, in honor of their go...

Cyrano was an abbot of the seventh century. He lived in France in the seventh century and his life has told us and later told a biographer with many details and specifics. Berry was the son of noble. Eventually, he became bishop of Tours, the diocese most desirable of those times. He was educated in the city of Saint Martin. He was introduced in court to make a brilliant career. The father had even prepared a nice girl for marriage. One day, Cyrano left the court. Following the devotion to St. Martin of Tours became a hermit near his grave. Later, the clergy of the city welcomed him. Cyrano had given his entire estate to the poor the Gospel. Without anyone noticing, he left to join the bishop Tours Flavio, an Irishman who had a community of pilgrimage throughout Europe. Once in Rome, worked hard until they returned to France to found a monastery in the town of Longoret. This community grew under the guidance of St. Cyrano. That was a great austerity of life in all the monks. In other w...

Catherine was born 282, Alexandria, Egypt. Catherine was was virgin. She was very beautiful. Once the Emperor Maximinus of Rome was taking over Egypt, he saw how beautiful she was. He want her to marry him. He asked her to marry him she refused because, she took her vows of virginity. So he got angry he sent her to be tortured. She was imprisoned and the people who visited her converted when she spoke to them. The emperor was frustrated, so he had tortured on the breaking wheel. Once she touched the wheel the wheel broke it self. Finally she was beheaded. She died on earth but born in the glory of Christ 305, Alexandria, Egypt. She has many patronages here are some of them educators, girls, jurists, knife sharpeners, lawyers,and librarians. She is part of the fourteen holy helpers. It dosen't say when or by who she was canonized. Prayer Father may the blood of Catherine of Alexandria be a seed for us to be better christians so we too can give our blood for you. We ask this through ...

Raphael Kalinowski was September 1, 1835 Vilnius, Lithuania. He was a Polish Discalced Carmelite friar born as Józef Kalinowski inside the Russian partition of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in the city of Vilnius.He was also in the military. He was a teacher, engineer, prisoner of war, royal tutor, and priest. He was ordained as priest at Czerna in 1882 by Bishop Albin Dunajewski.He also founded a Carmelite Sisters convent in Przemyśl in 1884, and Lvov in 1888 .Who founded many monasteries around Poland after the suppression by the Russians. He died November 15, 1907 in Poland. He lived to be seventy two years old. He was beatified in 1983, Kraków, Poland and canonized 17 November 1991, St. Peter's Basilica, Rome by Pope John Paul The II. He was the first man to be so recognized in the order of the Discalced Carmelites, since Saint John of the Cross. Prayer God almighty you gave us St.Saint Raphael Kalinowski to be an example of a person of great sacrifice. May his life be an exa...