Saints of the day january 1

In Campania and in Abruzzo, Italy, commemoration of Saint Justin, who was Bishop distinguished by their zeal and defense of the Christians (s. IV).

In the monastery of Fécamp, in Normandy (today France), death of St. William, Abbot of Saint Benigno of Dijon, who at the end of his life led many monks, distributed in forty monasteries with firmness and prudence.

In Rome, saint José María Tomasi, priest of the order of clerics regular Teatinos and Cardinal, who ardently desiring the establishment of divine worship, went hard to the research and publication of texts and ancient liturgical monuments, as well as to the catechesis of children.

Ruspe, city of Bizacena (now Tunisia), saint Fulgencio, Bishop, who after having been Bizacena Prosecutor, embraced the monastic life and made bishop, during the persecution by the Vandals suffered much because of the Arians and was exiled to Sardinia by King Trasamundo. Return to Ruspe, he devoted the rest of his life to nourish its faithful with words of grace and truth (c. 632).

In Troyes, city of Neustria (today France), saint Frodoberto, founder and first Abbot of the monastery of Celle (c. 667).

In Rome, saint Vicente María Strambi, Bishop of Macerata and Tolentino, of the Congregation of the passion, who ruled the diocese which had entrusted Holy and by their fidelity to the Roman pontiff was banished.

In Gablonne, Bohemia (today Czech Republic), saint Zdislava, mother, who lent comfort to the afflicted.

In Souvigny, of Burgundy (today France), death of St. Odilón, Abbot of Cluny, who was severe with itself, but sweet and gracious with each other. It established truces between those who fought each other, and in time of famine, helped those in need with all his strength. Was the first to establish in their monasteries the commemoration of all the faithful departed, setting it for the next day to the solemnity of all saints.