Saints of the day january 10

In the city of Limoges, in Aquitaine (now France), saint Valerio, who led a solitary life (s. VI).

In the city of Die, in the region of Viennese Gaul (now France), saint Petronio, Bishop, who had earlier embraced the monastic life in the island of Lérins (after 463).

In the monastery of Cuixà, in the Pyrenees (today France), saint Pedro Urseolo, who, being dux of Venice, he became a monk, distinguished for his piety and austerity, and living in a Hermitage near the monastery (c. 987/988).

In Rome, in the cemetery of Callixtus, in via Apia, saint Melquíades, Pope, a native of Africa, who knew the peace granted by Emperor Constantine to the Church, but a victim of the attacks of the Donatists, distinguished himself by his efforts to obtain the concordia.

In Constantinople (Istanbul today in Turkey), saint Marciano, priest, who was distinguished in the ornamentation of churches and in the assistance provided to the poor.

In the city of Nisa, in the region of Cappadocia (today Turkey), saint Gregorio, Bishop, brother of St. Basil the great, remarkable for their life and doctrine, who, by having confessed the straight faith, was expelled from its headquarters by the Arian Emperor Valente (before the 400).

In the town of Bourges, in Aquitaine (now France), saint Guillermo, Bishop, who, desirous of solitude and meditation, became a monk in the Cistercian Monastery of Pontigny. Later he was Abbot of Chaalis and, later, elected Bishop of Bourges, not never abandoning the austerity of the monastic life and distinguished by their love to the clerics, the captives and the miserable ones.

In Jerusalem, saint Juan, Bishop, who in time of the controversy about the orthodox doctrine worked hard on behalf of the Catholic faith and peace in the Church.

In the Thebaid (Egypt today), saint Pablo, hermit, one of the first to embrace the monastic life (s. IV).