Hippolytus was a Roman soldier of the 3rd century, who was assigned to guarding Christian prisoners. Developed by them the faith, he suffered martyrdom by attending the burial of others martyred.
View moreHoly Martyrs Pontian, Pope, and Hipolito, priest, who were deported together, Sardinia, and with equal conviction, ornate, apparently with the same Crown, were finally transferred to Rome, Hippolytus, the cemetery of the via Tiburtina, and the Pope Pontian, the cemetery of Calisto (c. 236).
In Poitiers, Aquitaine, saint Radegunda, Queen of the Franks. When still alive her husband, King Clotario, he received the sacred veil of religious, and in the monastery of the Saint Cruz de Poitiers, that she had commissioned, served Christ under the rule of saint Cesareo of Arles.
In Fritzlar in Hesse, Austrasia, saint Vigberto, priest and Abbot, that St. Boniface entrusted the care of the monastery of the place (c. 739).
In the Altenberg monastery, in the region of Wetzlar, Germany, blessed Gertrude, Abbess of the Premonstratensian order, who, still a child, was offered to God by his mother saint Isabel, Queen of Hungary, in this place.