Saint Margaret, born in Hungary and married Malcolm III, King of Scotland, who gave birth to eight children, was extremely solicitous for the sake of the Kingdom and the Church, and the prayer and fasted added generosity to the poor, giving an optimal example as a wife, mother and Queen.
Celebrate today: Margarita.
View moreSaint Gertrudis, named "Magna", Virgin, who delivered more earnestly and decisively, from childhood, to loneliness and to the study of letters, and converted completely to God, entered the Cistercian Monastery of Helfta, near Eisleben in Saxony, Germany, where he progressed from admirable mode by the way in perfection, devoted to prayer and contemplation of the crucified Christ. He died the day seventeen (11301/1302).
One of the first South American martyrs. They were killed by Indians in 1628, and canonized by the Pope Juan Pablo II.
Among the Helvetii (today Switzerland), St. Otmar u Otmaro, Abbot, who, along with the cell built by St. Gallen, founded a small hospital for lepers and a monastery under the observance of the rule of St Benedict, and to defend their rights, was deported by powerful neighbors to an island in the Rhine, where he died.
In Assisi, Umbria, in the convent of saint Damián, St. Agnes, Virgin, who in the flower of youth, according to his sister saint Clara, embraced wholeheartedly into poverty under the direction of saint Francisco.
In Lyon, in Gaul, saint Euquerio, from the senatorial order, who first withdrew with his family to the ascetic life on an island next to Lérins, and later elected Bishop of Lyon, appropriated by writing many passions of holy martyrs.
She was born in Narni in 1476 and died in Ferrara in 1544.