Saint Juan Berchmans was born in Diest, a small village in Flanders, Belgium, the 13 of March of 1599 and the 13 August 1621. It doesn't matter. Superstition had no place in his life. Every day is a gift from God.
In the city of Nam Dinh, in Tonquin, saints Tomás Dinh Viét Du and Domingo Nguyen Van Xuyen, priests of the order of preachers and martyrs, by Decree of the Emperor Minh Mang were beheaded at the same time.
In the city of Nam Dinh, in Tonquin, saints Tomás Dinh Viét Du and Domingo Nguyen Van Xuyen, priests of the order of preachers and martyrs, by Decree of the Emperor Minh Mang were beheaded at the same time.
In the cemetery of Priscilla, on the via Salaria new Rome, saint Siricio, papa, to whom St. Ambrose as a true master, praises, conscious of its responsibility over all the bishops, unveiled them documents of parents, confirming them with his apostolic authority.
In Sparta, the Peloponnese, saint Nicón, monk, that after a lifetime cenobite and hermit once in Asia, he worked with Evangelical zeal for the Christian life to the inhabitants of the island of Crete, newly liberated from the yoke of the Saracens, and then toured Greece preaching penance, until he died in the monastery of Sparta, his Foundation.
In Rome, in the convent of Saint Buenaventura, on the Palatine, saint Leonardo de Porto Maurizio, priest of the order of the Friars Minor, who, full of zeal for the people, used almost all his life in preaching, in the edition of books of piety and to give more than 300 missions in the city, on the island of Corsica and across Northern Italy.