Saints of the day june 28

In Hassungen, Hesse, saint Heimerado, priest and hermit, who, out of the cloister, was the subject of scorn and contempt, in the midst of their continuous pilgrimages for Christ's sake.

In London, in England, saint Juan Southworth, priest and martyr, who, for exercising his priesthood in that country, had to endure prison and exile, and low Oliverio Cromwell was sentenced to death. When he saw the scaffold prepared at Tyburn, he exclaimed that it was for him that was the cross for Christ.

In Rome, saint Pablo I, Pope, who, affable and gracious, at night, in silence, visited the homes of the sick poor, assisting them. Defender of the Orthodox faith, wrote to the emperors Constantine and Leon, to which withheld worship the sacred images. Very devout Saints, he cared for move from cemeteries in ruins to the interior of the city, in the various titles and monasteries, the bodies of the martyrs, in the midst of hymns and chants.

In the place of Jieshuiwang, near the city of Shenxian, in the same province of Hebei, saint María Du Zhaozhi, martyr, mother of a priest, who after having fled, but not wanting to betray his faith in Christ, voluntarily submitted his neck to the axe from his pursuers.

In Lovere, in Lombardy, saint Vicenta Gerosa, Virgin, he founded, together with saint Bartolomea Captanio, the Institute of the Sisters of charity.