Saints of the day april 3

Saint Richard of Wyche (s. XIII)

Celebrate today: Riki, Riqui.

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Blessed Gandolph of Binasco Sacchi (s. XIII)
Saint Juan of Nápoles (s. V)

In Naples, Campania, saint Juan, Bishop, who during the Holy night of Easter, while celebrating the sacred mysteries, died, and accompanied by many faithful and neophytes, was buried the day of the solemnity of the Lord's resurrection.

Blessed Piotr Edward Dankowski (s. XX)
Saint Nicetas of Medicio (s. IX)

In the monastery of measurings, in Bithynia, St. Nicetas, hegumen, who, for defending the cult of sacred images, Lion Emperor the Armenian time suffered imprisonment and exile.

Blessed John of Pina (s. XIII)
Saint Luis Scrosoppi (s. XIX)

In Udine, in the region of Venice, saint Luis Scrosoppi, presbyter of the Congregation of the oratory, who founded the Congregation of sisters of Divine Providence, for the Christian education of female youth.

Saint Ulpiano of Tiro (s. IV)

In Tyre, in Phoenicia, saint Ulpiano, martyr, who, while still a teenager, during the persecution under the Emperor Maximinus Daza was locked up in a wineskin with an ASP and a dog and submerged in the sea, thus completing his martyrdom.

Saint José Himnógrafo (s. IX)

In Constantinople, saint José, surnamed "Himnografo", priest, who, being a monk, in the persecution unleashed by the iconoclasts was sent to Rome to ask for the protection of the Apostolic See, and after many ailments, received custody of the sacred vessels of Saint Sophia.

Saint Sixto I papa (s. II)

In Rome, Saint Sixto I, Pope, in the time of Emperor Hadrian ruled the Roman Church, being the sixth after Saint Pedro.

Saint Papo of Tomis (s. IV)

At Tomis, in Escitia (today Constanţa, Romania) saints Cresto Papo, and martyrs (s. c. IV).

Saint Chrestus of Tomis (s. IV)
Blessed Robert Middleton (s. XVII)
Blessed Turstan Hunt (s. XVII)