Saints of the day october 9

Héctor Valdivielso Sáez, the first Argentinian Saint, is one of eight Catholics that reached the Crown of martyrdom during the so-called revolution of Asturias, just before the Spanish Civil War.

In Antioch, Syria, commemoration of saint Publia, that, on the death of her husband, he entered a monastery, and as he saintg the words with her Virgin companions Psalm "idols of the gentiles are gold and silver» and «are such that make them», to spend there the Emperor Julian the apostate ordered that they abofeteasen it and reprendiesen with roughness.

In Valencia, in Spain, saint Luis Bertrán, priest of the order of preachers, that in South America preached the Gospel of Christ and defended several indigenous peoples.

In the region of Hainaut, in Austrasia, saint Gisleno, who lived as a monk in a cell which he himself had built.

In the monastery of Brevnov, in Bohemia, saint Guntero, hermit, who, abandoning the goods of the Earth, embraced the monastic life, and later retired to the solitude of the forest located between Bavaria and Bohemia, living and dying detached from everything, but at the same time very close to God and to men.

In the region of Bigorre (Saint-Savin-of-Lavedan), at the foot of the Pyrenees mountains, saint Sabino, hermit, who illustrated the monastic life in Aquitaine (s. V).

In the town of Turon, in the Spanish region of Asturias, holy martyrs Inocencio de la Inmaculada (Manuel) Canoura Arnau, presbyter of the Congregation of the passion, and eight colleagues, the brothers of the Christian schools, who, during the revolution, in hatred of the faith were killed without trial, reaching victory (1934). Their names are: saints Cirilo Bertrán (Jose) Saintz Weaver, Marciano José (Filomeno) Lopez Lopez, Victoriano Pío (Claudio) Bernabé Cano, Julián Alfredo (Vilfrido) Fernández Zapico, Benjamín Julián (Vicente) Alonso Andrés, Augusto Andrés (Román) Martín Fernández, Benito de Jesús (Hector) Valdivieso Sáez and Aniceto Adolfo (Manuel)