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At Turin, Saint Maximus, the first bishop of this see, who with his fatherly word called crowds of pagans to the faith of Christ and led them with heavenly doctrine to the prize of salvation.

Commemoration of Saint Prosper d’Aquitaine, who, versed in philosophy and letters, led a virtuous and temperate life with his wife and, having become a monk in Marseilles, strenuously defended against the Pelagians the doctrine of Saint Augustine on the grace of God and the gift of perseverance, carrying out the task of chancellor of Pope Saint Leo the Great also at Rome.

At Reggio Emilia, Saint Prospero, bishop.

At Maurienne in Gaul, now in France, Saint Tigre, virgin, who promoted the cult of Saint John the Precursor in this place with great zeal.

At Rosemarkie in Scotland, Saint Moluag, bishop.

At Jaca in Northern Spain, Saint Orosia de Jaca, virgin and martyr.

At Egmond in Friesland, in the present-day Netherlands, Saint Adelbert, deacon and abbot, who helped Saint Willibrord in evangelisation.

In Brittany, Saint Salomon, martyr, who, for the time he ruled as king, established episcopal sees, enlarged monasteries, and preserved justice; he then left the kingdom, was blinded and killed in church by his opponents.

In the Charterhouse of Le Réposoir in Burgundy, in present-day France, Blessed Jean d’Espagne, monk, who wrote the statutes for the nuns of the Carthusian Order.

At Marienwerder in Polish Prussia, Blessed Dorothea of Montau, who, as a widow, lived secluded in a cell built next to the cathedral, giving herself tirelessly to a life of continuous prayer and penance.

At Laval in France, Blessed Saint-Monique Lhuilier, virgin and martyr, who, received among the Hospitallers of Mercy during the French Revolution, strenuously faithful to the Church in her religious vows, died beheaded.

At the city of Nam Dinh in Tonkin, now Vietnam, Saints Domingo Henares de Zafra Cubero, bishop of the Order of Preachers, and Phanxicô Ðỗ Văn Chiểu, martyrs, of whom the former propagated the Christian faith for forty-nine years, the latter, as a catechist, worked assiduously with him: both were beheaded together for Christ under Emperor Minh Mang.