ALSO TODAY:

At Eskihisar in Honorias, in present-day Türkiye, Saint Tation, martyr.

At Clichy in the territory of Paris, transitus of Saint Ouen, bishop of Rouen, who, as chancellor of King Dagobert was ordained to the episcopate and happily ruled his Church for forty-three years, founding many churches and encouraging the construction of monasteries.

On Mount Olympus in Bithynia, in present-day Türkiye, Saint George Limniota, monk, who deplored the impiety of Emperor Leo III for having destroyed the sacred images and burned the relics of the saints, and for this, mutilated by his order the nose and with his head set on fire, ascended as a martyr to the Lord.

At Lima in Peru, anniversary of the death of Saint Rose of Lima, whose memorial is celebrated the day before this.

At Angers in France, Blessed André Fardeau, priest and martyr, guillotined in hatred of his priesthood during the French Revolution.

At Naples, Saint Jeanne-Antide Thouret, virgin, who continued the religious life, interrupted during the French revolution, together with some companions, whom in Besançon she aggregated to herself in the new Congregation of the Sisters of Charity to devote herself to the Christian and civil formation of the young and to charity towards abandoned children, the poor and the sick, ending her days exhausted by great tribulations.

At Marseille in France, Saint Émilie de Vialar, virgin, who, dedicated to spreading the Gospel in distant regions, established the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Apparition and spread it with dedication.

At Valencia in Spain, Saint María Micaela del Santísimo Sacramento Desmaisières López de Dicastillo, virgin and founder of the Congregation of the Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity, who, moved by a great love and by the desire to win souls for God, dedicated her life to the redemption of morally erring girls and prostitutes.

At Tulcán in Ecuador, Blessed María de la Encarnación Rosal, virgin, who instituted the Bethlemite Sisters, above all to vindicate the dignity of women and form girls in a Christian way.

In the prison camp of Dachau near Munich in Germany, Blessed Maksymilian Binkiewicz, priest and martyr, who, during the war, was deported by invading soldiers from Poland because of his faith in Christ and died under torture and torture.

At Dresden in Germany, Blesseds Czesław Joźwiak, Edward Kaźmierski, Franciszek Kęsy, Edward Klinik and Jarogniew Wojciechowski, martyrs, who, of Polish origin, thrown into prison in the same period, suffered martyrdom with axes.