Decem-17-acem Sogglem Santam

Feast of Our Lady of Amiens, in Picardy, France, Cathedral church established by St. Firminius, Bishop of Amiens, martyred in the Diocletianic persecution; 

Translation of the relics (remains) of St. Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop & Martyr, who, the third after the blessed Apostle Peter, governed the Church of Antioch; his body was conveyed from Rome, where he had suffered under Traian, to Antioch, and deposited in the church cemetery beyond the gate of Daphnis. St. John Chrysostom, on that solemn occasion, delivered a discourse to his people. But afterwards his relics were carried back to Rome, and placed with the highest reverence in the Church of St. Clement, together with the body of that blessed Pope & martyr; 

The Holy Martyrs of Badalona, Saints Joseph Marianus of the Angels, nee Mariano Alarcon Ruiz, newly ordained priest, age 24 years, & his father, martyred by Communist bandits in Badalona, near Barcelona, in Catalonia, in Spain, December 17, 1936, in Odium fidei, not yet canonized by a Catholic Pope (link1, link2); 

The Holy Martyrs of Eleutheropolis or "Beit Jibrin," in Israel: Saints Abraham, Calanicus, Ciriacus, Conon, Epiphanius, Eugene, Florianus, George (9 with this name), John (10 with this name), Marinus, Marmises, Muselius, Paul (3 with this name), Paulinus, Philoxenus, Photinus, Stephen (2 with this name), Theodore (5 with this name), Theodosius, Theopentus, Thomas & Zitas (2 with this name), 60 Christian soldiers of Emperor Heraclius, who were massacred by the Mahomettan Infidel invaders of the Holy Land, from hatred of God (Odium fidei); 

St. Peter, Martyr, Confessor; a lay knight of the Mercedarian order, famed for  propagating the faith, he was a man of great doctrine & sanctity of life; finding himself in Algiers, he went at the head of a Christian army, & advancing with a cross in his hand against the ranks of the Mahomettan Infidels, Arab invaders & colonists in ancient Christian Numidia, he was pierced by an arrow & then cut into pieces, receiving the crown of the martyrs of Christ, December 17, 1418 A.D.; 

Prophet St. Daniel & the Three Holy Martyrs of Babylon Saints Ananias, Azarias, & Misael: The Cacodox celebrate this feast, December 17 Julian Calendar, which coincides, this year (2024) with December 30 Gregorian Calendar; the Catholic Church celebrated Sts. Ananias, Azarias & Misael yesterday, December 16, & celebrates St Daniel the Prophet on July 21; votaries of the Whore Church imbecilically, brainlessly, mindlessly, mimic the Cacodox heretics! (link1 & link2); 

St. Begga, Widow, sister of St. Gertrude, daughter-in-law of St. Arnulf of Metz, & great-greatgrandmother of Emperor St. Charlemagne, at the Seven Churches at Andennes (link); 

St. Briac, or Briarch, Abbot of Bourbriac, Irish monk under the British monk St. Tudwal in the ancient Britain, at the monastery of St. Iltud or Hildutus, when Tudwal, warned by an angel, fled from the English pagan invaders & persecutors to Armorica, Briac joined him, at his new monastery of LlanPabu, before branching out to establish his own monastery of Bourbriac (link); 

St. Christopher of Collesano, Greeks native to Sicily, he retired to the ascetic life after a visitation by St. Michael the Archangel, he fled the depredations of Mahomettan Infidel invaders, along with his wife Cali ("Beautiful" in Greek) & two sons, Saba & Macarius, all hermits, & a large number of companions, fellow refugees, to mainland Italy, where they founded successive monasteries, Macarius' feast was yesterday, December 16 (link); 

St. John of Matha, co-founder of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives, along with St. Felix of Valois; today is his Birthday in our Lord or Dies Natalis, but his liturgical festival is observed February 8, according to the decree of Pope Innocent XI; 

King St. Judicael of Domnonia in Armorica, descendent of British refugees from the English  invasion & genocide of Britain  (link); 

St. Lazarus of Bethany, Bishop of Marseilles, who was raised from the dead by our Lord, as we read in the Gospel; 

St. Maxentiolus, or Mezenceul, disciple of St. Martin of Tours, founder & Abbot of Our Lady of Cunault Abbey; 

Patriarch St. Modestus of Jerusalem (link); 

St. Olympias the Younger, Widow, at Constantinopolis (link1 & link2); 

St. Storm or Sturmius, Abbot of Fulda & Apostle of Saxony, who was enrolled among the saints by Pope Innocent II, at the Ecumenical Council of Lateran II (link); 

St. Tydecho, British hermit, brother of St. Cadfan, he fled with his sister, another hermitess, from Britain, as it was being invaded & colonized by the English, & from the English genocide of the native British, to settle in Armorica (link); 

St. Vivina, Virgin, Abbess of Bigarden, near Brussels, whose eminent sanctity is attested by frequent miracles (link); 

St. Yolanda, daughter of Henry, Count of Vianden, & of the Capetian, Margaret of Courtenay, Countess of Vianden (link), she entered the Dominican monastery of Marienthal in Luxembourg, against the wishes of her mother who brutally tried to drag her out; her mother finally accepted her & she was able to return to the monastery of Marienthal where, elected prioress, she was for twenty-five years the model of the entire community, & where her mother Margaret later joined her as a nun (link); 

UNCANONIZED:

Joseph Manyanet y Vives; 

Mathilda of the Sacred Heart, nee Mathilda Tellez Robles. 

And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.

V.: Omnes sancti Mártyres, oráte pro nobis. ("All ye Holy Martyrs, pray for us," from the Litaniae Sanctorum, the Litany of the Saints)

R.: Thanks be to God.