Decem-14-acem Sogglem Santam

Incomplete list of Saints of December 14 
Feast of St. John of the Cross, nee John de Yepes y Alvarez. See: St. John of the Cross in the Catholic Encyclopaedia.

Also: The Holy Martyrs of Alexandria, Saints Hero, Arsenius, & Isidorus, 3 Christian children (Hero was ten years old) tortured, then burned alive in the Decian persecution, Dec. 14, 250 A.D.; Also St Dioscorus, a 4th child, tortured, but then released; The Holy Martyrs of Antioch in Syria, Saints Drusis Anisia, daughter of Emperor Traianus, & 5 Lady Companions, boiled alive; The Holy Martyrs of Apollonia in Bithynia, Saints Lucius, Thyrsus, Callinicus & Companions, in the Decian persecution; The Holy Martyrs of Ashkelon near Gaza Egyptians, Saints Ares, Elias & Promus, burned alive; The Holy Martyrs of Hayle in Cornwall, Irish Missionaries Saints Fingar, his sister Phiala, Princess Iva & Others, Said To Number Over 700, Martyred by nominally Catholic British King Theodore the Great, fighting the English, & who (Theodore), for some reason, hated the Irish, it may be due to liturgical differences, but more probably because the British, after hundreds of years fighting off the vicious English, had largely backslid into near paganism; The Holy Martyrs of Rheims, murdered by the Vikings: Saints Nicasius, Bishop of Rheims, his sister Eutropia, Florentius & Jucundus; The Holy Martyrs of Spain, Saints Justus & Abundius, martyred under Emperor Numerianus, Dec. 14, 283, A.D.; St. Agnelo of Naples; St. Berthold of Regensburg, Prophet, Wonderworker, Preacher; St. Bonaventure Bonaccorsi, Servite; St. Castissimus (meaning "Most chaste"), Franciscan missionary in the area of Munich, Bavaria; St. Folquin, Bishop of Therouanne; St. Joan Lambertini, Claretian nun & collaborator of St. Catherine of Bologna; St. John Brenner, martyred by the Hungarian Soviets, not yet canonized by a Catholic Pope; St. John of Bread & Water, Cistercian; St. Matronianus of Milan; St. Pompey, Bishop of Pavia; St. Protasius Cubells Minguell, nee Anthony, martyred by Communist bandits in Spain; St. Venantius, Bishop of Poitiers; St. Viator, bishop of Bergamo; St. William of Rovira, Mercedarian. 

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