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Primary Liturgical Feast Of The Day: Saints Marius & Companions, Martyrs; The Holy Martyrs of Rome, Saints Marius, his wife Martha, their sons Audifax & Abachum, noble Iranians who came to Rome through devotion, in the time of the Emperor Claudius, after they had been beaten with rods, tortured on the rack & with fire, lacerated with iron hooks, & had endured the cutting off of their hands, Martha was put to death in the place called Nympha, on the Cornelian Road, the others were beheaded & cast into the flames (link); 
OCTAVE OF CHRISTIAN UNITY: In 1908, the Catholic Church approved Fr. Paul Wattson's proposal of dedicating the 8 days, both fmdays inclusive, of the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter at Rome, Jan. 18, & the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle, Jan. 25; heretics were either expelled from the Church of Christ, or seceded from her; Christian Unity can only be achieved by a return to the maternal embrace of the Unstainable Bride of Jesus Christ, also called Uniatism, under some circumstances;
Feast of Our Lady of Gimout, near Citeaux: This is found marked on Marian Calendars, but no information is available;
The Holy Martyrs of Carthage, more than 600, their history & names are lost, due to the Vandal Arian Infidels' devastation of the Churches of North-West African continent, only the possible name of two, Saints Paul, & Picaria or Priscaris, survive;
The 39 Holy Martyrs of Numidia Saints Catus, Germana, Gerontius, Januarius, Julius, Paul, Pia, Saturninus, & Successus, we have only 9 of their names, their history & other names, are lost, due to the Vandal Arian Infidels' devastation of the Churches of North-West African continent;
The Holy Martyrs of Salerno Saints Archelais, Thecla & Susanna; their Dies Natalis is Jan. 18, 293 A.D., their liturgical feast is set for Jan. 19;
St. Germanicus, Martyr at Smyrna, under Emperors Marcus Antoninus & Lucius Aurelius, who, in the bloom of youth, being strengthened by the grace of God, & freed from all fear, provoked the beast which, by order of the judge, was to devour him, &, being ground by its teeth, he deserved to be incorporated into the true Bread of Life, Christ Jesus, for whom he died, Jan. 19, 156 A.D.;
St. Jerome (Jeronimo) Fabregas Camino, or Jeroni Fabregas Cami, Priest of the diocese of Tarragona, Martyr, murdered by Communist bandits, Jan. 19, 1939 A.D., at Pla de Manlleu, Tarragona, Spain, not yet canonized by a Catholic Pope;
St. Pontianus, Martyr at Spoleto, in the persecution of Emperor Antoninus, he was barbarously scourged for Christ by the command of the judge Fabianus, & then compelled to walk barefoot on burning coals, but, as he was uninjured by the fire, he was put on the rack, was torn with iron hooks, then thrown into a dungeon, where he was comforted by the visit of an angel, exposed to the lions, had melted lead poured over him, & finally died by the sword;
Saints Faustina & Liberata, sisters, being converted away from the world, they fled home & their father's plans for their marriages, taking the help of a priest Marcellus, they reached Como, where they founded the Benedictine Monastery of St. Margaret; wonderworkers or thaumaturges;
St. Appianus, Bishop of Sagona in western Corsica, after the Vandals, Arian Infidels, invaded & occupied Corsica, they exiled all the Christian bishops; Appianus thus died in exile;
St. Arsenius, Bishop of Corfu, by his prayers, he eluded the Mahomettan Infidel sea pirates who had invested Corfu, & once he gained entry, he helped the city to defeat the attemptof the Disease of Mahomettanism to overrun Corfu; after visiting the Byzantine Emperor on a mission on behalf of the nobles of Corfu, he died Jan. 19, 959 A.D., near Corinth, & was carried home to Corfu to be interred; the Venetians later rescued his relics from the Turk Infidels;
St. Bassianus, Bishop of Lodi, Confessor, who, in conjunction with St. Ambrose, courageously combated the Arian Apostates; born in Syracuse, Sicily, to Sergius, prefect of the city, Bassianus was sent to Rome in order to complete his studies, where he was converted to Christianity by the priest Jordanus, to his parents' consternation; his father wanting him to apostatize, asked him to return to Syracuse, but he fled to a relative, Ursus, Bishop of Ravenna, where he took up the life of a hermit near Sant'Apollinare in Classe; when the bishop of Lodi died around 373 A.D., Bassianus was asked to succeed him; he was consecrated bishop by Ambrose of Milan & Ursus of Ravenna; he built a church dedicated to the Apostles, consecrating it in 381 A.D. in the presence of Ambrose and St. Felix of Como; he participated in the Council of Aquileia in 381 & may perhaps have participated in the Council of Milan, 390 A.D., in which Jovinianus was condemned; Bassianus' signature is found together with Ambrose's in a letter sent to Pope Siricius; in 397, Bassianus was present at the death of his friend Ambrose; Bassianus himself died Jan. 19, 413 A.D.; he was known as a caring shepherd, & as a wonderworker or thaumaturge with the gift of healing the sick;
St. Beatrix of Lens, O.S.B., Cistercian, she was born in Lens in the diocese of Arras; she founded the Cistercian monastery of Epinklieu near Mons, and became a nun there;
St Beatrix the Younger of Este, Benedictine nun, her Dies Natalis is Jan. 18, but Pope Pius VI established her liturgical feast for Jan. 19;
St. Breward also known as Branwalator, Branwalader, Brelade & Broladre, son of Kenen, King of the British kingdom of Dumnonia, now Cornwall, he was British, not English, he was made either Bishop of Jersey under the Bishop of Dol, or he may have been made a chorepiscopus or regionary bishop for Jersey; he collaborated with St. Samson or Sansom, Bishop of Dol, in Cornwall, the Channel Islands, & in Brittany; King Athelstan, who founded Milton Abbey in Dorset, obtained some of the saint's relics (an arm or head) from Breton clerics fleeing the Vikings & moved them to Milton Abbey in 935 A.D.; William Worcestre claimed that the body itself was at Branston or Branscombe in Devon, & Leland referred to a chapel of St. Breward near Seaton; the proper name of Milton Abbey is the Abbey Church of Our Lady & Saints Samson & Branwalader; the cultus of St. Breward has been strong at least from the 10th-century when his name could be found in litanies, his feast was kept at Winchester, Exeter, & in Cornwall; his feast days are Jan. 19, Feb. 9 & June 6, it is uncertain which is which;
St. Catellus was a bishop of Castellamare di Stabia. He was a close friend of St. Antoninus, who fled from Monte Cassino to escape the depredations of the Lombards, & ended up at Castellammare di Stabia. Here Catellus was bishop but, wishing to live as a hermit, he abdicated his episcopal office, entrusting it to Antoninus, & withdrew to Monte Aureo to live as a hermit. The desire to live a hermit's life himself led Antoninus to convince Catellus to return to his see & Antoninus retired to Monte Aureo himself & lived in a natural grotto. However, Catellus again decided to withdraw to this mountain & dedicate himself only sporadically to the cares of his diocese. An apparition of St. Michael the Archangel caused the two to construct the stone oratory now known as Monte San Angelo or Punta San Michele. Subsequently, Catellus was accused of witchcraft by a priest named Tibeius & held captive at Rome until a new pope released him. Catellus returned to Stabia & dedicated himself to expanding the church that he had helped found. Inhabitants of Sorrento, meanwhile, convinced Antoninus to settle at Sorrento. Antoninus became an abbot of the Benedictine monastery of San Agrippino, succeeding Boniface in this capacity; the cult of St. Catellus was confirmed, cultus confirmatio, Sept. 13, 1729;
St. Contentius or Contestus, Bishop of Bayeux; in 480 A.D., he succeeded the deceased St. Manvieu as bishop of Bayeux; his earnest exhortations to the Christian life antagonized some, who conspired to harm him, for which reason, he discreetly withdrew, for a time, to live as a hermit; he died Jan. 19, 510 A.D., but 513 is also mentioned;
St. Elisabeth Berti, together with Saints Eulalia Pinos & Mary of Requesens, assisted the foundress, St. Mary of Cervellon, to form the first female community of nuns of the Mercedarian Order, she distributed her wealth to the poor, placing herself at the service of the sick & freed kidnapees &, after a life full of merits & miracles, she died in the peace of the Lord in Barcelona;
St. Fachtna, Bishop of Nuachongbhail Reid Bairend, assumed to be the modern Nuachaval in the county of Longford, Ireland;
St. Firminus, 3rd Bishop of Gabales, which, losing the dignity of capitol of the Gabalian countries to Mende, diminished into being now the hamlet of Javols, annexed to the larger neighboring settlement of Peyre en Aubracs, in the province of Gevauden, in Burgundy;
St. Godonius, or Godone, was the first abbot of the Abbey of St. Peter at Novalesa in the Susa Valley, founded in 726 A.D., by the pious nobleman St. Abbo, from the Arleat, & dedicated to Saints Peter & Andrew, Apostles; Abbo had been appointed governor of Susa & Moriana by the Carolingian liberators of North Italy from the depredations of Desiderius & his partisans, enemies of the Church; Abbo collected hermits from the region of Grenoble, to found this monastery, or, more properly, coenobitium; the central building was designed by Walcunus, while the monastic cells were scattered on the surrounding mountain; Godonius died Jan. 19, but the year is forgotten, due to Satanists, Mahomettan Infidels, raiding, & destroying, the monastery, 906 A.D. (link);
St. John, Bishop of Ravenna, who, while all Italy was devastated by the incursions of the Lombards, provided admirably for the needs of the Church, as Pope St. Gregory the Great attests, who sent him the book of the Pastoral Rule, a text that offered guidance & advice for the government of the Church, an important source of inspiration for St. John, who applied it in his life & pastoral ministry; he died in the odor of sanctity, Jan. 19, 595 A.D.;
St. Macarius the Alexandrian, or the Younger or Junior, also called "the Sophisticated," ("ho politikos") as, unlike St. Macarius the Great, who was a rustic, he came from the sophisticated city of Alexandria; hermit, monk, Abbot, Bishop, his name is Greek & means "happy," same as the Latin Hilarius, & was a fairly common name, particularly in Egypt, borne by many saints, the most renowned being St. Macarius the Great; he was born in Alexandria, Egypt, around 300 A D., &, until the age of 40, was a fruit & sweets merchant, however, following a mystical experience, he abandoned everything & retired to the Nitrian desert to live as a hermit; over time, some 5000 followers settled around his hermitage, forming a coenobiotic community, an inchoate monastery; as Abbot of his community, Macarius was consecrated a Bishop to minister to the hermits, coenobiots & monks; in the persecution of Emperors Valens & Lucius, St. Macarius the Great & St. Macarius the Younger were seized, along with other prominent Christians, tortured, & exiled to imprisonment on an island in the Nile, where they exorcised their prison-keeper's possessed daughter, following which, the jailer's entire family, & the population of the island, reverted, hearing which, the Prefect came to fear a general rebellion, & ordered their release; his teachings are collected in a work called the "Diatessaron," which is a collection of speeches & dialogues that he had with his disciples, in which he emphasizes the importance of prayer, meditation & charity; he died, Jan. 2, 395 or 405 A.D., the Byzantine Catholic Rites celebrate him on Jan. 19 (link);
St. Wulstan, Bishop of Worcester, Confessor, conspicuous for merits & miracles, he was ranked among the Saints by Pope Innocent III; his Dies Natalis was Jan. 20, 1095 A D., but his liturgical feast is set for Jan. 19;
