Januer Attacem Sogglem Santam
Today is January 8, birthday of my wife from the Anglo-Goan Benjamin family.
•Today is the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help of New Orleans.
•Primary Liturgical Feast: St. Semeias the Prophet at the time of the schism of the Israelites into two kingdoms.
•The #HolyMartyrs of Beauvais, 290 AD, Saints Julianus, Lucianus & Maximianus.
•The HolyMartyrs Saints Timotheus, Euctus or Polyeuctus, Rusticus, Piscus or Cipiscus, Secundus, Lucius, Felix, Januarius & Palladius, their acts are lost.
•The HolyMartyrs of Lybia ("Lybia"), Saints Theophilus, deacon, & Helladius, under the pagan Roman Empire.
•The HolyMartyrs of Terni, Saints Claudius, a Roman military officer, his subordinates Carbonanus, , Planus & Tibudianus, in 270AD, under Emperor Claudius, when found helping seized Christians.
•St. Aemilianus the Martyr, details lost.
•St. Afflinus, bishop, mentioned by the Cologne Martyrology, but details lost.
•St. Agathon of #Scete, a #DesertFather.
•St. Albert of Ratisbon, collaborator with St. Erhard of Ratisbon.
•St. Apollinaris Claudius of Hierapolis.
•St. Athelhelm, bishop of Canterbury.
•St. Atticus, Patriarch of Constantinople, initially a heretic & usurper against St. John Chrysostom, he returned to the Catholic faith.
•St. Carterius, priest martyred under Diocletianus at Caesarea, 304AD.
•St. Christian Hosius of Rosendal or Roosendaal in Brabant, who held his own against the #Chauvinists AKA #Calvinists.
•St. Dominica of Carthage, Prophetess, Virgin, Missionary in Egypt & Constantinople.
•St. Ergnad or Ercnact of Ulster, nun, coworker of St. Patrick the Apostle of Ireland.
•St. Erhard of Ardagh & Ratisbon, Irish missionary bishop of Ratisbon in Bavaria.
•St. Edward Waterson, martyred by Protestant usurpers & infidels.
•St. Eugenianus, bishop of Autun, martyred by Arian Infidels.
•St. Garibald, bishop of Ratisbon.
•St. Gudula of Brabant, from the Pepinid dynasty & its cadet branch the Carolingian dynasty, which both generated many saints.
•St. George of Choseba, hermit in Israel-Palestine & in Cyprus.
•St. Jacobella Mary of the Cross, Mercedarian at Madrid.
•St. James Corbeau, Abbot of Therouanne.
•St. Maximus, bishop of Pavia.
•St. Nathalan, bishop in Tullicht in Scotland.
•St. Patiens, bishop of Metz.
•St. Patheus, bishop, martyr, recorded by St. Jerome in his Martyrology, but no details provided.
•St. Pega of Croyland, virgin, anchoress, of the Mercian royal house.
•St. Severinus of Noricum, 5th century monk & missionary in Noricum, Austria.
•St. Theodore of Chora, Abbot near Constantinople.
•St. Thorfinn, bishop of Hamar, Norway, died in exile in modern Belgium.
•St. Wulfsin, bishop of Sherborne.