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In Neocaesarea (now Niksar, Türkiye),
Saint Troadius, martyr
during the persecution of Emperor Decius, about
whose martyrdom Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus bore
witness. († c. 250)
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In Lichfield (England), Saint
Chad (or Ceadda), bishop, who, in very
difficult times, exercised the episcopal ministry in
the territory of Mercia, Lindisfarne, and
Mediterranean Anglia, a ministry which he sought to
carry out with a life of great perfection according
to the examples of the ancient Fathers. († 672)
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* In Agira (Italy), Saint Luca
Casali from Nicosia, monk, renowned for his
profound humility and great virtues. († 9th cent.)
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In Prague (Czechia),
Saint Anežka, abbess, who, being the daughter
of King Ottokar, refused the royal wedding to be the
wife of Jesus Christ alone. She embraced the Rule of
Saint Clare in a monastery she built, where she
wanted to strictly observe the life of poverty. (†
c. 1282)
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* In Bruges (Belgium), Blessed
Karel the Good, martyr, who, being King of
Denmark and later Count of Flanders, acted as
promoter of justice and defender of the poor and was
killed by soldiers whom he sought to lead to peace.
(† 1127)
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In Seville (Spain), Saint
Ángela of the Cross (María de los Ángeles) Guerrero
González, founder of the Institute of the
Sisters of the Company of the Cross. She did not
keep for herself any privileges that she did not
reserve for the poor, whom she used to call her
masters and served to the full. († 1932)
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* At the Dachau concentration camp, in Oberbayern
(Germany), Blessed Engelmar
(Hubert) Unzeitig, priest of the Congregation
of the Missionaries of Marianhilland and martyr. For
regarding Christ as the Supreme Lord and standing up
for persecuted Jews, he was condemned to inhuman
internment, where, contrasting hatred with love, he
willingly nursed fatally sick inmates until he
himself died of the same illness. († 1943)
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