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At Pergamum in Asia, in present-day Türkiye, the holy martyrs Carpus, bishop of Thyatira, Papylus, deacon, Agathonica, sister of Papylus, and many others, who for their blessed profession of faith received the crown of martyrdom.

At Ravenna, Saint Orso, bishop, who transferred the episcopal see of Classe to this city and dedicated the cathedral church on Easter day in honour of Saint Anastasia; on the same day a few years later he too passed into the glory of the resurrection.

At Tarragona in Spain, Saint Hermenegild, martyr, who, as son of Leovigild, king of the Visigoths and a follower of the Arian heresy, converted to the Catholic faith through the work of Bishop Saint Leander; locked up in prison for having rebelled against his father’s will by refusing to receive communion from an Arian bishop on the day of the solemnity of Easter, by order of his father, he died under a blow from the axe.

In the monastery of Saint Mary near Le Wast in the Boulogne region in France, Blessed Ide, who, as widow of Eustace, Count of Boulogne, shone for her generosity towards the poor and for her zeal for the decorum of the house of God.

At Saint David in Wales, Saint Caradoc, priest and hermit, who abandoned the royal court, where he was a harp player, when he saw that dogs were loved there more than men, and learned from Abbot Tathyw to serve God.

In the Cistercian monastery of Roosendaal in Brabant, in the present-day Netherlands, Blessed Ida, virgin, who suffered much at the hands of her father before entering monastic life and with the austerity of her life imitated the passion of Christ in her body.

In the monastery of Fonte Avellana in the Marches, Saint Albertino, hermit and prior of a community of hermits, who preferred solitude to honours and tried to reconcile enemy cities.

At Città di Castello in Umbria, Saint Margherita, virgin of the Sisters of Penance of Saint Dominic, who, although blind and crippled since birth and abandoned by her parents, always trusted in her heart in the name of Jesus.

At Rochester in England, Blesseds Francis Dickenson and Miles Gerard, priests and martyrs, who, having returned home from the English College of Reims to clandestinely exercise their priestly ministry there, were suspended from the gallows and subjected to other atrocious tortures under Queen Elizabeth I.

At York also in England, Blesseds John Lockwood (Lascelles) and Edward Catherick, priests and martyrs under King Charles I, the former of whom, aged eighty-seven and having already twice escaped capital punishment for his priesthood, wanted to precede the younger one on the scaffold and heartbroken companion, to encourage him to glorious martyrdom.

On the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, Blessed Scubilion Rousseau, religious of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, who tirelessly educated the children and gave help to the poor and hope to the slaves.

At the village of Totoclán in the Guadalajara region of Mexico, Saint Sabas Reyes Salazar, priest and martyr, who died during the Mexican persecution for Christ the Priest and King of the universe.