Saint of the day and Feast days-Part 3

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Saint Asicus
Abbot
First bishop of the diocese of Elphin in Ireland.
Disciple of Saint Patrick.
Asicus is also called Ascicus, Assic and Tassach. He was a Coppersmith and silversmith. He was married when he first met Saint Patrick for whom he made crosiers, patens, chalices, credences and crosses for the many churches Saint Patrict founded. In time, he was made the first abbot and bishop of Elphin Monastery in the diocese of Elphin, Ireland in Roscommon.( According to Dictionary of Saints by John J. Delaney, Saint Asicus was the first bishop of Raholp Down, Ireland). A very humble man, he believed himself not worthy of the office; consequently, he went to an island in Donegal Bay where he became a hermit. After seven years, the monks of Elphin found him and persuaded him to return to the monastery. He died on the return journey in 490 at Raith Cungilor
(Racoon), Donega.l
According to Dictionary of Saints by John J. Delaney, Asicus gave the last rites to Saint Patrick when the latter was dying.
Saint Asicus
Pray for us!

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April 28
Today we remember
Saint Pollio
Among many other Saints.

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Saint Pollio
Martyr.
Lector.
Pollio was a member of the Christian Community of Cybalae in Pannonia, a province on the Danube. He was serving as a lector. He became leader of the Christians there after Bishop Eusebius was martyred. When he defied the edicts of Emperor Diocletian and refused to sacrifice to the gods, he was condemned to death and burned at the stake in 304..
Saint Pollio
Pray for us!

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I can just imagine the Saint saying: “ That is Pollio with a double l!”
everytime he is introduced to someone

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April 29
Today we remember
Saint Ava of Denain( Dinart)
Among many other Saints.

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Saint Ava of Denain
Benedictine Abbess.
Ava was reportedly the daughter of King Pepin the Short.( His niece according to SQPN). She was blind as a child but was miraculously healed by Saint Rainfredis. In thanksgiving, she entered a convent of Benedictine at Dinart, Hainault, Belgium and became a nun. In time, she was elected abbess there.
She died in 845.
Canonized Pre-Congregation.
Saint Ava
Pray for us!

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Originally Posted by odhiambo

I can just imagine the Saint saying: “ That is Pollio with a double l!”
everytime he is introduced to someone

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April 30
Today is the Memorial of
Saint Joseph Benedict Cottolengo
Among many other Saints

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Saint Joseph Benedict Cottolengo
Founder.
Joseph was born on 3 May 1786 at Bra, near Turin, Italy to a middle class family. Answering to the call of Holy Orders, he entered the seminary in Turin and was ordained in 1811 and engaged in pastoral work until something happeded that directed his energies elsewhere. Here is how SQPN puts it:

“For several years, Joseph treated his priesthood more as a career than a vocation. Then one night he was called to the bed of a poor, sick woman in labour. The woman badly needed medical help, but had been turned away everywhere for lack of money. Joseph stayed with her throughout the travail, and was there to hear her confession, give her absolution, Communion, and last rites. He baptized her newborn daughter, and then watched as both of them died in bed. The trauma of the evening changed his mind about his vocation”

In 1827 he opened a small home or hospital for the sick and the poor. When it began to expand, he organized the volunteers who had been manning it into the Brothers of Saint Vincent and the Daughters of Saint Vincent( Vincentian Sisters).
When cholera broke out in 1831, the local police closed the hospital for fear that it was a source of the illness. He moved the facilities to just outside the city at Valdocco and continued ministering to the stricken there. He called the new facility the Little House of Divine Providence (Piccola Casa). Saint Joseph depended entirely on Divine Providence for the necessary funds to run the hospital.
The hospital grew and Joseph expanded his activities to helping the aged, the deaf, the blind, the insane, etc not forgetting wayward girls. The Piccola Casa became a great medical institution.
To further minister to the unfortunates in the society, Saint Joseph also founded the following:
1: Daughters of Compassion.
2: Daughters of the Good Shepherd.
3: Hermits of the Holy Rosary, and 4: Priests of the Holy Trinity.
According to SQPN, Saint Joseph founded a total of fourteen communities!
Weakened by typhoid which he had contracted, he died on 30 April 1842 at Chieri, Italy.
He was canonized on 1934 by Pope Pius XI.
He is sometimes referred to as the Italian Vincent de Paul and as the "Workman of Divine Providence".
Saint Joseph Benedict Cottolengo
Pray for us!

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It is the Month of May once again.
This month is traditionally dedicated to
The Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Sub Tuum Praesidum

We fly to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God;
Despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers,
O glorious and blessed Virgin.
Amen.

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May 1
Today is the Memorial of
1:Saint Joseph the Worker
2:Saint Peregrine Laziosi
Among many other Saints

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A Prayer for Workers

O glorious Joseph! Who concealed your incomparable and regal dignity of custodian of Jesus and of the Virgin Mary under the humble appearance of a craftsman and provided for them with your work, protect with loving power your sons, especially entrusted to you.
You know their anxieties and sufferings, because you yourself experienced them at the side of Jesus and of His Mother. Do not allow them, oppressed by so many worries, to forget the purpose for which they were created by God. Do not allow the seeds of distrust to take hold of their immortal souls. Remind all the workers that in the fields, in factories, in mines, and in scientific laboratories, they are not working, rejoicing, or suffering alone, but at their side is Jesus, with Mary, His Mother and ours, to sustain them, to dry the sweat of their brow, giving value to their toil. Teach them to turn work into a very high instrument of sanctification as you did.
Amen.

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Today is also the Memorial of:
Saint Peregrine Laziosi
Monk and Mystic
Peregrine was born in 1260 at Forli, Italy of well to do parents. He led a dissolute youth. He was active in the antipapal party in Romagna. He reportedly became so carried away during some public disturbance that he struck the papal peace negotiator, Saint Philip Benizi, on the face. When the Saint calmly turned the other cheek, Peregrine underwent a profound conversion. Soon after the incident, he joined the Servites at Siena, Italy, was ordained and then he went back to Forli where he founded a new Servites house. He became famed for his preaching, austerities holiness and as a confessor. His fame became widespread when a healing miracle occurred to him. Peregrine had advanced cancer of his foot and according to SQPN, had been“scheduled for an amputation. He spent the night before the operation in prayer; he received a vision of Christ who touched the diseased area. The next morning, Peregrine found his cancer completely healed.”
Thus, the Saint was miraculously cured overnight. He is now the patron saint
against cancer; against open sores; against skin diseases; AIDS patients and
sick people in general.
He died on 1 May 1345 at Forli, Italy. He was canonized on 27 December 1726 by Pope Benedict XIII.
Saint Peregrine Laziosi
Pray for us!

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Prayer to Saint Peregrine

Oh great Saint Peregrine, you who have been called "The Mighty" and "The Wonder-Worker" because of the numerous miracles which you have obtained from God for those who have had recourse to you. For so many years you bore in your own flesh this cancerous disease that destroys the very fiber of our being, and who had recourse to the source of all grace when the power of man could do no more. You were favored with the vision of Jesus coming down from His Cross to heal your affliction. Ask of God and Our Lady, the cure of these sick persons whom we entrust to you.
Aided in this way by your powerful intercession, we shall sing to God, now and for all eternity, a song of gratitude for His great goodness and mercy.
Amen!