Blessed

Bl. Bartholomew Fanti, Priest (m)

Bartholomew Fanti A native of Mantua, Italy, he was a Carmelite in the Mantuan Congregation and already ordained priest by 1452. For 35 years in the Carmelite church of his city, he was the spiritual director and rector of the Confraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for whom he wrote a rule and a set of statutes.

Bl. Denis of the Nativity (OCD), Priest and Martyr Bl. Redemptus of the Cross (OCD), Religious and Martyr (m)

Denis RedemptusDenis was born at Hornfleur in France on 12th December 1600. He served as a cartographer and naval captain for the kings of France and Portugal, but in 1635 he became a Discalced Carmelite in Goa, India.

Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity (OCD), Virgin (m)

Elizabeth CatezElizabeth Catez was born on 18th July 1880 in Campo d'Avor near Bourges, France, and she was baptized four days later. In 1887, her family moved to Dijon where her father died the same year. On 19th April 1890, she made her First Communion and the following year, she was confirmed.

Bl. Angel Prat i Hostench and 16 companions, Religious (m)

Angel Maria Prat 16 compIn 1936 seventeen Spanish members of various Carmelite communities gave their lives in defence of and in witness to their Christian faith and consecration to Jesus Christ.

Bl. Frances d'Amboise, Religious (m)

Frances D'AmboiseBl. Frances D'Amboise was born in 1427, probably at Thouars, France. At fifteen years of age, she was married to Peter II, Duke of Brittany and crowned with him in the cathedral at Rennes in 1450. She was widowed in 1457 and, not wanting a second marriage, she turned towards religious life.

Syndicate content