Memorial of Saints (September 8)

Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints for September 8

• Birth of Mary; (Solemnity)
• Hadrian, Natalia, martyrs;
• Eusebius, Nestabus, Zeno, and Nestor, martyrs;
• Disibod;
• Sergius I, pope;
• Corbinian, bishop

Memorial of Saints (September 7)

Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints for September 7

• Regina or Reine, virgin and martyr;
• Sozon, martyr;
• Grimonia, virgin and martyr;
• John of Nicomedia, martyr;
• Anastasius the Fuller, martyr;
• Cloud or Clodoald;
• Alcmund and Tilbert, bishops

St. Regina (2nd century A.D.) was the daughter of a pagan father in Burgundy. She was raised as a Christian by a woman who took care of her when her mother died at her birth. When her father learned that she became Christian, he put her out of his house. Regina went to live with the Christian woman who raised her. A prefect, named Olybrius, wanted to marry her but Regina refused. She was imprisoned, tortured and beheaded at Autun, Gaul.

Memorial of Saints (September 6)

Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints on September 6

• Donatian, Laetus and Companions, bishop and martyrs;
• Eleutherius, abbot;
• Chainoaldes or Cagnoald, bishop;
• Bega or Bee, virgin

St. Donatian (d. ca. 484 A.D.) was a bishop of Byzacene, North Africa. Together with Fusculus, Germanus, Mansuetus and Praesidius, they all objected to the edict of an Arian king who wanted to close all Catholic churches and order all its possessions to be turned over to the Arian clergy (note: Arianism is an early Christian heresy). All of them were tortured and banished to the desert where they all died of exposure. St. Laetus, bishop of Leptis Minor, was imprisoned and then burned to death at the stake at the same time as his fellow bishops.