Memorial of Saints (October 6)

Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints

• Bruno, priest
• Faith, virgin and martyr;
• Nicetas of Constantinople;
• Mary Frances of Naples, virgin

Bruno (died 1101 A.D.): at la Grande Chartreuse (or Charter House) near Grenoble; sought "to seek God assiduously, to find God promptly, and to possess God fully"; founded (1084 A.D.) the Carthusians, whose motto is "while the world changes, the cross stands firm."

Memorial of Saints (October 5)

Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints

• Maria Faustina Kowalska
• Apollinaris of Valence, bishop;
• Galla, widow;
• Magenulf or Meinulf;
• Flora of Beaulieu, virgin;
• Aymard of Cluny, abbot

St. Aymard (d. 965 A.D.) became the third abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Cluny, France. Succeeding St. Odo in 942 A.D., he continued the reforms of St. Odo and his predecessor. He resigned in 948 A.D. because of blindness and died on October 5.

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Memorial of Saints (October 4)

Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints

• Francis of Assisi
• Ammon;
• Petronius, bishop

Francis of Assisi: (died 3 Oct 1226 A.D.); noted for his charismatic personality, deep compassion for all, and love for God's creation; renounced wealth to follow "Lady Poverty"; deacon; founded the Order of Friars Minor, the Poor Clares and the Third Order; wrote Canticle of the Sun; received the stigmata 14 Sept. 1224 A.D.; canonized only two years after his death; patron of ecologists and of Italy.

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