This is the Saint of the Day list of Saints and Blesseds whose feast is on August 9 2024.
👉 Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), Virgin and Martyr
Blessed Florentino Asensio Barroso
Saint Marianne Cope
Blessed Faustino Oteiza Segura
Saint Candida Maria de Jesus Cipitria y Barriola
Blessed John of Salerno
Blessed JosĂ© MarĂa Garrigues Hernández
Blessed FlorentĂn Felipe Naya
Blessed Richard Bere
Blessed NarcĂs SitjĂ BastĂ©
Saints Firmus and Rusticus of Verona
Blessed Zbigniew Adam Strzalkowski
Blessed Claude Richard
Blessed Michal Tomaszek
Blessed John of Alvernia
Blessed Falco the Hermit
Saint Romanus Ostiarius
Saint Bandaridus of Soissons
Saint Phelim
Saint Numidicus of Carthage
St Numidicus of Carthage was a seminarian and one of a group of Christians killed in the persecutions of Decius.
Just before Numidicus died, Saint Cyprian of Carthage pulled him out of the fire and ordained him so that he may die as a priest. He was burned to death in 251 AD at the stake in Carthage, North Africa.
Saint Autor of Metz
St Autor of Metz was also known as Adinctor or Auteur. He was a fifth-century bishop of Metz, France. He died and his relics were translated to the Marmoutier Abbey in 830 AD.
Saint Amor of Franche-Comté
St Amor was also known as Amour. He is venerated in Franche-Comté, France. After death, his relics were enshrined at Saint-Amour in Burgundy, France.
Saint Stephen of Burgos
St Stephen of Burgos was a ninth-century Benedictine monk and Abbot in Burgos, Spain.
He was martyred together with 200 of his brother monks with swords, in 872 AD, by invading Muslims in Burgos, Spain.
Saint Rusticus of Sirmium
St Rusticus of Sirmium was a martyr who died in the 4th century in Sirmium, Pannonia in modern-day Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia.
Saint Domitian of Châlons
St Domitian was a fourth-century bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne, France.
Martyred Colombians of Barcelona
These are a group of Colombian members of the Hospitallers of Saint John of God who worked together in Spain. They were martyred together on August 9 1936, in Barcelona, Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
On October 25 1992, they were beatified by Pope John Paul II.
They are also celebrated in an additional Memorial on July 30 as one of the Martyred Hospitallers of Spain.
Their names are
• Blessed Rubén de Jesús López Aguilar
• Blessed RamĂłn RamĂrez Zuluoga
• Blessed Luis Modesto Páez Perdomo
• Blessed Luis Ayala Niño
• Blessed José Velázquez Peláez
• Blessed Gabriel Maya Gutiérrez
• Blessed Alfonso Antonio RamĂrez Salazar
Martyrs of Civitavecchia
The Martyrs of Civitavecchia are three Christians martyred together in 250 AD, near Civitavecchia, Italy during the persecutions of Decius.Â
Their names are
- Marcellian
- Secundian
- Verian
Martyrs of Constantinople
The Martyrs of Constantinople are a group of ten Christians who were arrested, tortured, and beheaded in Constantinople for defending an icon of Christ in defiance of orders from Emperor Leo the Isaurian.
The names of three of them are
- Julian
- Marcian
- Mary
Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
These are the names of some of the thousands of people who were murdered from 1934 to 1939, during the anti-Catholic persecutions of the Spanish Civil War.Â
Their names are;
- Blessed NarcĂs SitjĂ BastĂ©
- Blessed Mateo Molinos Coloma
- Blessed Julián Pozo Ruiz de Samaniego
- Blessed Josep Maria Aragones Mateu
- Blessed Josep Figuera Rey
- Blessed JosĂ© MarĂa Garrigues Hernández
- Blessed JosĂ© MarĂa Celaya Badiola
- Blessed Joan Vallés Anguera
- Blessed Guillermo Plaza Hernández
- Blessed Francisco López-Gasco Fernández-Largo
- Blessed FlorentĂn Felipe Naya
- Blessed Faustino Oteiza Segura
- Blessed Cayetano GimĂ©nez MartĂn
- Blessed Antonio Mateo Salamero
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