Category: Martyrology

May 20

The commemoration of Saint Lydia of Thyatira the seller of purple, who was the first of everyone in Philippi at Macedonia to believe in the gospel when Saint Paul the Apostle was preaching.

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May Holy Mary and all the saints intercede to the Lord for us, that we may merit to be helped and saved by him who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

V. Precious in the sight of the Lord

R. Is the death of his holy ones.

V. May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.  And may the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in pace.

R. Amen

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May 14

The feast of Saint Matthias, Apostle, who followed the Lord Jesus from the baptism of John even to that day when Christ was assumed into heaven; for which reason, after the Lord’s Ascension, he was appointed by the apostles to take the place of Judas the traitor in order that, being counted as one of the Twelve, he might be a witness to the resurrection.

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May Holy Mary and all the saints intercede to the Lord for us, that we may merit to be helped and saved by him who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

V. Precious in the sight of the Lord

R. Is the death of his holy ones.

V. May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.  And may the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in pace.

R. Amen

[To learn about praying this and other Martyrology entries, see this page.]

May 9

The commemoration of Saint Isaiah, the prophet, who in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, was sent that he might reveal the Lord as faithful and as a savior to an unfaithful people and to the sinner, for the fulfilment of the promise sworn by God to David.  He is held by the Jews to have been killed as a martyr under king Manasseh.

The commemoration of Saint Herma, whom blessed Paul the Apostle remembers in his epistle to the Romans.

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May Holy Mary and all the saints intercede to the Lord for us, that we may merit to be helped and saved by him who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

V. Precious in the sight of the Lord

R. Is the death of his holy ones.

V. May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.  And may the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in pace.

R. Amen

[To learn about praying this and other Martyrology entries, see this page.]

May 1

St. Joseph the Worker, who, a Nazarene carpenter, assisted Mary and Jesus in their needs by his work and introduced the Son of God to human labors.  For this reason, on the day when labor is commemorated in many parts of the world, Christian workers venerate him as an exemplar and protector.

The commemoration of Saint Jeremiah the Prophet, who, in the time of Joachim and Zedekiah, kings of Judah, warning about the overthrow of the Holy City and the deportation of the people, suffered many persecutions, for which reason the Church holds him to be a figure of the suffering Christ.  Moreover, he foretold the new and eternal covenant which would be enacted by Christ Jesus himself, by which the Father would write his law on the heart of the sons of Israel, that he might be their God and they might be his people.

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May Holy Mary and all the saints intercede to the Lord for us, that we may merit to be helped and saved by him who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

V. Precious in the sight of the Lord

R. Is the death of his holy ones.

V. May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.  And may the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in pace.

R. Amen

[To learn about praying this and other Martyrology entries, see this page.]

April 29

The commemoration of Saint Tychicus, a disciple of blessed Paul the Apostle, whom the Apostle in his letters calls a most beloved brother, a faithful minister, and his fellow servant in the Lord.

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May Holy Mary and all the saints intercede to the Lord for us, that we may merit to be helped and saved by him who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

V. Precious in the sight of the Lord

R. Is the death of his holy ones.

V. May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.  And may the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in pace.

R. Amen

[To learn about praying this and other Martyrology entries, see this page.]

April 24

In Jerusalem, the commemoration of the holy women Mary of Cleophas and Salome, who with Mary Magdalene went early on the morning of the Passover to the tomb of the Lord to anoint his body, and heard the first announcement of his resurrection.

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May Holy Mary and all the saints intercede to the Lord for us, that we may merit to be helped and saved by him who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

V. Precious in the sight of the Lord

R. Is the death of his holy ones.

V. May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.  And may the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in pace.

R. Amen

[To learn about praying this and other Martyrology entries, see this page.]