Two days after the solemnity of Pentecost, in which the Holy Spirit was poured out in abundance on the People of God, said yesterday the Pope Leo XIVThe liturgy celebrates numerous blessed and saints, from different places.
Juan BianchiniDomínici, surnamed Domínici, perhaps after his father's name, was born in Florence around 1355. He was a member of the Order of Preachers, diplomat and writer. He was the first friar who introduced in Italy the regular observance, promoted since 1348 by the Blessed Raymond of CapuaHe was appointed vicar general of the reformed convents in 1393. He was also promoted to archbishop of Ragusa (Dubrovnik, Croatia) and appointed cardinal legate of Popes Gregory XII and Martin V. He died in Budapest.
Apostles, caregivers of the sick
In addition to St. Landeric of Paris, the Church celebrates Blessed Diana of Andalusia. Born in Bologna (Italy) around 1200, she helped the first Dominicans to establish themselves in the city. And also the Belgian Blessed Eduardo PoppeHe assimilated in the seminary the Marian doctrine of St. Louis M. Griñon de Monfort, and began to be an apostle and catechist of devotion to the Virgin and the Eucharist.
Also included in the saints' day is Eustace Kugler, Blessed of Bavaria, who entered the Hospitaller Order of Bavaria at the age of 26. St. John of God. For most of his religious life he was prior of communities and of his religious province. He spent his nights walking the corridors of the hospital looking after the needs of the sick. He suffered greatly under the Nazis, who despised the sick. He died in Regensburg and was beatified in 2009.
More English martyrs
Blessed Thomas Green and Blessed Gualterius Pierson are two of the monks of the Charterhouse of London who refused to subscribe to King Henry VIII's oath of religious supremacy. Thomas was a priest and Gualterius a brother convert. Both were imprisoned in a London jailand died (1537). We can also mention the Italian Vincentian Blessed Marcos Antonio Durando or the Spanish Blessed José Manuel Claramonte, diocesan worker.
