Memorial of Saints (August 19)

John Eudes (died 1680 A.D.): founded (1643 A.D.) the Congregation of Jesus and Mary (Eudists) for training the clergy (today numbering about 750 religious). And the Sisters of the Good Shepherd for assisting morally endangered women, especially prostitutes; promoted cult to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Ezechiel Moreno was born in Alfaro (La Rioja, Spain on 9 April 1848 A.D.); he professed his vows in the Order of Augustinian Recollects in Monteagudo (Navarra) in 1865 A.D.; was ordained priest in Manila in 1857 A.D. and worked for 15 years as a missionary in the Philippines. Prior of Monteagudo in 1885 A.D., he left for Columbia in 1888 A.D. where he restored the Augustinian Recollect Order and reactivated the old missions. Named Apostolic Vicar of Casanare (1893 A.D.) and Bishop of Pastro (1896 A.D.), he was a model pastor for his fidelity to the Church and for his apostolic zeal. He fell ill and in 1906 A.D. returned to Spain where he died of cancer on August 19 of the same year in the convent of Monteagudo. Innumerable cures, especially cancer, are attributed to his intercession. Beatified on 1 November 1975 A.D., he was canonized, on 11 October 1992 A.D. in Santo Domingo on the occasion of the fifth Centenary of the Christianization of America.

also on August 19:

• Andrew the Tribune, martyr;
• Timothy, Agapius and Thecla, martyrs;
• Sixtus or Xystus III, pope;
• Mochta, abbot;
• Bertulf, abbot;
• Sebald;
• Louis of Anjou, bishop

20th Sunday of the Year (B)

20th Sunday of the Year (B)
Isaiah 56:1, 6-7
Psalm 67
Romans 11:13-15, 29-32
Matthew 15:21-28

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Memorial of Saints (August 17)

on August 17:

• Hyacinth, confessor;
• Mamas, martyr;
• Eusebius, priest;
• Liberatus and Companions, martyrs;
• Clare of Montefalco, virgin

Mamas (d. ca. 275 A.D.) was a shepherd at Caesarea, Cappadocia. There are two stories about him:

• The Roman Martyrology says he was the son of Saints Theodotus and Rufina, and was executed for his faith in his old age during the reign of Emperor Aurelian.
• An Eastern tradition says he was stoned to death when he was a boy. St. Basil and St. Gregory Nazianzen both wrote of the story of Mamas.