ADRIAN, a North African whose family had fled to Naples and later was Abbot of Nerida not far from Naples. St. Adrian was initially chosen to succeed St. Deusdedit (14th January) in the See of Canterbury, however he declined the honour stating he was not worthy and recommended St. Theodore of Tarsus (19th September) instead. St. Adrian accompanied St. Theodore to England where he became Abbot of SS. Peter and Paul, later called St. Augustine's in Canterbury. A renown scholar, St. Adrian soon made the school at Canterbury the centre of English learning. St. Adrian reposed in 710.

BRITHWALD (BRIHTWALD), of Anglo-Saxon ancestry, the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury began as a monk and then became Abbot of Glastonbury. He resigned that dignity to devote his life to study and prayer at the small monastery of Reculver, near the Isle of Thanet in Kent. Upon the death of St. Theodore of Canterbury (19th September), 692, he was elevated to the Archbishopric of Canterbury; serving that See until his repose in 731.

FÁELÁN (FILLAN) of CLUAIN MÓESCNA, (Eighth Century), after accompanying his mother, St. Kentigerna (7th January), and uncle, St. Cóemgen (13th October) from their native Ireland to Scotland, St. Fáelán embraced the monastic life and laboured as a missionary until he was quite advanced in years. The place of his repose is called Strathfillan after him.

MARCELLINUS of ANCONA, St. Gregory the Dialogist (3rd September) wrote of this nobleman of Ancona in the Marches, who was consecrated bishop of his native town circa 550 and reposed circa 566. It is said St. Marcellinus saved Ancona from a raging fire through his prayers.

MARCIANA, during the Diocletianic Persecution (303–313) St. Marciana, a young maiden in the Province of Mauritania (part of present-day Morocco) in North Africa was accused of vandalizing an idol of the goddess Diana. Having been beaten, tortured, and abused by gladiators, St. Marciana was thrown to wild beasts and finally gored to death by a bull in the Amphitheatre.

MARTYRS of NORTH AFRICA, a group of martyrs (circa 250) in North Africa said to number twenty-one, however, only the names of these fourteen have survived: Artaxes, Epictetus, Felicitas, Felix, Fortunatus, Jucundus, Pictus, Quietus, Quinctus, Rusticus, Secundus, Sillus, Vincent, and Vitalis.

MAURONTUS (MAURONTIUS, MAURUNTIUS), founding-Abbot of the Abbey of Saint-Florentle-Vieil in Anjou. St. Maurontus reposed circa 700.

PASCHASIA, a virgin-martyr who, according to St. Gregory of Tours (17th November), had been venerated for several hundred years in Dijon. St. Paschasia is believed to have reposed circa 178.

WANINGUS (VANENG), a Frankish noble and courtier of King Clotaire III of Neustria, St. Waningus abandoned the world, received monastic tonsure, and later co-founded, with St. Wandrille (22nd July), the Abbey of St. Peter (later the Abbey of St. Wandrille) in Fontenelle, Normandy. St. Waningus soon went on to found the Abbey of the Trinité de Fécamp also in Normandy. He reposed circa 686.

BLAESILLA, a daughter of St. Paula (26th January), and disciple of St. Jerome (30th September). Married in her teens, and widowed seven months later, St. Blaesilla consecrated herself to God. She reposed in 383 at Rome of a fever, at the age of only twenty.

Icon of St. Brithwald of Ramsbury

BRITHWALD, a monk at Glastonbury, St. Brithwald was consecrated Bishop of Ramsbury on the Translation of St. Ælfric (16th November) to the See of Canterbury (996). He was known for his gifts of visions and prophecy, and endowed Glastonbury and Malmesbury abbeys. St. Brithwald reposed in 1043 and was buried at Glastonbury.

DOMINIC of SORA, a monk renowned for his sanctity of life and wonderworking. During his life, St. Dominic founded nine monasteries in the Kingdom of Naples. St. Dominic reposed of natural causes in 1031 at Sora.

GAUDENTIUS of NOVARA, a priest near Turin, who succeded his friend St. Laurence (30th April) as Bishop of Novara in 398. St. Gaudentius was also friends with SS. Eusebius of Vercelli (2nd August), and Ambrose of Milan (7th December). St. Gaudentius reposed in 417, and according to one legend, his corpse began reciting his sermons over and over, until his priests were able to transcribe them for future use.

VINCENT, ORONTIUS, and VICTOR, SS. Vincent, and Orontius brothers from Cimiez in the Roman province Alpes Maritimae. Together with St. Victor, they preached Christ in the Pyrenees where they were martyred at Julia Libyca (present-day Puigcerda Spain) during the Diocletianic Persecution circa 304–305. Their relics were later translated to Embrun in Hautes-Alpes, France, where they were destroyed in Protestant looting in 1585.