GUINOC, according to the Aberdeen Breviary, St. Guinoc was a Bishop in Scotland who reposed circa 838. No further information on his life is available.

Orthodox Christian Icon of Scottish Saint, St. Guinoc

HERMENEGILD, a son of Leovigild, King of the Visigoths (r. 568–586), St. Hermengild was raised as an Arian at his father’s Court. through the influence of his wife Ingunde, the orthodox Christian daughter of Sigebert I King of Austrasia (r. 561–575), and St. Leander (27th February), St. Hermenegild was brought to orthodox Christianity, not long after his marriage. St. Hermenegild’s rejection of Arianism so enraged his father who ordered him to renounce orthodox Christianity, and receive the Holy Gifts from an Arian bishop. Due to St. Hermenegild’s unwavering refusal to renounce orthodox Christianity, Leovigild had him imprisoned and tortured. Despite it all St. Hermenegild remained faithful to Christ, and was martyred in 585 on the order of his father.

MARTIN I, elected seventy-fourth Pope of Rome in 649, albeit without imperial approval. One of St. Martin’s first acts as Pope was to convene the Lateran Council of 649 at which two of the twenty canons issued condemned Monothelitism. This enraged the Monothelite Emperor, Constans II (r. 641–668), who had St. Martin arrested and deported to the Isle of Naxos in the South Aegean where he was imprisoned and torture. Following a mock trial, St. Martin was sentenced to death. Whilst the sentence was commuted, St. Martin reposed shortly after from the effects of his torture and imprisonment. St. Martin reposed in 655, and is considered the last of the martyred Popes of Rome.

MARTIUS, a hermit whose reputation of holiness attracted many disciples. As the number of disciples grew, St. Martius founded a monastery in Clermont (present-day Clermont-Ferrand, France) for them. He reposed circa 530.

URSUS, the son of a pagan Sicilian nobleman, who incurred his father’s wrath when he became a Christian. Forced to flee Sicily, St. Ursus settled in Ravenna, in the present-day Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy, where his holiness of life so impressed the native population that St. Ursus was chosen to serve as Bishop of Ravenna. After two decades serving his See, St. Ursus reposed in 396.

CLARENTIUS, a seventh century Bishop of Vienna (Austria). No further information is extant.

EXUERANTIA, nothing is known about this nun who is venerated in Troyes (north-central France), and is believed to have reposed circa 380.

LUCIDIUS, a fourth century Bishop of Verona in the Veneto region of Italy. Nothing else is known of his life.

MARCELLINUS, consecrated the twenty-ninth Pope of Rome in June 296. St. Marcellinus was martyred in 304 during the Diocletianic Persecution.

PETER of BRAGA, (Date Unknown), believed to have been the first Bishop of Braga in Portugal and a martyr.

RICHARIUS (RIQUIER, RICARIO) of CELLES, a young pagan man who hid Irish missionaries, SS. Caidoc and Fricor (1st April) from local pagans. Whilst in hiding the missionaries converted St. Richarius, who became a priest. He travelled on donkey throughout France evangelising, and worked in England for a several years. When he returned to France he founded, and served as first Abbot of a monastery at Centula (later known as St. Riquier Abbey / abbaye de Saint-Riquier), in present-day Saint-Riquier, near Amiens in northern France. St. Richarius was known for his charity and his work ransoming captives. In his final years, he retired to live as a hermit. St. Richarius reposed circa 645.

TRUDPERT of MÜNSTERTAL, following a pilgrimage to Rome, St. Trudpert, who may have been originally from Ireland, settled as a hermit in Münstethal in the southern Black Forest, in present-day Germany. He was killed by day labourers, in the pay of a local nobleman, circa 644.