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Saint of the Day  July 02  ✠ St. Processus & Martinian ✠  The Holy Martyrs Processus and Martinian were pagans and they served as guards at the Mamertine prison in Rome.  State criminals were held in this prison, among them some Christians. Watching the Christian prisoners and listening to their preaching, Processus and Martinian gradually came to the knowledge of the Savior. When the holy Apostle Peter was locked up at the Mamertine prison, Processus and Martinian came to believe in Christ. They accepted holy Baptism from the apostle and released him from prison.  The jailer Paulinus learned about this, and he demanded that Saints Processus and Martinian renounce Christ. But they fearlessly confessed Christ, and they spat at the golden statue of Jupiter. Paulinus ordered that they be slapped on the face, and then seeing the resolute stance of the holy martyrs, he subjected them to torture. The martyrs were beaten with iron rods, scorched with fi...

Saint of the Day July 02 ✠ St. Otto Of Bamberg ✠ Otto, born into the noble though impoverished family of Mistelbach in Swabia, was a model of diplomacy in the service of God’s interests. Ordained a priest while still young, he entered the service of Emperor Henry IV and ultimately was appointed chancellor. In the conflicts over investitures between Henry IV and Pope St. Gregory VII, which ended in excommunication for the Emperor, the noble cleric was caught between two masters. However, Otto navigated the prickly situation admirably upholding the sovereign in all he could, but refusing to approve his schism and his other crimes, laboring to bring him to repentance and submission. When the Emperor nominated him Bishop of Bamberg in 1102, Otto refused to be consecrated by a schismatic bishop and traveled to Rome instead where he was consecrated by Pope Paschal II himself. Under Henry V who began to follow in his rebellious father’s footsteps, Otto worked to heal the f...

Saint of the Day (July 02) ✠  St. Oliver Plunkett ✠ Born: November 1, 1625,  Loughcrew Cairns, Oldcastle, Ireland Died: July 1, 1681,  Tyburn, London Patronage: Peace and Reconciliation in Ireland Education: Pontifical Irish College Canonized: 12 October 1975, Rome by Pope Paul VI Place of burial: Downside Abbey, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, United Kingdom, more Books: The Letters of Saint Oliver Plunkett, 1625-1681: Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, Major shrine: St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Drogheda, Ireland Feast: 1 & 2 July Patronage: Peace and Reconciliation in Ireland Oliver Plunkett was born on 1 November 1625 (earlier biographers gave his date of birth as 1 November 1629, but 1625 has been the consensus since the 1930s) in Loughcrew, County Meath, Ireland, to well-to-do parents with Hiberno-Norman ancestors. A gr...