Saint Mark's Parish Burlington, VT

09/04/2026

Pope Saint Boniface I

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Son of the presbyter Jocundus. Priest, apparently having been ordained by Pope Saint Damasus I. Papal legate to Constantinople c.405 for Pope Saint Innocent I. Elected 42nd pope in 418. He was opposed by anti-pope Eulalius who had the support of the minor clergy. Both were exiled from Rome, Italy by Emperor Honorius in order to keep the peace. At Easter Eulalia returned against orders, causing his followers to rise to violent action; he was exiled again, and Boniface declared pope. Repeatedly opposed by the patriarch of Constantinople who sought to increase his sphere of influence. Staunch opponent of Pelagianism. Saint Augustine of Hippo dedicated several works to him.

Born

c.350 at Rome, Italy

Papal Ascension

28 December 418

Died

• 4 September 422 at Rome, Italy of natural causes
• buried in the cemetery of Maximus on the Via Salaria, Rome

09/03/2026

Daily Prayer for Priests by St. Thérèse of Lisieux (1893-1897)

O Jesus,

I pray for your faithful and fervent priests;

for your unfaithful and tepid priests;

for your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields;

for your tempted priests;

for your lonely and desolate priests;

for your young priests;

for your dying priests;

for the souls of your priests in Purgatory.

But above all, I recommend to you the priests dearest to me:

the priest who baptized me;

the priests who absolved me from my sins;

the priests at whose Masses I assisted and who gave me your body and blood in holy Communion;

the priests who taught and instructed me;

all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way.

O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart,
and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity. Amen.

09/03/2026

Pope Saint Gregory the Great
Also known as

• Gregory I
• Gregory Dialogos
• Gregory the Dialogist
• Father of the Fathers

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Son of Gordianus, a Roman regionarius, and Saint Silvia of Rome. Nephew of Saint Emiliana and Saint Tarsilla. Great-grandson of Pope Saint Felix III. Educated by the finest teachers in Rome, Italy. Prefect of Rome for a year, then he sold his possessions, turned his home into a Benedictine monastery, and used his money to build six monasteries in Sicily and one in Rome. Benedictine monk. Upon seeing English children being sold in the Roman Forum, he became a missionary to England.

Elected 64th Pope by unanimous acclamation on 3 September 590, the first monk to be chosen. Sent Saint Augustine of Canterbury and a company of monks to evangelize England, and other missionaries to France, Spain, and Africa. Collected the melodies and plain chant so associated with him that they are now known as Gregorian Chants. One of the four great Doctors of the Latin Church. Wrote seminal works on the Mass and Divine Office, several of them dictated to his secretary, Saint Peter the Deacon.

Born

c.540 at Rome, Italy

Papal Ascension

3 September 590

Died

12 March 604 at Rome, Italy of natural causes

Patronage

• against gout
• against plague
• choir boys
• educators, teachers
• stone masons, stonecutters
• students, school children
• popes, the papacy
• musicians
• singers
• England
• West Indies
• Legazpi, Philippines, diocese of
• Order of Knights of Saint Gregory
• Kercem, Malta
• Montone, Italy
• San Gregorio nelle Alpi, Italy

09/02/2026

How am I accepting suffering or illness in my life to draw closer to the Lord and my desire for eternity with him?

09/02/2026

Martyrs of September

Also known as

• Martyrs of Paris
• Martyrs of Carmes

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A group of 191 martyrs who died in the French Revolution. They were imprisoned in the Abbey of St-Germain-des-Prés, Hôtel des Carmes in the rue de Rennes, Prison de la Force, and Seminaire de Saint-Firmin in Paris, France by the Legislative Assembly for refusing to take the oath to support the civil constitution of the clergy. This act placed priests under the control of the state, and had been condemned by the Vatican. They include -

Saint Solomon le Clerq

Also known as

• Guillaume-Nicolas-Louis Leclerq
• Nicholas Leclerq
• Salomon Leclerq
• Salomone LeClercq
• Solomon Leclerq

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Son of a wealthy French w**e merchant. Though his father wanted him to pursue the family business, Nicholas early discerned a call to religious life. On 25 March 1767, he entered the novitiate of the Brothers of Christian Schools, and took the name Solomon. A good student, recognized for his piety and deep prayer life, Brother Solomon spent several years teaching at various schools throughout France, and witnessed much of the political turmoil tearing his country apart. He served as director of novices for his community, and was a frequent correspondent with his brothers and sisters on matters spiritual. Procurator in the Congregation's motherhouse, and worked as secretary to the superior general of the Order. In the summer of 1792, Brother Solomon, along with many other priests and religious, was imprisoned, and martyred as part of the suppression of Christianity of the French Revolution. He was the first martyr of the Brothers of Christian Schools.

Born

14 November 1745 in Boulogne-ser-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France as Nicholas

Died

2 September 1792 at the garden of the Hôtel des Carmes Carmelite convent at Paris, France

Canonized

16 October 2016 by Pope Francis

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As for us, we hold to what we believed ten and twenty years ago; to what our forefathers believed one hundred years ago, and one thousand years ago, and to that which the whole Catholic world has always believed. - Brother Solomon Le Clerq

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Blessed François-Joseph Pey

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One of nine children born to Joseph-François Pey, a physician, and Marguerite Rose Moutte; five of these died in childhood. Theirs was a pious family; both François-Joseph and his older brother, Jean-Louis, became priests. François-Joseph studied at seminaries in Aix-en-Provence, then Paris, and then Trier. Ordained a priest on 10 August 1784 in the archdiocese of Trier, he returned to Paris where he served as chaplain at the College Sainte-Barbe. At the same time, he studied at the Sorbonne, and obtained a Master's degree on 11 October 1785, and a doctorate on 16 January 1787. Noted as a Bible scholar.

François-Joseph was chosen canon of the cathedral in Paris on 19 March 1787, but considered such a post to be a way that made the priesthood into a career insted of the life of service to God that he sought. Appointed vicar of the parish of Saint-Landry on the Ile de la Cité in Paris on 15 July 1788, he served as sacristan and treasurer. Chosen an elector of deputies to the legislature on 23 April 1789, he helped document the grievances of the working classes in Paris.

In January 1791, the government of the French Revolution ordered all priests to take an oath of loyalty to the civil constitution; Father Pey refused. On 10 August 1791 he was arrested for this, imprisoned without the formality of a trial, and when he refused to change his mind or desert the other objecting priests, he was murdered.

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Blessed Anne-Alexandre-Charles-Marie Lanfant

Also known as

Father Alexander Charles Lanfant

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Born to a middle-class family, Alexandre studied at Trinity College in Lyon, France, then became a Jesuits novice on 7 September 1741 at age 15 in Avignon, France. He taught grammar, rhetoric and humanities in several schools in the French cities of Aix, Besancon and Marseille, studying theology all the while. Ordained a priest in 1759. He made his solemn profession in the Jesuits in 1760 Macon, France, and soon became a noted preacher of parish missions in the region of Nancy, France.

When the Jesuits were suppressed in France in 1762, Father Alexandre was able to continue his priestly ministry under the protection of the Duke Stanislaus I of Lorraine. Upon the death of the duke, Father Alexandre travelled to Vienna, Austria where he served as preacher in the court of Empress Maria Theresa. In 1789 he returned to Paris, France, where he served for two years as confessor to King Louis XVI, and became the target of the enmity of the Jansenists.

Alexandre was arrested in August 1792 in the persecutions of the French Revolution for his faith, his priesthood, his refusal to take the oath to the civil constitution, and the assumed influence he had over the king.

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Blessed Jules-Honoré-Cyprien Pazery de Thorame

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Born to the French nobility, the son of Pierre Symphorien de Pazery, a knight, the lord of Thorame, and councilor to the French parliament, and of Catherine Lordonne; Jules was baptized at the age of one day. He earned as Master's degree in Paris, France on 17 February 1784, and studied at the San-Sulpice seminary, being ordained a priest in 1788. He earned a doctorate from the Sorbonne, and served as vicar-general to the bishop of Toulon, France. When the bishop was exiled to Italy during the persecutions of the French Revolution, Father Jules administered the diocese. When his see was suppressed, he returned to Paris on 1 April 1792. On 11 August 1792, he was arrested by the Revolutionary authorities as part of their anti-Catholic persecutions.

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Blessed Pierre-Louis de la Rochefoucauld-Bayers

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Born to the French nobility, the son of the lord of Maumont Jean de La Rochefoucauld and Marguerite des Escots; his brother Francois-Joseph became bishop of Beauvais, France, and his sister was abbess of the convent of Notre Dame de Soissons. Priest. Prior commendator of Nanteuil, France in 1770. Chosen general agent of the clergy in 1775. Bishop of Saintes, France in 1781. Organized a bank that functioned like modern fire insurance. Elected deputy of the clergy to the general states for the Sénéchaussée de Saintes on 24 March 1789. One of the Martyrs of September, killed in the antiâ��Christian excesses of the French Revolution.

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Blessed Ambroise-Augustin Chevreux

Also known as

Ambrosius, Ambrose, Ambrogio

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Ambroise-Augustin joined the Benedictine Maurist abbey of Saint-Florent de Saumur in Orléans, France on 14 May 1744 at the age of 16. He was later sent to the Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey in Paris, France. Beginning in 1763, he began to be appointed to leadership positions, and in 1783 was chosen the superior-general of the French Maurists; he was the last person to hold the position. Arrested in August 1792 and imprisoned with other clerics at the Carmelite monastery in Paris, France in the persecutions of the French Revolution, he became one of the Martyrs of September.

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Blessed André Grasset de Saint-Sauveur

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Immigrant from Canada to France where he served as a priest in the archdiocese of Sens and canon of the cathedral there. During the persecutions of the French Revolution, he was arrested and murdered for refusing to take an oath of allegiance to civil constitution.

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Blessed Louis-Benjamin Hurtrel

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Brother of Blessed Charles-Louis Hurtrel. He studied in the seminaries of Trente-Trois and Saint-Nicolas in the archdiocese of Paris, France. Diocesan deacon.

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Blessed Armand-Anne-Auguste-Antonin-Sicaire Chapt de Rastignac

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Priest in the diocese of Orléans, France.

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Blessed Daniel-Louis André Des Pommerayes

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Priest in the archdiocese of Paris, France.

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Blessed Saintin Huré

Also known as

Santino

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Priest in the diocese of Versailles, France.

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Blessed Claude Fontaine

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Priest of the archdiocese of Paris, France.

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Others, not yet profiled -

• Andé Angar • André-Abel Alricy • Antoine-Charles-Octavien du Bouzet • Antoine-Mathieu-Augustin Nogier • Apollinaris of Posat • Armand de Foucauld de Pontbriand • August-Dénis Nezel • Bernard-François de Cucsac • Bertrand-Antoine de Caupenne • Charles Carnus • Charles-François le Gué • Charles-Jéremie Bérauld du Pérou • Charles-Louis Hurtrel • Charles-Regis-Mathieu de la Calmette de Valfons • Charles-Victor Véret • Claude Bochot • Claude Cayx-Dumas • Claude Chaudet • Claude Colin • Claude Ponse • Claude Rousseau • Claude-Antoine-Raoul Laporte • Claude-François Gagnières des Granges • Claude-Louis Marmotant de Savigny • Claude-Silvain-Raphaël Mayneaud de Bizefranc • Denis-Claude Duval • Éloy Herque du Roule • Étienne-François-Dieudonné de Ravinel • Étienne-Michel Gillet • Eustache Félix • François Balmain • François Dardan • François Dumasrambaud de Calandelle • François Lefranc • François Varheilhe-Duteil • François-César Londiveau • François-Hyacinthe lé Livec de Trésurin • François-Joseph de la Rochefoucald-Maumont • François-Joseph Monnier • François-Louis Hébert • François-Louis Méallet de Fargues • François-Urbain Salins de Niart • Gabriel Desprez de Roche • Gaspard-Claude Maignien • Georges Girault • Georges-Jérôme Giroust • Gilbert-Jean Fautrel • Gilles-Louis-Symphorien Lanchon • Guillaume-Antoine Delfaut • Henri-August Luzeau de la Mulonnière • Henri-Hippolyte Ermès • Henri-Jean Milet • Jacques de la Lande • Jacques Dufour • Jacques Friteyre-Durvé • Jacques-Alexandre Menuret • Jacques-Augustin Robert de Lézardières • Jacques-étienne-Philippe Hourrier • Jacques-François de Lubersac • Jacques-Gabriel Galais • Jacques-Jean Lemeunier • Jacques-Joseph Le jardinier desLandes • Jacques-Jules Bonnaud • Jacques-Léonor Rabé • Jacques-Louis Schmid • Jean Charton de Millou • Jean Goizet • Jean Lacan • Jean Lemaître • Jean-André Capeau • Jean-Antoine Guilleminet • Jean-Antoine Savine • Jean-Antoine Seconds • Jean-Antoine-Barnabé Séguin • Jean-Antoine-Hyacinthe Boucharenc de Chaumeils • Jean-Antoine-Joseph de Villette • Jean-Baptiste Bottex • Jean-Baptiste Jannin • Jean-Baptiste Nativelle • Jean-Baptiste-Claude Aubert • Jean-Baptiste-Marie Tessier • Jean-Baptiste-Michel Pontus • Jean-Charles Caron • Jean-Charles Legrand • Jean-Charles-Marie Bernard du Cornillet • Jean-François Bonnel de Pradal • Jean-François Bousquet • Jean-François Burté • Jean-François-Marie Benoît-Vourlat • Jean-Henri Gruyer • Jean-Henri-Louis-Michel Samson • Jean-Joseph de Lavèze-Bellay • Jean-Joseph Rateau • Jean-Louis Guyard de Saint-Clair • Jean-Marie du Lau d'Alleman • Jean-Michel Philippot • Jean-Philippe Marchand • Jean-Pierre Bangue • Jean-Pierre Duval • Jean-Pierre Le Laisant • Jean-Pierre Simon • Jean-Robert Quéneau • Jean-Thomas Leroy • Joseph Bécavin • Joseph Falcoz • Joseph-Louis Oviefre • Joseph-Marie Gros • Joseph-Thomas Pazery de Thorame • Julien le Laisant • Julien Poulain Delaunay • Julien-François Hédouin • Laurent • Louis Barreau de La Touche • Louis le Danois • Louis Longuet • Louis Mauduit • Louis-Alexis-Mathias Boubert • Louis-François Rigot • Louis-François-André Barret • Louis-Jean-Mathieu Lanier • Louis-Joseph François • Louis-Laurent Gaultier • Louis-Remi Benoist • Louis-Remi-Nicolas Benoist • Loup Thomas-Bonnotte • Marc-Louis Royer • Marie-François Mouffle • Martin-François-Alexis Loublier • Mathurin-Nicolas de la Ville Crohain le Bous de Villeneuve • Mathurin-Victoir Deruelle • Michel Leber • Michel-André-Sylvestre Binard • Michel-François de la Gardette • Nicolas Bize • Nicolas Clairet • Nicolas Colin • Nicolas Gaudreau • Nicolas-Claude Roussel • Nicolas-Marie Verron • Olivier Lefebvre • Philibert Fougères • Pierre Bonzé • Pierre Brisquet • Pierre Brisse • Pierre Gauguin • Pierre Landry • Pierre Ploquin • Pierre Saint-James • Pierre-Claude Pottier • Pierre-Florent Leclercq • Pierre-François Hénocq • Pierre-François Pazery de Thorames • Pierre-Jacques de Turmenyes • Pierre-Jacques-Marie Vitalis • Pierre-Jean Garrigues • Pierre-Louis Gervais • Pierre-Louis Joret • Pierre-Louis-Joseph Verrier • Pierre-Michel Guérin • Pierre-Michel Guérin du Rocher • Pierre-Nicolas Psalmon • Pierre-Paul Balzac • Pierre-Robert Regnet • René Nativelle • René-Joseph Urvoy • René-Julien Massey • René-Marie Andrieux • René-Nicolas Poret • Robert le Bis • Robert-François Guérin du Rocher • Sébastien Desbrielles • Thomas-Jean Montsaint • Thomas-Nicolas Dubray • Thomas-René Dubuisson • Urbain Lefebvre • Vincent Abraham • Vincent-Joseph le Rousseau de Rosencoat • Yves-André Guillon de Keranrun • Yves-Jean-Pierre Rey de Kervisic •

Died

massacred by a mob on 2 September and 3 September 1792

Beatified

17 October 1926 by Pope Pius XI

09/01/2026

Lord,
May the power of your words govern my mind and my heart to whatever it is you desire of me today.

09/01/2026

Saint Giles, pray for us!
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Born to a wealthy noble family, when his parents died, Giles gave his fortune to help the poor. Known as a miracle worker. To avoid followers and adulation, he left Greece c.683 for France where he lived as a hermit in a cave in the diocese of Nimes, a cave whose mouth was guarded by a thick thorn bush, and a lifestyle so impoverished that, legend says, God sent a deer to Giles to nourish him with her milk.

One day after he had lived there for several years in meditation, a royal hunting party chased the hind into Giles’s cave. One hunter shot an arrow into the thorn bush, hoping to hit the deer, but instead hit Giles in the leg, crippling him. The king sent doctors to care for hermitâ��s wound, and though Giles begged to be left alone, the king came often to see him.

From this, Gileâ��s fame as sage and miracle worker spread, and would-be followers gathered near the cave. The French king, because of his admiration, built the monastery of Saint Gilles du Gard for these followers, and Giles became its first abbot, establishing his own discipline there. A small town grew up around the monastery, and upon Giles’s�� death, his grave became a shrine and place of pilgrimage; the monastery later became a Benedictine house.

The combination of the town, monastery, shrine and pilgrims led to many handicapped beggars hoping for alms; this and Giles’s insistence that he wished to live outside the walls of the city, and his own damaged leg, led to his patronage of beggars, and to cripples since begging was the only source of income for many. Hospitals and safe houses for the poor, crippled, and leprous were constructed in England and Scotland, and were built so cripples could reach them easily. On their passage to Tyburn for ex*****on, convicts were allowed to stop at Saint Giles’s Hospital where they were presented with a bowl of ale called Saint Giles’s Bowl, thereof to drink at their pleasure, as their last refreshing in this life.

In Spain, shepherds consider Giles the protector of rams. It was formerly the custom to wash the rams and colour their wool a bright shade on Giles’s feast day, tie lighted candles to their horns, and bring the animals down the mountain paths to the chapels and churches to have them blessed. Among the Basques, the shepherds come down from the Pyrenees on 1 September, attired in full costume, sheepskin coats, staves, and crooks, to attend Mass with their best rams, an event that marks the beginning of autumn festivals, marked by processions and dancing in the fields. One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, the only one not to die as a martyr.

Born

at Athens, Greece

Died

• between 710 and 724 in France of natural causes
• legend says that those who attended his funeral heard choirs of angels singing and then fading away as they carried his soul to heaven
• his tomb is in the crypt of the abbey church of Saint-Gilles in Gard, France
• in 1562, Huguenots burned the abbey, murdered the monks, looted the church, and vandalized the tomb; the surviving relics of Saint Giles were distributed to other churches
• in Scotland in the seventeenth century, his relics were stolen from a church which triggered a great riot

08/31/2026

08/31/2026

“May we seek those things which are beneficial to our brothers and sisters, without counting the cost, to help them on the way to salvation.”

~ From Monday’s morning prayers

08/31/2026

Saint Cyprian of Carthage, pray for us!
Additional Memorials

• 31 August in Eastern Church
• 26 September in the Anglican Church

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Born to wealthy pagan parents. Taught rhetoric and literature. Adult convert in 246, taught the faith by Saint Caecilius of Carthage. Ordained in 247. Bishop of Carthage in 249. During the persecution of Decius, beginning in 250, Cyprian lived in hiding, covertly ministering to his flock; his enemies condemned him for being a coward and not standing up for his faith. As a writer he was second only in importance to Tertullian as a Latin Father of the Church. Friend of Saint Pontius. Involved in the great argument over whether apostates should be readmitted to the Church; Cyprian believed they should, but under stringent conditions. Supported Pope Saint Cornelius against the anti-pope Novatian. During the persecutions of Valerian he was exiled to Curubis in 257, brought back Carthage, and then martyred in 258. His name is in the Communicantes in the Canon of the Mass.

Born

190 in Carthage, North Africa

Died

beheaded 14 September 258 in Carthage, North Africa

Patronage

• Algeria (proclaimed on 6 July 1914 by Pope Pius X)
• North Africa (proclaimed on 6 July 1914 by Pope Pius X, on 10 January 1958 by Pope Pius XII, and on 27 July 1962 by Pope John XXIII; editor's note - no, I don't know why it was done so many times)

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You cannot have God for your Father if you do not have the Church for your mother.... God is one and Christ is one, and his Church is one; one is the faith, and one is the people cemented together by harmony into the strong unity of a body.... If we are the heirs of Christ, let us abide in the peace of Christ; if we are the sons of God, let us be lovers of peace. - Saint Cyprian, from The Unity of the Catholic Church