The liturgy has placed in the catholic saint's day On April 5, the Belgian nun St. Juliana de Mont Cornillon (Liege), who promoted with other nuns the feast of Corpus Christi. It also celebrates another woman, the German saint María Crescencia Höss, first a weaver and then a Franciscan. And the Valencian evangelizer St. Vincent Ferrer, who preached for thirty years in northern Spain, southern France, Italy and Switzerland.
In the middle of the 13th century, the Eucharistic movement in Flanders was very active against the spread of heresies. There, the Belgian nun St. Juliana of Mont Cornillon (Liège) and other nuns apparently had visions mystical. The Lord made them understand the absence in the Church of a solemnity in honor of the Blessed Sacrament.
As he explained Benedict XVIthe good cause of the feast of Corpus Christi "also conquered James Pantaleon of Troyes, who had known the saint during his ministry as archdeacon in Liege. It was precisely he who, on becoming Pope under the name of Urban IV, in 1264 wanted to institute the solemnity of Corpus Christi".
St. Vincent Ferrer, Dominican
St. Vincent Ferrer was born in Valencia in 1350 and was baptized in the parish of St. Stephen. Member of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans)., taught Philosophy and Theology in the same city of Turia -in the current chapel of the Holy Chalice in the cathedral- and elsewhere. He evangelized many regions of Spain and Europe in defense of the faith and the unity of the Churchand also in favor of peace. He had a reputation for working miracles.
He died in Vannes (Brittany, France) on April 5, 1419, and his relics are preserved there. He went to so many people to give him a last farewell that in three days he could not be given a burial. He was canonized on June 29, 1455 by Pope Calixtus III. He is the patron saint of the Valencian Community, and although April 5 is his liturgical memory, his solemnity and popular festival in the Valencian capital is held on the second Monday of Easter, April 28 this year.
Religious and martyrs
Other saints and blessed on April 5 are Maria Crescencia Höss, from a humble family in Bavaria, to whom the Lord granted mystical experiences in the Franciscan monastery where she was doorkeeper, novice mistress and superior. St. Catherine Thomas of Majorca and the Macedonian martyrs Saint Irene and his sisters Agape and Quionia, in present-day Greece. Also the Spanish Blessed, from Palencia, Mariano de la Mata Aparicio, an Augustinian priest, who died in Sao Paulo in 1983.
