On Monday, April 14, the Church celebrates the Dutch Saint Liduvina, paralyzed at the age of 15 while skating, who offered her illnesses to Christ. Three Syrian martyrs, Saints Bernica and Prosdoca and their mother Domnina, who died in Antioch of Syria (today Turkey), persecuted in the time of Diocletian, are also honored. To Blesseds Pedro González and Isabel Calduch. And to St. Lambert, first monk and abbot of the monastery of Fontanelle, and then bishop of Lyon in France.
Saint Liduina or Liduvina, born in Netherlands in 1380, suffered an accident at the age of 15. He points out the Roman Martyrology that "in Schiedam, in Gueldres, Netherlands, saint Liduvina or Liduina, virgin. For the conversion of sinners and the liberation of souls, she offered during her entire life diseases of the body, trusting only in Christ Crucified (+ 1433). The saint had a reputation for holiness, and her relics are found in the cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula (Brussels).
Life rethinking
St. Pedro González Telmo (Frómista, Palencia, Spain, 1185), was educated by a canon uncle and studied at the University of Palencia. Ordained a priest, he was a canon of the cathedral, and seems to have liked ostentation. But a fall from a horse made him restate radically changed his life. He renounced dignities and entered the Dominican order, dedicating himself to preaching. in Galicia and north of Portugal, especially among sailors. He died in Tuy in 1249.
Pursuit
Isabel Calduch Rovira (Josefina in the world), born in Castellón in 1882, is included in the group of valencian martyrs beatified by St. John Paul II in 2001. She entered the Capuchin Poor Clare monastery in Castellón at a young age. She was an exemplary nun. When the religious persecution broke out and her monastery was closed in 1936, she left for her town with a brother priest, also a martyr. She was arrested in April 1937, mistreated and shot next to the cemetery of Cuevas de Vinromá (Castellón).
