The liturgy celebrates on this day numerous santos and blessed. Among them are the first Colombian saints, seven religious brothers of the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God, killed during the Spanish war in 1936. They were part of the community of Ciempozuelos (Madrid). Then came the Colombian saint, Mother Laura Montoyawho fought for the rights of indigenous communities and was canonized by the Pope Francis’ in 2013.
The Colombian religious belonged to Catholic peasant families from various regions of Colombia. They entered the Hospitaller Order with the intention of dedicating themselves to the service of the sick and were sent to Spain to further their studies and religious formation. When the war broke out, the young men were part of the community of Ciempozuelos in Madrid. They were beatified by St. John Paul II in October 1992.
Piotr Zukowski and St. Magdalene
Blessed Piotr Zukowski (Boniface when professed as a Franciscan religious), was born in Baran-Rapa (Lithuania) on January 13, 1913 into a Polish family. His superior was St. Maximilian Kolbewas incarcerated in Warsaw and died in Auschwitz in 1942. He is one of the 108 martyrs of World War II (1940-43) beatified by Pope Wojtyla in 1999 in Warsaw (Poland).
St. Magdalena Canossa was born in Verona to an aristocratic family in 1774, but soon became an orphan and was abandoned by her mother. At the age of 17 she went to the Carmelite monastery in Trento and then to the one in Cornegliano. In Venice, she entered the Hospitaller Fraternity and consecrated herself to the education He founded a double Institute, Sons and Daughters of Charity. He advisedInstead of excessive rigor, abandonment to God's will.
