{"id":50760,"date":"2025-07-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/?p=50760"},"modified":"2025-07-05T12:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T10:20:49","slug":"chinese-martyrs-english-and-irish-blessed-and-saint-antonio-zaccaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/foco\/martires-chinas-beatos-ingleses-e-irlandeses-y-san-antonio-zaccaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese martyrs, English and Irish Blesseds, and St. Anthony Zaccaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Catholic saints' calendar celebrates on July 5 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.franciscanos.org\/agnofranciscano\/m07\/dia0705.html\">chinese santas<\/a> Teresa Chen Jinxie and Rosa Chen Aixie, virgins and martyrs. They were sisters belonging to the Christian community of Huangeryn (Hubei, China), whose lives were taken in 1900. Also celebrated is Saint Cyprilla, a Christian woman from Cyrene (Libya), widow, whose refusal to worship the Roman gods cost her martyrdom in the time of Emperor Diocletian (303).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Eight martyrs faithful to the Roman Church<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Church also commemorates four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/foco\/martires-ingleses-catolicos\/\">martyrs<\/a> Englishmen hanged in Oxford in 1589 because of their Catholic faith (two of them priests). They are Blessed George Nichols, Richard Yaxley, Thomas Belson and Humphred Pritchard.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Irish Blesseds Matthew Lambert, Robert Meyler, Edward Cheevers and Patrick Cavanagh also appear in the catalog on this day. One was a baker and the other three were sailors. For being faithful to the Roman Church and helping persecuted Catholics, they were hanged in Vexford (Ireland) in 1581. The event took place during the reign of <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isabel_I_de_Inglaterra\">Elizabeth I<\/a>daughter of the king <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enrique_VIII_de_Inglaterra\">Henry VIII of England<\/a> and of <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ana_Bolena\">Anne Boleyn<\/a>his second wife.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Zaccar\u00eda, advocate of frequent communion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria was an Italian presbyter of the 16th century. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.franciscanos.org\/agnofranciscano\/m07\/dia0705.html\">known<\/a> for his apostolic zeal and his defense of frequent communion and Eucharistic adoration. He studied medicine and was ordained a priest in 1528. He went to Milan in 1530 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elpandelospobres.com\/san-antonio-maria-zaccaria-5-de-julio\">founded<\/a> the Congregation of the Clerics Regular of St. Paul, also called Barnabites after their motherhouse in Milan (dedicated to St. Barnabas). She also founded the community of the Angelicas of St. Paul and the Married Clerics of St. Paul. She died on July 5, 1539.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El santoral cat\u00f3lico celebra el 5 de julio a las santas chinas Teresa Chen Jinxie y Rosa Chen Aixie, v\u00edrgenes y m\u00e1rtires. Eran hermanas pertenecientes a la comunidad cristiana de Huangeryn (Hubei, China), a las que quitaron la vida en 1900. Tambi\u00e9n se festeja a santa Ciprila, mujer cristiana de Cirene (Libia), viuda, cuya negaci\u00f3n [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":50764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[549,548],"tags":[2260],"class_list":["post-50760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evangelizacion","category-foco","tag-san-antonio-maria-zaccaria","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}