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Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Martyr of the Week column in GDT. BASICally ¥ this page will update and inform you as to who of significance in the Catholic Church was martyred during the coming week. Whether you wish to put aside time during each of these saints feast days to remember them quietly( remember, it's their party-they'll cry tears of blood if they want to!) or if you are simply reading this for the sadistic pleasure of stories about maiming, torture and ecstatic death, enjoy.
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The martyr of the week for Oct. 23-Oct. 29 is St. Jude(Thaddaeus). St. Jude was a blood relative of Christ and one of the 12 apostles. St. Jude (referred to as Judas in the gospels of Mark and Luke) is the Saint invoked in times of hopeless, desperate or impossible circumstances. It is due to the fact that his name is identical to that of Christ's betrayer( but what a kisser!) that he received little veneration in the past. His martyrdom occurred when he and St. Simon traveled to Persia to preach-they were beaten to death with clubs.

St. Jude Oct. 28

Below are some of the martyrs we missed from earlier in the month.

Oct.9

St.Denis was sent from Rome to minister to the pagan Gauls in the year 90. He became the first bishop of Paris, but was martyred by decapitation. He then picked up his head and walked 6 miles to the spot on which a cathedral dedicated to him stands today.

Oct.21

St. Ursula was martyred on the return journey of a pilgrimage to Rome. In an attempt to delay her marriage to a pagan prince, she made the trip(with 11,000 virgin handmaids)to see the Pope.

She was told of her impending death by an angel, and when her ship docked in Cologne she, the virgins, the Pope and her newly converted fiance were killed by the Huns.

This week also sees the festival for the 40 martyrs of England and Wales (Oct. 25). I can't list all of them here, but most of them have their own days anyway(bunch of gloryhounds).

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