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Mother Teresa was born with the name Agnes to an Albanian family in the year of Our Lord 1910. From an early age she desired to be a missionary, and at age seventeen she joined the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland, taking the name Teresa in honor of the Little Flower, St. Therese. After contracting tuberculosis in Calcutta, India, where she had been sent to teach, Teresa discerned a calling to work with the poorest of the poor, and the Vatican approved her request to leave the Sisters and work directly under the Archdiocese of Calcutta. Some of her former students joined her, and in 1950 they formed the Missionaries of Charity. Mother Teresa gained a great deal of public attention and praise for her work, including a Nobel Peace Prize, but she was also a frequent target of secular criticism for her defense of Catholic teachings against abortion and other evils. She suffered from long periods of spiritual dryness and great interior struggles, though always presenting a joyful and charitable Catholic demeanor to others. She also influenced the conversion of famous figures like English author Malcolm Muggeridge. After several health struggles, Mother Teresa died in the year of Our Lord 1997. She is now co-patron of the Archdiocese of Calcutta alongside the great St. Francis Xavier.
THE feast of St. Lawrence Justinian, first Patriarch of Venice, who, by glorious miracles and virtues, illustrated the episcopal dignity which he received against his will on this day. His birthday [into heaven] is the 8th of January.
In the suburbs of Rome, blessed Victorinus, bishop and martyr, in the time of Nerva Trajan. Being renowned for sanctity and miracles, he was elected bishop of Amiterno by the whole people, but afterwards he was banished, with other servants of God, to Contigliano, where spring forth fetid sulphurous waters, and was suspended with his head downward by order of the judge Aurelian. Having for the name of Christ endured this torment for three days, he was gloriously crowned, and went victoriously to our Lord. His body was taken away by the Christians, and buried with due honors at Amiterno.
Also, at Porto, the birthday [into heaven] of St. Herculanus, martyr.
At Capua, the holy martyrs Quinctius, Arcontius, and Donatus.
The same day, St. Romulus, prefect of Trajan’s court. For reproving the cruelty of the emperor towards Christians, he was scourged with rods, and beheaded.
At Melitine, in Armenia, the martyrdom of the holy soldiers Eudoxius, Zeno, Macarius, and their companions to the number of eleven hundred and four, who threw away their military belts, and were put to death for the confession of Christ, in the persecution of Diocletian.
At Constantinople, the holy martyrs Urbanus, Theodore, Menedemus, and their ecclesiastical companions, seventy-seven in number, who were put in a ship by the command of the emperor Valens, and burned on the sea for the Catholic faith.
In the neighborhood of Terouanne, in the monastery of Sithiu, St. Bertin, abbot.
At Toledo, St. Obdulia, virgin.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.