Apr 13

Saint Hermenegild

April 13th VI century

Name
Hermenegildo (Masculino)
Other saints
Other saints named Hermenegildo
Born
en Toledo, in current Spain
Dead
in Tarragona, in current Spain
Process
Celebration
April 13th
Picture of Saint Hermenegild Fuente: wikimedia.org
In Tarragona, in Hispania, saint Hermenegild, martyr, being son of Liuvigild, Arian King of the Visigoths, was converted to the Catholic faith by saint Leandre, Bishop of Seville, and held in jail by order of his father having refused to receive communion from the hands of an Arian bishop, the day of the feast of Passover was beheaded by order of his own father. Roman martyrology