In context
- When
- January 16
- Category
- Holiday / observanceA holiday, feast day, awareness day or national day observed every year on this date.
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At a glance
Type: human.
What came before
Part of: Franciscan protomartyrs.
What happened
Berard of Carbio was a thirteenth-century Franciscan friar who was executed in Morocco for attempting to promote Christianity. He and his companions, Peter, Otho, Accursius, and Adjutus, are venerated as Catholic saints and considered the Franciscan Protomartyrs. Expelled from the kingdom twice, they returned each time and continued to preach against Islam. In anger and frustration, the king finally beheaded them.
January 16 through the years
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