ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL
Saints celebrated on the 25th of April
MELCHIOR MAYER, RELIGIOUS AND MARTYR
While he was collecting alms in Wetzlar (some sources say, between Amöneburg and Giessen) in 1560, the Franciscan Melchior Mayer was set upon by Lutheran students and (according to the Seraphic Martyrology*) tortured by them until he gave up his ghost.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 407)
*A hagiography source used by the authors
Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations
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