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URBAN, RELIGIOUS AND MARTYR - 23 JUNE

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 23th of June URBAN, RELIGIOUS AND MARTYR Urban (Urbanus) , of the Order of St Francis of Assisi, died as a martyr at the hands of the Turks in Hungary in 1525. Bishop Paul of Colocza and his brother George died with him in the battle of Mohacs. Urban is also remembered on August 29. (Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 5, Augsburg, 1882, p. 611) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations