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Isidore De Loor, known in the Passionist Congregation as Isidore of Saint Joseph, was born 13th April 1881, in the small town of Vrasene, located in the diocese of Gent-Gand, in Eastern Flanders. He was from a family of farmers, and he grew up loving his work in the fields.
At the age of twenty-six he felt the call to the religious life, and entered the novitiate of the Passionist Congregation in Ere, where he was received as a lay-brother. He professed his religious vows on 13th September 1908. Thereafter he humbly served several communities of the Congregation; to his community service was joined an especially intense life of prayer and penance, in keeping with the spirit of the Congregation.
His right eye had to be removed in 1911, because of a tumour. Among the religious of the congregation, and among the laity, he was admired for his charity and simplicity, his dedication to work and his spirit of recollection. Having suffered through several months of intense pain, he succumbed to cancer and pleurisy on 6th October 1916. Blessed Isidore was only thirty-five years of age, and had lived as a religious for only nine years. Many referred to him as "the good Brother" and "the Brother of the Will of God." His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, declared him Blessed the 30th September 1984.
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Saint Inocencio of Mary Immaculate (Emanuele Canoura Arnau) was born on 10th March 1887 in Santa Lucia del Valle de Oro, Diocese of Mondonedo, Spain. Professed a Passionist the 27th July 1905 and ordained a priest 20th September 1913, he was most zealous in exercising this ministry in various communities of his religious province (SANG).
During the so-called "Revolution of Asturias of 1934"; while he was celebrating Mass in the institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Turon, he together with eight LaSalle Brothers, was taken prisoner by those who were filled with hatred for religion. All were executed on 9th October 1934. Inocencio, together with his those who were martyred with him, was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19th April 1990.
They were canonized and declared Saints on 21st October 1999, by Pope John Paul II.
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