January 22nd.  St. Vincent. 

The first declared martyr of Spain, during the persecution of Diocletian in 304.  He was a deacon, trained to serve in the church in Saragossa [Zaragoza] in Eastern Spain, and was subject to imprisonment, starvation, the rack and a hot gridiron (in the manner of St. Laurence) in an effort to make him sacrifice to the gods.  His fame and relics were taken far and wide – according to St. Augustine “wherever the name of Christ was known”; in England, notably to Abingdon on Thames-side, thanks to the acquisition of relics by an Abbot, Faricius.