Category: Saint of the Day

He was a Benedictine monk and became Bishop of Hildesheim. He was one of the most devoted clients of Our Blessed Lady in the ninth century.

He was a noble young Christian killed while carrying the Blessed Sacrament to be given to Christians in Roman prisons. He died rather than let the Blessed Eucharist be violated by the crowd which attacked him. The angels protected Our … Continue reading →

This is the day on which the body of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which did not know any corruption despite her death, was reunited with her soul. She was on this day taken in full personality into the Beatific Vision … Continue reading →

He was a Polish Franciscan priest, completely dedicated to Our Lady, who founded the Militia of the Immaculata to convert sinners, heretics and especially enemies of the Church. The Marytown friary he set up in Poland and devoted to publishing … Continue reading →

She was a Greek woman who turned her house into a convent where many courageous Catholic girls went and lived as nuns. They called Saint Athanasia their abbess. She was an adviser to the royalty, including an empress, Theodora. The … Continue reading →

Saint Hippolytus had been an antipope during the pontificate of Pope Saint Callistus. He was banished to Sardinia where he submitted to the legitimate Pope and urged his followers to submit also. He atoned for his sins by his martyrdom.

He was a young Belgian who entered the Society of Jesus when he was seventeen. He was one of the most brilliant and noble young members this Order has ever had. Sensing that he would not live long, he would … Continue reading →

This feast is more lovingly called “the Dormition” (the Sleep) of Our Lady. For although she really and truly died, Mary’s death lasted for only forty hours, the same length of time as Our Lord’s death. Then, with her body … Continue reading →

She lived at Augsburg and was the mother of the martyr, Saint Afra. Saint Hilaria was martyred at the tomb of her daughter.

She was the beautiful nun who took the veil from Saint Francis of Assisi when she was eighteen years old, and under his direction established the Religious Order of nuns known as the Poor Clares. She was born in 1193, … Continue reading →

He was the first of the companions of Saint Ignatius Loyola to be admitted to the Society of Jesus by the founder of that great society. Blessed Peter Faber labored all his life against the Protestant heretics of the sixteenth … Continue reading →

Saint Susanna, also known as Saint Susan, was a beautiful Roman maiden who was the niece of a Pope, Saint Caius. The cruel Emperor Diocletian martyred her because she refused to marry his pagan son-in-law. A beautiful church stands dedicated … Continue reading →

One of the glories of the last century was the discovery in 1802 of the relics of a young girl, a martyr, who had been buried centuries before in the tomb of Saint Priscilla. Her name, inscribed upon her tomb, … Continue reading →

Saint Laurence was an archdeacon to Pope Saint Sixtus II. He was martyred three days after Saint Sixtus because he would not tell the pagans where the treasures were concealed for the Holy Father’s support of the parishes, the priests … Continue reading →

He was a Roman soldier who witnessed the torments of Saint Laurence and was thereby converted. Saint Laurence baptized him while in prison and Saint Romanus also became a martyr.