Category: Saint of the Day

This glorious parish priest was born in eastern France, three years before the French Revolution broke out. He was a simple farmer’s boy. He received his first Holy Communion secretly in a barn when he was thirteen years of age. … Continue reading →

She was the mother of Saint Praxedes, Saint Pudentiana, Saint Novatus and Saint Timothy, and the wife of Saint Pudens. It was the mother of Saint Pudens, Saint Priscilla, who was the hostess of Saint Peter when he went to … Continue reading →

He was a saint in northern Italy who did valiant work to protect the Holy Catholic Faith there against the heresies and hatreds of the Protestant Reformation. He refused all ecclesiastical dignities. He devoted his life to the service of … Continue reading →

He was Pope from 257 to 258. He was beheaded seated on his papal throne. While he was on his way to be executed, his deacon, Saint Laurence, ran up and asked him where he was going without his deacon. … Continue reading →

The Transfiguration of our Lord occurred on a mountain in Galilee, one year before He died. Three Apostles were with Jesus at the time. They were Peter, James and John. This was a glorious mystery. The same three Apostles were … Continue reading →

During the night of August 4 in the year 355, in the middle of summer, snow fell on the Esquiline Hill in Rome, on the exact spot where Our Lady wanted a church to be built in her honor. She … Continue reading →

He was the founder of the great Dominican Order known as the Order of Preachers. He was born in 1170 in Spain and died when he was only fifty-one years old. His mother, also a saint — Blessed Jane of … Continue reading →

He was a French priest who founded a beautiful Religious Order known as “the Priests of the Blessed Sacrament.” He was a great advocate of early Communion for Catholic children. “A Catholic youth who has never made his First Communion,” … Continue reading →

Saint Lydia was Saint Paul’s first convert on his second missionary journey. Later on, he stayed at her house, as we are told by Saint Luke in the Acts of the Apostles. Her home was at Thyatira, a city of … Continue reading →

Saint Stephen, the protomartyr of the Catholic Church, was stoned to death by the Jews in the year 36. He was buried twenty miles from Jerusalem, on the estate of Saint Gamaliel. The precious relics of Saint Stephen were discovered … Continue reading →

We know in simple, childlike faith that the Blessed Virgin Mary is, in flesh and blood, holier, more beautiful, more powerful and closer to God in divine union than all the choirs and hierarchies of angels put together. Mary is … Continue reading →

He was born in 1696. He was in his ninety-first year when he died. He founded the Redemptorist Order in 1732. He became a Doctor of the Church by constantly preaching and writing about the Holy Eucharist and about the … Continue reading →

These heroic little sisters, aged twelve, ten and nine, were martyred for the Catholic Faith in the early days of the Church. Saint Sophia, their mother, died three days after her little daughters were killed. She died of grief, and … Continue reading →

This is the feast of the heroic mother of the Machabees, and her seven sons who were cruelly martyred one by one and encouraged to die by their mother for the true faith of Israel and the belief in the … Continue reading →

Saint Ignatius of Loyola, in Spain, was the founder of the Society of Jesus. He was born in 1491, one year before America was discovered. He died in 1556, at the age of sixty-five. He was at first a page … Continue reading →