The greatest and most loved Veronica of the Church is a heroic Gentile woman who met Our Lord on His way to Calvary, and wiped His sacred and bleeding face with her veil. This is commemorated in the Sixth Station … Continue reading
Category: Saint of the Day
Saint Olga (969)
She was the wife of a Russian duke. After he was assassinated she ruled in his domain. Eleven years before she died she became a Catholic, and made every effort to introduce Christianity into Russia. Fruits of her efforts were … Continue reading
Saint Oliver Plunket (1681)
Saint Oliver Plunket was born in Ireland in 1629. He was one of the successors of Saint Patrick as Archbishop of Armagh. He did everything possible to keep his people free from the horrors of heresy. He was taken to … Continue reading
Saint Pius I (167)
There have been twelve Popes named Pius. Three of them have been declared saints by the Church: Saint Pius I, who died in 167; Saint Pius V, who died in 1572 and who established the feast of the Most Holy … Continue reading
Saint Amelia (690)
She was a Benedictine nun at Maubeuge in France.
Saint Felicitas and Her Seven Sons (165)
There are three glorious mothers among the saints who were martyred along with their seven sons. They are: Saint Felicitas, Saint Symphorosa, and, from the Old Testament, Saint Samona. This last is known as the Mother of the Machabees. Saint … Continue reading
Saint Maria Goretti (1902)
Maria Goretti was a little Italian girl, almost twelve years old, martyred for the preservation of her purity. The young man who killed her was nineteen. He stabbed her with a dagger while she cried out in protestation of what … Continue reading
Saint Edgar (975)
He was a king in England whose spiritual director was Saint Dunstan. He did wonderful things for the Catholic Faith in England.
Saint Elizabeth of Portugal (1336)
She was Queen of Portugal. She was the daughter of Peter II, King of Aragon. She was espoused as a young girl to Denis of Portugal. Her husband was a weak and unsaintly man. Elizabeth’s whole life as his queen … Continue reading
Saint Willibald (786)
Saint Willibald was the son of Saint Richard, King of the Saxons, and the brother of Saint Walburga and Saint Winibald. He became a Benedictine monk and was later made Bishop of Eichstadt in Germany by Saint Boniface, the Apostle … Continue reading
Saint Cyril (869) and Saint Methodius (885)
Saints Cyril and Methodius were brothers. They were born in Greece and educated in Constantinople. They were the great apostles of the Faith to the Slavs in southern Russia, in Bohemia and Poland during the ninth century. Though Saint Cyril … Continue reading
Saint Isaias (Seventh Century B.C.)
The great prophet Isaias, who deserves to be remembered as a saint on his feast day, was the one who foretold of the Blessed Virgin Mary — in Chapter 7, verse 14 of his great prophetical book — “Behold a … Continue reading
Saint John Fisher (1535)
Saint John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester in England, and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge at the time when the adulterous Henry VIII was seceding from the Catholic Church and founding a religion of his own, was the most notable … Continue reading
Saint Thomas More (1535)
He was the wonderful English martyr, Chancellor of the Realm, who was beheaded on Tower Hill, just outside London, for not giving in to the heretical Henry VIII, who denied the supremacy of our Holy Father the Pope over the … Continue reading
Saint Edna (695)
She was an Irish saint who lived near the River Shannon. She succeeded Saint Hilda as abbess of Whitby.
