Category: Saint of the Day

He was a noble counsellor (a lawyer) who became a disciple of Our Lord. He took care of the burial of Jesus in a grave which he owned, and which never had been used by another. Our Lord’s two pallbearers … Continue reading →

Saint Patrick, the glorious apostle of Ireland, was born in France, in the year 387. His father was an official of the Roman government. His mother’s brother was Saint Martin Bishop of Tours. When Saint Patrick was almost sixteen years … Continue reading →

He was a holy hermit of Mesopotamia whose life was brilliantly written by Saint Ephrem, Doctor of the Church. Saint Abraham’s niece named Mary was reconverted by him to a life of mortification and self-sacrifice for the sake of Jesus. … Continue reading →

She was a French girl, born in Paris. After her husband’s death she became a nun and cooperated with Saint Vincent de Paul in establishing the Sisters of Charity. This order was started in 1634. Saint Louise was canonized by … Continue reading →

He was the centurion who pierced the side of Our Lord when He was hanging on the Cross after His death. It was Longinus who exclaimed on Mount Calvary, on the first Good Friday, “Indeed, this was the Son of … Continue reading →

He is one of the four canonized saints of the Redemptorist Order. (The other three are: Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Saint Gerard Majella and Saint John Neumann.) Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer, in the midst of the aftermath of the … Continue reading →

Born at Padua, Blessed Arnold became a Benedictine monk and later was made an abbot. He was persecuted for eight years by cruel enemies of the Faith. He died in prison at the age of seventy.

She was a German queen, the mother of a German emperor, Otto the Great, and of Henry, Duke of Bavaria, and of Saint Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne. She was an Oblate of the Benedictine Order.

She was the daughter of a Roman senator. She became a Catholic nun at the age of seven. She refused all offers to leave the convent and marry a member of the nobility. She gave all her goods to the … Continue reading →

At the time of the Reformation in England Saint Nicholas was a carpenter who devoted his life to building hiding places for Catholic priests who, at the peril of their lives, were ministering to the persecuted English Catholics. He died … Continue reading →

He was a Pope and Doctor of the Church. He was the sixty-sixth Pope, and one of the greatest leaders the Catholic Faith has ever had. He reigned as Roman Pontiff for fourteen years. His mother, Sylvia, was a saint, … Continue reading →

She was a virgin and martyr, killed in a persecution under Diocletian.

He was born at Damascus, in Syria, where Saint Paul was baptized. He was the great defender in the East of the full humanity of Jesus Christ against those heretics, the Monothelites, who denied that Our Lord had a human … Continue reading →

These were forty soldiers who, under the Emperor Licinius, in Armenia, were all frozen to death on an icy lake because they would not apostatize from the Catholic Faith. One of the forty did give in, but his place was … Continue reading →

She was a noble matron who lived a life of heroic charity. She had such a great devotion to her Guardian Angel that she was given an almost constant vision of him walking at her side. She was fifty-six years … Continue reading →