Category: Saint of the Day

This was an angelic young Passionist brother who, consumed with love and veneration for the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady, after extreme sufferings and weakened by tuberculosis, died of sheer love at the age of twenty-four, at Isola in Italy. … Continue reading →

She was the sister of the great Saint Louis, King of France. She became a Poor Clare nun in practice and died the same year as her brother, in 1270.

He was the courageous Catholic bishop who discovered the heresy of Arius, a priest, who was going about denying the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Saint Alexander was the spiritual father and supporter of the great Saint Athanasius.

He was a noble and wealthy Greek. He was first a hermit, and then a bishop, at Gaza in Palestine. He died the same year as Saint Jerome. Saint Porphyry’s life was written by one of his disciples named Mark.

She was an English girl who went to Germany and died there as an abbess. She is the sister of Saint Willibald and Saint Winibald, and the daughter of Saint Richard, an English king.

Saint Matthias was the Apostle chosen in place of Judas Iscariot, the traitor and suicide. Saint Matthias was beheaded by the Jews in Jerusalem. His body is kept in the Church of Saint Mary Major in Rome.

He was a Camaldolese monk, a cardinal, and is one of the thirty-two Doctors of the Church. He was illustrious and brilliant, simple and outspoken in his denunciation of all heresies and evils. He wrote the life of Saint Romuald, … Continue reading →

Antioch, in Syria, was the city where the first Pope of the Catholic Church, Saint Peter, set up his Chair after his departure from Jerusalem. This was at the house of a noble Gentile Christian named Theophilus, the one to … Continue reading →

He was killed by Muslims at Damascus, the city where Saint Paul was baptized, when he said to these men, “Every man who does not hold the Catholic Christian Faith is damned like Mohammed, your false prophet.”

She was a Poor Clare nun and a niece of Saint Clare of Assisi.

Thaumaturgus means wonder-worker. This was the name given to the Bishop of Catania, in Sicily, the town of Saint Agatha. Saint Leo Thaumaturgus professed and taught the Catholic Faith there, in the eighth century.

Saint Odran was the charioteer of Saint Patrick, the great apostle of Ireland. Saint Odran was martyred in place of Saint Patrick, by giving his life to some pagans who wanted to kill Saint Patrick. Saint Odran died forty-one years … Continue reading →

He was the brother of Saint Caius, the twenty-ninth Pope. He was the father of the beautiful little virgin martyr, Saint Susanna, whose feast is August 11, and who was martyred for her Faith and her purity, because she would … Continue reading →