On May 16 the Catholic Church remembers Saint Simon Stock, a twelfth- and thirteenth-century Carmelite monk whose vision of the Virgin Mary is the source of the Brown Scapular devotion.Simon was born during 1165 in the English county of Kent. He is said to have been strongly devoted to God from...
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Originally given the name of Wojtech, the boy who would be known as St. Adalbert was born to a family of nobility in the Central European region of Bohemia during the mid-900s. When Wojtech became seriously ill during his childhood, his parents resolved that they would offer their son to God as...
St. Oswald was born into a military family in 10th-century England. He was the nephew of the archbishop of Canterbury. The archbishop raised him and fostered his early education.
He traveled to France to study and became a Benedictine monk.
Oswald was appointed bishop of Worcester in...
Feast day: December 4
Died 217 A.D. Confessor and teacher at the Catechetical School in Alexandria, Egypt. Born Titus Flavius Clemens, he trained Origen and left numerous writings.
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On Nov. 30, Catholics worldwide celebrate the feast day
of St. Andrew, apostle and martyr. A fisherman from Bethsaida and
brother of Simon Peter, St. Andrew is said to have spread Christianity
in Russia and Asia minor after Pentecost in the first century. He was
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Blessed Denis was born in 1600 in Honfleur, France. He became a sailor at the age of twelve. Later on, he became the pilot in chief and cartographer of the courts of Portugal and France. In 1635, while he was in Goa, India, he took on the habit of a Discalced Carmelite Monk. Blessed Redemptorus...
A soldier and courtier to King Yezdigerd I of Persia in the early fifth century, James was a Christian, who, during Yezdigerd’s persecution of Christians, renounced his faith for fear of death.His family, who had not apostacized, contacted James upon the death of the king, and thus the end of...
Santiago Alberione was born on April 4, 1884, the fourth of six children in a devout working class family in San Lorenzo di Fossano, Cuneo, Italy. From a young age, he felt God calling him. On the first day of elementary school, when the teacher asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he...
On Nov. 23 Roman Catholics remember the fourth Pope, St. Clement I, a disciple of the apostles who inherited the authority of St. Peter in the first century. Eastern Catholics celebrate his feast on Nov. 25.
The details of Clement's life, before his conversion and even afterward, are...
Saint Rapahel was born in 1835 as Joseph, son of Andrew and Josepha Kalinowski in present day Lithuania. Saint Raphael felt a call to the priesthood early in his life, but decided to complete his education. He studied zoology, chemistry, agriculture, and apiculture at the Institute of...