A SHORT PROFILE/BIOGRAPHY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL was born in Gascony in France in the year 1581. He had his studies and was ordained a Catholic priest, and was immediately appointed as the parish priest in Paris. He […]
Category: Saints
HOMILY FOR THE FEAST OF SAINT MATTHEW, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST
HOMILY FOR THE FEAST OF SAINT MATTHEW, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST
THEME: I DESIRE MERCY AND NOT SACRIFICE…….” I did not come to call the righteous but sinners”
BY: Fr. Joan PUJOL i Balcells
NAMES OF THE SAINTS AND FEAST DAYS
NAMES OF THE SAINTS AND FEAST DAYS: We grouped the saints according to feast days, and make sure that their is a name of saint for everyday. You may notice that some days have more […]
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe Juan Diego is a 57 years old Mexican man. He is a peasant, a simple farmer and laborer, and he has no education. On his way to Mass in the early […]
HOW THE APOSTLES DIED
HOW THE APOSTLES DIED. Matthew. Suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, Killed by a sword wound. Mark. Died in Alexandria, Egypt , after being dragged by Horses through the streets until he was dead. Luke. Was hanged […]
Saint of the day: St. Andrew the Apostle
St. Andrew, also known as Andrew the Apostle, was a Christian Apostle and the older brother to St. Peter. Andrew was born in the village of Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee during the early […]
Life of Saint Cecilia
Life of Saint Cecilia: Saint Cecilia is the patroness of all musicians. When the musicians played at her wedding as it was written, she sang in her heart to the Lord. Her feast day is […]
Life of St. Edmund Rich
Life of Saint Edmund Rich: Edmund of Abingdon also known as Edmund Rich or St Edmund of Canterbury was the 13th century Archbishop of Canterbury in England. Early life and career Edmund Rich was born […]
The Memorial of Blessed Iwene Tansi
Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi was a native of Aguleri town of Anambra State, Nigeria. He was born in Aguleri, in September 1903 and he died in Leicester, England on January 24, 1964. He was […]
Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was the first native born American to be canonized by the Catholic Church. She was born two years before the American Revolution, and grew up in the upper class of New […]
Life of Saint Saturninus
St. Saturninus was the first bishop of Toulouse. It is not known if there were Christians in the town previously, or if his preaching won many converts, but whatever the case, he founded a small […]
Life of Saint Juan Diego, the patron saint of Indigenous people
Saint Juan Diego a native of Mexico was born in 1474 as Cuauhtlatoatzin. He was the first Roman Catholic indigenous saint from the Americas. Following the early death of his father, Juan Diego was taken to live with his […]
St Chaeremon of Nilopolis
St. Chaeremon was a priest and bishop of Nilopolis in Egypt. Chaeremon and his companions were martyred during the reign of Emperor Trajanus Decius. Many of the Christians were driven out into the desert. There […]
Life of Saint Andrew Dung Lac
Andrew Dũng-Lạc was born at Trần An Dũng in 1795. He came from a poor, non-Christian family and was taught by a Christian lay catechist. He worked in the missions with the priests of the Foreign […]
Life of Blessed Charles de Foucauld
Blessed Charles de Foucauld was born into an aristocratic family in Strasbourg, France. He was orphaned at the age of 6, and raised by his devout grandfather. He rejected the Catholic faith as a teenager, and […]
Saint of the day: Blessed Miguel Pro
Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez was the eldest son of Miguel Pro and Josefa Juarez.He was born on 13th January, 1891 in Guadalupe, Mexico. Miguelito, as he was fondly called, was from an early age, intensely […]
St. Catherine of Alexandria
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine was the daughter of Constus, the governor of Alexandrian Egypt during the reign of the emperor Maximian […]
St. Anthony the Hermit
Anthony was born about circa 468 at Valeria in Lower Pannonia. When he was eight years old, his father died and he was first entrusted to the care of St. Severinus. After the death of […]
Saint of the day: St John Berchmans
John Berchmans was born on 13th March 1599, in the city of Diest situated in what is now the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. His parents were John Charles, a shoemaker and Elizabeth Berchmans. He […]
Life of St. Andre Bessette
Alfred Bessette also known as Saint André of Montreal was a lay brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He was born on August 9, 1845 in Mont-Saint- Grégoire , Quebec , a small town […]
Feast of Pope St. Anastasius I
Pope Anastasius I was a Roman by birth, and a little is known of his early life. St. Jerome wrote of Pope Anastasius that he was a distinguished man of blameless life and apostolic solicitude, […]
THE MARTYRS OF PARAGUAY
The martyrs of Paraguay are three Jesuit priests; Father Roque Gonzalez, Father Alphonsus Rodriguez and Father Juan de Castillo who out of love and passion for Jesus, devoted their lives to the conversion of souls. […]
Saint of the day: St Catherine Laboure
St. Catherine Laboure, a virgin, was born on May 2, 1806. At an early age she entered the community of the Daughters of Charity, in Paris, France. Three times in 1830 the Virgin Mary appeared […]
Life of Saint Peter Canisius
Peter Canisius, a renowned courageous Dutch Jesuit Priest was born in 1521 in Nijmegen in the Duchy of Guelders. At 43, he founded colleges that even Protestants respected. They gave him a cover as official […]
Life of St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas, also known as “Nikolaos of Myra,” was a fourth century saint and Greek bishop of Myra. He was born in Asia Minor in the Roman Empire as an only child to Christian parents. […]
Life of St Thomas à Becket, Bishop, Martyr
Life of St Thomas à Becket, Bishop, Martyr: According to a contemporary writer, Thomas Becket was the son of Gilbert Becket, sheriff of London; another relates that both parents were of Norman blood. Whatever his […]
WHERE THERE IS HATRED, JUST SOW LOVE – St. Francis of Assisi
Few days ago, I picked up a pithy profile of St. Francis of Assisi. It was my first time to have a glance on his life story. One doubt that I got cleared, was that […]