Immaculate Conception
ON this day, so dear to every Catholic heart, “we celebrate, in the first place, the moment in…
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St. Ambrose – Bishop, Confessor, Doctor
AMBROSE was of a noble family, and was governor of Milan in 374, when a bishop was to…
St. Nicholas of Bari – Bishop, Confessor
NICHOLAS, the patron Saint of Russia, was born toward the end of the third century. His uncle, the…
St. Sabbas – Abbot
SABAS, one of the most renowned patriarchs of the monks of Palestine, was born in the year 439,…
St. Peter Chrysologus – Bishop, Confessor, Doctor
St. Peter, Archbishop of Ravenna in Italy, who died about the year 450, won the title of Chrysologus,…
St. Francis Xavier – Confessor
YOUNG Spanish gentleman, in the dangerous days of the Reformation, was making a name for himself as a…
St. Bibiana – Virgin, Martyr
BIBIANA was a native of Rome. Flavian, her father, was apprehended, burned in the face with a hot…
St. Eligius – Pope, Martyr
ELIGIUS, a goldsmith at Paris, was commissioned by King Clotaire to make a throne. With the gold and…
St. Remigius – Bishop
REMIGIUS, or Remi, was born of noble and pious parents. At the age of twenty-two, in spite of…
The Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Popular devotion to the Sorrows of Our Blessed Lady, whom Holy Church invokes as Queen of Martyrs, led,…