St. John Baptist de la Salle – Confessor
John Baptist de la Salle was born of a noble family of Rheims and as a young man…
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Sts. Nereus Achilleus, Domitilla and Pancras – Martyrs
Sts. Nereus and Achilleus were servants of St. Flavia Domitilla. She was the wife of the consul Flavius…
St. Antoninus – Bishop, Confessor
ANTONINUS, or Little Antony, as he was called from his small stature, was born at Florence in 1389.…
St. Gregory, Nazianzen – Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of the Church
GREGORY was born of saintly parents, and was the chosen friend of St. Basil. They studied together at…
The Apparition of St. Michael the Archangel
IT is manifest, from the Holy Scriptures, that God is pleased to make frequent use of the ministry…
St. Stanislaus – Bishop, Martyr
STANISLAS was born in answer to prayer when his parents were advanced in age. Out of gratitude they…
St. John before the Latin Gate
IN the year 95, St. John, who was the only surviving apostle, and governed all the churches of…
St. Pius V – Pope, Confessor
A DOMINICAN friar from his fifteenth year, Michael Ghislieri, as a simple religious, as inquisitor, as bishop, and…
St. Monica – Widow
MONICA, the mother of St. Augustine, was born in 332. A, a girlhood of singular innocence and piety,…
The Finding of the Holy Cross
GOD having restored peace to His Church, by exalting Constantine the Great to the imperial throne, that pious…