St. Bertha – Widow, Abbess
BERTHA was the daughter of Count Rigobert and Umana, related to one of the kings of Kent in…
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St. Irenaeus – Bishop, Martyr
THIS Saint was born about the year 120. He was a Grecian, probably a native of Lesser Asia.…
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…
St. Athanasius – Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of the Church
ATHANASIUS was born in Egypt towards the end of the third century, and was from his youth pious,…
St. Andrew Corsini – Bishop, Confessor
Andrew Corsini was born in Florence on 30 November 1302 into the noble and illustrious Corsini family, one…
St. Blaise – Bishop, Martyr
ST. BLAISE devoted the earlier years of his life to the study of philosophy, and afterwards became a…
The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary
THE law of God, given by Moses to the Jews, ordained that a woman, after childbirth, should continue…
Saint Cornelius the Centurion
Soon after the sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross and His Ascension into Heaven, a…
St. Ignatius – Bishop, Martyr
ST. IGNATIUS, Bishop of Antioch, was the disciple of St. John. When Domitian persecuted the Church, St. Ignatius…