Author: Pablo Claret

31views 1sharePope and Martyr Eleventh successor of Saint Peter, he ruled the Church from the year 155 to the year 166. He received the visit of Saint Polycarp, and fought the heretics…

18views 1shareMartyr He is one of the great apologists for the Christian religion in the second century. He sought the truth in the sects of the philosophers, but found it only in…

18views 1shareMartyr Son of the Visigothic King Leovigildo, he was converted to Catholicism by St. Leandro, Archbishop of Seville. Constrained by his father to receive Easter communion at the hands of an…

19views 1sharePope, Confessor and Doctor It was Tuscan or Roman. The majesty of Leo the Great arrested the barbarian Attila, who withdrew from Italy and died the following year, 453. He fought…

36views 1shareConfessor He was born in Valencia and professed in the Order of Saint Dominic. He is one of the most distinguished preachers and miracle workers who have enlightened the Church. He…

28views 1shareBishop, Confessor and Doctor Younger brother of St. Leandro and St. Fulgencio, he illuminated Spain from his Seville headquarters. As a young man, in the retreat of the cloister, he reached…

19views 1shareConfessor Napolitan, he lived a very innocent and harsh life, founded the Order of Minims. He died at the age of ninety-one. V/. St. Francis of PaolaR/. Pray for us. 19views…

26views 1shareConfessor and Doctor Priest, monk and profound theologian, he fought with his pen against the Byzantine emperor Leon Isaurico in favor of the cult of sacred images. It is said that,…

53views 1shareCatholic Feast In the marvelous Mystery of the Incarnation, the Son of God annihilated himself, taking the form and nature of a servant in the womb of the Virgin Mary. Let…

30views 1shareArchangel It is the Angel of the Incarnation. In the Old Testament he announced to Daniel the date of the Messiah’s advent, after seventy weeks of years. He announced to Zacharias…

29views 1shareAbbot The glorious patriarch of the monks of the West is one of the most distinguished benefactors of the Church and of humanity. Through his sons he brought the Gospel and…

32views 1shareCatholic Feast The Word had to be born of a virgin mother: a mystery that had to remain hidden under the veil of marriage. God entrusted his mother to Saint Joseph,…

27views 2sharesBishop, Confessor and Doctor He suffered terrible persecution from the Arians. His immortal work is called the Catechesis, twenty-four instructions to catechumens on the mysteries of the Catholic faith. Julian the…

23views 1shareBishop and Confessor The great apostle of Ireland in the 5th century, when northern Europe lay in darkness, brought the light of faith to what was soon transformed into the Island…

96views 1shareAbbot He was canon of Tarazona; Cistercian religious layman and Abad of Fitero. Calatrava abandoned by the Templars before the push of the Moorish, Raymond, who at the time was in…

16views 1shareConfessor and Doctor Roman nobleman, he was piously educated by his mother, Santa Silvia. He embraced the Benedictine rule at thirty-five years of age. Ordained deacon, he went as an apostolic…

28views 1shareMartyrs In Sebaste, Armenia, forty Christian soldiers were, by confession of faith, thrown into a frozen pond. There they spent the night; but at dawn one went out and went to…

35views 1shareWidow From a noble family, she felt inclined to religious life since she was a child; but her parents married her when she was eleven years old, and she lived in…

39views 1shareConfessor He was Portuguese, and as a young man he led a wandering life, as a shepherd, soldier, bookseller, etc. Hearing in Granada a sermon by Blessed Juan de Ávila, who…

41views 1shareConfessor and Doctor Dominican friar, almost an angel, no less for the sublimity of his intelligence than for the purity and holiness of his soul, is one of the highest peaks…