Author: Pablo Claret

15views 1shareVirgin and Martyr Born in Sicily, she consecrated her virginity to God. She was gorgeous; Her praetor fell in love with her and, irritated by her refusal, subjected her to terrible…

17views 1shareBishop and Confessor In his adolescence he lived licentiously; converted at nineteen, he entered the Carmelite Order. He was Bishop of Fiesole. Clement XII extended his feast to the whole Church….

13views 1shareBishop and Martyr Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, he was martyred in 316. He is a lawyer against sore throats, and bread, wine and oil are blessed in his honor. V/….

22views 1shareVirgin and Martyr An orphan in her tender years, she distributed her rich heritage to the poor. Refusing to worship idols, she was terribly tormented in Rome, her homeland, and at…

10views 1shareBishop, Confessor and Doctor The most sweet Bishop of Geneva shines as founder and father of the Order of the Visitation, as an apostle of the heretics of whom he personally…

36views 1shareConfessor Born near Carcassonne, he had Spain as his second homeland. Together with Saint Raimund of Penyafort, and supported by the great Jaime I the Conqueror, he founded in Barcelona the…

21views 1shareBishop, Confessor and Doctor Chrysostom, “Mouth of Gold”, is the prince of sacred speakers, the incomparable commentator of divine Scripture, the intrepid expositor of courtly corruption. For seven years he was…

22views 1shareBishop and Martyr He was a very dear disciple of the Apostle Saint John, who refers to him in the Apocalypse, naming him “the angel of the Church of Smyrna.” He…

14views 1shareApostle Saul, a Jew by nation, a Pharisee by sect, persecuted the nascent Church; and commissioned by the Synagogue, he was on the road to Damascus to apprehend as many Christians…

16views 1shareBishop and Martyr Son of a Gentile father and a Jewish mother, he accompanied Saint Paul on his apostolic trips, which left him as Bishop of Ephesus, and wrote him two…

43views 1shareBishop, Confessor and Doctor Spain celebrates on January 23 the Doctor of the Virginity of Mary, a doctrine which he defended against the Jews and against the heretics Joviniano and Helvidio….

29views 1shareVirgin and Martyr Saint Agnes was her foster sister, she went to cry at the tomb of her little friend; surprised by the pagans, she rebukes them for the cruelty they…

17views 1shareConfessor From a noble Catalan family, he entered the Order of Preachers, of which he became General. He was a distinguished minister of the Sacrament of Penance and an excellent canonist,…

19views 1shareMartyrs Vicente, born in Huesca, was Deacon of San Valerio in Zaragoza. Imprisoned by order of Daciano and taken to Valencia, he was whipped, tormented on the easel, roasted on grills,…

13views 1shareVirgin and Martyr “I love Christ and, loving him, I am chaste; touching him, I am pure; receiving him, I am a virgin. “ Thus said Ines, a thirteen-year-old girl, betrothed…

14views 1shareMartyrs Saint Fabian, an incomparable man, of great purity and holiness, ordered that the Acts of the Martyrs be written. He suffered martyrdom on January 20, 250. Thirty-eight years later, also…

52views 1shareMartyrs Mario and Martha, noble spouses of Persia, with their two sons, Audifaz and Abaco, went to Rome during Claudius’s empire to venerate the tombs of the martyrs. There they helped…

18views 1shareVirgin and Martyr Thirteen-year-old girl, baptized in Rome by the Apostle Saint Peter, died beheaded in the empire of Claudius. She is perhaps the holy proto-martyr of the West. Her Church,…

28views 1shareCatholic Feast Saint Peter was constituted by Christ supreme Shepherd of the whole Church. This prerogative, which he had to transmit to his successors, remained, by divine disposition, linked to the…

15views 1shareAbbot He was Egyptian, and at the age of eighteen he retired to the desert, where at first he led a hermit life; but the fame of his sanctity gathered around…