Author: Celestine Claret

23views 1shareCatholic Feast The Church celebrates three nativities: that of Christ, that of the Virgin and that of St. John; because these three alone are known that were totally holy at birth….

24views 1shareCatholic Feast The great feast of Saint John is preceded by a vigil, the liturgy of this day celebrates the divine promise made to Zacharias, of the birth of the holy…

20views 1shareBishop From the most noble family of Roman patricians, he was born in Bordeaux and married a Spanish woman named Terasia; and following the path of worldly honors, he became Consul…

27views 1shareConfessor From his childhood he united to a great degree the candor of innocence with the harshness of penance. His chastity was truly angelic; his prayer, continuous and extremely high; his…

34views 1sharePope and Martyr He was elected Pope anti-canonically; but later the Roman clergy accepted him as their legitimate Pastor. He heroically resisted the wicked claims of the Empress Theodora, who banished…

31views 1shareVirgin She was born of noble parents, in Florence; At the age of sixteen, she took the veil in the Matelatas, a sort of Third Order of the Servites. Whe she…

83views 1shareMartyrs They were brothers, children of the saints Martyrs Vidal and Valeria. They suffered martyrdom in Milan. Their names appear in the Litany of the Saints. His cult was formerly very…

26views 1shareConfessor and Doctor Natural of Nisibe (Mesopotamia), he joined together in his life the double character of hermit and apostle. Hard with himself, he burned with zeal to convert Gentiles and…

53views 1shareMartyrs They were brothers, Roman nobles, converted to the faith by Saint Sebastian. Prisoners for Christ, they received a visit from their pagan wives in jail, and they presented their little…

37views 1shareVito (Guido) son of a pagan father, was baptized without his father knowing, and educated by the Christian spouses Modestus and Crescentia; all three shed their blood for Christ, being Emperor…

21views 1shareBishop, Confessor and Doctor He is one of the main doctors of the Greek Church, who decoded the heresies of Arius and Macedonius, which denied the divinity of the Word and…

20views 1shareConfessor and Doctor He was born in Lisbon, and at the age of fourteen he entered a community of Canons Regular. But at nineteen, eager for martyrdom, he entered the newly…

25views 2sharesConfessor Canon of the Cathedral of Burgos, eager for perfection, distributed his goods to the poor and entered the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine. He was very devoted to the…

53views 1shareMartyrs Military nobles, they generously confessed their faith in the Coliseum in Rome, in the time of Diocletian. V/. Saints Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius.R/. Pray for us. 53views 1share

18views 1shareApostle He appears in the Acts of the Apostles as a “good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith”, emulus of the Apostles in their tireless zeal for the…

24views 2sharesShe shine on the throne with heroic virtues, especially mortification and charity towards the poor. She raised her eight children with great care. She made the King, her husband, an emulator…

32views 1shareMartyrs They were brothers, and together they confessed the faith of Christ amid terrible torments, and were beheaded in the persecution of Diocletian. V/. Saint Primus and Felician.R/. Pray for us….

22views 1shareBishop and Confessor From a noble German family, he embraced the clerical state with little spirit, and lived in it more as a great lord than as an ecclesiastic. Surprised in…

13views 1shareConfessor He is one of the founders of the clerics regular minor, who dedicate themselves to contemplation and apostolic work. Three times he came to Spain to propagate his Order there;…