65views 2sharesCatholic Feast. The Mother of God went through the trance of death; but her death, caused by love and desire to be with her Divine Son, was similar to a most…
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Vigil of the Assumption, August 14
72views 1shareCatholic Feast. Today is the day to purify our spirit and prepare it to celebrate the glorious triumph of the Mother of God. V: Most Blessed Mother.A: Pray for us. 72views…
Saint Eusebius of Rome August 14
57views 1shareConfessor. A hermit in the fourth century, he fought the Arians and, imprisoned in his home for six months, rested with a death similar to martyrdom. V: Saint Eusebius.A: Pray for…
Commemoration of Saints Hippolytus and Cassiano, August 13
76views 1shareMartyrs. Saint Hippolytus, converted and baptized by Saint Lawrence, gave his life for Christ, dragged by wild horses. Saint Cassian, a schoolmaster, was handed over by the tyrant to his own…
Saint Clare of Assisi August 12
139views 1shareVirgin. Led by St. Francis, she founded the second Franciscan Order for women, called Poor Clares, of great austerity and poverty, and widely propagated in the Church. She worked great wonders…
Commemoration of Saints Tiburcio and Susana, August 11
85views 1shareMartyrs. Tiburcio, son of the Prefect of Rome, walked unharmed through the flames, and said to his executioners: “That you may know, that the only God is that of Christians. “…
Saint Lawrence August 10
61views 1shareDeacon and Martyr. No Saint, after Saint Peter and Saint Paul, was celebrated in Rome with greater enthusiasm than the Spanish Saint Lawrence, the third protector of the Eternal City. His…
Saint Roman of Rome, August 9
59views 2sharesMartyr. He was a Roman soldier, who, admiring the courage of Saint Lawrence, asked to receive baptism and went ahead first to receive the crown of martyrdom. V: Saint Roman.A: Pray…
Saint John Vianney, (Curé d’Ars), August 9
126views 4sharesConfessor. (1786-1859). In the middle of the 19th century, the humble priest of the village of Ars, of little brightness for ecclesiastical studies, but intimately united with God through prayer, penance…
Saints Cyriacus, Largus, Smaragdus and companions, August 8
114views 2sharesMartyrs. Twenty-three Martyrs, lead by the Deacon Saint Cyriacus and his two companions, presented their necks to the hangman’s ax in the last and most terrible of the Roman persecutions in…
Saint Donatus, August 7
74views 1shareBishop and Martyr. Bishop of Arezzo in Tuscany, he was beheaded by order of Emperor Julian the Apostate in 362. V: Saint Donatus.A: Pray for us. 74views 1share
Saint Cajetan of Thiene, August 7
43views 1shareConfessor. He founded the Order of the Congregation of Clerks Regular of the Divine Providence or Theatine Clerks in 1524, dedicated to imitate the life of the Apostles. He himself and by…
Justus and Pastor, August 6
32views 1shareMartyrs The men trembled before the barbarous persecution of the prefect Publio Daciano; But two boys and brothers who attended school, Justus, age seven, and Pastor, age nine, spontaneously appeared in…
Saints Sixtus II, Pope; Felicissimus and Agapitus, Martyrs, August 6
40views 1shareSixtus, an Athenian philosopher, converted to the only true faith, came to the chair of Saint Peter. Of his seven Deacons, six suffered with him: Felicissimus, Agapitus, Jenarus, Magnus, Vicent and…
Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ, August 6
247views 1shareCatholic Feast. This feast was extended to the entire Church by the Spanish Pope Calixto III, to commemorate the victory of the Cross on the walls of Belgrade, where the proud…
Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary of the Snows, August 5
34views 1shareDedication of the patriarchal basilica of Saint Mary Major, named that way for being the greatest of all the temples in Rome consecrated to the Mother of God. It is also…
Saint Dominic of Guzman, August 4
35views 1shareConfessor The fervent preacher of the Christian faith; the Holy athlete, gentle to his own, terrible to his enemies, was born in the happy town of Caleruega, in the province of…
The Invention of St. Stephen Or The Discovery Of His Relics, August 3
107views 1shareCatholic Feast. Protomartyr. At the beginning of the century the sacred relics of the Holy Protomartyr were discovered, and solemnly transferred to Jerusalem. This is the feast that the Church celebrates…
Saint Stephen, August 2
41views 1sharePope and Martyr He declared the repetition of baptism unlawful and invalid, even in the case of heretics who had validly received it. Just celebrating, he was beheaded in his own…
Saint Alphonsus Maria of Ligouri, August 2
33views 1shareBishop, Confessor and Doctor When the wave of impiety grew and announced the frightful storm of the revolution, God raised up Saint Alphonsus so that, for himself and for his Redemptorist…