Category: Catholic Saints

25views 1shareConfessor The glorious founder of the Order of the Holy Trinity, for the redemption of Christian captives, had Saint Felix de Valois as a collaborator in this work. He worked mainly…

13views 1shareAbbot At the age of twenty he became a monk at Monte Cassino. Desiring greater perfection, he retired to a hermitic life. He then came to Spain, and at the beginning…

27views 1shareVirgin and Martyr She was beheaded in Caesarea in Cappadocia. She is an advocate for gardeners and florists, and also for young spouses. V/. St. DorotheaR/. Pray for us. 27views 1share

23views 1shareBishop and Confessor He was a disciple of Saint Paul, who named him Bishop of Crete, and addressed him a wonderful letter, full of precious advice on the pastoral charge. He…

16views 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…

18views 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/….

34views 1shareCatholic Feast According to the law of Moses, every woman who gave birth to a boy contracted legal impurity for forty days, after which she had to offer, as an expiatory…

38views 1shareBishop and Martyr He was the second successor of Saint Peter in the Cathedra of Antioch. Due to his apostolic work he was taken prisoner to Rome, whose coliseum he ennobled…

17views 1shareConfessor The modern apostle of the youth workers, to whom he opens the way to heaven, and provides the office to live honestly on earth, perpetuated his work by founding the…

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…

12views 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…

22views 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…

26views 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…

18views 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….

31views 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…

20views 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,…