Category: Catholic Saints

22views 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,…

14views 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…

58views 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…

23views 1shareBishop, Confessor and Doctor Brother of Saints Leandro, Isidore and Florentina, he cooperated with Leandro in the conversion of the Goths and in the education of Isidore. He governed the dioceses…

25views 1sharePope and Martyr He ruled “The Queen of the Churches”, as he called the Roman Church, in the last days of the persecution of the pagan emperors. Condemned by Maxentius to…

20views 1shareAbbot Since he was a child he was educated in a holy manner by Saint Benedict. Obedient to the voice of his teacher, he walked on the water to save the…

36views 1shareThe patriarch of the anchorites, at the age of fifteen, distributed his patrimony to the poor, and retired to the wilderness, where he lived until he was one hundred and thirteen…

33views 1sharePriest and Martyr He was born in Nola; he suffered terrible persecutions for the faith, even though he survived the torments. His grave glows with innumerable miracles. V/. St. Felix.R/. Pray…

47views 1shareBishop, Confessor and Doctor Bishop of Poitiers, he fought against the Arian heresy, which denied the divinity of Christ; for this he suffered exile. He wrote twelve books on the Most…

25views 1shareCatholic Feast Today we remember the proclamation of the divinity of Christ in the Jordan. The Baptist, pointing at him, exclaims: “That is the Lamb of God: that is the one…

31views 1sharePope and Martyr Saint Hyginus was the eighth successor of Saint Peter: of Greek origin, he ruled the Church for four years (139-143), in the empire of Antonino Pio. V/. St….

42views 1shareCatholic Feast Circumcision was instituted by God, as a sign of the covenant that he celebrated with Abraham and his lineage. With this rite was added the one who received him…

49views 1sharePope and Confessor The Pontificate of Saint Silvester is one of the most glorious in history. In his time, the Church came out of the catacombs to occupy the Imperial Palace…

100views 1shareApostle and Evangelist After evangelizing Spain, Santiago suffered martyrdom in Jerusalem, slaughtered by Herod the tetrarch, near Easter. His sacred body was collected by his disciples Athanasius and Teodoro, who embarked…

30views 2sharesBishop and Martyr Born in London, he came by divine choice to occupy the seat of Canterbury, the primate of England; He gloriously defended the independence of the Church against the…

36views 1shareMartyrs The cruelty of Herod, who, trying to get rid of Christ, cut the lives of so many innocents in bloom, puts, among the joys of Bethlehem, a note of sadness…