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Feastday: September 28 Lorenzo Ruiz is the first Filipino saint. He is also the first Filipino martyred for the Christian Faith. Lorenzo Ruiz was a layman, married, and had two sons and a [...]

Feastday: August 4 St. John Vianney, Priest (Patron of priests) Feast day – August 4 Universally known as the “Cure of Ars),” St. John Mary Vianney was ordained a priestin 1815. [...]

SAINT BONAVENTURE Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church, c.1221-1274 SAINT BONAVENTURE, the Seraphic Doctor, is spoken of, along with Duns Scotus and Saint Thomas Aquinas, as one of the [...]

Saint Cyril of Alexandria was Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church, c. 376-444 THERE was no room for compromise or indifference in the issues involved.  The disagreement, violent on both [...]

Jesus called John the greatest of all those who had preceded him: “I tell you, among those born of women, no one is greater than John….” But John would have agreed completely with what [...]

  Feastday: June 14 847 Patriarch of Constantinople, modem Istanbul. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily, and builta monastery on the island of Chios. After some time in Constantinople, he was [...]

Feastday: June 13 b.1195 d.1231 Saint Anthony was canonized (declared a saint) less than one year after his death. There is perhaps no more loved and admired saint in the Catholic Church than [...]

Feastday: June 11 All we know of Barnabas is to be found in the New Testament. A Jew, born in Cyprus and named Joseph, he sold his property, gave the proceeds to the Apostles, who gave him the [...]

Feastday: June 7 786 Bishop and missionary. A native of Wessex, England, he was the brother of Sts. Winebald and Walburga and was related through his mother to the great St. Boniface. After [...]