Today, we celebrate the memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, priest and martyr. Saint Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar. He was born on January 8, 1894, in Zduńska Wola, in the Kingdom of Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. At the age of 12, he had a […]

Today, we celebrate the optional memorial of Saints Pontian, pope, and Hippolytus, priests, and martyrs. St. Pontian was the successor of Peter, the bishop of the Church of Rome. He was arrested during a persecution of the Church ordered by the Roman emperor Maximinus in the third century. He was sentenced to a “living death” […]

Today, we celebrate the optional memorial of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, foundress of the Religious Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary. Saint Jane was born in Dijon, France, on 28 January 1572. At the age of 20, she was married to Baron de Chantal and they lived in the castle of Bourbilly. They […]

Today, we celebrate the memorial of Saint Clare of Assisi, virgin. Saint Clare of Assisi was the abbess and founder of the Poor Clare. As a child, she was known to be devoted to prayer. Narratives say that as a teen she heard Saint Francis of Assisi preach during a Lenten service in the church […]

Tomorrow, August 9, we will celebrate the memorial of Saint Lawrence, deacon and martyr. Saint Lawrence was one of the seven deacons serving Saint Pope Sixtus II. After, the death of Saint Pope Sixtus II, Lawrence was martyred probably under the persecution of Emperor Valerian. A well-known legend has persisted from the earliest times. As […]

Today, August 9, 2021, we celebrate the memorial of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, virgin, and martyr. Santa Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was a brilliant philosopher who stopped believing in God when she was 14. Twelve years later after reading the autobiography of Teresa of Avila, she began a spiritual journey that led […]