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Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Today we celebrate the feast of her in whom the Word was made flesh, in whom the Son of God united Himself for ever to our humanity in order to enable us to share in His Divinity. Through the mystery of the Incarnation Mary obtained her most wondrous title of the Mother of God. Through…
Roman Captives, Martyrs in Persia
In an incursion into the Christian territories, in 362 the Persians took by siege the castle Bethzarbe on the Tigris, massacred the garrison and led away nine thousand souls into captivity. Among these were Heliodorus, a bishop, Dausas and Mariabus, ancient priests, besides many other priests, monks and nuns. The good bishop died on the…
St. Bademus, Abbot
A rich and noble citizen of Bethlapeta in Persia, Bademus, desiring to devote himself to the service of God, founded a monastery near that city which he governed with great sanctity. God permitted him, with seven of his monks to be apprehended by the king Sapor in 376. He lay four months in a dungeon…
St. Leo the Great
Aware of the greatness of the task which confronted him in the fifth century with the great upheaval caused everywhere in Europe by the invasion of the Barbarians, St. Leo guided the destiny of the Chruch with such trust in God and wideness of view that he became not only the guardian of the faith…
St. Victor of Braga
Braga was a populous resort of the Romans on which account it was watered with the blood of many martyrs in the persecution of Dioclesian. St. Victor, who is mentioned in the Roman Martyrology was a catechumen who refusing to sacrifice to idols was condemned to lose his head and baptized in his own blood.
St. Hermenegild
Son of the king of the Visigoths in Spain, St. Hermenegild married the daughter of the king of the Franks and, despite the opposition of his mother who was an Arian, was converted to Catholicism. He was imprisoned and then put to death on April 13, 586, going to heaven to enjoy the royal estate…
St. Justin
St. Justin, apologist and martyr, was one of the most important Christian writers of the second century. He himself tells how his study of all the schools of philosophy led him to Christianity and how he dedicated his life to the defense of the Christian faith as “the one certain and profitable philosophy.” St. Justin…
St. Peter Gonzales
Born in 1190 kingdom of Leon in Spain, St. Peter’s uncle, the bishop of Astorga, preferred him to a canonry and shortly after to the deanery of his chapter. The young dean took possession of his dignity with great pomp but in the midst of his pride happened by a false step of his prancing…