He is said to have been a British king, who after the death of his queen, resigned the crown to his son and became a monk in the monastery of St. David. He then went into North Britain and joined St. Columba in preaching the gospel among the Picts who then inhabited a great part…
Senator and prefect of Rome, then in succession monk, cardinal and pope, St. Gregory governed the Church from 590 to 604. England owes her conversion to him. At a period when the invasion of the barbarians created a new situation in Europe, he played a considerable part in the transitional stage, during which a great…
An only daughter and heiress of significant fortune, St. Kennocha made an entire sacrifice of herself to God, by making her religious profession in a great nunnery in the county of Fife. By an extraordinary love of poverty and mortification, a wonderful gift of prayer and purity of singleness of heart, she attained to the…
An ardent zeal for the salvation of souls brought this servant of God from Italy to North-Britain. By preaching the word of God, St. Boniface reformed the manners of the people in the provinces of Angus, Marris, Buchan, Elgin, Murray and Ross. He died about the year 630 and was buried at Rosmark. The Breviary…
Son of Conail who was the son of Alild, King of Munster, St. Finian imitated the patience of Job under a loathsome and tedious distemper from which his surname comes. The famous abbey of Innis-fallen which stood in an island of that name, in the great and beautiful lake of Lough-Lane in the county of…
Bishop of Jerusalem from 350-386, St. Cyril did much to maintain the traditional faith of the Church at one of the critical turning points of her doctrinal history. Before he was a bishop his catechetical instructions (preached to the catechumens and the newly baptized) formed a wonderful body of teaching on the sacraments and the…
Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary and foster-father of Jesus Christ, St. Joseph faithfully and humbly carried out the difficult and glorious mission entrusted to him by God and thus became the model of domestic virtues and humble daily toil, the guardian of chaste souls and the protector of Christian homes. Veneration of St. Joseph…
His mother was St. Bethildes and he spent many years in the court to King Clotaire III. He bestowed his estate of Maurilly on the abbey of Fontenelle in Normandy. He was consecrated archbishop of Sens in 682 but later resigned his bishopric and after a retreat at Fontenelle entered Friesland as a poor missionary…
At turning points of history God raises up great saints to ensure the fulfillment of the Church’s divine mission for the souls of men. St Benedict was born at Nursia in Umbria in 480 and was sent to Rome to be educated, but soon left the world to live a solitary life at Subiaco. After…
She was a rich Roman lady, who, after the death of her husband, mortified her flesh by wearing rough sackcloth and passed whole nights in prayer, and by humility seemed every one’s menial servant. She died in 384 and is honored on this day in the Roman Martyrology.
