Jesuit martyrs of North America. John was born in Normandy, France, on March 25, 1593. Joining the Society of Jesus, he was ordained in 1622. Three years later he volunteered for the missions in Quebec. Canada. For the next quarter of a century, with a brief interruption, he labored among the Huron Indians. His labors […]
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Saint of the Week – Our Lady of Fatima
October 13 The Promised Miracle of the Sun The greatest miracle to occur since the Resurrection is also the only miracle ever precisely predicted as to date, time of day and location. While popularly known as “The Miracle of the Sun,” October 13, 1917 has come to be known as “The Day the Sun Danced,” […]
Saint of the Week – St. Faustina Kowalska
Feast Day – October 5th Sister Faustina was a young, uneducated nun in a convent of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Poland during the 1930s. She came from a poor family that struggled during the years of World War I. She had only three years of simple education, so hers […]
Saint of the Week – St. Thomas of Villanova
Feast Day – September 22nd Augustinian bishop. Born at Fuenllana, Castile, Spain, he was the son of a miller. He studied at the University of Alcala, earned a licentiate in theology, and became a professor there at the age of twenty-six. He declined the chair of philosophy at the university of Salamanca and instead entered […]
Saint of the Week – St. John Chrysostom
St. John, named Chrysostom (golden-mouthed) on account of his eloquence, came into the world of Christian parents, about the year 344, in the city of Antioch. His mother, at the age of 20, was a model of virtue. He studied rhetoric under Libanius, a pagan, the most famous orator of the age. In 374, he […]
Saint of the Week – St. Peter Claver
St. Peter Claver was born at Verdu, Catalonia, Spain, in 1580, of impoverished parents descended from ancient and distinguished families. He studied at the Jesuit college of Barcelona, entered the Jesuit novitiate at Tarragona in 1602, and took his final vows on August 8th, 1604. While studying philosophy at Majorca, the young religious was influenced […]
Saint of the Week – St. Edmund Arrowsmith
St. Edmund Arrowsmith (born 1585) was the son of Robert Arrowsmith, a farmer, and was born at Haydock, England. He was baptized Brian, but always used his Confirmation name of Edmund. The family was constantly harassed for its adherence to Catholicism, and in 1605 Edmund left England and went to Douai to study for the […]
Saint of the Week – St. Joseph Calasanz
Feast Day- August 25th The Spanish priest, St. Joseph Calasanz (1556-1648), devoted his life to the education of deprived children. Joseph was ordained in 1583 after being trained in canon law and theology. He went to Rome, where it seemed he had a promising Church career, but he was shocked by the ignorance and poor […]
Saint of the Week – St. Bernard
Feast Day – August 20th St. Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church St. Bernard was born of noble parentage in Burgundy, France, in the castle of Fontane’s near Dijon. Under the care of his pious parents he was sent at an early age to a college at Chatillon, where he was conspicuous for his […]
Saint of the Week – St. Teresa Benedicta
Feast Day – August 9th Edith Stein was born October 12, 1891 (the Feast of Atonement) to a Jewish family in Breslau, Germany. Though she became agnostic in her teen years, through her passionate study of philosophy as an adult she searched after truth and found it in reading the autobiography of St. Teresa of […]
