Saints Cyril and Methodius, and, Yes, Valentine
Today in the universal calendar - superseded this year by Ash Wednesday - we celebrate the ninth-century monks and missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius,...
The Seven Founders of the Servite Order
On February 17th, we celebrate the liturgical memorial of the Seven Founders of the Servite Order, whose story goes back to the thirteen century.
In...
Saint Polycarp’s – Baked Bread and Boldness
The Church has had martyrs since her earliest days, and will have them unto the end of time. One of the first in the...
Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto – The Youngest, but not the Least, of Canonized...
On this day in 1920, February 20th, the 'Spanish' influenza took the life of nine-year old Jacinta Marto, as she lay alone in a...
Leaning on the Chair of Peter
The Chair of Saint Peter, is a comforting one, a symbol of the 'pillar and bulwark' of the truth, which is the Church, signifying...
Katharine Drexel: The First All American Saint
Mother Katharine Mary Drexel (1858 - 1955) is a fitting intercessor for the racial tensions afflicting her native United States - she is the...
Saint Casimir of Poland
Today's saint, one of the patrons of Poland, and of Lithuania, whose very name means 'bearer of peace', makes a very a propos intercessor...
Saint David, of Wales
A brief note on Saint David, the sixth-century monastic bishop, now patron, of Wales, born at an unknown date, but who likely died on...
Saint Frances of Rome – Finding Your Path Where You May Not Have Wanted
We should not be surprised that the saints speak to us through the ages, how they responded in their own era - always with...
Saint John Ogilvie, the Last Martyr of Scotland
John Ogilvie was born in 1579, just as the Protestant 'reformation' was taking hold in Britain, including his (and my own) native land of...