Saint Patrick and His Emerald Isle
A very happy Saint Patrick’s Day, to all our readers, and we extend that to all who are of Irish lineage, or those who...
Novena Prayers to Saint Joseph
March 10th - or 11th, if you want to end on the Solemnity itself - is the day to begin the novena to Saint...
The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
We would remiss on this March 10th if we didn’t mention the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, a group of elite Roman legionaries –...
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 native land of Scotland, led by...
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...
The Radical Prodigal, Saint John of God
Saints are by definition ‘extreme’, for they live a liminal life, on the very threshold of eternity, seeing past the veil of this world....
Saints Perpetua, Felicity…and the 750th Anniversary of Thomas Aquinas
Today marks the memorial of the early martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, put to death likely in the year 203, under the reign of Septimius...
Saint Casimir the Chaste, 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...
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 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...