Lives of Saints 
Stories and biographies of the Saints and Blessed.
There is no other God than God the Father
1. My name is Patrick. I am a sinner, a simple country person, and the least of all believers. I am looked down upon by many. My father was Calpornius. He was a deacon; his father was Potitus, a priest, who lived at Bannavem Taburniae. His home was near there, and that is where I… Read More ›
Sister Lucia Close To Beatification
Rector of the Shrine of Fatima asked pilgrims to pray The diocesan phase of the process for the canonization of Sister Lucia de Jesus (1907-2005), one of the three seers of Fatima, ended and it will now pass to the competency of the Holy See and the Pope. The announcement was made today through a… Read More ›
St. Scholastica
On Feb. 10, the Catholic Church remembers St. Scholastica, a nun who was the twin sister of St. Benedict, the “father of monasticism” in Western Europe. The siblings were born around 480 to a Roman noble family in Nursia, Italy. Scholastica seems to have devoted herself to God from her earliest youth, as the account… Read More ›
The Real Story Behind the Church’s Tradition of Blessing Throats
Through the intercession of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every other illness, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. —Prayer from the the Blessing of the Throats Years ago a priest told me that when… Read More ›
Sts. Maurus and Placid: Patrons of Oblates
In the Benedictine tradition [January 15] is the feast of the young disciples of Saint Benedict, Maurus and Placid. The tradition holds that after the holy Benedict had established his twelve monasteries at Subiaco, noble Christians came from Rome, presenting their sons to be raised and educated among the monks. Not unusual given the state of… Read More ›
(Advent Reflection) The Call of the Porter
Unlike the traditional American Christmas prelude which stretches from the first sight of candy corn until the beginning of TBS’s “24 hours of A Christmas Story,” the Catholic Church’s lead-up to the Feast of the Nativity is short but sweet. Advent, lasting between four and five weeks depending on the calendar, is a time set… Read More ›
December 12: Our Lady of Guadelupe
CNA: In 1531 a “Lady from Heaven” appeared to Saint Juan Diego, a poor Indian from Tepeyac, a hill northwest of Mexico City. She identified herself as the Mother of the True God and instructed him to have the bishop build a church on the site and left an image of herself imprinted miraculously on… Read More ›
Feast St. Nicholas, the Wonderworker and Archbishop of Myra
Our Holy Father Nicholas, emulator of the Apostles and ardent imitator of the Lord Jesus Christ, appears as a living pillar of the Church, zealous in defense of the faith and a model of pastoral solicitude for holy bishops. Through his countless miracles on behalf of the poor, the abandoned, of those suffering injustice and… Read More ›
A Very Curious Legend of St Raphael
The revised version of Butler’s Lives of the Saints, in the notes to the entry for the feast of St Raphael the Archangel, says that “In the Ethiopic Synaxarium… is a curious account of the dedication of a church to St Raphael in an island off Alexandria early in the fifth century.” A reference is… Read More ›
The miraculous apparition of St Michael the Archangel in Mexico
St Michael the Archangel to the rescue: How the Prince of the Heavenly Host was sent to miraculously end the horrific plague in Tlaxcala, Mexico. “At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people.” Daniel 12:1 More than a millennium after ending the plague in Rome (April 25), and… Read More ›