Today’s Saint

St. Father Damien of Molokai

by Lisa Wheeler May 10, 2013

In the 1800s, the Hawaiian Islands suffered a severe leprosy epidemic. In order to contain the spread of the disease, those infected were isolated to the island of Molokai. Unfortunately, the Hawaiian government was remiss in their duties to properly…

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St. Pachomius

by Celine McCoy May 9, 2013

Although St. Anthony is usually considered the founder of Christian monasticism, it was really St. Pachomius who began monasticism as we know it today. He was the first monk to organize hermits into groups and provide them with a written…

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St. Peter of Tarentaise, Bishop (1102-75)

by Celine McCoy May 8, 2013

Born in France, Peter joined the Cistercian order at the age of 20 and also persuaded his father and two brothers to join him in the monastery at Bonnevaux. By the time he was 30, he had been chosen abbot…

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St. John of Beverly

by Celine McCoy May 7, 2013

John was born in the 7th century in Harpham, Yorkshire, England. As a young man he studied for the priesthood and monastic life under Saints Adrian and Theodore in Kent. On his return to Yorkshire, he became a monk at…

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St. Eadbert

by Saints Editor May 6, 2013

Eadbert was ordained successor to St. Cuthbert, in the see of Lindisfarne, in the year 687. He spent eleven years as bishop of that church. Like his predecessor, Eadbert made it a practice to spend Lent and forty days prior…

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St. Angelus

by Saints Editor May 5, 2013

Angelus, also known as Angelo of Jerusalem, was born to Jewish parents who had converted to Catholicism in the twelfth century. When he was a teenager, he and his twin brother joined a group of hermits and founded the first…

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St. Monica

by Saints Editor May 4, 2013

There is little known about Monica’s early life, but we do know she was born of Christian parents in North Africa in the year 333.  While still a young woman, her parents arranged her marriage to a pagan official named…

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Saints Philip and James (Apostles)

by Saints Editor May 3, 2013

St. James is listed in the Gospels as the son of Alphaeus; he was sometimes referred to as St. James “the Lesser,” to distinguish him from St. James “the Greater,” who was also an Apostle and was the brother of…

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St. Athanasius (Bishop and Doctor)

by Saints Editor May 2, 2013

St. Athanasius (296?-373) was a great Egyptian bishop who played a major role in opposing the heresy of Arianism and in preserving the Church’s true faith. He was born of a Christian family in Alexandria, where he received a classical…

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St. Joseph the Worker

by Saints Editor May 1, 2013

May 1, or “May Day,” was celebrated throughout the Communist world as a way of supposedly honoring the role and importance of laborers in Marxist countries. The Communist conception of work as almost an end in itself was, of course,…

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