Today’s Saint

Sts. Adam and Eve

by Saints Editor December 24, 2009

The name Adam means “the man,” and Eve — the name Adam gave his wife — means “the mother of all the living.” The enormity of their sin of disobedience was akin to Satan’s, formerly Lucifer or Lightbearer, who wanted…

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St. John Cantius

by Fr. Ed Dillon December 23, 2009

St. John Cantius (also known as St. John of Kanty) was a priest of the diocese of Cracow, Poland, and a professor of philosophy and Sacred Scripture of the university there. He was highly esteemed not only for his scholarship,…

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St. Ischyrion, Martyr

by Saints Editor December 22, 2009

Ischyrion was a Christian who lived in the third century.  He was a lowly attendant to an Egyptian magistrate. When one day his master commanded him to offer sacrifices to idols, Ischyrion refused.  Furious that his servant would dare to…

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Saint Peter Canisius

by Saints Editor December 21, 2009

Peter Canisius was a great evangelist and Catholic apologist. He was very successful in renewing the Catholic faith after the Protestant Reformation. He believed in teaching the truths of the faith without being controversial. During a time when there was…

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Saint Venantius

by Saints Editor December 20, 2009

Born Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus in 535, thankfully, we know him simply as Saint Venantius. He lived in Treviso, Italy, but was educated at Ravenna and went to Germany in the year 565. While living in Poitiers, he was ordained…

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St. Wolfgang

by Saints Editor October 31, 2009

Wolfgang was born in Swabia, Germany in 930 A.D. He studied at Reichenau under the Benedictines and at Wurzburg before serving as a teacher in the cathedral school of Trier. He soon entered the Benedictines at Einsiedeln in 964 and…

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

by Celine McCoy May 8, 2008

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. Apollonius the Apologist

by Saints Editor April 18, 2008

St. Apollonius is also known as Apollonius of Ephesus. He was a Roman senator who lived in the second century. He is thought to come from Ephesus because he was so well acquainted with the Christian history of that area.…

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St. Benedict Joseph Labre

by Saints Editor April 16, 2008

Information about Benedict comes from his confessor, Marconi, who later wrote an account of his life. Benedict was born in France on March 26, 1748, the eldest of fifteen children. His mother's name was Anne-Barba Grandsire, and his father was…

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Dedication of the Bascilica of St. Mary Major

by CE Webmaster August 5, 2007

Dedication of the Bascilica of St. Mary Major (Our Lady of the Snows) in Rome
St. Emygdius (304), Bishop, Martyr, invoked against earthquakes
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