Today’s Saint

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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Sts. Joachim & Anne

by CE Webmaster July 26, 2007

Sts. Joachim & Anne (1st C., B.C.), parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  St. Anne, mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Patron of Christian Mothers.…

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St. Benedict

by CE Webmaster July 11, 2007

St. Benedict, Abbot, Father of Western Monasticism, and twin of St. Scholastica (February 10) was born around 480 A.D. at Nursia, and died at Monte Cassino on March 21, 543. St. Gregory wrote most of what is known about him…

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Mary, Mother of God

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. January 1, 2007

The mother of the Messiah has been called many things in the last 2000 years — the Virgin Mary, Our Lady, the Blessed Mother.  But call her "the Mother of God" and you'll see some Christians squirm.
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St. John Cantius (John of Kanty)

by Saints Editor December 20, 2006

St. John Cantius 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, but for his personal holiness which endeared…

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St. Ischyrion, Martyr

by Saints Editor December 20, 2006

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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