Today’s Saint

Sts. Epipodius and Alexander

by Saints Editor April 22, 2013

These two young men, living in Lyons, became friends through the love of God they shared. Alexander was Grecian by birth. Both young men studied together in the same school, and encouraged each other in their acts of spirituality. Neither…

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St. Anselm (Bishop and Doctor)

by Saints Editor April 21, 2013

The English bishop and theologian St. Anselm (1033-1109) was one of the Church’s greatest medieval thinkers. Anselm was born of a noble family. At the age of fifteen he desired to enter a monastery, but his father forbade this. Anselm…

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St. Agnes of Montepulciano

by Saints Editor April 20, 2013

When only a small child in Montepulciano in Tuscany, Agnes would spend hours reciting the Our Father and the Hail Mary on her knees. Her parents realized that she was a very special child, totally dedicated to God, so when…

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St. Elphege, Martyr

by Saints Editor April 19, 2013

Elphege, also known as Alphege was born in the year 954. When he was just a young man he became a Benedictine monk at Deerhurst monastery in Gloucestershire, England. After a few years, he left to become a hermit at…

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St. Apollonius the Apologist

by Saints Editor April 18, 2013

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. Stephen Harding

by Saints Editor April 17, 2013

Stephen was born in the eleventh century at Sherborne in Dorsetshire, England. He was educated at Sherborne Abbey and traveled to Scotland, Paris, and Rome. On the way home from his travel, he stopped at an abbey near Molesmes and…

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St. Bernadette

by Saints Editor April 16, 2013

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St. Paturnus

by Saints Editor April 15, 2013

Paturnus, also known as Pair, was born around the year 482, at Poitiers. His mother gave his father, also named Paturnus, permission to leave the family and go to Ireland where he lived and died as a holy recluse. Paturnus…

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Sts. Tiburtius, Valerian and Maximus, Martyrs

by Saints Editor April 14, 2013

In the Church, the lives of these three saints have always been celebrated in union, according to the ancient calendar of Fronto and Saint Jerome’s Martyrology.
It was the third century and Valerian was married to a pious woman named…

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St. Martin I (Pope and Martyr)

by Saints Editor April 13, 2013

Little or nothing is known of the early life of the seventh century pope and martyr St. Martin I. A member of the Roman clergy, he was elected pope in 649, and immediately found himself in the center of a…

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