Friday, March 29, 2024

The Great Cloud of Witnesses

St. Catherine del Ricci Read more

St. Catherine del Ricci

St. Catherine del Ricci (1522-1590) was born with the name Alessandra in Florence, Italy, to a respectable merchant family. Her mother died while she was very young, so that from her childhood Alessandra took the Blessed Virgin Mary as her mother. She was given to prayer and religious fervor, and at the age of fourteen decided to enter a strict Third Order Dominican convent, taking Catherine...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 141
St. Eulalia of Barcelona Read more

St. Eulalia of Barcelona

Saint Eulalia (Aulaire, Aulazia, Olalla, Eulària) (c. 290–12 February 303), co-patron saint of Barcelona, was a 13-year-old Roman Christian virgin who suffered martyrdom in Barcelona during the persecution of Christians in the reign of emperor Diocletian. For refusing to recant her Christianity, the Romans subjected her to thirteen tortures; including: Putting her into a barrel...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 143
Blessed Bartholomew of Olmedo Read more

Blessed Bartholomew of Olmedo

Blessed Bartholomew of Olmedo (d. 1524) was a Spanish Mercedarian priest, and the first priest to arrive on Mexican soil in 1516 at the age of 31. He was chaplain for the expedition of Spanish Conquistador Fernando Cortés, who began the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the downfall of the Aztec empire. Bartholomew was well-liked by the native people. He taught them the Christian faith...
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Saint José Sánchez del Rio Read more

Saint José Sánchez del Rio

St. José was born on March 28, 1913, in Sthuayo, Michoacán, Mexico. Wanting to defend the faith and the rights of Catholics, he followed in the footsteps of his two older brothers and asked his mother for permission to join the Cristeros. She objected, telling him that he was too young.  “Mama,” he replied, “do not let me lose the opportunity to gain Heaven so easily and...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 103
St. Adrian of Canterbury Read more

St. Adrian of Canterbury

In the mid 640's, his family fled to Naples, Italy ahead of Arab invasion. Adrian joined a Benedictine monastery when quite young. Later in life he became the Abbot of Hiridanum, Isle of Nisida, Bay of Naples. He was acquainted with Emperor Constans II, who later introduced him to Pope Saint Vitalian. He then became an advisor to Vitalian. He was twice offered the Archbishopric of...
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