Sunday, May 19, 2024

The Great Cloud of Witnesses

St. Guy Vignotelli Read more

St. Guy Vignotelli

Guy was a wealthy layman known for his charity to the poor. After hearing a sermon by Saint Francis of Assisi, he gave away the rest of his riches and became a Franciscan tertiary, received into the order by Saint Francis himself in 1211. Subsequently, he was ordained as a priest. In later life he became a hermit near Cortona, Italy living in a cell on a bridge. He gained fame as a miracle...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 67
St. Paula Frassinetti Read more

St. Paula Frassinetti

Paula Frassinetti led a happy life in Genoa, Italy, until she was 9. That was when her mother died, in 1818, leaving Paula to care for her father and four brothers and their household. At this young age, she made many sacrifices to give attention to her family. Her older brother, Giuseppi, went on to study for the priesthood — as did all of her brothers — and his discussions with...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 68
The Martyrs of the Hulks of Rochford Read more

The Martyrs of the Hulks of Rochford

In 1790 the French Revolutionary authorities passed a law requiring priests to swear allegience to the civil constitution, which would effectively remove them from the authority of, and allegience to, Rome. Many refused, and in 1791 the government began deporting them to French Guyana. 827 priests and religious were imprisoned on hulks (old ships no longer sea-worthy and used for storage,...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 68
St. Ephrem Read more

St. Ephrem

Ephrem the Syrian, also known as St. Ephraem, was a Syriac Christian deacon and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer and theologian of the 4th century. He is especially beloved in the Syriac Orthodox Church, and counted as a Venerable Father (i.e., a sainted Monk) in Eastern Orthodoxy. His feast day is celebrated on June 9 in the Roman Catholic Church and on January 28 in the Eastern...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 70
St. William of York Read more

St. William of York

St. William of York (d. 1154) was born to a powerful family in England, the nephew of the king. He became a priest and then treasurer of York Minster Cathedral at the time when the English crown was contested by two grandchildren of William the Conqueror. When the Archbishop of York died, William was chosen to take his place. Kind-hearted and generous to the poor, he was well-liked by the...
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