Friday, March 29, 2024

The Great Cloud of Witnesses

St. Andrew (Andrea) Corsini Read more

St. Andrew (Andrea) Corsini

Saint Andrea Corsini (30 November 1302 – 6 January 1374) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and professed member from the Carmelites who served as the Bishop of Fiesole from 1349 until his death. Corsini led a wild and dissolute life until a rebuke from his mother moved him to go to the Santa Maria del Carmine church where he became resolved to join the Carmelites as a priest and...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 117
St. Ansgar Read more

St. Ansgar

The “apostle of the north” (Scandinavia) had enough frustrations to become a saint—and he did. He became a Benedictine at Corbie, France, where he had been educated. Three years later, when the king of Denmark became a convert, Ansgar went to that country for three years of missionary work, without noticeable success. Sweden asked for Christian missionaries, and he went...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 129
St. Jeanne de Lestonnac Read more

St. Jeanne de Lestonnac

Jeanne de Lestonnac, O.D.N., (December 27, 1556 – February 2, 1640), alternately known as Joan of Lestonnac, was a Roman Catholic saint and foundress of the Sisters of the Company of Mary, Our Lady, in 1607. The new institute, approved by Paul V in 1607, was the first religious order of women-teachers approved by the Church. De Lestonnac was born in Bordeaux in 1556 to Richard de...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 94
St. Tryphon Read more

St. Tryphon

The Martyr Tryphon was born in Phrygia, one of the districts of Asia Minor, in the village of Lampsacus. From his early years the Lord granted him the power to cast out demons and to heal various maladies. He once saved the inhabitants of his native city from starvation. Saint Tryphon, by the power of his prayer, turned back a plague of locusts that were devouring the grain and devastating the...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 141
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