St. Martin de Porres A poor man, the son of a former slave, died in a large city nearly four hundred years ago. It doesn’t seem likely that anyone would remember him. Yet every third Sunday of November, thousands of Peruvians turn out to venerate an image of this poor man as it is carried […]
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Whenever I think about Saint Peter Claver, I am amazed by the great deeds of love he did. He left his own country to come to the Americas. There, for nearly 40 years, he served the poor people who had been torn from their homes in Africa and were forced to come and work as
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St. James is one of the best-known apostles. He was called by Jesus and was one of the three apostles chosen to be present at important moments like the Transfiguration and the raising of Jairus’s daughter. Yet even with all of these gifts, the things we learn about St. James aren’t exactly flattering. He and
July 13th is the feast day of the first American layman to be beatified. I love “Charlie”, as Carlos Manuel Rodriguez is affectionately known. And I am not alone. It seems like there is something about Charlie that just makes people love him. After he died in 1963, the hospital refused to take any payment
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Here is a Benedictine saint who appears in the Benedictine and Ignatius scramble. When I was young, I could have had a motto, “Play and Shirk.” I don’t think I knew the word shirk but it means get out of work and I did a lot of that. When I was considering who to choose
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