September 18: The feast day of St. Juan Macias Juan de Arcas y Sanchez was born in Spain in 1585. His family was poor. By the time Juan was four, both of his parents had died. He and his sister Maria were adopted by their uncle and took the last name Macias. Juan worked as […]
St. Ann and St. Joachim are two very interesting saints. We don’t really know anything about them except that they are the parents of Mary and therefore the grandparents of Jesus. I like to think about the fact that Jesus had grandparents. He really is one of us! He even has the beautiful blessing called
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St. Charbel Makhlouf, a Maronite hermit, died on December 24, 1898. Since photography was fairly new at that time, there are no known photos of Charbel before his death. But this wonder-working saint has even provided the world with two photographs. One of these was taken in 1950 and the other in 2016. Four Maronite
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St. Francisco SolanoFrancisco Solano was born in Spain in 1549. When he was 20, he joined the Franciscans. He was assigned to be an itinerant preacher to the surrounding towns. After the death of his father, he returned to his native town and took care of his mother. In 1589, he sailed with a group
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St. Joseph Moscati was born in Italy in 1880. His family were very devout Catholics and were friends with two other saints: Blessed Bartolo Longo and St. Caterina Volpicelli. When Joseph grew up, he became a doctor and dedicated his life to serving the poor and sick. He served the poor for free; in fact,
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Today is the feast of St. Patrick. When St. Patrick was a young man, he was captured by Irish raiders and made to work as a slave in Ireland. Eventually, God helped him to escape. He later became a priest and returned to Ireland to spread the Gospel. He became the founder of the local
A cold dark street. A shivering beggar. A soldier on horseback. What motivated that soldier to look at the beggar and then to give him half of his cloak? It was the only motivation that matters to Jesus: Love. Martin did many amazing things in his life. But the reason that this story is so
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Have you ever thought, Poor Simon? He is paired with the famous St. Jude, the helper to turn to in impossible cases. St. Jude is venerated by many. His image and name are seen in numerous institutions and organizations. It’s the same way with groups of martyrs. It’s St. So-and-So and Companions. But usually, no
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Here is another Benedictine saint who appears in the Benedictine and Ignatius scramble. Frances of Rome was not a typical Benedictine. She was a married woman with three children, but she was a Benedictine oblate. A religious oblate is a person who wants to participate in the life of a religious order while still living
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