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Saint of the day: Our Lady Of Mount Carmel 

Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in Her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits...

Saint of the day: St. Bonaventure

Today, July 15, marks the feast day of St. Bonaventure, who is called “The Seraphic Doctor” of the Church. St. Bonaventure is known for his leadership of the...

Saint of the day: St. Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions Martyrs

The early christians arrived in China through Syria in the 600s. Christianity in China over the centuries was free to grow or was forced to operate secretly depending on...

Saint of the day: Sts. Aquila and Priscilla

Saints Aquila and Priscilla were a Jewish couple from Rome who had been exiled to Corinth, and were friends of St. Paul in the first century. They hosted St. Paul on his...

Saint of the day: St. Pope Benedict XI

Nicholas Boccasini was born at Treviso, Italy, in 1240. Hhe entered the Dominican Order at the age of 14. After 14 years of study, he became lector of theology, an...

Saint of the day: St. Maria Goretti

July 6 marks the feast day of St. Maria Goretti, a young virgin and martyr whose life is an example of purity and mercy for all Christians. St. Maria Goretti is best...

Saint of the Day: St. Elizabeth of Portugal, Patron of Hospitals

Elizabeth was born a princess in 1271 into the royal house of Aragon in Hungary. She was the daughter of King Peter III and his wife Constance of Sicily and the sister...

Saint of the day: St. Thomas, Apostle and Patron of Architects

Thomas was called Didymus, which means the twin. He was a man of great courage and self sacrifice. When Jesus told His disciples that He would return to Judea to visit...

Saint of the day : St. Gall, Hermit

According to St. Gall’s 9th-century biographers in Reichenau, he was from Ireland and entered Europe as a companion of St Columbanus. Gallus as a young man went to...

Saint of the day: The first Martyrs of the church of Rome

There were Christians in Rome within a dozen or so years after the death of Jesus, though they were not the converts of the “Apostle of the Gentiles” (Romans 15:20)....