Tag: Prayer for Today
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Blessed Claudio Granzotto
Featured: Blessed Claudio Granzotto (1900 – 1947) Blessed Claudio was born into a poor peasant and devout Catholic family at Santa Lucia di Piave, Italy. From a very young age he helped in the family fields and perhaps more so, after his father’s death in 1909. When World War I broke out, Blessed Claudio was drafted…
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Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Featured: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910 – 1997) Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia, to Albanian parents. Following her father’s death at 8yrs, she was raised by her mother, a Roman Catholic. At 18 she joined the Sisters of Loreto and briefly studied English at Loreto Abbey, Ireland. In 1929 she…
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St Cuthbert
Featured Saint: St Cuthbert (Approx. 634 – 687) St Cuthbert was born into a noble family near Melrose Abbey, Northumbria, on the Scottish borders. Following a vision at the age of 17yrs, the day St Aidan (founder of Lindisfarne) died, he decided to become a Monk. St Cuthbert was appointed Guest Master at a newly established…
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Pope St Gregory The Great
Featured Saint: Pope St Gregory the Great (540ca – 604) Pope St Gregory was born into a wealthy family in Rome. His father was Senator and Prefect of the City of Rome. He lived his youth at a time of great turmoil including famine, rioting and panic, resulting from plague which wiped out one third of…
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Blessed John Francis & Companions
Featured: Blessed John Francis Burte & Companions Blessed John Burte was one of as many as 191 Bishops, Priests, Religious and other secular victims, martyred during the French Revolution. Their deaths became known as the September Carmelite Massacre of 1792. All were imprisoned in a Church attached to a Carmelite Monastery in Paris for refusing to…
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St Giles
Featured Saint: St Giles (ca 650 – 710) St Giles was born in Athens, Greece. He lived as a hermit in various retreat centers in Southern France. Although legend links him with Arles, he withdrew deep into the forest near Nimes and spent many years in solitude and prayer, living on a vegetarian diet and…
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St Joseph of Armithea
Featured Saint: St Joseph of Arimathea (1st Century) St Joseph of Arimathea was a rich man who lived in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion. He donated his own tomb for the burial of Jesus’ body. He is described in the Gospels as an “honourable counselor” (Mark 15:43) “waiting for the Kingdom of God” and…
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St Margaret Clitherow
Featured Saint: St Margaret Ward (Died 1588) St Margaret Ward was born in Congleton, England. While living in London, she heard about the inhumane treatment of the Catholic Priest Fr Richard Watson . He was being held in Bridewell Prison, under the reign of Queen Elizabeth, for performing his Catholic religious duties! St Margaret started…
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St John the Baptist
Featured Saint: St John the Baptist The birth of St John the Baptist was foretold by an Angel to Zacharias, John’s father. At the time, Zacharias was an old man and his wife Elizabeth was barren. John is described as having been sent by God “to bear witness to the light so that through him…