Tag: What is todays prayer
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St Boniface
Featured Saint: St Boniface (675 – 755) St Boniface was born in Wessex, England. His family were “respected and prosperous”. At an early age and against his father’s wishes, he planned and followed a monastic life. His education included theological training by Benedictines near Winchester. At 30yrs, he was ordained a Priest and, having declined…
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Blessed Angeline of Marsciano
Featured Person: Blessed Angeline of Marsciano (1357 – 1435) Blessed Angeline was born into Royalty at Umbria, Italy; her father being Count Angioballi of Corborra. Tragedy struck her early life when her mother died and two years later her husband, the Count of Civitella del Tronto. Blessed Angeline was left a childless widow and although…
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St Charles Lwanga
Featured Saint: Saints Charles Lwanga & Companions (1860 or ’65 – 1886) St Charles was born in southern Uganda, Africa. He was executed along with other Christian co-workers under the direction of King Mwanga II. In 1886 the King believed that his power was under threat from foreign colonists so he ordered the execution of…
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St Justin
Featured Saint: St Justin Martyr (100ca – 165) St Justin was born into a pagan family at Flavia (Nablus) in the West Bank. In his youth, he described himself as a Gentile. He received a good education although, in his own writings, he says that he was dissatisfied with his teachers, who failed to provide “inspiration…
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Most Holy Spirit
The Feast of The Most Holy Trinity The Trinity consists of three persons in the one Divine God; the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Throughout the Gospels we find numerous references to all three. They were notably present at Jesus’ baptism, by John the Baptist in the River Jordan. The Holy Spirit appeared as a…
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St Madeleine Sophie Barat
Featured Saint: St Madeleine Sophie Barat (1779 – 1865) St Madeleine Sophie was born two months premature in Joigny, France. It is said that a terrifying wild fire caused her mother to go into early labour. She was baptised the next day because of fears that she would not survive. Her parents were reasonably wealthy;…
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Venerable Pierre Toussaint
Featured Saint: Venerable Pierre Toussaint (1766 -1853) Pierre’s great grandmother was born in Africa but sold as a slave and taken to Saint-Domingue (Haiti). His grandmother and mother were born as Haitian slaves. He had a sister Rosalie. Pierre was himself a house slave working on the plantation of the Bernard family but was educated…
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St Augustine of Canterbury
Featured Saint: St Augustine of Canterbury (6th Century – Died approx. 604) St Augustine was a Benedictine Prior of the Abbey of St Andrew in Rome when he was chosen by Pope Gregory the Great, to lead a mission to Britain and bring Christianity to the then Kingdom of Kent. He arrived in Kent in…