Tag: What is todays prayer
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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…
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St Augustine of Hippo
Featured Saint: St Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430) St Augustine was born in Thagaste, Algeria. His father was a pagan who prevented his wife, St Monica, from raising him as a devout Christian. St Augustine described his youth as misspent, initially living a “hedonistic lifestyle” and fathering a child with a lover. St Augustine…
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St Monica
Featured Saint: St Monica (331 – 387) St Monica was born in Tagaste, Algeria. She was the mother of St Augustine of Hippo. Her husband was a “pagan” who, it is said, had a violent temper and wayward habits! Her good deeds towards the Church, the poor and others annoyed him greatly. She bore two…
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St David Lewis
Featured Saint: St David Lewis (1616 -1679) St David Lewis, also known as Charles Baker, was born into a Protestant family at Abergavenny, Wales. At the age of 16, while visiting Paris, he converted to Catholicism and travelled to Rome where he studied for the priesthood. In 1642 he was ordained a Priest and a few…
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St Louis of France
Featured Saint: St Louis of France (1214 – 1270) St Louis was born in Poissy, France. He was crowned King of France at the age of 12yrs and ruled from 1226 until his death in 1270. He is the only canonised King of France. St Louis was a devout Catholic and took seriously his mission…