Tag: What is todays prayer
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St Maximilian Klobe
Featured Saint: St Maximilian Kolbe (1894 – 1941) St Maximilian Kolbe was born in Zduriska Wola, Poland. He was the second of five brothers. His father was an ethnic German and mother Polish. His father was hanged by the Russians for fighting for an independent Poland. St Maximilian and his elder brother Francis joined the…
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St Pontian & Hippolytus
Featured Saint: St Pontian (200ca – 235) & Hippolytus (170 – 235) St Pontian was Pope from 230 to 235. His early Pontificate was generally peaceful, under the then Roman rulers, but when Emperor Maximus was appointed, Christianity was no longer tolerated. Pope Saint Pontian was arrested along with St Hippolytus, who was a rival…
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St Jane Frances de Chantal
Featured Saint: St Jane Frances de Chantal (1572 -1641) St Jane Frances was born in Dijon, France. She was the daughter of the President of the Burgundy Parliiment. At 20, she married a Baron and they lived in the Castle of Bourbilly. At 28, St Jane was widowed, with four children, when her husband was…
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St Clare of Assisi
Featured Saint: St Clare of Assisi (1194 – 1253) St Clare was born the eldest daughter of a devout family in Assisi, Italy. Prayer was a central rock within their family life. St Clare, deciding against marriage and, with the advice and help of St Francis of Assisi, secretly went to a Benedictine convent. Her…
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St Lawrence
Featured Saint: St Lawrence (225ca – 258) St Lawrence was born in Huesca, Spain. During his studies in Zaragoza he met the future Pope Sixtus II, who was then a highly respected teacher. When Sixtus became Pope in 257, he appointed St Lawrence, the first among seven Deacons. This was a very privileged position which…
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St Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Featured Saint: St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) (1891 – 1942) St Teresa Benedicta was born the youngest of eleven children into a Jewish family at Breslau, Germany. By her teenage years, she had become an atheist. A talented academic, she studied at the University of Breslau and received a Doctorate from Gottingen…
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St Dominic
Featured Saint: St Dominic (1170 – 1221) St Dominic was born in Calaruega, Spain. He was educated at Palencia, devoting six years to the Arts and four to Theology. During his studies he joined an Order that followed the rule of St Benedict and at the time of the great famine, he sold his entire…
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St Cajetan
Featured Saint: St Cajetan (1480 – 1547) St Cajetan was born into a high ranking noble family at Vincenza, Italy. His father died when he was two years old so, he was brought up by his pious mother. St Cajetan received a good education and studied Civil and Canon Law at the University of Padua.…
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Transfiguration of Jesus
Feast Day: Transfiguration of Jesus Today we recall the Transfiguration of Jesus. The transfiguration occurred when Jesus took three of his Apostles to a high mountain and the prophets Moses and Elijah appeared to Him. Then a voice from heaven, God the Father, spoke. The event is one of the five pivotal moments in Jesus’…
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Dedication of St Mary Basilica
Featured: Dedication of St Mary Basilica This is one of the oldest feast days in the Catholic Church. It commemorates the dedication of the restored Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, the largest Church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary in Rome. The original Church was built between 351 and 366. The Feast Day is also referred…