Sunday, December 8, 2024

The Great Cloud of Witnesses

St. Joseph of Leonessa Read more

St. Joseph of Leonessa

Eufranio Desideri was the third of eight children born to John Desideri, a wool merchant, and Serafina Paolini. His parents died when the boy was 12 years old, and he was raised and educated by his uncle Battista Desideri, a teacher in Viterbo, Italy. Desideri arranged a marriage for Eufranio with a local noble family, but the young man felt a call to religious life. Worry over his vocation...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 413
St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr Read more

St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr

St. Blaise (d. 316 A.D.) was born into a wealthy Christian family in Armenia. He was trained as a physician before becoming a priest, and was finally ordained a bishop. When a wave of Christian persecution began, God instructed St. Blaise to hide in a desert cave. While he was in hiding, birds miraculously brought him food and sick men came to him to be healed. The king's hunters...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 331
St. Lawrence of Canterbury, Bishop Read more

St. Lawrence of Canterbury, Bishop

St. Lawrence of Canterbury (d. 619 A.D.) was among the original band of missionaries sent from Rome to evangelize England with St. Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury. As a fruit of their labor the region's most powerful ruler, the King of Kent, became a baptized Christian along with many of his countrymen. When Augustine died, Lawrence became Canterbury's second Archbishop....
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 351
St. Brigid of Ireland Read more

St. Brigid of Ireland

St. Brigid of Ireland (451–525 A.D.), also known as St. Brigit of Kildare, was born to a pagan Irish chieftain father and a Christian slave mother, making her a slave girl. She worked as a dairy maid, and became known for her virtuous life and charity to the poor. Recognizing her great piety and special graces, a Christian king convinced her father to grant Brigid her freedom. Once free...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 303
St. John (Don) Bosco, Priest Read more

St. John (Don) Bosco, Priest

St. John Bosco (1815–1888) was born in Italy to a poor farming family. His father died when he was two, leaving his religious instruction to his pious mother. At the age of nine he had his first of many powerful visions which would come throughout his life. In it Jesus and the Virgin Mary showed him that he was to instruct poor, wayward boys and bring them back to God. John eventually...
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