Monday, December 23, 2024

The Great Cloud of Witnesses

Sts. Liberata and Faustina Read more

Sts. Liberata and Faustina

Sts. Liberata and Faustina were the daughters of one Giovannato, who lived in the fortress of Olgisio in Pianello Val Tidone, in the province of Piacenza, where there are prehistoric caves known as the caves of the "Saints". Although promised in marriage, after a vision of a woman mourning the death of her husband, the sisters fled the castle and lived as a hermits.  They later...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 312
St. Jenaro Sánchez Delgadillo Read more

St. Jenaro Sánchez Delgadillo

Sánchez Delgadillo was born in the town of Agualele, in the municipality of Zapopan, Jalisco, the son of Cristóbal Sánchez and Julia Delgadillo, on September 19, 1886. With a scholarship, he entered the seminary of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara and was later ordained a priest of the Archdiocese by Archbishop José de Jesús Ortíz y Rodríguez on August 20, 1911. Sánchez then served as a curate...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 296
St. Priscilla of Rome Read more

St. Priscilla of Rome

St. Priscilla of Rome (1st c.) was a Christian noblewoman who served as a benefactor to the Christian community in Rome. She supported St. Peter the Apostle, the first Bishop of Rome, and her home near the catacombs served as his headquarters. She was the wife of Manius Acilius Glabrio, a Roman politician, who was executed by the Emperor Domitian for atheism, that is, his refusal to worship...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 94
St. Arnold Janssen Read more

St. Arnold Janssen

St. Arnold Janssen (1837–1909) was born in Germany to a large Catholic family. He was a man of simple faith who studied theology, entered the priesthood, and served as a school teacher. He had a profound devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which awakened in him an increasing desire for missionary work. This led him to found The Little Messenger of the Sacred Heart, a monthly magazine...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 114
Blessed Odoric of Pordenone Read more

Blessed Odoric of Pordenone

Blessed Odoric of Pordenone was born of noble parents in the year 1265 at Pordenone in Friuli. He entered the Franciscan Order in the convent of Udine when he was only 15 years old. He felt himself called by God to be a missionary, and so prepared himself for his vocation by a strict life of penance, intimate union with God in solitude, and earnest application to study. Ordained a priest,...
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