Saints Of The Day

Saint of the Day Online - St Hugh of Lincoln

Hugh of Lincoln who was born on 1135 is also known as Hugh of Avalon, was a French noble, Benedictine and Carthusian monk, bishop of Lincoln in the Kingdom of England, and Catholic saint.

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Saint of the Day Online - St Albert the Great

St Albert the Great was born in Lauingen on the Danube, near Ulm, Germany; his father was a military lord in the army of Emperor Frederick II.

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Saint of the Day Online - St Lawrence O'Toole

St Lawrence, it appears, was born about the year 1125. When only ten years old, his father delivered him up as a hostage to Dermod Mac Murehad, King of Leinster, who treated the child with great inhumanity.

Read More 14-11-2017

Saint of the Day Online - St Frances Xavier Cabrini

Frances Xavier Cabrini MSC who was born on July 15, 1850 is also called Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American religious sister, who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

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Saint of the Day Online - St Martin of Tours

Saint Martin of Tours who was born on 336 was Bishop of Tours, whose shrine in France became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

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Saint of the Day Online - St Leo the Great

Pope Saint Leo who was born on 400 is known as Saint Leo the Great and he was Pope from 29 September 440 to his death in 461. He was undoubtedly one of the most important in the Church's history.

Read More 10-11-2017

Saint of the Day Online - St Benignus of Armagh

Saint Benignus of Armagh an Irish chieftain in that part of Ireland which is now County Meath was the son of Sesenen. He was baptised into the Christian faith by St. Patrick.

Read More 09-11-2017

Saint of the Day Online - St Castorius

St Castorius is the patron saint of sculptors and his feast day is November 8th. Castorius, Claudius, Nicostratus, and Symphorian are called "the four crowned martyrs" who were tortured and executed in Pannonia

Read More 08-11-2017

Saint of the Day Online - St Victorinus of Pettau

Saint Victorinus of Pettau or of Poetovio was an Early Christian ecclesiastical writer who flourished about 270, and who was martyred during the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian.

Read More 02-11-2017

Saint of the Day Online - St Valentine Berrio-Ochoa

Saint Valentine who was born on 226 AD a widely recognized third-century Roman saint commemorated on February 14 and since the High Middle Ages is associated with a tradition of courtly love.

Read More 31-10-2017