A
St. Anthony the Abbot
Born: January 12, 251 Herakleopolis Magna, Egypt Died: January 17, 356 (aged 105) Mount Colzim, Egypt Venerated: in Coptic Orthodox Church, Assyrian Church of the East, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Roman Catholic Church, Anglicanism, Lutheranism Major shrine: Monastery of St. Anthony, Egypt Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye, France Feast: 17 January (Catholic Church) 17 January (Eastern Orthodoxy) […]
Continue Reading
St. Arnold Janssen
Born: 5 November 1837 Goch, Germany Died: 15 January 1909 (aged 71) Steyl, Netherlands Venerated: in Catholic Church Beatified: 19 October 1975 by Pope Paul VI Canonized: 5 October 2003, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Feast: 15 January Saint Arnold Janssen, S.V.D. (5 November 1837 – 15 January 1909), was […]
Continue Reading
St. Aelred of Rievaulx
Born: 1110 Hexham, Northumberland, England Died: 12 January 1167 (aged 56–57) Rievaulx, Yorkshire, England Resting place Rievaulx chapter house next to William, first abbot Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church; Anglican Communion Major shrine: Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire, England (destroyed) Feast: 12 January Patronage: bladder stone sufferers Son of Eilaf, a priest during a period when English […]
Continue Reading
Bl. Alix le Clerc
Born: 2 February 1576 Remiremont, Duchy of Lorraine, Holy Roman Empire Died: 9 January 1622 (aged 45) Nancy, Duchy of Lorraine, Holy Roman Empire Venerated: in Catholic Church (Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Congregation of Our Lady) Beatified: 4 May 1947, Vatican City, by Pope Pius XII Major shrine: Cathedral of Our Lady, Nancy, […]
Continue Reading
St. Adrian of Canterbury
Born: c.635 in Libya Cyrenaica, North Africa as Hadrian Died: 9 January 710 of natural causes at Canterbury, England, and buried there, his tomb became a site of miracles, body found incorrupt in 1091 An African by birth, then a monk and an abbot in Italy, and finally chosen to accompany the Greek monk Theodore […]
Continue Reading
St. Apollinaris of Hierapolis
Little is known of his early life. Apollinaris was Bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia, in Asia Minor. Eusebius, Jerome, Theodoret, and others spoke of him in the highest terms and furnished us with the few facts that are known about him. Apollinaris became famous for his polemical treatises against the heretics of his time, showing […]
Continue Reading
St. André Bessette
Born: August 9, 1845 Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec, Canada Died: January 6, 1937 (aged 91) Montreal, Quebec, Canada Venerated: in Catholic Church (Canada and the United States, and the Congregation of Holy Cross) Beatified: May 23, 1982, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City, by Pope John Paul II Canonized: October 17, 2010, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by […]
Continue Reading
St. Angela of Foligno
Born: 1248 Foligno, Holy Roman Empire Died: 3 January 1309 Foligno, Papal States Venerated: in Roman Catholicism (Third Order of St. Francis) Beatified: 11 July 1701 by Pope Clement XI Canonized: 9 October 2013, (equivalent canonization) by Pope Francis Major shrine: Chiesa di San Francesco Foligno, Perugia, Italy Feast: 4 January (7 January in the […]
Continue Reading
St. Ambrose of Milan
Born: c. 337-340 Augusta Treverorum, Gallia Belgica, Roman Empire (modern Trier, Germany) Died: 4 April 397 (aged 56 or 57) Mediolanum, Roman Italy, Roman Empire (modern Milan, Italy) Sainthood Feast day: December 7 Venerated: in Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodoxy Anglican Communion Lutheranism Patronage: Bee keepers; bees; bishops; candle makers; domestic animals; French Commissariat; geese; […]
Continue Reading
St. Abraham of Kratia
Born: c. 474 Emesa, Syria Died: c. 558 Palestine Venerated: in Christian Church Feast: December 6 Abraham of Kratia (c. 474 – c. 558) was a Christian monk from Emesa (now Homs) Byzantine Syria. He is recognized as a saint in the Christian church, with a feast day of December 6. He was born at […]
Continue Reading