K – Mission of Jesus

St. Koupaïa

Born: latter 5th century in the British Isles Died: c.545 of natural causes in Brittany, France, interred in the church of Saint Pompey in Langoat, France Also known as Aspasia, Aspasie, Coupaïa, Koupaia, Pompaïa, Pompée, Pompey Additional Memorials 26 July on some calendars, last Sunday in July (Tréguier, Saint Pompée, Langoat, diocese of Saint-Brieuc, France) […]

January 3, 2024 No comments

St. Keyne

Feast day: October 8 St. Keyne (Keyna or Cain) was one of the twenty-four children of King Brychan of Brecknock, Wales. She refused several suitors’ offers of marriage and became a hermitess on the banks of the Severn River in Somersetshire, England. After living there for several years, during which she traveled widely, she was […]

November 9, 2020 No comments

Bl. Kazimierz Grelewski

Born: 3 July 1899 in Dwikozy, Swietokrzyskie, Poland Died: starved to death on 9 May 1941 in the camp hospital of Dachau, Oberbayern, Germany Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II Older brother of Blessed Kazimierz Grelewski. Studied at the Progimnazjum in Sandomierz and Lubartów in Poland. Ordained in October 1921 as a […]

May 9, 2020 No comments

St. Kateri Tekakwitha

Born: 1656 Ossernenon, Iroquois Confederacy (New France until 1763, modern Auriesville, New York) Baptized: April 18, 1676 Died: April 17, 1680 (aged 24) Kahnawake (near Montreal), Quebec, Canada Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: June 22, 1980, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Canonized: October 21, 2012, Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI Major […]

July 14, 2019 No comments

St. Kevin of Glendalough

Born: 498 (reputedly) Ireland Died: 3 June 618 Venerated: in Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church (cultus confirmation) Canonized: 1903 (cultus confirmed) Feast: 3 June Patronage: blackbirds, Archdiocese of Dublin, Glendalough, Kilnamanagh Saint Kevin (modern Irish Caoimhín; Old Irish Cóemgen, Caemgen; latinized Coemgenus; 498 (reputedly)–3 June 618) is an Irish saint, known as the founder […]

June 3, 2019 No comments

St. Kentigern

Born: c.518 at Culross, Fife, Scotland Died: 13 January 603 in Glasgow, Scotland of natural causes, relics in the crypt of the Kentigern cathedral, Glasgow Patronage: Glasgow, Scotland, salmon Grandson of the British prince Lothus; son of Saint Theneva. Hermit. Monk. Missionary to Scotland, beginning at Cathures. Bishop of the Strathclyde Britons in the area […]

January 13, 2019 No comments

St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara

Born: 10 February 1805 Kainakary, Kuttanad, Travancore, British Raj (now in Alappuzha district, Kerala, India) Died: 3 January 1871 (aged 65) Koonammavu, Kingdom of Cochin, British Raj (now in Ernakulam, Kerala, India) Venerated: in Catholic Church Beatified: 8 February 1986, Kottayam by Pope John Paul II Canonized: 23 November 2014, Rome by Pope Francis Major […]

January 7, 2019 No comments

Bl. Kamen Vitchev

Born: May 23, 1893 Died: November 11, 1952 (aged 60) Bulgaria Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: May 26, 2002, Plovdiv, Bulgaria by John Paul II Feast: November 11 Attributes: Assumptionist habit, cross, book Peter Vitchev, also known as Blessed Kamen Vitchev, was a Bulgarian Eastern Catholic and an Assumptionist priest who was martyred by […]

November 20, 2018 No comments