Archive for January, 2019
Prayers to St. Anthony the Abbot
Prayer to St. Anthony the Abbot Almighty ever-living God, who were pleased to shine forth with new light through the coming of your Only Begotten Son, grant, we pray, that, just as he was pleased to share our bodily form through the childbearing of the Virgin Mary, so we, too, may one day merit to […]
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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) […]
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St. Honoratus of Aries
Born: c. 350 Northern Gaul Died: January 6, 429 Arles, Diocese of the Seven Provinces, Gaul, Western Roman Empire Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Feast: May 5 Patronage: against drought; against misfortune; against rain; for rain Saint Honoratus was of a consular Roman family that had settled in Gaul. In his youth […]
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Bl. Stephanie Quinzani
Born: 1457 Brescia, Italy Died: 2 January 1530 Soncino, Cremona, Italy Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church (Dominican Order) Beatified: 14 December 1740 by Pope Benedict XIV Major shrine: Convent of the Dominican Tertiary Sisters Soncino, Cremona, Italy Feast: 3 January Patronage theologians Blessed Stephanie was born near Brescia, Italy, in 1457, of fervent Christian parents. […]
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Pope St. Marcellus I
Born: 6 January 255 Rome, Roman Empire Died: 16 January 309 (aged 54) Rome, Western Roman Empire During the third century paganism and Christianity vied for supremacy in the Roman Empire. Hoping to stifle the Church completely, the emperor Diocletian in 303 began the last and fiercest of the persecutions. In time, Christian charity conquered […]
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St. Berard of Carbio
Born: unknown Carbio, Umbria, Papal States Died: 16 January 1220 Morocco Venerated: in Catholic Church (Franciscan Order) Canonized: 7 August 1481, Rome by Pope Sixtus IV Major shrine: Monastery of the Holy Cross, Coimbra, Portugal Feast: 16 January Berard of Carbio, O.F.M., was a thirteenth-century Franciscan friar who was executed in Morocco for attempting to […]
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Prayers of St. Gregory Nazianzen
Prayer of Praise to St Gregory of Nazianzus O God,You alone are unutterable,from the time you created all things that can be spoken of. You alone are unknowable,from the time you created all things that can be known. All things cry out about you,those which speak,and those which cannot speak. All things honour you;those which […]
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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 […]
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Bl. Gabriel of Ferrara
Born: c.1543 in Milan, Italy as Camillo Died: 15 January 1627 in Vienna, Austria of natural causes, relics enshrined in the church of the Brothers of Mercy on Taborstrasse in Vienna Born to the nobility, the Count of Ferrara, Italy. Trained as a surgeon, he practiced medicine in Milan, Italy and served as personal physician […]
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St. Ita
St. Ita was born of Christian parents towards the end of the fifth century. She belonged to the noble tribe of the Decii in County Waterford. All her early biographers favor the pleasant metaphor describing her as the ‘Brigid of Munster’. Actually the differences were more striking than the resemblances between those two foremost women […]
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