Archive for January 15, 2019
St. Volusian
Died: August 253 Interamna Reign: November 251 – August 253 (with Trebonianus Gallus) Volusianus (Latin: Imperator Caesar Gaius Vibius Volusianus Augustus; died August 253), also known as Volusian, was a Roman Emperor from November 251 to August 253. His father, Trebonianus Gallus, became Roman Emperor after being elected in the field by the legion, following […]
Continue ReadingBl. Gonzalo de Amarante
Born: 1187 Arriconha, Tagilde, Vizela, Portugal Died: 10 January 1259 (aged 71) Amarante, Portugal Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified 16 September 1561, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Papal States by Pope Pius IV Feast: 17 January Patronage: Amarante, Itapissuma, Cajari, Matinha, Viana Blessed Gonçalo de Amarante (1187 – 10 January 1259) was a Portuguese Roman Catholic […]
Continue ReadingNovena to St. Anthony the Abbot
Note: Pray as a family or as an individual, Generally Starting from the 8th to the 16th of Jan-covers 9 days of the novena. Last day(10th day/actual feast day) say the Opening Prayer, Psalm 91, Our Father & Hail Mary & Glory be, the Litany and finally the closing prayer and Hymn (recited or sung). […]
Continue ReadingPrayers 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 […]
Continue ReadingSt. 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 ReadingSt. 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 […]
Continue ReadingBl. 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. […]
Continue ReadingPope 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 […]
Continue ReadingSt. 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 […]
Continue ReadingPrayers 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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