Archive for August 24, 2024
St. Christopher
Born: at Canaan as Offero Died: martyred c.251 Name Meaning Christ-bearer Patronage: against bad dreams, epileptics; against epilepsy, against floods, against hailstorms, against lightning, against pestilence, against storms, against sudden death, against toothache, Air Forces, archers, automobile drivers, automobilists, motorists, bachelors, boatmen, bookbinders, bus drivers, cab drivers, taxi drivers, cabbie, civil aeronautics, fruit dealers, fullers, […]
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St. James the Greater
Died: stabbed with a sword by King Herod Agrippa I in 44 at Jerusalem, legend says his body was taken by angels, and sailed in a rudderless, unattended boat to Spain where a massive rock closed around it, relics at Compostela, Spain Patronage: against arthritis or rheumatism, apothecaries, druggists or pharmacists, arthritis and rheumatism sufferers, […]
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St. Joachim
Born: Galilean Died: the traditional tomb of Saint Anne and Saint Joachim was rediscovered in Jerusalem in 1889 Patronage: Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, fathers, grandfathers, grandparents. Also known as Heli Husband of Saint Anne, elderly father of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Grandfather of Jesus Christ. Probably well off. Tradition says that while he was away from […]
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St. George Preca
Born: 12 February 1880 at Valletta, Malta Died: evening of 26 July 1962 of natural causes at Santa Venera, Malta, relics near the Society’s motherhouse at Blata l-Bajda Beatified: 9 May 2001 by Pope John Paul II, his beatification miracle involved the healing of an irreversibly detached retina of a member of the Society Canonized: […]
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St. Anne
Canonized: devotion is Pre-Congregation, cultus extended to the whole Church in 1584 Name Meaning gracious one; grace Patronage: against poverty, against sterility or infertility, broommakers, cabinetmakers, carpenters, childless people, equestrians, expectant mothers; pregnant women, grandmothers, grandparents, homemakers, horse men and women, housewives; homemakers, lace makers or workers, lost articles, miners, mothers, old-clothes dealers, poor people, […]
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St. Simeon Stylites
Born: c.390 at Cilicia, near Syria Died: c.459 of natural causes Patronage: shepherds. Also known as Simeon Stylites the Elder Son of a poor shepherd, and worked as a shepherd as a child. A would-be monk at age 13, he was turned away from monasteries because his severe self-imposed penances. Tired of the gossip and […]
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St. Panteleon
Died: nailed to a tree and beheaded c.305, a phial of his blood is preserved at Constantinople, and is reported to become liquid and bubble on his feast day, some relics enshrined at the church of Saint Denis in Paris, France, some relics enshrined at Lyons, France Patronage: against consumption or tuberculosis, bachelors, doctors, physicians, […]
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Pope St. Celestine I
Born: Campania, Italy Papal Ascension: 20 September 422 Died: 27 July 432 in Rome, Italy of natural causes, buried in the cemetery of Priscilla in Rome, his tomb is decorated with painted scenes of the Council of Ephesus, relics translated to the church of Saint Praxedes on 820. Son of Priscus. May have been related […]
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St. Pedro Poveda Castroverde
Born: 3 December 1874 at Linares, Jaen, Spain Died: shot by firing squad on 28 July 1936 at Madrid, Spain Canonized: 4 May 2003 by Pope John Paul II. Also known as Peter Poveda Castroverde Raised in a pious family, Pedro felt an early call to the priesthood. He entered the seminary in Jaen, Spain […]
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St. Jaime Hilario Barbal
Born: 2 January 1898 at Enviny, Lerida, diocese of La Seu d’Urgell, northern Spain as Manuel Barbal Cosan Died: shot to death on 18 January 1937 at the Mount of Olives cemetery near Tarragona, Spain Canonized: 21 November 1999 by Pope John Paul II. Also known as Manuel Barbal Cosan, Jakob Hilarius Raised in a […]
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