Archive for April 27, 2020
Bl. Hosanna of Cattaro
Born: 25 November 1493 at Kumano, Montenegro as Catherine Cosie Died: 27 April 1565 in Kotor, Montenegro of natural causes, interred in the Church of Saint Paul, Kotor, Montenegro, remains moved to the Church of Saint Mary in Kotor, Montenegro in 1807 after the French army turned the Church of Saint Paul into a warehouse […]
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St. Tertullian
Born: 160, in Carthage, Tunisia Nationality: Tunisian Died: at the Age of 65, on 225 Tertullian, the prominent early apologist who produced the world’s first extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature was born as Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus in Carthage. Widely recognized as the founder of Western theology he was one of the oldest extant Latin […]
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Novena to St. Zita of Lucca
You toiled in the Fatinelli household. Help us to give value to housework and the routine tasks of life. Intercede for us so that we can look after other’s needs with serenity and joy. Beloved St Zita, you said, “A servant is not holy if she is not working. Work-shy piety in people of our […]
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Prayers to St. Zita of Lucca
Prayer to St. Zita of Lucca Dear follower of the Son of God, You desired to become a servantAnd died the death of a slave. You were not only a faithful maid-servant. But a practical lover of the poor. Like Mary You could have said: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord.” Prompt domestics to be […]
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St. Zita of Lucca
Born: 1218 at Bozzanello, Monte Sagrate, Tuscany, Italy Died: 27 April 1272 at Lucca, Italy of natural causes, buried in the church of San Frediano in Lucca• her tomb was re-discovered in 1580 Beatified: 1652 by Pope Innocent X, during the recognition proceedings, her remains were found to be incorrupt Canonized: the office in her […]
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