Archive for November 9, 2020
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 […]
Continue Reading
St. Pelagia
Feast day: October 8 St. Pelagia had been a comedian at Antioch, even whilst she was a catechumen; but afterwards renounced that profession, and became a true penitent. The manner of her conversion is thus related in the Greek Menæa, published by the Emperor Basil. The Patriarch of Antioch having assembled a council of bishops […]
Continue Reading
St. Reparata
Born: Caesarea Maritima, Palestine Died: beheaded in the 3rd century, relics translated to the Nice Cathedral in 1690 Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Feast: 8 OctoberPatronage: Nice, France; Florence, Italy Saint Reparata (Italian: Santa Reparata, French: Sainte Réparate) was a Catholic virgin and martyr of the 3rd century AD, of Caesarea, Roman Province of Palestine. Sources […]
Continue Reading
St. Louis Bertrand
Born: 1 January 1526 at Valencia, Spain Died: 9 October 1581 of natural causes at Valencia, Spain Canonized: 12 April 1671 by Pope Clement X Patronage: Caribbean vicariates, Colombia, Dominican novices Feast day: October 9 Relative of Saint Vincent Ferrer. Deeply religious from childhood, Louis joined the Dominicans in 1544 at age 18. Ordained in […]
Continue Reading
St. Denis, St. Rusticus and St. Eleutherius
The first mention we have of these three martyrs who died around 258 A.D. comes in the sixth century in the writings of Saint Gregory of Tours. Denis (or Dionysius as he is also called) is the most famous of the three. Born and raised in Italy, he was sent as a missionary to Gaul […]
Continue Reading
St. John Henry Newman
Born: 21 February 1801 at London, England Died: 11 August 1890 at Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England of pneumonia Beatified: Sunday 19 September 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI, recognition celebrated at an outdoor Mass in Coventry, Diocese of Birmingham, England Canonized: on 12 February 2019 Pope Francis promulgated a decree of miracle obtained through the […]
Continue Reading
Bl. Angela Truszkowska
Born: 16 May 1825 at Kalisz, Poland as Sophia Camille Truszkowska Died: 12.45am 10 October 1899 of natural causes Beatified: 18 April 1993 by Pope John Paul II Patronage: against sickness, exiles, sick people Feast day: October 10 Eldest daughter of Joseph and Josephine Truszkowski, Polish nobles. Well educated, Sophia was a pious, and lively youth […]
Continue Reading
St. Daniel Comboni
Born: 15 March 1831 at Limone sul Garda, Italy Died: 10 October 1881 of natural causes at Khartoum, Sudan of natural causes Canonized: 5 October 2003 by Pope John Paul II Feast day: October 10 Educated at Father Mazza’s Institute in Verona, Italy, studying theology, medicine, and several languages. Ordained on 31 December 1854 in […]
Continue Reading
St. Tarachus and his Companions
During the persecution of Diocletian in the year 304, Tarachus, Probus, and Andronicus, differing in age and nationality but united in the bonds of faith, were denounced as Christians to the governor of Cilicia. They were arrested at Pompeiopolis, and conducted to Tarsus. The acts of these glorious martyrs are one of the most precious […]
Continue Reading
Pope St. John XXIII
Born: 25 November 1881 at Sotto il Monte, diocese of Bergamo, Italy as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Papal Ascension: elected 28 October 1958, installed on 4 November 1958 Died: 7:50pm on 3 June 1963 at Rome, Italy of stomach cancer, buried in Saint Peter’s basilica, Vatican City Venerated: in Catholic Church Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Anglican […]
Continue Reading