Saint of the Day

St. Julian of Antioch (d. circa AD 305),variously distinguished as Julian the Martyr, Julian of Tarsus, Julian of Cilicia, and Julian of Anazarbus, was a 4th-century martyr and saint. Of senatorial rank, he was killed during the persecutions of Diocletian. He was subjected to terrible tortures, and paraded daily for a whole year through the […]

St. Clement Mary Hofbauer CSsR (26 December 1751 – 15 March 1820) was a Moravian hermit and later a priest of the Redemptorist congregation. He established the presence of his congregation, founded in Italy, north of the Alps, for which he is considered a co-founder of the congregation. He was greatly known for his lifelong

St. Matilda of Ringelheim (c. 892 – 14 March 968), also known as Saint Matilda, was a Saxon noblewoman. Due to her marriage to Henry I in 909, she became the first Ottonian queen. Her eldest son, Otto I, restored the Holy Roman Empire in 962. Matilda founded several spiritual institutions and women’s convents. She

St. Leander of Seville (c. 534 AD – 13 March 600 or 601) was the Bishop of Seville. He was instrumental in effecting the conversion of the Visigothic kings Hermengild and Reccared to Catholicism. His brother (and successor as bishop) was the encyclopedist St. Isidore of Seville. Leander introduced the recitation of the Nicene Creed

St. Fina (1238–1253) was an Italian girl who is venerated in the Tuscan town of San Gimignano. She developed a paralytic illness and spent the rest of her life on a bed made from a wooden pallet, where Saint Gregory the Great allegedly appeared to her to predict her death. At the exact moment of

St Eulogius of Cordoba (died 11 March 857) was the son of a senatorial family from Cordoba, Spain. He was well educated, a priest, and head of an ecclesiastical school. He worked to comfort and support Christian martyrs and their survivors during Islamic persecutions in Moorish occupied Spain. He was arrested several times for his

St. Marie-Eugenie de Jesus (25 August 1817 – 10 March 1898), born Anne-Eugénie Milleret de Brou, was a French religious sister and the foundress of the Religious of the Assumption. Her life was not geared towards faith in her childhood until the reception of her First Communion which seemed to transform her into a pious

St. Frances of Rome, Obl.S.B., (1384 – March 9, 1440), was born to the aristocracy. Married at age twelve to Lorenzo de’ Ponziani; her marriage lasted 40 years. She was the mother of three children. As a benedictine, she founded the Oblates of the Tor de’ Specchi (Collatines). Said to have been guided by an

St. John (also known as Juan, born 8 March 1495, died 8 March 1550) grew up working as a shepherd in the Castile region of Spain. He led a wild and misspent youth, and travelled over much of Europe and north Africa as a soldier in the army of Charles V, and as a mercenary.

Sts. Perpetua and Felicity were Christian martyrs of the 3rd century. Vibia Perpetua was a recently married, well-educated noblewoman, said to have been 22 years old at the time of her death, and mother of an infant son she was nursing. Felicity, an enslaved woman imprisoned with her and pregnant at the time, was martyred