St. Hilarion
Feastday: October 21 291 – 371 Abbot and disciple of St. Anthony the Great, companion of St. Hesychius. He was born in Tabatha, Palestine, and was educated in Alexandria, Egypt. He stayed with St. Anthony in the desert there before…
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St. Ignatius of Antioch – Feastday:October 17
“I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.”…
St. Gerard Majella – Feastday: October 16
Patron of expectant mothers Died: 1755 St. Gerard Majella, religious, is the patron of expectant mothers. He was born at Muro, Italy, in 1726 and joined the Redemptorists at the age of 23, becoming a professed lay brother in 1752.…
St. Teresa
Feastday: October 15 Patron of Headache sufferers, Spanish Catholic Writers 1515 – 1582 Less than twenty years before Teresa was born in 1515, Columbus opened up the Western Hemisphere to European colonization. Two years after she was born, Luther started…
St. Callistus I
Feastday: October 14 Patronof Cemetery workers Imagine that your biography was written by an enemy of yours. And that its information was all anyone would have not only for the rest of your life but for centuries to come. You…
St. Edward the Confessor – Feastday:October 13
Edward the Confessor was the son of King Ethelred III and his Norman wife, Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy. He was born at Islip, England, and sent to Normandy with his mother in the year 1013…
St. Wilfrid – Feastday: October 12
633 – 710 Born in Northumberland in 634, St. Wilfrid was educated at Lindesfarne and then spent some time in Lyons and Rome. Returning to England, he was elected abbot of Ripon in 658 and introduced the Roman rules and…
St. Damien of Molokai – Feastday: October 11
Died: 1889 The Leper Priest, the Hero of Molokai. Born in Tremelo, Belgium, on January 3, 1840, he joined the Sacred Hearts Fathers in 1860. He was bom Joseph and received the name Damien in religious life. In 1864, he…
St. Francis Borgia Feastday: October 10
Patron against earthquakes; Portugal; Rota, Marianas Francis was a young nobleman at the court of the King of Spain. He became a Duke when he was only thirty-three and lived a happy, peaceful life with his wife Eleanor…
Sts. Denis, Rusticus, and Eleutherius
Feastday: October 9 Patronof France; Paris; against frenzy, strife, headaches, hydrophobia, possessed people, rabies 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…