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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Feastday:October 8 Pelagia, more often called Margaret, on account of the magnificence of the pearls for which she had so often sold herself, was an actress of Antioch, equally celebrated for her beauty, her wealth and the disorder ofher life. …
Feastday: October 7 1101 – 1206 Artaldus (also called Arthaud) was born in the castle of Sothonod in Savoy. At the age of eighteen, he went to the court of Duke Amadeus III, but a year or two after, he…
Bruno was born in Cologne of the prominent Hartenfaust family. He studied at the Cathedral school at Rheims, and on his return to Cologne about 1055, was ordained and became a Canon at St. Cunibert’s. He returned to Rheims…
1905 – 1938 Beatified By: Pope John Paul II Canonized By: Pope John Paul II Saint Faustina was born Helena Kowalska in a small village west of Lodz, Poland on August 25, 1905. She was the third of ten children.…
Feastday: October 4 Patron and Animals, Merchants & Ecology 1181 – 1226 Founder of the Franciscan Order, born at Assisiin Umbria, in 1181. In 1182, Pietro Bernardone returned from a trip to France to find out his wife had given…