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…

Feastday: October 3 Died: 695 Martyred Northumbrian brothers, one called “the Fair” and one called “the Dark ,”  companions of St. Willibrord. From Northumbria, they were educated in Ireland. These priests of the Benedictine Order went with Willibrord to Frisia,…

Feastday: October 2 615 – 679 Leger was raised at the court of King Clotaire II and by his uncle, Bishop Didon of Poitiers. Leger was made archdeacon by Didon, was ordained, and in about 651, became abbot of Maxentius…

Feastday: October 1 Patron of the Missions 1873 – 1897 Generations of Catholics have admired this young saint, called her the “Little  Flower”, and found in her short life more inspiration for own lives than in volumes  by theologians. Yet…

Feastday: September 30 Patron of Librarians 331 – 420 St. Jerome, who was born Eusebius Hieronymous Sophronius, was the most learned of the Fathers of the Western Church. He was born about the year 342 at Stridonius, a small town…

Beatified By: Pope John Paul II Canonized By: Pope John Paul II Lorenzo Ruiz is the first Filipino saint. He is also the first Filipino martyred for the Christian Faith. Lorenzo Ruiz was a layman, married, and had two sons…