St CorneliusOct 02, 2022
Celebrated on September 16th
Pope and martyr. A Roman priest, Cornelius was elected Pope to succeed Fabian in an election delayed fourteen months by Decius' persecution of the Christians. Read more
St Catherine of GenoaOct 02, 2022
Celebrated on September 15th
Married woman and mystic. Born in Genoa in 1447, Catherine Fieschi entered into an arranged marriage with a wealthy young man named Julian when she was just 16. He turned out to be a foul-tempered womanizer and she endured his bad behaviour for several years, until in… Read more
St NotburgaOct 02, 2022
Celebrated on September 14th
Austrian laywoman from what is now called the Tyrol. Notburga was born around 1250 to a poor peasant family. At the age of 18 she was employed as a kitchen maid in the castle of Count Henry of Rattenberg. The family squandered more food on pig-swill than Notburga's parents… Read more
St John ChrystostomOct 02, 2022
Celebrated on September 13th
Archbishop. Born in 347, the son of an army officer at Antioch, John was brought up by his widowed mother. In 373 he went to live as a monk in a mountain community and became quite ill because of the austere regime there. In 381 he returned to Antioch and became a deacon… Read more
St Guy of AnderlechtOct 02, 2022
Celebrated on September 12th
Layman. Guy was a farm labourer, born in Brabant around 950, who was made sacristan of the church at Laeken near Brussels. According to legend, he invested his small savings in a business which failed. After losing his home and his job he went on a seven-year long pilgrimage,… Read more
St Peter Claver, St CiaranOct 02, 2022
Celebrated on September 9th
Missionary and patron saint of the African slaves. The son of a Catalonian farmer, Peter Claver was born at Verdu, in 1581. He obtained his first degrees at the University of Barcelona. At the age of 20 he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Tarragona. Read more
Saint Margaret Clitherow and Saintt FiacreSep 29, 2022
Celebrated on August 30th
Martyr. Margaret Clitherow was born in 1555, in Middleton, Yorkshire, into a Protestant family. Her father, Thomas Middleton, was Sheriff of York from 1564 to 1565. Margaret was married at the age of 15 to John Clitherow who had a thriving butchery trade. The couple had three… Read more
