St ClareAug 11, 2022
Founder of the Poor Clares. Patron of television. Born in Assisi to the Offreduccio family, on 16 July, 1194, at the age of 18 Clare was so impressed by ... Read more
St LaurenceAug 10, 2022
Saint Laurence was a deacon who worked closely with Pope Sixtus II. He is thought to have been born in Spain, at Huesca, a town in the Aragon ... Read more
St DominicAug 08, 2022
Saint Dominic was born at Calaruega in Castile in 1170, the youngest son of the town warden. His uncle educated him and he became an Austin Canon ... Read more
St Oswald of NorthumbriaAug 05, 2022
King and martyr, Saint Oswald was the son of Ethelfrith, king of Northumbria. When Edwin seized the kingdom in 616, he fled to Scotland ... Read more
St John VianneyAug 04, 2022
Patron saint of parish priests. Saint John Vianney - 'the Cure D'Ars' - was the son of a farmer. Born in 1786, he grew up during the aftermath ... Read more
St WaldefAug 03, 2022
Cistercian abbot. Of noble birth, (he was the son of Earl Simon of Northampton and Matilda, the great niece of William the Conqueror) Saint Waldef ... Read more
St Eusebius of Vercelli, St Peter Faber SJAug 02, 2022
St Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop. Born in Sardina in the fourth century, to a Christian family who had suffered persecution for their faith, Saint Eusebius grew up ... Read more
