St Alphonsus LiguoriAug 01, 2022
Bishop and founder of the Redemptorists. Saint Alphonsus was born in 1696 near Naples, the son of a Neapolitan nobleman. He studied law ... Read more
St MarthaJul 29, 2022
Martha was the sister of Lazarus and Mary of Bethany. Jesus gently reproved her when she complained about Mary not helping with the cooking when he ... Read more
St Pantaleon the HealerJul 28, 2022
Physician, confessor, and martyr. Pantaleon was born in the city of Nicodemia, now Izmit, in northern Turkey near the Black Sea. His mother, Eubula ... Read more
Saints Aurelius and NataliaJul 27, 2022
Martyrs. These were two members of a group of five Christians martyred at Cordoba in Spain, by the Muslim Emir Abd ar-Rahman II ... Read more
St Joachim and AnnJul 26, 2022
Parents of the Virgin Mary. Little is known about the parents of Our Lady. Their story is told in the apocryphal Gospel of James but neither are mentioned in Holy Scripture ... Read more
St James the Apostle and St ChristopherJul 25, 2022
James was the brother of John the Evangelist. He is sometimes called James the Greater, to distinguish him from James the Lesser, who may have been ... Read more
St Mary MagdaleneJul 22, 2022
Patron of repentant sinners and the contemplative life. One of the followers of Christ, Mary Magdalene has been identified as the woman who anointed Jesus' feet ... Read more
