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Saint Benedict of Nursia
Each year on the 21st of March the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the great Patriarch of Western Monasticism: Saint Benedict. Because of the long reaching nature of his […]
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Saint Patrick of Ireland
There are few Saints today more misunderstood and maligned than the saint we celebrate each year on March 17th. Many “celebrate” this feast by getting drunk on beer dyed green […]
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Pope Saint Gregory the Great
Of the 264 Popes who have passed to their eternal reward only 79 of them have been canonized Saints (11 Blesseds). Of these 79: only 47 were canonized for something […]
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
“There was in the thirteenth century a philosopher to whom the sight of the world did not give nausea, but a joy ever new, because he saw in it only […]
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Catholic Online Library
“Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.” -Saint Jerome, Father and Doctor of the Church This […]
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Saint Scholastica
There are few Catholics and not even too many outside the Church who are not aware of the great Patriarch of Western Monasticism: Saint Benedict, especially after reign of the […]
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Saint Dorothy, Virgin and Martyr
The Liturgical YearDom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.BFebruary 6Saint DorothyVirgin and Martyr Today again, it is one of the most amiable of Christ’s brides that comes to console us by her […]
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Saint Agatha, Virgin and Martyr
The Holy Spirit puts it well indeed in the Sacred Scriptures when it says: “Who shall find a valiant woman? far and from the uttermost coasts is the price of […]
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Saint Blase, Martyr
Victories of the Martyrs Saint Alphonsus Maria de Ligouri, Bishop and Doctor of the Church CHAPTER LVI St. Blase, Bishop of Sebaste February 3 St. […]
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