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Saints for Today: Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Feast Day: May 31 Set aside by the Roman Church as an important feast, the Visitation celebrates Mary’s sojourn with her cousin, Elizabeth, pregnant with Saint...
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Saints for Today: Bede the Venerable, Priest & Doctor of the Church (672-735)

Feast Day: May 25. A scholarly man and one of the most learned of his time, Bede compiled meticulous historical records recounting the development of...
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Saints for Today: Rita of Cascia, Religious (1381-1457)

Feast Day: May 22 Born at Roccaporena in Umbria, Italy, Rita wished in childhood to become a nun but married in deference to her parents' wishes...
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Saints for Today: John of Avila, Priest and Doctor of the Church (1500-1569)

Feast Day: May 10 John of Avila lived in the first half of the sixteenth century. He was born in Almodóvar del Campo (Ciudad Real, in...
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Saints for Today: James, Apostle and Martyr (1st C.)

Feast Day: May 3rd Saint James called “the Younger” or “the Less,” was the son of Alphaeus of Cleophas. His mother Mary was either a sister...
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Saints for Today: John XXIII and John Paul II, Popes (20th c.)

Canonization Date: Divine Mercy Sunday, April 27, 2014. This Sunday marks a glorious day when Pope Francis canonizes and declares saints, Blessed Pope John XXIII...
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Saints for Today: Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr (1030-1079)

Feast Day: April 11 Anyone who reads the history of Eastern Europe cannot help but chance on the name of Stanislaus, the saintly but tragic...
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Saints for Today: Isidore of Seville, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (560-636)

Feast Day: April 04 This medieval scholar of Seville, Spain, was from a noble family that was probably of Roman origin. Two of his brothers,...
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Saints for Today: Why Do We Have Stations of the Cross?

The devotion as the Stations (or Way) of the Cross was one of many forms of devotion developed during the very late Middle Ages,...
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Saints for Today: Joseph, Foster Father of Jesus (1st c.)

Solemnity: March 19 The chief sources of information on the life of St. Joseph, described as a “just man”, are the first chapters of our...
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Lent: An Opportunity for Conversion

Blessed John Paul II wrote in Ecclesia in America “In this life, conversion is a goal which is never fully attained: on the path...
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Saints for Today: Patrick, Bishop (385-461)

Feast Day: March 17. The Christianization of Celtic Ireland, an island never colonized by Rome, is generally assumed to have been the work of St....
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