SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 14th of November   WELCOME! SAINT GREGORY PALAMAS, BISHOP Gregory, an Eastern Orthodox cleric, was born in Constantinople around 1296, the son of Constantine, a courtier of the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos. Because his father died when Gregory was still young, the Emperor himself took part in the raising and education of the boy and hoped that Gregory would devote himself to government service, but Gregory, at barely 21 years of age, entered a monastery on Mount Athos (in modern Greece) and followed the rule of  Saint Basil . He lived on Athos in solitude for most of the following twenty years.  In 1326, because of the threat of Turkish invasions, he and the brethren retreated to the defended city of Thessaloniki, where he was then ordained a priest. Dividing his time between his ministry to the people and his pursuit of spiritual perfection, he founded a small community of hermits near Thes...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 30th of May WELCOME! BLESSED MARIA FERNANDEZ  Blessed Maria Fernandez (May 30) was the companion of  Blessed Constantia Cira (Xira) , with whom she founded or expanded the Convent of  Saint Monica in Evora, Portugal. To what was stated in Volume 1 page 663 , we merely add that the two vied with one another in their love for their fellow sisters, acting as though they were their own biological sisters. (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume  4, Augsburg, 1875) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: May the intercession of Blessed Maria commend us to you, so that through her merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen. Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk,...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 11th of January WELCOME! MAURICE, ARCHBISHOP OF ROUEN Maurice, remembered on January 11, the fifty-fourth Archbishop of Rouen and formerly Bishop of Le Mans, ranks among the most pious and meritorious prelates of the French Church. Elected after a one-year vacancy of the see to succeed Theobald (d. 1229), he rendered great service to the reform of ecclesiastical discipline by holding synods and conducting visitations. In 1233, he placed the diocese under interdict. His stewards calculated the revenues of the archiepiscopal mensa (the episcopal endowment) at 12,000 pounds; yet he directed that only two or three thousand be used for his own needs and those of his household, declaring: "Beyond that, I possess nothing; it is the property of the poor - use it for the poor." In his measures, he showed no regard for persons or social standing; he punished unchaste priests without mercy. He died during the Octave of the Epi...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 20th of February WELCOME! SAINT JACINTA MARTO Saint Jacinta Marto   [Saint Jacinta Marto was a young Portuguese shepherd child who, along with her brother  Francisco and cousin Lucia , witnessed the famous apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. In 1918, Jacinta and Francisco fell victim to the influenza epidemic.] THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC THAT SWEPT THE WORLD IN 1918 “I will take Jacinta and Francisco soon,” our Lady had said to Lucia on June 13 . The final illness of the two children began with the influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918. [“Spanish ‘flu epidemic”]. They were both stricken. Complications set in, and neither recovered, although Jacinta lingered on longer than her brother. “FOR THE CONVERSION OF SINNERS”  One day when Lucia came to visit her sick cousins, Jacinta had great news for her. “Lucia,” she cried, “our Lady came to see us and said she was coming soon for ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 12th of August WELCOME! GERARD II, BISHOP OF ARRAS AND CAMBRAI Gerard II, born c. 1020, was probably descended from the lords of Lessines and the  thirty-third Bishop of Cambrai from 1076 to his death on August 12, 1092 - the last bishop to hold the joint see of Cambrai and Arras. " German in language and in culture ", he was related to both of his predecessors, Lietbert and Gerard I. This prince-bishop of the Holy Roman Empire's episcopacy coincided with the beginning of the Investiture Controversy between emperor and pope. An account of Gerard's episcopacy was recorded in the Gesta Gerardi secundi episcopi (Deeds of Bishop Gerard the Second) and in the Gesta episcoporum Cameracensium (Deeds of the Bishops of Cambrai). Sources:  Google AI - https://prabook.com/web/mobile/#!profile/2308933 -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_II_(bishop_of_Cambrai)

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 19th of May WELCOME! BLESSED ROSA CZACKA, VIRGIN AND FOUNDRESS Mother Rosa Czacka Countess Rosa Czacka (Róża Czacka) was born on October 22, 1876 in Biała Cerkiew , in today's Ukraine. She suffered from progressive vision loss - despite the numerous surgical interventions that were performed on her, she went completely blind in her early twenties. Falling from a horse, which detached both retinas, had accelerated the process.  Already in 1911, while living in Warsaw, the Polish capital, Rosa had begun caring for the blind there (at Holy Cross Church). Having recognized the full extent of lack of organized care for the partially sighted and the blind in Poland, she henceforth devoted herself to that need with heart and soul and all her strength.  Rosa entered the Franciscan Third Order on August 15, 1917 - taking the saint's name Elizabeth (Elżbieta) - before founding her own religious congregation in late 1918, the F...