SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 21st of October WELCOME! ST LAURA OF ST CATHERINE OF SIENA  Saint Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena, born Maria Laura Montoya y Upegui was born in 1874 in Jerico, Antioquia, Columbia, the second of three children. During the Columbian Civil War of 1876, St Laura’s father was killed and the family was left in poverty. St Laura was sent to live with her grandmother and at the age of 16, in order to help with the family finances, she went to receive training to become an elementary school teacher. This training took place in Amalfi and Medellin. Beginning in 1908 St Laura worked as a missionary to the native people in the Uraba and Sarare regions of Columbia where she founded the ‘Works of the Indians’. Even though she wanted to become a cloistered Carmelite nun, St Laura felt growing within her the desire to spread the Gospel of Jesus to those who had never heard of Him and to destroy the racial discrimination that exis...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 19th of October WELCOME! SAINT LAURA OF CORDOBA, WIDOW AND MARTYR   Laura, a widow and martyr of  Cordoba  in Spain, is mentioned in the Spanish martyrology of Tamajode Salazar, who refers to Luitprand, where it says the following: St Laura is said to have been of a noble family, and  according to the wishes of her parents she married an equally noble man and gave birth to two daughters.  After the death of her husband and her daughters, she went to the monastery of St Aurea, named St-Maria de Cuteclara, and after her martyrdom led the same for nine years as her successor.  After she had made wonderful progress in all virtues, she was finally summoned to renounce the faith before a Saracen judge. But since she remained steadfast, she was first beaten very cruelly and then thrown into a bath of boiling pitch, where she remained in praise of God for three hours and then flew to heaven on October...