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St. Balbina - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Balbina - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Balbina, Roman Catholic Women Martyr, Patron of struma, scrofulous diseases. Balbina died for the faith and was buried on the Appian Way. Her relics were later enshrined in St. Balbina's Church on the Aventine. Feastday March 31

Egypt: Four killed in Islamist attack on church on Independent Catholic News

Egypt: Four killed in Islamist attack on church on Independent Catholic News Egypt: Four killed in Islamist attack on church

St. John Climacus - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. John Climacus - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. John Climacus, Roman Catholic monk called “Climacus” from the title of his famous book, The Climax, or The Ladder of Perfection. Feastday March 30

St. Berthold - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Berthold - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Berthold, Roman Catholic Priest and the founder of the Carmelite Order. Feastday March 29

A Fate Worse than Persecution

A Fate Worse than Persecution

Ten Ways Noah’s Ark Prefigured the Church

Ten Ways Noah’s Ark Prefigured the Church

St. Venturino of Bergamo - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Venturino of Bergamo - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Venturino of Bergamo, Roman Catholic Dominican Monk, known for helping to organize a crusade, at the behest of Pope Clement VI (r. 1342-1352), against the Turks who were then menacing Europe. Feastday March 28

Bl. James Claxton - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

Bl. James Claxton - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. James Claxton,  Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Isleworth. Feastday March 28

St. Margaret Clitherow - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Margaret Clitherow - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Margaret Clitherow, Roman Catholic English Martyr.  She married John Clitherow, a well-to-do grazier and butcher (to whom she bore two children), and a few years later entered the Catholic Church. Her zeal led her to harbor fugitive priests, for which she was arrested and imprisoned by hostile authorities. Recourse was had to every means in an attempt to make her deny her Faith, but the holy woman stood firm. Finally, she was condemned to be pressed to death on March 25, 1586. She was stretched out on the ground with a sharp rock on her back and crushed under a door over laden with unbearable weights. Her bones were broken and she died within fifteen minutes. The humanity and holiness of this servant of God can be readily glimpsed in her words to a friend when she learned of her condemnation: "The sheriffs have said that I am going to die this coming Friday; and I feel the weakness of my flesh which is troubled a

St. Dismas - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Dismas - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Dismas, the Good Thief crucified with Christ on Calvary. Feastday March 25

Bl. James Bird - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

Bl. James Bird - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. James Bird, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He refused to take the Oath of Supremacy and was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Winchester. Feastday March 25

Bl. Emilian Kovch - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

Bl. Emilian Kovch - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Emilian Kovch, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr. Parish priest in 1922 at Peremyshliany, Ukraine, a village of 5,000, most of whom were Jewish. An active priest, he organized pilgrimages and youth groups, and welcomed poor and orphaned children of all faiths into his home. When the Nazis invaded Ukraine, they began rounding up Jews. To save them, Father Emilian began baptizing them, and listing them as Christians. The Nazis were wise to this trick, and had prohibited it. Emilian continued, but was arrested by the Gestapo in December 1942. Deported to the Majdanek concentration camp in August 1943. There he ministered to prisoners, hearing confessions, and celebrating Mass when possible. Martyred in the ovens. Feastday March 25

St. Hildelitba - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Hildelitba - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Hildelitba, Roman Catholic Benedictine abbess and supporter of Sts. Bede, Aldhelm, and Boniface. An Anglo Saxon princess, she became a nun at Chelles or Farmoutier. France, but was recalled by St. Erconwald to train her sister, Ethelburga, at Barking, England. Feastday March 24

Italian nun knocks out judges on TV talent show on Independent Catholic News

Italian nun knocks out judges on TV talent show on Independent Catholic News

St. Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo, Roman Catholic Priest. Patron of Native rights; Latin American bishops and Peru. Feastday March 23

St. Rafqa - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Rafqa - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Rafqa, Roman Catholic Nun. St. Rafqa was sent with five other sisters to found a new monastery in Jrabta, Batroun in Lebanon. In 1899, she became blind and paralysis set in. Feastday March 23

St. Callinica & Basilissa - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Callinica & Basilissa - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Callinica & Basilissa, Roman Catholic Women Martyrs of Galatia. Wealthy matrons, Callinica and Basilissa spent their fortunes bringing aid to the imprisoned Christians in their area. They were arrested for their generosity and slain. Feastday March 22

St. Nicholas Owen - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Nicholas Owen - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Nicholas Owen, Roman Catholic Jesuit lay brother and English Martyr. Died from vicious torture. Feastday March 22

Pope Francis: Place all your trust in the Lord on Independent Catholic News

Pope Francis: Place all your trust in the Lord on Independent Catholic News

St. Benedicta Cambiagio Frassinello - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Benedicta Cambiagio Frassinello - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Benedicta Cambiagio Frassinello, Roman Catholic Nun founded the Congregation of the Benedictine Sisters of Providence. The guiding charism of her order is their focus on the education of young girls and confidence in and abandonment to God in the living out of their vows. Feastday March 21

St. Alexandra and Companions - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Alexandra and Companions - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Alexandra and Companions,  Roman Catholic Women Martyrs. Christian women, Alexandra, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia, Theodosia, Derphuta, and her sister, were martyred in Amisus in Paphlagonia. The women were burned to death in the persecution of Emperor Diocletian. Feastday March 20

St. Photina - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Photina - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Photina, Roman Catholic Martyr. Photiona was the Samaritan woman with whom Jesus spoke at the well as was recounted in the Gospel of St. John, chapter four. Deeply moved by the experience, she took to preaching the Gospel, received imprisonment, and was finally martyred at Carthage. Feastday March 20

St. John, Sergius, & Companions - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. John, Sergius, & Companions - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. John, Sergius, & Companions. Roman Catholic Monks who resided in the laura, or an eremetical monastery, of St. Sabas, near Jerusalem. They were martyred by a band of Arabs who devastated the community. One of the wounded monks, named Stephen, composed a poem in honor of the martyred and to commemorate the event. Feastday March 20

Nigeria: Thousands risk death to attend Mass on Independent Catholic News

Nigeria: Thousands risk death to attend Mass on Independent Catholic News

St. Joseph, Patron of The Holy Roman Catholic Church. Feastday

St. Joseph - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Joseph, Patron of The Holy Roman Catholic Church. Feastday March 19

Laos: Christians in village ordered to abandon their faith on Independent Catholic News

Laos: Christians in village ordered to abandon their faith on Independent Catholic News

St. Edward the Martyr - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Edward the Martyr - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Edward the Martyr, Roman Catholic Priest and English King. Edward ruled only three years when he was murdered. Feastday March 18

Bl. Peter Lieou - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

Bl. Peter Lieou - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Peter Lieou, Roman Catholic Priest and CHinese Martyr. A Chinese native, he was converted to Catholicism and was consequently exiled to Mongolia in 1814. Permitted to return in 1827, he soon assisted the spread of Catholic missionary efforts and, during the persecution of Christianity by the Chinese government, managed to make his way into a prison where he gave comfort to Christian prisoners. He was caught and strangled. Feastday March 17

St. Patrick - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Patrick - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Patrick, Roman Catholic Priest and  bishop. He was born around 385 in Scotland, His parents were were Romans living in Britian in charge of the colonies. As a boy of fourteen or so, he was captured during a raiding party and taken to Ireland as a slave to herd and tend sheep. Ireland at this time was a land of Druids and pagans. He learned the language and practices of the people who held him. During his captivity, he turned to God in prayer. Feastday March 17

Bl. John Amias - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

Bl. John Amias - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. John Amias, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at York with Blessed Robert Dalby, Feastday March 16

Bl. Robert Dalby - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

Bl. Robert Dalby - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Robert Dalby, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. A Protestant minister before he converted to Catholicism and left England to become a priest. He was arrested and hanged, drawn, and quartered at York Feastday March 16

Martyrs of Valeria - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

Martyrs of Valeria - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

Pakistan: Church destroyed; 5,000 Christian families faces eviction on Independent Catholic News

Pakistan: Church destroyed; 5,000 Christian families faces eviction on Independent Catholic News

Nigeria: Over 500 Catholics killed by Boko Haram since 2009 on Independent Catholic News

Nigeria: Over 500 Catholics killed by Boko Haram since 2009 on Independent Catholic News

US Bishops travel to Mexican border - 'America's Lampedusa' on Independent Catholic News

US Bishops travel to Mexican border - 'America's Lampedusa' on Independent Catholic News

Nigeria: Extremists set Catholic school ablaze on Independent Catholic News

Nigeria: Extremists set Catholic school ablaze on Independent Catholic News

Nigeria: Extremists set Catholic school ablaze on Independent Catholic News

Nigeria: Extremists set Catholic school ablaze on Independent Catholic News

Cardinal Sandri reflects on modern martyrs in Latin America & Middle East on Independent Catholic News

Cardinal Sandri reflects on modern martyrs in Latin America & Middle East on Independent Catholic News

Pope Francis: Church must accompany, not condemn, those whose marriages fail on Independent Catholic News

Pope Francis: Church must accompany, not condemn, those whose marriages fail on Independent Catholic News