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  Saints of the day August 01 Bl. Thomas Welbourne, 1605 A.D. English martyr. Born in Hutton Bushel, Yorkshire, he worked as a schoolmaster until his arrest for preaching the Catholic faith. He was arrested and condemned with Blesseds John Fuithering and William Brown. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at York.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Welbourne The Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek, also known as the Eleven Nuns of Nowogródek or Sister Stella and Companions were a group of Roman Catholic nuns from the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth killed by the Gestapo in August 1943 in present-day Belarus.Aug 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Nowogr%C3%B3dek#:~:text=The%20Martyrs%20of%20Nowogr%C3%B3dek%2C%20also,Gestapo%20in%20August%201943%20in   St. Almedha, sixth century. Virgin and martyr also called Aled or Filuned. The Welsh tradition reports that Almedha was the daughter of King Brychan. Having taken a vow of virginity and dedicated to Christ, A...

 Jesus said to the disciples: "The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind. When it is full they haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away. Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth."

  St Ignatius Loyola https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/221

  Gospel in Art: Feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52935

  St. Ignatius of Loyola, priest, Founder of the Jesuits - Information on the Saint of the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/07/31/st--ignatius-of-loyola--priest--founder-of-the-jesuits.html

  Pope to catechumens and neophytes: You are the salt of the world and the light of the earth - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-07/pope-leo-xiv-discourse-french-catechumens-29-july-2025.html

Saint of the day July 31 Bl. Everard Hanse, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, raised a Protestant in Northhamptonshire, England, studied at Cambridge, and was ordained a minister. In 1568, he converted to the Church and went to Reims, France, where he was ordained in 1581. Returning as a missionary, Everard was arrested and condemned. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on July 31 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everald_Hanse St. Neot, Hermit, and relative of King Alfred the Great. A monk of Glastonbury, England, he was ordained before he departed to become a hermit in Cornwall. Tradition states that King Alfred visited him for his counsel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Neot_(monk) ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA, PRIEST, FOUNDER OF THE JESUITS https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/07/31/st--ignatius-of-loyola--priest--founder-of-the-jesuits.html https://www.jesuit.org.sg/july-ignatius-loyola-sj/ ST. JUSTIN DE JACOBIS OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE MISSION, BISHOP OF ABISSINIA...

  Most countries have Christian majorities – that is, more than half of all people in those places identify as Christian, according to a   recent Pew Research Center report . However, the Christian share of the population has dropped in many countries. And some countries lost their Christian majority between 2010 and 2020, largely because millions of Christians around the world  left the religion . How we did this ew Research Center conducted this analysis as part of our  ongoing research on how the world’s religious composition is changing . This analysis is based on more than 2,700 sources of data, including national censuses, large-scale demographic surveys, general population surveys and population registers. The  COVID-19 pandemic  caused widespread delays in the collection of census and survey data, and some estimates for 2020 in this analysis are based on data that was not made public until 2024. Our estimates cover 201 countries and territories that...

  St Peter Chrysologus https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/220

  Gospel in Art: The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52929

Saint of the day July 30 Bl. Thomas Abel, 1540 A.D. English martyr . A graduate of Oxford University, Thomas served as chaplain to Queen Catharine of Aragon, proving intensely loyal to her cause during the ordeal of the divorce proceedings against her by King Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547). Arrested by English authorities for denying the spiritual supremacy of the king, he was incarcerated in the Tower of London for six years, finally receiving execution at Smithfield. He was beatified in 1886.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Abel Bl. Edward Powell, 1504 A.D. English martyr, a councilor to Queen Catherine of Aragon, wife of King Henry VIII. A Welshman, Edward was a canon of Salisbury, England, and a fellow of Odd, noted for treatises opposing Martin Luther. He served Queen Catherine of Aragon and opposed the spiritual supremacy of Henry VIII. For this he spent six years in prison before being hanged, drawn, and quartered at Smithfield, London. He was beatified in...

  St Martha, Mary and Lazarus https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/219

  Summer camp children killed in Congo church massacre https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52914

  Gospel in Art: Saints Mary, Martha and Lazarus https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52921

  St. Beatrice of Rome - Information on the Saint of the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/07/29/st--beatrice-of-rome.html

Saint of the day July 29 ST. MARTHA, DISCIPLE OF THE LORD, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha#:~:text=Martha%20(Hebrew%3A%20%D7%9E%D6%B7%D7%A8%D6%B0%D7%AA%D6%B8%D6%BC%D7%90)%20is,Jesus%20resurrecting%20her%20brother%2C%20Lazarus. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/07/29/st--martha--disciple-of-the-lord.html https://www.jesuit.org.sg/july-emmanuel-peypoch-sj/ St. Martha Wang, Roman Catholic Martyr of Tonkin, Vietnam , who was arrested carrying letters from the imprisoned martyrs, Blesseds Joseph Tshang and Paul Tcheng. She was beheaded with them at Tsingai. Feastday July 29th.http://saintlywomen.weebly.com/weekly-saints/st-martha-wang ST. BEATRICE OF ROME, https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/07/29/st--beatrice-of-rome.html St. Kilian, 7th century. An Irish abbot who wrote the life of St. Brigid. He ruled a monastery on the island of Iniscaltra, Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Kilian  

  St Pantaleon the Healer https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/396

  Gospel in Art: The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52913

  Saint of the day July 28 Fr. Stanley_Rother Martyr of Guatemala July 28 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Rother St. Samson, 565 A.D. Welsh bishop and evangelizer. Born at Glamorgan, Wales, he became a disciple of St. Illtyd at the monastery of Lianwit (Llantwit) in southern Glamorgan and then lived as a monk (and later abbot) of a community on Caldey Island (Ynys Byr). He was joined there by his uncle, Umbrafel, and his father, Amon. After a trip to Ireland, Samson became a hermit with Amon whom he cured of a mortal illness. During a trip to Cornwall, he was consecrated a bishop and appointed an abbot. He then departed England and went to Brittany where he spent the rest of his life as a missionary, even though he had long searched for solitude. Samson founded monasteries, including one at Dol and another at Pental, in Normandy. He was one of the foremost (if not relatively unknown) evangelizers of his century and has long been venerated with enthusiasm in Wales and Brittan...

  Nuns Carry Virgin Mary Statue Through Chicago Airport: 'Our Lady Conquering Hearts' https://www.churchpop.com/nuns-carry-virgin-mary-statue-through-chicago-airport-our-lady-conquering-hearts/

  Saints Aurelius and Natalia and St Titus Brandsma https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/218

Gospel in Art: Knock, and it will be opened to you https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52906

 Saint of the day July 27 St. Anthusa, Roman Catholic Abbess tortured by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine V. Anthusa was originally a hermitess, becoming abbess of the convent near Constantinopl e. Because of her veneration of sacred images, she was arrested by the emperor, who, as an ardent iconoclast, opposed such sacramentals. Anthusa was tortured severely until the empress intervened and secured her release.  Feastday: July 27 https://www.newmanministry.com/saints/saint-anthusa#:~:text=Anthusa%20was%20the%20daughter%20of,and%20asked%20for%20her%20prayers. Sts. Natalie & Aurelius, Roman Catholic Martyrs for her Faith with her husband Aurelius. According to his biography by St. Eulogius of Toledo, Aurelius was the son of a Moor and a Spanish woman, and was orphaned as a child. He was secretly raised a Christian by his aunt during the Moorish persecution of Christians. He married a half Moorish woman, Sabigotho, who took the name Natalie when he converted her to Christi...