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SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR MAY 18

 SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR  MAY 18  ST.JOHN I, POPE AND MARTYR-St. Pope John I, Roman Catholic Pope and Martyr. John was elected Pope while he was still an archdeacon upon the death of Pope Hormisdas in 523. Feast May 18 St. Theodotus of Ancyra, and Companions Theodotus was an innkeeper at Ancyra, Galatia (modern Turkey), who gave burial to seven virgins, Thecusa, Alexandra, Claudia, faina (Phaina), Euphrasia, Matrona, and Julitta after their martyrdom for refusing to wear pagan priestess robes and take part in a pagan festival. Theodotus was himself betrayed by an apostate and was martyred. In turn, his remains were gathered up by a Christian and sent to Malus where they received a proper burial and were enshrined in a chapel. May 18 St. Merililaun, 8th century. Martyred pilgrim. He was from England, journeying to Rome, when he was slain at Reims, France, under circumstances that warranted his being considered a martyr.   ST. FELIX OF CANTALICE, CAPUCHIN FRIAR St. ...
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St Paschal Baylon

  St Paschal Baylon https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/147
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Gospel in Art: And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world

  Gospel in Art: And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/55013
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St Simon Stock, St Brendan the Navigator, St Gemma Galgani

  St Simon Stock, St Brendan the Navigator, St Gemma Galgani https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/145
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Gospel in Art: Ask, and you will receive

  Gospel in Art: Ask, and you will receive https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/55009
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SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR MAY 16

 SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR  MAY 16  ST. ALEXANDER, BISHOP OF JERUSALEM AND MARTYR St. Simon Stock.  Although little is known about Simon Stock's early life, legend has it that the name Stock, meaning "tree trunk," derives from the fact that, beginning at age twelve, he lived as a hermit in a hollow tree trunk of an oak tree. It is also believed that, as a young man, he went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land where he joined a group of Carmelites with whom he later returned to Europe. Simon Stock founded many Carmelite Communities, especially in University towns such as Cambridge, Oxford, Paris, and Bologna, and he helped to change the Carmelites from a hermit Order to one of mendicant friars. In 1254 he was elected Superior-General of his Order at London. Simon Stock's lasting fame came from an apparition he had in Cambridge, England, on July 16, 1251, at a time when the Carmelite Order was being oppressed. In it the Virgin Mary appeared to him holding the brown scapular i...
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Vienna’s Silent Transformation: Nearly 50% of students in schools are already Muslim. Only 17% are Catholic - ZENIT - English

Vienna’s Silent Transformation: Nearly 50% of students in schools are already Muslim. Only 17% are Catholic - ZENIT - English : Perhaps no recent controversy symbolizes Vienna’s cultural unease more clearly than the city government’s decision earlier this year not to erect a statue honoring Polish King John III Sobieski. Sobieski led the Christian coalition that defeated Ottoman forces outside Vienna on September 12, 1683, in one of the decisive battles of European history
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