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St. Sylvester - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Sylvester, Roman Catholic Priest and was Pope for twenty-four years and eleven months.The Council of Nice was assembled during his reign, in the year 325, Feastday Dec 31

St. Melania - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Melania, The life of St. Melania reminds us of the fleeting character of earthly wealth. We should strive to emulate her use of wealth as well as talents to further the cause of Christ. Feastday Dec 31

English Historical Fiction Authors: The Birth of Cipher in England : by Lizzy Drake Finally, forasmuch as the ciphers which sir Thomas Spynell (whose soule God pardon!) had, have come to the hands of sundry p...

St. Anysia - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Anysia, Roman Catholic Martyr of Greece. She was a wealthy woman of Salonika, in Thessaly, who used her personal funds to aid the poor. A soldier accosted her in the street and tried to drag her to a pagan sacrifice. Anysia resisted and was killed when the soldier attacked her with his sword. Feastday Dec 30

100 years of prayer: The Pink Sisters work in shifts to continue a nonstop prayer lasting over a century - Living Faith - Home & Family - News - Catholic Online

Saint of the Day for Sunday, December 27th, 2015 - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Stephen - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Stephen, Stephen's name means "crown," and he was the first disciple of Jesus to receive the martyr's crown. Stephen was a deacon in the early Christian Church. Feastday Dec. 26

http://www.catholic.org/news/hf/faith/story.php?id=66127 Will the remarkable priest who died on board the Titanic be made a saint?

St. Lucian - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Lucian, Roman Catholic African martyr with Drusus Metrobius, Paul, Theotirnus, and Zenobius. They were martyred at Tripoli, Libya. Feastday Dec.24

Martyrs of Crete - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Martyrs of Crete, Ten Roman Catholic martyrs of the island of Crete who suffered during the persecution of Emperor Trajanus Decius. They are named Agathopus, Basilides, Eunician, Euporus, Evaristus, Cleomenes, Gelasius, Saturninus, Theodulus, and Zoticus. Feastday: December 23

23rd December: Saint Thorlac - Independent Catholic News Bishop. Born in Iceland in 1133, St Thorlac went to Paris and Lincoln to study. When he returned home he is said to have ignored advice to marry a rich widow - at a time when many other Icelandic priests were married - and instead started a house of canons regular at Thykkviboer. He was consecrated bishop of Skalholt in 1178 and set about reforming the Church in Iceland, drawing up a code for both laity in clergy. He died on this day in 1193, and was canonised by bishops in the national assembly in 1198.

22 December - Blessed Jacopone da Todi - Independent Catholic News

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St. Chaeromon - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Chaeromon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Nilopolis, in Egypt. When the persecution was instituted by Emperor Trajanus Decius, Chaeromon Was quite elderly. He and several companions fled into the Arabian desert and were never seen again. The bishop and his companions are listed as martyrs. Feastday Dec. 22

English Historical Fiction Authors: The Two Wives of Sir Thomas More : by Susan Abernethy Here lies Joanna, dear little wife of Thomas More, who intends this tomb for Alice and me. The first united to me in m...

English Historical Fiction Authors: A sparrow's flight through King Edwin's great hall... : One of the most famous sections in the Venerable Bede's Eccleciastical History of the English People (Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Ang...

21 December - St Peter Canisius - Independent Catholic News Jesuit Priest and Doctor of the Church. Peter Canisius worked tirelessly to defend the Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, and Switzerland. The restoration of the Catholic Church in Germany after the Reformation is largely attributed to the work there of the Society of Jesus, which he led.

St. Nemesius - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Nemesius, Roman Catholic Martyr of Egypt. He was burned alive in Alexandria, Egypt, during the persecutions under Emperor Trajanus Decius. Nemesius was arrested and scourged and then burned to death. Like Christ, he was executed between two criminals. Feastday Dec.19

The Luther Decade will be upon us in 2017 - here is a clip from our film about Saint John Fisher, one of England's great figures who enlightened people about Martin Luther's heresies in Tudor England. Saint John Fisher was executed by order of King Henry VIII in 1535 for refusing to support the King's annulment of marriage and his break with the Universal Church which set England adrift for 500 years apart from the Church, England which had been a Catholic country for over a thousand years. Mary's Dowry Productions is a Catholic film apostolate founded in 2007. We created a new form of film media for a prayerful and spiritual look at the lives of the Saints and Martyrs in the context of history

St. Olympias - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Olympias, Roman Catholic formed a religious community doing charitable works. She spent the last years of her life beset by illness and persecution but was comforted by Chrysostom from his place of exile. She died in exile. Feastday Dec.17

17th December - Saint Lazarus of Bethany - Independent Catholic News

St. Albina - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Albina, Roman Catholic Martyr and a young witness for Christ. Albina was born in Caesarea and was martyred there. Feastday Dec.16

St. Adelaide - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Adelaide, Roman Catholic Holy Roman Empress and Patron of abuse victims; brides; empresses; exiles; in-law problems; parenthood; parents of large families; princesses; prisoners; second marriages; step-parents; widows,Feastday Dec16

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St. Virginia Centurione Bracelli - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Saint Virginia Centurione Bracelli, Roman Catholic Nun, Feastday Dec. 15

15th December - Saint Mary di Rosa - Independent Catholic News Nun and foundress of the Handmaids of Charity. St Mary took seriously Jesus' words that whoever helped the least of his brethren did it to him.

14th December - Saint John of the Cross - Independent Catholic News St John's writings are theologically substantial and he is regarded not only as a mystic but as a supreme Doctor of Mystical Theology. He was beatified in 1675 and canonised in 1726. 200 years later he was declared a Doctor of the Church.

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St. Lucy - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Lucy, was a young Roman Catholic martyr who lived in Syracuse lost her life during the persecution of Christians in the early fourth century. Her veneration spread to Rome so that by the sixth century the whole Church recognized her courage in defense of the faith. Patron of Blindness Feastday Dec 13

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Pope Saint Damasus I - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Pope Saint Damasus I Roman Catholic Priest. All lovers of Scripture have reason to celebrate this day. Damasus was the pope who commissioned Saint Jerome to translate the Scriptures into Latin, the Vulgate version of the Bible. Feastday December 11

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Germany: Salafist 'Aid Workers' Recruiting Refugees Salafists disguised as aid workers are canvassing German refugee shelters in search of new recruits from among the nearly one million asylum seekers who have arrived this year from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Some Salafists are offering gifts of money and clothing. Others are offering translation services and inviting migrants to their homes for tea.

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Pope Saint Gregory III - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Pope Saint Gregory III, Roman Catholic Priest and head of the Catholic Church from 11 February 731 to his death in 741. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by the iconoclastic controversy in the Byzantine Empire, and by the ongoing advance of the Lombards, in which he invoked the intervention of Charles Martel, Feastday Dec. 10

Saint of the Day for Thursday, December 10th, 2015 - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. John Mason, Roman Catholic Layman and English Martyr. hanged, drawn, and quartered with Sts. Edmund Gennings, Palydore Plasden. and Blessed Sidney Hodgson. Feastday Dec.10 St. Polydore Plasden, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday Dec.10 St. Eustace White, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday Dec.10 Bl. Thomas Somers, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Arrested for being a priest, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn with Blessed John Roberts. Feastday Dec.10 St. Julia of Merida, Roma Catholic Martyr of Merida, Spain. She died with St. Eulalia in Merida for the faith. Feastday Dec.10

10th December - Saint Eulalia - Independent Catholic News

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9th December - Saint Juan Diego - Independent Catholic News

Martyrs of Samosata - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Martyrs of Samosata, Seven Roman Catholic martyrs who refused to join in co-Emperor Maximian’s pagan rites at Samosata. The martyrs were local magistrates Hipparchus and Philotheus and their converts: James, Paragrus, Abibus, Romanus, and Lollian. They were crucified for not celebrating Maximian’s victory over the Persians. Feastday Dec.9

Martyrs of Saragossa - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Martyrs of Saragossa, Two groups of Roman Catholic martyrs put to death at Saragossa, Spain, by the Romans during the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian. Roman prefect named Dacian. exiled all Christians from the city, and when they started toward the gates of Saragossa, they were massacred by Dacians Roman troops. Feastday Dec.9

8th December - Feast of the Immaculate Conception - Independent Catholic News

6th December - Saint Nicholas - Independent Catholic News

Bl. Philip Rinaldi, Roman Catholic Priest Working with the 'Zelatrici di Maria Ausiliatrice', he saw the possibilities for a new form of consecrated life in the world and made it a reality. This group would later become the "Volunteers of Don Bosco". Feast day Dec 5

St. Crispina - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Crispina, Roman Catholic Martyr. Arrested for being a Christian, she was taken before Proconsul Anulinus at Thebaste, in Numidia, and was ordered to deny Christ. Crispina refused and was tortured and publicly ridiculed then she was beheaded. Feastday Dec.5

St. Nicholas Tavigli, Roman Catholic Franciscan Martyr of Jerusalem. He then went to the Holy Land to preach among the Muslims and was martyred at Jerusalem. Feastday Dec.5

St. Cassian of Tangier - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Cassian of Tangier, Roman Catholic Martyr. He was a court recorder at the trial of St. Marcellus the Centurion. When the death penalty was imposed on St. Marcellus, Cassian threw down his pen and declared that he was a Christian. He was arrested immediately and put to death. Cassian is patron of modern stenographers. Feastday Dec 3

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3rd December - Saint Francis Xavier - Independent Catholic News

St. Bibiana - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Bibiana, Roman Catholic Virgin and Martyr, Apronianus ordered her to be tied to a pillar and beaten with scourges, laden with lead plummets, until she expired. Feastday December 2

St. Eusebius - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Eusebius, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr with Adria, Aurelia, Hippolytus, Mary, Martana, Maximus, Marcellus, Neon, and Paulina. Eusebius was a priest, and Marcellus was a deacon. They were beheaded with Mary and Neon. Adria and Hippolytus, and probably Aurelia, were beaten to death. Paulina died under torture and Maximus was drowned. Feastday Dec 2

Bl. Ivan Sleziuk - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Ivan Sleziuk, Roman Catholic Priest. On June 2, 1945, Bishop Ivan was arrested and deported for ten years to the labor camps in Vorkuta, Russia. arrested again and imprisoned for five years in a camp of strict regimen. Feastday Dec2

The success of Mohammedanism in Africa and the East had been due to its offering the opportunity it afforded of freedom to the slave and debtor, and an extreme simplicity which pleased  the unintelligent masses who were perplexed by the mysteries of Catholicism. During the early years of Islam society had fallen, much as our society has today, into a tangle wherein the bulk of men were disappointed and angry and seeking for a solution to the whole group of social strains. There was indebtedness everywhere; the power of money and consequent usury. There was slavery everywhere. To all this Islam came as a vast relief and a solution of strain. The slave who admitted that Mohammed was the prophet of God and that the new teaching had, therefore, divine authority, ceased to be a slave. The slave who adopted Islam was henceforward free. The debtor who "accepted" was rid of his debts. Usury was forbidden. The small farmer was relieved not only of his debts but of his crushing taxat

30th November - Saint Andrew - Independent Catholic News

St. Saturninus, Roman Catholic Priest Bishop of Toulouse and Martyr. The infidels tied his feet to a wild bull, which was brought thither to be sacrificed. The beast being driven from the temple, ran violently down the hill, so that the martyr's scull was broken, and his brains dashed out. Feastday Nov 29

St. Paramon and Companions - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Paramon and Companions, Three hundred and seventy five Roman Catholic Martyrs, who are reported to have been put to death on the same day during the persecutions of the Church under Emperor Trajanus Decius . Feastday Nov.29

Sts. Saturninus & Sisinius - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Sts. Saturninus & Sisinius Roman Catholic Martyrs of Rome. Saturninus was a priest from Carthage who went to Rome and was arrested with a deacon, Sisinius, during the persecutions of Emperor Maximian. They were sentenced to hard labor and either died during their ordeal or were tortured and then beheaded. It is known with certainty that Saturninus lived, was martyred, and was buried on the Via Saleria, Rome, Feastday Nov 29

St. Catherine Laboure - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Catherine Laboure, Roman Catholic Virgin Nun. Three times in 1830 the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Catherine Laboure, who then was a twenty-four year old novice. Feastday: November 28

St. James Intercisus - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. James Intercisus, Roman Catholic Martyr of Persia. He declared himself to be a Christian to the new king, Bahram. When James refused to apostasize, he was executed by having his body cut apart piece by piece, beginning with his fingers (hence his surname Intercisus - cut to pieces), and then beheaded. Feastday Nov 27

27th November - Saint Francesco Antonio Fasani - Independent Catholic News

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St. Catherine of Alexandria - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Catherine of Alexandria, Roman Catholic Virgin and Martyr whose feast day is November 25th. She is the patroness of philosophers and preachers. Condemned to death. She was put on a spiked wheel, and when the wheel broke, she was beheaded. Feastday Nov 25

St. Peter of Alexandria - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Peter of Alexandria, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr. He is called the “seal and complement of martyrs” as he was the last Christian beheaded by Roman authorities. Feastday: November 25

24th November - Saint Colman of Cloyne - Independent Catholic News

Martyrs of Vietnam - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Eastern Vietnam - fifteen priests, 60 cathechists, 250 nuns, 24,000 Catholic lay men and women. Southern Vietnam - ten priests, 8,585 Catholic men and women. Southern Tonkin region - eight French missionaries, one native priest, 63 cathechists, and 400 more Christians slain - in all, in the Southern Tonkin region an estimated 4,799 were martyred and 1,181 died of starvation. Some 10,000 Catholics were forced to flee the area. Feastday Nov 24

Pope Francis wants all of us to become heralds of the joy of the Gospel. In Evangelii Gaudium he cautions us not to be 'sourpusses' or like people coming back from a funeral. He insists: 'Let us not allow ourselves to be 'robbed of hope' (EG 83). There is a definite temptation nowadays to rob the Church of hope. We often hear people speaking about the decline in Church practice, or the lack of vocations to the priesthood and religious life as signals that Europe has 'lost the faith'. It is true that many people in Europe have drifted away from regular Church practice: there is an increasing loss of the 'sense of the sacred', and more and more people seem to be growing used to living their lives with little or no reference to belief and trust in God. Pope Francis tells us that it is now, more than ever, that the world needs to hear the song of the Lord, 'the joy of the Gospel'. He challenges us to get out there and to bring faith to life.

Pope St. Clement I - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Pope St. Clement I, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr. As Clement succeeded in converting many pagans, he was sent to Aufidianus, the prefect, who ordered him to be drowned in the sea with an old anchor attached to his neck. His body was recovered by his disciple Phoebus. The relics of S. Clement were deposited in the church of San Clemente, where they are still reverently preserved. Feastday: November 23

Bl. Miguel Pro - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online BL. José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and Martyr also known as Blessed Miguel Pro (born January 13, 1891 – executed November 23, 1927), was a Mexican Jesuit Catholic priest executed under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles on trumped up charges of bombing and attempted assassination against former Mexican President Álvaro Obregón. Feastday: November 23

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22nd November - Saint Cecilia - Independent Catholic News

St. Gelasius - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Pope Gelasius I (died 19 November 496) was the head of The Holy Roman Catholic Church from March 492 to his death in 496. He was probably the third and last Bishop of Rome of North African origin in the Catholic Church. Feastday Nov 21

St. Albert of Louvain - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Albert of Louvain, Roman Catholic Priest Martyr. He was chosen Bishop of Liège in 1191 by the people and the Church. Emperor Henry VI proposed his own choice, causing Albert to journey to Rome to appeal to Celestine III. The pope ordained him a deacon and sent him to the Archbishop of Rheims. The archbishop ordained Albert a priest and consecrated him as a bishop. Outside of Rheims, Albert was accosted by eight followers of Henry VI, who stabbed him to death. Feastday Nov 21

St. Nerses the Great - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Nerses the Great,Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr. Bishop and martyred by the Armenian ruler, Pap, whose dissolute lifestyle caused Nerses to refuse him admission into church. Nerses was invited to a royal banquet at Khakh, on the Euphrates River, and was assassinated by poison. Feastday Nov 19

St Evodius was the first person to identify the faithful as Christians. He was Bishop martyr, the successor of St. Peter in Antioch. He was one of the seventy-two disciples of Jesus. He may have been consecrated bishop by St. Peter.

Bl. Karolina Kozka - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Karolina Kózka (2 August 1898 – 18 November 1914) Roman Catholic Polish teenager virgin-martyr. She died while resisting an attempted rape by a Russian soldier. Feastday Nov 18

St. Rose Philippine Duchesne - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, Roman Catholic Virgin Nun R.S.C.J. (also known as the Society of The Sacred Heart), She spent the last half of her life teaching and serving the people of the Midwestern United States. Feast day November 18

Martyrs of Paraguay - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Martyrs of Paraguay, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priests and Martyrs. Three Spanish Jesuits - Roch Gonzalez, Aiphonsus Rodriguez, Juan de Castilo - who were slain in missions called “reductions,” including the main site on the Jiuhi River in Paraguay. They were at All Saints Mission there when they were murdered Feastday: November 17

Bl. Josaphat Kocylovskyj - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Josaphat Kocylovskyj, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr. He was sent to the Capaivca labor camps (Kiev region), where he underwent continuous pressure to move to the Russian Orthodox Church. He died in the same camp as a result of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 71 years,  Feastday: November 17

17th November - Saint Hugh of Lincoln; the Martyrs of Paraguay - Independent Catholic News

St. Albert the Great - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Albert the Great, Roman Catholic Priest and Doctor of The Church, He was a German Dominican friar and a Catholic bishop. Feastday Nov 15

14th November - Saint Laurence O'Toole (Lorchan Ua Tuathail) - Independent Catholic News

St. Joseph Pignatelli - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Joseph Pignatelli, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and confessor and one of the restorers of the Society of Jesus after its suppression in 1773. Feastday Nov 14

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St. Frances Xavier Cabrini - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin Roman Catholic Nun, In 1946, she became the first American citizen to be canonized (Feast day November 13)

Bl. Vincent Bossilkov - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Vincent Bossilkov, Roman Catholic Passionist Priest, bishop of Nicopolis and martyr in the Communist campaign in Bulgaria against religion. Feastday: November 13

St. Josaphat of Polotsk - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Josaphat of Polotsk, Eastern Rite bishop, is held up as a martyr to church unity because he died trying to bring part of the Orthodox Church into union with Rome. Feastday: November 12

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Bl. Kamen Vitchev - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Kamen Vitchev, Byzantine-Slavonic Rite Roman Catholic priest and Martyr. Arrested by the Communists, falsely charged with heading a “Catholic conspiracy” against the government. On November 11, 1952, he was executed by gunfire. Feastday: November 11

St. Martin of Tours - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Martin of Tours, was Roman Catholic Bishop of Tours, whose shrine in France became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Feastday: November 11

St. Leo the Great - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Leo the Great, Pope Leo I (c. 400 – 10 November 461), also known as Saint Leo the Great, was the head of the Catholic Church from 29 September 440 to his death in 461. Feastday: November 10

St. Theodore Tyro - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Theodore Tyro, Roman martyr, considered to be virtually identical with St. Theodore Stratelates. According to custom, he was a recruit (tiro) in the Roman army at Pontus, on the Black Sea. After refusing to participate in a pagan ceremony, he was brought before the tribune of the legion and the governor of the region. Freed temporarily, he immediately went out and set fire to the temple of Cybele near Amasea in Pontus. For this crime, he was burned to death in a furnace. Feastday Nov 9

Saint of the Day for Monday, November 9th, 2015 - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online November 9 is the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John on the Lateran Hill. Why is a feast for a church in Rome so important? Because, as the cathedral church of the Diocese of Rome, it is, therefore the cathedral church of the Pope, the Bishop of Rome. It is the first of the four “patriarchal basilicas” in Rome (the others being St. Paul’s Outside- the-Walls, St. Peter’s at the Vatican and St. Mary Major). Its official title is quite long: Archbasilica of the Most Holy Savior and Saints John the Baptist and the Evangelist at the Lateran.

St. Castorius - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Four Crowned Roman Catholic Martyrs, Castorius, Claudius, Nicostratus, and Symphorian were tortured and slain in Pannonia, having been carvers from Sirmium. They refused to carve a pagan statue and were martyred by retired co-Emperor Diocletian. A martyr named Simplicius died with them. The second group of Four Holy Crowned Ones died at Albano, Italy. They were Carpophorus, Secundius, Severian, and Victorinus. Feastday Nov 8

Bl. Martyrs of Astoria during Spanish Civil War - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Roman Catholic Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, the people who were killed by Republicans during the war because of their faith. As of July 2008, almost one thousand Spanish martyrs have been beatified or canonized. For some two thousand additional martyrs. Feastday Nov.6

November 6th - The Martyrs of Vietnam - Independent Catholic News

November 5th - Saints Zachariah and Elizabeth - Independent Catholic News

St. Charles Borromeo - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Charles Borromeo,  1538–1584) was the cardinal archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584. Among the great reformers of the troubled sixteenth century, Borromeo, with St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Philip Neri, and others, led the movement to combat the inroads of the Protestant Reformation. Feastday: Nov 4

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St. Mary the Slave - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St Mary the Slave Roma Catholic Martyr and slave of a Roman patrician named Tertullus. Delivered to the local prefect on charges of being a Christian, despite Tertullus' effort to save her, Mary suffered unspeakable tortures. Spectators demanded her release, and the prefect turned her over to the custody of a soldier. He aided her escape. She died a natural death but is venerated as a martyr because of the intensity of her sufferings. Feastday Nov 1

Bl. Teodor Romza - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Teodor Romza, Roman Catholic priest and bishop, he was tireless in his defence of the rights of the Catholic Church there. On 27 October 1947, the Soviets attempted to kill Bishop Romzha. Heavily wounded, he was taken to the hospital in Mukachiv, where he was subsequently poisoned and died on 1 November 1947. Feastday: November 1

St. Quentin - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Quentin, Roman Catholic Missionary and Martyr. He went to Gaul as a missionary with St. Lucian of Beauvais, and settled at Amiens in Picardy. He was so successful in preaching that he was imprisoned by prefect Rictiovarus, tortured, and then brought to Augusta Veromanduorum, where he was again tortured and then was beheaded. Feastday Oct 31

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29 October - Saint Foillan - Independent Catholic News

St. Vincent, Sabina, & Christeta - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Sts. Vincent, Sabina, & Christeta, Roman Catholic martyrs who were executed at Avila, Spain, during the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian (r. 284-305). Feastday Oct 27

St. Evaristus - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Evaristus, Roman Catholic Pope. St. Evaristus succeeded St. Clement in the See of Rome in the reign of Trajan and governed the Church about eight years, being the fourth successor of St. Peter. Feastday Oct 26

Martyrs of Nagran - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Martyrs of Nagran, a large group of Christian martyrs, possibly as many as 340, who suffered at Nagran, in south­western Arabia. Abdullah ibn Kaab, also called Aretas, was the leader of the martyrs and the chief of the Beni Harith. He and his companions were slain by Dhu Nowas, or Dunaan, a Jew who commanded heathen Jews and Arabs. A woman and her small children were among the victims. The martyrdom is recorded in the Koran. Feastday October 24

St. John of Capistrano - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. John of Capistrano, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr. In 1456 at age 70 he led a crusade against the invading Ottoman Empire at the siege of Belgrade with the Hungarian military commander John Hunyadi. St. John, at the age of seventy, was commissioned by Pope Callistus III to preach and lead a crusade against the invading Turks. Marching at the head of seventy thousand Christians, he gained victory in the great battle of Belgrade against the Turks in 1456. Three months later he died at Illok, Hungary. His feast day is October 23. He is the patron of jurists.

St. Pope John Paul II - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Pope John Paul II, was the head of the Catholic Church from 16 October 1978 to his death in 2005. Feastday October 22

St. Mary Salome - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Mary Salome. One of the “Three Marys” who served Christ. She was the mother of St. James the Great and St. John, and was the wife of Zebedee. Mary Salome witnessed the Crucifixion and was among the women who were at the burial place on the day of the Resurrection. Feastday October 22

St. Ursula - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Ursula Roman Catholic Virgin Martyr. Feastday Oct. 21

21st October - Saint Hilarion - Independent Catholic News

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St. Paul of the Cross - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Paul of the Cross, Roman Catholic Priest and founder of the Passionists. Feastday October 20

19th October - Saint Jean de Brebeuf and Companions - Independent Catholic News