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St Peter Claver, St Ciaran | ICN : Missionary and patron saint of the African slaves. The son of a Catalonian farmer, Peter Claver was born at Verdu, in 1581. He obtained his first degrees at the University of Barcelona. At the age of 20 he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Tarragona. While he was studying philosophy at M...

St Bartholomew | ICN : Biblical scholars these days generally think St Bartholomew was the same person as Nathaniel, but nothing is known for certain about him.The Roman Martyrology says he was one of the apostles who went to India and Armenia, and was eventually tortured and put to death there.

St Maximilian Kolbe | ICN : Franciscan priest and martyr. He is a patron saint of journalists, drug addicts, political prisoners, families, prisoners, and the pro-life movement. Maximilian was born near Lodz in Poland, in 1894, while the country was under Russian rule. His parents were Franciscan tertiaries. He jo...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: The Future Pope Pius VII : Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, the future Pope Pius VII, was born on August 14, 1742. He joined the Benedictine order when he wa...

St Landry of Paris-June 10

St Boniface June 5 St Boniface | ICN https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/166#.WxaYbJOApD8.twitter via @icn_uk

St Bona of Pisa-May 28

St Germain of Paris-May 28

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St. Julia, Roman Catholic Martyr she refused to sacrifice to Pagan Gods, disrespecting the state gods was a crime punishable by death, which the magistrate could only overlook at his own risk. Feastday May 23

St Andrew Bobola May 21

St Felix of Cantalice | ICN : Franciscan brother. Felix of Cantalice, OFM Cap, was born on 18 May 1515 to peasant parents in Cantalice, Italy, He was the third of four sons born...

St Paschal Baylon | ICN : Franciscan laybrother. Patron of Eucharistic devotions. St Paschal was born in 1540 at Torre Hermosa in Aragon. He came from a poor shepherd family...

St Simon Stock | ICN : Carmelite friar. According to tradition St Simon Stock was born somewhere in Kent, possibly the village of Stockbury, and lived in Aylesford. The s...

Contraception and the Manipulation of Language - Crisis Magazine : Individual Americans have enjoyed more personal freedom, individual rights, and collective liberty than most, if not all, other civilizations in history. Yet we are living in a time when freedom, rights, and liberty have been so thoroughly redefined and distorted that we struggle to communicate with each other. A faithful Catholic uses the same words …

St Dympna | ICN : Martyr. Possibly seventh century. Patron of the mentally ill. Few facts are known about this ancient saint but her memory has been very influential...

Runaway slave-turned-priest moves closer to beatification : The first African American priest in the U.S. could become the country’s first African American saint as his cause took another step forward this week.

St Matthias | ICN : Apostle. Matthias was chosen by the apostles, to fill the place left vacant by Judas Iscariot. He was with them at Pentecost. According to legend h...

Feast of Our Lady of Fatima | ICN : On 13 May 1917, three children were shepherding their little flock in the Cova da Iria, parish of Fatima, town of Vila Nova de Ourém - today the d...

St Pancras | ICN : Martyr. Little is certainly known of the life of Saint Pancras. According to legend, he came from Phrygia and was martyred in Rome at the age of 14...

St John of Avila, St Damien | ICN : Priest, writer, mystic. John was born in 1500 in New Castile to wealthy Jewish parents. He studied law at Salamanca but then gave the subject up to...

St Peter of Tarantaise | ICN : Cistercian archbishop. Born in Dauphine, France in 1102, Peter joined the Cistercian Order at Bonneveaux at the age of 20 with his two brothers and...

St Jutta | ICN : Married woman. St Jutta lived in 13th century Thuringia. She was married at the age of fifteen to a nobleman and bore children by him. During their...

St Philip and St James the Younger | ICN : Apostle. St Philip was from Bethseda in Galilee. Soon after Jesus called him to be an apostle, he began to convert others, finding his friend Natha...

St Athanasius | ICN : Bishop. Patriarch of Alexandria. Born in 296, to Christian parents, Athanasius became deacon and secretary to Bishop Alexander. He attended the Cou...

St Joseph the Worker | ICN : Foster father of Jesus and husband of Our Lady. Patron saint of families, homes, hospices, manual workers, especially carpenters, and those who des...

St Pius V | ICN : Pope. Anthony Ghislieri was born in 1504 in Pieddmont, Itay. He joined the Dominicans in 1518, was ordained in 1540 and then taught philosophy and ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Eighth Day Institute's 2018 "Synaxis" : The latest issue of Synaxis is out. Eighth Day Institute (EDI) held a Benedict Hour Friday afternoon and evening at The Ladder to distri...

St Catherine of Siena | ICN : Mystic. Dominican tertiary. St Catherine was born in 1347, the youngest of about 20 children of a Sienese dyer, Giacomo Benincasa. From a very earl...

St Peter Chanel and St Louis de Montfort | ICN : St Peter Chanel was born in 1804 near Cras in France. His parents were peasants. His parish priest, the Abbe Trompier, took him on as a pupil becau...

St Zita | ICN : Domestic servant. Patron of maidservants. Born at Monsagrati, in 1218, she worked for the Farinelli household all her life from the age of 12. She ...

St Pedro de Betancur | ICN : Priest and the first saint of Guatemala.Born into a poor family on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Pedro was a shepherd until he was 24 whe...

St Mark | ICN : Evangelist. St Mark was the first Gospel writer. He is usually associated with John Mark, whose mother's house in Jerusalem was a meeting place for...

Sin as an Offense Against the Body - Crisis Magazine : “Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the impure person sins against the body itself.” More than any other type of sin, St. Paul is suggesting that impurity is a sin against ourselves. A deep healing of such sins cannot be limited to a correction of external behavior, but must …

St George | ICN : Martyr. Patron saint of England, Venice, Genoa, Portugal and Catalonia. He is highly revered in Germany, Russia, Ethiopia and a patron of soldiers,...

Mexico: Two priests murdered in one week | ICN : The bishops of Mexico have launched an urgent appeal for a culture of peace and reconciliation after two Catholic priests were murdered in differen...

St Theodore of Sykeon | ICN : Monk and Bishop of Anastasiopolis in Galatia. This seventh century saint was the son of a prostitute who lived in a brothel. His father was a circu...

St Agnes of Montepulciano | ICN : Dominican nun and mystic. Born in 1268, to a wealthy family in Gracchiano-Vecchio, in Italy, Agnes is said to have entered a convent in Montepulcia...

St Bernadette | ICN : Visionary, and later nun. Born in 1844, Bernadette was the eldest of six children born to Francois Soubirous, a miller, and his wife Louise. The fa...

St Martin I | ICN : St Martin was the last Pope to be venerated as a martyr. Born in the Italian town of Todi in Umbria, as a young man he rose rapidly in the church, ...

St Teresa of the Andes | ICN : Carmelite novice. Chile's first saint. Teresa was one of six children born in 1900 in Santiago, Chile, to a well-to-do family of mixed Chilean, Eng...

St Stanislaw | ICN : Bishop and martyr. Patron saint of Poland. St Stanislaw was born in 1010 to a noble family in Szczepanow. After his ordination, he received a canon...

Feast of the Annunciation | ICN : Feast of the Annunciation This feast is usually kept on 25 March, but because that date was ...

St Julia Billiart | ICN : Nun and foundress. St Julia Billiart was born in Cuvilly, France in 1751. The fifth of seven children, she attended a little one room school. She e...

St John Baptiste de la Salle | ICN : Priest teacher and founder.St John was born at Rheims in France, in 1651 to a wealthy family. He was given a canonry as a young man. He...

St William of Aebelholt | ICN : Augustinian abbot. Born in France in 1127, William of Aebelholt went on to become one of Denmark's most revered saints. His letters are a valuable ...

St Vincent Ferrer | ICN : Friar. St Vincent Ferrer was born in Valencia in Spain, in 1357. His father was an Englishman, married to a Spanish lady. At the age of 18 he joine...

St Benedict the African | ICN : Laybrother. Born in Sicily in 1526, of African slave parents, St Benedict was freed by his owner at a young age. When he was 21 some Franciscan her...

St Luigi Scrosoppi | ICN : Italian priest and founder of the Sisters of Providence. St Luigi was born on 4 August 1804, at Udine in Italy, the youngest of three sons of Domen...

St Francis of Paola | ICN : Patron saint of seafarers. Founder of the Franciscan Minim Friars, Born at Paola in Calabria, in 1416, St Francis lived at a friary for a year when...

St Hugh of Grenoble | ICN : Bishop and monk. St Hugh was born in 1052, at Chateauneuf in France. He was the son of a knight called Odilo and educated at the cathedral school a...

St Acacius | ICN : Bishop of Antioch. According to legend, this 3rd century saint was so revered by his flock that they nicknamed him 'Agathangelus' which means 'The ...

St John of Egypt | ICN : Hermit. Born in Asyut, Egypt, in 304, St John was a carpenter. When he was 25 he went out into the desert to pray and was to became one of the most...

The Corrosion of the British Spirit - Crisis Magazine : If you’ve seen Dunkirk, or Darkest Hour, you got a glimpse of Britain’s fighting spirit in the face of great peril. If you know a little bit more about that period, you know why Churchill could say of the British people, “this was their finest hour.” You could hardly say that now. With a few …

Feast of the Annunciation | ICN : In both the East and West, Mary is the most important of saints - although little is known of her life. St Matthew describes how, when the angel Ga...

Blessed Oscar Romero | ICN : Archbishop and martyr. Oscar Arnulfo Romero was born into a family of ten on 15 August in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador. His father was in charge of ...

St Joseph | ICN : Foster father of Jesus and husband of Our Lady. Patron saint of families, homes, hospices, manual workers, especially carpenters, and those who des...

The Protestant Origins of Dysfunctional Education - Crisis Magazine : As a former boarding school teacher, this time of year brings memories of enormous frustration at the chaos, moral and intellectual, that is contemporary American education. While the general disorder is the fault of Adam and Eve, the particular mess has much to do with Luther and Calvin, who not only spawned the Protestant Reformation …

St Louise de Marillac | ICN : Widow. Foundress of the Daughter of Charity. Born in 1591 to an aristocratic family, Louise was educated by nuns at Poissy. Her mother died when sh...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: The Ides of March in Scotland, 1878 : Pope Leo XIII--one of my favorite popes--was elected to the  Chair of St. Peter on February 20, 1878. One of his first acts was to res...

JRS calls for end to cruel detention of torture victims at Harmondsworth | ICN : Jesuit Refugee Services UK has called on the government to end indefinite detention, in response to the latest damning inspection of Harmondsworth ...

Crowdfunding campaign launched to support Cause of John Bradburne | ICN : A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to support the Cause of John Bradburne, a lay missionary and poet, who was shot dead, almost certainly by...

St Dominic Savio | ICN : Child saint. St Dominic was born in 1842 at Riva near Turin. He was one of ten children - his father was a blacksmith and his mother a seamstress. ...

St John of God | ICN : Founder of the Brothers Hospitallers. Patron of hospitals, the sick, booksellers and printers. St John was born in Portugal in 1495. For a few year...

Church of Santa_Susanna_alle_Terme_di_Diocleziano The chapel of St. Lawrence which contains relics of the martyr St. Genesius, the patron saint of actors (he was also known as Genesius the Comedian), # Oscars2018 # Oscars

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Blesseds Christopher Bales, Nicholas Horner, and A... : Blessed Christopher Bales, priest and martyr, and companions (laymen who assisted him) Blessed Alexander Blake, and Blessed Nicholas Ho...

St Katharine Drexel | ICN : Nun and foundress. Katharine Drexel was the daughter of a millionaire banker. Born in Philadelphia in 1858, she had an excellent education and trav...

Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (France)

CDF issues letter to bishops warning of 'new forms of old heresies' | ICN : The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has sent a letter to bishops warning them of 'new forms of old heresies' by stressing individu...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Mapping the Martyrs : A gentleman from Yorkshire, Graeme Garvey, who has written for the St. Austin Review and published a website on World War I veterans, am...

A Medieval Remedy for Modernity’s Ills - Crisis Magazine : Show me a Catholic not troubled by the circumstances of these days, and I will show you a Catholic asleep. Society’s woes rock his soul, but the historic perils facing Holy Church do so even more. Not only from outside her walls, but more frighteningly, from within. How are we to keep our spirits from …

The Faithlessness of Public Education - Crisis Magazine : In the wake of the dreadful massacre at the high school in Florida, I asked, via social media, what I thought was a question so obvious that everyone was bound to miss it, just as you do not notice the air you breathe. It was simply this. Why is no one surprised that a deranged …

Pope Francis: How much time do you spend judging others? | ICN : In his homily, during morning Mass at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis reflected on the words of Jesus in the day's Gospel reading from Luke, (6:36-...

Blessed Daniel Brottier | ICN : Priest. Born in France in 1876, Daniel began his working life as a teacher. After a few years working at home he felt drawn to the priesthood and j...

St Gabriel Possenti | ICN : Monk. Patron of young people. St Gabriel was born in 1838, a younger son of the governor of Assisi. He studied at the Jesuit college at Spoleto whe...