STS. MARY OF CLEOPHAS AND SALOME, DISCIPLES OF THE LORD, ST. FIDELIS OF SIGMARINGEN, PRIEST AND MARTYR, ST. MARY ELIZABETH HESSELBLAD, FOUNDRESS OF THE BRIDGETTINES April 24

STS. MARY OF CLEOPHAS AND SALOME, DISCIPLES OF THE LORD

These two saints were among the women who went to the sepulchre on Easter Sunday to anoint the Body of the Lord. There they heard the proclamation of the Resurrection. Mary, the wife of Clopas, is the mother of James the Less; while Salome is the wife of Zebedee, the mother of James and John.  April 24

ST. FIDELIS OF SIGMARINGEN, PRIEST AND MARTYR

St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Roman Catholic Franciscan Capuchin Martyr. A practicing lawyer, he traveled across Europe as a tutor to aristocrats but then started defending the poor. In 1612, he became a Franciscan Capuchin monk, taking the name of Fidelis. A missionary to Grisons, Switzerland, Fidelis was so successful that local Protestants claimed that he was a spy for the Austrian Emperor. Fidelis was stabbed to death. Feastday April 24

ST. MARY ELIZABETH HESSELBLAD, FOUNDRESS OF THE BRIDGETTINES

The Servant of God was born in the little village of Faglavik, in the province of Alvsborg, on the 4 June 1870, the fifth of thirteen children born to Augusto Roberto Hesselblad and Cajsa Pettesdotter Dag. The following month she was baptized and received into the Reformed Church of Sweden in her ...April 24