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  SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 09 Martyrs of Croyland. Benedictine monks who were slain by the Danes during an invasion of Croyland Abbey, England, and the surrounding area. The abbot was Theodore. Others suffering included Askega, the prior; Swethin, the sub prior; and Elfgete, Savinus, Egdred, Agamund, Grimkeld, and Ulrick. Martyrs of Pannonia A group of seven Roman Catholic men and women who died at Sirmium in Pannonia, on the Danube. Feastday April 9 St. Hedda. 870 A.D. Martyred Benedictine abbot of Peterborough, England. He and eighty four monks were slain by Danes marauding along the English coast. St. Madrun. A Welsh or Cornish widow. No details of her life are extant, but some Welsh churches bear her name. St. Dotto, 6th century. Abbot of a monastery of the Orkney Islands of Scotland. ST. LIBORIUS, BISHOP OF LE MANS Elected in 348 fourth bishop of Le Mans, Liborius governed the diocese for 49 years. He ordained 217 priests and 186 deacons, and was dedicated to works of ch...

  The importance of ‘presence’ in a time of virtual reality - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2025-04/the-importance-of-presence-in-a-time-of-virtual-reality.html

  From Harvard Atheist to Devout Catholic: The Story of Ruth Pakaluk, Pro-Life Activist, Author, & Mother of 7 https://www.churchpop.com/from-harvard-atheist-to-devout-catholic-the-story-of-ruth-pakaluk-pro-life-activist-author-mother-of-7/

  Should Ramadan Replace Lent? https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/should-ramadan-replace-lent?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=novashare It would seem so , if some of the higher prelates have anything to do with it. More than a few of them, at the beginning of Lent, urged us to imitate our “Muslim brothers” as they undergo their Ramadan fasts. Us  imitate  them?  The Catholic Church had been exercising the rigorous disciplines of Lent for 500 years before Muhammad arose from the sands of Arabia. Have these good prelates forgotten the fasts of the apostles? Or the emergence of Christian men and women braving the wildernesses of Arabia and Egypt to give birth to the great eremitical and coenobitic Orders? Have St. Anthony, the Desert Fathers, or St. Simeon Stylites slipped their minds? Monasticism as it is known emerged from those centuries with the great stress upon taming the beast in man so that he becomes even more than angel. Perhaps their...

 Gospel in Art: When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know... https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52109 

  St Julie Billiart https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/104

 SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 08 St. Julia Billiart ,Maria Rose Julia Billiart was born in Cuvilly, France. She took a vow of virginity while young and worked so hard for the poor that she collapsed, remaining a cripple until 1804 when she was miraculously cured. She stayed in Amiens, where the Institute of Notre Dame was founded by Julia and pious friends in 1804. Roman Catholic Nun and Foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame. Feastday April 8 St. Goran, 6th century. Missionary of the district of Cornwall, England. Also called Woronus, he was in the area before St. Petrac. Goran lived in Bodmin.   St. Finan, 6th century. Patron of monastery in Kinitty, Offaly, Ireland and Disciple of St. Brendan and founder abbot of a monastery in Kinitty, Offaly, Ireland. A native of Munster, he is also known as Finnian, and is the patron of the monastery.  ST. DIONYSIUS, BISHOP OF CORINTH Endowed with an admirable knowledge of the Word of God and great eloquence, he became bishop of...

  St John Baptiste de la Salle, St Henry Walpole https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/103

  Gospel in Art: I am the light of the world https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52101

 SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 07  Bl. Alexander Rawlins, 1595 A.D. Martyr, missionary, and companion in death with Henry Walpole. Alexander was born in Worcestershire, England, where he was jailed twice for his fervent Catholicism. In 1589 he went to the English seminary in Reims and was ordained there in 1590. Returning to England the following year, Alexander was arrested. He was condemned to death and on April 7, 1595, and along with Henry Walpole was hanged, drawn, and quartered in York, England. He was beatified in 1929.   Bl. Edward Oldcorne, 1606 A.D. English martyr allegedly involved in the Gunpowder Plot. He was born in York, England, and ordained in Rome. In 1587, he became a Jesuit. Returning to England, Edward worked in the Midlands from 1588 to 1606. He was then condemned to death at Worcester for alleged implicitly in the Gunpowder Plot He was beatified in 1929.   St. Henry Walpole, 1558-1595 A.D. Jesuit and one of the Forty Martyrs of England ...

  St William of Aebelholt https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/102

  Gospel in Art: Let him who is without sin be the first to throw a stone https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52094

 SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 06  St. Sixtus I, Roman Catholic Pope and Martyr, during the reign of Hadrian c. 115-c. 125. ST. PETER OF VERONA, DOMINICAN AND MARTYR Born to Manichean parents, he entered the Dominican Order despite his family's opposition. He was a strenuous defender of the Catholic doctrine, so much so that he was appointed Inquisitor General for Lombardy. He died a martyr in 1252, killed by those same heretics he had opposed.   St William of Aebelholt https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/102 St. William of Eskilsoe, Roman Catholic Missionary. Born at Saint-Germain, France, circa 1125, he served as a canon at the church of St. Genevieve, Paris, under the great Abbot Suger until about 1170, when he was sent to Denmark with the mission of reforming the canons at Eskilsoe at the request of the bishop of Roskilde. He became abbot there and, during his three decades among the Danes, he also reformed many other communities. He also founded the abbey of St....

 The Holy Catholic Church and Christian Culture, From The Foundation of Christendom to the rise of Islam by H. Belloc The Holy Catholic Church and Christian Culture, From The Foundation of Christendom by H. Belloc, We must begin by laying down as a historical fact not to be removed by affection one way or the other, that the conversion of the Roman Empire was a conversion to what was called by all our ancestry and what is still called by those with any historical sense The Catholic Church. The Empire was not ‘converted’ to what modern men mean when they used the word ‘Christianity’.   The phrase is continually used and as continually corrupts the historical judgement of those who use it and those who hear it. In the ears of modern youth, especially in societies which have lost the Catholic Culture, the word ‘Christianity’ means vaguely, “That which is common in various sects, opinions and moods inherited in diluted form from the Reformation”.   In Eng...

  Gospel in Art: No prophet arises from Galilee https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52090

  St Vincent Ferrer https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/101

  SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 05   ST. IRENE, VIRGIN AND MARTYR Peace, charity and purity: these were the baptismal names assumed by the three martyr sisters in Thessaloniki in 304 under the governor Dulcitius, during Diocletian's persecutions. Irene was the youngest; she was guilty of hiding the Holy Scripture and refusing to eat food offered to the gods. A Roman widow of the sixth century; feast, October 5. According to St. Gregory the Great (Dial. IV, ch. xiii) she was the daughter of the younger Symmachus, a learned and virtuous patrician of Rome, whom Theodoric had unjustly condemned to death (525). Becoming a widow before the end of the first year of her married life, she, still very young, founded a convent and hospital near St. Peter’s, there spent the remainder of her days in austerities and works of mercy, April 6 Martyrs of Lesbos, Five virgin Roman Catholic maidens who suffered martyrdom for the faith on the Greek island of Lesbos Martyrs of London. Three groups of...

  St Benedict the African https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/100

  Gospel in Art: So they were seeking to arrest him https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52083

 SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 04  St. Isidore of Seville, Roman Catholic Priest and Doctor of The Church. Isidore was the first Christian writer to try to compile a summa of universal knowledge, in his most important work, the Etymologiae his learning caught fire in Spanish minds and held back the Dark Ages of barbarism from Spain. Feastday April 4 St. Guier. Hermit priest of Cornwall, England. A local church bears his name.    St. Tigernach. St. Tigernach died 549, bishop. Said to have been the godchild of St. Brigid, and educated in Scotland, he may have been a monk at Clones as well as a bishop of Clogher, but accounts are not too clear. He also is called Tierney and Tierry  ST. BENEDICT THE MOOR, FRANCISCAN-Born to African slaves descendants in Sicily in 1524, Benedict became known as “the holy Moor” for his dark skin and his many virtues. After the hermit community on Monte Pellegrino was disbanded, he joined the Friars Minor, starting as a cook and advancin...

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  The Nicene Creed: an expression of Christian identity - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2025-04/the-nicene-creed-an-expression-of-christian-identity.html

  Benin: Catholic missionaries must communicate what they do, so more can be done - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2025-04/sisters-project-121-benin-ivancica-fulir-children-missionaries.html

  St Luigi Scrosoppi https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/99

  Gospel in Art: There is one who accuses you: Moses https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52075

  SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 03  St. Agape, Roman Catholic Martyr, Agape and her sisters Chionia and Irene, Christians of Thessalonica, Macedonia, were convicted of possessing texts of the Scriptures despite a decree issued in 303 by Emperor Diocletian naming such possessions a crime punishable by death. When they further refused to sacrifice to pagan gods, the governor, Dulcitius, had Agape and Chionia burned alive. When Irene still refused to recant, Dulcitius ordered her sent to a house of prostitution. There she was unmolested after being exposed naked and chained, she was put to death either by burning or by an arrow through her throat. Feastday April 3 St. Richard of Wyche, 1253 A.D. Richard of Wyche, also known as Richard of Chichester, was born at Wyche (Droitwich), Worcestershire, England. He was orphaned when he was quite young. He retrieved the fortunes of the mismanaged estate he inherited when he took it over, and then turned it over to his brother Robert. Richar...

  Navigating Our Brave New World https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/navigating-our-brave-new-world?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=novashare

  St Francis of Paola https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/98

  Gospel in Art: I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52067

  SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 02 Bl. Peter Verhun, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr. Peter was a priest for Ukrainian Catholics at Berlin, Germany. Apostolic Visitor to Germany. Peter was arrested for his faith in 1945, and exiled to Siberia. Feastday April 2 St. Pedro Calungsod, Roman Catholic Filipino Martyr. While missionary work in Guam along with Diego San Vitores were both murdered after baptizing an infant and mother who converted to the Roman Catholic faith. Feastday April 2 St. Ebba the Younger, Roman Catholic Nun. Abbess of Coldingham, England, on the Scottish border, called “the Younger.” She and her nuns were martyred by Danes in an invasion. She mutilated her face to discourage rape by the invading Danes. The raiders set fire to Coldingham, killing all of the nuns. Feastday April 2 Bl. Tarsykia Matskiv, Roman Catholic Nun. On the morning of 17 July 1944 at 8 a.m., a Russian soldier rang the convent door. When Sr Taryskia answered the door she was shot without warning a...