Saint of The Day 2/7/23: Saint Colette
Saint Colette’s Story Colette did not seek the limelight, but in doing God’s will she certainly attracted a lot of attention. Colette was...
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- 2 days ago
- 2 min
Saint of The Day 2/6/23: Saint Paul Miki and Companions
Saint Paul Miki and Companions’ Story Nagasaki, Japan, is familiar to Americans as the city on which the second atomic bomb was dropped,...
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The Littlest Angel
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
Saint of The Day 2/5/23: Saint Agatha
Saint Agatha’s Story As in the case of Agnes, another virgin-martyr of the early Church, almost nothing is historically certain about...
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The Littlest Angel
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Saint of The Day 2/4/23: Saint Joseph of Leonissa
Saint Joseph of Leonissa’s Story Joseph was born at Leonissa in the Kingdom of Naples. As a boy and as a student in early adulthood,...
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The Littlest Angel
- 5 days ago
- 2 min
Saint of The Day 2/3/23: Saint Blaise
Saint Blaise’s Story We know more about the devotion to Saint Blaise by Christians around the world than we know about the saint himself....
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The Littlest Angel
- 6 days ago
- 1 min
Saint of The Day 2/2/23: Presentation of the Lord
The Story of the Presentation of the Lord At the end of the fourth century, a woman named Etheria made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Her...
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The Littlest Angel
- 7 days ago
- 2 min
Saint of the Day 2/1/223: Saint Ansgar
Saint Ansgar’s Story The “apostle of the north” (Scandinavia) had enough frustrations to become a saint—and he did. He became a...
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The Littlest Angel
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Saint of The Day 1/31/23: Saint John Bosco
Saint John Bosco’s Story John Bosco’s theory of education could well be used in today’s schools. It was a preventive system, rejecting...
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The Littlest Angel
- Jan 30
- 1 min
Saint of The Day 1/30/23: Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska
Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska’s Story Today we honor a woman who submitted to God’s will throughout her life—a life filled with pain...
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The Littlest Angel
- Jan 29
- 2 min
Saint of The Day 1/29/23: Servant of God Brother Juniper
Servant of God Brother Juniper’s Story “Would to God, my brothers, I had a whole forest of such Junipers,” said Francis of this holy...
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The Littlest Angel
- Jan 28
- 2 min
Saint of The Day 1/28/23: Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Story By universal consent, Thomas Aquinas is the preeminent spokesman of the Catholic tradition of reason and of...
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The Littlest Angel
- Jan 27
- 2 min
Saint of The Day 1/27/23: Saint Angela Merici
Saint Angela Merici’s story Angela Merici has the double distinction of founding the first of what are now called “secular institutes”...
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The Littlest Angel
- Jan 26
- 2 min
Saint of The Day 1/26/23: Saints Timothy and Titus
Saints Timothy and Titus’ Story What we know from the New Testament of Timothy’s life makes it sound like that of a modern harried...
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The Littlest Angel
- Jan 25
- 2 min
Saint of The Day 1/25/23: Conversion of Saint Paul
The Story of the Conversion of Saint Paul Saint Paul’s entire life can be explained in terms of one experience—his meeting with Jesus on...
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The Littlest Angel
- Jan 24
- 2 min
Saint of The Day 1/24/23: Saint Francis de Sales
Saint Francis de Sales’ Story Francis was destined by his father to be a lawyer so that the young man could eventually take his elder’s...
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The Littlest Angel
- Jan 23
- 2 min
Saint of The Day 1/23/23: Saint Marianne Cope
Saint Marianne Cope’s Story Though leprosy scared off most people in 19th-century Hawaii, that disease sparked great generosity in the...
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The Littlest Angel
- Jan 22
- 2 min
Saint of The Day 1/22/23: Saint Vincent of Zaragossa
Saint Vincent of Zaragossa’s Story Most of what we know about this saint comes from the poet Prudentius. His Acts have been rather freely...
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The Littlest Angel
- Jan 21
- 1 min
Saint of The Day 1/21/23: Saint Agnes
Saint Agnes’ Story Almost nothing is known of this saint except that she was very young—12 or 13—when she was martyred in the last half...
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The Littlest Angel
- Jan 20
- 1 min
Saint of The Day 1/20/23: Saint Sebastian
Saint Sebastian’s Story Almost nothing is historically certain about Sebastian except that he was a Roman martyr, was venerated in Milan...
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The Littlest Angel
- Jan 19
- 1 min
Saint of The Day 1/19/23: Saint Fabian
Saint Fabian’s Story Fabian was a Roman layman who came into the city from his farm one day as clergy and people were preparing to elect...
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