Saint of the Day

by Catholic Online on January 18, 2020 at 12:00 am

Bishop of Tours, France. A senator at Tours, he was initially married, supposedly to a most unpleasant wife. Named bishop of the city in 488, he was ...

by Catholic Online on January 17, 2020 at 12:00 am

Two Greek philosophers ventured out into the Egyptian desert to the mountain where Anthony lived. When they got there, Anthony asked them why they ...

by Catholic Online on January 16, 2020 at 12:00 am

Irish monastic founder, the brother of Sts. Foillan and Ulan, praised by St. Bede. Fursey was born on the island of Inisguia en Lough Carri, ...

by Catholic Online on January 15, 2020 at 12:00 am

Also known as Paul the First Hermit and Paul of Thebes, an Egyptian hermit and friend of St. Jerome. Born in Lower The baid, Egypt, he was left an ...

by Catholic Online on January 14, 2020 at 12:00 am

Felix was the son of Hermias, a Syrian who had been a Roman soldier. He was born on his father's estate at Nola near Naples, Italy. On the death of ...

by Catholic Online on January 13, 2020 at 12:00 am

"They didn't know who they were." This is how Hilary summed up the problem with the Arian heretics of the fourth century. Hilary, on the other ...

by Catholic Online on January 12, 2020 at 12:00 am

Marguerite had survived many threats in the twenty-six years she had been in wilderness of Canada. She had lived through Iroquois attacks, a fire ...