Saint of the Day

by Catholic Online on October 19, 2019 at 12:00 am

In 1642 the Huron country was in great distress. Harvests were poor, sickness abounded, and clothing was scarce. Quebec was the only source of ...

by Catholic Online on October 18, 2019 at 12:00 am

Luke, the writer of the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, has been identified with St. Paul's "Luke, the beloved physician" (Colossians ...

by Catholic Online on October 17, 2019 at 12:00 am

"I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose ...

by Catholic Online on October 16, 2019 at 12:00 am

St. Gerard Majella is the patron of expectant mothers. He was born in 1726 in Muro, Italy to a family of seven. Majella grew up in a poverty with a ...

by Catholic Online on October 15, 2019 at 12:00 am

Teresa of Ă?vila was born Teresa Ali Fatim Corella Sanchez de Capeda y Ahumada in Ă?vila, Spain. Less than twenty years before Teresa was born in 1515, ...

by Catholic Online on October 14, 2019 at 12:00 am

Imagine that your biography was written by an enemy of yours. And that its information was all anyone would have not only for the rest of your life ...

by Catholic Online on October 13, 2019 at 12:00 am

Edward the Confessor was the son of King Ethelred III and his Norman wife, Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy. He was born at Islip, ...