23 Thoughts From A Saint
February is known as the month of love. Well, mostly commercially, because it is month when most people celebrate Valentine’s […]
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Saints
Saints Suffering and Pain
Tragedy prompts family to turn to saints, start company to share devotion
Small, colourful plastic Catholic saints can be seen hanging from key chains, zippers and backpacks alongside Hello Kitty and Pokemon.
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Church History Saints Simmermacher
Meet the patron saint of journalists
The patron saint of journalists and the Catholic press is St Francis de Sales, whose feast day is today, January
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Church Saints
Exhuming Father Augustus Tolton
On the morning of Dec. 10 in a cemetery in Quincy, Father Augustus Tolton’s cause for canonisation took one step
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Christmas Saints
Byzantine Catholics fast for 40 days before Christmas
A 40-day period known as the Philip’s Fast, which began on November 15, is accompanying the faithful of the Byzantine
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Saints
Who Was St Thomas More?
Saint Thomas More was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist—and a steadfast Catholic, a faithfulness
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Who was Andrew the Apostle?
The feast of St Andrew the Apostle is November 30. Here’s what we know about him. Andrew was the brother
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Advent Saints
St Barbara Kicks off the Christmas Season
Although there are different versions of the story of St Barbara, Christians in the Middle East and Central Europe still
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Church History Religious Life Saints
Foundress of Tyburn Nuns Witnessed a Eucharistic Miracle
A little-known French nun whose cause for canonisation will be opened December 3 was known for mystical visions of the
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