Saints – Page 8 – The Southern Cross

St Agatha

By Southern Cross / February 4, 2025

St Agatha was martyred in Sicily circa 251. She is the patron of breast cancer patients, assault and burn victims, […]

By Southern Cross / February 3, 2025

Today is the Feast of St Blaise, bishop, doctor and martyr – on his feast day it is customary for

By Kati Dijane / February 1, 2025

By Kati Dijane – The road to sainthood can be long and intense or a smooth sail, depending on a

By Southern Cross / January 31, 2025

Saint at a glance Name at birth: Giovanni Melchiorre BoscoBorn: August 16, 1815, in Castelnuovo d’Asti, Piedmont, Kingdom of SardiniaDied: January

By Southern Cross / January 28, 2025

Today is the Feast of St Thomas Aquinas, Dominican philosopher, theologian and angelic doctor. Here is his prayer🙏

By Southern Cross / January 21, 2025

Today the Church honours St Agnes, a young martyr in Roman times. Her name means ‘chaste’ and she is the

Name at birth: SebastianusBorn: c.255 AD in Narbo Martius, Gaul (today Narbonne, France) Died: c.288 in RomeFeast: January 20Patronages: Soldiers;

By Tamar SC / January 14, 2025

St Anthony of Padua, a Franciscan friar and priest, is known for his preaching and devotion to the poor. St

After the Magi let it slip that they were looking for the newborn King of the Jews, the tyrant King