Wednesday, June 19, 2013
St. Juliana Falconieri, Virgin
Juliana Falconieri, O.S.M. (1270 – June 19, 1341), was the Italian foundress of the Religious Sisters of the Third Order of Servites (or the Servite Tertiaries). Juliana belonged to the noble Falconieri family of Florence. Her uncle, Alexis Falconieri, was one of the seven founders of the Servite Order. Under his influence, she decided at […]
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Ephrem the Syrian: Deacon, Confessor, Doctor of the Church
Ephrem was born around the year 306 in the city of Nisibis (the modern Turkish town of Nusaybin, on the border with Syria, in the Roman province of Mesopotamia, which had come into Roman hands only in 298). Internal evidence from Ephrem’s hymnody suggests that both his parents were part of the growing Christian community […]
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Monday, June 17, 2013
St. Gregory Barbarigo, Bishop and Confessor
Born September 16, 1625 into a noble family of Venice, Gregorio was the eldest child of Venetian Senator Giovanni Francesco Barbarigo and Lucrezia Lion (or Leoni), who died on March 19, 1631, of the plague. His father brought home a cousin, Franchesina Lippomani, to look after the children. His baptismal name was Gregorio Giovanni Gasparo. […]
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Sunday, June 16, 2013
Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
The leading thought in today’s liturgy is again that of trust in God in the midst of struggles and trials. The Apostle Paul describes in the Epistle the tribulations which overwhelm us, and shows up their glorious result. The whole of nature shares the punishment Of sin. As well as man, all beings groan and […]
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Ss. Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia, Martyrs
Vitus, Modestus and Crescentia were martyrs under Diocletian and Maximian in 303. The earliest testimony for their veneration is offered by the Martyrologium Hieronymianum. The same Martyrologium has under the same day another mention of a Vitus at the head of a list of nine martyrs, with the statement of the place, in Eboli, “In […]
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Friday, June 14, 2013
St. Basil the Great, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of the Church
St. Basil was a brilliant student born of a Christian family in Cæsarea, Cappadocia (modern Turkey). For some years, he followed the monastic way of life. He vigorously fought the Arian heresy, and became Bishop of Cæsarea in 370. The monks of the Eastern Church today still follow the monastic rules which he set down. […]
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
St. Anthony of Padua, Confessor
St. Anthony of Padua is one of the most famous disciples of St. Francis of Assisi. He was a famous preacher and worker of miracles in his own day, and throughout the eight centuries since his death he has so generously come to the assistance of the faithful who invoke him, that he is known […]
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
St. John of San Facundo
St. John of San Facundo was born at Sahagún in Spain, and belonged to the Augustinian Order. He was educated by the Benedictines at the great abbey of his native town, and while he was still a boy, his father, Don Juan Gonzalez de Castrillo, procured for him a small benefice. The bishop of Burgos […]
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
St. Barnabas, Apostle
Saint Barnabas was not one of the Twelve. He was the companion of St. Paul and merited the title of Apostle by his preaching and labors. He was stoned by the Jews about 61 A.D. Barnabas, whose name was originally Joseph, was born of Jewish parents in the Island of Cyprus about the beginning of […]
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Monday, June 10, 2013
St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Widow
Also known as Margaret of Wessex and Queen Margaret of Scotland, she was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Margaret was sometimes called “The Pearl of Scotland”. Born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the short-ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. Margaret and her family returned to […]
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