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St. Dismas -- 25 March 2021
 
All that is known of Dismas is that he is the Good Thief crucified with Christ on Calvary. The other thief is known as Gestas. A completely unsubstantiated myth from the Arabic Gospel of the Infancy t... READ MORE
St. Aldemar -- 24 March 2021
 
Death: 1080 Abbot and miracle worker, called "the Wise." Born in Capua, Italy, he became a monk in Monte Cassino and was called to the attention of a Princess Aloara of the region. When she built a... READ MORE
St. Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo -- 23 March 2021
 
Patron: of Native rights; Latin American bishops; Peru Birth: 1538 Death: 1606 Bishop and defender of the rights of the native Indians in Peru, Born in Mayorga, Spain, he studied law and became a... READ MORE
St. Lea -- 22 March 2021
 
A letter which St. Jerome wrote to St. Marcella provides the only information we have about St. Lea, a devout fourth century widow. Upon the death of her husband, she retired to a Roman monastery and ... READ MORE
St. Enda -- 21 March 2021
 
Legend has him an Irishman noted for his military feats who was convinced by his sister St. Fanchea to renounce his warring activities and marry. When he found his fiancee dead, he decided to become a... READ MORE
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The Conversion of Saint Paul (Caravaggio) -- 25 January 2023
 
The Conversion of Saint Paul (or Conversion of Saul), by the Italian painter Caravaggio, is housed in the Odescalchi Balbi Collection of Rome. It is one of at least two paintings by Caravaggio of the ... READ MORE
St. Margaret of Antioch -- 20 July 2021
 
Nothing certain is known of her, but according to her untrustworthy legend, she was the daughter of a pagan priest at Antioch in Pisidia. Also known as Marina, she was converted to Christianity, where... READ MORE
St. Peter Thomas -- 25 January 2021
 
Birth: 1305 Death: 1366 Carmelite Latinpatriarch and papal legate. Peter was born in Gascony, France and joined the Carmelites while still a young man. In 1342 he was appointed procurator of the o... READ MORE
Sts. Denis, Rusticus, and Eleutherius -- 09 October 2020
 
Patron: of France; Paris; against frenzy, strife, headaches, hydrophobia, possessed people, rabies The first mention we have of these three martyrs who died around 258 A.D. comes in the sixth centu... READ MORE
St. Callistus I -- 14 October 2020
 
Patron: of Cemetery workers 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 but for centuries to ... READ MORE
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