A Pilgrim's Journey

Happy St. David’s Day, as the title of this post says. My Welsh ancestors would want me to make mention of our great patron for his feast da...

After the act of charity of giving half his military cloak ( cappa ) to a beggar, St. Martin of Tours wore the remaining portion around his ...

Imagine being able to sit at the feet of the apostles and hear stories of life with Jesus from their own lips. That was what Polycarp was ab...

Peter was orphaned when he was very young child, and had the misfortune of being taken in by one of his older brothers who was very cruel to...

Septuagesima Sunday is the name for the ninth Sunday before Easter, the third before Ash Wednesday. The term is sometimes applied also to th...

Cyril and Methodius were brothers who were born in Thessalonica in the 9th century, where their father was an army officer. This was a part ...

NOVENA BEFORE THE FEAST OF THE CHAIR OF ST. PETER V. In the Name of the Father, + and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. R. Amen. Antiphon: ...

Four years after the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception (1854), the Blessed Virgin appeared a number of times to a very ...

On February 8, the Church commemorates the life of St. Josephine Bakhita, a Canossian Sister who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Sud...

St. Jerome Emiliani was born in the 15th century, and as a young man he became a soldier for the city-state of Venice. During that time he w...

Nagasaki, Japan, is known in history as the city on which the second atomic bomb was dropped in 1945 during the last stages of World War II,...

St. Agatha was born in Sicily, and is one of the many brave and faithful martyrs of the 3rd century. Her family was a wealthy and important ...

Born in about the year 1083 in Sempringham, England, into a wealthy family, St. Gilbert’s father was a Norman knight who had decided that hi...

It is a good and just king who obeys his own laws. And at the time of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, God was doing just that. As ...

St. John Bosco was born near Turin, Italy, in 1815. His father died when John was only two years old, but his mother made sure he received a...