St. Simon StockFeast date: May 16On May 16, the Catholic Church remembers Saint Simon Stock, a twelfth- and thirteenth-century Carmelite monk whose vision of the Virgin Mary is the source of the Brown Scapular devotion.Simon was born during 1165 in the English county of Kent. He is said to … Read more
St. Andrew BobolaFeast date: May 16Andrew Bobola is a Polish-born martyr. He was born in Sandormir, Poland, in 1591 to a noble family. He was ordained a Jesuit in 1622 and three years later became a parish priest in Vilna, Lithuania, the town in which he had studied. He also served as super… Read more
St. IsidoreFeast date: May 15Isidore was born in 1070 in Madrid, Spain. His family was poor, and he labored as a farmer on the land owned by a rich man named John de Vergas. He was very pious and such a good worker that de Vergas allowed him to worship daily in the chapel on his property, a… Read more
St. Matthias, ApostleFeast date: May 14Matthias, whose name means “gift of God”, was the disciple chosen to replace Judas as one of the twelve Apostles. The Acts of the Apostles state that he was also one of the 72 disciples that the Lord Jesus sent out to preach the good news. Matthias wa… Read more
Our Lady of FatimaFeast date: May 13May 13 is the anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady to three shepherd children in the small village of Fatima in Portugal in 1917. She appeared six times to Lucia, 9, and her cousins Francisco, 8, and his sister Jacinta, 6, between May 13, 1917 and O… Read more
St. Epiphanius of SalamisFeast date: May 12On May 12 the Catholic Church honors Saint Epiphanius of Salamis, an early monk, bishop and Church Father known for his extensive learning and defense of Catholic teachings in the fourth century.During a 2007 visit with the Orthodox Archbishop of C… Read more
St. Ignatius of LaconiFeast date: May 11St. Ignatius of Laconi was a Capuchin Friar. He was born in 1701 and died in 1781. He was canonized 1951 by Pius XII.Born the second of seven children in a poor farming family, Francis Ignatius Vincent Peis was so named because his safe delivery throu… Read more
St. Damien of Moloka'iFeast date: May 10The Catholic Church remembers St. Damien of Molokai on May 10. The Belgian priest sacrificed his life and health to become a spiritual father to the victims of leprosy quarantined on a Hawaiian island.Joseph de Veuser, who later took the name Damien i… Read more
St. PachomiusFeast date: May 09St. Pachomius can justifiabley be called the founder of cenobitic monasticism, monks who live in community. Even though St. Antony the Great was the first to go into the desert to live a life of seclusion pursuing evangelical perfection, he lived a heremitic l… Read more
St. Peter of Tarantaise, bishopFeast date: May 08Peter was born near Vienne, France in 1102 and died at Bellevaux, France in 1175. He was canonized in 1191.At the age of 20 he entered the Cistercian Order, and convinced his family to enter along with him. His two brothers and his father en… Read more
St. Rosa VeneriniFeast date: May 07On May 7, the Church celebrates the recently-canonized Italian educator Saint Rosa Venerini, who founded Catholic schools for girls and young women during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.Her work is continued today by the “Venerini Sisters.”St. Rosa… Read more
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