St Stanislaus (April 11)
Spiritual Life
Saint Of The Week
The patron saint of footballers who worked tirelessly for the poor
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Saint of the week
St Luigi Scrosoppi (April 3) founded the Sisters of Providence, opening 12 houses before he died
The abbot who believed that guilt and fear were essential for spiritual growth
Friday, 25 March 2011
Saint of the week
St John Climacus (March 30) wrote The Ladder of Divine Ascent, one of the most important devotional texts of the Middle Ages
The hermit who prayed in the freezing Celtic sea
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Saint of the week
St Cuthbert (March 20) was an examplar of a less triumphal, more inward form of religion than that represented by St Wilfrid, the pope’s henchman
‘Your convent will be the sick room’
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Saint of the week
St Louise de Marillac (March 15) founded the Daughters of Charity under the guidance of St Vincent de Paul
The nun praised by Henry VIII as a ‘diligent bee’
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Saint of the week
St Colette (March 6) believed the most direct path to heaven was that of suffering patiently endured
The Patriarch who did not allow servants to wait on him
Friday, 25 February 2011
Saint of the week
St Tarasius (February 18) was a humble and sensible man appointed as Patriarch of Constantinople to resolve the Iconoclast controversy
St Polycarp, a martyr at the age of 86
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Saint of the week
St Polycarp (February 23), instructed by the Apostles, served as Bishop of Smyrna for 50 years and died during persecution
The Jesuit who fostered devotion to the Sacred Heart
Friday, 11 February 2011
Saint of the week
St Claude de La Colombière (February 15) had the misfortune of being in London at the time of the alleged Popish Plot
The Englishman whose order numbered 2,000 religious when he died at 106
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Saint of the week
Gilbert of Sempringham (c 1083-1189) founded the only distinctively English medieval religious order
Our political masters need to get this: theological problems can only have theological solutions
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith