St Gabriel Possenti (February 27)
Spiritual Life
Saint Of The Week
The painter who would not pick up a brush without first saying a prayer
Saturday, 18 February 2012
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Fra Angelico (February 18) believed it was impossible to create a Christian image without living a Christian life
The pope who told an emperor his mind was coarse
Saturday, 11 February 2012
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St Gregory II (February 11) was a treasurer, librarian and theological adviser before becoming pope
The brilliant Ecuadorian teacher who was too modest for Paris
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Saint of the week
St Miguel Cordero (February 9), born with crippled legs, wrote his country’s standard Spanish grammar textbook aged 19
The ‘dumb ox’ who became the greatest of the medieval Doctors of the Church
Thursday, 2 February 2012
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St Thomas Aquinas (January 28) was an unrivalled theologian who used scientific rationalism to support the doctrines of Christian faith and revelation
The monk who was burned by a demon in his sleep
Monday, 16 January 2012
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St Fursey (January 16) helped advance Christianity in East Anglia and northern France
The saint who warned against the shark of self-love
Monday, 9 January 2012
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St Genevieve Torres Morales (January 5) was told she could not join the Carmelites because of a handicap
The priest whose preaching was like a ‘spiritual earthquake’
Saturday, 24 December 2011
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St Gaspar del Bufalo (December 28)
The frail but tireless Sister who worked in the slums of New York
Thursday, 22 December 2011
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St Francesca Cabrini (December 22) became the first American to be canonised in 1946
The hermit who lived on a pillar for 33 years
Monday, 12 December 2011
Saint of the week
St Daniel the Stylite (December 11) was told that monastic discipline would be beyond him
Pope Francis, as I hoped, will complete Pope Benedict’s unfinished encyclical: it will be a striking illustration of the hermeneutic of continuity
By William Oddie