St Maria de Mattias (August 20) masterminded the creation of more than fifty Precious Blood schools
Spiritual Life
Saint Of The Week
The 80-year-old woman who discovered the Cross upon which Jesus was crucified
Monday, 15 August 2011
Saint of the week
St Helena (August 18), the mother of Constantine, became celebrated for her charity to the poor and to prisoners
The generous Christian king who prayed all night
Friday, 5 August 2011
Saint of the week
St Oswald (August 5) was praised by the Venerable Bede as ‘a man beloved of God’
The saint who saw Jesus as a guest who needed to eat
Friday, 29 July 2011
Saint of the week
St Martha (July 29) perhaps put too much emphasis on the virtues of hospitality
The saint who flew ‘like a bird’ into a church roof
Friday, 22 July 2011
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St Christina the Astonishing (July 24) had been taken for dead but sat up in her coffin in the middle of a Requiem Mass
The Roman aristocrat who went from riches to rags
Friday, 15 July 2011
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St Arsenius (July 19) became one of the leading Desert Fathers
The Sister who saw in a vision her own heart made of steel
Friday, 8 July 2011
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St Veronica Giuliani (July 9) received well-attested imprints of the stigmata
The girl who was murdered at the age of 11
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Saint of the week
St Maria Goretti (July 6) died while resisting a rape. Her murderer later repented and had a vision of the Virgin Mary
The 17th-century martyr whose corpse was found in the 1920s
Friday, 24 June 2011
Saint of the week
St John Southworth (June 28) was arrested five times before he was eventually hanged
The princess who forswore sleep in order to pass her nights in prayer
Monday, 20 June 2011
Saint of the week
St Etheldreda (June 23) helped establish religious life as an acceptable vocation for ex-queens and princesses in England
The blind pro-life activist who puts Britain’s feminists to shame
By Madeleine Teahan