St Joseph Oriol (March 23) sought obscurity and self-abnegation but ended up being celebrated throughout Barcelona
Topic: Saint of the week
The carpenter who kept hundreds of fugitive Catholics alive
Posted on Thursday, 22 March 2012
St Nicholas Owen (March 22) was tortured horribly but did not give up any compromising information
The fourth century’s most holy family
Posted on Thursday, 15 March 2012
St Gregory of Nyssa (March 9) had nine siblings, and four of them have been declared saints
How religious ecstasy and a narrow escape from death led to a life devoted to the sick
Posted on Thursday, 8 March 2012
St John of God, March 8
The strict Passionist once known as ‘the dancer’
Posted on Monday, 27 February 2012
St Gabriel Possenti (February 27)
The painter who would not pick up a brush without first saying a prayer
Posted on Saturday, 18 February 2012
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
Posted on Saturday, 11 February 2012
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
Posted on Thursday, 9 February 2012
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
Posted on Thursday, 2 February 2012
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
Posted on Monday, 16 January 2012
St Fursey (January 16) helped advance Christianity in East Anglia and northern France
This Pentecost remember the Pope in your prayers and Malta’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith