Showing posts with label February Saints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label February Saints. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

“True and Living Friendship Can Not Thrive Amid Sin” ~ Saint Francis de Sales and the crisis of post-Christian friendship

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Click here to share on Facebook. A lamentable feature of modern post-Christian life in the West is the inability of many people to form ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

"Glittering with the Indescribable Brightness of the Sun" ~ Saint Polyeuctus and his magnificent temple in Byzantium

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The execution of St. Polyeuctus of Melitene, taken from the Menologion of Basil II, ca. AD 1000. February 13 is the feast day of yet an...
Friday, February 08, 2019

"They seized her and knocked out all her teeth" ~ The martyrdom of Saint Apollonia and the persecution of Decius in Alexandria

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The Martyrdom of Saint Apollonia, taken from Shea's Pictorial Lives of the Saints . Apollonia was an elderly matron who lived in Rom...
Thursday, February 07, 2019

The Desert Bishop and the Saracen Queen ~ The Roman-Arab War of AD 371

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Christian bishops, emperors and saints as portrayed in an 11th century fresco in the Monastery of Mar Musa in Syria.  February 7 is the...
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Tuesday, February 05, 2019

"Divine Providence has found an arbiter of our age." ~ Avitus of Vienne on the Baptism of Clovis, King of the Franks, AD 496

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Ivory carving of the Baptism of Clovis, ca. AD 870. On February 5 is commemorated the life of Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, known more common...
Friday, February 09, 2018

"Now, leave if you can" ~ Saint Scholastica and her brother, Saint Benedict

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Click to share on Facebook. February 10 is the feast of Saint Scholastica, the lesser-known sister of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the foun...
Thursday, February 01, 2018

Saint Ignatius to Trajan: "You are in error when you call the dæmons of the nations gods."

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Click here to share on Facebook. "Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men...For cannot he that falls rise again?" ~Sai...
Monday, August 28, 2017

Moses the Black ~ A Christian Hercules

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Modern icon of Saint Moses looking particularly fierce. August 28 is best known as the feast day of Saint Augustine, the great theologi...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

The Chair of Saint Peter

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Photo of the Chair of Saint Peter, taken in 1867 and included in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1911). February 22 is commemorated as the...
Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Saint Josephine Bakhita and Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi

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February 8 is the feast of Saint Josephine Bakhita, canonized by Pope St. John Paul II in 2000. Her perilous and inspiring journey from sl...
Friday, February 03, 2017

Who was Saint Blaise?

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Saint Blaise blessing a child. From the altarpiece in the Church of Saint Blaise, Alsace, France. Most Catholics’ familiarity with Sai...