“Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.” St. Jerome (4th-5th centuries, Doctor of the Church) “He that is chaste before marriage, much more will be...
BORN TO ROYALTY St. Columba was a missionary priest and abbot, known as the Apostle to the Picts. Columba was born to a Gaelic Irish royal family at Gartan in County Donegal in northern Ireland in the year 521. His parents were Phelim and Eithne, and the child was probably baptized Columb...
“If material things please you, take occasion from them to praise God, and turn your love from them toward Him Who made them, lest in these things that please you, you displease Him.” St. Augustine of Hippo (4th-5th centuries, Doctor of the Church) “Whatever you possess must not...
St. Isidore the Farmer was a humble and devout farm worker who experienced many miracles. Isidro (Isidore in English) de Merlo y Quintana was born about the year 1070 in Madrid, Spain. He was named after the great bishop and Doctor of the Church St. Isidore of Seville, and was...
“I feel an indescribable pleasure in reading the Acts of the Martyrs; but when the Martyr is a woman, my enthusiasm is doubled. For the frailer the instrument, the great is the grace, the brighter the trophy, the grander the victory; and this, not because of her weakness, but because...
“Many indeed are the wondrous happenings of that time: God hanging on a cross, the sun made dark…for it was fitting that creation should mourn its Creator.” St. Gregory Nazianzen (4th century, Doctor of the Church) “He is our salvation Who was wounded for us, and fastened with nails to...
St. Juliana of Liège was a religious and an anchoress who is largely responsible for the worldwide Catholic feast of Corpus Christi. Juliana was born at Retinnes, near Liège in what then the Holy Roman Empire, now in eastern Belgium, in 1192. She was orphaned at age five and placed...
“Many indeed are the wondrous happenings of that time: God hanging on a cross, the sun made dark…for it was fitting that creation should mourn its Creator.” St. Gregory Nazianzen (4th century, Doctor of the Church) “He is our salvation Who was wounded for us, and fastened with nails to...
“What does the poor man do at the rich man’s door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.” St. Francis of Assisi (12th-13th centuries) “When I...
St. Turibius of Mogrovejo was a Spanish missionary, bishop, and Church reformer. Turibius was born in 1538 to Luis Alfonso de Mogrovejo and his wife Ana at Mayorga, Spain. Luis was a governor, and his children were well-educated, in keeping with the family’s status as nobility. Turibius was an exceptionally...