Martyr

April 11 – He excommunicated the king, who murdered him as he celebrated Mass

April 8, 2021

April 11 – Convicted for being a priest

April 8, 2021

April 6 – With his head split open, he wrote on the ground with his own blood: “Credo”

April 5, 2021

March 31 – St. Balbina

March 29, 2021

March 26 – Sheriff’s daughter, but God’s first

March 25, 2021

March 28 – He refused life and liberty at the price of conformity

March 25, 2021

March 21-22 – James Harrison

March 18, 2021

March 18 – Martyr King

March 15, 2021

March 12 – The Mistaken Chronicler

March 11, 2021

March 10 – “I want no prayers from heretics!”

March 8, 2021

March 11 – Saint under the Caliphs

March 8, 2021

March 6 – God gave him the great grace of “unsuitability for government”

March 4, 2021

March 7 – Last cruelties of Henry VIII

March 4, 2021

March 4 – “Your Honor, was St. Augustine also a traitor?”

March 1, 2021

February 26 – Blessed Robert Drury

February 25, 2021

February 27 – Are You Hiding a Priest?

February 25, 2021

February 27 – “Which of you Gospellers can show such a knee?”

February 25, 2021

February 23 – St. Polycarp’s martyrdom

February 22, 2021

February 20 – Repeatedly racked

February 18, 2021

February 16 – St. Juliana

February 15, 2021

February 17 – He burned the pagan temple

February 15, 2021

February 17 – He suffered a three-fold death agony

February 15, 2021

February 12 – Saint Eulalia of Barcelona

February 11, 2021

February 15 – One of his last utterances was a prayer for the queen

February 11, 2021

February 5 – St. Agatha

February 4, 2021

February 2 – “Though in chains, he is as gay as a little bird”

February 1, 2021

February 3 – His crime was to call the queen a schismatic

February 1, 2021

February 4 – Portuguese noble and favorite of the king, he strove to convert the nobility of India – and paid for it with his life

February 1, 2021

January 30 – St. Martina

January 28, 2021

February 1 – Immediately after his martyrdom, they lined up to venerate his relics

January 28, 2021

Heroic Prince Ucondono Met the Persecution Head-On

January 21, 2021

January 22 – Defended by a raven

January 21, 2021

January 23 – Saint Emerentiana

January 21, 2021

January 24 – They called him “Ironmonger”

January 21, 2021

January 19 – The scion of a noble family who longed to be enrolled in the noble army of martyrs

January 18, 2021

January 19 – Saintly King

January 18, 2021

January 20 – St. Sebastian

January 18, 2021

January 21 – None was held in such high honor

January 18, 2021

January 16 – The true disciple of St. Francis who sent the Moorish king into a fit of rage

January 14, 2021

January 14 – Blessed Devasahayam Pillai

January 11, 2021

January 7 – Ordered bandits of royal blood to hang from the highest mast

January 4, 2021

December 29 – His Staff Did More Damage Than His Sword

December 28, 2020

December 29 – Blessed William Howard

December 28, 2020

December 26 – He had the face of an angel

December 24, 2020

December 27 – The divorced saint

December 24, 2020

December 20 – Her church ranks third in Rome

December 17, 2020

Heaven Sends a Sign to Warn the King of Arima That a Great Persecution of Catholics in Japan Was Approaching

December 10, 2020

December 13 – The girl named Lucy, opposite of Lucifer

December 10, 2020

Father Vieira Shakes the Emperor’s Pagan Convictions, and Is Then Martyred

December 3, 2020

December 4 – Saint Barbara

December 3, 2020

December 5 – Noble matron faithful unto death

December 3, 2020

December 6 – Martyr of the Muslims

December 3, 2020

December 1 – Bl. Ralph Sherwin

November 30, 2020

December 1 – The Queen bade him ask for what he would

November 30, 2020

November 29 – St. Saturninus

November 26, 2020

November 25 – She Defied the Emperor

November 23, 2020

Godfrey of Bouillon: “Gérard, Brave Man, You Must Die”

November 19, 2020

November 20 – St. Edmund the Martyr

November 19, 2020

November 22 – The Eternal Glory of the Caecilia Family

November 19, 2020

November 19 – St. Nerses I, Bishop of Armenia, Martyr

November 16, 2020

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