Martyr

June 5 – My God Is Greater Than Your Tree

June 3, 2021

June 7 – Martyr Prince of the Wends

June 3, 2021

June 1 – Kidnapped for Christ

May 31, 2021

May 29 – Saint Laura of Constantinople

May 27, 2021

May 22 – Hanged for Printing a Book

May 20, 2021

May 22 – Queen’s Confessor

May 20, 2021

May 18 – Martyr of Envy

May 17, 2021

May 18 – St. Eric, King of Sweden, Martyr

May 17, 2021

May 15 – Beautiful Princess, Tragic Story

May 13, 2021

May 15 – Palms on Palm Sunday lead to his cruel martyrdom

May 13, 2021

May 16 – Patron of Poland

May 13, 2021

May 11 – Martyr of the House of Rochester

May 10, 2021

May 9 – Known personally to the King, he was falsely accused of conspiring to murder him

May 6, 2021

April 23 – The Original Knight in Shining Armor

April 22, 2021

April 24 – “I came to extirpate heresy, not to embrace it”

April 22, 2021

April 20 – “I beg your Lordship…that my lips and…fingers may be cut off…”

April 19, 2021

April 20 – Blessed Richard Sergeant

April 19, 2021

April 20 – Blessed John Finch

April 19, 2021

April 22 – Father of Origen

April 19, 2021

April 17 – Martyred at Tyburn

April 15, 2021

April 19 – Captured by pirates

April 15, 2021

April 13 – Pope St. Martin I

April 12, 2021

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

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