Martyr

June 5 – My God Is Greater Than Your Tree

June 4, 2020

June 7 – Martyr Prince of the Wends

June 4, 2020

May 29 – Saint Laura of Constantinople

May 28, 2020

May 30 – When God chose sides in war between two Christian nations, He sent her to win it

May 28, 2020

June 1 – Kidnapped for Christ

May 28, 2020

May 28 – Whether She Was Upstairs Or Downstairs, She Was Ever Steady

May 25, 2020

May 22 – Hanged for Printing a Book

May 21, 2020

May 22 – Queen’s Confessor

May 21, 2020

May 15 – Beautiful Princess, Tragic Story

May 14, 2020

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

May 14, 2020

May 16 – Patron of Poland

May 14, 2020

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

May 14, 2020

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

May 7, 2020

May 11 – Martyr of the House of Rochester

May 7, 2020

May 4 – They believed in the religious exemption, but only at first

April 30, 2020

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

April 23, 2020

April 26 – His ears were nailed to the pillory

April 23, 2020

April 22 – Father of Origen

April 20, 2020

April 23 – The Original Knight in Shining Armor

April 20, 2020

April 17 – Martyred at Tyburn

April 16, 2020

April 19 – Captured by pirates

April 16, 2020

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

April 16, 2020

April 20 – Blessed Richard Sergeant

April 16, 2020

April 20 – Blessed John Finch

April 16, 2020

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

April 9, 2020

April 11 – Convicted for being a priest

April 9, 2020

April 13 – This Prince Defied His Family

April 9, 2020

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

April 2, 2020

March 31 – St. Balbina

March 30, 2020

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

March 26, 2020

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

March 23, 2020

Saint John Ogilvie: Hero For Our Times – Part II

March 19, 2020

March 21-22 – James Harrison

March 19, 2020

March 18 – Martyr King

March 16, 2020

Saint John Ogilvie: Hero For Our Times

March 12, 2020

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

March 9, 2020

March 11 – Saint under the Caliphs

March 9, 2020

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

March 5, 2020

March 7 – Last cruelties of Henry VIII

March 5, 2020

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

March 2, 2020

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

February 24, 2020

February 21 – Shakespeare’s Inspiration

February 20, 2020

February 23 – St. Polycarp’s martyrdom

February 20, 2020

February 20 – Repeatedly racked

February 17, 2020

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

February 13, 2020

February 16 – St. Juliana

February 13, 2020

February 17 – He burned the pagan temple

February 13, 2020

February 17 – He suffered a three-fold death agony

February 13, 2020

February 12 – Saint Eulalia of Barcelona

February 10, 2020

February 10 – He fought socialism in both its Nazi and Soviet forms…and paid for it with his life

February 6, 2020

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 3, 2020

February 5 – St. Agatha

February 3, 2020

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

January 30, 2020

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

January 30, 2020

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

January 30, 2020

January 30 – St. Martina

January 27, 2020

January 24 – They called him “Ironmonger”

January 23, 2020

January 21 – None was held in such high honor

January 20, 2020

January 22 – Defended by a raven

January 20, 2020

January 23 – Saint Emerentiana

January 20, 2020

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