Martyr

June 19 – St. François-Isidore Gagelin

June 16, 2016

June 19 – Execution of second group of those who believed in the religious exemption, but only at first

June 16, 2016

June 9 – St. Columba

June 7, 2016

June 7 – Martyr Prince of the Wends

June 6, 2016

June 8 – Accused of theft and other misconduct

June 6, 2016

June 1 – Kidnapped for Christ

May 30, 2016

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

May 26, 2016

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

May 26, 2016

May 22 – Hanged for Printing a Book

May 19, 2016

May 22 – Queen’s Confessor

May 19, 2016

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

May 16, 2016

May 15 – Beautiful Princess, Tragic Story

May 12, 2016

May 16 – Patron of Poland

May 12, 2016

May 11 – Martyr of the House of Rochester

May 9, 2016

May 11 – Carthusian Martyrs, the Third Group

May 9, 2016

Unconditionality in a Crusade

May 5, 2016

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

May 5, 2016

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

May 2, 2016

April 27 – Noble Model of Confidence

April 25, 2016

April 22 – Father of Origen

April 21, 2016

April 23 – The Original Knight in Shining Armor

April 21, 2016

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

April 21, 2016

April 19 – Captured by pirates

April 18, 2016

April 20 – Blessed John Finch

April 18, 2016

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

April 18, 2016

April 20 – Blessed Richard Sergeant

April 18, 2016

April 16 – Martyred in the name of Equality

April 14, 2016

April 14 – She suffered for the moral corruption and decay of her time

April 11, 2016

April 14 – St. Peter Gonzalez (aka St. Elmo)

April 11, 2016

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

April 7, 2016

March 31 – St. Balbina

March 28, 2016

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

March 24, 2016

March 28 – “I have fought for God and king, and it is for them that I am going to die”

March 24, 2016

March 18 – Martyr King

March 17, 2016

March 21-22 – James Harrison

March 17, 2016

Our Lady of Deliverance, Empress of China

March 7, 2016

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

March 3, 2016

February 29 – The Church in China, part II

February 29, 2016

February 26 – Blessed Robert Drury

February 25, 2016

February 27 – Are You Hiding a Priest?

February 25, 2016

February 29 – The Church in China, part I

February 25, 2016

February 23 – St. Polycarp’s martyrdom

February 22, 2016

February 20 – Repeatedly racked

February 18, 2016

February 21 – Shakespeare’s Inspiration

February 18, 2016

February 17 – He burned the pagan temple

February 15, 2016

February 12 – Saint Eulalia of Barcelona

February 11, 2016

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

February 8, 2016

February 5 – Patroness of Nurses

February 4, 2016

February 8 – Mary Queen of Scots

February 4, 2016

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

February 1, 2016

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, 2016

February 4 – Sent into Muslim lands, he sought to preach to the Sultan

February 1, 2016

January 30 – St. Martina

January 28, 2016

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

January 28, 2016

January 22 – Defended by a raven

January 21, 2016

January 24 – They called him “Ironmonger”

January 21, 2016

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

January 18, 2016

January 19 – Noble martyrs of Persia

January 18, 2016

January 19 – Saintly King

January 18, 2016

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

January 14, 2016

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