Category Archives: Saint Of The Day

St. Paul Miki, a Japanese Jesuit along with 2 other Jesuit priests, six Franciscans, (4 of whom were Spanish), one Mexican, one Indian, and 17 Japanese, including  lay people, were martyred near Nagasaki after a journey to impress the population that they were trying to prepare the way for the Spanish and Portuguese to conquer Japan.  Just like Jesus, they were all pierced with a lance.   This happened 45 years after St. Francis Xavier had evangelized much of Japan. They were canonized in 1862.

FEAST DAY- February 6

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Responsorial Psalm

Lord, you are exalted over all.

Quiz

Yesterday’s Answer-

True

Today’s Question-

What was the opening greeting of the angel Gabriel to Mary when he announced the birth of Jesus?

The name Agatha means “good”.  She was born into a noble family.  Details of her martyrdom are historically certain but the details are legendary.  A Roman senator (Quintanius) had St. Agatha tortured, including cutting off her breasts because she refused his solicitations.  When she continued to refuse, he had her thrown onto red-hot coals.  An earthquake shook the town and he feared an uprising of the people so he had Agatha returned to prison where she died.  

FEAST DAY- February 5

PATRON OF- diseases of the breast, nurses, earthquakes

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Responsorial Psalm

Lord, forgive the wrong I have done.

Quiz

Yesterday’s Answer-

True

Today’s Question-

In prayer we also have communion with Mary, the Mother of God.  True or False?

St. Veronica is known for wiping the face of Jesus on his Way of the Cross.  It is said that he left an imprint of his face on the towel.  Legend has it she cured Emperor Tiberius with this image, called Veronica’s Veil.  It is also said that she left the “veil” in the care of Pope Clement and his successors.  French legend has it that she married Zacheus, a convert in France and accompanied him to Rome.  Another legend is that she is the “woman cured of bleeding when she touched his cloak”.

FEAST DAY- February 4

PATRON OF- Photographers

HOLY WOMEN BY POPE BENEDICT XVI

Responsorial Psalm

Listen, Lord, and answer me.

Quiz

Yesterday’s Answer-

(b) modesty

Today’s Question-

All things are possible for the one who prays in faith.    True or False?

St. Blaisé studied philosophy early in his life and afterward became a physician.  He became a priest and was made Bishop of Sebaste, Armenia.  There, he was taken prisoner by the Governor.  On the way to prison a mother whose child was suffering of a disease of the throat, begged him to aid her.  His intercession caused the child to be cured.  Since then, he is called upon for help in such cases.  He was tortured and beheaded in the year 316. 

FEAST DAY- February 3

PATRON OF- diseases of the throat

SAINTS

Responsorial Psalm

Lord, rise up and save me.

Quiz

Today’s Question-

What guards people’s privacy and preserves their dignity?

(a) stewardship  (b) modesty  (c) jusice

This occurs 40 days after the birth of Jesus.  Jesus was presented in the temple and was prayed over by Simeon in the presence of Anna the prophetess.

FEAST DAY- February 2

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Responsorial Psalm

Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord!

Quiz

Yesterday’s Answer-

True

Today’s Question-

From whom did Jesus first learn how to pray?

Born in Sweden in 1303.  She married and was a devoted mother to her eight children.  After she was widowed, she continued to live in the world but devoted herself to the ascetic life as a member of the Third Order of St. Francis.  She then formed a religious order and became a model of great virtue to all.  She wrote many works relating her mystical experiences.  She died in Rome in 1373.

FEAST DAY- February 1

PATRON OF- Widows, Sweden

GIFTS

Responsorial Psalm

Create a clean heart in me, O God.

Quiz

Yesterday’s Answer-

Baptism

Today’s Question-

What do we call the main laws given to Moses in the Old Testament?

St. Margaret was born in Hungary in 1046 and at the age of 24 married King Malcom III.  Together they had six sons and two daughters. Spiritually influencing her husband, she helped him calm his temper and inspired him with good thoughts.  She formed her own children to share in her strong faith. They acted out in her example by praying and helping the poor.  She died on November  16, 1093.

Born in Germany in 1256 and raised  by the Benedictine nuns, St. Gertrude was an intelligent student.  She eventually joined the Benedictine order and became a nun.   When she was 26 years old, she experienced the first of a series of revelations of Christ.  She recorded these revelations and experiences of God’s grace in her book, Book of Extraordinary Grace.  Right before she died, she said, “I am certain whether my death be sudden or foreseen, that I shall never be without the mercy of God.”  Our Lord told St. Gertrude that the following prayer would release souls from purgatory each time it is said:

“Eternal Father, I offer thee the most precious blood of thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family.  Amen.”

St. Albert was born into a noble family in Swabia, Germany in 1206. At the age of 17 he entered the Dominican Order and received his doctorate from the University of Paris in 1245.  St. Albert was one of the great teachers of his time and was named regent of the studia generalia at cologne in 1248.  St. Thomas Aquinas was a pupil of his.  Known as athe “Universal Doctor” some of his great writings are Summa Theologiae and Summa de Creaturis.  He was appointed provincial of the Dominicans in Germany and later Bishop of Regensburg in Germany.  He assisted at the Council of Lyons in 1274 and defended the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas at the University of Paris against those who accused the great theologian of heresy. He is the patron of those who study the natural sciences.

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