All posts tagged: Saints

December 4 – St. John Damascene (c.675 – c.749) – Representative of the Christians to the court of the Muslim caliph. Thrived as a Christian in a […]

November 30 – St. Andrew, Apostle – He was brother of Simon (Peter), both fishermen. From the fourth Gospel we learn that Andrew was a disciple of […]

November 17 – St. Elizabeth of Thuringia, Princess of Hungary – T.O.S.F. – (Third Order Franciscan) – (German: Heilige Elisabeth von Thüringen, Hungarian:Árpád-házi Szent Erzsébet, July 7, […]

November 11 – St. Martin of Tours, Bishop, 316 – November 8, 397. While Martin was still a soldier in the Roman army and deployed in Gaul […]

November 10 – St. Leo the Great – Leo’s pontificate, next to that of St. Gregory I, is the most significant and important in Christian antiquity. At […]

November 3 – Martin de Porres (December 9, 1579 – November 3, 1639) A lay brother of the Dominican Order who lived in Lima, Peru. He is […]

October 28 – St. Simon and St. Jude, Apostles – Jude is so named by Luke and Acts. Matthew and Mark call him Thaddeus. He is not […]

October 27 -St. Frumentius, Bishop – Amharic ABBA SALAMA (fl. 4th century), Syrian who introduced Christianity into Ethiopia. As first bishop of its ancient capital, Aksum, he […]

October 23, St. James of Jerusalem, Martyr – James of Jerusalem is referred to in the New Testament as the brother of Our Lord Jesus Christ. He […]

October 18 – St. Luke, Evangelist – Luke (Ancient Greek: Λουκᾶς, Loukás) was an Early Christian writer who the Church Fathers such as Jerome and Eusebius said […]