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4 days ago · Charged as a Christian in 288 in Rome, Sebastian was tied to a tree, shot with arrows, and left for dead. However, he survived, recovered, and returned to preach to Diocletian, where the emperor...
20 hours ago · Virgin & Martyr. Maria was born in the year of Our Lord 1890 to a farming family in Italy. After her father died, Maria and her family lived and worked on the farm of the Serenelli family. When Maria was nearly twelve, nineteen-year-old Alessandro Serenelli became obsessed with her, and one day cornered her in the farmhouse and threatened to ...
20 hours ago · In 679, she retired and moved to her sister St. Æthelthryth’s monastery at Ely, where she was chosen Abbess upon the repose of her sister. St. Seaxburh served as Abbess of Ely until her repose circa 699. T RANQUILLINUS of ROME, said to have been brought to Christ by St. Sebastian (20th January). St. Tranquillinus was the father of SS.
1 day ago · She was martyred by being hung from a tree by her hair, with a fire lit under her feet. After her death her body was thrown into the Tiber River. She then appeared in a vision to St. Sebastian, who was in prison awaiting his execution, to tell him of her martyrdom and subsequent glory. St. Zoe of Rome’s feast day is July 5th.
20 hours ago · Thomas the Apostle ( Greek: Θωμᾶς, romanized: Thōmâs; Aramaic ܬܐܘܡܐ, romanized: Tʾōmā, meaning "the twin"), [a] also known as Didymus (Greek: Δίδυμος, romanized: Dídymos, meaning "twin"), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as "Doubting Thomas" because he ...
5 days ago · Pope St. John Paul II, accepting the petition of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, ordered that the decree of martyrdom of the Servants of God should be drawn up; Felipe de Jesús Munárriz and 50 companions of the Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary who had died because ...
4 days ago · Last month, we commemorated the 80th anniversary of the martyrdom of Father Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan priest martyred by Nazis during World War II. His life offers a unique testimony of human strength in the times of the greatest cataclysm in the history of mankind.
