Thursday 4 April 2024
St Isidore of Seville (560 - 636)
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He was born in Seville in about 560 and after his father’s death he was educated by his brother Leander, Archbishop of Seville. He was instr...
Monday 1 April 2024
Saint Ceallach (1080 - 1129)
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He became hereditary bishop of Armagh in 1105 and made many reforms; not least on his deathbed, when he abolished the hereditary principle b...
Thursday 21 March 2024
Saint Enda (- 530)
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He founded a monastery on the pagan island of Aran Mor in Galway Bay, which remained a centre for sanctity and learning for the next 300 yea...
Friday 15 March 2024
Blessed John Anne (- 1589)
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It is hard to know who he was. He may have been John Amias, born at Wakefield in Yorkshire, where he married and had a family: on his wife’s...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Saints Perpetua and Felicity (- 203)
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They were martyred at Carthage in 203 during the persecution of Septimius Severus. With so many martyrs of the third and fourth centuries we...
Monday 26 February 2024
St Alexander of Alexandria (250 - 328)
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Alexander played an important role in the growth of the catechetical school at Alexandria. When he was made bishop, he continued in his effo...
Saturday 24 February 2024
Bl Josepha Girbes (1820-1893)
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Josepha Naval Girbés was born at Algemes in the Archdiocese of Valencia, Spain, on December 11, 1820. As a very young woman she consecrated ...
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