by Deb McCoy | Apr 27, 2021 | Saints
Painted by one of the priests who knew Kateri Tekakwitha St. Kateri Tekakwitha is the first Native American saint from the current United States. She was born around 1656 in Ossernenon, one of the small Mohawk Indian villages on the south side of the Mohawk River. Her...
by Deb McCoy | Apr 22, 2021 | Popes
Pope Leo VIII is seen as both an antipope and a pope. Let me explain…. Born in Rome, around 915, Leo was the son of a well-known noble family. His father was the protonotary, or the palace notary for the papal chancery, a layman. Leo followed in his father’s...
by Deb McCoy | Apr 13, 2021 | Saints
One the most orthodox Catholic writers of the second century, Dionysius was not in Rome, like so many others. He lived out his life in Corinth, a town in southeastern Greece. This holy man worked under the oppression of Marcus Aurelius, who was emperor until 180....
by Deb McCoy | Apr 4, 2021 | Saints
St. Isidore was a Spanish scholar and cleric. He was the archbishop of Seville for three decades. He was considered “the last scholar of ancient times” by some historians. AND…he was the inventor of the period, the comma and the colon. Isidore lived in the era of...
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