by Deb McCoy | Sep 5, 2020 | Popes
The 9th century had turned into a disaster for the Church, and Italy. Not only were the Saracens attacking southern Italy and Sicily, cities were becoming independent and thinking for themselves. Popes were chased out, pushed out or killed in rapid succession. One...
by Deb McCoy | Sep 1, 2020 | Saints
In the late 600s, there lived a man named Drithelm, whose home was in Cunninghame, Northumbria. Today, that would be quite near the border of Scotland and England, not to far from the North Sea. Drithelm was a wealthy man, married, with a devout Catholic family. In...
by Deb McCoy | Aug 29, 2020 | Saints
AUGUST 29 is the traditional memorial of THE BEHEADING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. However, the beheading was actually just before Passover. The date of August 29 was chosen because that was the date that Emperor Constantine and Empress Helena had a church they built...
by Deb McCoy | Aug 25, 2020 | Saints
AUGUST 25 is the traditional feast day of ST. LOUIS, king of France (+1270). Here is the only King of France to ever be canonized. Born 25 April, 1214, Louis was the son of Prince Louis “the Lion”, son of King Philip of France, and Blanche of Castile, daughter of King...
by Deb McCoy | Aug 21, 2020 | Saints
AUGUST 20 is the traditional feast day of ST. BERNARD, Abbot and Doctor of the Church (+1153). This saint was a major leader of Benedictine monasticism, through the newly found Cistercian order. Born about 1090, in Burgundy, France, near Dijon, he was the son of the...
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