by Deb McCoy | Feb 22, 2016 | All
FEBRUARY 22 is the traditional feast day of ST. MARGARET OF CORTONA (+1297).Margaret was born in Loviana, Tuscany in 1247. It was a time of renewal and revolt. The Dominicans and the Franciscans were new. There were always soldiers about due to the various local wars...
by Deb McCoy | Feb 22, 2016 | All
As with so many of the other popes we have written about, the sources of information are few: The Liber Pontificalis, written by a number of unknowns over the centuries and compiled in the 1500s, and Eusebius’ The History of the Church, written in the fourth...
by Deb McCoy | Feb 21, 2016 | All
FEBRUARY 21 is the traditional memorial day of ST. SEVERIAN, BISHOP OF SCYTHOPOLIS (+453)St. Severian, was the bishop of a town in Galilee, now an area by the Palestinean-Israeli border. During his episcopate, the Monophysite heresy was rampant.. the heresy,...
by Deb McCoy | Feb 14, 2016 | All
FEBRUARY 14 is the feast day of ST. VALENTINE (+269).How Valentine came to be associated with lovers and romance is a story of itself: According to some historians, it began with new rules from the emperor, Claudius II. It became illegal for young people to marry.The...
by Deb McCoy | Feb 8, 2016 | All
Pope Pontian was arrested by the soldiers of Emperor Maximinus the Thracian in the early fall of 235. He was sent to his death in the mines of Sardinia along with Hippolytus, the writer and theologian, who had been his nemesis. Shortly before leaving, Pontian chose to...
by Deb McCoy | Feb 8, 2016 | All
FEBRUARY 8 is the traditional memorial of ST. JOHN OF MATHA (+1213).John was born of noble parentage in Provence in June, 1169. He was sent to Aix to learn grammar, fencing and horseback riding, the things expected of a nobleman in the Middle Ages. Being of a pious...
