SAINTS
by Deb McCoy | Aug 5, 2020 | Saints
AUGUST 4 is the traditional feast day of ST. DOMINIC de GUZMAN (+1221). Dominic, son of Felix de Guzman and Juana of Aza, was born August 8, 1170 in Calervega, Spain. He was named after St. Dominic of Silos, whose namesake Benedictine monastery, was close by. As a...
by Deb McCoy | Aug 2, 2020 | Popes, Saints
POPE SAINT STEPHEN I A Roman by birth, Stephen’s father was Jovius. after that we know nothing of Stephen until Liber Pontificalis, the ancient book of the popes, describes him as an archdeacon under Pope Lucius I. As Lucius assumed that he would be martyred, he...
by Deb McCoy | Jul 30, 2020 | Saints
JULY 30 was the traditional memorial of ST. JULITTA (+c. 303/4). Julitta was a rich lady who May my estate be ruined or given to strangers; may I lose my life, and may my body be cut to pieces, rather than that by the least impious word I should offend God that made...
by Deb McCoy | Jul 24, 2020 | Saints
JULY 22 is the traditional memorial of ST. LAURENCE OF BRINDISI (+1620). The son of Venetian merchants William and Elizabeth Rossi, he was born in Brindisi, the Kingdom of Naples on July 22, 1559. His given name was Giulio Caesar de Rossi (Julius Caesar Rossi). His...
by Deb McCoy | Jul 14, 2020 | Saints
JULY 14 is the traditional memorial of ST. BONAVENTURE, BISHOP OF ALBANS (+1274). In 1221, a son was born to Giovanni de Fidanza and his wife, Maria Ritella. They named the child after the father, hence, Giovanni, Jr. The father was a physician and a man of means....
by Deb McCoy | Jul 7, 2020 | Popes, Saints
Pope Adrian III was a controversial, short-lived pope. He was born in Rome, probably around 834. This would have set him up to be a child during the attacks of the Saracens on Rome and its environs in 846. Nothing is known of the early life of Adrian. He was elected...
