St Luke the Evangelist-Feast Day October 18th. St Luke is the third evangelist of the Canonical Gospels. Both theof Acts and the Gospel of Luke are ascribed to him.He is believed to have been born in Antioch in Syria some time in the first century. It was assumed that he…
Saint Daniel Comboni-Feast Day 10th October: Daniel was born in Italy in 1831 to a poor farming family ,he knew from an early age that he would be a priest and missionary. His love was Africa and when God called him there in 1857 ,three years after his ordination…
Saint Francis of Assisi. Feast Day Oct 4rd. An Indulgent youth, Giovanni de Pietro Bernadone was born in 1182 and nicknamed Francesco from an early age . His father was a wealthy silk merchantand Francesco livedmisspent youth.going of to fight for his home town in 1204 he had a…
Feast of the Archangels St, St Raphael andSt Gabriel-Feast Day 29th September: Although there are 7 Archangels that stand before the throne of God only three of them are mentioned by name in the Catholic Bible. The Archangels are an order of angels within a hierarchy of angelic hosts…
St. John Chrysostom-Feast Day September 13th: John was born in Antioch to Greco-Syrian parents in 349 AD,father who was a military official died soon after his birth and he was brought up solely by his Christian mother. He studied rhetoric under Libanius a pagan and theology under Diodorus of Tarsus.He…
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta-Feast Day September 5th: Teresa was born Gonxha Agnes BojaxhiuSkopje in the Ottoman empire in 1910 to Albanian parents. At the age of 18 she left home to join the Sisters of Loreto as a missionary and was placed in an abbey in Ireland,it was here she…
The Feast day of the Martyrdom of John the Baptist—August 29th: On this feast day we are focused on Johns martyrdom and beheading , John died for the faith for which he lived . The consequences of his heralding the Good News of the Gospel and a call to…
Feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary-August 22nd: The feast of Mary´s Queenship is a recent institution even though it is ancient in origin and devotion . It was established by the Venerable Pius X11 in 1954 at the end of the Marian year. Theof Mary as Queen…
Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (August 15th): The feast commemorates the death of the Virgin Mary and the jointof herand soul in to heaven ,which us a foretaste of our own bodily resurrection at the end of time. It is probably one of the most important…
St. Dominic (8th August): Dominic was bornnoble heritageCalaruega,Spain in 117O. He was educated by his uncle an archpriest and then at the university of Palencia where he proved to be an excellent scholar . Dominic was most likely ordained at Palencia and became a canon regular at Osama cathedral…
