St. Isidore the Farmer was a humble and devout farm worker who experienced many miracles. Isidro (Isidore in English) de Merlo y Quintana was born about the year 1070 in Madrid, Spain. He was named after the great bishop and Doctor of the Church St. Isidore of Seville, and was...
“I feel an indescribable pleasure in reading the Acts of the Martyrs; but when the Martyr is a woman, my enthusiasm is doubled. For the frailer the instrument, the great is the grace, the brighter the trophy, the grander the victory; and this, not because of her weakness, but because...
“Many indeed are the wondrous happenings of that time: God hanging on a cross, the sun made dark…for it was fitting that creation should mourn its Creator.” St. Gregory Nazianzen (4th century, Doctor of the Church) “He is our salvation Who was wounded for us, and fastened with nails to...
St. Juliana of Liège was a religious and an anchoress who is largely responsible for the worldwide Catholic feast of Corpus Christi. Juliana was born at Retinnes, near Liège in what then the Holy Roman Empire, now in eastern Belgium, in 1192. She was orphaned at age five and placed...
“Many indeed are the wondrous happenings of that time: God hanging on a cross, the sun made dark…for it was fitting that creation should mourn its Creator.” St. Gregory Nazianzen (4th century, Doctor of the Church) “He is our salvation Who was wounded for us, and fastened with nails to...
“What does the poor man do at the rich man’s door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.” St. Francis of Assisi (12th-13th centuries) “When I...
St. Turibius of Mogrovejo was a Spanish missionary, bishop, and Church reformer. Turibius was born in 1538 to Luis Alfonso de Mogrovejo and his wife Ana at Mayorga, Spain. Luis was a governor, and his children were well-educated, in keeping with the family’s status as nobility. Turibius was an exceptionally...
“Then the angel said to me, ‘Write this: Blessed are those who have been called to the wedding feast of the Lamb’.” St. John the Apostle and Evangelist (1st century) “For this body shall be raised, not remaining weak as now, but raised the very same body, though by putting...
Blessed James Miller was a religious brother, missionary, and martyr. James Alfred Miller was born in 1944 to a Catholic farming family at Stevens Point, in central Wisconsin. He was the oldest of five children and grew up in the small nearby town of Custer. He attended the local elementary...
“He who has the love of Christ sometimes causes pain, even to someone he loves, for that person’s good.” St. Basil the Great (4th century, Doctor of the Church) “Now what precisely is meant by the words, ‘My friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment’? Listen...