by RQue Royal Design | Jul 7, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Benedictine abbot also called Grimwald, invited to England by King Alfred in 885. Grimbald arrived in England and declined the see of Canterbury, preferring to remain a monk. He became the abbot of New Minster Abbey at Winchester appointed by King Edward the Elder....
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 7, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7, 17-24 23 That same night he got up and, taking his two wives, his two slave-girls and his eleven children, crossed the ford of the Jabbok.24 After he had taken them across the stream, he sent all his possessions over too.25 And...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 6, 2025 | Saint of the Day
English martyr. He was born at Stocksteads, Hampshire, and was a convert. He was arrested the day he received his first Communion. A husbands man by trade, Ralph was allowed a leave from prison and aided priests and Catholics. He was executed at Winchester on July by...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 6, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Genesis 28:10-22 10 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.11 When he had reached a certain place, he stopped there for the night, since the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place, he made it his pillow and lay down where he was.12 He had a...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 5, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Born on October 16 1890 in Corinaldo, in the Ancona Province in Italy, her farmworker father moved his family to Ferrier di Conca, near Anzio. When he died of malaria, Maria’s mother had to struggle to feed her children. Maria’s mother, brothers, and...
