by RQue Royal Design | May 31, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Christian apologist, born at Flavia Neapolis, about A.D. 100, converted to Christianity about A.D. 130, taught and defended the Christian religion in Asia Minor and at Rome, where he suffered martyrdom about the year 165. Two “Apologies” bearing his name...
by RQue Royal Design | May 31, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Acts 7:55-60 55 But Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God’s right hand.56 ‘Look! I can see heaven thrown open,’ he said, ‘and the Son of man standing at the right...
by RQue Royal Design | May 30, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Benedictine abbess and miracle worker. She was the daughter of Count Berthold of Andechs, in modem Bavaria, Germany. The count and his wife, Sophia, founded a monastery on their esĂ?Âtate at Diessen, Bavaria, and placed Mechtildis there at the age of five. She became...
by RQue Royal Design | May 30, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Zephaniah 3:14-18 14 Shout for joy, daughter of Zion, Israel, shout aloud! Rejoice, exult with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem!15 Yahweh has repealed your sentence; he has turned your enemy away. Yahweh is king among you, Israel, you have nothing more...
by RQue Royal Design | May 29, 2025 | Saint of the Day
St. Joan of Arc is the patroness of soldiers and of France. On January 6, 1412, Joan of Arc was born to pious parents of the French peasant class in the obscure village of Domremy, near the province of Lorraine. At a very early age, she was said to have heard the...