by RQue Royal Design | Mar 12, 2025 | Saint of the Day
The founder of the English Franciscan province, Blessed Agnello, was admitted into the Order by St. Francis himself on the occasion of his sojourn in Pisa. He was sent to the Friary in Paris, of which he became the guardian, and in 1224, St. Francis appointed him to...
by RQue Royal Design | Mar 12, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Esther C:12, 14-16, 23-25 14 Queen Esther, seized with mortal anguish, had recourse to the LORD. She lay prostrate upon the ground, together with her handmaids, from morning until evening, and said: “God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob,...
by RQue Royal Design | Mar 11, 2025 | Saint of the Day
St. Fina or Seraphina, Virgin A.D. 1253 The old town of San Geminiano in Tuscany treasures with special veneration the memory of Santa Fina, a young girl whose claim to be recognized as a saint lay in the perfect resignation with which she accepted bodily suffering....
by RQue Royal Design | Mar 11, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Jonah 3:1-10 1 The word of Yahweh was addressed to Jonah a second time.2 ‘Up!’ he said, ‘Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to it as I shall tell you.’3 Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of Yahweh. Now...
by RQue Royal Design | Mar 10, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Constantine was king of Cornwall. Unreliable tradition has him married to the daughter of the king of Brittany who on her death ceded his throne to his son and became a monk at St. Mochuda monastery at Rahan, Ireland. He performed menial tasks at the monastery, then...
