by RQue Royal Design | Feb 20, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Bishop and martyr. The bishop of Scythopolis in Galilee. He attended the Council of Chalcedon (451) and took part in the complete triumph of the orthodox Christian cause against the heretics of the era. On his return home he was assassinated by a group of heretics at...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 20, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Genesis 11:1-9 1 The whole world spoke the same language, with the same vocabulary.2 Now, as people moved eastwards they found a valley in the land of Shinar where they settled.3 They said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks and bake them in the...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 19, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Wulfric (d. 1154) + hermit and miracle worker. Born at Compton Martin, near Bristol, England, he became a priest and was excessively materialistic and worldly. After meeting with a beggar, he underwent a personal conversion and became a hermit at Haselbury; Somerset,...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 19, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Genesis 9:1-13 1 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, ‘Breed, multiply and fill the earth.2 Be the terror and the dread of all the animals on land and all the birds of heaven, of everything that moves on land and all the fish of the sea;...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 18, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Alvarez was born in either Lisbon, Portugal, or Cordova, Spain. He entered the Dominican convent at Cordova in 1368. He became known for his preaching prowess in Spain and Italy, was confessor and adviser of Queen Catherine, John of Gaunt’s daughter, and tutor...