by RQue Royal Design | Apr 19, 2024 | Saint of the Day
When St. Mamertinus was Abbot of the monastery which St. Germanus had founded at Auxerre, there came to him a young man called Marcian (also known as Marian), a fugitive from Bourges then occupied by the Visigoths. St. Mamertinus gave him the habit, and the novice...
by RQue Royal Design | Apr 19, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Acts 9:31-42 31 The churches throughout Judaea, Galilee and Samaria were now left in peace, building themselves up and living in the fear of the Lord; encouraged by the Holy Spirit, they continued to grow.32 It happened that Peter visited one place after...
by RQue Royal Design | Apr 18, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Archbishop and “the First Martyr of Canterbury.” He was born in 953 and became a monk in the Deerhurst Monastery in Gloucester, England, asking after a few years to become a hermit. He received permission for this vocation and retired to a small hut near...
by RQue Royal Design | Apr 18, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Acts 9:1-20 1 Meanwhile Saul was still breathing threats to slaughter the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest2 and asked for letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, that would authorise him to arrest and take to Jerusalem any...
by RQue Royal Design | Apr 17, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Martyr whose Apologia, or defense of the faith, is considered one of the most priceless documents of the early Church. Apollonius was a Roman senator who was denounced as a Christian by one of his slaves. The Praetorian Prefect, Sextus Tigidius Perennis, arrested him,...
