by RQue Royal Design | Feb 21, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Margaret of Cortona, penitent, was born in Loviana in Tuscany in 1247. Her father was a small farmer. Margaret’s mother died when she was seven years old. Her stepmother had little care for her high-spirited daughter. Rejected at home, Margaret eloped with a...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 21, 2024 | Daily Reading
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by RQue Royal Design | Feb 20, 2024 | 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, 2024 | 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 | Feb 19, 2024 | 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,...
