by RQue Royal Design | Jan 17, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Bishop of Tours, France. A senator at Tours, he was initially married, supposedly to a most unpleasant wife. Named bishop of the city in 488, he was forced to leave the see in 496 by the Arian Visigoths, and went to Spain. He died perhaps in Toulouse, or in Spain,...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 17, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7 1 Saul let his son Jonathan and all his servants know of his intention to kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, held David in great affection;2 and Jonathan warned David, ‘My father Saul is looking for a way to kill...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 16, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Two Greek philosophers ventured out into the Egyptian desert to the mountain where Anthony lived. When they got there, Anthony asked them why they had come to talk to such a foolish man? He had reason to say that — they saw before them a man who wore a skin, who...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 16, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Samuel 17:32-33, 37, 40-51 32 David said to Saul, ‘Let no one be discouraged on his account; your servant will go and fight this Philistine.’33 Saul said to David, ‘You cannot go and fight the Philistine; you are only a boy and he...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 15, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Irish monastic founder, the brother of Sts. Foillan and Ulan, praised by St. Bede. Fursey was born on the island of Inisguia en Lough Carri, Ireland, as a noble. He founded Rathmat Abbey, now probably Killursa. In 630 Fursey and his friends went to East Anglia,...
