by RQue Royal Design | Nov 22, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Born on January 13, 1891 in Guadalupe, Mexico, Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez was the eldest son of Miguel Pro and Josefa Juarez. Miguelito, as his doting family called him, was, from an early age, intensely spiritual and equally intense in hi mischievousness, frequently...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 22, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Maccabees 2:15-29 15 The king’s commissioners who were enforcing the apostasy came to the town of Modein for the sacrifices.16 Many Israelites gathered round them, but Mattathias and his sons drew apart.17 The king’s commissioners then...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 21, 2023 | Saint of the Day
In the fourth century a Greek religious romance on the Loves of Cecilia and Valerian was written in glorification of virginal life with the purpose of taking the place of then-popular sensual romances. Consequently, until better evidence is produced, we must conclude...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 21, 2023 | Daily Reading
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by RQue Royal Design | Nov 20, 2023 | Saint of the Day
St. Gelasius I, Pope (Feast day – November 21) Gelasius was born in Rome, in the fifth century, the son of an African named Valerius. Later, ordained a priest, he was elected Pope on March 1st, 492. Gelasius had a reputation for learning, justice, holiness, and...
