by RQue Royal Design | Sep 15, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Cornelius whose feast day is September 16th. A Roman priest, Cornelius was elected Pope to succeed Fabian in an election delayed fourteen months by Decius’ persecution of the Christians. The main issue of his pontificate was the treatment to be accorded...
by RQue Royal Design | Sep 15, 2023 | Daily Reading
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by RQue Royal Design | Sep 14, 2023 | Saint of the Day
The massacre of the martyrs of Lyons with their bishop, St. Pothinus, took place during the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius in the year 177. Marcellus, a priest, we are told, by Divine intervention, managed to escape to Chalon-sur-Saone, where he was given shelter....
by RQue Royal Design | Sep 14, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Hebrews 5:7-9 7 During his life on earth, he offered up prayer and entreaty, with loud cries and with tears, to the one who had the power to save him from death, and, winning a hearing by his reverence,8 he learnt obedience, Son though he was, through his...
by RQue Royal Design | Sep 13, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Patroness of poor peasants and servants in the Tyrol. Born in Rattenberg, in the Tyrol, she was the daughter of peasants. At eighteen she became a servant in the household of Count Henry of Rattenberg When Notburga repeatedly gave food to the poor, she was dismissed...
