by RQue Royal Design | Dec 16, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Olympias born into a wealthy noble Constantinople family. She was orphaned when a child and was given over to the care of Theodosia by her uncle, the prefect Procopius. She married Nebridius, also a prefect, was widowed soon after, refused several offers of marriage,...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 16, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Genesis 49:2, 8-10 2 Gather round, sons of Jacob, and listen; listen to Israel your father.8 Judah, your brothers will praise you: you grip your enemies by the neck, your father’s sons will do you homage.9 Judah is a lion’s whelp; You stand over...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 15, 2025 | Saint of the Day
An archbishop and scholar, Ado was born in Sens and educated at the Benedictine abbey of Ferrieres. Abbot Lupus Servatus, an outstanding humanist of the time, trained Ado, and was impressed with the obvious holiness of the young man. A noble by birth, Ado renounced...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 15, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Zephaniah 3:1-2, 9-13 1 Disaster to the rebellious, the befouled, the tyrannical city!2 She has not listened to the call, she has not bowed to correction, she has not trusted in Yahweh, she has not drawn near to her God.9 Yes, then I shall purge the lips of...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 14, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Saint Mary (Paula) Di Rosa December 15 The pounding on the barricaded door of the military hospital sent every heart thudding in terror. In the middle of the war in Brescia (Italy) in 1848, the wounded, sick, and those who cared for them knew what that pounding meant....
