Saints & Heroes
April 18: Saint Galdinus lived in a tumultuous time for the Church. Emperor Frederick Barbarossa plotted to control the papacy, and the Cathar heresy ran rampant.
April 19: Saint Alphege was Bishop of Canterbury during a turbulent time when Danish raiders plundered southwestern England.
April 21: Saint Anselm's great merit lay in his earnest and conscious effort of living according to what he learned from the study of divine truths.
April 22: As a child, Saint Theodore was so given to prayer that he would often give up a meal to spend time in church. At the young age of 18, he was ordained a priest.
April 24: Saint Fidelis was a preacher and confessor who from the beginning of his apostolic life fought heresy, especially in the form of Calvinism and Zwinglianism.
April 30: To commemorate the great deliverance from the battle of Lepanto, on October 7, 1571, Pope Pius V instituted the title of “Our Lady Help of Christians” and the feast of the Holy Rosary.
April 1: Saint Hugh is said to have been academically brilliant, tall of stature and by nature very bashful; his courtesy and modesty easily won hearts.
April 2: Penance, charity, humility. This trinity formed the foundation of Francis of Paola’s rule. Francis of Paola became universally renowned as a wonderworker and prophet.
April 3: Richard was born about 1197, the second son of a land-owning squire in Wyche, England. Today known as Droitwich, his birthplace is commonly associated with him.
April 4: During the thirty-seven years of Isidore's episcopate, which spanned the reign of six kings, he completed the work begun by his brother of converting the Visigoths from Arianism to Catholicism.
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