Articles

February 12: Saint Meletius of Antioch was a kind and gentle man, and a great lover of peace. He stood against the Arian heresy, for which he suffered exile.

February 13: When she was just twenty years old, Catherine began to experience ecstasies of the Passion. Every Thursday and Friday, she beheld and the scenes preceding Our Lord’s Crucifixion.

February 14: Saints Cyril and Methodius were brothers, both missionaries who evangelized the Slavic peoples of Moravia and made possible the Slavic translation of the Bible.

February 5: Agatha dedicated her life to Our Lord at a young age and refused any man who wanted to marry her. For this, she was tortured and martyred.

February 15: Saint Sigfrid was a priest from England who endured many tribulations to plant the seeds of the Gospel in Sweden.

February 16: Saint Gilbert's generosity was legendary. He had such love for the less fortunate, that most of the alms received from his parishioners were donated to the poor.

February 23: In the year 155, Saint Polycarp the Bishop was burnt at the stake – though there was no odor of burning flesh: instead a smell of incense was in the air.

March 5: Young Carlo gave early signs of seeking sanctity, which his family recognized and respected. Despite his young age, he was received into a Franciscan Monastery.

March 6: Left an orphan at seventeen, Colette distributed what little she had to the poor, and moved into a small hermitage and joined the Third Order of Saint Francis.