Saints & Heroes

Feast of Our Lady of Ransom (also known as Our Lady of Mercy) is September 24th and also commemorates the foundation of the Mercedarians.

On April 26, 2009, the Portuguese Count Nuno Alvares Pereira was canonized, nearly six centuries after his death.

Our Lady of Prompt Succor and the Battle of New Orleans (1815) The Mother of God Grants a Miraculous Victory!

The apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917, are referred to by many as the greatest Marian apparitions in history.

February 10: Our young saint lived while the socialist government of Mexico was waging a bloody war against the Catholic Church, and fervent Catholics rose up to defend Christ the King.

December 25: Saint Anastasia is a Christian virgin and martyr who suffered for Christ during the time of Diocletian's Christian persecutions.

December 12: Saint Vicelinus was born around 1086 at Hemeln, Lower Saxony, Germany, and was orphaned at an early age. He was a Missionary and a Bishop.

December 10: Saint Edmund is one of the forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He was born in Lichfield, England amidst the throes of the Protestant Revolution, into a non-Catholic home.

November 21: Maria Franciszka Siedliska, also known by her religious name Maria of Jesus the Good Shepherd, was a Polish Roman Catholic, professed religious and the founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.