Saints & Heroes

June 30: In the Year 64 AD, the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church were burned alive as torches, crucified, and fed to wild animals by the evil Roman Emperor Nero.

The oldest pilgrimage site in North America, the Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre in Quebec City, Canada, has been welcoming people from all walks of life for over 350 years.

September 18: Saint Joseph of Cupertino was called "the Flying Friar" because of his frequent levitations. With comments from Professor Plinio Correa de Oliveira.

Our Lady of Good Help and the Miracle of Champion, Wisconsin.

When Saint Michael the Archangel cast Satan and his demons into Hell during the Great Battle in Heaven, the war did not end there.

August 23: Remarkable, even as a child, for her great reverence and love for all that related to God, Saint Rose developed an intense devotion to the Infant Jesus and His Holy Mother, and gave herself up to a life of prayer and mortification.

The body of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, the mystic who was visited by Our Lady of Lourdes, was exhumed three times and was found incorrupt.

On April 14, 1912, at 11:40 p.m. the Titanic, the ocean liner that supposedly “God Himself could not sink,” struck a towering iceberg in the Northern Atlantic.

August 11: The evil Emperor Diocletian, who persecuted Christians, fell in love with Philomena. Having made a vow of virginity, she refused him and was slain for love of Christ.