Saints & Heroes

March 27: As a reward for his humility and prompt obedience the Lord granted John extraordinary gifts such as the gift of prophecy, the power of reading thoughts, and miracles.

March 28: Saint Tutilo was a teacher, an orator, a poet, an architect, a painter, a sculptor, an accomplished illuminator, a musician, even a mathematician and astronomer.

March 29: Christianity flourished under the apostolate of Bishop Rupert and his companions who proceeded to confirm the faith of some, to evangelize many, and build churches. In the course of his work the saintly bishop worked countless miracles.

March 30: During his adolescent years, Leonard went through a profound spiritual crisis and an interior conversion during which period he discovered his vocation to the priesthood.

March 31: One day during a festival, realizing the vanity of this way of being, and taken with deep compunction, Saint Guy stripped himself of his fine garments and gave them all away to the poor.

St. John Bosco brought the young Charles back from the dead. Charles said he would have gone to hell because he withheld a sin during Confession.

January 6: Saint André Bessette was troubled by frail health all his life. He kindly listened to people's woes and even healed the sick.

January 8: Saint Thorfinn of Hamar was a bishop who spent the last years of his life in a Monastary. He was known as a person who had a quiet, kind, yet strong presence.

January 7: Saint Raymond was known as a great devotee of Our Lady, an ascetic, contemplative, lawyer, preacher, opposer of heresies and apostle to Muslims.