Saints & Heroes

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.

February 29: Saint Auguste Chapdelaine, priest, missionary, and martyr, converted hundreds of souls before his martyrdom in China.

April 28: Saint Louis de Montfort, Doctor of the Church, is the pre-eminent teacher of Devotion to Our Lady.

The Prince of the Heavenly Armies manifested himself in 1631 in this remote part of Mexico to show forth his great power. An epidemic came to an end and a source of miraculous water now flows continuously.

February 15: Saint Claude La Colombière, a Jesuit Priest, dedicated his life to spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ.