Saints & Heroes

April 13: Hermenegild was originally a prince who subscribed to the Arian heresy. He converted to Catholicism, and was persecuted and later martyred by his father the king.

April 13: Pope Saint Martin I rebuked the heretical Emperor of Constantinople. For this, he was slain and became a martyr.

April 14: It is said that during an eclipse, in the year 1177, Saint Bénézet heard a voice that said to him: "Bénézet, take your rod and go down to Avignon, the capital's waterfront: talk to people and tell them that we must build a bridge."

February 6: Saint Paul Miki was a Jesuit priest who continued St. Francis Xavier's work of evangelizing Japan. He and many others were brutally martyred for their Faith.

February 7: Saint Luke the Younger was so charitable in his young age that God blessed him, and his family’s crops flourished. He eventually became a hermit.

February 8: Jerome Emiliani was originally a proud military commander, not a man of God, but he changed his ways and became a pious man and a holy priest.

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.