Saints & Heroes

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.

January 5: In 1852 John Neumann was consecrated the 4th Bishop of Philadelphia. He learned eight languages which endeared him to the many immigrants arriving in the city.

August 28: Saint Augustine lived a life of great impurity, but he repented, and through God's grace, became one the holiest men and greatest minds in Church history.

September 28: Saint Wenceslaus was King of Bohemia who promoted Christianity in his lands, for which his pagan mother opposed him and his twin brother killed him.

August 12: Saint Jane Frances de Chantal was the co-founder of the Order of "The Visitation" with Saint Francis de Sales. The order was for those women desirous of seeking perfection but unable to subject themselves to the austere practices.