Feast Day ~ July 16

The Church’s calendar of saints provides us with wonderful examples of those who lived according to the teachings given to us in the Holy Scriptures. St. Julia of Carthage is one who was able to courageously face a life of slav...

(Feast Day ~ June 29)

On June 29, we celebrate two of our most revered saints, two men whose names have been intertwined in the Church’s memory from earliest times. Were there ever two more different people than St. Peter and St. Paul? Their backg...

(Feast Day ~ June 28)

St. Irenaeus, born in Asia Minor around the year 130, was a spiritual “grandchild” of St. John the Evangelist, through his pupil St. Polycarp of Smyrna, who taught Irenaeus in his youth. This close connection with apostolic t...