Saint Anthony of Egypt
Saint Anthony of Egypt (Saint Anthony the Abbot) Saint of the Day for January 17 (251 – 356) Click to hear audio clip ► Saint Anthony of Egypt’s Story The life of Anthony will remind many people of St. Francis of Assisi. At 20, Anthony was so moved by the Gospel message, “Go, sell what […]
Saint Charles of Sezze
Saint Charles of Sezze Saint of the Day for January 18 (October 19, 1613 – January 6, 1670) Click to hear audio clip ► Saint Charles of Sezze’s Story Charles thought that God was calling him to be a missionary in India, but he never got there. God had something better for this 17th-century successor to […]
Saint Fabian
Saint Fabian Saint of the Day for January 19 (c. 200 – January 20, 250) Click to hear audio clip ► Saint Fabian’s Story Fabian was a Roman layman who came into the city from his farm one day as clergy and people were preparing to elect a new pope. Eusebius, a Church historian, says a dove […]
Saint Sebastian
Saint Sebastian Saint of the Day for January 20 (c. 256 – January 20, 287) Click to hear audio clip ► Saint Sebastian’s Story Almost nothing is historically certain about Sebastian except that he was a Roman martyr, was venerated in Milan even in the time of Saint Ambrose and was buried on the Appian Way, probably […]
Saint Agnes
Saint Agnes Saint of the Day for January 21 (d. c. 258) Click to hear audio clip ► Saint Agnes’ Story Almost nothing is known of this saint except that she was very young—12 or 13—when she was martyred in the last half of the third century. Various modes of death have been suggested—beheading, burning, strangling. […]
Saint Vincent of Zaragossa
Saint Vincent of Zaragossa Saint of the Day for January 22 (d. c. 304) Click to hear audio clip ► Saint Vincent of Zaragossa’s Story Most of what we know about this saint comes from the poet Prudentius. His Acts have been rather freely colored by the imagination of their compiler. But Saint Augustine, in one of his sermons on […]
Saint Marianne Cope
Saint Marianne Cope Saint of the Day for January 23 (January 23, 1838 – August 9, 1918) Click to hear audio clip ► Saint Marianne Cope’s Story Though leprosy scared off most people in 19th-century Hawaii, that disease sparked great generosity in the woman who came to be known as Mother Marianne of Molokai. Her […]
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint Francis de Sales Saint of the Day for January 24 (August 21, 1567 – December 28, 1622) Click to hear audio clip ► Saint Francis de Sales’ Story Francis was destined by his father to be a lawyer so that the young man could eventually take his elder’s place as a senator from the province of Savoy […]
Conversion of Saint Paul
Saint of the Day for January 25 Conversion of Saint Paul 1600 Click to hear audio clip ► The Story of the Conversion of Saint Paul Paul’s entire life can be explained in terms of one experience—his meeting with Jesus on the road to Damascus. In an instant, he saw that all the zeal of his […]
Saints Timothy and Titus
Saints Timothy and Titus Saint of the Day for January 26 (d. c. 95) Click to hear audio clip ► Saints Timothy and Titus’ Story What we know from the New Testament of Timothy’s life makes it sound like that of a modern harried bishop. He had the honor of being a fellow apostle with Paul, […]
