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 […]
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 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 […]
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, […]
Saint Angela Merici
Saint Angela Merici Saint of the Day for January 27 (March 21, 1474 – January 27, 1540) Click to hear audio clip ► Saint Angela Merici’s story Angela has the double distinction of founding the first teaching congregation of women in the Church and what is now called a “secular institute” of religious women. As a young woman, […]
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas Aquinas Saint of the Day for January 28 ( 1225 – March 7, 1274) Click to hear audio clip ► Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Story By universal consent, Thomas Aquinas is the preeminent spokesman of the Catholic tradition of reason and of divine revelation. He is one of the great teachers of the medieval Catholic Church, honored with […]
Servant of God Brother Juniper
Servant of God Brother Juniper Saint of the Day for January 29 (d. 1258) Click to hear audio clip ► Servant of God Brother Juniper’s Story “Would to God, my brothers, I had a whole forest of such Junipers,” said Francis of this holy friar. We don’t know much about Juniper before he joined the […]
Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska
Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska Saint of the Day for January 30 (May 16, 1825 – October 10, 1899) Click to hear audio clip ► Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska’s Story Today we honor a woman who submitted to God’s will throughout her life—a life filled with pain and suffering. Born in 1825 in central Poland and […]
