SAINTS FOR AUGUST

  • Saint Alphonsus

    Moral theology, Vatican II said, should be more thoroughly nouris

    Aug1
  • Saint Eusebeius

    Someone has said that if there had been no Arian heresy denying C

    Aug2
  • Saint Peter Julian

    Born in La Mure d’Isère in southeastern France, Peter J

    Aug3
  • St John Vianney

    A man with vision overcomes obstacles and performs deeds that see

    Aug4
  • Saint Theobald of Vienne

    First raised at the order of Pope Liberius in the mid-fourth cent

    Aug5
  • Feast of the Transfiguration

    All three Synoptic Gospels tell the story of the Transfiguration

    Aug6
  • Saint Cajetan

    Like most of us, Cajetan seemed headed for an “ordinaryâ

    Aug7
  • Saint Dominic

    If he hadn’t taken a trip with his bishop, Dominic would p

    Aug8
  • Saint Edith Stein

    A brilliant philosopher who stopped believing in God when she was

    Aug9
  • Saint Lawrence

    The esteem in which the Church holds Lawrence is seen in the fact

    Aug10
  • Francis of Assisi

    One of the more sugary movies made about Francis of Assisi pictur

    Aug11
  • Saint Jane de Chantal

    Jane Frances was wife, mother, nun, and founder of a religious co

    Aug12
  • Saint Hippolytus

    Two men died for the faith after harsh treatment and exhaustion i

    Aug13
  • Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe

    “I don’t know what’s going to become of you!

    Aug14
  • Pope Pius XII

    On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary

    Aug15
  • Saint Stephen

    The Church is universal, but its expression is always affectedâ

    Aug16
  • Saint Joan

    An encounter with a shabby old woman many dismissed as insane pro

    Aug17
  • Saint Louis

    When he died at the age of 23, Louis was already a Franciscan, a

    Aug18
  • Saint John

    How little we know where God’s grace will lead. Born on a

    Aug19
  • Saint Bernard

    Man of the century! Woman of the century! You see such terms appl

    Aug20
  • Pope Pius X

    Pope Pius X is perhaps best remembered for his encouragement of t

    Aug21
  • Pope Pius XII

    Pope Pius XII established this feast in 1954. But Mary’s q

    Aug22
  • Saint Rose de Lima

    The first canonized saint of the New World has one characteristic

    Aug23
  • Saint Bartholomew

    In the New Testament, Bartholomew is mentioned only in the lists

    Aug24
  • Louis IX

    At his coronation as king of France, Louis IX bound himself by oa

    Aug25
  • Saint Joseph

    From Aragon, where he was born in 1556, to Rome, where he died 92

    Aug26
  • Saint Monica

    The circumstances of Saint Monica’s life could have made h

    Aug27
  • Saint Augustine

    A Christian at 33, a priest at 36, a bishop at 41: Many people ar

    Aug28
  • John the Baptist

    The drunken oath of a king with a shallow sense of honor, a seduc

    Aug29
  • Saint Jeane

    Born in northern France during the French Revolution—a tim

    Aug30
  • Saint Joseph of Arimathea

    The actions of these two influential Jewish leaders give insight

    Aug31