Today’s Saint

By Franciscan Media - The Church has encouraged prayer for the dead from the earliest times as an act of Christian charity. “If we had no care for the dead,” Augustine noted, “we would not be in the habit of praying for them.” Yet pre-Christian rites for the deceased retained such a strong hold on the superstitious imagination that a liturgical commemoration was not observed until the early Middle Ages, when monastic communities began to mark an annual day of prayer for the departed members.

By Franciscan Media Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg’s Story – Wolfgang was born in Swabia, Germany, and was educated at a school located at the abbey of Reichenau. […]

By Franciscan Media Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez’s Story – Tragedy and challenge beset today’s saint early in life, but Alphonsus Rodriguez found happiness and contentment through simple service […]

By Franciscan Media Saint Narcissus of Jerusalem’s Story – Life in second- and third-century Jerusalem couldn’t have been easy, but Saint Narcissus managed to live well beyond […]