Today’s Saint

November 16, 2023

Saint of the Day for November 16: St. Margaret of Scotland

By Franciscan Media - Margaret of Scotland was a truly liberated woman in the sense that she was free to be herself. For her, that meant freedom to love God and serve others... Not Scottish by birth, Margaret was the daughter of Princess Agatha of Hungary and the Anglo-Saxon Prince Edward Atheling. She spent much of her youth in the court of her great-uncle, the English king, Edward the Confessor.
November 15, 2023

Saint of the Day for November 15: St. Albert the Great (1206 – Nov. 15, 1280)

By Franciscan Media - Saint Albert the Great’s Story - Albert the Great was a 13th-century German Dominican who decisively influenced the Church’s stance toward Aristotelian philosophy brought to Europe by the spread of Islam.
November 14, 2023

Saint of the Day for November 14: St. Gertrude the Great

Franciscan Media - Gertrude, a Benedictine nun in Helfta, Saxony, was one of the great mystics of the 13th century. Together with her friend and teacher Saint Mechtild, she practiced a spirituality called “nuptial mysticism,” that is, she came to see herself as the bride of Christ. Her spiritual life was a deeply personal union with Jesus and his Sacred Heart, leading her into the very life of the Trinity.
November 13, 2023

Saint of the Day for November 13: St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

Franciscan Media - Frances Xavier Cabrini was the first United States citizen to be canonized. Her deep trust in the loving care of her God gave her the strength to be a valiant woman doing the work of Christ... Refused admission to the religious order which had educated her to be a teacher, she began charitable work at the House of Providence Orphanage in Cadogno, Italy. In September 1877, she made her vows there and took the religious habit.

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