Today’s Saint

By Fr. Don Miller, OFM, Franciscan Media The Story of the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed The Church has encouraged prayer for the dead from the earliest […]

By Fr. Don Miller, OFM, Franciscan Media - The Story of the Solemnity of All Saints - The earliest certain observance of a feast in honor of all the saints is an early fourth-century commemoration of “all the martyrs.” In the early seventh century, after successive waves of invaders plundered the catacombs, Pope Boniface IV gathered up some 28 wagon-loads of bones and reinterred them beneath the Pantheon