Today’s Saint

June 28, 2023

Saint of the Day for June 28: St. Irenaeus

Franciscan Media - The Church is fortunate that Irenaeus was involved in many of its controversies in the second century. He was a student, well trained no doubt, with great patience in investigating, tremendously protective of apostolic teaching, but prompted more by a desire to win over his opponents than to prove them in error.
June 20, 2023

Saint of the Day for June 20: St. Paulinus of Nola (354 – June 22, 431)

By Franciscan Media - Anyone who is praised in the letters of six or seven saints undoubtedly must be of extraordinary character. Such a person was Paulinus of Nola, correspondent and friend of Saints Augustine, Jerome, Melania, Martin, Gregory the Great, and Ambrose... Born near Bordeaux, he was the son of the Roman prefect of Gaul, who had extensive property in both Gaul and Italy. ...
June 19, 2023

Saint of the Day for June 19: St. Romuald (c. 950 – June 19, 1027)

By Franciscan Media - In the midst of a wasted youth, Romuald watched his father kill a relative in a duel over property. In horror he fled to a monastery near Ravenna. After three years, some of the monks found him to be uncomfortably holy and eased him out... Romuald spent the next 30 years going about Italy, founding monasteries and hermitages. ...
June 17, 2023

Saint of the Day for June 17: St. Joseph Cafasso (Jan. 15, 1811 – June 23, 1860)

By Franciscan Media - Even as a young man, Joseph loved to attend Mass and was known for his humility and fervor in prayer. After his ordination, he was assigned to a seminary in Turin. There he worked especially against the spirit of Jansenism—an excessive preoccupation with sin and damnation. ...

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