Today’s Saint

November 12, 2022

Saint of the Day for November 12: St. Josaphat

Franciscan Media - In 1964, newspaper photos of Pope Paul VI embracing Athenagoras I, the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople, marked a significant step toward the healing of a division in Christendom that has spanned more than nine centuries... In 1595, the Orthodox bishop of Brest-Litovsk in present-day Belarus and five other bishops representing millions of Ruthenians, sought reunion with Rome.
November 11, 2022

Saint of the Day for November 11: St. Martin of Tours

By Franciscan Media - A conscientious objector who wanted to be a monk; a monk who was maneuvered into being a bishop; a bishop who fought paganism as well as pleaded for mercy to heretics—such was Martin of Tours, one of the most popular of saints and one of the first not to be a martyr.
November 5, 2022

Saint of the Day for November 5: St. Peter Chrysologus

By Franciscan Media - A man who vigorously pursues a goal may produce results far beyond his expectations and his intentions. Thus it was with Peter ” of the Golden Words,” as he was called, who as a young man became bishop of Ravenna, the capital of the empire in the West... At the time there were abuses and vestiges of paganism evident in his diocese, and these Peter was determined to battle and overcome. His principal weapon was the short sermon, and many of them have come down to us.
November 4, 2022

Saint of the Day for November 4: St. Charles Borromeo

Franciscan Media - The name of Charles Borromeo is associated with reform. He lived during the time of the Protestant Reformation, and had a hand in the reform of the whole Church during the final years of the Council of Trent... Although he belonged to the Milanese nobility and was related to the powerful Medici family, Charles desired to devote himself to the Church...

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