Today’s Saint

Franciscan Media - The Bible pays Joseph the highest compliment: he was a “just” man. The quality meant a lot more than faithfulness in paying debts... When the Bible speaks of God “justifying” someone, it means that God, the all-holy or “righteous” one, so transforms a person that the individual shares somehow in God’s own holiness, and hence it is really “right” for God to love him or her.

Franciscan Media - Angela served Christ and Christ’s little ones with all her strength... Born in Siepraw, near Kraków, Poland, she was the 11th child of Bartlomiej and Ewa Salawa. In 1897, she moved to Kraków where her older sister Therese lived. Angela immediately began to gather together and instruct young women domestic workers.

By Franciscan Media - John Ogilvie’s noble Scottish family was partly Catholic and partly Presbyterian. His father raised him as a Calvinist, sending him to the continent to be educated. There, John became interested in the popular debates going on between Catholic and Calvinist scholars.

 Franciscan Media, Mar 2, 2021 Saint Agnes of Bohemia’s Story – (1205 – March 6, 1282) Agnes had no children of her own but was certainly life-giving […]