Today, the Church remembers St. Cuthbert, Monk and Bishop. Ora pro. nobis. Cuthbert (c. A.D. 634 — A.D. 20 March 687) is a saint of the early Northumbrian British Church when it was on the verge of the merging of the British Church with the Roman Church that had recently…

Today, the Church remembers St. Joseph, the husband of Mary the mother of Jesus. Ora pro nobis. We know precious little about Joseph. We have his genealogy, and there are a few passages of Scripture that speak of him as a righteous man, who received visits from the angel Gabriel…

Today the Church remembers St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Theologian and Bishop. Ora pro nobis. Cyril of Jerusalem was a distinguished theologian of the early Church (c. 313 — 386 AD). About the end of 350 AD he succeeded Maximus as Bishop of Jerusalem, but was exiled on more than one…

Today, the Church remembers St. Patrick. Ora pro nobis. Saint Patrick was a fifth-century AD Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. He was born around AD 390 (likely in 387). His name is from the Latin Patricius, meaning “high-born”. …

Today, the Church remembers Pope St. Gregory the Great. Ora pro nobis. Pope Saint Gregory I (c. A.D.540 — 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was Pope of the Catholic Church from 3 September 590 to 12 March 604 AD. He is famous for instigating the…

Today the Church remembers The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste or the Holy Forty (Ancient/Katharevousa Greek Ἅγιοι Τεσσεράκοντα; Demotic: Άγιοι Σαράντα). Orate pro nobis. The 40 Martyrs of Armenia were a group of Roman soldiers in the Legio XII Fulminata (Armed with Lightning) whose martyrdom in 320 AD for the Christian…

Today, the Church remembers and gives thanks for one of the greatest Christian thinkers, teachers, and saints: Gregory of Nyssa. Ora pro nobis. Gregory of Nyssa (c. A.D. 335 — 395), was bishop of Nyssa from 372 to 376 and again from 378 until his death. Gregory, his elder brother…

Today the Church remembers Perpetua and her companions, martyred together in Carthage in the year 203 A.D. Vibia Perpetua was a married noblewoman, said to have been 22 years old at the time of her death, and mother of an infant she was nursing. Felicitas, a slave imprisoned with her…

Today, the Church remembers St. Chad of Northumbria (died 2 March 672, A.D.), who was a prominent 7th century British monk, missionary, priest, and later a bishop. Ora pro nobis. In his lifetime, he became abbot of several monasteries, Bishop of the Northumbrians, and subsequently Bishop of the Mercians and…