Saint of the Day Desk

Saint Ludger of Utrecht

Ludger was born at Zuilen near Utrecht , Netherlands in 742 and died in 809 at Billerbeck, Germany. He was a missionary among the Frisians and Saxons, founder of Werden Abbey and the first Bishop o...

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Saint Serapion the Scholastic

Saint Serapion was the Bishop and head of the famous Catechetical School of Alexandria, Egypt. He was originally a monk in the Egyptian desert and a companion of St. Anthony, who had bequeathed one...

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Saint Serafina: Saint of the Day, March 12

Serafina was born in 1238 in San Gimignano, Italy, to a poor family. She was a very helpful child at home; did many of the chores and helped her mother spin and sew. Some accounts about her life ha...

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