Saint of the Day

Saint Juliana of Nicomedia; Patron Saint of Sickness

Saint Juliana of Nicomedia is said to have suffered Christian martyrdom during the Diocletianic persecution in 304. She was popular in the Middle Ages, especially in the Netherlands, as the patron ...

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Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes

Today the Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, commemorating a series of 18 appearances that the Blessed Virgin Mary made to a 14-year-old French peasant girl,...

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Saint John De Brito

Feast of the presentation of the Lord

Forty days after Christmas, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, an event that the evangelist Luke recounts in Chapter 2 of his Gospel. Celebration of this feast started...

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