Saint of the Day

Saint Raymond of Penyafort; patron saint of canon lawyers

Raymond of Penyafort was a Catalan Dominican friar in the 13th century, who compiled the Decretals of Gregory IX, a collection of canonical laws that remained a major part of Church law until the 1...

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Saint Basil The great and Saint Gregory Nazianzen; Bishops and Doctors of the Church

Saint Basil the great. Basil was born into the wealthy Cappadocian Greek family of Basil the Elder, and Emmelia of Caesarea, in Cappadocia, around 330. He was one of ten children...

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Saint Sylvester I, Pope
Feast of the Holy Family

Saint Paola Elisabetta Cerioli, the Apostle of Charity

Costanza Cerioli was born on 28 January 1816 in Soncino, Italy, the last of 16 children born into the noble family of Francesco Cerioli and Francesca Corniani. She was a frail child plagued by a he...

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