Category Archives: Saints

St. Raphael’s life is revealed in the Book of Tobias. He is “One of the Seven who stand before the Lord” (12:15), and is one of the three Archangels mentioned in Holy Scripture and honored by the Church.

When the pagan Saxons fled from the south of England into Gaul, some settled in Armorica; others in the Netherlands. near the mouth of the Rhine.

St. Juliana was a native of Cumae in Campania, and suffered martyrdom for her Christian Faith during the persecution of Christians by Diocletian.

St. Luke was born at Antioch, Syria. He was a physician and a Gentile, skilled in the Greek tongue. After his conversion to Christianity, he became a follower of St. Paul, who calls him his “fellow laborer”, and “Luke, the be loved physician”.

Saint Bruno, who founded the Carthusian Order, was born at Cologne, Germany, about 1030. From early youth he gave great promise of future sanctity.

St. Placidus was born at Rome in 515. Tertullus, his father, a man of high rank, placed him, at the age of seven, under the tutelage of St. Benedict at Subiaco.

Saint Remigius, the great apostle of France, was one of the shining lights of the Church of Gaul. Illustrious for his learning, eloquence, sanctity and miracles, at the age of twenty-two he became Bishop of Rheims.

Saint Jerome, son of Eusebius, was born at Stridonium in Dalmatia in 329, during the reign of Emperor Constanstime.

St. Gabriel is one of the three Angels honored by the Church with a special feast day. He is mentioned twice in the Book of Daniel (8:16; 9:21), and is called the “Strength of God”.