Past Events

OF this Saint but little is known on earth, save that she was the sister of the great patriarch St. Benedict, and

The first of these is the apparition of 11 February 1858, when Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old peasant girl, admitted to her mother

The Servite Order was founded in 1233 AD, when a group of cloth merchants of Florence, Italy, left their city, families and

ST. CATHERINE OF RICCI. ALEXANDRINA of Ricci was the daughter of a noble Florentine. At the age of thirteen she entered the

VALENTINE was a holy priest in Rome, who, with St. Marius and his family, assisted the martyrs in the persecution under Claudius

FAUSTINUS AND JOVITA were brothers, nobly born, and zealous professors of the Christian religion, which they preached without fear in their city

BLESSED JOHN DE BRITTO, Martyr. DON PEDRO II. of Portugal, when a child, had among his little pages a modest boy of

ST. FLAVIAN, Bishop, Martyr. FLAVIAN was elected Patriarch of Constantinople in 447. His short episcopate of two years was a time of

ST. SIMEON, Bishop, Martyr. ST. SIMEON was the son of Cleophas, otherwise called Alpheus, brother to St. Joseph, and of Mary, sister

ST. BARBATUS was born in the territory of Benevento in Italy, toward the end of the pontificate of St. Gregory the Great,