Past Events

CIRCUMCISION was a sacrament of the Old Law, and the first legal observance required by Almighty God of the descendants of Abraham.

ST. FULGENTIUS, Bishop. In spite of family troubles and delicate health, Fulgentius was appointed at an early age procurator of his province

ST. GENEVIEVE, Virgin. Genevieve was born at Nanterre, near Paris. St. Germanus, when passing through, specially noticed a little shepherdess, and predicted

ST. TITUS, Bishop. Titus was a convert from heathenism, a disciple of St. Paul, one of the chosen companions of the apostles

The feast of the Holy Name of Jesus has been celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church, at least at local levels, since

THE word Epiphany means “manifestation,” and it has passed into general acceptance throughout the universal Church, from the fact that Jesus Christ

ST. LUCIAN, Martyr. St. Lucian was born at Samosata in Syria. Having lost his parents in his youth, he distributed all his

ST. APOLLINARIS, THE APOLOGIST, Bishop. Claudius Apollinaris, Bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia, was one of the most illustrious prelates of the second

SS. JULIAN and BASILISSA, Martyrs. St. Julian and St. Basilissa, though married, lived, by mutual consent, in perpetual chastity; they sanctified themselves

ST. WILLIAM, Archbishop. William Berruyer, of the illustrious family of the ancient Counts of Nevers, was educated by Peter the Hermit, Archdeacon