Search results
Hace 4 días · The festival of St. Pancras is kept, in the Roman Catholic Church, on the 12th of May, under which day his biography will be found in the "Lives of the Saints," by Alban Butler, who tells us that he suffered martyrdom at the early age of fourteen, at Rome, in the year 304.
Hace 3 días · Feb. 29 is also the feast day of St. Hilary. “Lives of the Saints” by Father Alban Butler notes that he was elected pontiff while still a deacon. Historians differ whether he died on Feb. 28 or 29, perhaps because he died in the leap year of 468.
Hace 3 días · St. Giles, the patron saint of this and of so many other outlying parishes in English towns and cities, is said, by Alban Butler in his "Lives of the Saints," to have been of noble birth at Athens. He flourished in the seventh and eighth centuries, and combined with his piety a marked love of solitude.
Hace 2 días · From Fr Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints: AQUITAIN gave this saint his birth and education; but out of a desire of serving God entirely unknown to the world, in 519 he travelled into Germany, and settling in the territory of Triers, he shut himself in his cell, and arrived at such an eminent degree of sanctity as to be esteemed the oracle and miracle of the whole country.
Hace 4 días · In Alban Butler's "Lives of the Saints" will be found several interesting particulars of the life of this heroic and saintly prince. We meet with him under a variety of names, as Anlaf, Unlaf, Olaf Haraldson, Olaus, and Olaf Helge, or Olaf the Holy.
Hace 1 día · Saint Elizabeth of PortugalJuly 8thBorn: January 4th, 1271Died: July 4th, 1336Canonized:1625 by Pope Urban VIIAmerica Needs Fatima.Saint Elizabeth of Portuga...
Hace 2 días · He took over from Rishi Sunak, who vacated No 10 after the Conservatives suffered a crushing defeat after 14 years in power. While timings might change, here is a look at the new Prime Minister’s next few days in power. – Weekend of July 6-7. The new Cabinet, which was appointed on Friday, will meet for the first time on Saturday morning.
