Saint of the day

Saint of the day

June 6: Saint Norbert of Xanten, Bishop and Founder of the Canons Regular of the Norbertines

Announcer of the Gospel by word and example

Saint Norbert of Xanten had an instant conversion. When he was about 35 years old he was thrown from his horse and risked death. At that moment he heard the words of the psalm: “Turn from evil and do good” (Psalm 34:15). He interpreted this episode as a divine call and decided to radically change his life. He began leading a life of penance, walking barefoot, wearing rough wool clothes, and traveling from place to place preaching the Gospel.

June 5 Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr

The Apostle to the Germans

Known as the Apostle to the Germans, he is considered one of the most important Anglo-Saxon missionaries and the one who brought Christianity to the Germanic lands of old.

May 30: Saint Joan of Arc

Obedient to the voice of God

A “strong” woman who followed the impulse of the Spirit and obeyed the voice of the Lord asking her to free her people and to restore faith for those in desolation. A laywoman, consecrated to virginity yet not cloistered, Joan of Arc was involved in the most dramatic conflicts of the Church and society of the time. Condemned as a heretic through a purely political show trial, she was sentenced to a tragic death even before her trial began - burned at the stake in the old market square of Rouen.

May 28: Saint Emilio, martyr

Emilio - martyred like St. Stephen

There is no certain information about the life of Emilio. Tradition places him as having lived around the 1st century and having been Bishop of Cagliari on the island of Sardinia.

Saint Emilio, together with Saints Felix, Priamo and Feliciano, is celebrated today and is most likely one of the four Sardinian martyrs who are commemorated in the Martyrology of St. Jerome. In Sardinia he is venerated in various places, especially in the town Sestu.

May 27: Saint Augustine of Canterbury

Apostle to England

A Benedictine monk sent by Pope Gregory the Great to be a missionary among pagans. He became the great re-evangelizer of ancient Britannia, but also the first Archbishop and Primate of England. He is Saint Augustine of Canterbury, known throughout the world by the name of the abbey he founded and where he was buried.

May 26: Saint Philip Neri

“Brothers, be cheerful, laugh, joke as much as you want, but do not sin!”

He was known and loved by the populace of Rome for his cheerful and peaceful character, able to involve the entire city in his spiritual journey, beseeching charity towards the weakest and most neglected of society. He is Philip Neri, born in Florence on July 21, 1515, to Francesco and Lucrezia da Mosciano Neri. His father was a notary when he lost his wife in 1520. He remarried Alessandra di Michele Lensi, who took care of little Philip, who attended public school and was educated by the Dominicans of the convent of San Marco.