Monthly Archives: February 2011

AUDIO Blessed John of Fiesole is the patron of Christian artists was born around 1400 in a village overlooking Florence. He took up painting as a young boy and studied under the watchful eye of a local painting master. He joined … Continue reading →

Can you imagine seven prominent men of Boston or Denver banding together, leaving their homes and professions, and going into solitude for a life directly given to God? That is what happened in the cultured and prosperous city of Florence … Continue reading →

Gilbert was born in Sempringham, England, into a wealthy family, but he followed a path quite different from that expected of him as the son of a Norman knight. Sent to France for his higher education, he decided to pursue … Continue reading →

February 15 On the day of 15 February The commemoration of blessed Onesimus, a runaway slave whom Saint Paul the Apostle, as he wrote from prison to Onesimus’ s master, Philemon, rescued from slavery and begot as a son in … Continue reading →

February 14 On the day of 14 February The commemoration of Saint Cyril, monk, and Saint Methodius, bishop. These brothers from Thessalonica, having been sent by bishop Photius of Constantinople to Moravia, preached the Christian faith there and fashioned their … Continue reading →

On the day of 11 February Of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lourdes, whom, in the fourth year after the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin was proclaimed, a humble girl, Saint Marie Bernard Soubirous, gazed upon often in the … Continue reading →

February 10 On the day of 10 February The memorial of the entombment of Saint Scholastica, virgin, the sister of Saint Benedict, who, consecrated to God from infancy, had one mind in God with her brother, so that once a … Continue reading →

February 9 On the day of 9 February At Alexandria in Egypt, the suffering of several sainted martyrs, who, when they were celebrating the synaxis in church, were slain in diverse ways by Arians.

February 8 On the day of 8 February Of Saint Josephine Bakhita, virgin, who, born in the Darfur region of the Sudan, was seized as a young girl, sold many times by African slave merchants, suffered cruel servitude from which … Continue reading →

February 7 On the day of 7 February Of Naples in Campania, of Saint Giles Mary of Saint Joseph (Francisco) Pontillo, religious of the Order of Friars Minor, who went daily through the streets of the city begging alms from … Continue reading →