(Feast Day ~ November 13)

In reading Holy Scripture and the lives of the saints, we are reminded of how often God takes sinful, fallen men whose lives have been anything but exemplary and, through his merciful kindness, brings them to repentance a...

(Feast Day ~ November 11)

About the same year that St. Helena discovered the True Cross (c. 316), a son was born to a Roman army officer and his wife in Pannonia (modern Hungary). The parents were pagans, but the child, Martin, was attracted to th...

(Feast Day ~ November 9)

The lives of the saints are not tales of happy days, good deeds, reverence by all, and peaceful death. More often, the lives of the saints have been filled with conflict and difficulties of all sorts in which the saint has...