Feast Day: August 17 St. Liberatus and six monks named Boniface, Servus, Rusticus, Rogatus, Septimus, and Maximus lived in a monastery near Capsa, in the province of Byzacena, were summoned to Carthage. Huneric, the Arian Vandal king in Africa, in the seventh year of his reign, published fresh edicts against the Catholics, and ordered their monasteries to be everywhere … [Read more...]
St. Tiburtius
Feast Day: August 11 St. Tiburtius father, Arestius Chromatius, was vicar to the prefect of Rome, and had condemned several martyrs in the reign of Carinus; and in the first years of Diocletian, St. Tranquillinus, being brought before him, assured him that, having been afflicted with the gout, he had recovered a perfect state of health by being baptized. Chromatius was … [Read more...]
St. Louis, Bishop
Feast Day: August 19 St. Louis was a nephew to St. Louis, King of France, and nephew, by his mother, to St. Elizabeth of Hungary. He was born at Brignoles, in Provence, in. 1274. He was a Saint from the cradle, and from his childhood made it his earnest study to do nothing which was not directed to the divine service, and with a view only to eternity. Even his recreations he … [Read more...]
St. Seraphia
Feast Day: September 03 St. Seraphia was born at Antioch, of Christian parents, who, flying from the persecutions of Adrian, went to Italy and settled there. Her parents dying, Seraphia was sought in marriage by many, but having resolved to consecrate herself to God alone, she sold all her possessions and distributed the proceeds to the poor; finally she sold herself into a … [Read more...]
St. Rosalia
Feast Day: September 04 St. Rosalia was daughter of a noble family descended from Charlemagne. She was born at Palermo in Sicily, and despising in her youth worldly vanities, made herself an abode in a cave on Mount Pelegrino, three miles from Palermo, where she completed the sacrifice of her heart to God by austere penance and manual labor, sanctified by assiduous prayer … [Read more...]