Feast Day: September 07 St. Cloud is the first and most illustrious Saint among the princes of the royal family of the first race in France. He was son of Chlodomir, King of Orleans, the eldest son of St. Clotilda, and was born in 522. He was scarce three years old when his father was killed in Burgundy; but his grandmother Clotilda brought up him and his two brothers at … [Read more...]
St. Eleutherius
Feast Day: September 06 St. Eleutherius had wonderful simplicity and spirit of compunction as distinguishing virtues. He was chosen abbot of St. Mark's near Spoleto, and favored by God with the gift of miracles. A child who was possessed by the devil, being delivered by being educated in his monastery, the abbot said one day: "Since the child is among the servants of God, … [Read more...]
St. Lawrence Justinian
Feast Day: September 05 St. Lawrence Justinian from a child longed to be a Saint; and when he was nineteen years of age there was granted to him a vision of the Eternal Wisdom. All earthly things paled in his eyes before the ineffable beauty of this sight, and as it faded away a void was left in his heart which none but God could fill. Refusing the offer of a brilliant … [Read more...]
St. Jane Frances De Chantal
Feast Day: August 21 St. Jane Frances De Chantal at the age of sixteen was a motherless child, placed under the care of a worldly-minded governess. In this crisis she offered herself to the Mother of God, and secured Mary's protection for life. When a Protestant sought her hand, she steadily refused to marry "an enemy of God and His Church," and shortly afterwards, as the … [Read more...]
St. Symphorian
Feast Day: August 22 St. Symphorian was therefore dragged before the magistrate and accused of sacrilege and sedition about the year 180. There was a great procession of the heathen goddess Ceres, at Autun, in France. Symphorian refused to pay the ordinary marks of worship. When asked his name and condition, he replied, "My name is Symphorian; I am a Christian!' He came of a … [Read more...]