Feast Day: September 25 St. Firmin was a native of Pampelone in Navarre, initiated in the Christian faith by Honestus, a disciple of St. Saturninus of Toulouse, and consecrated bishop by St. Honoratus, successor to St. Saturninus, in order to preach the Gospel in the remoter parts of Gaul. He preached the Faith in the countries of Agen, Anjou, and Beauvais, and being arrived … [Read more...]
St. Thomas Of Villanova
Feast Day: September 18 St. Thomas Of Villanova was born in 1488 tothe glory of the Spanish Church in the sixteenth century. A thirst for the science of the Saints led him to enter the house of the Austin Friars at Salamanca. Charles V. listened to him an oracle, and appointed him Archbishop of Valencia. On being led to his throne in church, he pushed the silken cushions … [Read more...]
St. Paphnutius
Feast Day: September 11 St. Paphnutius was an Egyptian and holy confessor. After having spent several years in the desert, under the direction of the great St. Antony, he was made bishop in Upper Thebais. He was one of those confessors who, under the tyrant Maximin Daia, lost their right eye, and were afterward sent to work in the mines. Peace being restored to the Church, … [Read more...]
St. Finbarr
Feast Day: September 25 St. Finbarr - Lived in the sixth century, was a native of Connaught, and instituted a monastery or school at Lough Eire, to which such numbers of disciples flocked, as changed, as it were, a desert into a large city. This was the origin of the city of Cork, which was built chiefly upon stakes, in marshy little islands formed by the river Lea. The … [Read more...]
St. Nicholas of Tolentino
Feast Day: September 10 St. Nicholas of Tolentino was born in answer to the prayer of a holy mother, and vowed before his birth to the service of God, Nicholas never lost his baptismal innocence. His austerities were conspicuous even in the austere Order—the Hermits of St. Augustine—to which he belonged, and to the remonstrances which were made by his superiors he only … [Read more...]