Feast Day: August 11 St. Susanna was nobly born in Rome, and is said to have been niece to Pope Caius. Having made a vow of virginity, she refused to marry, on which account she was impeached as a Christian, and suffered with heroic constancy a cruel martyrdom. St. Susanna suffered towards the beginning of Diocletian's reign, about the year 295. Adapted from the Lives of … [Read more...]
St. Bernard
Feast Day: August 20 St. Bernard was born at the castle of Fontaines, in Burgundy. The grace of his person and the vigor of his intellect filled his parents with the highest hopes, and the world lay bright and smiling before him when he renounced it forever and joined the monks at Citeaux. All his brothers followed Bernard to Citeaux except Nivard, the youngest, who was left … [Read more...]
St. Liberatus
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...]