Tag: saints
The Public Apostasy of Pope Marcellinus
It is often asserted that the Roman Pontiff loses his office ...
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St. Bridget of Sweden: Punishment of Lustful, Immoral Priests
St. Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373) was a medieval mystic and foun...
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Virgin Mary Crucified?
In their attempts to discredit Catholic veneration of the Blesse...
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Defense of the Divine Mercy Devotion Part 1
While for many Traditionalists dismissing St. Faustina's Devotio...
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Herve the Bard (d. 556)
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St. Joan and the Faerie Tree of Domrémy
The story of St. Joan of Arc is unparalleled in the annals of we...
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Victor the Hermit (7th Century)
Saint Bernard wrote of him: "Now placed in heaven, he beholds Go...
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Wilfrid of Ripon (d. 709)
Born in Northumberland in 634, St. Wilfrid was educated at Lindi...
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Henrik of Uppsala (d. 1156)
To call St. Henrik obscure is only possible to an English speaki...
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St. Patrick's Lent on Cruachan-Aighle
According to various lives of St. Patrick, the great Apostle of ...
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St. Chad of Mercia (d. 672)
St. Chad of Mercia (not to be confused with his brother Cedd) wa...
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Plegmund of Canterbury (d. 923)
Plegmund was Archbishop of Canterbury during the latter reign o...
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Does Transubstantiation Happen Instantaneously?
The teaching of the Catholic Church on the change of the bread ...
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Canonizations: Old vs. New Comparison
Those skeptical of modern canonizations observe that the procedu...
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Hybald of Bardney (d. 690)
St. Hybald, a Benedictine Abbot of Bardney, England, is known un...
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Gens du Beaucet (d. 1127)
St. Gens du Beaucet (1104-1127) was a medieval French hermit-sai...
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Aspebet-Peter, the Bishop of the Camp of Tents
Much of what we know about the growth of the Church in Palestine...
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St. David of Wales (d. 589)
So many once venerated saints have fallen by the wayside of the ...
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Fergus of Downpatrick (d. 583)
St. Fergus of Downpatrick is about as obscure a saint as they co...
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The Obedience of Athanasius
This essay is written in response to the many times St. Athanasi...
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Lambert of Maastricht (d. 700)
St. Lambert of Maestricht (633-700) may not be a familiar name, ...
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Edmund the Martyr (d. 870)
St. Edmund the Martyr was King of East Anglia from 855-870. Thou...
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St. Darerca of Ireland
St. Darerca is about as obscure as they come. It is not known wh...
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St. Anthony and the Miser's Heart
St. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) was a wonderworking saint of th...
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Budoc of Dol (d. 585)
One must really delve deep into the early medieval sanc...
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St. Kateri: Lily at the Foot of the Cross
After recognition for her second miracle, on October 21, 2012, K...
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Thorfinn of Hamar (d. 1285)
St. Thorfinn is one of the most obscure of all medieval saints f...
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Canonization in the Early Church
The modern method of canonization used by the Magisterium has pr...
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The Legend of St. Maternus
St. Maternus is a semi-legendary figure from the history of the ...
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Why is St. Therese Called the "Little Flower"?
St. Therese of the Child Jesus is one of the most beloved saints...
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St. Ingenuinus (d. 605)
St. Ingenuinus goes by many names; he is sometimes called Ingenu...
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Bregowine of Canterbury (d 764)
Saint Bregowine (also known as Bregwin or Bregwine) was the thir...
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St. Anselm on the Filioque
The question of the procession of the Holy Spirit remains a bone...
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St. Hildegard on Gemstones
One of the most remarkable minds of the medieval Church was St. ...
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Blane of Scotland (d. 590)
St. Blane was born on the Isle of Bute in the Firth of Clyde, a ...
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Amand of Flanders (d. 675)
Amand, sometimes called Amandus, was born in the late 6th centur...
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Athwulf of Thorney (d. 680)
St. Athwulf was an Anglo-Saxon abbot and brother of the more fam...
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