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Blessed Basil Hopko Feast date: Jun 23 Blessed Basil Hopko is considered one of the many priests and religious martyred by Communism. He was born in Slovakia to poor parents. His father died when he was a year old and his mother left for the United States when he was four in seach of work. … Read moreBlessed Basil Hopkoon June 23, 2025 at 1:23 am
St. Thomas More Feast date: Jun 22 On June 22, the Catholic Church honors the life and martyrdom of St. Thomas More, the lawyer, author and statesman who lost his life opposing King Henry VIII’s plan to subordinate the Church to the English monarchy. Thomas More was born in 1478, son of the lawyer and … Read moreSt. Thomas Moreon June 22, 2025 at 1:23 am
St. Paulinus of Nola Feast date: Jun 22 On June 22, the Catholic Church remembers Saint Paulinus of Nola, who gave up his life in politics to become a monk, a bishop, and a revered Christian poet of the 5th century. In a December 2007 general audience on St. Paulinus, Pope Benedict XVI remarked on … Read moreSt. Paulinus of Nolaon June 22, 2025 at 1:23 am
St. Aloysius Gonzaga Feast date: Jun 21 As a young boy, St. Aloysius always had a great desire to know and serve God, but his family life was not always supportive of this desire. He was born into a noble Italian family, and his father was a compulsive gambler. He grew up in a castle and was … Read moreSt. Aloysius Gonzagaon June 21, 2025 at 1:23 am
St. Alban Feast date: Jun 20 St. Alban was the first Christian martyr in Britain during the early 4th century. He is the patron saint of converts and torture victims. Although he was not a man of faith, St. Alban was very hospitable and compassionate. As a soldier, he sheltered a persecuted priest, Amphibalus, during … Read moreSt. Albanon June 20, 2025 at 1:23 am
The Immaculate Heart of Mary Feast date: Jun 20 Just as devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is only a form of devotion to the adorable Person of Jesus, so also is devotion to the Holy Heart of Mary, but a special form of devotion to Mary. In order that, properly speaking, there may be devotion … Read moreThe Immaculate Heart of Maryon June 20, 2025 at 1:23 am
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Feast date: Jun 19 The heart has always been seen as the “center” or essence a person (“the heart of the matter,” “you are my heart,” “take it to heart,” etc.) and the wellspring of our emotional lives and love (“you break my heart,” “my heart sings,” etc.) Devotion … Read moreThe Most Sacred Heart of Jesuson June 19, 2025 at 1:23 am
St. Romuald Feast date: Jun 19 Saint Romuald, who founded the Camaldolese monastic order during the early eleventh century, has his liturgical memorial on June 19. Working within the Western Church’s Benedictine tradition, he revived the primitive monastic practice of hermit life, allowing for greater solitude in a communal setting. Born into an aristocratic family … Read moreSt. Romualdon June 19, 2025 at 1:23 am
St. Osanna Andreasi Feast date: Jun 18 St. Osanna was a Dominican tertiary, who spent her adult life serving the poor and the sick and offering spiritual direction to many. However, she was also a mystic and a visionary, eventually bearing the pain and red marks of the stigmata, though not the bleeding. She was … Read moreSt. Osanna Andreasion June 18, 2025 at 12:23 am
St. Albert Chmielowski Feast date: Jun 17 Founder of the Albertine Brothers and Sisters, and one of the saints who inspired the vocation of the young Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II was born on August 20, 1845 in (near Kraków) as Adam Hilary Bernard Chmielowski. Born into a wealthy and aristocratic family, … Read moreSt. Albert Chmielowskion June 17, 2025 at 12:23 am