Saint of the Day
Saints and their feast days, told the way you'd tell a seven-year-old. Free, and there's nothing to sign up for.
January
February
- February 3 Today St. Blaise If your throat has ever been blessed with two crossed candles, that was him.
- February 8 Today St. Josephine Bakhita Kidnapped so young she forgot her own name. Bakhita was what her captors called her.
- February 10 Today St. Scholastica St. Benedict's twin sister, who once won an argument with the weather.
- February 14 Today St. Valentine There really was a Valentine. The cards came fourteen hundred years later.
March
April
May
- May 10 Today St. Damien of Molokai He volunteered for the island nobody was allowed to leave.
- May 22 Today St. Rita of Cascia The saint people go to when it is genuinely too late.
- May 26 Today St. Philip Neri He shaved off half his beard to keep people from taking him too seriously.
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May 30
Today
St. Joan of Arc A farm girl who couldn't read led an army at seventeen.
June
July
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July 11
Today
St. Benedict He left the loud city for a cave. People followed him there. - July 14 Today St. Kateri Tekakwitha The first Native American saint. Smallpox took her parents and most of her eyesight.
- July 26 Today St. Anne Jesus had a grandmother. This is her.
- July 31 Today St. Ignatius of Loyola A cannonball to the leg, a long recovery, and nothing good to read.
August
- August 8 Today St. Dominic He sold his books to feed people, back when books cost a fortune.
- August 11 Today St. Clare of Assisi She climbed out a window at eighteen and never went back.
- August 14 Today St. Maximilian Kolbe He stepped out of the line and asked to take another man's place.
- August 15 Today The Assumption of Mary The day the Church says Mary went to heaven whole, body and all.
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August 23
Today
St. Rose of Lima Everyone talked about her face. God talked about her heart. - August 24 Today St. Bartholomew His first recorded words are an insult. He became an apostle anyway.
September
October
- October 1 Today St. Thérèse of Lisieux She wanted to do something enormous. She did something tiny instead.
- October 2 Today The Guardian Angels The idea that nobody is walking around unaccompanied.
- October 4 Today St. Francis of Assisi A rich kid who gave back everything, including the clothes he was wearing.
- October 5 Today St. Faustina Third-grade education. She wrote a six-hundred-page book that changed the Church.
- October 12 Today St. Carlo Acutis He taught himself to code and spent it cataloguing miracles. He was fifteen.
- October 15 Today St. Teresa of Avila She complained to God directly, and the reply is the famous part.
- October 28 Today St. Jude Nobody prayed to him for centuries because of his name.
November
- November 1 Today All Saints' Day The day for everyone who never got a day.
- November 16 Today St. Gertrude the Great Left at a monastery at four or five. Nobody ever recorded why.
- November 22 Today St. Cecilia Patron saint of music because of one line about what she did at her own wedding.
- November 30 Today St. Andrew He found Jesus first, then went and got his brother. His brother got the Church.
December
- December 6 Today St. Nicholas There was a real one. He was a bishop, and he had a temper.
- December 8 Today The Immaculate Conception It is about Mary's conception, not Jesus'. Almost everybody gets this wrong.
- December 9 Today St. Juan Diego He tried to take a different road to avoid the whole thing.
- December 12 Today Our Lady of Guadalupe She showed up looking like the people she came to.
- December 13 Today St. Lucy Her name means light, and her feast lands in the darkest part of the year.
- December 26 Today St. Stephen The day after Christmas, on purpose.
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