Stewardship Saint for February: Saint Paula Montal Fornés
Saint Paula Montal Fornés Paula Montal Fornés dedicated her life to educating and teaching the Catholic faith to girls and women. She was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1799, the eldest of five daughters. Her parents were artisans living in Arenys de Mar, a seaside village about 20 miles northeast of Barcelona. Paula’s father died …
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Stewardship Saint for January: Saint Angela Merici
Saint Angela Merici Angela Merici was born in a small town in the Republic of Venice around 1470. She was orphaned when she was ten years old and moved in with relatives in the city of Brescia, in northern Italy. When Angela Merici returned to her hometown, she began to devote her life to the …
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Stewardship Saint for December: Saint John, Apostle, Evangelist and Protector of the Blessed Mother
Saint John, Apostle, Evangelist and Protector of the Blessed Mother At the foot of his cross, when Jesus looked down “and saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, behold your son.’ Then he said to the disciple, ‘Behold your mother.’ And from that hour, the disciple took …
Stewardship Saint for November: Saint Martin of Tours
Saint MArtin of Tours St. Martin of Tours was born around 316 in a territory that is now part of Hungary. His father, an officer in the Roman army, conscripted Martin into military service at the age of fifteen. While Martin was still a soldier, there occurred the famous incidentmemorialized by many artists. One day …
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Stewardship Saint for October: Saint Luke
Saint Luke Luke is the author of the third Gospel and was a companion of Saint Paul. According to reliable tradition, he was a Syrian physician from Antioch who wrote his Gospel in Achaea (Greece). Both the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles are attributed to Luke, because he appears to be the person …
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Stewardship Saint for September: Saint Vincent de Paul
Saint Vincent de Paul The feast day of Saint Vincent de Paul is September 27, the date of his passing in 1660. He was the founder of the Vincentians and the Sisters of Charity, and is the patron saint of all charitable organizations. Born in 1581 to a peasant family in southwestern France, Vincent studied …
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Stewardship Saint for August: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) Edith Stein was born in 1891 to a Jewish family living in Breslau, Germany. From a very young age she was intellectually curious and loved to learn. She rejected her family’s Jewish piety and even God because her observation was that people acted as though they did …
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Stewardship Saint for July: Saint Prisca and Aquila
Saint Prisca and Aquila Prisca and Aquila were a prominent married couple who were missionaries, established churches and played an active role in the evangelizing ministry of Saint Paul. They are mentioned six times in four different texts of the New Testament. Prisca and Aquila were of Jewish heritage and two of the earliest known …
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Stewardship Saint for June: Saint John Fisher
Saint John Fisher Although Saint Thomas More was the most famous victim of King Henry VIII’s persecution of Catholics who refused to accept his supremacy over the Church in England, his friend and adviser, John Fisher, was the first to protest King Henry’s machinations, and suffered martyrdom because of it. John Fisher was born in …
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