Good Friday by Ermes Dovico

Saint of the day


Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

This truth of faith was solemnly affirmed on December  8 1854 by Pius IX with the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus


Saint Ambrose

Saint Ambrose

For his work to safeguard correct doctrine, he was proclaimed among the first four great doctors of the Church, together with Augustine, Jerome and Gregory the Great


Saint Nicholas of Bari

Saint Nicholas of Bari

The title “of Bari” is due to the transfer to the Apulian capital of many of his relics, which took place in 1087.


Saint Sabbas the Archimandrite

Saint Sabbas the Archimandrite

First a desert father and then founder of a particular type of monastery, called “lavra,” Saint Sabbas the Archimandrite (439-532) played a substantial role in the spread of Eastern monasticism.


Saint John Damascene

Saint John Damascene

He is considered the last of the Eastern Church Fathers. He wrote sublime pages about the Blessed Virgin and was able to refute the then widespread iconoclasm.


Saint Francis Xavier

Saint Francis Xavier

He is considered the greatest missionary of modern times


Saint Bibiana

Saint Bibiana

Her martyrdom was perpetrated during the historical interlude of the empire of Flavius Claudius Julianus (361-363), known as the Apostate, who tried to restore paganism


Saints Edmund Campion and companions

Saints Edmund Campion and companions

On 1 December he was led to Tyburn gallows, near present-day Marble Arch, where he was hanged, drawn and quartered. Fr Alexander Briant and Fr Rudolph Sherwin suffered martyrdom with Campion


Saint Andrew

Saint Andrew

He was the first apostle to lead Peter to the Lord. Andrew preached the Gospel in Asia Minor and Scythia. He suffered martyrdom in Greece, in Patras, where he was crucified on an X-shaped cross


Saint Francis Anthony Fasani

Saint Francis Anthony Fasani

He had joined the Franciscans as an adolescent taking the religious name of the two saints of the Order to whom he was most devoted, Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua.


Saint James of the Marches

Saint James of the Marches

He spent his life in the service of the Church, becoming one of the leading figures in the 15th century together with his friends Bernardine of Siena and John of Capistrano.


Blessed Virgin of the Miraculous Medal

Blessed Virgin of the Miraculous Medal

On 27 November 1830, the Blessed Virgin appeared to Catherine Labouré (1806-1876), novice of the Daughters of Charity in the Parisian convent on Rue du Bac. The saint, next to the picture of St Joseph, saw Our Lady wearing a white dress like the dawn, a blue mantle and a long white veil, standing on a half globe enveloped in the coils of a snake.