Feast Day
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August 29th – Saint of the Day: Saint Sabina of Rome, Noblewoman, Widow & Martyr
A Roman noblewoman. A servant girl. One faith that flipped the social order upside down. ⚜️ Saint Sabina had it all: wealth, status, a senator husband, a villa on Rome’s most exclusive hill. 🏛️ Then her servant Serapia showed up… Continue reading
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August 29th – Saint of the Day: Saint Jeanne Jugan (Mary of the Cross), Virgin, Domestic Servant, Hospital Worker & Foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor
She founded a worldwide religious order. Then a priest stole the credit. ⛪ For 27 YEARS, Saint Jeanne Jugan lived hidden in the motherhouse of the congregation SHE founded. The young sisters around her had no idea she was their… Continue reading
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August 29th – The Passion of Saint John the Baptist
He was killed over a party trick. 🗡️ A king’s birthday. A dance. A rash oath in front of a room full of VIPs. By the end of the night, the greatest prophet who ever lived was dead, and his… Continue reading
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August 28th – Saint of the Day: Saint Moses the Ethiopian (Moses the Black), Monk & Priest
He swam the Nile with a sword in his teeth to kill a shepherd’s sheep over a barking dog. 🗡️🌊 He was a slave, a thief, a gang leader, and probably a killer. Today the Church calls him a saint.… Continue reading
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August 28th – Saint of the Day: Saint Augustine of Hippo, Bishop & Doctor of the Church
🔥 He prayed “Give me chastity… but not yet.” Then God answered anyway. Saint Augustine of Hippo was brilliant, ambitious, and a mess. 😅 He left the faith, joined a trendy sect, fathered a son with a woman he never… Continue reading
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August 27th – Saint of the Day: Saint Caesarius of Arles, Monk & Bishop
⛪ A bishop was handed a heavy silver dish by the most powerful king in the West. He walked out and sold it. 💰 Why? To buy prisoners of war out of slavery. Including the enemies who had attacked his… Continue reading
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August 27th – Saint of the Day: Saint Monica, Wife, Widow & Mother
She cried for 17 years. Then God answered bigger than she asked. 😭🙏 Meet Saint Monica: a North African wife and mom married to a hot-tempered pagan, raising a genius son who left the Church, lied to her, and literally… Continue reading
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August 26th – Saint of the Day: Saint Mary of Jesus Crucified (Mariam Baouardy), Virgin, Carmelite Lay Sister, Stigmatist, Mystic & Co-Foundress of the Carmels of Mangalore and Bethlehem
She couldn’t read. She couldn’t write. She scrubbed floors and hauled water. 🪣 And she’s a canonized saint. 🕊️ Meet Saint Mary of Jesus Crucified, “the Little Arab” 🇵🇸 🔪 At 13, a man cut her throat because she refused… Continue reading
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August 26th – Saint of the Day: Saint Melchizedek, King of Salem and Priest of God Most High
He shows up for THREE verses. 👑 Then he vanishes. And the Church still says his name at every single Mass. 🕊️ Meet Saint Melchizedek, King of Salem and Priest of God Most High (August 26). 🍞🍷 Before Israel existed…… Continue reading
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August 26th – Our Lady of Częstochowa
Slashed. Stolen. Besieged. Still crowned. 👑 Meet the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, the icon Poland has been walking toward for over 600 years. 🖤 Two scars run down her cheek from a raid in 1430. Painters could not hide them,… Continue reading
Holy Manna! 