Feast Day
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August 25th – Saint of the Day: Saint Joseph Calasanz, Priest, Educator & Founder of the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools (Piarists)
📚✝️ He had a law doctorate, powerful friends, and a comfortable career waiting in Spain. He walked away from all of it to teach street kids in Rome to read. For free. In 1597. 🕊️ Nobody had ever done that… Continue reading
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August 25th – Saint of the Day: Saint Louis IX, King of France
👑 A king who washed beggars’ feet. Yes, really. Saint Louis IX ruled France for 44 years, built a chapel made almost entirely of glass, and still ate lunch with the poor at his own table. 🍞 His mom told… Continue reading
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August 24th – Saint of the Day: Saint Jeanne-Antide Thouret, Virgin, Nurse, Teacher, Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul & Foundress of the Sisters of Charity of Besançon
She refused the hand of a “king.” Then a revolution tried to erase her. 🔥 Meet Saint Jeanne-Antide Thouret, feast day August 24th. 🕯️ 📌 Mother of her whole household at 16 📌 Ran secret Masses and smuggled supplies to… Continue reading
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August 24th – Saint of the Day: Saint Bartholomew (Nathanael), Apostle and Martyr
🔪 The Apostle who was skinned alive for telling the truth. Meet Saint Bartholomew, feast day August 24th. 🙏 You probably know him by another name: Nathanael. The guy who heard “Jesus of Nazareth” and said, “Can anything good come… Continue reading
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August 23rd – Saint of the Day: Saint Zacchaeus of Jerusalem, Bishop & Confessor
⛪ He ran the most important church in the world. History kept exactly ONE sentence about him. 📜 Meet Saint Zacchaeus of Jerusalem, the 4th bishop after James the brother of the Lord. He took over right after his predecessor… Continue reading
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August 23rd – Saint of the Day: Saint Rose of Lima, Virgin & Dominican Tertiary
🌹 She rubbed pepper on her face so no one would call her beautiful. She slept on broken glass. She wore a crown of roses hiding silver spikes underneath. 🕊️ And she turned her parents’ house into a hospital for… Continue reading
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August 22nd – Saint of the Day: Saints John Wall and John Kemble, Priests & Martyrs
An 80-year-old priest was told to run. He refused. 🕯️ Then he asked for one last pipe and a drink before his execution… and his EXECUTIONERS sat down and joined him. 🤯 345+ years later, people in England still call… Continue reading
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August 22nd – Saint of the Day: Saint Symphorian of Autun, Nobleman & Martyr
✝️August 22nd – Saint of the Day: Saint Symphorian of Autun, Nobleman & Martyr✝️ He was a teenager. The whole city was bowing. He didn’t. ⚔️🔥 When a pagan idol was carried through the streets of Roman Gaul, young Symphorian… Continue reading
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August 22nd – The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
👑 One week after the Assumption, heaven held a coronation. August 22nd is the Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the backstory hits harder than you’d expect. 🔥 In ancient Israel, the queen wasn’t the king’s… Continue reading
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August 21st – Saint of the Day: Saint Sidonius Apollinaris, Husband, Aristocrat, Poet, Imperial Statesman & Bishop
He had a statue in Rome. An emperor for a father-in-law. Fame, money, power. ✨ Then the world literally collapsed around him… and he chose God. 🙏 Meet Saint Sidonius Apollinaris 🕊️ the Roman aristocrat who became a bishop as… Continue reading
Holy Manna! 