Lives of the Saints
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August 10th – Saint of the Day: Saint Lawrence, Deacon & Martyr
🔥 The empire demanded the Church’s treasure. He handed them the poor. August 10th is the feast of Saint Lawrence, the young deacon of Rome who was given 3 days to surrender the Church’s wealth. 💰 Instead? He gave every… Continue reading
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August 9th – Saint of the Day: Saint Cándida María de Jesús, Religious Sister & Foundress of the Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus (the Jesuitinas)
She couldn’t read. She couldn’t write. She barely spoke Spanish. 📖 So naturally… God asked her to found schools. ✝️ Meet Saint Cándida María de Jesús, the Basque servant girl who was told to stop giving her money to the… Continue reading
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August 9th – Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), Philosopher, Carmelite Nun & Martyr
She was a brilliant atheist philosopher. ✍️ Then she picked up one book at a friend’s house and read it in a single night. 📖 By sunrise, she said five words: “This is the truth.” ✝️ Edith Stein was born… Continue reading
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August 8th – Saint of the Day: Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop, Religious Sister & Co-Founder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart (the Josephites)
She got EXCOMMUNICATED for protecting kids. Then the Church made her a saint. ⛪🔥 Meet Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop, feast day August 8th. 🇦🇺 Her nuns helped expose an abusive priest in the 1870s. The fallout? Her own… Continue reading
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August 7th – Saint of the Day: Saint Cajetan of Thiene, Nobleman, Lawyer, Priest, Reformer & Founder of the Theatines
He had the dream career. Papal court. Noble family. Law degree by 24. ⚖️ Then he walked away from ALL of it. 🔥 Saint Cajetan of Thiene traded power for the hospital wards nobody wanted to enter, nursing the incurably… Continue reading
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August 7th – Saint of the Day: Pope Saint Sixtus II and Companions, Martyrs
You hear his name at Mass and probably never noticed. 👀 Sixtus. Right there in the ancient Eucharistic Prayer, between Clement and Cornelius. 🙏 Here’s who he actually was: ⛪ A pope for less than ONE year 🕯️ Celebrated Mass… Continue reading
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August 6th – Saint of the Day: Saints Justus and Pastor, Brothers & Child Martyrs
Two kids. One empire. Zero hesitation. ⚔️ Around the year 304, two schoolboy brothers in Roman Spain heard that Christians were being executed for their faith. So they threw down their school tablets 📚 and RAN to the governor… to… Continue reading
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August 6th – Saint of the Day: Pope Saint Hormisdas, Widower & Father
The pope whose SON also became a pope. 🤯 And they’re BOTH saints. ⛪✨ Meet Pope Saint Hormisdas: widower, girl dad? No, saint dad. 👨👦 He raised a future pope while healing a 35-year split in the Church. The emperor… Continue reading
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August 5th – Saint of the Day: Saint Nonna, Wife & Mother
She never wrote a book. Never preached a sermon. Never left her small town. 🕯️ And yet EVERYONE in her house became a saint. Her husband. All 3 of her kids. Even her nephew. 😳 Meet Saint Nonna, the 4th… Continue reading
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August 5th – Saint of the Day: Saint Oswald of Northumbria, King & Martyr
A king gave away his Easter dinner. Then he smashed the silver dish it came on and gave that away too. 👑🔥 Meet Saint Oswald of Northumbria, the warrior king nobody talks about enough. ⚔️ Exiled at 12 after his… Continue reading
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