saints for millennials
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July 3rd – Saint of the Day: Saint Anatolius of Constantinople, Patriarch
⚔️ A heretic handpicked his own worst enemy and didn’t even know it. 😤 Meet Saint Anatolius of Constantinople, the fifth-century Patriarch who was installed by a scheming heretic who expected a puppet and got a saint instead. 🔥 Here’s… Continue reading
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July 3rd – Saint of the Day: Saint Thomas, Apostle & Martyr
He said he wouldn’t believe unless he could touch the wounds himself. 🩸✋ So Jesus let him. 😮 Saint Thomas went from “I will NOT believe” to falling at Christ’s feet and crying out “My Lord and my God!” in… Continue reading
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July 1st – Saint of the Day: Saint Junipero Serra, Franciscan Missionary Priest & Friar
✝️ He walked 24,000 miles on a chronically infected leg. He was barely 5 feet 2 inches tall. And he literally built California. 🌊 Meet Saint Junípero Serra. A Franciscan friar who gave up a prestigious university career in Spain… Continue reading
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June 29th – Saint Paul, Apostle & Martyr
⚡ He hunted down Christians for sport. Then Jesus showed up and wrecked his entire life plan. Saint Paul didn’t just convert. He became the most unstoppable force the early Church had ever seen. 🔥 Here’s the man behind nearly… Continue reading
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June 29th – Pope Saint Peter, Apostle & Martyr
🔑 Jesus didn’t choose the most qualified man to lead His Church. He chose the one who denied Him three times. Let that sink in. 😮 Peter was a fisherman with no education, no credentials, and no track record of… Continue reading
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June 29th – The Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul
⚔️ Rome’s original founding story involved twin brothers, a she-wolf, and a murder. Then a fishermen and a former terrorist walked in and changed everything. 🔥 Peter was a denier. Paul was a persecutor. And Jesus chose BOTH of them… Continue reading
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June 28th – Saint of the Day: Saint John Southworth, Priest & Martyr
⚔️ His judge wept while condemning him. The foreign ambassadors begged him to lie. He said no. Meet Saint John Southworth — the priest who walked into a plague epidemic in a country where being a priest was already a… Continue reading
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June 28th – Saint of the Day: Saint Irenaeus of Lyon, Bishop & Doctor of the Church
⚡ He was TWO people away from the Apostle John. Saint Irenaeus of Lyon was a disciple of Saint Polycarp, who personally knew the Apostle John himself and was his disciple. That means the theology he gave us and the… Continue reading
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June 25th – Saint of the Day: Saint William of Vercelli, Hermit & Founder of the Congregation of Monte Vergine (the Williamites)
He was a teenage nobleman who gave up everything, walked barefoot across Europe wearing iron bands as penance, got robbed and beaten on the road to Jerusalem, and somehow ended up taming a wild wolf with a single command. 🐺… Continue reading
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February 1st – Saint of the Day: Saint Brigid of Ireland, Virgin & Abbess
🔥 Ireland’s “church of the oak” has a patroness, and she did not get famous by playing it safe. Meet Saint Brigid of Ireland ✨ the abbess who built a mercy machine at Kildare: feeding the poor, sheltering travelers, protecting… Continue reading
Holy Manna! 