The Catholic Church believes that saints are ordinary and typical human beings who made it into heaven. In the broader sense, everyone who’s now in heaven is technically a saint. Saints are human beings who lived holy lives in obedience to God’s will and are now in heaven for eternity.
Feast Day: July 20 Patronage: childbirth, pregnant women, dying people, kidney disease, peasants, exiles, falsely accused people; Lowestoft, England; Queens’ College, Cambridge; nurses; Sannat and Bormla, Malta Birth: 289 Antioch, Pisidia Death: 304 (aged 15) Attributes: slain dragon (Western depictions); hammer, defeated demon (Eastern Orthodox depictions) Life: Margaret, known as Margaret of Antioch in the […]
Saint of the Day St. Camillus de Lellis Feast Day: July 18 Patronage: sick; hospitals; nurses; physicians Birth: May 25, 1550 Bucchianico, Chieti, Kingdom of Naples Death: July 14, 1614 (aged 64) Rome, Papal States Beatified: 1742, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Benedict XIV Canonized: 1746, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Benedict XIV Attributes: A […]
Saint of the Day St. Veronica Feast Day: July 12 Patronage: images, laundry workers, pictures, photos, photographers, Santa Veronica, San Pablo City, Laguna Birth: 1st century AD Caesarea Philippi or Jerusalem, Judea Canonized: Pre-Congregation Attributes: Cloth that bears the image of Christ’s face Life: Saint Veronica was a woman of Jerusalem in the first century […]
Feast Day: July 11 Patronage: Against poison, Against witchcraft, Agricultural workers, Cavers, Civil engineers, Coppersmiths, Dying people, Erysipelas, Europe, Farmers, Fever, Gall stones, Heerdt (Germany), Heraldry and Officers of arms, the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, Inflammatory diseases, Italian architects, Kidney disease, Monks, Nettle rash, Norcia, (Italy), People in religious orders, Schoolchildren and […]
Saint of the Day Sts. Rufina & Secunda Feast Day: July 10 Birth: 3rd century Rome, Roman Empire Death: 257 Rome Canonized: Pre-Congregation Life: Rufina and Secunda (died 257) were Roman virgin-martyrs and Christian saints. Their feast day is celebrated on 10 July. According to the legendary Acts, they suffered in 287 during the persecution […]
Saint of the Day St. Veronica Giuliani Feast Day: July 9 Birth: December 27, 1660 Mercatello sul Metauro, Duchy of Urbino (Italy) Death: July 9, 1727 (aged 66) Città di Castello, Papal States (Italy) Beatified: June 17, 1804 by Pope Pius VII Canonized: May 26, 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI Attributes: Crowned with thorns and […]
Feast Day: July 4 Patronage: Coimbra, Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Cathedral of La Laguna Birth: 1271 Aljafería Palace, Zaragoza, Kingdom of Aragon Death: 4 July 1336 Estremoz Castle in Estremoz, Alentejo, Kingdom of Portugal Canonized: 25 May 1625, Rome by Pope Urban VIII Life: Elizabeth of Aragon, also known as Elizabeth of […]