TROCAIRE SPECIAL CHURCH COLLECTION

Trocaire’s special collection for the people of Syria and the Phillippines realized a total of £15,079.

Thank you for your generous support.

St. Daria: Saint of the Day for Monday, October 25, 2021 25/10/2021

There is very little known about them. Chrysanthus was an Egyptian, son of a Patrician, Polemius. He was brought to Rome from Alexandria during the reign of Numerian, and despite the objections of his father, who had brought him to Rome, was baptized by a priest named Carpophorus. Chrysanthus refused is father's attempts to get […]

St. Anthony Mary Claret: Saint of the Day for Sunday, October 24, 2021 24/10/2021

Claretian archbishop and founder. Anthony was born in Salient in Catalonia, Spain, in 1807, the son of a weaver. He took up weaving but then studied for the priesthood, desiring to be a Jesuit. Ill health prevented his entering the Order, and he served as a secular priest. In 1849, he founded the Missionary Sons […]

St. John of Capistrano: Saint of the Day for Saturday, October 23, 2021 23/10/2021

St. John was born at Capistrano, Italy in 1385, the son of a former German knight in that city. He studied law at the University of Perugia and practiced as a lawyer in the courts of Naples. King Ladislas of Naples appointed him governor of Perugia. During a war with a neighboring town he was […]