TROCAIRE SPECIAL CHURCH COLLECTION

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

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St. Benedict of Nursia: Saint of the Day for Saturday, July 11, 2020 11/07/2020

St. Benedict is believed to have been born around 480, as the son to a Roman noble of Norcia and the twin to his sister, Scholastica. In the fifth century, the young Benedict was sent to Rome to finish his education with a nurse/housekeeper. The subject that dominated a young man's study then was rhetoric […]

Bl. Emmanuel Ruiz: Saint of the Day for Friday, July 10, 2020 10/07/2020

Martyr with eleven companions in Lebanon. A Spanish Franciscan, Emmanuel and the others were caught up in the rising of the Druses in Lebanon. The Franciscan community, eight in number, and three Maronite laymen were slain by the Islamic rebels. He was beatified in 1926.

St. Veronica Giuliani: Saint of the Day for Thursday, July 09, 2020 09/07/2020

Capuchin mystic who had many spiritual gifis. A native of Binasco, near Milan, Italy, born in 1660, she entered the Capuchins atCitttidi Castello, Umbria, in 1677. She remained there for the rest of her life and served as novice mistress for thirty-four years. A mystic, she was the recipient of a stigmata in 1697 and […]