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. Lydwine: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, April 14, 2021 14/04/2021

St. Lydwine is the patroness of sickness Lydwine of Schiedam was born at Schiedam, Holland, one of nine children of a working man. After an injury in her youth, she became bedridden and suffered the rest of her life from various illnesses and diseases. She experienced mystical gifts, including supernatural visions of heaven, hell, purgatory, […]

Pope Saint Martin I: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, April 13, 2021 13/04/2021

Martin I lay too sick to fight on a couch in front of the altar when the soldiers burst into the Lateran basilica. He had come to the church when he heard the soldiers had landed. But the thought of kidnapping a sick pope from the house of God didn't stop the soldiers from grabbing […]

St. Julius: Saint of the Day for Monday, April 12, 2021 12/04/2021

Julius whose feast day is April 12th. Julius was the son of a Roman named Rusticus. He was elected Pope to succeed Pope St. Mark on February 6, 337. Julius was soon involved in the Arian controversy when Eusebius of Nicomedia opposed the return of Athanasius to the See of Alexandria in 338. Eusebius and […]