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. Frumentius: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, October 27, 2020 27/10/2020

Called "Abuna" or "the faÂther' of Ethiopia, sent to that land by St. Athanasius. Frumentius was born in Tyre, Lebanon. While on a voyage in the Red Sea with St. Aedesius, possibly his brother, only Frumentius and Aedesius survived the shipwreck. Taken to the Ethiopian royal court at Aksum, they soon attained high positions. Aedesius […]

St. Bean: Saint of the Day for Monday, October 26, 2020 26/10/2020

On December 16, there is named in the Roman Martyrology and in certain Irish calendars a Saint Bean in Ireland, who had been confused with the St. Bean whose feast is still observed in the Scottish diocese of Aberdeen, but on October 26, as founder of the bishopric of Mortlach in Banff which was the […]

St. Daria: Saint of the Day for Sunday, October 25, 2020 25/10/2020

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 […]