Optional Memorial of St. Albert the Great, 1206-1280; master of Thomas Aquinas; wrote a compendium of all knowledge--natural science, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, astronomy, ethics, economics, politics, and metaphysics; defended the mendicant orders and preached the Crusade in Germany and Bohemia; patron of scientists and philosophers
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/15/23
Saint of the Day: St. Lawrence O'Toole, 1128-1180; named archbishop of Dublin in 1161; negotiated with the English following their invasion of Ireland; convened a synod at Cashel in 1172; attended the general Lateran Council in Rome in 1179; died in Normandy, France, while on a mission to King Henry II of England
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/14/23
Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, 1850-1917; after being refused admission to the order which had educated, her, she began charity work at the House of Providence Orphanage in Cadogno, Italy; made her vows there in 1877; traveled with six sisters to New York City to work with the thousands of Italian immigrants living there; in 35 years, Frances Xavier Cabrini founded 67 institutions dedicated to caring for the poor, the abandoned, the uneducated and the sick; died of malaria in her own Columbus Hospital in Chicago
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/13/23
Memorial of St. Leo the Great; elected pope in 440; known as one of the best administrative popes of the ancient Church; he worked to control heresies, clarified the doctrine of the two natures of Christ, and served as peacemaker when Rome was under barbarian attack; died November 10, 461 A.D.
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/10/23
Saint of the Day: The Four Crowned Martyrs; There were two such groups--one, a group of carvers who refused to carve a pagan statue, martyred by Diocletian; the second group was martyred at Albano, Italy, and a basilica was erected in their honor in Rome
Saint of the Day: St. Engelbert; the 13th Century son of the count of Berg; he became the archbishop of Cologne in 1217, at the age of thirty; in this office, he became tutor to the son of Emperor Frederick II; in 1222 he crowned Henry King of the Romans;Engelbert was slain by his cousin Frederick, whom he had thwarted in an attempt to steal from the nuns of Essen, in 1225
Saint of the Day: St. Illtyd; revered Welsh saint; reputed to be a cousin of King Arthur, and one of the knights of the Holy Grail; he and his wife became hermits; he eventually founded the abbey of Llanilltud Fawr in Glamorgan, Wales; died in the Seventh Century
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