Saint of the Day: St. Aelred of Rievaulx, 1110-1167; Cestercian abbot of Rievaulx; wrote "The Mirror of Charity" at the request of Bernard of Clairvaux
Saint of the Day: St. Paulinus of Aquileia, 726-804; with the intervention of Charlemagne, he was chosen archbishop of Aquilieia in 787; he was a zealous defender of the faith, refuting the heresy of Adoptionism; he reiterated the Church's Trinitarian teaching of the procession of the Holy Spirit from both the Father and the Son; and he stressed the need to seek to please God in all our actions
Saint of the Day: St. Marcian; lived in the Fifth Century; from a Roman family of Constantinople; ordained 455 A.D., and was the treasurer of Hagia Sophia; composed hymns, and was a miracle worker
Saint of the Day: St. Apollinaris; Second Century bishop who wrote a defense of the faith to the emperor, Marcus Aurelius; he reminded the emperor of the favor he had received from God--water for his perishing Twelfth Legion--through the prayers of the Christian soldiers
Optional Memorial of St. Raymond of Pennafort, 1175-1275; born in Spain, a relative of the King of Aragon; finished studies early and became a teacher, but gave it up to join the Dominicans; along with King James of Aragon and St. Peter Nolasco, he founded the Order of Our Lady of Ransom, who were devoted to saving poor Christians captured by Moors
Saint of the Day: St. Peter of Canterbury; Benedictine monk who accompanied St. Augustine of Canterbury on his mission to England in 597; became the first abbot of the Canterbury monastery
Memorial of St. John Neumann, 1811-1860; born in what is now the Czech Republic, and came to New York at 25; ordained a priest, and joined the Redemptorists; did missionary work in Maryland, Virginia, and Ohio; as bishop of Philadelphia, he organized the parochial school system into a diocesan one, and drew many teaching religious to the city
Memorial of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1774-1821; founded the first American religious community for women; opened the first American parish school; established the first American Catholic orphanage; first American-born citizen to be canonized a saint
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