Saint of the Day: St. Brigid of Ireland, 451-525; there are many stories of her purity in childhood; her father intended to sell her to the king of Leinster, but the king saw that “her merit before God is greater than ours”; made a vow of chastity, and prayed that her beauty would be taken so that nobody would want to marry her; her beauty was restored when she made her final vows
Saint of the Day: St. Bathildis, 626-680; born in England, enslaved, and taken to the Frankish kingdom; married King Clovis II in 649; founded a Benedictine convent and St. Denis Monastery
Saint of the Day: St. Dallan Forgaill; kinsman of St. Edan of Ferns; great scholar who became blind; wrote a poem honoring St. Columba, and when it was published, his sight was restored; murdered by pirates in 598 A.D.
Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274; priest and Doctor of the Church; his greatest contribution was his writings; the unity, harmoney and continuity of faith and reason, of revealed and natural human knowledge, pervades his writings
Optional Memorial of St. Angela Merici, 1474-1540; founded the first teaching congregation of women, the Company of St. Ursula, and in so doing, founded the first of what is now known as a “secular institute”
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