Category: Saints

Evviva Sant’Antonio!

Six years ago at this time I was in my beloved ancestral town of Piedimonte–Matese for the procession of the relics of Sant’Antonio. This is...

Bernadette

Her Feast Today, February 18th, is the feast of Saint Bernadette.  I have long cherished the Collect for her feast: O God, protector and friend...

A Remarkable Discovery

A Letter Attributed to Saint Scholastica, Virgin and Abbess A certain researcher in Rome recently uncovered the manuscript of a late medieval copy of an...

Ad aeterna tabernacula festinare

The Cross, the Passion, and the Most Holy Eucharist Today’s Saint Silvester Guzzolini (1177-1267), founder of the so-called Blue Benedictines (from the colour of their...