Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo
Doctor of the Virginity of Mary Today is the feast of Saint Ildephonsus, Archbishop of Toledo (+ 23 January 667). Dom Guéranger calls him the...
Saint Antony of the Desert, Father of Monks
Saint Antony and Signor Siciliano Isn’t this a wonderful painting of Saint Antony? Flemish Jan Gossaert painted it in Rome in 1508 as the right...
Wreathe the Door of Thy Heart
December 26 Saint Stephen the Protomartyr The painting is by Blessed Fra Angelico (1400-1455). Blessed Fra Angelico’s paintings are theological; they are a holy preaching...
Saint Bruno
Saint Bruno at the Cinema Curiously, Saint Bruno, the father of those who love solitude, found himself very much in the media in recent years....
Blessed Bartolo Longo
Blessed Bartolo Longo There is a marvelous figure of holiness inscribed on the calendar today: Blessed Bartolo Longo, the great Apostle of the Rosary and...