Category: Saintmaker Liturgical Life - Page 6

Low Sunday, Divine Mercy Sunday, or White Sunday for the newly baptized who anciently removed baptismal robes on this day.

St. Anthony is patron of sailors, pregnant women, amputees, fishermen, and the poor. He is invoked to find lost objects.

St. Rita’s childbirth was surrounded by miraculous events. She was a holy and devout Augustinian sister who died in 1457.

Dymphna was born in the 8th century in Ireland to a pagan king whose wife became a Christian. She was murdered by her own father.

Not on the modern liturgical calendars, the feast and its eve (Walpurgisnacht) is a great holiday in many European countries.

Traditional days of prayer and fasting, taking place on April 25th and the three days before the feast of the Ascension.

Little is known about St. George, but he has been venerated widely and has had an outsized effect on history.

Also called “Lady Day”, it was this day on which Gabriel announced that Our Lord would enter the world.

The Church waits at the Lord’s tomb, meditating on his suffering and death. Easter celebrations begin after the Vigil.

Today the whole Church mourns the death of our Savior. It is a day of sadness, spent in fasting and prayer.