St. Thomas the Apostle
St. Thomas, the disciple who at first did not believe, has become for the Church one of the first witnesses to her faith.
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St. Martha
Born of noble and wealthy parents, St. Martha is still more illustrious for the hospitality she gave to Christ our Lord.
St. Anne
St. Anne and her husband St. Joachim had the great honor of bringing into the world Our Lady, God’s greatest Saint.
St. James the Greater
St. James and his younger brother, St. John, were called as disciples just after Simon Peter and Andrew were called.
St. Mary Magdalene
The feast of St. Mary Magdalen is considered a very mystical feast because her love for our Lord was so strong.
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
Mary is said to have given the Brown Scapular to an early Carmelite named Saint Simon Stock (1165-1265).
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The feast commemorates the visit of Our Lady to her cousin Elizabeth and the sanctification of John the Baptist.
The Most Precious Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ
The feast of the Precious Blood of our Lord was instituted in 1849 by Pius IX, but the devotion is as old as Christianity.
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius centered his spiritual life on the Trinity, Christ, and the Eucharist—and founded the Jesuit order.