IN LUMINE FIDEI

Wenceslaus, duke of Bohemia, was born of a Christian father, Wratislaus, and a pagan mother, Drahomira. Brought up in piety by the holy w...

The brothers Cosmas and Damian were Arabians of noble extraction, born in the town of Aegae. They were physicians, and during the reign...

Dom Prosper Guéranger: The paralytic carrying his bed is the subject of this day’s Gospel, and gives the eighteenth Sunday after Pentec...

Cyprian, who was first a magician and afterwards a martyr, attempted by charms and spells to make Justina, a Christian virgin, consent ...

 Photo by comx on Freeimages.com   Lesson – Luke xiii. 6 – 13 He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his v...

Photo by comx on Freeimages.com   Epistle – Osee xiv. 2‒10 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God: for you have fallen down by your ini...

Photo by comx on Freeimages.com   Lesson – Mark ix. 16–28 And one of the multitude, answering, said: “Master, I have brought my son to...

Dom Prosper Gu é ranger: While honouring the first successor of Saint Peter, Rome commemorates the proto-martyr of the female sex. Together...

Pope Linus was born at Volterra in Tuscany, and was the first to succeed Saint Peter in the government of the Church. His faith and holines...

Thomas was born at Fuenllana, a town in the diocese of Toledo in Spain, in 1488. From his earliest youth his excellent parents instilled ...

Matthew, also named Levi, was an apostle and evangelist. He was sitting in the custom house at Capharnaum when called by Jesus, whom h...