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St Edmund Campion Celebrated on December 1st (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) Born around 1540, Edmund Campion was the son of a London bookseller and educated at Christ’s hospital. He won a scholarship to St John’s College Oxford in 1557, where he was a brilliant...

A film made of Saint John Paul II’s visit to the UK .

St Simon and Jude Celebrated on October 28th (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) Apostles and martyrs. According to Matthew and Mark, Simon was a Canaanite. St Luke described him as a zealot. St Jude is also described as a relative of Jesus and the brother of James...

Blessed Contardo Ferrini Celebrated on October 26th (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) Layman, academic and teacher. Born in Milan in 1859, Contardo Ferrini was the son of a teacher. He first studied law, achieving a doctorate. He then won a scholarship and went on...

St Antony Claret Celebrated on October 24th (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) Archbishop of Cuba and founder of the Claretians. St Antony was born in 1809 in northern Spain. As a young man he worked with his father as a weaver, before joining the seminary at Vich...

St John Paul II Celebrated on October 22nd (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) ‘Do not be afraid’ was the most often-used Biblical quote of Pope John Paul II. Karol Józef Wojtyła was born in the Polish town of Wadowice, a small town 50 kilometres from Krakow, on 18...

St Hilarion Celebrated on October 21st (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) Abbot and monastic pioneer of Palestine. St Hilarion was born in 291 in Gaza. He studied at Alexandria, where he became a Christian. After the death of his parents, he gave all he owned to his...

St Maria Boscardin Celebrated on October 20th (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) Nurse and nun. St Maria was born in 1888 to a poor Italian family in Brendola in northern Italy. Her father was a violent alcoholic. She was considered not very bright at school, and was...

St Jean de Brebeuf and Companions Celebrated on October 19th (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) Jesuit priest and martyr of Canada. Born in 1593 in Normandy, Brebeuf became a Jesuit in Rouen in 1617. His health was so weakened by TB he was not able to study or teach...

St Luke Celebrated on October 18th (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) Patron of artists and doctors. All we know of St Luke comes from the New Testament. He was a Greek physician, and accompanied St Paul on some of his missionary journeys. According to tradition he...

St John the Dwarf Celebrated on October 17th (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) St John lived sometime in the 5th century. As a young man, he went into the Egyptian desert to become a hermit. He believed that in order to achieve spiritual perfection he should pray...

St Margaret Mary Alacoque Celebrated on October 16th (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) Born on 2 July 1647 Margaret Mary Alacoque was a French Roman Catholic Visitation Sister and mystic, who promoted devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in its modern form. Her...

St Teresa of Avila Celebrated on October 15th (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) Foundress of the reformed (Discalced) Carmelites. St Teresa was born in 1515 to an aristocratic family in Avila. As a child she showed precocious piety by playing at hermitages with her...

St Callistus Celebrated on October 14th (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) This early Pope was born a slave, served sentence as a convict, was the champion of forgiveness and died for his Christian faith. Callistus was a slave owned by a Roman Christian called...

St Edward the Confessor Celebrated on October 13th (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) King of England. Born in 1003, Edward was the son of Ethelred the Unready and his Norman wife Emma. He was educated at Ely and then in exile in Normandy, while two Scandinavian...