The birth of Saint John the Baptist is told in the Gospel according to Luke, where it serves as a bridge between the Old Testament and...
Mary was called the Magdalene because she was a woman of Mag’dala, a village in Galilee. In the Gospels it is said that Jesus cast...
On July 25th we honour Saint James the Apostle, usually described in the Gospels as “the brother of John” but also known as James “the...
On September 29 we celebrate those mysterious beings which Scripture calls “angels,” a name which comes from the Greek word for...
On October 10 we commemorate Paulinus, a Roman monk who was made a bishop in the year 625 and sent to the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of...
On October 28 we commemorate Saint Simon and Saint Jude, whose names appear in the New Testament on every list of the twelve apostles....
On this day we commemorate Simon Gibbons, who was the first of the Inuit nation to be ordained as an Anglican priest and whose ministry...
On April 21 we remember Anselm, a brilliant theologian who was archbishop of Canterbury from the year 1093, until his death sixteen...
Few saints have been as widely popular as the martyr named George, a Roman soldier who suffered for the faith in the early fourth...
On May 19 we honour the memory of Dunstan, who was the greatest archbishop of Canterbury in the century before the Norman Conquest....
On July 25 we honour Saint James the Apostle, usually described in the Gospels as “the brother of John” but also known as James “the...
An account of Jesus’ transfiguration on the mount is included in each of the first three Gospels, and in each one it serves as an...
Mary is honoured because she was the Mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God — and because the Gospels testify that she was a virgin...
Early in the fourth century the emperor Constantine took the Christian Church under his protection, and to show his imperial...
Teresa of Avila October 15 Spiritual Teacher and Reformer, 1582 — Commemoration Teresa of Avila was a Spanish nun of the...
On October 28 we commemorate Saint Simon and Saint Jude, whose names appear in the New Testament on every list of the twelve...
Nicholas was a fourth-century bishop of Myra, a town in what is now southwestern Turkey, and we remember him because of the stories...
