Recipes for Saintly Living
Jacopo and Domenico Tintoretto St. Stephen, Deacon and Martyr, was born early in the first century likely into a Hellenistic (Greek influenced and Greek speaking) Jewish family. Stéphanos is a Greek name meaning crown....
Although St. Francis of Assisi died in the evening of October 3, 1226, his feast day is celebrated on October 4 due to a misalignment in the medieval and modern-era calendars. Technically, he’s my...
Jerome (Jerry) John Garcia was born in San Francisco, CA, on August 1, 1942. He died on August 9, 1995, when his big ol’ heart gave out on him in the middle of the...
Lúcia, Francisco, & Jacinta squinting in the sunlight (Originally posted on 2/20/2017 before Jacinta and Francisco Marto were canonized on May 13, 2017.) Blessed Jacinta, Blessed Francisco, and Sister Lúcia are three child visionaries...
St. Isaac the Syrian of Nineveh was born c. 613 in Beth Quatraye, near the Persian Gulf. He was a learned theologian, spiritual writer, and ascetic monk who served briefly as the Bishop of...
Although Margery Kempe is not a saint on any church calendar, she is honored as a Christian mystic in the Church of England on November 9 and in the Episcopal Church, along with Richard...
Domenico Beccafumi, Circa 1513-1515 St. Catherine of Siena was born on March 25, 1347, in Siena, Italy. She was a Christian mystic, theologian, spiritual mother, healer of spirit and body, Third Order Dominican, adviser of...
Oldest known portrait of “Brother Francis at Subiaco,” a mural painted in a sacred grotto called St. Benedict’s Cave during the years 1223-1224 St. Francis of Assisi is a beloved and well-known saint throughout the world....
Simone Martini, 1320, Basilica of San Francesco, Assisi St. Clare (Chiara Offreduccio) was born into nobility on July 16, 1194, in Assisi, Italy. She turned from that life to give herself to Jesus Christ...
James Theodore Holly was born on October 3, 1829, in Washington, DC, USA. He was one of the first three African-American bishops in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States and the first...
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