All Entries in the "Patron Saints" Category
Blessed Virgin Mary
A brief story of Mary’s Life….
All alone, Anne went into the garden and sat down beneath the laurel tree. Looking toward the heavens, she saw a nest of sparrows in the tree. Fresh tears welled up in her eyes. How she longed to have a child of her own. Anne entreated the Lord, saying” Woe [...]
Saint Anne
St. Anne we have no certain knowledge. She is not mentioned in the New Testament, and we must depend on apocryphal literature, chiefly the Protoevangelium of James, which dates back only to the second century.
Saint Joachim
St. Joachim was a man of Galilee, husband of Anne, and both he and Anne were in the decline of life when Mary was born. Tradition says that while Joachim was away from home he had a vision that Anne was to be blessed with a child, and that on his return home, his wife [...]
Saint Lorenzo Ruiz
FILIPINO SAINT
Sanctity is a note of the true Church, of the Catholic Church. It can flourish and shine in Asia as well as in other continents. It is the fecundity of the Cross that gives to the Church its eternal youth, so that from all races and cultures the seeds of the gospel develops and [...]