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Located in Cincinnati, Ohio, Franciscan Media is a not-for-profit limited liability corporation (LLC) owned, financed, and operated by the Franciscan Friars of St. John the Baptist, a province of the worldwide Order of Friars Minor. Father Dan Kroger, OFM, is the CEO of Franciscan Media. The Franciscans came to Cincinnati in 1844 from Tyrol ...
15 Martin Luther King Jr., renewer of society, martyr, 1968 (Commemoration) R – ELCA. 16. 17 Anthony of Egypt, renewer of the church, c. 356 (Commemoration) W – ELCA. Pachomius, renewer of the church, 346 (Commemoration) W – ELCA. 18 Confession of Peter (W) Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Begins - ELCA.
30 June: Saint Paul the Apostle, Titular and Principal Patron of the Order – Feast. 5 July: Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria, priest and founder – Solemnity. 11 October: Saint Alexander Sauli, bishop – Memorial. Saturday before the Third Sunday of November: Our Lady, Mother of Divine Providence – Solemnity.
A medieval manuscript fragment of Finnish origin, c. 1340 –1360, utilized by the Dominican convent at Turku, showing the liturgical calendar for the month of June. The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.
Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone (c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, [b] was an Italian [c] mystic, poet, and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty, he became a beggar [7] and itinerant preacher.
August 27 (Pre-1969 General Roman Calendar) Joseph Calasanz Sch.P. (Spanish: José de Calasanz; Italian: Giuseppe Calasanzio), (September 11, 1557 – August 25, 1648), also known as Joseph Calasanctius and Iosephus a Matre Dei, was a Spanish Catholic priest, educator and the founder of the Pious Schools, which provided free education to poor boys.
This is an incomplete list of people and angels whom the Catholic Church has canonized as saints.According to Catholic theology, all saints enjoy the beatific vision.Many of the saints listed here are to be found in the General Roman Calendar, while others may also be found in the Roman Martyrology; [1] still others are particular to local places and their recognition does not extend to the ...
Scholastica is the patron saint of Benedictine nuns, education, and convulsive children, and is invoked against storms and rain. Her feast is celebrated on 10 February. [4] Saint Scholastica's Day bears special importance in the Benedictine monastic calendar. [9]