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Saint of the Day (November 18) ✠ St. Rose Philippine Duchesne ✠ French Religious Sister and Foundress: Born: August 29, 1769 Grenoble, Dauphiné, Kingdom of France Died: November 18, 1852 (Aged 83) St. Charles, Missouri, U.S. Venerated in: Roman Catholic Church (The United States & the Society of the Sacred Heart) Beatified: May 12, 1940 Pope Pius XII Canonized: July 3, 1988 Pope John Paul II Major shrine: Shrine of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, St. Charles, Missouri, United States Feast: November 18 Patronage: Perseverance amid adversity, Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau Rose Philippine Duchesne, was a French religious sister and educator who was declared a saint of the Catholic Church. Along with the foundress, Madeleine-Sophie Barat, she was a prominent early member of the Religious Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and founded the congregation's first communities in the United States. She spent the last half of her life teaching and se...

Saint of the Day  (November 14)  ✠ St. Joseph Mary Pignatelli ✠  Spanish Priest and Restorer of the Society of Jesus:  Born: December 27, 1737 Zaragoza, Spain  Died: November 15, 1811 (Aged 73) Rome, First French Empire  Venerated in: Catholic Church (Society of Jesus)  Beatified: May 21, 1933 Pope Pius XI  Canonized: May 12, 1954 Pope Pius XII  Major shrine: Church of the Gesù, Piazza del Gesù, Rome, Italy  Feast: November 14  Saint Joseph Mary Pignatelli, S.J. was a Spanish priest who was the unofficial leader of the Jesuits in exile in Sardinia, after the suppression of the Society of Jesus. Supervising its restoration, he is considered its second founder.  When St. Ignatius of Loyola established the Society of Jesus in the 16th century, he placed its members at the disposal of the popes. The Jesuit order thus became one of the chief agencies used by the bishops of Rome in their worldwide governance of the Church...

Saint of the Day (November 17) ✠ St. Elizabeth of Hungary ✠ Widow and Religious: Born: July 7, 1207 Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary (modern-day Bratislava, Slovakia) Died: November 17, 1231 (Aged 24) Marburg, Landgraviate of Thuringia, Holy Roman Empire (modern-day Hesse, Germany) Venerated in: Catholic Church Anglican Communion Lutheranism Canonized: May 27, 1235 Pope Gregory IX Major shrine: St Elisabeth Cathedral, Košice, Slovakia St. Elizabeth Church, Marburg, Germany Feast: November 17 Patronage: Hospitals, Nurses, Bakers, Brides, Countesses, Dying children, Exiles, Homeless people, Lace-makers, Widows, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jaro and the Third Order of Saint Francis Elizabeth of Hungary also known as Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia or Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia, was a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary, Landgravine of Thuringia, Germany, and a greatly venerated Catholic saint who was an early member of the Third Order of St. Francis, by which she...

Saint of the Day  (November 15)  ✠ St. Albertus Magnus ✠  Dominican Friar, Bishop, and Doctor of the Church:  Born: Before 1200 AD Lauingen, Duchy of Bavaria  Died: November 15, 1280 (Aged over 80) Cologne, Holy Roman Empire  Venerated in: Roman Catholic Church  Beatified: 1622 AD Pope Gregory XV  Canonized: 1931 AD Pope Pius XI  Major shrine: St. Andrew's Church, Cologne, Germany  Feast: November 15  Patronage: Medical Technologists/ Technicians; Natural Sciences; Philosophers; Scientists; Students; City of Cincinnati (Ohio)  Albertus Magnus, also known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a German Catholic Dominican friar and bishop. Later canonized as a Catholic saint, he was known during his lifetime as Doctor Universalis and Doctor experts and, late in his life, the sobriquet Magnus was appended to his name. Scholars such as James A. Weisheipl and Joachim R. Söder have referred to him as the gre...