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Saint of the Day (January 12) ✠ St. Marguerite Bourgeoys ✠ Born: April 17, 1620, Troyes Died: January 12, 1700, Fort Ville-Marie, Montreal, Canada Place of burial: Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel Parents: Guillemette Garnier, Abraham Bourgeoys Books: The Writings of Marguerite Bourgeoys : Autobiography and Spiritual Testament Organizations founded: Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal, St Jean Baptiste High School Beatified: 12 November 1950 by Pope Pius XII Feast : 12 January Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys, who not only founded a religious congregation but was also instrumental in establishing the Canadian city of Montreal. Marguerite Bourgeoys was born on Good Friday of 1620 during a period of both colonial expansion and religious strife for Europe. She was the seventh of thirteen children born into the middle-class household of Abraham Bourgeoys, a candle-maker, and Guillemette Gamier, in the northeastern province of Champagne in France. B...

Saint of the Day (January 12) ✠ St. Benedict Biscop ✠ Born: 628 AD, Northumbria Died: January 12, 690 AD, Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey Feast: 12 January (Anglican & Catholic) Biscop Baducing was born in Northumbria in AD 628, of a noble English family. When quite a young man, he stood high in the Royal favour and was rewarded for his services to King Oswiu by the gift of a possession in land suitable to his rank. But, it would seem, to the astonishment of King and courtiers alike, when he was only twenty-five, and had all bright prospects opening out before him, "he lightly esteemed this transitory inheritance in order that he might obtain that which is eternal; he despised the warfare of this World, with its corruptible rewards, that he might be the soldier of the true King, and be thought worthy to possess an everlasting kingdom in the heavenly city. He forsook home, kindred and country for the sake of Christ and his gospel, that he might receive ...

Saint of the Day (January 12) ✠ St. Bernard of Corleone ✠ Born: February 6, 1605, Corleone, Italy Died: January 12, 1667, Palermo, Italy In the collective imagination, the figure of Bernard de Corleone  is that of a fairground brawler in the manner of Ludovico, the junkyard in Manzoni's novel. But this distorted image, taken from an old and banal biography does not correspond to the personality of Filippo Latino as Bernard was called before becoming a Capuchin. He was born in Corleone on February 6, 1605. His house, according to people, was a "house of saints". The fact is that the father, Leonardo, a skilful shoemaker and leather craftsman, spent himself in kindness towards the needy to the point of bringing them to his home to layer them, dress them new and restore them with exquisite charity. Filippo's brothers and sisters were also people of great virtue. He was therefore in a good school to learn young to practice char...