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Saint of the Day (January 14) ✠  Saint Devasahayam Pillai ✠ Born: April 23, 1712, Nattalam, India Died: January 14, 1752, Aralvaimozhi, India Place of burial: St. Xavier's Cathedral, Nagercoil, India Spouse: Gnanapoo Resting place: Kottar, Nagercoil, India Canonized: 15 May 2022, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Francis Patronage: India; Persecuted Christians Venerated in: Catholic Church Fest  : January  14 Neelakandan Pillai was born into an affluent Hindu Nair family in Nattalam in the present-day Kanyakumari District on 23 April 1712. His father, Vasudevan Namboodiri, who was a Namboodiri Brahmin from Kayamkulam in present-day Kerala state, was a priest at the Adikesava Perumal Temple in Thiruvattar, in present-day Kanyakumari district of neighbouring Tamil Nadu. Neelakandan's mother, Devaki Amma, hailed from Thiruvattar in Kanyakumari District. In accordance with the matrilineal tradition of the Nairs of the day, he was...

    Saint of the Day (January 14) ✠ Saint Felix of Nola ✠ Born : c. early 3rd century Nola, Campania, Italy Died : c. 250 Nola, Campania, Italy Venerated in : Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Canonized Pre-Congregation Feast : 14 January Patronage : Nola, Italy, spiders, keepers of spiders Felix was the son of Hermias, a Syrian who had been a Roman soldier. He was born on his father’s estate at Nola near Naples, Italy. On the death of his father, Felix distributed his inheritance to the poor, was ordained by Bishop St. Maximus of Nola, and became his assistant. When Maximus fled to the desert at the beginning of Decius’ persecution of the Christians in 250, Felix was seized in his stead and imprisoned. He was reputedly released from prison by an angel, who directed him to the ailing Maximus, whom he brought back to Nola. Even after Decius’ death in 251, Felix was a hunted man but kept well hidden until the persecution ended. Wh...

Saint of the Day (January 14) ✠ St. Felix of Nola ✠ Born : c. early 3rd century Nola, Campania, Italy Died : c. 250[1] Nola, Campania, Italy Venerated in : Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Canonized Pre-Congregation Feast : 14 January Patronage : Nola, Italy, spiders, keepers of spiders Felix was the son of Hermias, a Syrian who had been a Roman soldier. He was born on his father’s estate at Nola near Naples, Italy. On the death of his father, Felix distributed his inheritance to the poor, was ordained by Bishop St. Maximus of Nola, and became his assistant. When Maximus fled to the desert at the beginning of Decius’ persecution of the Christians in 250, Felix was seized in his stead and imprisoned. He was reputedly released from prison by an angel, who directed him to the ailing Maximus, whom he brought back to Nola. Even after Decius’ death in 251, Felix was a hunted man...

Saint of the Day (January 14) ✠ Blessed Devasahayam Pillai ✠ Born: April 23, 1712, Palliyadi, India Died: January 14, 1752, Aralvaimozhi, India Spouse: Gnanapoo Canonized: Will be canonized on 15 May 2022, in Vatican City by Pope Francis Resting place: Kottar, Nagercoil, India Patronage: India; Persecuted Christians Pope Francis approved the Sainthood of an Indian martyr, Blessed Lazarus, called Devasahayam Pillai. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints announced the canonization on November 9. Pope Francis will canonize Blessed Devasahayam Pillai and six other Blesseds during a Canonisation Mass in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on May 15, 2022. Who is this Devasahayam Pillai? Full movie  https://youtu.be/u65BCTWC5xY The saint-to-be Devasahayam Pillai is an 18th-century Hindu married man who converted to Catholicism.   Devasahayam Pillai was born in 1712 in the hamlet called Nattalam of V...