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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 o...

Saint of the Day (November 14) ✠ St. Lawrence O'Toole ✠ Lawrence was born in Ireland in 1128. He was the son of a chief. When he was only ten years old, a neighboring king made a raid on his father's territory and carried him away. The boy suffered for two years. Then his father forced the king to give him up to the care of a bishop. When he did, Lawrence's father hurried to see his son. He gratefully brought him home. The chief wanted one of his sons to enter the service of the Church. While he was wondering which one it might be, Lawrence told him with a laugh that he need not wonder anymore. "It is my desire," said Lawrence, "to have for my inheritance the service of God in the Church." So his father took him by the hand and gave him into the care of the bishop. Lawrence became a priest and the abbot of a great monastery. Once food became very scarce in the whole neighborhood of the monastery. The good abbot gave great qua...