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Saint of the Day Feast: January 27 ✠ Saint Angela Merici ✠ founder of the Ursuline order, the oldest religious order of women in the Roman Catholic Church dedicated to the education of girls. BORN March 21, 1470 Desenzano, Italy DIED January 27, 1540 Brescia, Italy Orphaned young, she went to Salo to live in the home of an uncle. Later she joined the Third Order of St. Francis. At the age of 20 she returned to Desenzano, where she gathered about her a group of girls who taught the catechism to the children of the village. In 1506, while praying in the fields of Brudazzo, Angela had a vision in which she was told that she would found a society of virgins at Brescia. The citizens of Brescia came to regard her as a prophet and a saint. On November 25, 1535, at Brescia, Angela and 28 companions consecrated themselves to God by a vow of virginity, and the Company of St. Ursula was born. Angela drew up her rule in 1536, which provided for the Christian educat...

Saint of the Day (January 23) ✠ Saint Marianne Cope ✠ Born: January 23, 1838, Heppenheim, Germany Died: August 9, 1918, Kalaupapa, Hawaii, United States Patronage: Lepers, outcasts, those with HIV/AIDS, Hawaiʻi Feast: January 23 (Roman Catholic Church); April 15 (Episcopal Church (United States)) Resting place: Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Honolulu, Hawaii Canonized: October 21, 2012, Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI Parents: Peter Koob, Barbara Witzenbacher St Marianne Cope O.S.F. also known as Saint Marianne of Molokaʻi- (Born Maria Anna Barbara Koob in 1838-died 1918 aged 80) Virgin, Religious, Missionary to lepers – Patron of Lepers, outcasts, those with HIV/AIDS, Hawai’i. St Marianne was a German-born American nun who was a member of the Sisters of St Francis of Syracuse, New York and administrator of its St. Joseph’s Hospital in the city. Known also for her charitable works, in 1883 she relocated with six other Sisters to Hawaiʻi to...

Saint of the Day (January 23) ✠ Saint John the Almsgiver ✠ Born: 550 at Arnathus, Cyprus Died: 616 at Arnathus, Cyprus Feast: 12 November (Orthodox); 23 January (Roman Catholic); 11 November (Coptic Orthodox) Canonized: Pre-Congregation Patron of: Knights Hospitaller Patriarch of Alexandria (606-16), b. at Amathus in Cyprus about 550; d. there, 616. He was the son of one Epiphanius, governor of Cyprus, and was of noble descent; in early life he was married and had children, but they and his wife soon died, whereupon he entered the religious life. On the death of the Patriarch Theodorus, the Alexandrians besought Emperor Phocas to appoint John his successor, which was accordingly done. In his youth John had had a vision of a beautiful maiden with a garland of olives on her head, who said that she was Compassion, the eldest daughter of the Great King. This had evidently made a deep impression on John's mind, and, now that he had the oppor...

Saint of the Day (January 23) ✠Saint John the Almsgiver ✠ Born: 550 at Arnathus, Cyprus Died: 616 at Arnathus, Cyprus Feast: 12 November (Orthodox); 23 January (Roman Catholic); 11 November (Coptic Orthodox) Canonized: Pre-Congregation Patron of: Knights Hospitaller Patriarch of Alexandria (606-16), b. at Amathus in Cyprus about 550; d. there, 616. He was the son of one Epiphanius, governor of Cyprus, and was of noble descent; in early life he was married and had children, but they and his wife soon died, whereupon he entered the religious life. On the death of the Patriarch Theodorus, the Alexandrians besought Emperor Phocas to appoint John his successor, which was accordingly done. In his youth John had had a vision of a beautiful maiden with a garland of olives on her head, who said that she was Compassion, the eldest daughter of the Great King. This had evidently made a deep impression on John's mind, and, now that he had the opportunity of exercisi...