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Saint of the Day  (October 26)  ✠ St. Alfred the Great ✠  King of the Anglo-Saxons:  Reign: April 23, 871 – October 26, 899  Predecessor: Æthelred  Successor: Edward the Elder  Born: 849 AD Wantage, Berkshire  Died: October 26, 899 (Around Age 50) Winchester  Feast: October 26  Alfred the Great was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.  King of the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex and one of the outstanding figures of English history, as much for his social and educational reforms as for his military successes against the Danes. He is the only English monarch known as 'the Great'.  Alfred was born at Wantage in Oxfordshire in 849, fourth or fifth son of Aethelwulf, king of the West Saxons. Following the wishes of their father, the sons succeeded to the kingship in turn. At a time when the country was under threat from Danish raids, this was aimed at preventing a child from inheriting the throne with the related weak...

Saint of the Day  (October 26)  ✠ St. Evaristus ✠  5th Pope:  Birth name: Evaristus or Aristus  Born: April 17, 44 Bethlehem, Judea  Died: 99 AD Rome, Roman Empire  Feast: October 26  Pope Saint Evaristus is accounted as the fifth Bishop of Rome, holding office from c. 99 to his death. He was also known as Aristus. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church.  Like the man/God he followed, Evaristus was a Jew, born in Bethlehem. His father, Juda, was of Greek origin but lived in Bethlehem, only a few miles from the temple in Jerusalem, the goal of all good Jews. Evidently, Juda moved his family from the town, probably just before the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD.  Little is known about Evaristus, as is common among our first popes. They did not rule over Rome as we would like to believe. They were in hiding or working one on one with other new Christians and their communique was no...