St. Anysia - December 30th Anysia lived in Thessalonica, an ancient city to which St. Paul himself had first brought the faith of Jesus. Any...

St. Thomas Becket – December 29th Thomas was born in London and after his parents died, he went to work in an office. As a young man, he lov...

The Holy Innocents – December 28th When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the Wise Men came from the East to worship Him. They went to Herod, the...

St. John the Evangelist - Patron of Asia Minor - December 27th St. John was a fisherman in Galilee and was called to be an apostle with his ...

St. Stephen - Patron of Stonemasons - December 26th Stephen’s name means, “crown,” and he was the first disciple of Jesus to receive the mar...

St. Anastasia – December 25th This second Christmas Station dates from the 6th century, when there was on the Palatine at Rome a Byzantine g...

Christmas, the Birthday of Our Lord Jesus Christ – December 25th When the time had come in which the Son of God was to become man for love o...

Blessed Paula Cerioli – December 24th Paula’s name before she became a nun was Constance. She was the last of sixteen children born to an It...

St. Servulus – December 23rd From boyhood, this Saint of Rome had the disease called palsy. All his life, he was helpless. He could not stan...

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini – Patroness of Immigrants and Emigrants - December 22nd When Frances was a child growing up in Italy, she used to...