FEAST OF SAINT JOHN PAUL II, POPE FEAST DAY – 22nd OCTOBER Karol Wojtyła – “Lolek” to his family and friends – learned a great deal […]

FEAST OF SAINT HILARION  FEAST DAY – 21st OCTOBER Hilarion the Great (291–371) was an anchorite who spent most of his life in the desert according […]

FEAST OF SAINT PAUL OF THE CROSS FEAST DAY – 20th OCTOBER Saint Paul of the Cross, originally named Paolo Francesco Danei, was born on 3 […]

SAINTS ISAAC JOGUES, JOHN DE BREBEUF AND COMPANIONS MARTYRS FEAST DAY – 19th OCTOBER French Jesuits were the first missionaries to go to Canada and North […]

FEAST OF ST LUKE THE EVANGELIST FEAST DAY – 18th OCTOBER Luke the Evangelist is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of the […]

FEAST OF SAINT IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH FEAST DAY – 17th OCTOBER St. Ignatius of Antioch has been well-known since earliest times. He was born in the […]

FEAST OF SAINT GERARD MAJELLA FEAST DAY – 16th OCTOBER St. Gerard Majella is was born in 1726 in Muro, Italy to a family of seven. […]

SAINT MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE FEAST DAY – 16th OCTOBER St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was born in the Diocese of Autun (France) on July 22, 1647, the […]

SAINT TERESA OF AVILA FEAST DAY – 15th OCTOBER Teresa was born in Avila, Spain, on March 28, 1515. Two years after she was born, Luther […]

SAINT CALLISTUS I FEAST DAY – 14th OCTOBER Pope Callixtus, also called Callistus I, was the bishop of Rome from c. 218 to his death c. […]

SAINT EDWARD THE CONFESSOR FEAST DAY – 13th OCTOBER Edward the Confessor, (1003 – 1066) the son of King Ethelred III and his Norman wife, Emma, […]

FEAST OF BLESSED CARLO ACUTIS, CYBER APOSTLE OF THE EUCHARIST FEAST DAY – 12th OCTOBER Carlo Acutis (3 May 1991 – 12 October 2006) was an […]

FEAST OF SAINT JOHN XXIII, POPE, FORMER HEAD OF THE CHURCH FEAST DAY – 11th OCTOBER Pope John XXIII (25 November 1881 – 3 June 1963) […]

SAINT FRANCIS BORGIA, CONFESSOR  FEAST DAY – 10th OCTOBER  St. Francis Borgia, a bright example of virtue, both for ecclesiastics and laymen, was born in 1510, […]

FEAST OF SAINT JOHN LEONARDI – FEAST DAY – 9th OCTOBER  Today’s saint was among that first wave of post Council of Trent priests and founders […]

SAINT PELAGIA THE VIRGIN MARTYR OF ANTIOCH AND SAINT PELAGIA THE PENITENT – 8th OCTOBER  Today, October 8, the Church marks the feast day of two […]

MEMORIAL OF SAINT BRUNO, CARTHUSIAN ORDER FOUNDER – 6th OCTOBER St. Bruno (1030-1101) was born to a noble and prominent family in Cologne, Germany. He was […]

FEAST OF SAINT MARIA FAUSTINA KOWALSKA, APOSTLE OF DIVINE MERCY FEAST DAY – 5th OCTOBER Maria Faustyna Kowalska (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 […]

FEAST OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI – 4th OCTOBER Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, better known as Saint Francis of Assisi (Italian: Francesco d’Assisi; c. 1181 – […]

FEAST OF SAINT THÉODORE GUÉRIN FOUNDRESS AND SUPERIOR GENERAL FEAST DAY – 3rd OCTOBER Saint Théodore (Anne Thérèse) Guerin was born on Oct. 2, 1798, in […]