Alphabetical Catholic patron saint list featuring Catholic gifts associated with each. A meaningful gift for any occasion! 545
Saints are held in such regard that Catholics will often pray to them in order to request their aid. With the exception of the archangels, Saints were ordinary people, who lived ordinary lives. During their lives, each and every saint was considered to be a positive...
He descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father; from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, ...
Although his father, Henry VIII, had severed the link between the Church and Rome, Henry VIII had never permitted the renunciation of Catholic doctrine or ceremony. It was during Edward's reign that Protestantism was established for the first time in England with reforms that included the ...
when the Church declared the teaching of Thomas to be her own and that Doctor, honored with the special praises of the Pontiffs, the master and patron of Catholic schools." The English philosopher Anthony Kenny considers Thomas to be "one of the dozen greatest philosophers of the western ...
Rome, often referred to as the Eternal City, is a central hub for Christian pilgrimage, largely due to its status as the center of the Catholic Church and its connection to early Christian saints such as Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Pilgrims walking the famous Via Francigena have been journey...
MONEYMORE AND DRAPERSTOWN. The Architecture and Planning of the Ulster Estates of the DRAPERS’ COMPANY(Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1979). Non-ISBN A Celebration of Death. An introduction to some of the buildings, monuments, and settings of funerary architecture in the Western ...
Ajax is the name of a strong and courageous Greek hero featured in Homer’s “Iliad,” known as Ajax the Great. Akakios Akakios means “innocent, not evil”. Akakios was the name of three early saints, two of whom were martyred. Alastair Alastair means “defender of the people” and ...
Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, and students in various cities and countries around Europe. His reputation evolved among the faithful, as was common for early Christian saints, and his legendary habit of secret...
He followed the Variations with a choral work, The Dream of Gerontius (1900), based on a Roman Catholic text that caused some disquiet in the Anglican establishment in Britain, but it became, and has remained, a core repertory work in Britain and elsewhere. His later full-length religious ...