Welcome St. Stephen The First Martyr Parish is entrusted as a personal parish to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), an apostolic society instituted by Pope John Paul II in 1988 to offer the sacred liturgy in all of its solemnity according to the Latin liturgical books of 1962. ...
St. Justin Martyr (born c. 100, Flavia Neapolis, Palestine [now Nāblus]—died c. 165, Rome [Italy]; feast day June 1) was one of the most important of the Greek philosopher-Apologists in the early Christian church. His writings represent one of the first positive encounters of Christian...
Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, SpainThe Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. The church is believed to house the relics of St. James the Greater. According to tradition, James traveled to Spain to preach the gospel before returning to Judaea and becoming amartyr. This trad...
St. Joan of Arc - French Heroine, Martyr, Trial: On her way back to Compiègne, Joan heard that John of Luxembourg, the captain of a Burgundian company, had laid siege to the city. Hurrying on, she entered Compiègne under cover of darkness. The next aft
St. Thomas Becket - Martyr, Archbishop, Canterbury: For almost a year after the death of Theobald, the see of Canterbury was vacant. Thomas was aware of the king’s intention and tried to dissuade him by warnings of what would happen. Henry persisted and
St. Stephen was a Christian deacon in Jerusalem who is believed to have been the first Christian martyr. His defense of his faith before the Sanhedrin prior to being stoned to death points to a distinct strand of belief in early Christianity. He is the p
Saint Lucy, virgin martyr who was one of the earliest Christian saints to achieve popularity. Because of various traditions associating her name with light, she came to be thought of as the patron of sight and was depicted by medieval artists carrying a
This philosophy threatened to split the early church by denying the incarnation of God in Christ—thus rejecting the doctrine of the Trinity—partly on the ground that physical matter is evil. Apologists of the 2nd century like Justin Martyr, Theophilus, and Athenagoras went as far as they ...
Ignatius’s desire to become amartyris also linked with his understanding of union with Christ. To be a perfectdiscipleof Christ means to imitate Christ in his Passion, to share in it, to be united with Christ in suffering. Many times in his letters Ignatius accuses himself of being imperfe...
This philosophy threatened to split the early church by denying the incarnation of God in Christ—thus rejecting the doctrine of the Trinity—partly on the ground that physical matter is evil. Apologists of the 2nd century like Justin Martyr, Theophilus, and Athenagoras went as far as they ...