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Feast Day: March 17 St. Patrick of Ireland is one of the world's most popular saints. The person who was to become St. Patrick was born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387 to wealthy parents.  His given name was Maewyn. Although his father possibly was a Christian deacon, there is no…

Legend states that Valentine, along with St. Marius, aided the Christian martyrs during the Claudian persecution. In addition to his other edicts against helping Christians, Claudius had also issued a decree forbidding marriage. In order to increase troops for his army, he forbade young men to marry, believing that single men made better soldiers than…

April 25 is the feast of St. Mark, one of the companions of the apostles and the author of one of the gospels. St. Mark is commonly identified as: The figure John Mark from the book of Acts The figure referred to in St. Paul's epistles simply as "Mark" The figure in St. Peter's epistles…

Forty days after the birth of Christ, Mary complied with the precept of the Mosaic law for purification after the birth of a child. She redeemed her first-born from the temple (Numbers 18:15) and was purified by the prayer of Simeon the just, in the presence of Anna the prophetess (Luke 2:22.). No doubt this…