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Saint of the Day - Saint Catherine Laboure

December 31, 2006 |

Saint Catherine Laboure (1876)

She was a religious of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. She was sent to a convent in Paris where Our Lady appeared to her three times in the year 1830, and gave her the inspiration for the beautiful miraculous Mary medal, which so many Catholics wear today. Saint Catherine Laboure is the saint of the Mary medal. Saint Dominic is the saint of the Rosary. Saint Simon Stock is the saint of the Scapular. Saint Francis of Assisi is the saint of the Christmas Crib. Saint Bernardine of Siena is the saint of the Holy Name. Saint Leonard of Port Maurice is the saint of the Stations of the Cross. Saint Paschal Baylon is the saint of the Blessed Sacrament. Saint Gaspar del Bufalo is the saint of the Most Precious Blood. Saint Margaret Mary is the saint of the Sacred Heart. Saint Louis Marie de Montfort is the saint of slavery to Mary. Saint Teresa of Avila is the saint of Saint Joseph. Saint Jerome is the saint of the Guardian Angels. Saint Therese of Lisieux is the saint of the Holy Face. We could go on and on, remembering the saints of the Catholic Church and what they especially stood for, but it is December 31 and we have come to the end of our book.

Saint Sylvester (335)

Saint Sylvester I was the thirty-fourth Pope. He was elected to the Chair of Saint Peter in 314, the year after the Emperor Constantine had ended the bloody persecution of the Catholic Church. Saint Sylvester was the Pope who instituted the first Roman Martyrology. He was very devoted to Church music. He is responsible for the Nicene Creed in the Mass and also put in the Mass the invocation Kyrie Eleison (Lord, have mercy). He was the Pope of the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea in 325, when Arius, a heretic who denied the Divinity of Jesus, was formally condemned.

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