EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY FAMILY

Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nation Builder Desmond Tutu was born October 7, 1931, and died December 26, 2021. In 1984 Tutu received the Nobel...

William Porcher DuBose William Porcher DuBose was born into a wealthy Huguenot family in South Carolina in 1836. He was educated at the...

Frances Joseph Gaudet, Educator and Prison Reformer Frances was born in a log cabin, in Holmes Mississippi. While she was still young,...

Dorothy Day, Prophetic Witness, 1897-1980 Born in Brooklyn, New York Dorothy Day worked as a journalist for radical newspapers in the...

Trail of Tears In 1838 4,000 Cherokee died in their forced relocation from the land that the Cherokee called “The Trail of Tears, called...

Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Cassino, 480-547 Benedict was born in the town of Nursia, near Rome. At the age of 20 he left home and...

Chief Seattle 1786-1866 Seattle was born in a Suquamish village along the Puget Sound. As a child he witnessed the first white people in...

Thomas Merton Contemplative and Writer, 1915-1968 Thomas Merton pursued the ideals of pleasure and freedom in early adulthood only to...

St. David of Wales, Bishop of Wales, 588 Saint David was a Welsh bishop during the sixth century. He was born around 462 t0 512. He is...

Holy Abbots of Cluny 10th/11th c. The monastery of Cluny was a center for the reform and the renewal of Western monasticism in the 10th...

Brigid of Kildare Abbess and Patroness of Ireland Brigid was most highly valued and venerated next to St. Patrick. She consecrated her...

John Cassian, Abbot John Cassian struggled with the problems of living the Christian life in a time when the world seemed to be falling...

Clive Staples Lewis C S Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was a British writer and lay theologian, who held academic...

Margaret of Scotland Queen of Scotland Pious and energetic, Margaret did much to improve the religious lot of Scots in Scotland. She...

Simeon Stylites The son of a shepherd. Simeon was expelled because of his extreme asceticism, so he became a hermit. He achieved...

The Holy Innocents After the Magi visited the Holy Family and departed, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream. The angel instructed him...

Nicholas of Myra Nicholas of Myra Nicholas suffered torture and imprisonment during the persecution under Emperor Diocletian. Nicholas is...

Mary has been venerated by the Christian church from the earliest days. The familiar Christmas story testifies to the conviction that...

St. Joseph, Father Guardian of the Infant Jesus Joseph was a religious Jew, who belonged to the House of David and a carpenter by trade....

Feast of Christ the King Sunday Instituted in 1925 by Pope Paul IX as a precursor to the Advent Season of the Church. The key word in the...