

The Catholic Defender: Saint Patrick
By the time St. Patrick became a young to middle teenager (14-16) he was kidnapped by pirates who sold him into slavery in Ireland. St....


The Catholic Defender: Saint Patrick
Growing up in mid-America in the 1960's what I remember most about St. Patrick was when March 17 rolled on around, you better wear green...


The Catholic Defender: Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer
Born in 1751, the youngest of twelve children, Clement was six years old when his father died. His great desire was to become a priest,...


The Catholic Defender: Eucharistic Miracle of AVIGNON FRANCE, 1433
On November 30, 1433 a small church run by the Gray Penitents of the Franciscan Order was exposing a consecrated Host for Perpetual...