The Catholic Defender: The Saint Agatha Story
As in the case of Agnes, another virgin-martyr of the early Church, almost nothing is historically certain about this saint except that...
The Catholic Defender: St. Lucy, Pray For Us
“And I say to you, you are Kepa, and upon this Kepa I will build my church and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it”....
The Catholic Defender: St. Clement, The Third Successor Of St. Peter
With the death of St. Cletus (88 A.D.), St. Clement would be selected to be the third successor of St. Peter. Beginning with the Twelve...
The Catholic Defender: St. Peter: Leader Of The Twelve And Bishop Of Rome
St. Peter was raised a fisherman in the house of Bar-Jonah and Brother of St. Andrew. Born in Bethsaida, near Lake Tiberias he was well...
The Catholic Defender: St. Matthias Comes Off The Bench to Become an Apostle
Judas Iscariot betrayed Our Lord Jesus Christ with a kiss in the Garden of Gethsemane for 30 pieces of silver (Matthew 26:15). After...
The Catholic Defender: SS. Father Isaac Jogues, John La Lande, John de Brebeuf, and Companions.
October 19 is a day that the Catholic Church remembers the heroism and missionary zeal of the Jesuit North American Martyrs. Jesus told...
The Catholic Defender: Daughter of Light, the Saint Filomena Story
The Roman world during the time of the Emperor Diocletian was a time of great persecution and threats of war. Power literally ruled the...
The Catholic Defender: The St. Margaret Clitherow Story
St. Margaret Clitherow is a name I recall from reading the book, "The Prey of the Priest Catchers: The Lives of the 40 Martyrs" written...
The Catholic Defender: Sts. Pope Cornelius and Bishop Cyprian, Martyrs
It was May 15th, 33 A.D., the Apostles were gathered together as Jesus instructed them to go to the Mountain of Bethany (Eastern slope of...
The Catholic Defender: Holy Week Remembers St. Longinus
Saint Longinus Feast day: March 15 (Patron of: the blind and people with poor eyesight, of labor, of power, and of good discernment)...
