Facebook Twitter Newsletters Email Video News Catholic Life Shopping Saints Bible Prayers Mary Saint of the Day St. Giles, Abbot St. Giles, Abbot (Patron of Physically Disabled) Feast day - September 1 St. Giles is said to have been a seventh century Athenian of noble birth. His piety and learning made him so conspicuous and an object of such admiration in his own country that, dreading praise and longing for a hidden life, he left his home and sailed for France. At first he took up his abode in a wilderness near the mouth of the Rhone river, afterward near the river Gard, and, finally, in the diocese of Nimes. He spend many years in solitude conversing only with ... Read More » More Saints of the Day St. Fiacre St. Beatrice da Silva Meneses St. Agia St. Ammon St. Anna the Prophetess St. Beatrix da Silva St. Verena St. Victorious St. Vincent & Laetus St. Terentian St. Constantius St. Lupus of Sens St. Lythan St. Regulus St. Nivard Bl. Michael Ghebre St. Simeon the Stylite St. Verena Tomorrow's Saint of the Day St. Ingrid of Sweden Born in Skänninge, Sweden, in the 13th century, St. Ingrid lived under the spiritual direction of Peter of Dacia, a Dominican priest. She was the first Dominican nun in Sweden and in 1281 she founded the first Dominican cloister there, called St. Martin's in Skänninge. She died in 1282 surrounded by an aura of sanctity. Miracles obtained through her intercession followed and led to a popular cult of this saint. In 1405, a canonization process was begun and the Swedish Bishops introduced her cause at the Council of Constance. An inquest was ... Read More » Most Popular Forced Abortion of 9 Month Old Child in China: Obama Administration Complicity Read More   Sophistry Slouching Toward Apostasy: Response to the Commonweal Essay of Joseph Bottum Read More   Comfortable in our Catholic Skin: Reject Triumphalism, Embrace the Call to Christian Unity Read More   Homosexual Marriage at the Dusk of Liberty Read More   Christians Squeezed out of Commerce and Public Office: Persecution in New Mexico and Texas Read More     News | Catholic Life | PRWire | Encyclopedia | Bible | Prayers | Vocations | Saints & Angels © Copyright 2012 Catholic Online. This e-mail is never sent unsolicited. You have received this Catholic Online e-mail because you subscribed to it or someone forwarded it to you. To opt out, see the links below. TO ADVERTISE For information on advertising at Catholic Online, please contact Advertising Sales. TO SUBSCRIBE If this email has been forwarded to you and would like a subscription, please sign up for Catholic Online Newsletters. Remove your e-mail address from our list. We respect your right to privacy. View our policy. This e-mail was sent by: Catholic Online, P.O. Box 9686 Bakersfield, CA 93389 USA