Facebook Twitter Newsletters Email Video News Catholic Life Shopping Saints Bible Prayers Mary Saint of the Day St. Marguerite Bourgeoys Marguerite had survived many threats in the twenty-six years she had been in wilderness of Canada. She had lived through Iroquois attacks, a fire that destroyed her small village, plagues on the ships that she took back and forth to France, but nothing threatened her dreams and hopes more than what her own bishop said to her in 1679. He told her that she had to join her Congregation of Notre Dame with its teaching sisters to a cloistered religious order of Ursulines. This was not the first time she'd heard this command. Whether from a ... Read More » More Saints of the Day St. Tatiana St. Arcadius St. Caesaria St. Martina St. Aelred of Rievaulx St. Benedict Biscop St. Anthony Mary Pucci St. Bartholomew Alvarez St. Victorian of Asan Bl. Vincent de Cunha St. Zoticus St. Zoticus St. Tatiana of Rome St. Tigrius & Eutropius St. Salvius St. Satyrus Ephesus Martyrs Bl. John Gaspard Cratz St. John of Ravenna St. Martin of Leon Martyrs of Ephesus St. Margaret Bourgeoys St. Victorian Bl. Pierre-Francois Jamet Tomorrow's Saint of the Day St. Hilary of Poitiers "They didn't know who they were." This is how Hilary summed up the problem with the Arian heretics of the fourth century. Hilary, on the other hand, knew very well who he was -- a child of a loving God who had inherited eternal life through belief in the Son of God. He hadn't been raised as a Christian but he had felt a wonder at the gift of life and a desire to find out the meaning of that gift. He first discarded the approach of many people who around him, who believed the purpose of life was only to satisfy desires. He knew he wasn't a ... Read More » Most Popular Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Force Little Sisters of the Poor to Pay for Condoms, Sterilization and Chemical Abortions Read More   Pope Francis makes special plea, but will Catholics really listen? Read More   Culture, Its Delights and Distractions: On Catholic Kitsch Read More   Permit for statue of Satan at Oklahoma State Capitol submitted Read More   Boy Scouts to allow self professing homosexual young men as members this week Read More     News | Catholic Life | PRWire | Encyclopedia | Bible | Prayers | Vocations | Saints & Angels © Copyright 2014 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