Facebook Twitter Newsletters Email Video News Catholic Life Shopping Saints Bible Prayers Mary Saint of the Day St. Paul the Hermit Also known as Paul the First Hermit and Paul of Thebes, an Egyptian hermit and friend of St. Jerome. Born in Lower The baid, Egypt, he was left an orphan at about the age of fifteen and hid during the persecution of the Church under Emperor Traj anus Decius. At the age of twenty two he went to the desert to circumvent a planned effort by his brother in law to report him to authorities as a Christian and thereby gain control of his property. Paul soon found that the eremitical life was much to his personal taste, and so remained in a ... Read More » More Saints of the Day St. Bonitus St. Ita St. Nina St. Arnold Jansen St. Blaithmaic St. Tarsicia St. Teath St. Sawl St. Secundina St. Ceolwulf of Northumbria St. Emebert St. Ephysius St. Eugyppius Bl. Frances de Capillas St. John Calabytes St. Liewellyn & Gwrnerth St. Lleudadd St. Macarius the Great St. Malard St. Maura & Britta St. Maximus of Nola Bl. Peter of Castelnau St. Beauch (Bagug) St. Francis Ferdinand de Capillas St. Francisco Fernandez de Capillas Tomorrow's Saint of the Day St. Fursey Irish monastic founder, the brother of Sts. Foillan and Ulan, praised by St. Bede. Fursey was born on the island of Inisguia en Lough Carri, Ire­land, as a noble. He founded Rathmat Abbey, now probably Killursa. In 630 Fursey and his friends went to East Anglia, England, where he founded a monastery near Ugremouth on land donated by King Sigebert. In his later years, Fursey went to France to build a monastery at Lagny, near Paris, France. He was buried in Picardy. St. Bede and others wrote about Fursey's intense ecstasies. 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   Permit for statue of Satan at Oklahoma State Capitol submitted Read More   Does Pope Francis Really Support Liberation Theology? Read More   Deal W. Hudson: Thinking About the Criticism of My Article on Catholic Kitsch Read More   Culture, Its Delights and Distractions: On Catholic Kitsch 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