Facebook Twitter Newsletters Email Video News Catholic Life Shopping Saints Bible Prayers Mary Saint of the Day Bl. Emmanuel Ruiz Martyr with eleven companions in Lebanon. A Spanish Franciscan, Emmanuel and the others were caught up in the rising of the Druses in Lebanon. The Franciscan community, eight in number, and three Maronite laymen were slain by the Islamic rebels. He was beatified in 1926. Read More » More Saints of the Day St. Alexander St. Amalberga St. Amalberga St. Amelberga St. Anthony Pechersky St. Theodosius Pechersky St. Etto St. Januarius, Marinus, Nabor, and Felix St. Lantfrid St. Leontius St. Rufinus and Secundus Martyrs of Damascus St. Pascharius St. Peter of Perugia St. Peter Tu Tomorrow's Saint of the Day St. Benedict of Nursia St. Benedict, the Father of Western monasticism and brother of Scholastica, is considered the patron of speliologists (cave explorers). He was born in Nursia, Italy and educated in Rome. He was repelled by the vices of the city and in about the year 500, fled to Enfide, thirty miles away. He decided to live the life of a hermit and settled at the mountainous Subiaco, where he lived in a cave for three years, fed by a monk named Romanus. Despite Benedict's desire for solitude, his holiness and austerities became known and he was asked to be ... Read More » Most Popular Ancient architectural wonder of Rome Read More   For Holy Saturday Reflection: The Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary Read More   For Holy Saturday Reflection: The Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary Read More   Good Friday Reflection on the Nature of Sin Read More   A Good Friday Reflection: I Thirst Read More     News | Catholic Life | PRWire | Encyclopedia | Bible | Prayers | Vocations | Saints & Angels © Copyright 2014 Catholic Online.