I was wondering the other day why this forum didn't have a "Saint of the Day."  No better day than to start than with this brutal story of torture on All Hallows Eve, the eve of All Saints Day.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/lots/lots337.htm

October 31.—ST. QUINTIN, Martyr.

ST. QUINTIN was a Roman, descended from a senatorial family. Full of zeal for the kingdom of Jesus Christ, he left his country, and, attended by St. Lucian of Beauvais, made his way to Gaul. They preached the Faith together in that country till they reached Amiens in Picardy, where they parted. Lucian went to Beauvais, and, having sown the seeds of divine faith in the hearts of many, received the crown of martyrdom in that city. St. Quintin stayed at Amiens, endeavoring by his prayers and labors to make that country a portion of Our Lord's inheritance. He was seized, thrown into prison, and loaded with chains. Finding the holy preacher proof against promises
and threats, the magistrate condemned him to the most barbarous torture. His body was then pierced with two iron wires from the neck to the thighs, and iron nails were thrust under his nails, and in his flesh in many places, particularly into his skull; and, lastly, his head was cut off. His death happened on the 31st of October, 287.

Reflection.—Let us bear in mind that the ills of this life are not worthy to be compared to the glory "God has reserved for those who love Him."

If called upon, I hope to be able to respond and keep the faith as the martyrs have done...

Hey, great stuff!

Q: Have you just elected yourself to post "Saint of the Day" here?

...just askin'...

Thanks for this, Brother! The Saints keep reminding me what little, what very little infinitesimal "trouble" I have in this world, compared to their faith, fortitude, and courage they have shown us.

as host, Patrick Coffin, says on the EWTN radio shows: "Be a Saint...what else is there?"

Love that guy and his weird humor.

Oh, and it's Catholic Answers Live, not EWTN.

Thanks, Brother, Zaphod, for the correction!

my brain ain't quite in gear without a few cups o' Joe early in the morning!

Thanks for the info and I'll look into tuning into that show.

No prob!

It's just that I've been catching up on past episodes for hours at a stretch over the past few days.

I vote we do this. When my kids went to the Dead Theologian Society... they came home with some amazing Saints.

11/30/2015 Saint of the Day,

St. Andrew





St Andrew was, at first an apostle of St. John the Baptist. He later followed Christ and convinced his brother Simon Peter to join Jesus as well.

St. Andrew the Apostle is the patron saint of Scotland.

He did not want to die to in the same manner our Lord did and so when he was martyred he asked to be placed on a cross in the shape of an X. This prolonged his imminent death.





Scotland adopted the x shaped  cross in his honor.



Scholars believe Andrew went on to teach and baptize Christians in Greece and Russia.

12/9/2015

St. Juan Diego

Marvelous stuff, Sisters and Brothers!

Thanks, SaloSV, for gettin' the ball rolling!

12/14/2015

St John of the Cross

Ordained
a Carmelite priest in 1567 at age 25, John met Teresa of Jesus and like
her vowed himself to the primitive Rule of the Carmelites. As partner
with Teresa and in his own right, John engaged in the work of reform,
and came to experience the price of reform: increasing opposition,
misunderstanding, persecution, imprisonment. He came to know the cross
acutely—to experience the dying of Jesus—as he sat month after month in
his dark, damp, narrow cell with only his God!

Yet, the paradox!
In this dying of imprisonment John came to life, uttering poetry. In the
darkness of the dungeon, John’s spirit came into the Light. There are
many mystics, many poets; John is unique as mystic-poet, expressing in
his prison-cross the ecstasy of mystical union with God in the Spiritual Canticle.

But as agony leads to ecstasy, so John had his Ascent to Mt. Carmel,
as he named it in his prose masterpiece. As man-Christian-Carmelite, he
experienced in himself this purifying ascent; as spiritual director, he
sensed it in others; as psychologist-theologian, he described and
analyzed it in his prose writings. His prose works are outstanding in
underscoring the cost of discipleship, the path of union with God:
rigorous discipline, abandonment, purification. Uniquely and strongly
John underlines the gospel paradox: The cross leads to resurrection,
agony to ecstasy, darkness to light, abandonment to possession, denial
to self to union with God. If you want to save your life, you must lose
it. John is truly "of the Cross.” He died at 49—a life short, but full.

   
       
       

   







His prayers are some of the greatest guides for the spirit!

The pounding on the barricaded door of the military hospital sent every
heart thudding in terror. In the middle of the war in Brescia (Italy) in
1848, the wounded, sick, and those who cared for them knew what that
pounding meant.