Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

Saint Francis de Sales -
Artist Unknown

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

– Saint Francis de Sales

Saint Francis de Sales' patronage: Baker, Oregon; Cincinnati, Ohio; Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana; Catholic press; Columbus, Ohio; confessors; deaf people; educators; Upington, South Africa; Wilmington, Delaware; writers; journalists; teachers; the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest; Oblates of St. Francis de Sales; Salesians of Don Bosco

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Ignatius of Loyola

"Saint Ignatius  of Loyola"
-- by Peter Paul Rubens

He who carries God in his heart, bears heaven with him wherever he goes.

– Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Saint Ignatius of Loyola's patronage: Dioceses of San Sebastián and Bilbao, Biscay and Gipuzkoa; Basque Country; Military Ordinariate of the Philippines; Society of Jesus; Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Archdiocese of Baltimore and Antwerp, Belgium; retreats; soldiers; Spiritual Exercises; Vizcaya, Spain; World Youth Day 2011.

Saint Gertrude the Great Quote

I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God.

– Saint Gertrude the Great

Saint Gertrude the Great's patronage: Nuns; travelers; Naples, Italy; Diocese of Magdeburg, Germany; West Indies.