Saint Anthony Mary Claret Quote

When I am before the Blessed Sacrament I feel such a lively faith that I can't describe it. Christ in the Eucharist is almost tangible to me...When it is time for me to leave, I have to tear myself away from His sacred presence.

-- Saint Anthony Mary Claret

Saint Anthony Mary Claret's patronage: Catholic press; Claretians; Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary; weavers; Textile merchants; savings; Dioceses of the Canary Islands; Claretian students; Claretian educators; Claretian educational institutions; and technical and vocational educators.

Saint James the Lesser Quote

Be doers of the Word and not just hearers, lest you deceive yourselves. The hearer who does not become a doer is like that one who looked at himself in the mirror. He looked and then promptly forgot what he was like. But those who fix their gaze on the perfect law of freedom and hold onto it, not listening and then forgetting, but acting on it, will find blessing on their deeds.

-- Saint James the Lesser from The Epistle of James 1: 22-25

Saint James the Lesser's patronage: dying people; apothecaries; druggists; fullers; hatmakers; hatters; milliners; pharmacists; Uruguay; Andora, Italy; Cornaredo, Italy; Diso, Italy; Frascati, Italy; Monterotondo, Italy; Nemi, Italy; San Giacomo Filippo, Italy; Selvino, Italy; and Venegono Inferiore, Italy.

Saint Athanasius the Great Quote

Brethren, how fine a thing it is to move from festival to festival, from prayer to prayer, from holy day to holy day. The time is now at hand when we enter on a new beginning: the proclamation of the blessed Passover, in which the Lord was sacrificed. We feed as on the food of life, we constantly refresh our souls with his precious blood, as from a fountain. Yet we are always thirsting, burning to be satisfied. But he himself is present for those who thirst and in his goodness invites them to the feast day. Our Savior repeats his words: If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

-- Saint Athanasius the Great

Saint Athanasius the Great's patronage: justice and truth; handicapped; and orthodoxy.