Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Vincent of Saragossa

Everlasting God, to whom all hidden things are revealed, who sent into the world Thine Only Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, conceived through the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, that He might take on Him the punishment of our sins, and by His resurrection snatch us from the gates of hell, grant to our hearts such steadfastness of faith that confessing Christ, Thy Son, we may not perish but may be joined to Him in the confession of Thy Holy Name. Amen.

– Saint Vincent of Saragossa

Saint Vincent of Saragossa's patronage: São Vicente, Lisbon; Diocese of Algarve; Valencia; Vicenza, Italy; vine dressers; vinegar-makers; vintners; wine growers; wine-makers; Order of Deacons of the Catholic Diocese of Bergamo (Italy); Portugal.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Gianna Beretta Molla

O Jesus, I promise You to submit myself to all that You permit to befall me, make me only know Your Will. My most sweet Jesus, infinitely merciful God, most tender Father of souls, and in a particular way of the most weak, most miserable, most infirm which You carry with special tenderness between Your divine arms, I come to You to ask You, through the love and merits of Your Sacred Heart, the grace to comprehend and to do always Your holy Will, the grace to confide in You, the grace to rest securely through time and eternity in Your loving divine arms.

– Saint Gianna Beretta Molla

Saint Gianna Beretta Molla's patronage: Against abortion; mothers; pregnant women; unborn children; World Meeting of Families 2015

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Agnes of Rome

I place my trust in You, O adorable Blood, our Redemption, our regeneration. Fall, drop by drop, into the hearts that have wandered from You and soften their hardness.

– Saint Agnes of Rome

Saint Agnes of Rome's patronage: Betrothed couples; chastity; Children of Mary; Colegio Capranica of Rome; crops; gardeners; Girl Scouts; girls; rape victims; virgins; the diocese of Rockville Centre, New York; the city of Fresno.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Maria Cristina of the Immaculate Conception Brando

Love of God and of neighbor are two branches that are connected to the same trunk. The love of God gives life to the love of neighbor; and this, in turn, nourishes love towards God.

– Saint Maria Cristina of the Immaculate Conception Brando

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Polycarp of Smyrna

Let us then serve Him in fear, and with all reverence, even as He Himself has commanded us, and as the apostles who preached the Gospel unto us, and the prophets who proclaimed beforehand the coming of the Lord [have alike taught us]. Let us be zealous in the pursuit of that which is good, keeping ourselves from causes of offense, from false brethren, and from those who in hypocrisy bear the name of the Lord, and draw away vain men into error.

– Saint Polycarp of Smyrna

Saint Polycarp of Smyrna’s patronage: Against dysentery; against earache.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

Prayer is the best armor we have, it is the key which opens the heart of God.

– Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina's patronage: Pietrelcina, Italy; civil defense volunteers; adolescents; stress relief; January blues; Italy; Malta.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Anthony the Abbot (AKA Saint Anthony the Great)

Believe me; the devil fears the vigils of pious souls, and their fastings, their voluntary poverty, their loving compassion, their humility, but most of all their ardent love of Christ our Lord. As soon as he sees the sign of the Cross, he flees in terror.

– Saint Anthony the Abbot

Saint Anthony the Abbot's patronage: Amputees; animals; basket makers; basket weavers; brushmakers; butchers; cemetery workers; domestic animals; eczema; epilepsy; epileptics; ergotism (Saint Anthony's fire); erysipelas; gravediggers; hermits; hogs; monks; pigs; relief from pestilence; skin diseases; skin rashes; swine; swineherds; Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, Rome.