All Saints Day 2023Here are a few of the most interesting little-known facts about some of the saints. Everyone has a story, and saints are no exception. St. Agatha is the patron saint for women suffering from breast cancer because the Romans cruelly cut off her breasts as part of her martyr’s death. St. Anthony of Padua is the patron saint for lost items. Catholics say this prayer to find them: “St. Anthony, please look around; something is lost and must be found.” Catholics get their throats blessed every year on the Feast of St. Blaise (February 2) because he miraculously cured a young boy who was choking on a fish bone. St. Fabian became a pope accidentally. He is famous for the miraculous nature of his election, when a dove landed on his head. St. Jerome (who translated the first one-volume Bible from Hebrew and Greek into his native Latin) removed a thorn from a lion’s paw and it immediately became his pet. St. Lawrence the Deacon told his executioners, “You can turn me over. I’m done on this side,” as they roasted him alive on a huge hot gridiron. Saint Michael the Archangel isn't a saint, but rather he is an angel, and the leader of all angels and of the army of God. St. Lucy is the patron saint for those suffering from any ailment of the eye because she was martyred by the Romans, who plucked out her eyeballs as part of her martyrdom. St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish himself. He was born in Scotland and was captured by Irish pirates; after he escaped he eventually returned as a missionary. The brother of Andrew and the son of Jona, St. Peter was originally called Simon. He was a fisherman by trade. |
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