Today is the Holy Thursday, last day when Jesus felt happy and when He didn’t feel alone. Today is the day the first mass was celebrated, and the sacrament of priesthood was established3yr ⋅ HenricusPiusDux ⋅ r/Catholicism
Today is the feast day of St Patrick, the Enlightener of Ireland. When he was 16 he was kidnapped and sold as a slave, later he became a cleric and a missionary bishop. He is famous for using a shamrock to represent Holy Trinity. In Ireland his feast is a day of obligation3yr ⋅ HenricusPiusDux ⋅ r/Catholicism
Today is the day of the Annunciation. St Gabriel came to earth to a poor girl and said the first Hail Mary ever. He said that despite being a virgin, She will have a Son who will sit on the throne of David and that His name will be Jesus. Nine months later, in a cave in Bethlehem, a Child was born.3yr ⋅ HenricusPiusDux ⋅ r/Catholicism
Today is the feast day of St Frances of Rome. She was a wife, mother, benedictine oblate and a visionary. She saw her Guardian Angel very frequently, he sometimes helped her return home during very dark nights. Because of this, she is the patron Saint of car drivers3yr ⋅ HenricusPiusDux ⋅ r/Catholicism
Today is the feast day of Blessed Fra Angelico, an artist credited of posessing a „rare and perfect talent” (quote from The Lives of the Artists). He is the author of probably the best-known fresco, The Amnunciation.3yr ⋅ HenricusPiusDux ⋅ r/Catholicism
Today is the feast day of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste. They were thrown into a lake on a cold night, they were promised a warm bath if they renounce God. One of them did so, but a guard that was with them undressed and took his place. No one else left, they all froze to death. And what would you do?3yr ⋅ HenricusPiusDux ⋅ r/Catholicism
Today is the feast day of St Felix III, the 48th pope. Prior to his papacy he had a wife, Petronia, and two children, Gordianus and Paula, who was Gregory I’s grandmother. He was a pious, strict man who fiercely opposed heresies. He is the only pope to be buried with his family.3yr ⋅ HenricusPiusDux ⋅ r/Catholicism
Today is the feast day of the Good Thief, St Dismas. We do not know who he was, we do not know what he did. All we know is that he was sentenced to death by Romans, and forgiven by Christ. His story teaches us the most important thing about christianity - there isn’t a point of no return.3yr ⋅ HenricusPiusDux ⋅ r/Catholicism
Today is the feast day of Sts Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two of the visionary children of Fatima who recieved the Apparitions of Our Lady and the Angel of Portugal. They were siblings, very poor and illiterate. Shortly after the Apparitions they died of the spanish flu.3yr ⋅ HenricusPiusDux ⋅ r/Catholicism
Today is my birthday, also the feast day of St Chad. He was the bishop and apostle of Mercia, founder and abbot of several monasteries. Many miracles happened at his tomb, it earned him the title of miracleworker or thaumaturgos in greek.3yr ⋅ HenricusPiusDux ⋅ r/Catholicism
Today is the feast day of the Throne of Saint Peter. He was only a humble fisherman, but Jesus made him the prince of all the apostles. Peter governed the Church, sat on this very chair for thirty years, and died in the year 63. Et portae inferi non praevalebunt adversus eam.3yr ⋅ HenricusPiusDux ⋅ r/Catholicism
Today is the feast day of St Casimir the Prince, son of king Casimir IV. He was a delicate, good-natured and pious young man who loved prayer. After he died of pneumonia miracles started happening at his tomb, and when it was opened, he was incorrupt. He is the patron Saint of the Maltese Order.3yr ⋅ HenricusPiusDux ⋅ r/Catholicism
Today is the feast day of St Cunigunde, wife of Henry II, the Holy Roman Emperor. After not being able to have a child took vows of chastity, and after her husband’s death became a nun. When people accused her of adultery, she walked over red hot plowshares unharmed3yr ⋅ HenricusPiusDux ⋅ r/Catholicism
