Saints

These Socks are Amazing!

Nov 24, 2021 | News and Events, Saints

Saints Sock Fundraiser, Just in Time for Advent & Christmas! Just in time for Advent, you and your family can show your Catholic pride with our school’s Sock Religious Fundraiser. Celebrate your favorite Saint in style! OLSOS SCRIP is happy to host this fundraiser...

San Lorenzo Ruiz: Martyr

Aug 20, 2019 | News and Events, Saints

If I had a thousand lives, I would give it all to Christ “Filipino layman Lorenzo Ruiz and his fifteen companion martyrs, all members and associates of the Dominican Order, were slain in Japan between 1633 and 1637. Persecutions stemmed from a 1603 edict by the...

St. Joseph, Husband of Mary

Mar 17, 2019 | Saints

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]March 19 marks the Solemnity of St. Joseph, the Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  We find no devotion to St. Joseph in the early Church, but he was later venerated by the great saints of the Middle Ages. Pius IX (1870) declared...

Memorial of St. Cecilia

Nov 19, 2017 | Saints

WHY IS ST. CECILIA AN IMPORTANT PATRON SAINT FOR THE DOMINICAN SISTERS? In the first days of the Dominican Order, before there were any Dominican saints, the friars and sisters looked to some of the Church’s earliest saints as patrons of the Order. These were...

Saints Peter & Paul

Jun 25, 2015 | Catholic Faith, Saints

From Catholic News Agency:  On June 29 the Church celebrates the feast day of Sts. Peter & Paul. As early as the year 258, there is evidence of an already lengthy tradition of celebrating the solemnities of both Saint Peter and Saint Paul on the same day....