Matthias was the replacement for Judas Iscariot among the Twelve Apostles.
Saint of the Week: Matthias
Saints of the Week: Apostles Philip and James the Less
Philip had a part in feeding the 5,000. Not much is known about James.
Saint of the Week: Joseph the Worker
St. Joseph is honored for his labors as a carpenter in providing for his family’s needs in Nazareth.
Saint of the Week: Adalbert
He became the bishop of Prague while still in his 20s, but because of pastoral and political difficulties there retired to a Benedictine abbey in Rome in 990.
Saint of the Week: St. Bernadette
God’s ways are not the world’s ways. The life of St. Bernadette (1844–1879) provides us with a stunning example of this.
Saint of the Week: John Baptist de la Salle
He was declared the patron saint of teachers in 1950.
Saint of the Week: Blessed Restituta Kafka
Arrested by the Nazis in 1942 for religious activities in her hospital, she was beheaded, the only nun so sentenced in the Nazis’ German territories.
Saint of the Week: Patrick
The patron of Ireland, this bishop was born in Roman Britain, kidnapped at 16 by Irish raiders and sold into slavery in Ireland.