Saint's of the Week

Saint Anthony Mary Claret

Virtue: Right Judgement

Feast Day: 24th October

Born in Sallent, Spain, Anthony worked as a missionary in Catalonia and the Canary

 Islands for ten years. In 1849, he started the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The institute is known as “the Claretians.”

Father Claret was appointed Archbishop of Santiago in Cuba. He founded the Teaching Sisters of Mary Immaculate.

At the request of Pope Pius XI, he returned to Spain and devoted himself to missionary work and spreading of good literature.

Anthony also spread devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and the Immaculate Heart of Mary by preaching and writings.

Anthony died in a Cistercian monastery in France on October 24, 1870. He was canonized bt Pope Pius XII in 1950.

Saint Jude 

Virtue: Hope

Feast Day: 28th October

Jude Thaddeus was a nephew of Mary and Joseph and a cousin of our Lord. He was the brother of the Apostle James the Less. His father was Cleophas, who died a martyr, and his mother's name was Mary. She stood beneath the Cross when Jesus died and later came to anoint the body of Jesus.

In his boyhood and youth, Jude must have known Jesus well. he left all to follow the Master. He is pictured with an image of our Lord because there is a tradition that in the Name of Jesus, he cured the Kind of Edessa form leprosy.

God gave Jude a special power. When he ordered the deveils in pagan idols to leave, the images fell to the ground, broken into pieces.

Jude suffered martyrdom with Simon in Persia, where they labored as missionaries. he was clubbed to death. His relics are now honored at Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Jude is popular as the Patron Saint of impossible cases.