Eve Lavallière, the stage name of Eugénie Fenoglio, was born in Toulon, France, on 1 April 1866. The second child and only daughter of Emile and Albanie Fenoglio, she later described her painful youth. “As a child, I knew not what the love and care of a mother was. My life was tears and suffering...
Anthony was born Fernando Martins in Lisbon, Portugal, in August, 1195. His noble and wealthy family arranged for him to be instructed at the Cathedral school where he was instilled with a deep religious piety. At fifteen, Fernando entered the Augustinian Order at the Abbey of Saint Vincent on the outskirts of Lisbon and there...
Rita was born in Roccaborena, Italy in 1381 to aged parents who were known for their charity, and who fervently thanked God for the gift of a daughter so late in life. Extraordinarily pious from an early age, Rita set her heart on entering the Augustinian convent in Cascia, but her parents had plans for...
St. Euphrasia Virgin Feast Day March 13th Thou have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy follows. My heart had uttered a good word: I speak my works to the King. Euphrasia’s father, Antigonus, was a kinsman of the Emperor Theodosius I, and...
Feast Day March 8th Blessed is the man that is found without blemish, and that hath not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures. John of God was born of pious parents in 1495 in Montemoro Novo in northern Portugal. Obscure circumstances led to him being absconded from his parents...
Ss Perpetua & Felicity Martyrs Feast Day March 7th Perpetua and Felicity young mothers were two noble matrons who suffered martyrdom in Carthage in 202A.D. They were condemned with a number of Christian slaves to the wild beasts and died finally by the sword. “‘Do you see this vessel, water pot, or whatever it may...
