Articles about Saints

The Death of Saint Joseph

JOSEPH: HIS LIFE, HIS VIRTUES, HIS PRIVILEGES, HIS POWER by Very Reverend Archdeacon Kinane (1884) Where, and at what age, the holy soul of St. Joseph winged its flight to the bosom of Abraham, we know not for certain, as the Gospel is silent. After the memorable...

The Holy Family Living in Egypt

JOSEPH: HIS LIFE, HIS VIRTUES, HIS PRIVILEGES, HIS POWER by Very Reverend Archdeacon Kinane (1884) Egypt at this time was studded with great and populous cities; but in what city or town the Holy Family took up their residence we know not for certain, as the Gospel is...

The Holy Family’s Flight to Egypt

JOSEPH: HIS LIFE, HIS VIRTUES, HIS PRIVILEGES, HIS POWER by Very Reverend Archdeacon Kinane (1884) Herod, deluded by the Wise Men, and fearing that the newborn King would be a rival for his throne, ordered his soldiers to murder all the male children of two years of...

Purification of Mary at the Temple

NOTE: As seen in Leviticus 12:1-8, Mary had to wait 40 days after giving birth before she was allowed to come to the temple to be “purified from her bleeding.”  Likewise, in Numbers 18:15-16, it was decreed that “The first offspring of every womb, both human and...