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One saint a day, every day of the year. New 5-minute videos on YouTube, each on the saint's feast day. Saints of God, pray for us. ✝️

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Sanctificetur nomen tuum.

"Hallowed be thy name."

The first petition of the Our Father (Pater noster, Matthew 6:9). Before we ask for anything, we pray that God's name be honored as holy, in our hearts and in all the world.

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Church tradition also links St. Longinus with the centurion who, seeing the darkness and the earthquake at Jesus’ death, confessed: “Truly this was the Son of God” (Matthew 27:54). The Roman Martyrology keeps his feast on October 16 as the soldier who opened the crucified Lord’s side with a lance. Bernini’s statue of him stands in St. Peter’s Basilica—a reminder that even a hardened soldier can recognize the Lord at the foot of the Cross.

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St. Longinus is the name tradition gives the Roman soldier who pierced Christ’s side on Calvary. Blood and water flowed from the wound (John 19:34). Feast: Oct 16. #Catholic

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Et ne nos inducas in tentationem.

"And lead us not into temptation."

From the Our Father (Matthew 6:13): we ask the Father to keep us strong in trial and never let us be overcome by sin.

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Richard Gwyn was no cleric. He was a married schoolteacher and father who chose to keep teaching in Wales rather than conform to the new state religion. Arrested around 1580, he spent roughly four years in prison, fined again and again and set in the stocks, yet he kept writing carols and poems in Welsh that taught the faith to ordinary people. On the scaffold at Wrexham he died praying in Welsh. Pope St. Paul VI canonized him in 1970 among the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. The classroom and the home can bear witness as boldly as any pulpit.

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St. Richard Gwyn, a Welsh schoolteacher, was once carried in chains into a Wrexham church to hear a Protestant sermon. He rattled his leg-irons so loudly that no one could hear the preacher. He was martyred at Wrexham on Oct 15, 1584, the protomartyr of Wales. #Catholic

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Et dimitte nobis debita nostra.

"And forgive us our debts."

From the Our Father (Pater noster), Matthew 6:12. We ask God's mercy and promise to share it: "sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris," as we forgive our debtors.

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At first, Montreal mocked her and her companions as "les soeurs grises", a pun meaning both "grey nuns" and "tipsy nuns", a jab at her late husband's illegal liquor trading. She kept the name. In 1747 she took over the failing General Hospital of Montreal and opened it to the sick, the elderly, orphans and the abandoned. Her two surviving sons both became priests. A widow's grief became a lifetime of mercy.

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St. Marguerite d'Youville (1701–1771), born in Varennes, Quebec, became the first native-born Canadian to be canonized (1990). A widow who had buried four of her six children, she founded the Grey Nuns in Montreal to serve the poor. Her feast is October 16.

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Sed libera nos a malo.

"But deliver us from evil."

The final petition of the Our Father (Pater noster)—asking God to free us from the Evil One and from every harm that would keep us from His love.

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Born in Dieppe, France, in 1601, Daniel had worked among the Wendat since 1634, learning their language and even running a small school at Quebec for Huron boys. As the attack began, he hurried to baptize catechumens who begged for it, then went to the chapel door. He was struck down by arrows and gunfire, and his body was thrown into the burning church. Pius XI canonized him in 1930 with Jean de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues, and their companions. A shepherd who stepped forward so the flock could flee.

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St. Antoine Daniel, Jesuit missionary to the Wendat (Huron), was finishing Mass at the mission of St. Joseph on July 4, 1648, when Iroquois warriors attacked. He walked out in his vestments to face them so his people could escape. One of the North American Martyrs, honored Oct 19. #Catholic

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Adveniat regnum tuum.

“Thy kingdom come.”

The second petition of the Our Father—asking that God’s reign of mercy and truth take root in our hearts and in the world.

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From Dachau he wrote that the hardest and most beautiful prayer is Christ’s in Gethsemane: “Father, let your will be done.” He tried to say it every day with living faith. Beatified in 1999 among Poland’s 108 Martyrs of World War II, he shows how a scholar’s life and a prisoner’s Fiat can be one vocation.

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Blessed Franciszek Roslaniec taught Scripture at the University of Warsaw until the Gestapo arrested him. On this day in 1942 he was killed at Dachau, still a priest among the prisoners. #Saints

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Mandatum novum do vobis.

"A new commandment I give you."

Christ's words at the Last Supper (John 13:34)—love one another as He has loved us. This is the heart of Holy Thursday's "Maundy."

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Raised a Calvinist in Banffshire, he was sent abroad to study and was received into the Catholic Church at 17 in Louvain, later becoming a Jesuit priest. After his arrest he was kept awake for days on end to make him name other Catholics; he never did. Tradition says that on the scaffold at Glasgow Cross he tossed his rosary into the crowd, and it struck a young Calvinist nobleman who later became Catholic. Pope Paul VI canonized him in 1976.

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St. John Ogilvie, Scotland's post-Reformation martyr (honored in Scotland on Oct 14), slipped home in 1613 disguised as a horse dealer called John Watson to minister to hidden Catholics. Arrested in Glasgow, he refused to betray anyone and was hanged in 1615.

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Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina.

"O Lord, make haste to help me."

The Church's reply at the start of almost every Hour of the Divine Office—a short cry for God's swift help before prayer begins.

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Born in Limerick around 1523, Creagh left his family’s merchant trade for the priesthood, studied at Leuven, and later opened a school in an abandoned Dominican friary back home. Consecrated Archbishop of Armagh in 1564, he was jailed again and again for his Catholic ministry—escaping the Tower once, walking free when a Dublin jury would not convict him, then dragged back into chains. Years of abuse cost him his teeth and the use of one leg; when briefly unchained he still heard confessions and comforted other prisoners. Tradition holds he may have been poisoned in the Tower; he is honored among the Irish Martyrs, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1992. Blessed Richard Creagh, pray for us.

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October 14 remembers Blessed Richard Creagh, Archbishop of Armagh. Arrested for acknowledging the Pope’s authority, he spent years chained in the Tower of London and still ministered to fellow prisoners until his death there in 1586. #Catholic