57 prayers
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Prayers to the saints and holy men and women of the Church, each with their feast day, their story and what they are asked to watch over.
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Saint Agnes Prayer
Agnes was about twelve or thirteen years old when she was killed in Rome around the…
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Saint Ambrose Prayer
In 374, the church in Milan was split over who should be its next bishop, and…
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Saint Andrew Prayer
Andrew was a fisherman from Bethsaida and a follower of John the Baptist. When John pointed…
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Saint Anselm Prayer
Anselm was born in the Italian Alps in 1033, ran away from a difficult father, and…
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Saint Apollonia Prayer
In 249, a year before the empire-wide persecution under Decius, a mob in Alexandria, Egypt, turned…
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Saint Augustine Prayer
Augustine of Hippo wrote the most quoted sentence in Christian prayer — “You have made us…
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Saint Barbara Prayer
St Barbara’s legend is told across Europe and the Middle East: a beautiful young woman locked…
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Saint Bartholomew Prayer
When Philip told his friend Nathanael that they’d found the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, Nathanael’s first…
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Saint Benedict Prayer
The St Benedict medal is probably the most widely carried Catholic medal after the Miraculous Medal,…
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Saint Blaise Prayer
Every year on 3 February, Catholics line up after Mass to have their throats blessed. The…
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Saint Bonaventure Prayer
A story told about St Bonaventure’s childhood explains his name. As a small boy in Bagnoregio,…
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Saint Brigid Prayer
Brigid is Ireland’s best-loved woman saint, the “Mary of the Gael.” She founded a monastery at…
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Saint Catherine of Siena Prayer
Catherine of Siena never learned to write until late in her short life, and she died…
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Saint Christopher Prayer
The legend goes like this. A huge man named Reprobus wanted to serve the greatest king…
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Saint Clare Prayer
Two days before she died, Clare of Assisi became the first woman in the history of…
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Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian Prayer
Cosmas and Damian were twin brothers and physicians in Syria who refused to charge their patients.…
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Saint Dismas Prayer
Two criminals were crucified with Jesus. One mocked him. The other told him to stop: “We…
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Saint Dwynwen Prayer
Wales has its own Valentine’s Day, three weeks early. On 25 January, Welsh couples exchange cards…
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Saint Dymphna Prayer
Dymphna is the saint to ask when the trouble is in the mind, and the Church…
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Frank Duff Prayer
Frank Duff was a Dublin civil servant with no title, no ordination and no plan to…
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Saint Florian Prayer
Florian was a Roman army officer in the province of Noricum, in what is now Austria.…
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Saint Francis de Sales Prayer
Francis de Sales was sent in 1594 to win back the Chablais region, on the south…
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Saint Francis Xavier Prayer
Francis Xavier was a sporty, ambitious young nobleman from Navarre, studying in Paris, when his roommate,…
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Saint Gabriel Prayer
Gabriel is one of only three angels named in the Bible, along with Michael and Raphael.…
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Saint Genevieve Prayer
In 451, Attila the Hun was sweeping through Gaul, and the people of Paris prepared to…
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Saint George Prayer
Almost nothing about St George is certain except the most important thing: he was a Christian…
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Saint Gerard Prayer
St Gerard Majella was a frail, cheerful Italian tailor’s son who became a Redemptorist lay brother…
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Saint Gianna Prayer
Gianna Beretta Molla was an Italian pediatrician, wife and mother of three who loved skiing, mountaineering…
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Saint Jerome Prayer
St Jerome once wrote, “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.” He spent most of his…
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Saint John Bosco Prayer
When John Bosco was nine, he had a dream that shaped his life. He was in…
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Saint John Neumann Prayer
John Neumann came to America in 1836 with one suit of clothes and a single dollar…
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Saint John of God Prayer
John of God’s conversion looked like madness. He was a Portuguese ex-soldier and shepherd selling books…
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Saint Joseph Prayer
St Joseph never says a word in the Gospels. Everything we know about him is what…
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Saint Lazarus Prayer
There are two Lazaruses in the Gospels, and most people praying to “St Lazarus” do not…
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Saint Lucy Prayer
Lucy was a young Christian woman in Syracuse, Sicily, martyred during the persecution of Diocletian around…
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Saint Luke Prayer
Paul calls him “Luke, the beloved physician.” He was a Gentile, probably from Antioch, a careful…
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Saint Mark Prayer
Mark, also called John Mark, grew up in Jerusalem. The early Christians met at his mother’s…
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Saint Martha Prayer
Since 2021 Martha no longer has 29 July to herself. Pope Francis ordered her brother and…
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Saint Martin De Porres Prayer
Martin de Porres spent eight years scrubbing floors in a Dominican priory that was not allowed…
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Saint Mary Mackillop Prayer
Mary MacKillop was born in Melbourne in 1842 to Scottish immigrant parents who were often in…
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Saint Matthew Prayer
Tax collectors in first-century Israel were despised. They worked for the Roman occupiers, often charged more…
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Saint Medard Prayer
French farmers have a saying: “Quand il pleut à la Saint-Médard, il pleut quarante jours plus…
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Saint Michael Prayer
This is the prayer most Catholics over sixty know by heart and most under forty have…
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Saint Paul Prayer
Saul of Tarsus was hunting Christians when he was knocked to the ground on the road…
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Saint Peter Prayer
The man Jesus chose to lead his Church is the same man who swore three times…
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Saint Philip Neri Prayer
Philip Neri used to pray every morning, “Lord, keep your hand on Philip this day, or…
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Saint Philomena Prayer
In 1802, workers in the catacomb of Priscilla in Rome found a grave sealed with three…
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Saint Scholastica Prayer
St Scholastica appears in only two short chapters of history, written by Pope Gregory the Great,…
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Saint Sebastian Prayer
Sebastian is the saint you’ve seen in a hundred paintings: a young man tied to a…
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Saint Servatius Prayer
In the crypt of a basilica in Maastricht lie the remains of a bishop who died…
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Saint Stephen Prayer
Saint Stephen was the first person to die for believing in Jesus Christ. He is remembered…
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In Spain, Latin America and the Philippines, St Roch is San Roque, and his feast on…
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Bernard Casey was the sixth of sixteen children of Irish immigrants on a Wisconsin farm. He…
