San Juan de Sahagún, June 12th Dedicated to San Juan de Sahagun, the patron saint of the town of his birth and Salamanca, in both places he carried out his major miracles and humanitarian aid work.
Carlo Acutis has been popularly called “the patron saint of the Internet” because of his interest in computers and because he built a website that documented miracles related to the Eucharist.
St. James, also known as James the Greater or Santiago in Spanish, was one of the twelve apostles chosen by Jesus Christ. He is often depicted as a fiery character, assertive, upfront, and honest. James was born in the village of Bethsaida in Galilee, in what is now modern-day Israel.
He died at Rome in 288 A.D. as a martyr witnessing to Jesus. St. Sebastian is a patron saint of archers, athletes, dying people, enemies of religion, police, and soldiers.
The saint's youthful good looks made him a symbol of homoerotic desire and male beauty. Others were drawn to the way depictions of the saint's portrayed him as a 'tortured soul'. They connected the shame, rejection and loneliness they experienced within society to the martyr's experiences of persecution.
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What do you pray to St. Sebastian for?
Sebastian is the patron saint of persecuted Christians. You can ask him to pray for you if you are being persecuted for your Faith, or you can ask him to pray for a persecuted Christian whom you know. You can pray the St.
Dedicated to San Juan de Sahagun, the patron saint of the town of his birth and Salamanca, in both places he carried out his major miracles and humanitarian aid work.
In 993, St. Ulrich of Augsburg was the first saint to be formally canonized, by Pope John XV. By the 12th century, the church officially centralized the process, putting the pope himself in charge of commissions that investigated and documented potential saints' lives.
Several attempts were made on his life, and it is said that he was eventually poisoned by the enraged mistress of a prominent man who had stopped seeing her on the advice of John. Saint John of Sahagun is the patron of Salamanca, Spain.
John the Apostle (Ancient Greek: Ἰωάννης; Latin: Ioannes; c. 6 AD – c. 100 AD), also known as Saint John the Beloved and, in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Saint John the Theologian, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament.
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God confirmed his words by miracles: light shone around him while he spoke; he cured the sick by his prayers; and in this divine strength he led multitudes to the faith, among them the Prefect of Rome, with his son Tiburtius.
Saint Christopher is the patron saint of travellers, including motorists, who sometimes hang a small image of him in their vehicle for luck. According to legend, he was crossing a river when a child asked to be carried across.
Glorious Sebastian, martyr and saint, I call on your strength and courage to help me through my difficult trials. Your faith was so deep, a multitude of arrows could not finish you. I ask for your intercession in the trials I face, and for this intention (mention request here…) Amen.
sebastian became a common homoerotic figure. Despite its prevalence during the renaissance, the classicization and sexualization of saint sebastian would be criticized by many, most notably by the catholic church during the counter- reformation of the mid to late 16th century.
St. Joseph is the patron of men because he models to us the best of what it means to be a man! He was a man of faith. He believed God and trusted God at his word, without knowing how things would turn out.
The Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St. James, is an ancient pilgrimage trail originating in medieval times. Made up of a vast network of roads and paths, pilgrims travel to arrive at the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Legend has it that the remains of the Apostle Saint James the Great were buried here.
Camino: This Spanish word simply means a path of travel, or route. When written as 'el camino' it translates to 'the way'. Santiago: The name Santiago is linked to the Apostle James (Saint James meaning Santiago). He travelled to the most north-western part of Spain to preach and convert people to Christianity.
Pilgrims originally started coming to this location from all across Europe to witness the reported tomb of the apostle Saint James, son of Zebedee, known as “Santiago” by Spanish Catholics. The alleged remains of Saint James were interred in this location sometime after his recorded death in 44 A.D.
