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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

April 23rd
St Adalbert (956-997), Bishop, Martyr; Bohemia; Feast day April 23rd

"It is an easy thing to wear the mitre and a cross; but it is a most dreadful circumstance to have an account to give of a bishopric to the Judge of the living and the dead."

St Gregory the Great (540-604), Confessor, Pope, Doctor of the Church; Rome, Italy; Feast day March 12th

"By the other virtues we give to God what belongs to us; by obedience we give Him ourselves."

St Coletta (1380-1447), Virgin; Picardy, France; Feast day March 6th

"The renunciation of self-will is more meritorious than the sacrifice of all the riches of the world."


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