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3 days ago · See Vatican News to discover the life-story and message of St. Nicholas I, Pope, the Saint of the Day 13 November.
3 days ago · Pope Adrian (also called Hadrian) — born Nicholas Breakspear — was born in Hertfordshire, England, probably in the town of St. Albans. Little is known about his early life, but as a young man he traveled to Arles, in the south of France, to study law.
4 days ago · Here are five powerful quotes from St. Augustine’s “Confessions”: “To Carthage I came, where there sang all around me in my ears a cauldron of unholy loves. I loved not yet, yet I loved to ...
4 days ago · Adrian IV (born 1100?, Abbot’s Langley, near St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England—died September 1, 1159, Anagni, near Rome [Italy]) was the only Englishman to occupy the papal throne (1154–59). He became a canon regular of St. Ruf near Avignon, France, and in about 1150 Pope Eugenius III appointed him cardinal bishop of Albano, Italy.
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5 days ago · St. Nicholas of Flue Feast day: Mar 21. Today, the universal church celebrates the feast of St. Nicholas of Flue. During his lifetime, the Swiss saint had 10 children, became a hermit and later...
3 days ago · An important step in the development of the definition of papal infallibility occurred in 519, when Pope Hormisdas (reigned 514–23) decreed that the Roman see had always preserved the true Catholic faith. This assertion of the teaching authority of the papacy was included in Pastor aeternus.
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4 days ago · In 1451, at the request of Emperor Frederick III of Austria, Pope Nicholas V appointed St. John Inquisitor General to help settle doctrinal disputes which had arisen in the region. St. John was revered as a saint and hero as he entered Austrian territory.