Our Lady, Help of ChristiansMay 24
Saints of the Day


Feast of Our Lady, Help of Christians (1815)

    Pope Pius VII, after he returned to Rome in 1815 from several years of captivity imposed by the emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, instituted this feast day in honor of the assistance which the Blessed Virgin had accorded the Church. The occasion of the Pope’s exile and captivity was the emperor’s resistance to the authority of the Vicar of Christ, superior before God to his own.

    Our Lady, Help of Christians, was made better known by Saint John Bosco, who consecrated his Order of Salesian priests to Her. And in Turin, beginning in 1865, he began to raise in Her honor a vast and magnificent church.

Saint Simon Stylites, 521-597[]   

Healer and miracle worker, he spent 69 of his 76 years living off the ground on a pillar

Born 521 at Antioch
Died 597 of natural causes
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Saint Jessica, Joanna, 1st. century
The Joanna who discovered the empty tomb on the first Easter when she went to anoint the body of Jesus  (Luke 24.10)

    Jessica is a derivation of Joanna.
    1st century lay woman. Married to Chusa, steward of King Herod Antipas.
    Disciple of Jesus, and mentioned in Luke (8.3) as providing for Jesus and the Apostles.
    One of the women Luke says (24.10) discovered the empty tomb of Jesus on the first Easter when she went to anoint the body
    She is especially venerated by the Jesuits.

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Orthodox Icon of Saint Joanna
Myrrhbearing Women at the Tomb
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