Saints of the Day & More

Casimir was born in 1458 in Krakow. It was the third of nine children of Casimir, King of Poland. Many saints have come from large families, and such families come to the great Catholic Church vocations. His mother Elizabeth, daughter of the Emperor of Austria, was a fervent Catholic and was careful with all my heart because his children were also enthusiastic practitioners of religion. She in a letter to a friend makes a formidable list of qualities that should be a good mother, and no doubt that these qualities were what he practiced with his own children. And besides education that gave her parents, Casimir had the great luck that the king got two teachers who were great educators. Father John and Professor Callimachus. Father John was Polish and left a reputation for being very wise and very holy, but his greatest honor comes from having been the one who went to St. Casimir to a very high sanctity. The Professor was a great scholar Callimachus who had been secretary of Pope Pius II...

Raphael Kalinowski was September 1, 1835 Vilnius, Lithuania. He was a Polish Discalced Carmelite friar born as Józef Kalinowski inside the Russian partition of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in the city of Vilnius.He was also in the military. He was a teacher, engineer, prisoner of war, royal tutor, and priest. He was ordained as priest at Czerna in 1882 by Bishop Albin Dunajewski.He also founded a Carmelite Sisters convent in Przemyśl in 1884, and Lvov in 1888 .Who founded many monasteries around Poland after the suppression by the Russians. He died November 15, 1907 in Poland. He lived to be seventy two years old. He was beatified in 1983, Kraków, Poland and canonized 17 November 1991, St. Peter's Basilica, Rome by Pope John Paul The II. He was the first man to be so recognized in the order of the Discalced Carmelites, since Saint John of the Cross. Prayer God almighty you gave us St.Saint Raphael Kalinowski to be an example of a person of great sacrifice. May his life be an exa...