Recipes for Saintly Living
Vladimir Borovikovsky, 1809 St. John the Apostle and Evangelist was born several years after Jesus in Bethsaida in Judaea. He is the brother of James and the son of Zebedee. He is remembered as...
Johannes Vermeer, 1655 St. Mary and St. Martha of Bethany were born around the same time as Jesus. They were the sisters of St. Lazarus and Jesus’s devoted, authentic friends upon whom he relied...
Rembrandt, 1657 St. Bartholomew was born around the same time as Jesus in Cana. He is named as one of the Twelve Apostles in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. He’s honored as...
*AHHHHHHHHH* Everyone remain perfectly calm. And by “everyone,” I mean me. God did it to me again — hid a miracle along my personal (not social media) timeline. Like He did when I experienced...
St. James Cathedral, Seattle, WA, USA St. James the Apostle was born in Bethsaida in Judaea several years before Jesus. Also know as St. James the Greater or Elder, he was among the first...
Jacopo and Domenico Tintoretto St. Stephen, Deacon and Martyr, was born early in the first century likely into a Hellenistic (Greek influenced and Greek speaking) Jewish family. Stéphanos is a Greek name meaning crown....
Rembrandt, 1626, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht St. Philip the Deacon and Evangelist was born early in the first century probably near Jerusalem. He is remembered as one of the first seven deacons of the Church,...
Alexander Ivanov, circa 1835 St. Mary Magdalene (or Magdala) was born sometime around the birth of Jesus Christ in the first century A.D., possibly in the small city of Magdala on the western shore...
St. John the Baptist, Bernardo Strozzi, 1620 St. John the Baptist was born six months before Jesus Christ on June 24 early in the first century A.D., in Herodian, Judea. John, a relative of Jesus, was...
Icon, St. Philip and St. James St. Philip and St. James the Younger are listed among the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and are celebrated together because so little is known about St. James....
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