Year 2021

Saint Pega Hermitess of Peakirk – January 8

by Dr. Vladimir Moss. From A century of English sanctity Our holy Mother Pega was the sister of the great hermit St. Guthlac and lived as a hermitess in Peakirk, Northamptonshire, not far from Guthlac’s hermitage at Crowland. On Holy…

St. Gudula – January 8

The mother of Gudula, Saint Amalberga, embraced the religious life in the abbey of Maubeuge. She received the veil from the hands of St. Aubert, Bishop of Cambrai (d. about 668). Gudula had two sisters, St. Pharaildis and St. Reineldis, and one brother, Saint Emebertus.[1] Gudula was educated…

Where are You Buried?

Our first man is buried: buried not in Earth, but in water; not death destroyed, but buried by death’s destroyer (Christ), not by the law of nature but by the governing command that is stronger than nature. St. John Chrysostom…