Despite being Ireland’s patron saint ... St Augustine, in Florida, held the first recorded parade on March 17th, 1601. The celebrations were organised by the colony’s Irish priest, Padre ...

he is also honored as the patron saint of workers, fathers, and families Source: St. Joseph the Worker | EWTN The Catholic ...

A relic of Saint Padre Pio will be presented to St Mary’s Church in Irishtown Clonmel on Monday. The first class relic, a piece of the heart bandage, will be given to Fr Billy Meehan ,and it will go ...

Seven St. Padre Pio relics will be displayed at St. Madeline Church in Ridley Park on Tuesday, April 8th. They will be ...

NEW YORK -- If it's March, and it's green, it must be St. Patrick's Day. The day honoring the patron saint of Ireland is a global celebration of Irish heritage. And nowhere is that more so than in ...

St Joseph, the husband of Mary ... irreplaceable domestic intangibles and intimacies of family life. As the patron saint of fathers, Joseph’s example heralds the ideal of fatherhood: faithful, ...

But what does any of this have to do with the man the day is supposed to celebrate: St Patrick? Surprisingly, although he is a patron saint of Ireland, St Patrick was not Irish. Historians agree ...