Saint of the Month!!!

St. Brigid Of Ireland 

Saint Brigid of Ireland is not like your average saint. I`m not so sure how much of her story is true or is legend, but we do know she was very devote in her faith and compassionate to others! Here are a few cool stories and facts about her!

Stories.
One day Brigid went to king Leinster and asked for land to build a convent on. She said the place they were standing on was perfect as it was near the woods. Conveniant. They would be able to collect wood and berries! It was also near a lake and the soil was fertile. The king laughed at her and refused. St. Brigid prayed to God to soften the kings heart. She than asked if she could at least have as much land as her clock could cover. Seeing her clock was small, he laughed and said go ahead!! She got four of her companions to spread the clock out across the land. As they did, the clock got longer and longer, covering most of the land. The king, realising she was in God`s favour, aloud her to have the land.

 Another story is when a man asked for her hand in marriage. Brigid, who had already vowed to live her life for God refused, but told the man that when he returned home he would find a beautiful maiden waiting. Long behold, he did!!

The most bazaar one is when people got mad at her because she vowed to live a life of chastity. A man said to her, `` The beautiful eye which is in your head will be betrothed to a man weather you like it or not.`` In reply Brigid put her finger in her eye and said, `` here is the beautiful eye for you. I deem it unlikely that anyone will ask you for a blind girl.`` Her eye did miraculously heal later on.

Cool Facts!!!

•  I heard that Brigid described heaven as a lake of beer.
• It is said when she wished or predicted something it came to pass. 

Her feast day is February 1!

References

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.

http://www.bridgebuilding.com/narr/kbbri.html

http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/artists

St Tarcisius

Feast day: August 15

From Rome

Died during his youth

Patron saint of alter servers

His story

Around the time Tarcisius was alive, Christians were greatly 

persecuted in Rome. They were tortured and fed to lions and many other cruel deaths for entertainment. To protect themselves, many Christians went into hiding in under ground caves called the catacombs. Not much about Tarcisius is known. All that is really known about him is through a poem Pope Damasus wrote which describes a story something like this.  

One day The prisoners in the Roman jails asked the bishop to bring them the blessed sacrament because it would feed their souls. They believed if they received this gift, they would have the strength to endure all their tortures for the love of God. So at a meeting the next day, The bishop asked everybody if any of them could take the host to their friends in prison. But no one could. Well...no one but Tarcisius! He eagerly volunteered to go! The bishop wanted to refuse his offer for he was so young, but Tarcisius convinced him that the soldiers would be less suspicious of him since he was a child. On his way to the prison Tarcisious kept the hosts close to his heart. He was not aware of anyone else but the presence of Jesus! Meanwhile, His friends were wanting to play a game down the road, but they needed one extra person. They saw Tarcisious and asked him to play! Tarcisious told them he was busy, so he couldn’t play. They noticed he was holding something and demanded to know what it was. Tarcisius refused fearfully and whispered a prayer of strength to himself."Hey, he’s a Christian!" one of the boys shouted after overhearing part of his prayer, "What Christian mystery are you hiding? Let me see!"Tarcisius refused and they began to beat him up, trying to see what he had. Tarcisius tried to run, but they threw stones at him and he fell. The converted soldier was walking down the road and caught the boys beating him up. They fled and the soldier ran to Tarcisious.

Tarcisius was too far dead, and died. Happy he had protected his lord and saviour.

He is known as the patron saint of alter servers and the martyr of the Eucharist .

Picture References

http://www.ainglkiss.com/saints/tar.htm

http://fromthepulpitofmylife.blogspot.ca/2011/06/story-of-ugandan-martyrs.html

My School project..............Inspiration!

So for my latest religion project at school I had to do a project of a saint. Kind of like a biography. So it's inspired me to do a saint of the month on this  blog! Or it least try to post about a saint once a month on this blog! So our first saint will be the saint I chose for my school project, and you will hopefully find out who it is tomorrow!

Modesty is Hottesty

This video is amazing!!! A must see!! Watch at least ten min of it. Trust me you will love it!!! (Movie is bellow this add).