The 10-foot-high bronze statues of St. Michael the Archangel (the patron saint of police officers) and St. Florian (the patron saint of firefighters), which the complaint says are being made in ...

Saint Florian, left, and Saint Michael, right, are depicted in 10-foot, bronze patron saint statues commissioned to adorn Quincy's new public safety building. Office of Mayor Thomas Koch By Molly ...

A group of residents at Quincy, Massachusetts, is suing to block the city from installing two statues of Catholic saints outside its new public safety building. The Quincy mayor, Thomas Koch, ...

Saint of the day: St. Eligius - Catholic News Agency. Tuesday, June 24, 2025. A service of EWTN News. ... St. Eligius is the patron of goldsmiths, blacksmiths, and all metal workers.

What we know of St. Blandine comes from a letter the Church in Lyons sent to other Christian churches and of which Eusebius (an early Church historian) wrote, about the martyrdom of her and her ...

The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, are claiming that the installation of the statues – St. Michael the Archangel and St. Florian, the patron ...

St. Olga, a Yup'ik woman who died in 1979 at age 63, was a midwife, a mother of 13 and the wife of an Orthodox Christian ...

Edmund White, who died on June 3, 2025 at the age of 85, was often called the Grandfather of gay literature.Equally at home writing novels, biographies, plays, memoirs, essays and various hybrids, he ...

“Think about Mother Seton, our first American-born saint. She walked these same paths, more or less, to make a sacrifice for ...

This year’s Dec. 8 celebration honoring the island’s patron saint, Santa Marian Kamalen, takes on new meaning for the Catholic faithful after a challenging year marked by multiple clergy sex ...

KALISPELL - Douglas F. Wise, owner and patron saint of Sykes' Restaurant for 64 years and a legendary purveyor of 10-cent cups of coffee, passed away on Jan. 14 in Kalispell. He was 93 years old ...

St. Irene of Rome was the widow of the martyr Saint Castulus, a Roman military officer who was killed for spreading the Christian faith in 286. She lived in the Roman Empire during the reign of ...