Bishop Rohde Council #2990

04/13/2026

Saint Margaret of Castello
1287 - 1320
Feast day: April 13
Patronage: Pro-life movement; the poor, crippled and the unwanted
Saint Margaret of Castello was born in Metola, Italy to noble parents who wanted a son. Because their daughter was born blind and a hunchbacked dwarf she was kept hidden and locked in a room onto the side of the parish church for 16 years, where she was fed through a small window and able to hear Mass and receive Holy Communion through another window. When she was 20 her parents took her to a shrine in Castello, where miracles were reportedly being wrought, to pray for a cure for her birth defects. When no miracle happened they abandoned her. The poor of the city took her in as their own. Margaret had to beg for her food and eventually sought shelter with some Dominican nuns. She died at the age of 33 and a crippled girl was miraculously cured at her funeral. Her body has remained incorrupt.
Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. Link in our bio.
https://www.portraitsofsaints.com/collections/all/all-images-st-margaret-of-castello

04/11/2026

Saint Gemma Galgani
1878-1903
Feast day: April 11
Patronage: students, pharmacists, tuberculosis patients, love, hope, spinal injury
Throughout her life, St. Gemma was to be favored with many mystical experiences and special graces. She wished to become a nun, but her poor health prevented her from being accepted. On June 8, 1899, Gemma received the stigmata. Gemma often saw her guardian angel, with whom she was on familiar terms and sent on errands. In January of 1903, Gemma was diagnosed as having tuberculosis. She died quietly in the company of the parish priest, on April 11 at age twenty-five.
Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. Link in our bio.
https://www.portraitsofsaints.com/collections/all/all-images-st-
gemma-galgani

10/02/2025

Saint of the day: The Guardian Angels - Catholic News Agency

07/04/2025

05/19/2025

To a world that demands affirmation of radically anti-Christian ideals, God's truth looks like hate.

12/08/2024

The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

It's one of the four dogmas of the Catholic Church that maintains that from the moment the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived in the womb, she was kept free of original sin so that she was from the start filled with the sanctifying grace normally conferred in baptism.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. Link in our bio.
https://bit.ly/2L5Vn5X