All Saints’ Day, celebrated every November 1, is a solemn feast in the Catholic Church dedicated to all the saints, known and unknown, who now live in God’s eternal presence.
Patron Saint of doubters, architects, blind people, builders, geometricians, masons, surveyors, and theologians. Saint Thomas is represented by a spear because he was a carpenter and a ruler to symbolize his martyrdom.
In 1902, the Teddy bear was born. This popular children's stuffed toy was named after Theodore Roosevelt, the first US president to ride an automobile in the same year.
His papacy was confronted by the need for internal reform of the church, the expansion of Protestantism, and the Ottoman advance in Europe spreading the faith of Islam.
Michael de Sanctis lived a life of prayer and mortification. He was devoted to the Holy Eucharist, and is said to have been experienced ecstasies many times during Consecration.
Cyril can be considered one of those people Athanasius referred to as "brothers, who mean what we mean and differ only about the word consubstantial," notwithstanding his lack of amity with the most notable orthodoxy defender against the Arians.
In 203, two Christian mothers found themselves imprisoned because they refused to renounce their faith, and both willingly shed their blood for Christ: Saints Perpetua and Felicity, whose feast day we celebrate today, March 7.