St. Scholastica's humility and love were so profound that even her brother St. Benedict, revered for his grave resolve, yielded to her requests through the power of her loving prayers.
St. Cyril of Alexandria’s heroic efforts, supported by Pope St. Celestine I, led to the condemnation of Nestorius and the affirmation of Mary as the Mother of God.
During Lent we ask St. John of Matha to pray for those who groan under the captivity of sin and Satan, for those, especially, who, taken with the frenzy of earthly pleasures, feel not the weight of their chains, but sleep on peacefully through their slavery.
In the heavenly contemplation wherewith St. Romuald was favored, he shed abundant tears. Yet such was the joy which ever beamed in his face, that it made all who looked at him cheerful.
Having lost her parents in childhood, and being exceedingly fervent in the practice of the Christian religion, St. Martina was singularly charitable to the poor, and distributed among them her immense riches.