Saint of the Day

Valentine and Patrick get all the attention. What about those more obscure saints who still rock and yet don't get major, now-secular holidays? Today I honor one.

There were some runners up in my decision making process. There were about 60 saints to pick from today. There was the man who helped reunite Armenia with the Church. There was a man martyred for cutting down a tree. There was a group of French martyr nuns, and a group of African martyrs. There was a Greek Catholic priest who died in a Czechoslovakian prison after refusing to renounce Rome. There was a guy who raised a drowned boy. A consecrated virgin. A pope!

In other words, there were a lot of good folk to choose from. But I chose the guy who slept under his parent's staircase until he died. His name was Alexius.