Feast Day
2 saints in our library are celebrated on August 8.
1170 — 1221
A Spanish priest who founded the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) to combat heresy through intellectual study and evangelical poverty. According to tradition, the Virgin Mary gave him the Rosary as a spiritual weapon. His order produced Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas within a generation.
August 18, 1657 — August 6, 1726
Known as the 'Flying Friar' for miraculous accounts of his journeys, Antonio Margil de Jesús walked barefoot across the Americas, founding missions from Guatemala to Texas. He signed his letters 'La Misma Nada' — Nothingness Itself — yet built Mission San José near San Antonio, which stands today as the finest of the Texas missions.