01. Manchester
October 13, 2025
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Blazon: Argent on a cross gules a bundle of arrows palewise points upward bound around a staff topped with a lily argent.
Blazon: Argent on a cross gules a bundle of arrows palewise points upward bound around a staff topped with a lily argent.
Archbishop John Carroll was born in Maryland 8 January 1735
Jean-Louis Anne Magdalen Lefebvre de Cheverus ( also known as John Cheverus ) was born on 28 January 1768 in Mayenne, Diocese of Laval, France
Jean-Louis Anne Magdalen Lefebvre de Cheverus was born on 28 January 1768 in Mayenne, Diocese of Laval, France to parents of a noble French family. Educated at Louis-le-Grand, Paris and ordained on 18 December 1790 by Bishop de Gonssans of Laval. Escaped to England and acted as a tutor and ministered there to French refugees 1792-96.
Benedict Joseph Fenwick was born on 3 September 1782 in Leonardtown, MD
John Bernard Fitzpatrick was born on 1 November 1812 in Boston, MA
Bishop David William Bacon
ARMS: On a Champagne a church building ( no tinctures )
First Roman Catholic Bishop in the United States of African-American descent, born 6 April 1830 as a slave in Macon GA, to an Irish-American plantation owner, Michael Morris Healy, and an octoroon, Eliza Clark or Smith Healy, a slave on his plantation.
Bishop Bradley born 25 Feb 1846 in Castle Island, Co. Kerry, Ireland, came to the US as a youngster about age 8, with his mother, a widow, and siblings to Manchester.
John Bernard Delaney was born on 9 August 1864 in Lowell, MA was Ordained 23 May 1891 by Cardinal Richard, Archbishop of Paris.
Bishop Guertin born 17 Feb 1869 in Nashua, NH, was the first NH bishop to be born in that state and was of French-Canadian descent.
Bishop John Bertram Peterson, 4th Bishop of Manchester, NH, 1932-1944, was born on 15 Jul 1871 in Salem, MA
Bishop Brady born 15 Jan 1893 in Waterbury, CT, he was Ordained on10 June 1916 by Bishop Nilan of Hartford.
Bishop Ernest John Primeau was appointed as the 6th Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire on 27 Nov 1959 to replace Bishop Brady who had had died on 20 Sep 1959.
Bishop Odore Joseph Gendron the 7th Bishop of Manchester, NH was born on 21 Sep 1921 in Manchester, NH.
Bishop Robert Edward Mulvee was born in Boston, MA on 15 Feb 1930 and ordained a priest of the Diocese of Manchester, NH in Louvain, Belgium on 30 June 1957 by Archbishop Henry Joseph O’Brien, Archbishop of Hartford, CT.
Bishop Joseph John Gerry, OSB, was born in Millinochet, Maine on 12 Sep 1928.
Bishop Leo Edward O’Neil the 8th Bishop of Manchester, NH was born on 31 Jan 1928
Bishop Francis Joseph Christian was born in Peterborough, NH on 8 Oct 1942. He was ordained a priest on 29 June 1968
Bishop John Brendan McCormack the 9th Bishop of Manchester, NH was born 12 Aug 1935 in Winthrop, MA.
Bishop Peter Anthony Libasci the 10th and current Bishop of Manchester, NH was born in 1951 in Queens. NY.
Lars Anders Cardinal Arborelius OCD was born on 24 September 1949.
Lars Anders Cardinal Arborelius OCD was born on 24 September 1949. He is the senior-ranking Swedish Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Stockholm since 1998. Pope Francis made him a cardinal, the first ever cardinal from Scandinavia in 2017. He is a member of the Discalced Carmelites.
Joan of Arc (1412-1431), enters Orleans victorious on 29 Apr 1429 at age 17 after lifting the siege of Orleans by the English during the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453 ).
Archdiocese of New York Latin: Archidiœcesis Neo-Eboracensis, the Archdiocese was a diocese erected in 1808 until 1850 when it was elevated to an archdiocese. From 1919 to 1983, the Archbishops of New York held the collateral position of Apostolic Vicar of the Military Vicariate of the United States. It was during this period that Cardinal Spellman served.
Bishop Robert Barron was ordained a priest in 1986 in the Archdiocese of Chicago
St. Robert Bellarmine, S.J. ( Italian ) Roberto Bellarmino born 4 Oct 1542, the son of noble but impoverished parents
He is the first pope to resign since Pope Gregory XII in 1415 and the first to do so on his own initiative since Pope Celestine V in 1294.
Arms: Or a cross Sable charged in chief with a key and sword in saltire wards and sword point upwards, in base a fleur de lis and in each flank a mullet all Argent; overall on an inescutcheon Gules a lion rampant Or holding in its sinister fore-paw a man’s heart Argent.
The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God
St. Bonaventure, Giovanni di Fidanza, Cardinal Bishop of Albano born in 1221 near Viterbo, Italy
L to R Cardinal Bonzano and Cardinal Mundelein being driven in Chicago on the way to the Holy Name Cathedral in June 1926.
Giovanni Vincenzo Cardinal Bonzano born on 27 September 1867 was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Apostolic Delegate to United States from 1912 to 1922, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1922.
Saint John Bosco was born on 16 August 1815 in Becchi, Piedmont, Italy as Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco
Arms: Gules a rose Or between two eagles’ wings Argent.
The shape of the wings is unique, but is copied from the late 13th century (1296) seal of her father, Birger Persson of Finsta, one of the great Swedish nobles of the day.
Frank Joseph Caggiano was born on 29 March 1959 in Brooklyn, NY
Arms: Per bend Or and Gules, a lion rampant, counter changed.
Bishop Richard Challoner was a leading Roman Catholic Bishop in England for most of the 18th century. Born in Sussex 29 Sep 1691
Pope Clement XIwas born Giovanni Francesco Albani on 23 Jul 1649. He was elected pope on 23 Nov 1700. As such he was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States until his death in 1721.
BLAZON OF ARMS:
SHIELD: Gules and a base barry wavy of six Argent and Azure overall a hart trippant
Or supporting with its dexter foreleg the staff Or of a long swallowtail banner in chief Argent charged with a Scandinavian cross Gules (Hartford) impaled by Azure a Celtic cross Vert fimbriated Or between four fleur-de-lis Or (Coyne).
Archbishop Christopher James Coyne, is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Hartford in Connecticut since May 2024.
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SHIELD: Azure a fess Argent between three crescents that in dexter chief Argent the others Or, the fess charged with a coronet Gules between two scrolls partially unrolled palewise Or each with two rods Sable.
Timothy Cardinal Dolan is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of New York since 2009 and as a cardinal since 2012.
Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) was born on 17 December 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ordained a Catholic priest in 1969 and from 1973 to 1979 was the provincial superior of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). He was appointed Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998. H was created a Cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II.
BLAZON OF ARMS:
SHIELD: Gules and a base barry wavy of six Argent and Azure overall a hart trippant Or supporting with its dexter foreleg the staff Or of a long swallowtail banner in chief Argent charged with a Scandinavian cross Gules.
Blazon: Argent on a triple mount Vert, a lion rampant Or armed and langued Gules and in dexter chief a mullet of six points Or.
ARMS: Gules the symbol of the Holy Trinity argent lettered sable
Jesus in the Instruments of his Passion
ARMS: Or, a lion rampant sable, armed and langued Gules impaling Or, a cross Gules, a five pointed star Argent, between four pierced fraises Azure.
One of Pope Leo’s early acts was the restoration the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Scotland in 1878.
Pope Leo XIV born Robert Francis Prevost on September 14, 1955) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.
Pope Leo XIV born Robert Francis Prevost on September 14, 1955) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected pope in the 2025 conclave on May 8 following the death and funeral of Pope Francis.
St. Ignatius Loyola was born on 24 Dec 1491 to a noble Spanish family whose Castle of Loyola was in the Basque province of GuipĂşzcoa, Spain, he was a soldier first before becoming a religious.
shop Jacques Mangers, S. M. was born on 18 Mar 1889 in Stolzemburg, Luxembourg and was appointrd Bishop of Oslo, Norway on 29 June 1953. Norway at that time did not have enough Norwegian Catholics for the pope to pick a native Norwegian and so imported a bishop from Luxembourg for the position. Bishop Mangers retired on 25 Nov 1964, and died in Luxembourg on 7 Jan 1972, at age 82.
Margaret of Scotland, Saint and Queen
Jules Cardinal Mazarin was born as Guilio Raimondo Mazzarino on 14 July 1602, he was a diplomat and politician who served as chief minister of France from 1642 until his death in 1661. He succeeded his mentor Cardinal Richelieu and was a noted collector of art, jewels books and money.
Cardinal James Charles McGuigan was born 26 Nov 1894 to an Irish Catholic family that emigrated from Northern Ireland just before the Famine.
Born 10 April 1240/1, died 19 Nov 1298, Melchtide ( Matilda ) to the high noble Thuringian family of von Hackeborn and von Wippra at their castle and estate of Heltfa near Eisleben. They were great nobles and powerful barons and counts in Saxony, Germany.
Cardinal József Mindszenty (9 March 1892 – 6 May 1975)
St. Thomas was born on 7 Feb 1478 in London and died on 6 July 1535 in London
Louis LaRavoire Morrow, was born on 24 December 1892
George Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago was born on 2 July 1872 in Manhattan to Francis and Mary (née Goetz) Mundelein.
Cardinal William Henry O’Connell on 8 Dec 1859 was an American cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Boston from 1907 until his death in 1944, and was made a cardinal in 1911.
Fr. Paul Henry O’Sullivan, O.P., S.T.L. was born in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland on 7 Feb 1871.
Olaf II Haraldsson c. 995-29 July 1030 later became known as Saint Olaf. And in Great Britain as St. Olave and in old Norse as Olafr Haraldsson.
Pietro Cardinal Parolin, OMRI born 17 January 1955) is an Italian Catholic prelate who has served as the Vatican’s Secretary of State since 2013 and as a member of the Council of Cardinals since 2014, the same year he was made a cardinal.
Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, widely known as Padre Pio, was an Italian Capuchin friar, priest, stigmatist, and mystic.
Antonio Michele Ghislieri, OP, St. Pius V
Blessed Pope Pius IX, Count Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti
Giuseppe Melchiore Sarto, Pope St. Pius X
Timothy Cardinal Radcliffe, OP was appointed a cardinal by Pope Francis on 7 Dec 2024.
George James Rassas (born May 26, 1942) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
A painting of Cardinal Richelieu’s righthand man, Father Joseph, whom some think of as the Gray Eminence (éminence grise) Referring to François Leclerc du Tremblay, a member of the Order of Friars Minor capuchin who wore the gray-colored robe of that Franciscan order ( which led them use the familiar nickname the Greyfriars ).
Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac was born on 9 September 1585 was likely the most important and powerful French clergyman and statesman in France in the first half of the seventeenth century turning France into one of the Great Powers.
St. Francis de Sales was born on 21 August 1567 at the Chateau de Thorens in Haute-Savoie to François de Boisy and Françoise de Sionnz of noble Savoyard families.
The Rev. Father Guy Selvester is an American Roman Catholic priest born in 1964 in Plainview, New York.
The Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints promulgated a decree approving a miracle of the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen needed for beatification on 6 July 2019.
Francis Cardinal Joseph Spellman born on 4 may 1889 in Whitman, MA
St. Andrew the Apostle The Patron Saint of Scotland.
St. Andrew the ApostleThe Patron Saint of Scotland.
St. Katherine of Alexandria and Sinai was one of the most important saints in the religious atmosphere and culture of the late Middle Ages
Monsignor Gilles Wach, born in Troyes, France in 1956
St. Francis Xavier ( In Spanish: San Francisco Javier) was born on April 7, 1506
Flying table banners of the four bishops of the Society of St. Pius X
H. E. Bishop Bernard Fellay, Former Superior General, the Society of St. Pius X
HE Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais was one of four bishops consecrated for the Society of St. Pius X
HE Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais was one of four bishops consecrated for the Society of St. Pius X
Bishop Richard Nelson Williamson born on 8 March 1940