Holy Saturday
Examine your conscience. Just a word of caution to the scrupulous: don't overdo it. You know your sins. Hopefully you went to confession this Lent; if you didn't, try really hard to go today. Don't leave anything out, and tell God you're so sorry. Saint of the Day Saturday, March 30, 2013 St. Peter Regalado (1390-1456) Peter lived at a very busy time in history. The Great Western Schism (1378-1417) was settled at the Council of Constance (1414-1418). France and England were fighting the Hundred Years’ War, and in 1453 the Byzantine Empire was completely wiped out by the loss of Constantinople to the Turks. At Peter’s death the age of printing had just begun in Germany, and Columbus's arrival in the New World was less than 40 years away. Peter came from a wealthy and pious family in Valladolid, Spain. At the age of 13, he was allowed to enter the Conventual Franciscans. Shortly after his ordination, he was made superior of the friary in ...