Too humble to aspire to the priesthood, St. Didacus or Diego, was a simple lay brother in the Franciscan Order. His special devotion was to the Passion of our Lord. Oil from the lamp that he kept burning before a statue of the Blessed Virgin cured the sick.

  Blessed is the man that doth meditate on the law of the Lord: His delight is therein day and night, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. –Matins: First Antiphon.

  Truly a lowly rustic that serveth God is better than a proud philosopher who pondereth the courses of the stars, and neglecteth himself. –Imitation: Book I.

  Ideal: Like St. Francis of Assisi, this saint was too humble to aspire to the priesthood, so he remained a brother all his life. Monsignor Benson says in one of his books “Very few, except the most mortified saints, fail to feel satisfaction at their growing importance.” We all love to see our name in print, to think that the whole world is talking about us, that there never was a person quite as wonderful as we, even if it be in nothing more wonderful than driving nails.

  Today: When somebody does better than you in a test, do you think and say, “Oh yes, if I had the time and the chances, and got all the breaks like so-and-so, or do you say “so-and-so has real talent and uses it too. If I studied like that, I would do better too”; which?

 Slogan: Envy hath slain its tens of thousands.

~A Character Calendar
Sister Mary Fidelis, Sister Mary Charitas
Imprimatur 1931