Catholic saints pictures with cows
Catholic saints pictures with cows and dogs.
Catholic saints pictures with cows
Saints Who Loved Animals
The Saints and Their Feast Days
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Introduction
During the first 1,000 years of the Christian Church there were many saints who loved animals.
They lived with them, rescued them, nursed them and saved them from hunters. In turn, many saints were helped by animals.
We have listed some of these saints below in order of their feast days.
Catholic saints pictures with cows and flowers
We hope that the information on them is useful and that you can ask your priest to remember them during services on their feast days for their love of animals.The Saints and Their Feast Days
St Basil the Great: Feast Day – 2 January
St Basil (330 AD – 379 AD) greatly influenced the Eastern Church and said in this prayer in the ‘Liturgy of St Basil’:
‘The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.
O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, our brothers the animals to whom thou has given the earth as their home in common with us. We remember with shame that in t