Saturday in the Second Week after Easter Notre-Dames de Betharam / Our Lady of Betharam, France (1503) – 22 April:Saint Bernadette Soubirous frequently visited the Shrine of Betharram. In fact, the rosary beads that Bernadette used when praying with the Blessed Virgin during the first apparition at Lourdes had come from the Betharram Shrine and the priest to whom she was sent after the…

Saint of the Day – 22April – Saint Altfried of Münster (Died 849) the Third Bishop of Münster from (839–849) and Abbot of Essen-Werden and Helmstedt. Born in the 9th Century, n Friesland (in modern Netherlands) and died on 22 April 849 of natural causes. Altfried was a nephew of St Liudger (c 742-809) and his second successor in the See of Münster, as well as a successor as Abbot of the Abbey of…