Saint of the Day, November 23

Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro (1891–1927) was a Mexican Jesuit priest who was executed for his faith during the government persecution of the Church in the 1920s. Born in Guadalupe, Zacatecas, he was known from boyhood as a joker and a mimic, with a deep devotion underneath. He entered the Jesuits in 1911, but the revolution forced the novices to flee. He studied in California, Spain, Nicaragua and Belgium, where he was ordained a priest in 1925.

Pope Saint Clement I (died about 99) was one of the first bishops of Rome, listed as the third successor of St. Peter. Very little is known for certain about his life, but one remarkable document survives: a letter he wrote around the year 96 to the Christians of Corinth, in Greece, who had removed their leaders in a bitter dispute.

St. Columban (c.543–615) was one of the great Irish missionaries who helped rekindle the faith in Europe after the fall of Rome. Born in Leinster, he studied under learned monks and became a monk at the famous monastery of Bangor in the north of Ireland.