Saint of the day: Saints Perpetua and Happiness: “When my father in his affection for me was trying to distance me from my purpose with arguments and…
Saint Maria Anna of Jesus of Paredes: Maria Anna got close to God and his people during her short life. The most…
St. John Joseph of the Cross: Self-denial is never an end in itself, but is only a help towards greater charity - as it shows ...
Saint of the day, San Casimir: Casimir, born of a king and about to be a king himself, was full of exceptional values and ...
Saint of the day: Saint Katharine Drexel: If your father is an international banker and you travel in a private rail car, it is unlikely that you are ...
Saint of the day, St David of Wales: David is the patron saint of Wales and perhaps the most famous of the British saints. Irony of fate,…
Saint of the day, Blessed Daniel Brottier: Daniel has spent most of his life in the trenches, one way or another. Born in France ...
Saint of the day, Santa Maria Bertilla Boscardin: If anyone knew rejection, ridicule and disappointment, that was the saint of today. But such ...
Saint of the day, Blessed Sebastian of the History of Aparicio: Sebastian's roads and bridges connected many distant places. His latest bridge construction ...
Saint of the day the story of Blessed Luca Belludi: in 1220 Saint Anthony was preaching conversion to the inhabitants of Padua when a young nobleman, Luca ...
Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, disciple of St. John the Apostle and friend of St. Ignatius of Antioch, was a revered Christian leader during the first half of ...
This feast commemorates Christ's choice of Peter to sit in his place as the servant-authority of the whole Church. After the "lost weekend" ...
Perhaps because he was an orphan and had been treated badly by one of his brothers, Pietro Damiani was very good to the poor. For him it was ...
Between 13 May and 13 October 1917, three Portuguese shepherd children from Aljustrel received the apparitions of Our Lady in Cova da Iria, near ...
Born into a noble family in northern Italy, as a young man Corrado married Eufrosina, daughter of a nobleman. One day, while he was hunting, he ordered the attendants to ...
The patron saint of Christian artists was born around 1400 in a village overlooking Florence. He started painting as a boy and studied under ...
Can you imagine seven prominent men from Boston or Denver gathered together, leaving their homes and professions and going into solitude ...
Gilberto was born in Sempringham, England, into a wealthy family, but he followed a very different path from what was expected of ...
This is a special day for the Jesuits, who claim today's saint as one of their own. It is also a special day for ...
Since their father was an officer in a part of Greece inhabited by many Slavs, these two Greek brothers eventually became missionaries, teachers ...
In the same year that a power-hungry Napoleon Bonaparte led his army to Russia, Giles Maria di San Giuseppe ended a life ...
On December 8, 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus. A little more than three years later, on 11 February ...
A careless and irreligious soldier for the city-state of Venice, Girolamo was captured in a skirmish in an outpost city and chained in a prison. ...
Colette did not seek the limelight, but in doing God's will she certainly attracted a lot of attention. Colette was born in Corbie, France.…
(† 1597) Nagasaki, Japan, is familiar to Americans as the city on which the second atomic bomb was dropped, immediately killing over 37.000…
(circa 230 - 251) As in the case of Agnes, another virgin martyr of the early Church, almost nothing is historically certain of this saint except ...
Giuseppe was born in Leonissa in the Kingdom of Naples. As a boy and a student in early adulthood, Joseph attracted attention for his energy ...
The story of San Biagio We know more about the devotion to San Biagio by Christians around the world than we know about ...
The Story of the Presentation of the Lord At the end of the fourth century, a woman named Etheria made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Her diary, discovered ...
The "apostle to the north" (Scandinavia) had enough frustrations to become a saint, and he did. He became a Benedictine in Corbie, France, where he had studied. Three…
Today the Church commemorates St. Thomas Aquinas, the Holy Doctor of the Church, a Dominican friar and supreme philosopher. In the past they have ...