Early in his priesthood, Manuel (who took the religious name Fausti...

Feast Day: Feb. 8  Kidnapped. Beaten. Sold. So traumatized she for...

Stories and legends of Nicholas’ generosity and concern for the poor grew throughout Europe.

A man of peace. A pastoral pope and a preacher. A staunch defender ...

Feast day: Oct. 4 Born into a life of privilege in the 12th centur...

“They are not Angles, but angels. They are rightly named, for their...

Feast Day: Aug. 21 When St. Pius X was named pope in 1903, he used...

Feast Day: June 24 Saint Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala, known as M...

Feast Day: May 30 Thanks to movies, books and popular legend, St. ...

Feast Day: April 21 St. Anselm, a Benedictine monk who lived durin...

Feast Day - March 20 Saint María Josefa felt called to religious l...

Feast Day: February 23 As the bishop of Smyrna in the second centu...

Virginia Centurione, born into a noble family in Genoa, Italy, in 1...

Feast Day: November 4 Born amidst the turmoil of the Protestant Re...

Born Helena Kowalska in the small Polish town of Lodz, St. Faustina...

Feast day: September 23 Devoted to Christ from his childhood in It...

Feast Day July 14 Tekakwitha, born in 1656 to a Christian Algonqui...

Feast Day: June 22 St. Thomas More was an educated man – a lawyer,...

Feast Day: May 10 Born into a poor, Belgian farming family in 1840...

Feast Day: April 29 On the feast of the Annunciation, 1347, Jacopo...

Feast Day: March 3 St. Katharine Drexel was born to a rich and cha...

Feast Day: January 7th St. André was born Alfred Bessette in Quebe...

St. Fabiola (d. 399/400) was a Roman physician who divorced her fir...

On Sept. 23, 2015, Pope Francis canonized Junípero Serra at the Bas...

Feast Days: October 1 | October 15 St. Thérèse of Lisieux, also kn...