Pope Saint Hilarius
Pope St. Hilarius (d. 468) had been a trusted aide to Pope Saint Leo the Great. Papal legate. As pope, Hilarius confirmed the work of several general councils, rebuilt and remodeled many ...
Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
St Gabriel (Confessor) was born in Assisi in 1838, was guided by Our Lady into the Passionist Institute and became a veritable Apostle of her Sorrows. His life was throughout perfect and ...
Saint Porphyry of Gaza
At the age of twenty-five, St. Porphyry of Gaza (d.420), a rich citizen of Thessalonica, left the world for one of the great religious houses in the desert of Sceté. In 393 he was ordained priest ...
Saint Ananias
St. Ananias was a missionary, martyr, and the patron of St. Paul. A Christian in the city of Damascus, Ananias was commanded by Christ in a vision to seek out Saul, the future Paul. It was he who ...
Blessed Thomas Maria Fusco
Fr Tommaso Maria Fusco was an Apostle of Charity of the Most Precious Blood, a friend of boys and girls and young people and attentive to every kind of poverty and human and spiritual misery.
Saint Polycarp
Saint Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr, lived in about 69-155 A.D., and was the Bishop of Smyrna, Izmir in modern Turkey. He was the leading Christian figure in Roman Asia Minor. He is an important ...
Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter
The feast of The Chair of St. Peter commemorates Christ’s choosing Peter to sit in his place as the servant-authority of the whole Church.
Saint Peter Damian, Doctor of the Church
St. Peter Damian, Doctor of The Church, (988-1072) must be numbered among the greatest of the Church's reformers in the Middle Ages, yes, even among the truly extraordinary persons of all times. ...
Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto
Between May 13 and October 13, 1917, three children, Portuguese shepherds from Aljustrel, received apparitions of Our Lady at Cova da Iria, near Fatima, a city 110 miles north of Lisbon. Up to ...
Saint Conrad of Piacenza
St. Conrad of Piacenza (1290-1350) went to a remote spot in Sicily where he lived 36 years as a hermit, praying for himself and for the rest of the world. Prayer and penance were his answer to ...