Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
In the midst of the second world war Pope Pius XII put the whole world under the special protection of our Savior's Mother by...
St. Anthony, Doctor of the Church
Saint Anthony was canonized (declared a saint) less than one year after his death.
There is perhaps no more loved and admired saint in the...
St. Joseph the Hymnographer
The most prolific of the Greek hymn writers. A native of Sicily, he was forced to leave his island in 830 in the wake...
St. Germaine Cousin
Born in 1579 of humble parents at Pibrac, a village about ten miles from Toulouse; died in her native place in 1601. From her...
St. John Francis Regis
Born into a family of some wealth, John Francis was so impressed by his Jesuit educators that he himself wished to enter the Society...
St. Emily de Vialar
Born to an aristocratic family, the eldest of three children, and only daughter of Baron James Augustine and Antoinette de Vialar. Because of the...
Venerable Matt Talbot
Matt can be considered the patron of men and women struggling with alcoholism.
Matt was born in Dublin, where his father worked on the docks...
St. Romuald
In the tenth century Sergius, a nobleman of Ravenna, quarreled with a relative over an estate and, in a duel to which his son...
St. Paulinus of Nola
St. Paulinus of Nola was of a family which boasted of a long line of senators, prefects, and consuls. He was educated with great...
St. Aloysius Gonzaga
The Lord can make saints anywhere, even amid the brutality and license of Renaissance life. Florence was the “mother of piety” for Aloysius Gonzaga...
