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. 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...
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. 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. 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. 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...
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. Olivia
According to a pious legend, St. Olivia was described as a ravishing beauty of 13 years when Saracens captured her at Palermo, Sicily in...
St. Ephrem, Doctor of the Church
Poet, teacher, orator and defender of the faith, Ephrem is the only Syrian recognized as a doctor of the Church. He took upon himself...
Pope St. Linus
All the ancient records of the Roman bishops which have been handed down to us by St. Irenaeus, Julius Africanus, St. Hippolytus, Eusebius, also...
