November 26 Blessed James Alberione was born in San Lorenzo di Fossano (in Piedmont), Italy, on April 4, 1884. He was the fifth child of Michael Alberione and Teresa Allocco. In October 1900, he entered the diocesan seminary of Alba and on June 29,1907 was ordained a...
October 17 Born in Syria, Ignatius converted to Christianity and eventually became bishop of Antioch. In the year 107, Emperor Trajan visited Antioch and forced the Christians there to choose between death and apostasy. Ignatius would not deny Christ and thus was condemned to be put...
The Catholic Church honors individuals who lived remarkable lives of faith and virtues. Others have offered their lives even to death for the cause of our faith in Jesus Christ; we call them saints. We know a good number of them and consider them as...
St. Martín de Porres, in full Juan Martín de Porres Velázquez, (born 1579, Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru [now in Peru]—died November 3, 1639, Lima; canonized 1962; feast day November 3), Peruvian friar noted for his kindness, his nursing of the sick, his obedience, and his...
St. Jude, also known as Thaddaeus, was a relative of Our Savior and a brother of St. James the Less. He was one of Jesus' 12 Apostles, and his symbol is a club. A flame is often depicted around the head of St. Jude to...
Open wide the doors to Christ,” urged John Paul II during the homily at the Mass where he was installed as pope in 1978. Born in Wadowice, Poland, Karol Jozef Wojtyla had lost his mother, father, and older brother before his 21st birthday. Karol’s promising academic...
Sister Faustina was a young, uneducated nun in a convent of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Poland during the 1930s. She came from a poor family that struggled during the years of World War I. She had only three years...
The deathbed confession of a dying servant opened Vincent de Paul’s eyes to the crying spiritual needs of the peasantry of France. This seems to have been a crucial moment in the life of the man from a small farm in Gascony, France, who had...
Padre Pio was born on May 25, 1887 in Pietrelcina, southern Italy. He was tutored privately until his entry to the novitiate of the Capuchin Friars at the age of 15. Of feeble health but strong will, with the help of grace, he completed the...
St. Regina was a martyr. She was an actual martyr at Autun, France. Legend has her the daughter of a pagan, Clement, and tortured and beheaded during the second century when she refused to marry the proconsul Olybrius. Feast day is Sept 7th. Saint Regina (Regnia,...