Category: Catholic Saints

27views 1shareMartyrs In Sebaste, Armenia, forty Christian soldiers were, by confession of faith, thrown into a frozen pond. There they spent the night; but at dawn one went out and went to…

31views 1shareWidow From a noble family, she felt inclined to religious life since she was a child; but her parents married her when she was eleven years old, and she lived in…

38views 1shareConfessor He was Portuguese, and as a young man he led a wandering life, as a shepherd, soldier, bookseller, etc. Hearing in Granada a sermon by Blessed Juan de Ávila, who…

39views 1shareConfessor and Doctor Dominican friar, almost an angel, no less for the sublimity of his intelligence than for the purity and holiness of his soul, is one of the highest peaks…

30views 1shareMartyrs Perpetua was a twenty-two-year-old lady, with a few months old baby; she resisted the assault of her old father, who presented her little boy to him to turn her away…

26views 1sharePope and Martyr Exiled as a result of his election, he ruled for a few months, but with great activity and success, the Church. Returned to Rome, he died because of…

26views 1shareConfessor Second son of the King of Poland, beautiful in body and more beautiful in soul, very devoted to the Virgin, very harsh in life, extremely jealous of the purity of…

30views 1shareBishop, Confessor and Doctor He was a native of Cartagena, brother of three Saints: Fulgencio, Isidoro and Florentina. He converted Prince Saint Hermenegildo to Catholicism, who sealed his faith with his…

27views 1shareConfessor He was born in Assisi in 1838, and in just twenty-four years he reached the peak of holiness. At seventeen, disillusioned with the world, he entered the Congregation of Passionists….

20views 1shareApostle The choice of Saint Matthias for the place that the traitor Judas lost is meticulously related in the Epistle. He preached in Judea, and carried the Gospel into the interior…

22views 1shareBishop, Confessor and Doctor He was born in Ravenna, of poor parents, He became a Camaldolese religious and was later appointed Cardinal Bishop of Ostia. He lived with exemplary austerity, and…

21views 1shareCatholic Feast Antioch, the second capital of the Empire, received the apostolic preaching very early. In it the faithful began to call themselves Christians; to that city St. Peter temporarily transferred…

44views 1shareBishop and Martyr He was a close relative of Christ, as the son of Cleopas and Mary, the Virgin’s first cousin. He was the second Bishop of Jerusalem, after James the…

30views 1shareMartyrs They were two brothers who, in times of persecution, when the Bishop went into hiding, encouraged the faithful. Refusing to deny Christ, they were, by order of Trajan, beheaded in…

20views 1sharePresbyter and Martyr Priest of Rome, chained by order of the Emperor Claudius, miraculously cured the daughter of the jailer, who became a Christian; For this he was beheaded on February…

10views 1shareConfessor Seven wealthy Florentine merchants left the world and devoted themselves to the affectionate meditation of the sorrows of the Blessed Virgin. The people called them “Servants of Mary” V/. Holy…

21views 1shareCatholic Feast In Lourdes, four years after the dogmatic definition of the Immaculate Conception, the Blessed Virgin appeared to a simple shepherd (Saint Mary Bernadette), and said: “I am the Immaculate…

21views 1shareVirgin Twin sister of Saint Benedict, she consecrated her virginity to God in the cloister. Three days before her death, he had a famous spiritual conversation with her holy brother, who…

11views 1shareVirgin and Martyr A native of Alexandria, she courageously confessed her faith in the persecution of Decius, for which her teeth were pulled out. Seeing the bonfire prepared, carried away by…

27views 1shareBishop, Confessor and Doctor Saint Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, is the glorious champion of the doctrine that proclaims Mary as the Mother of God, the most glorious privilege of Mary, against…