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Peter Chanel was born in 1804 near Cras in France. His parents were peasants. His parish priest, the Abbe Trompier, […]

Priest, writer and founder. St Louis-Marie is perhaps most famously known for his prayer of entrustment to Our Lady, 'Totus […]

Pope John Paul II canonised Gianna Mola, a mother who died because she refused to have an abortion. The following […]

Mystic. Dominican tertiary. Catherine was born in 1347, the youngest of about 20 children of a Sienese dyer, Giacomo Benincasa. […]

Pope. Anthony Ghislieri was born in 1504 in Piedmont, Italy. He joined the Dominicans in 1518, was ordained in 1540 […]

Irish abbot. Brendan was one of the early monastic Irish saints. He was a friend and disciple of St Columba. […]

Apostle and martyr. Patron saint of Scotland and Russia. Andrew was a brother of Simon Peter. A fisherman who lived […]

Jesuit priest and martyr. Born around 1540, Edmund Campion was the son of a London bookseller and educated at Christ's […]

Born in 1858, to a French aristocratic family, Charles was left an orphan by the age of six, and he […]

Virgin, martyr of Rome. St Agnes is one of the most famous of early Christian saints. Her death in 305 […]