Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, has addressed Christians in the Holy Land with a heartfelt message in […]

Empress. Helena was an innkeeper's daughter, born at Drepanum (later Helenopolis) in Asia Minor, around 270. Another story claims she […]

Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga (1901-1952) was a Jesuit priest who gave himself to the poor and marginalised people of Chile. His […]

French priest. Founder of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary. John was born in 1601 to a farming family in […]

Cistercian monk and abbot of Clairvaux. Bernard was born in 1090 near Dijon in Burgundy. As a young man he […]

Pope. Born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, in 1835, he was the son of a shoemaker and postman who lived near Treviso […]

Martyr. This third or fourth century saint was one of the most revered martyrs of Roman Gaul. According to tradition, […]

The first saint of the New World, Saint Rose is the patron of South America and the Philippines. Rose was […]

Biblical scholars these days generally think Bartholomew was the same person as Nathaniel, but nothing is known for certain about […]