Hermit. Giles was was one of the most popular saints of Western Europe in mediaeval times. He is said to […]

Bishop. This Anglo Saxon priest was chaplain to Canute, king of England and Denmark from 1016-1035. He accompanied him on […]

Irish Abbot and bishop. St Finnian is sometimes called Finbar. This sixth century saint is said to have been an […]

Founder of the Franciscan Order, patron of animals, birds, conservationists and naturalists. Saint Francis was born in 1181 or 82, […]

Dominican lay brother. Patron saint of race relations. Born in 1579, in Lima, Peru, Martin was the illegitimate son of […]

Bishop and monk. This sixth century saint is said to have come from the family of Coel Godebog, a Celtic […]

Martyrs. St Hyacinth is notable among Roman martyrs because his grave and epitaph were found intact in recent times, with […]

Layman. Guy was a farm labourer, born in Brabant around 950, who was made sacristan of the church at Laeken […]

Archbishop. Born in 347, the son of an army officer at Antioch, St John was brought up by his widowed […]

Austrian laywoman from what is now called the Tyrol. Notburga was born around 1250 to a poor peasant family. At […]

Married woman and mystic. Born in Genoa in 1447, Catherine Fieschi entered into an arranged marriage with a wealthy young […]