Born on 2 July 1647 Margaret Mary Alacoque was a French Roman Catholic Visitation Sister and mystic, who promoted devotion […]

Bishop and martyr. Born in Syria, Ignatius converted to Christianity and eventually became bishop of Antioch. In the year 107, […]

Hermit. St John lived sometime in the 5th century. As a young man, he went into the Egyptian desert to […]

Evangelist. Patron of artists and doctors. All we know of Luke comes from the New Testament. He was a Greek […]

Founder of the Passionists. Born in northern Italy in 1694, Paul Daneo lived at a time when many regarded Jesus […]

More than 150,000 people gathered in Warsaw this morning, for the beatification of Fr Jerzy Popieluszko, a Catholic priest and […]

Jesuit priest and martyr of Canada. Born in 1593 in Normandy, Brebeuf became a Jesuit in Rouen in 1617. His […]

Nurse and nun. Maria was born in 1888 to a poor Italian family in Brendola in northern Italy. Her father […]

Abbot and monastic pioneer of Palestine. Hilarion was born in 291 in Gaza. He studied at Alexandria, where he became […]

'Do not be afraid' was the most often-used Biblical quote of Pope John Paul II. Karol Józef Wojtyła was born […]

Philosopher, statesman and martyr. Born in Rome around 475, Severenus Boethius was the son of a rich Christian Roman family. […]

Archbishop of Cuba and founder of the Claretians. Antony was born in 1809 in northern Spain. As a young man […]