Apostles and martyrs. According to Matthew and Mark, Simon was a Canaanite. Saint Luke described him as a zealot. Saint […]

Chiara Badano was born in the small town of Sassello in Savona, Italy, on 29th October 1971. Her parents were […]

Irish monk and missionary. St Foillan was a brother of St Fursey, a 7th century bishop. Together they travelled to […]

Spanish Jesuit laybrother. Patron saint of Majorca. Born in 1533, Alphonsus inherited the family textile business at 23. Within the […]

This feast was originally kept in the springtime in the Eastern Church, and dedicated to 'the martyrs of the whole […]

Archbishop of Milan. Charles was born in 1528 to an aristocratic family, who lived in a castle on the shore […]

Parents of Saint John the Baptist. Both were old when the Angel Gabriel came to tell them they were going […]

Missionary archbishop. Born in Northumbria in 658, Willibrord studied at Ripon monastery under Saint Wilfrid and spent twelve years studying […]