Roman martyr, patron saint of music. According to legend, Cecilia was a Roman Christian from a patrician family who lived […]

Monk. Ireland's sixth century missionary to Europe. Born in Leimster in Ireland around 543, Saint Columban was a monk at […]

Irish Bishop. Born in Munster in 530, St Colman was a royal bard at Cashel. He was about 50 when […]

Italian Franciscan priest, writer, preacher and patron of popular missionaries. Saint Leonard was born in Port Maurizio in 1676. After […]

Franciscan priest. Born in Lucera, southeast Italy, in 1681, Francesco entered the Conventual Franciscans when he was just 14. After […]

Nun and visionary. Founder of the devotion of the Miraculous Medal. Catherine came from a large farming family near Dijon […]

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 […]