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 […]

Virgin, martyr of Rome. St Agnes is one of the most famous of early Christian saints. Her death in 305 […]

Priest and founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate. The son of a Roman grocer, Vincent was ordained priest […]

Today marks the anniversary of the birth of of Mary Ward, whose cause for Beatification is underway at the Vatican. […]

Bishop of Geneva. Patron saint of writers and journalists, and a patron saint of the deaf. Francis was born in […]

Apostle of the Gentiles. This is one of the feast days celebrating the life of St Paul. Originally named Saul, […]