Pontian was elected pope in 230 and reigned until the year 235. The schism of Hippolytus continued during his episcopate. Toward...

Born at Dijon in France in 1572, Jane was very pious and religious from a very young age. In 1592 she married the Baron de Chant...

Once, during an enemy attack against Assisi, the fierce Saracens invaded San Damiano, entered the confines of the monastery and ...

St. Lawrence, one of the deacons of the Roman Church, was one of the victims of the persecution of Valerian in 258, like Pope...

João Mendes da Silva, better known as the Blessed Amadeus of Portugal, was born in 1420 in Campo Maior on the eastern side of th...

Dominic was born in 1170 in Castile, Spain to Felix Guzman and Joan of Aza (who later became a blessed). He was sent to school i...

Cajetan was born in 1480 in Vicenza, Italy to Caspar, the Count of Thiene and Mary di Porto, both members of the nobility of Vic...

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He led them up the mountain and showed them His kingship before His passion, and His power before His death, His glory before His disgrac...

" And after six days Jesus took Peter and James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain apart.  And He was...

To the servant of God … every place is the right place, and every time is the right time. St. Catherine of Siena

Santa Maria Maggiore or St. Mary Major is the largest church in the world honoring the Virgin Mary and was erected in the immediate a...

Before beginning your work, my dear brethren, never fail to make the Sign of the Cross … Offer quite simply all your difficulties to God ...

John Vianney was born in France in 1786, just three years before the beginning of the French Revolution. He grew up assisting a local prie...

Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul. St...

Waltheof was born of English nobility. The son of Simon, the Earl of Huntingdon, and Maud, the grand-niece of William the Conqueror, ...

The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply...

Eusebius was born on the island of Sardinia where his father died a martyr. His mother took him and his sister to live in Rome where ...

As soon as she [Mary] had the use of reason, that is, from the first moment of her immaculate conception in the womb of St. Anne, from tha...

Alphonsus was born in 1696 near Naples, Italy, to a naval officer and his Spanish wife. Educated at the University of Naples, Alphons...

The Five First Saturdays devotion is one of the principal points of the Fatima message. It centers on the urgent need for mankind to ...

Do not let any occasion of gaining merit pass without taking care to draw some spiritual profit from it; as, for example, from a sharp wo...

Inigo de Loyola was born in 1491 in the Basque province of Guipuzcoa in northern Spain. Of the noble family of Loyola, as a boy he wa...

It is useless for a man to flaunt his knowledge of the law if he undermines its teaching by his actions. St. Anthony of Padua

Peter Chrysologus was born in Imola, Italy in 406 and died there in 450. He was baptized, educated and ordained a deacon by Cornelius...

It was the thief’s last prayer, perhaps even his first. He knocked once, sought once, asked once, dared everything, and found everything...

Martha, named in the Gospels of St. Luke and St. John, was the sister of Lazarus, the friend of Jesus whom the Lord resurrected. She ...

I am the light of the world: he t...

My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing His designs. Our single endeavor should be to give ourselve...

St. Samson is counted among the seven founding saints of Brittany. He was born in Wales, his father being the son of Amon of Demetia ...

If our age – in its pride – laughs at and rejects Our Lady’s Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of every age and of every ...

Theobald was the son of Bouchard of Montmorency, one of the most illustrious families of Europe. They were constables of France, mars...

Although Scripture is silent about the grandparents of Jesus, tradition tells us that Saints Anne and Joachim were ...

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. St. Thomas Aquinas

According to tradition, Our Lady’s parents were Joachim and Anne to whom, after years of childlessness, and much prayer, an angel app...

When you can do nothing at prayer, make acts of humility, comparing your nothingness with God’s greatness, your ingratitude with His ben...

James the Greater was the son of Zebedee and Salome, one of the women at the tomb on Easter morning, (Matt.27:56, Mark 15:40, 16:1) a...

  Prayer: O precious Blood of Jesus, infinite price paid for the redemption of sinful mankind. O Divine Blood, drink and lav...