Saint Sylvester was born in Rome around the year 250. At a young age, he was put under the care of a priest to be formed in the practice of religion and sacred literature.
Sylvester enjoyed providing shelter to Christians passing through the city. He would take them with him, wash their...
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“I am a nobody, I am a small rope, a tiny ladder, the tail end, a leaf.” - Saint Juan DiegoBorn in 1474 in Cuauhtitlán, Mexico, to an Aztec tribe given the name Cuauhtlatoatzin, or “talking eagle.” He belonged to the poorest and most numerous class of the Aztecs, besides that of the slaves. He...
Today the Catholic Church celebrates the memory of St. Ambrose, the brilliant Bishop of Milan who influenced St. Augustine's conversion and was named a Doctor of the Church.
Like Augustine himself, the older Ambrose (born around 340) was a highly educated man who sought to harmonize Greek...
Born May 28, 1856 in Piedmont, Italy; died December 5, 1931 in Turin; beatified April 29, 1990 by Pope John Paul II.Phillip met Don Bosco when he was five years old and intuitively recognized that he was a man with a great mission.At the age of 22, he entered the Salesian Order at the end of a...
“Show me the icons that you venerate, that I may be able to
understand your faith.” - Saint John of Damascus
John of Damascus (also called John Damascene) was born in
Damascus in 676. His father was a man who had staunchly remained Christian in
the Muslim city....
On Dec. 3 the Roman Catholic Church honors St. Francis Xavier, one of the first Jesuits who went on to evangelize vast portions of Asia.
Francis Xavier was born during 1506 in the Kingdom of Navarre, a region now divided between Spain and France. His mother was an esteemed heiress, and his...
Elisa Angela Meneguzzi born on September 12, 1901, to poor and humble farming family in Padua, Italy. She manifested an ardently spiritual soul and spent hours in prayer, attended Mass every day and taught catechism.In 1926, willing to totally donate her life to God, she entered in the Sisters...
Edmund Campion was born in London on January 25, 1540. He was raised a Catholic and had such a powerful and flamboyant intellect that at the age of only 17 he was made a junior fellow at Saint John’s College of Oxford University.On visiting the university Queen Elizabeth I was so taken by Edmund...
Saint Catherine Laboure was born in Fain-les-Moûtiers, Côte d'Or, France on May 2, 1806. She was the ninth of eleven children in a poor farm family. Upon her mother’s death, when Catherine was eight years old, the young girl assumed the responsibilities of the household.When she was older, she...
Catholics and other Christians around the world celebrate today, Nov. 25, the memorial of St. Catherine of Alexandria, a revered martyr of the fourth century.St. Catherine was the subject of great interest and devotion among later medieval Christians. Devotees relished tales of her rejection of...