February, 8th | Saint Josephine Bakhita
Saint Josephine Bakhita’s Story
For many years, Josephine Bakhita was a slave but her spirit was always free and eventually that spirit prevailed....
February, 7th | Saint Colette
Saint Colette’s Story
Colette did not seek the limelight, but in doing God’s will she certainly attracted a lot of attention. Colette was born in ...
February, 6th | Saint Paul Miki and Companions
Saint Paul Miki and Companions’ Story
Nagasaki, Japan, is familiar to Americans as the city on which the second atomic bomb was dropped, immediate...
February, 5th | Saint Agatha
Saint Agatha’s Story
As in the case of Agnes, another virgin-martyr of the early Church, almost nothing is historically certain about this saint e...
February, 4th | Saint Joseph of Leonissa
Saint Joseph of Leonissa’s Story
Joseph was born at Leonissa in the Kingdom of Naples. As a boy and as a student in early adulthood, Joseph drew a...
February, 3rd | Saint Blaise
Saint Blaise’s Story
We know more about the devotion to Saint Blaise by Christians around the world than we know about the saint himself. His feas...
February, 2nd | Presentation of the Lord
The Story of the Presentation of the Lord
At the end of the fourth century, a woman named Etheria made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Her journal, ...
February, 1st | Saint Ansgar
Saint Ansgar’s Story
The “apostle of the north” (Scandinavia) had enough frustrations to become a saint—and he did. He became a Benedictine at Cor...
January, 31th | Saint John Bosco
Saint John Bosco’s Story
John Bosco’s theory of education could well be used in today’s schools. It was a preventive system, rejecting corporal pu...
January, 30th | Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska
Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska’s Story
Today we honor a woman who submitted to God’s will throughout her life—a life filled with pain and sufferi...
January, 29th | Servant of God Brother Juniper
Servant of God Brother Juniper’s Story “Would to God, my brothers, I had a whole forest of such Junipers,” said Francis of this holy friar. We don’t know much about Juniper before he joined the friars in 1210. Francis sent him to establish “places” for the friars in Gualdo Tadino and Viterbo. When Saint Clare was dying
January, 28th | Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Story
By universal consent, Thomas Aquinas is the preeminent spokesman of the Catholic tradition of reason and of divine rev...
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